AMAZING Rio 2 Revere Beach sand sculpting time-lapse video

While fishing is something you can pretty much do all year round, especially in warmer climates like here in south Texas, but there is just something about spring and summer that brings out the fisher in everyone. My husband and older boys love to bond over this experience, but how can he bond with the little ones when they’re not old enough to enjoy going out fishing yet? We were recently given the opportunity to check out Little Tikes Fish’N Splash Water Table and love how it provides a fun way for my hubby and the smaller boys to bond over fishing, even if it’s not real fish.
Fish ‘N Splash Water Table is just the right size for toddlers to enjoy a day of fishing. Kids will learn colors and counting as they play!
I love knowing that its toddler safe and can be used in the back yard, with or without my husband playing with them…they now practice on their own, but still love when they have daddy fishing time.
The Fish ‘N Splash Water Table was simple to piece together and sturdy enough to handle my little guys. My 5 year old loves fishing the most and my 2 year old loves to fill up the scoop and watch the water run down the “slide” onto the lilly pad and into the table. They look forward to fishing day every week with daddy!
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If you’re like our house, you’ve fallen in love with the next generation of the Lion King saga….The Lion Guard: Return of the Roar on the Disney Channel. Disney’s Lion Guard comes out on DVD Today, Tuesday, February 23rd, and to celebrate we have some fun downloadable activity sheets & video clips to share with you courtesy of Disney!
The Lion Guard: Return Of The Roar – Kion’s First Roar
Beau Black Music Video “Here Comes the Lion Guard”
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We love to grill, grilling just adds that extra special flavor to what ever your grilling. But even when you grill you tend to have to balance your time between the grill the kitchen which can sometimes end with burnt food. Not good. Today I have a simple Grilled Herb & Wine Chicken Strips with a VeeTee Thai Lime & Herb Rice and trust me, no burnt food and no balancing act between the kitchen and grill. This rice might just be your new staple in your kitchen!
Ingredients:
3-4 large chicken breasts
1c White Wine
1/4c oilve oil
2 packs McCormick Grill Mates Garlic Herb & Wine Marinade
1 Lime
1 container VeeTee Thai Lime & Herb Rice
Instructions:
Slice your chicken breasts into strips
Mix wine, olive oil, marinade packs & juice from lime in bowl
Place chicken strips into marinade and let sit in fridge for 45 minutes
Wrap grill grate with foil and puncture holes in foil
Place chicken strips onto foil and grill till half way done, then remove foil and finish grilling strips on grill until done.
Place your VeeTee Thai Lime & Herb Rice container into microwave and cook for 2 minutes
Veetee DINE IN Microwaveable Rice superior technology giving consistently great taste & texture to end product. Veetee’s transparent trays communicate freshness, modernity, purity, naturalness and quality & has a 12 month shelf life! My little guys all loved the rice. I fixed Chicken, Golden Vegetable & the Thai Lime & Herb and they loved them all! Even my super picky two-year-old, who actually asked for more! I love that I don’t have to spend time in the kitchen putting together the rice and had more time to focus on the grill and quality family time instead. The best part about the VeeTee, other than the quality taste and fast cook time…it’s available at my local HEB and at a price I can afford!!!
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A year ahead for the family is all about taking on new adventures. If 2015 is any indication, they could be good, bad or just plain hysterical:
Like the time you and your kids built a backyard campsite and held an impromptu sleepover in your new hut, catching the first shooting stars of the summer.
Or when the first family road trip that turned from a daydream to a nightmare — complete with wailing kids, missed exits and sold out hotels.
And definitely the time you ventured out to the new Hamachi restaurant in town only to have it end in an epic food fight. (Don’t tell Grandma, but it was kinda fun. #memories)
There’s no other family that can relate more to this than the Croods – you know, the prehistoric crew whose everyday is a new adventure (or disaster) – because while our stories may differ from the dark ages, the family hijinks remain the same.
Our family has plenty of these types of adventures… With 4 boys ranging from 2-13 and an accident prone husband…I never know what the day will bring. The only thing I can count on is for one of them to request to watch Netflix. The kids were super excited to see a “new” Croods, Dawn of the Croods, on Netflix. I’m just glad our adventures aren’t always as crazy as theirs. Watching The Croods and their hijinks makes me feel a little better about our family and daily trials.
I remember years ago camping with my husband, sister and aunt & uncle. My husband, myself and my sister had tents and my aunt & uncle had their camper. It was probably about 2 am when I hear my sister screaming from her tent about a noise she heard just outside of it…well I wasn’t leaving my tent if something was out there. Finally, my husband and aunt went to check on her (she was only like 4 ft away btw) and it ended up being a curious racoon. It still makes us all laugh to this day.
While our adventures may not be as epic as the Croods, they do have their moments. Hopefully 2016 will bring plenty more!
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