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Now don’t get all green eyed and jealous on me, but when we were out at the Kraft Innovations Kitchen for BlogEats…they treated us to a special ride.  They pulled out all the stops and brought out the Wienermobile! Yeah Baby!

Prepare to enter a fantastic new dimension of family fun as Disney’s sensational animated comedy leaps off the screen and into your living room.  You’ll sit up and beg for more when Bolt springs into action in awe-inspiring Disney 3D.

Bolt is the star of the biggest show in Hollywood.  The only problem is, he thinks it’s real.

creative commons: by pixie meatEven if you don’t blog I’m sure you take pictures of food.  Whether it’s the cake you slaved over for your son’s first birthday or the recreation of your great-grandmother’s potato salad.  Whatever it is you’re taking pictures of, you want it to look edible.

One of the neat things the coordinators of the BlogEats Conference did for us was bring in Caroline Lubbers of Whipped to give us some tips on Food Photography.

My family has been Monopoly fans for a long time.  Before computer games were a popular pastime my husband and his friends would gather on Saturday afternoons and play Monopoly.  They’d keep the gaming going for weeks on end!

We have a number of Monopoly games in our home from the original version to a Star Wars one.

VELVEETA Cheesy Skillets is a dinner kit (with multiple flavor pouches and creamy Velveeta cheese sauce) that is an easy way for moms to make a meal with just one pound of chicken or beef, and her skillet.

Recipe Rock would make a great Christmas gift for the person you know who loves spending time in the kitchen. 

Recipe Rock is a specially created gadget that allows you to keep your recipes high and dry.

Christmas stockings are a fun tradition that I grew up with.  My siblings and I all had different but ‘matching’ stockings and they were hung on the fireplace mantle. 

My Memories is an award winning digital scrapbooking software that is extremely easy and fun to use.  My Memories Suite helps anyone create digital scrapbooks, cards, calendars, etc. without having to buy expensive programs and then learn how to use the software.

Without a doubt my favorite part of the BlogEats conference was the Blogger Recipe Challenge.

We were divided up into 4 teams by choosing spatulas with numbers on them and given a mission to make a holiday dessert using any or all of the following Kraft Foods ingredients; OREO Cookies, Planters Peanut Butter and/or Jell-O Chocolate or Vanilla Instant Pudding.

Coming up with ways to entertain little children on long distance travel can be a challenge.  But it doesn’t have to be.  Julia Pimsleur Levine, daughter of the renowned linguist Dr. Paul Pimsleur and founder of Little Pim, and award-winning foreign language learning series, believes travel time is the perfect opportunity to play games that reinforce kids’ budding foreign language skills, while keeping it fun and silly.