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Making Present Time Last Longer With A Holiday Scavenger Hunt {Tween/Teen Tuesday Linky}

Scavenger Hunt Clues

Welcome to Tween and Teen Tuesdays at OurCrazyBoys.com! I hope you’ll come share your posts about your not-so-little-but-not-so-big kids with me. Starting a few years ago, we began using scavenger hunts to draw out our present opening tradition a little longer. With the boys getting older, they are beginning to ask for more expensive gifts, [...]

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Tween Gift Ideas: Tween/Teen Tuesday

TweenTuesdayGiftGuide

Welcome to a special holiday gift guide edition of Tween/Teen Tuesday at OurCrazyBoys.com! I’m sharing some of the best gift ideas I have this season for the hardest kids to buy for – tweens! It’s so easy to buy for little ones – they’re over the moon happy with presents of any kind, as long as [...]

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A Fun (and free) Personalized Greeting Card from Treat.com

Photo Courtesy of Treat.com

Have you heard about Treat? Treat is Shutterfly’s exciting new greeting card brand that makes it easy for people to create and send one-of-a-kind greeting cards. Treat cards are perfect for holidays, birthdays, congrats, thank yous and every occasion in between. It’s crazy fun. It’s super easy. And it’s totally personal. I, for one, am [...]

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Time Dog Is My Best Kept Secret

TimeDog

My son is freestyle wrestling and needs some tips about being quick on his feet. I have heard about drills like snapping towels at his legs (seriously!) and need to know if there are any more. Videos would be helpful, as well.  Can you give me the Friday hours and address for the Science Downtown [...]

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Unassembled Lego Birthday Invitations {A Tutorial}

LegoPartyInvitations

I am knee deep in Lego party creativity right now, and am dying to share my invitations with you! I just finished making these Lego birthday invitations: We mailed our invitations today, and Jack’s friends will have to assemble them to see the party details. After buying a new box of Legos at Target, we [...]

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I Pinned It, I Made It! Portable Lego Tray

I was playing around on Pinterest the other night and – wait. You’re not on Pinterest? Really? What do you do with all of your free time if you’re not on Pinterest? Anyway… {you should get on Pinterest!} I saw this: A portable Lego tray by Jaime at ThatsMyLetter.Blogspot.com. We are at a Lego standstill in [...]

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Apple Crisp In A Jar {with and without gluten}

Gluten-Free-Apple-Crisp-Recipe

I came across this great new (to me) magazine called Yum Food & Fun For Kids and saw one of my favorite recipes, but in a jar! Perfect for gift giving, I thought. The original recipe is for Tidy Mom’s Pie in a Jar, but I changed it up a little. I made apple crisp [...]

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I have a {gulp} 7 year old.

Daddy is reading his card to him on his birthday morning :) He’s 7. Which makes no sense to me, because I just had him yesterday. Or maybe last week. And my 7 year old? He wanted a Chop Chop Caveman birthday party. He says that it’s the new Angry Birds. Only cooler. And I [...]

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The Leprechaun

*Update: Comment #7, Molly, was the winner!! This was fun ;) And make sure to come back tomorrow, because I have a fun giveaway to post!* As if the Easter Bunny, Santa, and The Tooth Fairy aren’t enough, the Leprechaun comes to visit us on St. Patrick’s Day. It didn’t start out that way. He [...]

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