Mood:  lyrical

If you have been reading my posts since last year at this time, then you will recall the tradition I began to celebrate Advent. We are still planning on having four advent nights this year, but we are combining it with a great idea that I just saw for an advent calendar. A blogger friend at 3+3=Our Full House  had a great link on her blog for creating advent envelopes with special family activities inside for each day.  If you accept the challenge, you are encouraged to post pictures on their Flickr page. Here's the link. We took the challenge, but for us it will be the 24 Days of Christmas. Unless, of course, you count the small birthday party that we had today for our now nine year old Jacob! Anyway, let me know if you are going to participate. We're starting tomorrow. Looking forward to it.

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One of my fellow TOS Crew members, today, asked what we though about Mind Flex. It seems that her son wanted it for Christmas but she saw a video on YouTube about it and didn't know if it was real or not. She didn't want to spend a lot of money on something that wasn't legitimate. So, she asked our opinion of it.

Being the inquisitive person that I am, I looked it up on YouTube myself. Below is what I found. The boy doing the review seems very intelligent and ingenious. It looks like he has done many video reviews and even has his own website. I'll bet he was homeschooled! Anyway, although the video was well done, I'm not convinced.

What do you all think? I want your opinion. Have you used Mind Flex? What do you think about it after watching the video? Let me know. You can leave a comment on Facebook, a Tweet on Twitter, join my BlogFrog discussion, or just leave a comment below. I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say. Is it real or is it Memorex - er...I mean fake? Here's the video.

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Mood:  silly

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Mood:  mischievious

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Mood:  energetic

It's always fun to go to grandma's house! Today, in honor of Joshua's birthday, we went to the University of Tennessee's Knoxville campus where they had a fantastic model railroad display set up in their botanical gardens. All of the boys love model railroads so they were really excited. Cousin Olivia came along to join in the fun.

The display was amazing and the gardens were beautiful - even in late November! Pictures are below. Check out the aquarium cars. They were really cool. Santa Clause was even there! Jacob wasn't so sure about Santa - notice he isn't in the picture. There were even a couple of hands on activities. It was truly an awesome afternoon.

If you are in the Knoxville area, I really encourage you to go and see this. It's very inexpensive - $5.00 a person and it runs every weekend until the first of January. To find out more about the "Holiday Express", just click here. All Aboard!

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