Gimme a KISS!

I recently signed up for Influenster. It's a product review company.  Influenster sends out products for free and all you have to do is review them.  You can earn points for doing other tasks. The more points the more likely you are to get picked for future reviews.  You can also link your social media accounts to help them see what influence you have on others.  Within a week of signing up, I had a free box of chocolate in my mail box waiting to be devoured.

My first box was chocolate. Hershey kisses to be exact. I decided to try to pace myself so I didn't eat them all and I made some brownies with the kisses in them.  Very yummy.  We definitely loved them.  I saw some other people received the candy canes ones which sound delicious, so I'll be off to the store soon to buy some of those.

I'm so glad I was picked to "test" out the Hershey Kisses. We enjoyed every last one of them.  Want to sign up? Just click here.

*I did receive these for free in exchange for my honest review of them. All opinions are 100% my own* 

Elf Update

Our Elf, Jingle Bell, has been around for a while now and she's just as clever as ever. Some nights she's too tired to fly home, but the kids are okay with that. Mason always searching for her and usually runs to where she was the day before only to realize she's gone. It's pretty cute. Here's what she's been up to since last time.

Poor thing got tied up by some of the other toys and here comes a train! 

I've seen several of these on Pinterest and I finally had some kisses so I placed her in the bathroom window. Marley seemed upset that she wasted chocolate. 

She climbed our fireplace rocks for two days, must be hard work. 

Mason actually found her first this day. He didn't seem to care that she was up there though.

Looking for coffee. She must be getting tired of all these late night North Pole trips. 

Jingle Bell will fly home in just a few days so I'm really trying to come up with some great ideas. What has your elf done? 

*You can see all our Elf on the Shelf adventures here. *

First Day of Gymnastics for the Kids

A couple weeks ago both kiddo's signed up for gymnastics.  They've had a few classes each and so far it's going really good. 

Mason took about 10 minutes the first class to get used to it, but he jumped right in when the teacher pulled out the slide.  He's been doing rolls and other tricks ever since. 

Marley did great at her first class. She jumped right in and wasn't afraid to try anything they did. I think it's safe to say she loves it too. 

Mason doing his table and Marley doing her backbend.  This is an everyday thing now. 

Can't wait to see how much they both improve and hopefully they really enjoy gymnastics for a long time. 

Healthworks Children's Museum

Last month, I decided to take the kids and head out to the Healthworks! Kid's Museum in South Bend. We had never been before but when I showed Marley pics of it she was so excited to go. 

It was smaller than I expected but they kids had fun running from one thing to the next. We were the only ones there for a while so that was nice too. 

This was probably her second favorite thing after the virtual dodgeball game

They had a little garden and grocery store set up. Marley liked this a lot too. 

After we left the museum we headed over to the South Bend Chocolate Factory Cafe for lunch. It was delicious. We ate, bought some candy, then headed across the street for cupcakes before heading home.

It was a fun day just me and the kiddos and we will definitely go back some time soon.