Pleygo-a Netflix-like rental service for Lego's!

Pleygo is a Net-Flix like service for Legos!  Subscribe, rent, play, and exchange sets of LEGOs unlimited times per month.  Shipping is always free both ways and sets are sanitized when returned.  We offer a convenient, quick, and inexpensive solution that relieves clutter and saves space at home while saving money.  Co-Founded by influential parenting blogger and creator of A-List mom Elina Furman, Plegyo is the perfect way to supply your child with endless developmental tools and allow for that much needed quiet time at home!

Three levels of subscription starting at just $15 allow you to find the plan that best suits you.  We offer credit towards you account for sets and mixed bricks that you donate to us, and we provide the shipping label too!  Pleygo is a perfect gift for a family friend, loved one, or birthday party.  Purchase a gift subscription and send it with a special message from you!  We are constantly expanding our inventory with more sets!

Receive your First Month FREE at  http://www.usfamilycoupons.com/coupon.php?bid=11329&dealid=1389®ionid=75 or directly at www.Pleygo.com to register!

Protect Your Child with ChildProtect by DNA

Did you know that over 800,000 children go missing every year? Law enforcement agencies state the first 3 hours of a missing child’s search are the most important. Most parents' would have no idea where to even begin if something happened to their child. ChildProtect by DNA is a product that you hope you never have to use but could make all the difference in the world if you do.

ChildProtect by DNA is provided by DNA Diagnostics Center, the largest private DNA company in the world and #1 hospital recommended in the US. A DNA profile is a Genetic Fingerprint and every person’s is unique. A DNA profile is used by police when they find an item (saliva) that contains traces of DNA. By having a DNA profile on hand, the police have something to compare against. If there is no DNA profile, police need to collect DNA from the child’s home and send it to a laboratory to get the profile. This is not kept in a database, but is kept solely by you. In the case of an emergency, you can provide this profile to law enforcement who can compare it to DNA at a crime scene and speed up the process to bring your child back safely.

A DNA profile which years ago was over $400 is now only $99.  But my readers will receive a limited time $50 off coupon by going to www.childprotectbydna.com and using code USFamily50

VEET® EasyWax™ Electrical Roll-On Kit Review

Once again, Influenster sent me a new amazing product to try! I received the new VEET® EasyWax™ Electrical Roll-On Kit and couldn't wait to give it a try.  We were taking on annual beach trip the next day and wanted smooth legs.  I was kind of nervous because I have never waxed my own legs.  As I waited for the roller to heat up, I read the detailed instructions. The wax was really easy to apply and was the perfect temperature.  As for the pain, well it is waxing, so it wasn't exactly pain free.  However, if you have ever been waxed before, you know what you are in for.  My legs stayed smooth for the entire week I was at the beach! I will be waxing my legs from now on!

I received this product complimentary for testing and review purposes from Influenster.

July is National Parks and Recreation Month!

Americans to Show and Share the Love for Local Parks and Recreation this July

Monthcelebration to highlight value of parks and recreation for local communities

ASHBURN, VA – June26, 2013– Why do you love your local parks and recreation?Can you answer the question? The National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA)believes the millions of people all across the country that access and use their local parks and recreation areas can and are seeking the most creative answers during national Park and Recreation Month this July.  This year’s Park and Recreation Month program of activities encourages communities everywhere to show and share the love for parks and recreation.

The 2013 theme of “I Love [heart] my Park and Recreation” encourages individuals, families, friends, and park-lovers everywhere to venture to their local parks and recreation areas to experience the many benefits they offer, such as programs to inspire healthy, active lifestyles and activities to appreciate nature and the environment. Paramount to this year’s theme is the fill-in-the-blank social media poster that people can use to say why they love their local parks and recreation.

“Local parks and recreation play a critical role in positively impacting communities in so many ways, especially in conservation, health and wellness and social equity,” says Barbara Tulipane, President and CEO of NRPA.  “Park and Recreation Month is not only a great time to experience all the wonderful aspects of parks and recreation but to also express and recognize why our local parks and recreation are so important in our lives.”

Nationwide, park and recreation agencies will celebrate Park and Recreation Month through a variety of fun initiatives, events, and activities.A list of participating park and recreation locations can be found at www.NRPA.org/july.

In addition to getting involved in Park and Recreation Month locally, people can also share the love for parks and recreation on a grander scale through the Show UR Love weekly photo contest. During each week of July, NRPA will have a different theme that people can follow to snap pictures in their local parks and recreation. Submit photos that show the love for local parks and recreation to NRPAthrough Facebookto be entered into the contest. NRPA will award weekly prizes and a grand prize at the end of the month.

To learn more about how to show the love during Park and Recreation Month and to get free, downloadable materials, visit www.NRPA.org/July-love.

Through efforts by NRPA, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an official resolution to create Park and Recreation Month in 2009.  The Association supports the park and recreation community and the general public by advocating for federal support for park and recreation programs and legislation.   

Picking a photographer ...

I can say this is harder than trying to pick a dress!  It is for me at least ...

There are 3 photographers that I like ....

1. Jessica Fike Photography
2. McMillen Photography
3. JNB-Photography


So here is the breakdown

Jessica Fike Photography- $2,650 Love the use of so much color! Very vivid :) BUT it is only for 8 hours .. is that enough time to capture it all?
-1 shooter, +500 for second
-8 hrs coverage, print rights
-100 engagement, 800 wedding photos


McMillen Photography - $2,900 -  Hometown photographer and stays the entire time!  Most of my friends had him do their weddings, but they are not as colorful as I'd like!

Included:

-2 shooters, no time limit

-700-900 photos, print rights

-7-800 photos in proof book

-$450 photo credit

-Engagement shoot w/8x10

-10x10 album 40 pgs/75 images

JNB-Photo- $2,000 -  Husband/Wife team, just did one of my friends weddings.  Great pictures, especially creative ones of the bride.  They also stay the entire time and know the typical SWPA things we want captured.
Included:
-2 shooters, no time limit
-5-600 photos, print rights
-Proof Book of all images
-Engagement shoot
-Memory Vault of pictures

So basically I have to choose between bright, vivid colors from JFike, Amazing package deal from McMillen, or a creative Hubby/Wife team. 

 

Help me pick a  photographer! 

Let me know which one you like!

Testing Out Teespring

As a blogger, we get asked to check out new websites all the time. Most of the time, the site looks promising but is a slightly altered version of a much more successful site. Teespring is genuinely an amazing one-of-a-kind website that offers a crowdfunding platform for groups, causes and communities to design and sell custom apparel. What does all that mean? Basically, you can design and sell your own shirts online with no upfront cost to you.  

How it works:

Step 1:

Design your shirt!  Choose from different styles of shirts, fabrics, fonts, and graphics to customize a shirt that is perfect for your fundraising project.

Step 2:

Set your moneymaking goals.  There is a really easy feature that lets you decide on how much money you want to make and how many shirts you need to sell to get there.  

Step 3:
You can choose a name for your campaign and write a description, sharing any info you think is important to someone buying a shirt.  You can always customize a URL and pick how long to sell your shirts.

Step 4:

Launch and share your campaign!

With other shirt ordering sites, you must guess how many of each size you will need and pay for all the shirts in advance.  Not with Teespring!  Since everyone buys their shirt online, they can get what they exactly want and are paying them directly for the shirt.  The shirts only print when you have met your sales goal(minimum of ten shirts) and you never have to deal with collecting the money on your own!

Other satisfied customers include a couple sold this "Love makes a family shirt" to raise money to adopt and another raised over 85k for Boston relief.  Overall, this is one of the best fundraising sites I have ever come across and I highly recommend it! 

This post was sponsored by Teespring. The opinions are completely my own based on my experience.

Saving Money with Zaycon Foods

How does Zaycon Foods manage to provide such high quality super fresh meat and produce to its customers at such low prices? The answer is strength in numbers. And not our numbers, yours!

Zaycon Foods can sell its products at bulk rate prices to individual consumers and families because our unique sales event business model brings lots of people together, adding all their purchasing power into a combined bulk food purchase. And when you buy as part of a group that’s committing to such a large purchase, the power is in the hands of the purchaser! It’s the ultimate group buy in terms of both price and consumer empowerment.

You can pre-select exactly what you want to order from a given Zaycon sales event – sometimes you may want to stock up on our amazing meaty back ribs and sometimes it might be all about the Zaycon bacon – and then, on the day of the sales event, you and a whole big bunch of your neighbors will find yourselves in a nearby parking lot watching as an entire tractor trailer’s worth of high quality natural food is unloaded into all of your cars! You will be amazed at how quickly one of our refrigerated trucks goes from being filled with natural, fresh chicken or hundreds of gallons of grade A non-homogenized milk to being empty and back on its way to the farm!

A Zaycon Foods truck sales event often lasts less time than you would spend on a trip to the grocery store, yet you will leave with a whole lot more food than you’d get at the market, and for much better prices, too!

When you use the Zaycon Foods sales event as your preferred place to purchase meats, milk, and any of our other fine products, you get advantages even beyond the bulk pricing that comes with our special sales model. You also have the peace of mind of knowing exactly what you’re going to get! A trip to the grocery store can involve wasted time wandering around looking for various foods spread out across the store; at a Zaycon Foods parking lot meat truck delivery (or milk or berries or fish delivery, too!) you have pre-ordered your foods, so all you have to do is show up and wait for our friendly staffers and volunteers to load up your car.

Also, unlike in the grocery store, the prices you will pay for a Zaycon Foods product are locked in on our website, so you will know how much you are going to spend before you have committed to a purchase.

At a supermarket, you might pay one price for chicken on one day, and then a higher price on another day. With Zaycon, you decide that you want to order a case of our fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts, you check the price and then you commit to it, knowing that from that moment on, we are committed to getting you your fresh, natural food!

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This post was brought to you by Zaycon Foods and US Family Guide.