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Today marks the release day of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment's Old Dogs on DVD and Blu-ray! Starring Robin Williams and John Travolta (I have such a crush on him), with tons of great actors who make appearances throughout the film, this movie was a treat for my husband and I when we checked it out this past weekend.
Dan (Williams) and Charlie (Travolta) are best friends and business partners who have their lives turned upside down when Dan's ex-wife (whom he married in a drunken night in Vegas and subsequently had the marriage annulled never to see her again) shows up explaining that Dan is the father of her 7 year old twins. In a can-only-happen-in-a-movie twist, Dan's ex (played by Kelly Preston) must leave her twins with him for 2 weeks.
Old Dogs is a bit reminiscent of one of my 80's favorites, Three Men and Baby except that these twins (played by Conner Rayburn and Ella Blue Travolta...yes that Travolta) are not babies and these men are not 30-something bachelors. The 'old person' jokes are dominant throughout the film but the comedy comes about from an assortment of situations.
In the clip below, Dan and Charlie's medications for all their ailments are accidentally mixed up by the twins and the result is a hilarious golf game that had my husband in stitches and a face on John Travolta that will probably wreck my fantasies of him for good!
Other faces you may recognize in the movie include Seth Green, Matt Dillon, Rita Wilson, Bernie Mac and a hilarious Justin Long among others.
There's tons of bonus features on the discs including "Every Little Step", a music video featuring John and Ella Blue Travolta (Blu-ray), bloopers and deleted scenes, of course the usual audio commentary. The 3 disc Blu-Ray set includes the Blu-ray DVD, a regular DVD, and a Digital DVD (for playing on your laptop or PC).
I have 1 additional copy of Old Dogs on DVD to give away to 1 of my readers! To enter, just leave me a comment here telling me why you want to win, simple enough right?
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The new spring styles from See Kai Run are now available on the site and in stores - have you checked them out yet? While we're not exactly running in the grass here just yet (thruthfully it's still snow covered but melting fast), there's no way I could wait until the pavement is dry to start looking for cute spring shoes for my kids.
One of the new styles, Ashley Maija seen above, is a big sister version of the popular Jackie shoe in the Smaller collection. If you have two daughters close in age, this pairing of shoes would be adorable for Easter photos!
Sandals can be tricky for kids because active kids who run and play and sweat in their shoes inevitably can get blisters from cheap materials. The buttery-soft leather that See Kai Run uses in their shoes helps ensure comfort when worn with bare feet. They even have a padded collar around the ankle to avoid blisters there too!
For the spring/summer 2010 collection, See Kai Run is proud to share that they have improved their shoes even more! “We’ve paid attention to customer feedback and have responded with improvements that will make our shoes even better,” says founder Cause Haun. “While See Kai Run has always prided itself on creating flexible, supple shoes healthy for developing feet, the trade-off has been using leather that has not always worn as well as we would like. Our new leather has twice the fiber strength of the original, but doesn’t sacrifice the luxurious look and butter-soft feel our customers love. We’re so pleased to roll out this major improvement!”We checked out the Ashley Maija sandals from See Kai Run, and are now ready for Easter photos! I find See Kai Run sizing to be generous, my 2 year old is just coming into a size 7 and these 7's are a little big on her. Because of the hook and loop closure and ample velcro on the side, I can secure the sandals a little tighter to ensure a better fit until she fully grows into them.
Which latest spring style from See Kai Run is your favorite? Leave me a comment here telling me, and you'll be entered to win your choice of any shoe from the See Kai Run or Smaller collections!For additional entries:
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And I did it all without an epidural this time!!I'm thrilled to share with my Feisty Frugal & Fabulous readers that I am the new Label Daddy Mommy! See that button at the top left corner of my site? Label Daddy is a company I've worked with a few times over the past 9 months and I'm handling all aspects of social media (Twitter/Facebook/Blog) for the team!If you're a mom (or dad!) blogger like me and would like to check out Label Daddy for a feature on your own site, contact me through Label Daddy on Twitter or via email here !Here's my intro link on the Label Daddy Blog, my other home. Stop by and say hello!http://labeldaddy.blogspot.com/2010/03/theres-new-label-daddy-mommy-in-house.html
This past month has been crazy, with selling our house and buying a new one. Finally, moving week is here! The moving company does all the packing and moving so we're very lucky! It's a little weird sitting among all your 'stuff' and not having it packed up when the moving truck is due at your house by the end of the week! Wednesday and Thursday are packing days this week, so we get to hang out and watch other people go through our stuff and put it in boxes (maybe I should put my feet up and read a novel while eating chocolate...it feels so weird watching other people work in your house!)
In this past month, there were a few projects that I wanted to complete before moving into our next house. Donating a ton of items to charity was the main project (the final boxes are going Monday!) Another (large) task was printing 2 years worth of photos and getting them into albums. Am I the only one here that's dropped the ball?
After my computer crashed last year, I made sure to back up all my pictures on cd's. Another thing I did was to take all the little newspaper articles and class photos from nursery school and scan those photos to cd as well. With moving as often as we will during my husband's career, I don't want these one-copy photos I have to go missing, so a night spend photo scanning is worth it in the long run.
If you're scanning class photos to disc, don't forget to create a file on the disc with your children's classmates names as well - years down the road you may not remember who his buddy in Kindergarten was. So, these past 2 weeks or so I've been printing photos and popping them in albums (still not caught up) and scanning photos and other items to disc. You can always hire someone who does photo scanning services too - either way it's a really great idea to get those important pictures printed or saved.
Can you feel it in the air? Around here, everyone has a little bounce in their step because the weather has been hovering at just above freezing. Yes, that's right, having weather that is just above the freezing level makes us Canadians giddy this time of year. Hey, we're a polite bunch and we also take what sunshine and warmth we can get!
The warmer weather makes a lot of us want to shop for spring and summer clothing, and we start looking in magazines, online and of course in store for ideas. Born Famous Couture has a fab collection of fashion tops and graphic tops that fortunately don't come with hugely inflated prices just because 'couture' is used in their name.
Born Famous Couture Clothing was inspired by famous young and fashionable celebs like Miley Cyrus, Katy Perry, Jordin Sparks and more when designing the line. It speaks to a young, youthful spirit and is attainable by women without a Beverly Hills zip code - no t shirt costs more than $33!
I loved this white tank with black lace featured on the Born Famous Couture home page, and just had to have it! It looks great paired with distressed jeans, and you can dress it up more with a long necklace or maybe some hoop earrings. The cotton used is unbelievably soft, making the tank hang beautifully. I really liked the length of the tank too. Because it hangs so nicely, it looks great paired with skinny jeans as well.
Not only did Born Famous Couture send me this beautiful lace tank to review, they sent me a second one to give away to 1 of my readers! To enter to win a medium lace tank, simply take a look at Born Famous Couture and tell me which fashion top or graphic shirt you liked besides this one.
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In all the prepartion for our move, I've been purchasing some furniture items ahead of time so that our movers can be the ones to haul them into our new house. Unfortuntely, we of course have to carry some of these items into our current house on our own. My husband might be out of comission for helping me in the first few days of home renos unless he gets something for back pain treatment soon. Earlier this week we purchased a bar table and stools that will be perfect for our kitchen, at great price. I didn't realize he was bringing them into the house on his own (I was inside with the kids) and in lifting the awkward box he really hurt himself (ack!)
I tease him that at the rate he's going, among the other purchases we make an orthopedic pillow is going to be on the list. Actually, it would be karma for him - years ago he bought me a pillow for Christmas. There we were, my family all opening gifts and everyone looked when I opened the very large but light box (I suspected an engagement ring box was inside, below a bunch of peanut filler or something). Nope, my husband in his concern for my headaches, purchased me a neck pain pillow for Christmas (there was no ring box hidden below it, I looked!) He's lucky that engagement ring came a week later. ;)
Anyway, today when I was discussing carpet-install (are you jealous of my phone conversations these days? LOL) I asked for a quote on removing carpet as well - since I think my husband isn't going to be much help in this regard and I sure as heck won't be doing it!
Visiting the Bebe Dulce site for the first time, I was all over the cute onesies on the home page. Unfortunately, the store doesn't carry items to fit my 2 year old daughter but I hope it's something store owner Claire Harvey Eads considers in the future. A graduate of FIT in NYC, Claire finally followed her dream of starting her own company shortly after the birth of her daughter.
Of course fashionable items for tots are a big focus of Bebe Dulce but being a mother herself, Claire knows that they deserve a different kind of pampering.
Claire sent me Aspen Pure Moisture Shea Body Butter from Bebe Dulce in vanilla scent to check out. This is a product that you could see in a movie, where the male lead mistakenly thinks it's dessert and eats it (it's for this reason I'm keeping this far from my kids!) It smells like cookies! Not only does it smell like cookies, it looks like cookie dough in the container and well...feels like cookie dough in your hands! No really! Rubbing it on your skin is a luxurious smooth and soft treat. Knowing the ingredients in body lotions and body butters is important to me because of my daughter's allergies, so it's worth noting that this product has no almond oil - it's made with shea butter, jojoba oil, grapeseed oil, vitamin E oil and essential oil for scent.
Readers can save 20% on all orders until the end of March by using the code spring20!
1 reader is going to win their choice of any body product from Bebe Dulce! To enter, visit the site and leave me a comment here telling me what you would pick!. For additional entries:
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I knew it would happen, last night I was looking online at paint colors, debating what color to paint each of the rooms of our new house, and sure enough my dreams involved painting walls. Argh! The scary thing is, paint is just one of the many steps we're taking in renovating our new home.The house was built in 2001 so I don't think we'll have to look at anything like replacement windows but we might actually be putting in a window on a wall that doesn't have one! Isn't that crazy? Has anyone ever done that? I'm literally thinking about putting a hole (ok a window) in the side of my house! If we do that I'm creating an entire project because then we'll need to look at new insulated vinyl siding as well on that outside wall. I was saying to a friend the other day that I wished I could have an extreme home makeover where I pick out all the items like paint, carpet, appliances, vinyl replacement windows and doors, new bathtub and shower, etc., and then come back and have it all complete! So, this will be a months-long project but I think it will be a lot of fun! I'll update with pictures along the way.OH! I made a decision on the washer/dryer, we went with front loaders - pretty red color with no pedestals!
Dick's Sporting Goods has a really fun promotion on right now! Consider jumping in and being a contender, or just help spread the word about it and win yourself a $50 Dick's Sporting Goods gift card for doing so!
Enter on Twitter (http://twitter.com/dickssportcmo) for a chance to become a member of Dick’s Sporting Goods “Starting Lineup." The 10 nominees with the most votes by March 31, 2010 win.
What does it mean to be on the “Starting Lineup”?
• A chance to try out and preview new products
• A spot on an online panel of experts for one season (for approximately 3 months)
• Access to exclusive online surveys
• A chance to sound off on all things sports
How does someone try for a chance to be on the “Starting Lineup”?
• Follow http://twitter.com/dickssportcmo, if you’re not doing so already.
• Recruit people to follow @dickssportcmo on Twitter and have them vote for you by Tweeting @dickssportcmo your Twitter ID and stating why you should be nominated.
• Vote for yourself by Tweeting @dickssportcmo with your Twitter ID and stating why you should be on the “Starting Lineup.”
• You can only vote for the same person once per day, but you can vote for multiple people in the same day.
Sample Tweet: “@dickssportcmo I nominate @TwitterID for the #startinglineup because...”
If any of my readers decide to enter, please make sure to let me know via twitter (@FeistyFrugal) so I can vote for you!
One of my US readers is going to win a $50 gift card just for sharing the info about this contest on Twitter! To enter, nominate yourself or vote for someone already in the running (check @dickssportcmo to see who is tweeting!) and leave the link to your tweet here (make sure you have @dickssportcmo in your tweet so they can track it of course).
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Lovely Lisa and Friends for Nintendo DS actually surprised me. The follow up to the original Lovely Lisa game, released February 23rd, looks like a little girl's fashion and accessory paradise on the shelves. If I were shopping for games for my 9 year old niece, for example, I may have passed this game by had I not learned more about it.
While the game, of course, features the fun of playing dress up with a virtual doll (and her friends) like some other DS games, Lovely Lisa and Friends encourages responsibility. You see, by helping out with different tasks/chores (helping mom or dad in the game, etc.) the player earns points which in turn can unlock other features within the game. I liked this feature a lot. Lovely Lisa also encourages girls to explore different career options. While many 9 year olds like my niece would probably choose fashionista as an ideal career, we know that there's so much out there for girls and they need to know they can be anything they want to be.
I have 2 Lovely Lisa and Friends prize packs to give away to my US readers! The prize pack consists of a Lovely Lisa and Friends for Nintendo DS game, a Lovely Lisa and Friends note pad, pen and sticker! To enter, simply tell me who you would like to win this for.
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Today marks the release day of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment's Old Dogs on DVD and Blu-ray! Starring Robin Williams and John Travolta (I have such a crush on him), with tons of great actors who make appearances throughout the film, this movie was a treat for my husband and I when we checked it out this past weekend.
I have 1 additional copy of Old Dogs on DVD to give away to 1 of my readers! To enter, just leave me a comment here telling me why you want to win, simple enough right?
