Wordless Wednesday The Great Pumpkin October 2008

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My Favorites of Fall

This autumn has been great so far and I would love to share with you some pictures of past falls that I have enjoyed and tell you some of my favorite things of the season. Autumn is one of my favorite seasons for many reasons. Here are some of them.

I love when the leaves on the trees change their many colors.




I love going to the many fairs, festivals, harvest parties, farmers' markets, orchards, and pumpkin patches. Having hay rides and going through corn/hay mazes.



I love the flavors of fall: mulled hot apple cider with cinnamon sticks, spiced chai, sparkling cider, toasted pumpkin seeds, pumpkin pie, apple pie, pecan pie, turkey, sausage stuffing, acorn squash, sweet potatoes, yams, mashed rutabaga/potatoes, Thanksgiving feast, etc.



I love the scents of fall: autumn scented candles, my neighbor's scentsy, apples, caramel apples, mulling spices, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves allspice, star anise, pumpkin pie spice, clove orange/fruit pomanders, cinnamon pine cones, chai mulch, grape vines loaded with grapes, wood stoves, etc.



I love fall fashions. Especially sweaters, shawls, scarves, dupatta (long scarf), and ponchos (esp. ones with fringe, metallic threads, eyelash yarn, etc.), capes, caplets (esp. hooded ones).


What do you love about autumn? What are your favorites? Do you have a favorite recipe? Please share with me! Thanks!

Wordless Wednesday Autumn Leaves

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Monkey Business Sports Compound Bow X2 Toy Review and Giveaway

ABOUT MONKEY BUSINESS SPORTS:
Monkey Business Sports builds every toy with the simple goal of: providing real fun out there in the real world, promoting healthy and active play, and staying on the cutting edge of innovation and toy safety so that they can bring quality toys with style and performance to your home. They have high performance foam toy shooters, hand-launched foam rockets, fun flyers, EZ lasso (as seen on the Late Show with David Latterman), tabletop sports, spider ball, etc.

ABOUT THE FOAMSTRIKE COMPOUND BOW X2:
The Foamstrike Compound Bow X2 is great for target practice or distance challenge. The double powered bow comes with durable guide cord that latches into grooves of arrows and has X2 power aiming cords that launch the arrows over 100 feet! The wrist guard helps in the stability and accuracy. Comes with bow, 3 arrows, arrow ammo holder and sling. For left or right hand use.


MY THOUGHTS:
We received the camouflage Foamstrike Compound Bow X2 from MBS to test and review and I gave it to my boys who are 9 and 7 to try out. They absolutely had a blast! As you can see above my daughter, Teela, loved the box and the packing peanuts the bow and arrow came in the most :) When it came I was surprised, a cap with their logo on it had been thrown into the package as well. This toy bow and arrow set is great. Since it is camouflage it blends in to the surroundings and because the arrows are made of soft foam they don't hurt. Of course one has to still be careful about not hitting someone in the eye with it. Once my boys got the hang of the bow and arrows they could launch the arrow pretty far and accurately. Delbin, my oldest, aimed at Jaedan while he was running away and got him right on his hiney :) I would have thought a moving target would be more difficult, but the bow and arrow proved very accurate. The arrows when launched straight up into the air by my boys went a great distance and it was fun to watch them go so high and guess where they would land.

WIN IT:
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