LEGO KidsFest is coming to Houston...Click for more information plus giveaway

LEGO KidsFest is returning to Houston October 21-23 2016 and I hope you have your tickets! This will be a first for my family and I and we are beyond excited as we love LEGO bricks. LEGO KidsFest is great for all ages, and builders of all skills. For those that have attended you know what to expect such as hands on building, creative experiences and one of kind activities. LEGO KidsFest is award winning and glad to be apart of it this year! So bring down your family to the three acre show floor and of course be prepare for some new activities this year which include LEGO Mindstorms, LEGO Movie(Everything is awesome), LEGO Disney Princess, and LEGO Superhero and so much more. Visitors will also enjoy LEGO Model Museum, Race Ramps, Creation Nation, Construction Zone, LEGO DUPLO, LEGO Ninjago, and much more. Also for my readers if you do go be prepare as they will have a LEGO Retail and LEGO KidsFest Marketplace so your little loves or your big loves won't leave empty handed. So calling all true LEGO fans come on down, and enjoy one day or the whole weekend at LEGO KidsFest. 

Here are information on tickets 

Five identical sessions are available. Tickets are $19 for the Friday and Sunday afternoon sessions, and $22 for both sessions on Saturday and the Sunday morning session. For more information and to purchase tickets, log on to http://www.legokidsfest.com

As well as here are some activities as subject to change just a heads up:
LEGO Disney Princess: create a princess scene to add to a LEGO story book
LEGO Model Museum: dozens of life-sized models made entirely from LEGO bricks 
Race Ramps: build a custom car, then race it down the ramp against friends and family 
LEGO Star Wars: build and display a Star Wars model
Creation Nation: build your own creation to add to a custom map of the U.S. 
LEGO DUPLO: younger visitors can explore imagination through building
LEGO Retail: purchase LEGO merchandise and official KidsFest tour goods
Brick Pile: a gigantic pile full of LEGO bricks for creative play and enjoyment

These are just few activities that will be going on that day of course these are subject to change and as always for more information head to there website.

Fun Facts and Pictures Thanks to USFAMILYGUIDE
More than 400 billion LEGO bricks have been produced since 1949.
The LEGO minifigure represents the world's largest population of people! More than four billion minifigures have been produced in the last 30 years. This is almost 12 times the population of the United States!
LEGO minifigures are out of this world, literally. The two Mars Rovers have an image of the LEGO minifigure etched into their front grill.
Approximately seven LEGO sets are sold each second.
There are about 62 LEGO bricks for every one of the world's six billion inhabitants.
Laid end to end, the number of LEGO bricks sold in a year would reach more than five times around the world.
There are 915 million ways to combine six eight-stud LEGO bricks.
Children around the world spend five billion hours a year playing with LEGO bricks.
With a production of about 306 million tires produced a year, the LEGO group is the largest producer of tires in the world.
LEGO is the contraction of two Danish words, "leg godt" which means "play well".
More than 19 billion LEGO elements are produced every year. More than 2.16 million LEGO elements are molded every hour, or 36,000 per minute.
It took 50 hours and 68,000 LEGO bricks to make the storybook in the LEGO Disney Princess at the shows.

The largest LEGO Model ever built is the life sized X-Wing fighter. It took more than 17000 hours to build over 5m bricks and 46000 pounds.

By 2020, LEGO's aim is to make sure that 100% of its energy will be balanced by renewable energy sources

For more information http://legokidsfest.com/kentucky-2016.html

Now here is the exciting part one lucky reader will become a winner and win 2 tickets to LEGO KidsFest 4 to 8:30 session for October 21, note it's on a Friday.

Just note please go purchase your tickets to LEGO KidsFest as they will sell out quickly!

Go enter just by clicking the link: http://www.usfamilyguide.com/LEGO_KidsFest/?blogid=3705

Good Luck


Please use #llegokidsfest while attending the event!

Lauren



**Disclosure - My family and I  received free tickets to this event in exchange for this and any future posts. These are my own opinions and thoughts, and no compensation was received

Calling all Truffles lovers

I had an amazing opportunity along with my family to try samples of truffle which are orginial call Brigadeiro(Bree-gah-day-row). Brigadeiro are chocolate truffle from Brazil created in the 1940s. Now they are here in Houston and the surrounding areas thanks to the wonderful owner named Livia Salinas. Here is a little about Livia Salinas(from her website): 

My name is Livia Orlandin Salinas, a wife, a mother and a brigadeiro fanatic. Like most Southern born Brazilians, my family is Italian and that means growing up around food, attending weekly family gatherings and big Sunday lunches filled with plenty of desserts.  I learned how to make brigadeiros with my dear grandmother, who used to make them for all family parties and I would help her by scraping the pans and eating the leftovers! With a background in hospitality and tourism, lived in Europe and became a foodie and fell in love with sharing my recipes of brigadeiros with my friends from different parts of the world and always hearing how they were delicious and addictive.  After moving to the US in 2006, married my high school sweetheart and worked at large hotel chains, our son Lucca was welcomed in 2013. Wanting him to grow up around my culture and keeping our passion for food, I decided to develop a gourmet line of my biggest passion, brigadeiros. 

Like many she had dream and she is making it happen. Slowly but surely Brigadeiros are becoming a name for any occasion you can name of. 

Like I stated in the beginning I along with my family got the opportunity to samples these wonderful Brigadeiros. These are our honest opinions. 

Let's start off by showing you what they are, and what each flavor were and than tell you if we enjoyed them or not (yes I will keep you waiting). 

First her product is very welcoming especially how they are box and there is label to know which each flavor was. Also there was a new flavor Black Forest which she has not advistise yet and it was package individually and nicely.  Here are a few pictures of her products Brigadeiros: 

New Flavor Black Forrest 

So I bet now you are wondering did we enjoy them or not....well let me tell you that this was a first for all of us, as well as never even heard of Brigadeiro before I met Livia Salinas the owner and read about them on her website. Now the moment of truth yes we enjoyed them and a matter fact the family favorite was the chocolate crunch. Each one of them had an unique flavor even just the original was tasteful and gave us a hint of what they were suppose to taste like before trying the flavor ones. From the looks of it I think my almost two year old enjoyed them all...lol! 

The new flavor black Forrest was absolutely amazing, love how when we took a bit into it we tasted a cherry in the middle....yum! It was moist, flavorful, and the flavor which including the cherry went just right. 

Churro: All I have to say this was second for us. If you know the actual dessert churro you won't be disappointed with this one. Everything right on point! 

Coconut: We are not to big on Coconut but this wasn't strong with coconut flavor which made it very enjoyable. 

White Chocolate: Hubby said he love how the white chocolate was moist and wasn't rich 

Dark chocolate and Coconut: Two flavor a that goes well together and can't go wrong 

Chocolate Cruch: Oh yum! You know the crunch candy bar well this is what exactly that taste like. Family favorite. 

Original: Not sure what flavor to try or get or is your first time trying Brigadeiro can't go wrong with original, plus it will get your taste buds ready for the flavor ones. Chocolate on chocolate can't beat that. 

Everyone of these Brigadeiros were moist, flavor was on point and not rich whatsoever, and just like all the other ones her new flavor Black Forrest will be successful. 

If you are ever in the Katy area or even the Houston area and need dessert try Brigadeiro! Livia Salinas does delivery, just reach out to her to work something out. Here is her information: 

www.bonjourbrigadeiro.com 

Facebook page is Facebook.com/bonjourbrigadeirotx 

Lauren 

P.S. Here is a few pictures I got 

First trip to the ER

Yup you saw the title correctly we made our first trip to the ER. Last Tuesday my son woke up from his very short nap feeling hot, and I check his temp and he had a fever of a 101.3. I send a text to husband to put him on stand by and when he got out of work he went to the store and got some sprite and some soup for our little one. Well in between all that he was throwing up and than not wanting to eating only pick. I gave him some meds and thankfully he slept good that night. Also my husband didn't go to work the the next day which was last Wednesday because while he was at the store he was a having battery problem. Which luckily our family friend helped him out because when I was on the way our son started to throw up in the car so had to turn back. You know my husband had been so exhausted and with him working on his car till late while I was taking care of our son he was beyond tired. So Wednesday he nor his body couldn't handle it so he decide to stay home.

Anyways back to our son so last Wednesday was a good day until after dinner we notice he was getting little snores around his mouth. We didn't think of anything until he went to sleep for the night but got up at midnight. We try to comfort him, try to figure out what was wrong and to make him happy because he was fuss and crying. Than we notice he had those sores coming out all over his body worst spot was his behind and around his mouth, and to top it off he was itching and it wasn't a little it was a lot.

Since he couldn't get comfortable, and than we notice around his little mouth was swollen so as parents we made the decision to either find a store to get him meds or take him to the ER at 2 in the morning by this time it was Thursday already. Here we go we all got ready and headed to the ER they check him out. We waited for them to call us to the back. So we waited and waited until about 4 o clock they call us to the back in the meantime my son is playing, laughing dancing but no music and saying hi to everyone, made us think if he was really sick...lol. We got called to the back talk to the nurse and got examined and than after a while doctor came in...well come to find out my son had gotten a bad virus/disease called Hand Foot and Mouth. Honestly I used to work with kids before my baby boy and never have I heard of this sickness until becoming a parent. He had not only sores all along his body but he had blisters in his mouth which kept him from eating much or being comfortable. Doctor gave us medicine to keep his mouth comfortable and we just had to waited it out. From there we were on our way home from the hospital at 5 in the morning and that's the time my husband gets up for work, instead we were tired from just coming in and went straight to bed. 

You know making our first trip ER, and it being the first time our son got really sick on us since being born was truly hard. I as a mommy felt like I fail as a parent but I understand that I can't protect my son from everything.

We as first time parents is true what they say you learn as you go because this has been a learning process, and it has tested everything for us from lack of sleep to  our patience but at the end our main focus was our little guy and glad we took him when needed.

I as a mother and his mother will and would do anything for him and last week was truly put to the test along with my husband(daddy) he did anything for me and for our son(like always).

I want to leave off with thanking God for blessing me with an amazing husband who was there by my side, and didn't let me do any of this by myself and for always helping me! Also it's almost been a week and proud to say our son is feeling much better. He's got a little snores here and there but nothing did or won't keep him down!

Lauren

Pinterest series: Mommy Edition-Was it a PASS or FAIL

Pinterest series: Mommy Edition-Was it a PASS or FAIL

This pinterest series is a little different as I'm the one who will put stuff to the test to see if it was a PASS or FAIL! Since I'm planning my son's birthday I got a lot of ideas from pinterest from decorations to diy projects to even how to set up...thanks pinterest! 

So with that being said this will be call Pinterest Series: Mommy Edition- Was it a PASS or Fail. I will be putting things to the test to see if they were a PASS or a Fail. I would share with you everything you need for that project and if it was easy or not. 

With that being said here are the first few projects I did, first you will see pinterest picture and than my pictures. Later on I will explain how I did the project and details

Pinterest pictures: 

Here are my pictures 

Everything was easy. The Halloween mason jars gave me the idea to do the football and referee and I'm using them as candle holders(took a chance with these). The cans football were made out of paper, but I used tissue paper and it came out the same. Than the number 2 my son size which I painted backwards and didn't notice until we took his pictures but it's fix now and thank God for my husband and photo shop. After that you have a field goal I made with the help from my husband. 

Other than that I love that these project were easy, got my husband involve, and very inexpensive. It was a Pass! 

Stay tuned for how to do on these projects!

Lauren 

Hello August

Hello August! Be good to us this month. We enjoyed July but looking forward to what's in store for us in August beside:

The Olympics 2016 start this Friday August 5th. We are so excited and can't wait to see what the opening ceremony will be like since it's in Rio. All I can think about is the music and colorful and hope it's exactly like that. We shall see! Are you excited about the Olympics, if so what are you excited about?

Another thing that is going on is second birthday planning for my son is second birthday is right around the corner. Luckily I have some stuff crafts wise done and out of the way with of course a 2 I did backwards, yes backwards and we didn't even notice until after my son's second birthday photo shoot....lol but I fix it and thankfully for photo shoot and my husband. Keep an eye out for the before and after picture. Also during the planning pinterest has been my best friend and I have been things to the test to see if it was a Fail or Pass....stay tuned for that on a whole new posted.

Now that we are in a new month let's enjoy every moment of it!

With that being said what are you looking forward to this month?

Lauren