Monthly Archives: August 2016

Family, Grab Bag, Review, Toys, Vlog

500 Balloon Water Balloon Fight with Bunch O Balloons

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Our Bunch O Balloons Products

We received a sampling of great Bunch O Balloons products for free from ZURU. They are for us to play with and review and give our honest opinion on them. There was one product that we were not able to use because that will be saved for another day, we need a pool or lake or something to use that one, it fills using water around you and then you can use it as a water blaster.

In addition to the water balloons sent to us from Bunch O Balloons I went out and purchased 3 more packages. I even got the Red, White and Blue Target exclusive ones. I meant to use those on the Fourth of July but we never got a chance.

I was trying to make this a surprise for the kids but they already knew about it. I did manage to keep them in the house while I filled 500 water balloons. Then I hid them all over the yard. The thing I love most about Bunch O Balloons is that they solve two major problems with water balloons, filling them and tying them. The balloons are self tying and you can fill over 30 in one shot, 100 in 60 seconds if you are quick about switching them out on the hose. I should really try and do that sometime, do filling races with Bunch O Balloons. That would be fun.

Sneak Attack

Once I had all the balloons filled and hidden around the yard we came out and had a water balloon fight followed by the rain while we picked up all the pieces. There are a lot of pieces with 500 water balloons. While they are biodegradable you still have to pick them up. Also the devices for filling the balloons are recyclable, I’m happy about that.

A package of 100 balloons is $9.99 and the balloon launcher around $12.99. I forgot the retail on the toy that you can use to fill the Bunch O Balloons without a hose.

You can enter to win $2500 from Bunch O Balloons for your Epic Water Balloon Fight just make your video and tag it with #BOBSecretWeapon and #BunchOBalloons. Follow this link for rules – http://bit.ly/BOBVideoContest

I don’t know if we can submit our video but the fight was pretty epic with 500 Bunch O Balloons Water Balloons. Take a look.

Food, Friends, Photo-A-Day, Travel, Vlog

The Kids Try Their Hand at Chopped – Ice Cream Creations

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Sunset Swimming on Long Pond
Photo-A-Day #4136

Today we took a trip further down the Cape to visit my grandparents and also our good friends, Aaron and Denise and their kids.

We picked Eva up from Science School and headed to Harwich to visit Grandma Bennett. She had picked up a couple new pieces of technology and wanted me to share my opinion of them with her. She bought a VHS to DVD recorder which could come in handy for the whole family to transfer their VHS tapes to DVD. There are some nice services for this like, YES Video, which I’ve worked with in the past. They are great but a bit expensive with so many things to convert. With this new device Grandma can save lots of her VHS tapes to DVD. The nice thing about this is once those are on DVD they can be converted and edited to digital files so that we could watch the best parts of the movies.

After seeing Grandma, we went over to visit Grandpa Bennett. He had a health scare a few weeks ago and has been rehabbing for a while. He was looking much better than the last time I saw him. In great spirits, too. He’s getting out soon and is looking forward to that very much. Andrew was a bit standoffish at first. He can be that way sometimes. Eva was less so but still a little. I think seeing Grandpa in a bed kinda threw her. But she recovered well. By the end of the visit the kids were taking turns telling jokes and being silly. They warm up pretty quickly. I think the funniest thing was that Andrew was showing grandpa his painted fingernails and toenails and his right foot’s toenails perfectly matched grandpa’s bedspread. We all got a laugh out of that.

After our visit with Grandpa we went over to spend some time with our good friends, the Prestons. I knew Aaron from High School and a sad event brought us back together to make the discovery that we lived not five minutes from each other. We got together with our families soon after that and the kids have been fast friends ever since. The parents have been as well. They are an exceptional family who comes up with great fun projects. One of those projects has been doing mini “Chopped” competitions between the kids. That was our activity for the night.

I picked up some toppings for ice cream and, of course, went a bit overboard. The kids had a ton of things to choose from in order to decorate their scoop of ice cream. Each kids received one scoop and had to make the best looking creation that they could. The older kids were more on the minimalist side creating “less is more” creations. The two younger kids went for the “there’s no such thing as too much of a good thing” approach. In the end all four kids had made some very special creations. I took video of the whole thing and then put it together. Please watch it on YouTube and leave a comment on which one you think was the best. The kids give some nice presentations on their choices at the end of the competition.

Of course, giving the kids that much sugar at 8:45 at night wasn’t the best choice and so to get them to kinda get it out of their system they had a game of Charades. There were some very funny antics during that and Aaron also played his guitar, a very music soothes the savage beast melody. It was just a great night, lots of fun (We also visited Long Pond for a sunset swim and had delicious pizza from Sweet Tomatoes) and we treasure those nights when we can spend time with our friends. It was also the first time that I didn’t have to run off to work at my vampire night job!