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Childrens Personalized Books by Little Wonder

January 5, 2011 by Jennifer 6 Comments

How do you get kids excited about reading? Why have a character in the book that looks like them and has their name of course!

Both of my girls loved all types of books and we always have special quiet times during the days that they are home from school. Since they were out the whole month of December, M had a very special book to enjoy reading. This book was by the Little Wonder Company and what made it so special is that there was a little girl in the book that looked just like her and had her same name.

A mom set out on a new venture and created Little Wonder Books. You are able to personalize a girl or a boy book for your child.

Listen in to this short video to get our full review of the Little Wonder girl book.

Pretty interesting book isn’t it? I now need to make my other little girl L one as she has been so interested in M’s book. Now it would not be right for us to enjoy these books all to ourselves, so we are doing a giveaway.

One of our readers will get to enjoy their own personalized book with their child.

How to enter:

Leave a comment below on if you have ever created a personalized book for your child!

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Make sure to leave an additional comment for each extra entry. Contest will end January 10 at 11:59pm ET.

Disclosure: Thank you to Little Wonder for supplying M her very own book so we were able to implement this review. No compensation was included.

Bringing In The New Year With An Acorn

January 3, 2011 by Jennifer 1 Comment

That is how we roll here in Raleigh, NC. Who needs the ball in Times Square when you have an Acorn?! We attended the festivities New Years Eve at First Night Raleigh. It truly was a lot of fun!

Enjoy our little video of the night 🙂

Gaylord Palms ICE Event Orlando Florida

December 31, 2010 by Jennifer 1 Comment

Who said it did not get cold enough for ICE and SNOW in Florida? It sure does but only through the end of November through early January can you participate in this super awesome event at the Gaylord Palms.

On our recent travels to Orlando, FL, we took a day and headed over to the Gaylord Palms.

ICE! – the coolest attraction in Central Florida, hand-carved from over two million pounds of ice. This year’s theme takes guests through Clement Moore’s beloved holiday poem ‘Twas the night before Christmas. The girls enjoyed going through the ICE. Take a peek into a little slide show of the fun we had!

We had a little time in between our reserved times for the ICE and Snow event, so we traveled on down to the fun Holiday Shows they had and sipped on our complimentary hot chocolate. Then it was time to go and play in the SNOW!

SNOW!, a North Pole Carnival – this is the first year SNOW! will be featured at the celebration. A 10,000 square foot tent will house an indoor snow carnival complete with a snow play area, carnival games and carnival-themed food options.

Of course, I did a little video of our fun in the SNOW and the joyful Holiday show!

There is still time for you to enjoy the ICE and SNOW in Florida. The events are open till January 2nd. You will not be disappointed 🙂

Year End Review 2010 Travel Recap

December 30, 2010 by Jennifer 2 Comments

I have lived up to my @TravelingMamas name this year. I cannot believe today is the last day of the year. Where has time gone? This has been a great year for travels, so I thought it would be neat to recap in pictures all our travels this year.

January

We had the Ocean Isle Mom Bloggers Conference. It was such a great time and great little getaway from all the snow and ice.

February

We traveled to Florida for the Disney Social Media Moms Conference and had a blast in all the Disney Parks.

March

Clogging time for precious M. She had a clogging workshop and show in Gatlinburg, TN.

April

Disney was still on our hearts as we traveled to Charlotte, NC to take in the Disney Road Show.

May

This was the only month we did not travel due to my pancreatitis attack that landed me in the hospital for 7 days. Blech!

June

June started out a busy month of traveling for us this Summer. Our first stop was Ocean Isle Inn. We just love going to the NC coast and visiting Ocean Isle Inn.

Then we headed South to Fort Lauderdale for a few days…

To finish out our travels for June, we traveled a little bit north to Gainesville, FL to be with the rest of the Spink family.

July

We brought in July with a bang by going to the Disney Parks again. We did all four Disney Parks in 2 days. Just the girls and I. It went fast but we sure did have a good time.

For the Fourth of July, we ended up in Jacksonville, FL. The girls had never been to Jacksonville, so this was such a fun family little getaway with just the four of us.

August

August sent me to NYC by myself for the BlogHer conference. It was a memorable one of me splitting my foot open in middle of Times Square and a cop on a horse wanting to call a ambulance for me. Ummm NO thank you ;). I sure did have a terrific time with some of my awesome bloggy best buddies.

After I got back from NYC, it was time to hop on another plane to Gulf Shores, Alabama to meet up with the rest of my Traveling Mamas crew!

As soon as I got back from Alabama, I had to get the rest of the family packed for Gainesville, Florida. Hubby’s son was getting married.

September

September started out interesting by flying to Tampa to an egg farm.

As soon as I flew in from Tampa, hubby and girls met me at airport and we drove straight to Asheville for the Type A Mom Conference.

Girls loved the fancy McDonald’s there in Asheville at the Biltmore House.

October

We decided since it was Fall to make the trek back to Blowing Rock/Boone and let the girls see their friends and go to Tweetsie!

We so enjoyed staying at Chetola Resort while we were in town.

To wrap up the weekend in Boone, we went to a local Rodeo where some of M’s friends were participating.

We went back to Boone at the end of October for my dad’s 70th Birthday party.

November

We made the trek to the Foothills of NC to where my parents live for Thanksgiving.

We were able to finally get all the Spink Family together when we were there since hubby’s son and his family were in from Florida.

December

We sure did end the year on a bang with a full month of travel.

First stop was the Great Wolf Lodge which was so much fun for the entire family.

We came home for a couple days and headed back out to Orlando, FL.

Downtown Disney

Arabian Nights

SeaWorld

Gaylord Palms ICE and SNOW Event

We ended the trip by heading south to Fort Lauderdale to spend time with hubby’s family for Christmas.

What a busy year but I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way. The girls travel so good and hubby and I love to take them on all the trips we can. It’s so much fun to look back on and see where all we went for 2010. Next year will be a busy one as well. I fly out to Nashville in January and San Francisco in early February. Let the travels begin for 2011!

Happy New Year my friends and family!!

Who Said Brand Slogans Do Not Work

December 30, 2010 by Jennifer Leave a Comment

I can actually beg to differ because of a certain 6 year old.

We are cutting corners and tightening down the fort here on our finances as we really want to buy a house this coming up year. I was on the phone today getting insurance rate quotes to see if we could save money on our monthly auto insurance bill. Little Miss L comes prancing through and asks me who I am talking to on the phone. I tell her quietly, that I am talking to Nationwide Insurance. She looks at me and then starts singing loudly “Nationwide is on your side.”

What? I looked at M and said did she just say “Nationwide is on your side?”… Sure enough I heard her correctly. I finished up receiving our quote and started thinking, she had to hear this slogan on the TV. If a six year old can remember this slogan, then you know the slogan really sticks with adults. Brand slogans really do work. In our minds, we are constantly putting slogans together with brand names.

Way to go Nationwide for putting together a slogan that will get everyone’s attention, even a little child 🙂

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