Download electronic coupons to your grocery store savings card

I have found a great website to download electronic coupons directly to selected grocery store savings cards. Great to include in your family game night snack planning! 

This is a free service. The website is Shortcuts.com. When you register on the site it will ask for your name, zip code, birthday, e-mail address, password and security question and answer. Next the registration lists the featured grocery store savings cards. The selected stores include Baker's, Carrs, City Market, Dillon's, Dominick's, Fry's, Fry's Marketplace, Genuardi's, Gerbes, Hilander, JayC, King Soopers, Kroger, Kroger Marketplace, Owen's, Pavilions, Pay Less, QFC, Ralph's, Randalls, Safeway, Smith's, Smith's Marketplace, Tom Thumb, and Vons. Select your card, enter the number. Follow the rest of the registation process and you are good to go. The site will list those electronic coupons featured for the card you choose. As you select the coupons to download a list updates on the screen so you can see how much savings you will receive. Also lists savings to date.

Oh My Goodness! I have 100 followers! Yipeee!!!

Thanks to all of you who have chosen to follow me on my blog!  I can't believe I already have 100 followers!!  How cool is that??  I would love to get suggestions from you as to how I can improve on my blog.  My intent was to create something to keep the family together by giving suggestions on how to plan one night a week to spend with the family no matter how big or small the family is.  Also, keep the communication alive.  I have a tendency to keep things inside and the nights we have planned with our family has allowed me to open up a lot more.  In these tough times (even though they say the economy is getting better...yeah, right...what about the jobs???  Where are they??  Alright I'll get off my soapbox...) it is vital to keep the family together.

Top 10 Classic Board Games for Kids

I found a website called familyeducation.com which gives all kinds of great advice for family life.  While researching this site I found the "Top 10 Classic Board Games for Kids".  I've included the link to Familyeducation.com as well.

There are as follows:

Scrabble
Clue
Sorry!
Chinese Checkers
Chutes and Ladders
Life
Chess
Monopoly
Twister
Candyland

Shabby Blogs!

I have seen others use this free blog background site and decided to use it as well! I love what they have!

Okay we have a new game to love in our house!!! JENGA!!

Jenga is the best game! Thank you Hasbro for introducing it to our family!

My 4 year old, Phoebe, absolutely loves it! I gave it as a gift to a 7 year old and she went bonkers! My 2 1/2 year old, Owen loves it, not to play but to build things with (he is our little engineer, loves to see how things work!! I thought I'd add this cute pic of my little red headed cutie patooootie head!)

They say it is a game for 6 years and older, but, Phoebe plays with no problem, can set it up with no problem. Really, I think it is for all ages!

Basically the objective of the game is to take as many blocks out of the tower as you can each piece you successfully take out without knocking over the tower is put back on the top. Phoebe says if you knock over the tower though you have to yell "JENGA".

Here are the official rules:

The object of Jenga is to remove one block from the Jenga tower and then stack it on top. The last player to stack a block without making the tower fall wins the game.

Jenga consists of 54 hardwood blocks.

Why not introduce this game to your family game night? I'm sure glad we did!

Nacho Dip

Here's a great recipe for nacho dip for your family game night:

2 small containers of cream cheese
1 small container of sour cream

mix well together

layer with the following
1 jar salsa
chopped green onion
chopped green pepper
top with graded sharp cheddar cheese

serve with dip style chips

Spongebob Squarepants Memory Game

Okay, Phoebe now has a new favorite! This is the traditional memory card game where players turn over cards until they get a match. This one is Spongebob themed.

It is a fun game! Players can play from 3 years old and older. Phoebe and I played at least 4 times last night! My husband Allen had to get into the game as well, he could see how much fun we were having! Of course, Owen (my 2 year old) had to walk off with cards when we weren't looking...obviously, not a game for his age group!!