Stratos Spheres from ThinkFun

Stratos Spheres
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We received a couple of great new toys from ThinkFun including Stratos Spheres and Math Dice Chase. We love the toys from ThinkFun because they are incredibly well made and fun to play. So far we’ve only played Stratos Spheres and soon we will be opening Math Dice Chase. Stratos Spheres is a great little 2-player 4-in-a-row game that I enjoy playing with Andrew and Eva.

Speaking of Andrew and Eva, tonight I was able to take them to Bliss for dinner. We haven’t been able to just go anywhere the three of us in a while with school and my work schedule. So tonight we had a nice little dinner, just the three of us. More about our night in the vlog below.

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New Adventures and Netflix

This post is part of my #StreamTeam series for Netflix about what we as a family are doing in the New Year.

Our Netflix Shot

This year is off to a great start around here. We are gearing up for a great year ahead. One new thing that we, or rather, I, am doing is a daily vlog. While the family is appearing on various videos we haven’t gone all out and made it a completely family vlog like one of my good friends, Annie of Stowed Stuff. She inspired me to start a daily vlog and so far I’ve done it every day since New Year’s Day. That is pretty good for a guy who consumes media way more than he makes media. But that is going to change over the course of the year. My goal is to vlog each day for 2016, something that completely doable. I started taking a photograph every day for a year in 2005 and I’m about to hit year 11 in April.

This month has also been about watching some shows on Netflix. For me, personally, I look for shows to watch during my break at work. I get an hour break and so pick an hour show to watch. This past month I watched Marco Polo and Sense8. Both shows are Netflix Originals and they are amazing. I can’t watch them with the family but I do enjoy them in the personal time that I have. I’m really looking forward to the new seasons of Daredevil, Longmire and the new show Luke Cage. I’m also looking forward to watching Orange is the New Black and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt with Allison. Continue reading New Adventures and Netflix