IT’S NOT JUST BASKETBALL, IT’S THE HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS!

See the photo above? That was at a Harlem Globetrotters Game ten years ago. We’ve been several times since then, and we’re headed back in April! With a star-studded roster, the Harlem Globetrotters show is unrivaled in the world of family entertainment. Their 2024 World Tour will showcase incredible ball-handling wizardry, rim-rattling dunks, trick shots, hilarious comedy, and unequaled fan interaction. After the game, Globetrotter stars will sign autographs and take photos with fans.

Halftime is a lot of fun with interactive fun with the fans.

A Globetrotters game is great entertainment for the whole family, even if you don’t know anything at all about basketball! I’m looking forward to April and going to the game in Estero, FL! 

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We were recently given the opportunity to try out Winc Wine (I love my job!) and we are extremely pleased!

You’ll first take a short quiz (no failing grades here!) to figure out what wines you may like and then you choose! 

Winc nailed it on what I would enjoy! You can choose reds, whites, or some of each and not only is this really good wine that you’d be proud to serve your guests, it won’t break your budget. That’s a win win (or should I say wine wine?).

And I am super impressed that shipping is included.

I have a great offer to share with you – My Readers save $22 Off Your First Month of Winc Wine – Winc offers 4 personalized wines each month, delivered to your door. Bottles start at just $13 each. Just click here!

Winc is a modern wine brand that makes it easy to find wines you love. Take Winc’s 6 Question Palate Profile Quiz where you’re matched with wines tailored to your tastes and preferences. They’ll send you four great bottles a month, delivered straight to your door. Explore different varietals and rate your favorites. The more you rate, the better your recommendations. Join the thousands of Winc members already enjoying great tasting wine. 

$22 Off Your First Month of Winc Wine – Winc offers 4 personalized wines each month, delivered to your door. Bottles start at just $13 each.

With Chrismas fast approaching, families and friends are making memories! There are holiday parties and fun with friends and family.

A beautiful wrapped canvas from Canvas on Demand is a beautiful way to preserve those special memories. It’s also a great gift idea!

We were given the opportunity to have one of our favorite photos made into a canvas piece, and we absolutely love it!

This is the 16×20 size, and perfect for any room in your home. This particular photo of our little clowns was just taken on an iPhone, so you don’t even have to have professional quality photos for a professional quality result with Canvas on Demand.

The canvas is wrapped around the sides, so in reality, you don’t even need to frame it.

Canvas on Demand has several different sizes from which to choose, so you can choose the perfect size for the space where you’re hanging the canvas.

But Canvas on Demand also has a lot more!

They have a huge selection of art prints, and now they have coloring canvases!

They sent us one of these, and we love it. There are tons of choices and this, too, would make a great gift. Add a set of markers and this would be a well-loved gift for any coloring enthusiast. Not to mention the fact that when they’re finished, they have a beautiful canvas to display.

Isn’t that cool? This one is actually a Christmas gift for someone…Shhhh…

You can check out all of the great items at Canvas on Demand, and beautifully preserve those wonderful memories.

Okay you guys. I live in Florida. You know how much snow we get? Approximately zero. There was one time back in 1986 that we got about 1/4 of an inch and it literally shut the whole city down.

And answer me this…how am I supposed to show off my skills as a snow bunny with no snow? Skiing on the concrete might be detrimental to my health, and the men in white coats might take me away. And sometimes we can make mud angels when the hurricanes blow through…but alas, no snow angels for us. Or snowball fights. Or building snowmen. Or sledding. You get the picture.

So what’s the answer to this dilemma? A vacation in Steamboat Springs, Colorado! I can just picture it: snow, fireplaces, cuddling, hot toddies, rosy cheeks…bliss. The only time we get rosy cheeks here is when we forget the sunscreen. And we get a rash trying to lie down in the grass and make snow angels.

See that person skiing? That’s me. Okay. It’s not me. But boy, do I wish it was! You would be amazed that some of us here in Florida know how to ski and love it. No, we do not practice on the sand dunes at the beach.

Let me tell you about Steamboat Resorts by Wyndham Vacation Rentals.

Steamboat Resorts by Wyndham Vacation Rentals is Steamboat’s largest vacation rental management company, offering the widest selection of lodging options available in the mountain village as well as expert vacation planning services. With the most highly requested vacation properties in Steamboat’s most popular mountainside locations, we have the ideal accommodation for every traveler. Our commitment to professional management, attention to detail and friendly local staff is what sets us apart from the competition and has made us a guest favorite for over 25 years. Our staff provides service second to none at our lodge locations with the hopes of providing each guest with a truly memorable “Steamboat experience”. Leave all the details to our team to ensure a relaxing Steamboat vacation… so you can simply enjoy the experience.
Whether you are looking for a romantic getaway or a fun family vacation, Wyndham Vacation Rentals will meet your needs at one of our spectacular resort destinations. Visit steamboatresorts.com or call 888-795-6533 and let our trained reservationists help book your entire vacation. Let them assist you with lodging, airfare, car rentals, airport shuttles, discounted equipment rentals and more!

I’m ready to go! Who’s with me???

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Want a great gift idea? Check CanvasOnDemand! They have Premium Gallery Wrap Canvases, Coloring Canvases, all of which would delight anyone receiving them. They also offer more than just canvas prints. From incredible photo-to-canvas art for parents, Coloring Canvas for kids, and customizable photo gifts, including ornaments & more, Canvas On Demand can help with your holiday haul.

For a limited time, they’re offering my readers a whopping 60% off your entire order at Canvas On Demand with code USFAM. Select from canvas prints and more! Valid until 12/12/17. Go here for yours!

Make your little girls dream come true! Sun Tail Mermaid has created the world’s best swimmable mermaid tails and mermaid flippers. Their mermaid tails are soft, comfortable, and come in a wide variety of designs and colors. They are made of high quality swimsuit fabric with 4-way stretch.

Sun Tail Mermaid’s monofins are extremely comfortable and virtually unbreakable. Their patented monofin is several steps ahead of everyone else in engineering, durability, comfort, and functionality. The propulsion and control is exceptional. The monofins come in a wide range of beautiful colors, so you can match your mermaid tails or look amazing wearing it alone.

This is my neice, Kaylee. She was super thrilled to receive her mermaid tail right before she went on vacation, so she was excited to take it with her.

The material is super stretchy and extremely comfortable. Kaylee is eight years old, and the size 8-10 fits her wonderfully.

All of Sun Tail’s mermaid monofins are not only spectacularly comfortable, they’re virtually unbreakable, too!  No more blisters or chaffing, and no more sad mermaids with broken, cracked, or snapped plastic fins.  Their monofins come in a wide range of beautiful colors, so you can match your mermaid tail or look amazing wearing it alone.

All of the mermaid tails are made of high quality swimsuit fabric with 4-way stretch.  They do quality control testing on all batches of fabric to ensure the best color fastness and durability for your tails. 

They have, hands down, the most amazing customer service.  I noticed that my ship to address was incorrect and I called them and they changed it on the spot!

Sun Tails is committed to bringing you quality mermaid tails, monofins, and swimwear at the best prices for kids, teens, and you!

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The audience waited in eager anticipation. Everyone in the room could feel a palpable excitement, an expectation that something amazing was about to occur before their very eyes. And not a single soul was disappointed by Cirque du Soleil’s breathtaking show, OVO.

Ovo has been performed for more than 4.5 million people worldwide after its premier in Montreal in 2009 and now OVO is bringing this same incredible production to towns all over, giving families the opportunity to experience the phenomenon that is Cirque du Soleil.

“Ovo” means egg in Portuguese. And let’s face it, a lot of our companion creatures get their start right inside this very oval. The show is a non-stop amalgam of movement and dancing and acrobatic feats that you’ve never seen before and could not have conceived or imagined. This teeming ecosystem of creatures is surprised one day by an egg that appears in their midst, and they’re outrageously curious about this object that represents life to them.

But don’t think that there’s no story here: au contraire! An adorable ladybug and her companion embark on a journey of love and the whole audience falls in love right along with them.

The cast of “OVO” is comprised of 50 performing artists from 12 countries and the highlight of the show for us was what appeared to be a “Trapeze” act…only without the Trapeze.

Check out the trailer:

There are so many words that could describe this show: beautiful, sensual, exciting, physical, intense, entertaining…I could go on and on.

If you have the opportunity to see this show, run, don’t walk to grab your tickets. You won’t be disappointed! To see if OVO is coming to a venue near you, click here.

This is such a cool gift idea for a kid’s room! Available at Target and Target.com, there are several 3DLightFX nightlights that you can choose from. You’ll find Star Wars, Marvel Characters, Sports, My Little Pony and tons more.

This goes beyond a normal, boring nightlight. Your kids will love them!

When mounted to the wall with the cracked sticker, it will appear as though the character smashed through your wall! All Lights are LED lite and battery operated and use 3 AA batteries sold seperatly. They have a convenient ON/OFF/Timer switch, ideal for rooms with limited wall outlets. Don’t forget to buy one for each kid in your family!

3DLIGHTFX 3D Deco Lights are the perfect gift or just something special for your kids’ room. They have a full range of comic book, super hero, Disney Princess, sports and car lights that look as though they are popping right out of the wall! They are battery operated and cool to the touch so you can place them any where in the room! Your kids will love having these in their rooms and they’re also the perfect additions to a den, family room, man cave or office!

We got the Hulk nightlight for our boys, and they are thrilled! Unfortunately, the photos we took disappeared when we did our last phone update! But I can tell you that for about $25, you can make your kids excited about going to bed, and that’s priceless! The nightlight comes with a sticker that easily attaches to the wall and makes it appear that the nightlight is “bursting” through the wall. So cool! And several of them actually have a “set” so that you can get a head and a hand or two. Our boys love their Hulk fist, and love showing it off to their friends.

Find all of these amazing products here.

Are you looking for a seriously cool gift for Christmas? You have got to check this out!

It’s a 3D pen. Yes! A pen that “writes” in 3D. Basically it allows you to “write” 3D objects in thin air.

The world we’re living in today is one that is beyond our parents’ and grandparents’ wildest dreams. I am amazed on a daily basis by what the human mind continues to conceive. We are living in exciting times.

Scribbler 3D Pen is a tool for the creative minds of our generation. It allows you to build 3D objects from the ground up; build any and everything you can imagine with ultimate ease and precision. Unleash your creativity and let it run rampant through your studio!

The Scribbler 3D Pen uses filaments that extrude from the nozzle/tip once heated within the pen. It then instantly cools and solidifies as you begin drawing the object of your choice, giving a strong stable foundation to your structure; allowing you to create an infinite number of shapes and design with ease! Most people can instantly begin tracing as soon as they get a hold of Scribbler 3D Pen.

This photo below came from the Scribbler 3D pen website – our efforts still need some practice, but our kids are having a ton of fun! This is so stimulating to their creativity and we have used the pen in some home school lessons as well. The possibilities are endless.

Can you imagine “drawing” this???

And you know I have a deal for you! You can save a whopping $35 with this discount. Just click here to check it out.

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So it may seem odd to you that we would do an article about a water park when winter is upon us, but you have to remember that we’re in Florida…where it’s summer year ’round (or seems that way!)

Adventure Landing’s Shipwreck Island Water Park is a ton of fun for the whole family, and if you buy season passes for 2017 now, you can get a super deal.

So for $74.99 (that’s way less than $1 a day!) you can treat your whole family to unlimited fun all season.

And check this out:

SEASON PASS YEAR ‘ROUND BENEFITS
In addition to great savings at the waterpark, you can also enjoy off-season and year ’round benefits from your 2017 Shipwreck Island Season Pass! In addition to receiving 10% off select food items all the time, you will also receive these great daily discounts:

MONDAY – Bring-A-Friend Mondays – Season passholders can get bring a guest into the waterpark for only $13.99 per person.
Buy one game of mini golf at regular price, get one game of mini golf for free.
TUESDAY – 30 Arcade Tokens for $5
WEDNESDAY – Buy one at regular price, get one free: mini golf games, laser tag sessions & go-kart rides
THURSDAY – $2 Hot Dogs
FRIDAY – $3 Wacky Worm & Frog Hopper Rides

No Sharks, No Sand, No Jellyfish!

Shipwreck Island Water Park, featuring the Little St. Johns River, Typhoon Lagoon – a half million gallon wave pool, and 4Xtreme slides:

• The Rage
• The Hydro Half-Pipe
• The Eye of the Storm
• The Undertow

The Shipwreck Island Play Village is the centerpiece attraction for kids, young and not so young. Multiple slides, water cannons and water falls ensure hours of fun.

This would make a fabulous Christmas gift, don’t you think???

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