Kinder joins forces with Monsters University

Did you get a chance to watch Monsters University this Summer?  We didn't but the kids really wanted to see it.  Hopefully its out on video soon.  We had a crazy busy Summer here, super busy but lots of fun. Lots of day trips and lots of memories but that's what its all about!

Have you seen the great new Kinder eggs that are floating around out there?  They are Monsters University eggs!!!  How awesome is that.  Best part is that each and every specialty marked Monsters University Kinder egg contains a Monsters University licenced toy!!  My kids are loving them, and its making them ask for more and more Kinder eggs than ever before. 



Although we don't have any monster fears in our house, thank goodness, I have seen a really cool tool out there for those of you who have kids that struggle with this.  You just take a spray bottle filled with water and a few drops of essential oils.  Fill up the spray bottle and then make a label for it.  You can do something up on the computer or do a scrapbook style or even just use a black marker.  You can label it Monster B Gone, Monster Spray, or what ever other creative name you can come up with :)  Here is the link to pinterest where I found some of these :)



Make sure you check out the Kinder Canada facebook page for great things.  There is always some fun stuff going on and once in a while a giveaway or two :)

Disclosure : I am part of the Kinder Mom program and I receive special perks as part of my affiliation with this group.  The opinions on my blog are as always my own!

Pink Pink Pink

Disclosure: I’m part of the KINDER® Mom program and I receive special perks as part of my affiliation with this group. The opinions on this blog are my own and can not be bought!

We are Kinder fanatics in our house!  The kids love them and even I love to munch away on them.  Kinder has always been great with keeping things new and exciting.  The latest and greatest thing that they have come up with is the new Pink Egg!  Now pink eggs are not just for girls.  Boys love them too, including my boy.

I have always been big on trying not to stereotype my kids.  Not just pink and dolls for Kristina and just trucks and blue for Brandon.  This is another great time to talk about how things don't have to be just for girls or just for boys.  Girls love trucks and boys love dolls, mine anyways ;)

Now I am a little late on the ball this month but there is an amazing contest going on over on the Kinder Canada facebook page for a $250 Visa gift card!  How awesome would that be to win?!?!?  Make sure you check it out ASAP as it ends tomorrow :( sorry for the short notice.

 Brandon is missing his 4 front teeth but can still eat an apple without me having to cut it up ;)

Kristina is one of the kindest, more generous people I know

xoxo to my babies

What makes your kids unique?

Kinder Canada for Easter 2013

I am so excited for making some new memories this Easter.  Last Easter was the end to my marriage, a blessing in disguise, but still a rough holiday.  This year the kids and I are going to create some great new memories and some new traditions.  I don't get them back from their Dads until 1:30 and we are going to walk into the house to a great big egg hunt.  I am pretty excited. 

This is for sure on my to do list!  I have read a few reviews on it and it looks like a lot of fun and easy.  The only hard part is finding Kool-Aid hahaha.  I can't wait to decorate eggs, maybe the house this year, I haven't done that before but get pretty into Christmas so maybe.

The kids of course are most excited about the chocolate!  Why wouldn't they be, its chocolate!  I am stashing Kinder chocolate left right and center in my closet, but don't tell the kids.  I am fighting the urge to chow down and try to save it.  I think my plan is to hide stuff all over the house and the bigger things I will label with a K or a B so they know whos is whos.  I know Kristina is thoughtful and kind enough to leave lots of the little stuff for her brother and not take it all herself.

Support to Children’s Miracle Network: Sharing is caring. This is what the celebration is all about for KINDER Canada, who will be donating $1 to Children’s Miracle Network of Canada for every new friend of their Facebook Page from March 1st to 31st, up to $25,000.  Be sure to like like like.

Also the beloved Easter bunny Harry is touring Canada! Keep your eyes peeled, Harry will be making surprise appearances at family events in Toronto, Montreal, Calgary & Vancouver this March to celebrate Easter and spread the joy with FREE samples of Kinder® Mini eggs. Stay up to date on where Harry will be by checking the Kinder Canada Facebook page!

Disclosure: I’m part of the Kinder® Mom program and I receive special perks as part of my affiliation with this group. The opinions on this blog are my own.

Kinder Surprise and Madagascar 3

Have you been to see Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted  in theatres yet?  I really want to take the kids to see it, they have been asking, but we just need to find the time!  Have you seen the contest going on of the Kinder Canada Facebook page?  They are giving away family passes to the show.  The only thing is it ends tomorrow :(  I am so sorry that I didn't get this posted sooner for you guys so you had more time to enter.  I can only hope that you saw it on another site and have been entering all along!

Even if you don't win tickets to go and see the show you can always pick up some great Madagascar themed Kinder eggs for the kids!  My kids got some and were thrilled with them.  They come with some great Madagascar toys, you can collect all 5 gadgets and 9 animals to make a Madagascar train!  How awesome is that!  So don't wait and head to the Kinder Canada Facebook page and enter enter enter!  Good luck!

Kinder Surprise - My Kinder Moments - You can WIN $500

Have you seen the new app on the Kinder Canada facebook page called My Kinder Moments?  Its very easy to use and a lot of fun!  My Kinder Moments take your special moments that you photographed of your kids and turns them into Kinder Moments.

You can choose from some pretty cute frames, some are for more obvious themes, Halloween, First tooth etc and some are more general.  They are all really cute and so easy to use.  The best part is that for every one you create you are entered to win the monthly prize, this months prize is $500 to spend on a new Fall wardrobe for your little one! 

All you do is allow the app access to your facebook page, then you choose your frame, that's the hard part.  You upload your picture, either directly from your computer or your facebook pictures and then you are done.  Send it to a printing company or show it off on your facebook page.

I loved this one and now Brandon has a cute picture to remind him of the day we went to the pumpkin farm picking pumpkins with his cousin!  It was so much fun, we fed the chickens, goats and of course got to walk the spooky barn and pick pumpkins!  We went last year as well and he totally remembered it!  We love them and will be going back year after year.

I’m part of the Kinder® Mom program and I receive compensation as part of my affiliation with this group. The opinions on this blog are my own.

Kinder Surprise - Awesome giveaway

Have you checked out the new Kinder Canada Facebook page yet?  If you haven't yet now is the time!  They are having a fabulous giveaway going on right now for 10 very lucky winners!  10 people will each win a $200 gift basket full of Kinder Surprise goodies!  You can't get any better than that!  There are even some pictures posted on the Facebook site of people Kinder toy collections for years!  I love it. 

One of the Kinder catch phrases is "have you played today?"  We all play everyday but how do you make time for special play that your kids will remember for years to come.  Do you remember how exactly you played as a child or do you just remember a few things that stuck out for you.  That special time you went somewhere or the first time you played soccer with your Dad?

Kristina and her Dad have started playing soccer in the evenings so she can practice, she joined her first team this year and is pretty excited about it.  We have been talking about and playing a lot of soccer lately.  If this is something that she does for a few years I think this is something that she will remember for years to come.  With Brandon I take him into the kitchen and we bake, cook anything in there and he is in his glory.  I think he can use my Kitchen Aid mixer better than me :)  We made play dough last week and he played with it everyday last week afterwards because he was so excited about it!

What do you do with your kids to make play special?

Disclosure: I’m part of the KINDER® Mom program and I receive special perks as part of my affiliation with this group. The opinions on this blog are my own

Kinder Surprise is relaunching in Canada - who wants a free Kinder egg???

Do you or your kids love Kinder Surprise?  My kids ask for them all the time, whenever we go past some actually!  I have been chosen with a lieu of other moms to be a #KINDERMom and get to bring you all the latest and greatest news about whats new with Kinder!!  I can't wait to share with all of you and of course eat and I guess share some Kinder Surprises with my kids and of course their friends, and you know I will be eating my fare share too :)

If you want to get your hands on a FREE Kinder Surprise then keep your eyes peeled to the Kinder facebook page!  On August 29th, they haven't said what time, but that's the day that they are going to be giving away FREE Kinder Surprise coupons!  So make sure that your watching and ready to grab your FREE coupon!

This past Easter was our first camping trip of the season and it was a huge success!  We have decided to make it a family tradition and do it every year.  We went with Kris's Mom and all his Sisters, their partners and kids!  It was so fun and if you ask the kids what the best part was it was the Kinder eggs that Granny got them all.  Even for baby Mickayla who was only a few months old at the time.  She not only got them all Kinder eggs but they were Toy Story Kinder eggs which had to be the coolest thing ever according to the kids!

They each had a treat and a toy that they played with ALL day and most of them still have it!  They all love Toy Story so this was amazing, a nice yummy (peanut free) yes I just said that - and an awesome toy!  Do you have any great memories of giving your kids a Kinder egg and how it was just the best thing ever to them?  My first bit of fun info from Kinder is that they are coming out with new bigger and better toys for 2012!!  You can get a glimpse of some of the new toys here!!

Disclosure: I’m part of the Kinder® Mom program and I receive compensation as part of my affiliation with this group. The opinions on this blog are my own.