Month: November 2009

Daily Deal-Feed It Forward

It’s the giving season and Restaurant.com wants you to give-everyday!  From now until Christmas you have the chance to give $10 Restaurant.com gift cards to up to 30 people each day! Here is what they have to say about their Feed It Forward program: Through Feed It Forward™, you have the opportunity to give from the heart and enrich the lives of people around you through the gift of meals and memories. Give a free $10 Restaurant.com Gift Certificate to 30 different people, everyday until Christmas. Simply choose whom to give to and we take care of the rest. Give to family. Give to friends. Give to neighbors. Give to anyone who has touched your life, but most of all, give! Thank you for helping to Feed It Forward™. Click here to start giving away your 30 $10 Restaurant.com Gift Certif...

Operation Santa – Tennyson Center for Children

Tennyson Center for Children (www.childabuse.org), one of the Rocky Mountain region’s leading treatment and education centers for abused, neglected and at-risk youth, has launched its annual Operation Santa campaign, which runs through Jan. 1. Operation Santa is Tennyson Center’s way of giving the spirit of the holidays to the more than 100 children and 70 families served by the 105 year-old agency. The program solicits corporate and individual support from the Denver community to fulfill wish lists for children’s toys and gifts, as well as much-needed items that are essential to the success and healing of the children who receive treatment at Tennyson Center. “This program provides the children and families served by our Center with a little magic during the holidays,” said Bob Cooper, CE...

Create a Soccer Card of your Child on Your iPhone!

Here is a fun app for the soccer star in your life!  Soccer cards SKS is an iPhone app that allows you to create soccer cards of your children or favorite player along with recording and sharing stats and photos. I was able to try out Soccercard SKS iPhone app. Coming from a sports background I really thought this app was very useful and fun!   I showed it to my husband who collected baseball cards as a kid and this app really caught his interest. I know he will be using it when our son starts grows into playing sports. I could see dads and sons bonding over this app and high school athletes sharing their stats with each other.  Soccercard SKS plans to make more apps for different sports. Sign up on the soccer card sks website to get a notice about when the new sports cards arrive. Persona...

Dora and Diego Personalized DVD Giveaway

THIS GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED!  THANKS TO ALL THAT ENTERED:) I am very excited about this giveaway brought to you by Kideo.  I was sent a Personalized Dora and Diego video for review.  It was called Dora, Diego and Me.   I have a niece that loves Diego.  She even dressed up as Diego for Halloween.  You can imagine that her mom was so thrilled with that.  I could not wait to get the video in the mail and be able to share it with her. The video arrived and I invited my little niece over for her television debut.  I made sure not to tell her anything about it.  I started the video and we began to watch.  I can not even begin to tell you the excitement  she expressed as she saw herself in the video with Dora and Diego.  She was definitely in awe!  She kept saying “she did not know how she got ...

2009 Toy of the Year Award Winners

Disney FamilyFun Magazine Unveils the 18th Annual Toy of the Year (T.O.Y.) Award Winners Children and Parents Test and Pick Their Favorite Toys of 2009 Disney FamilyFun magazine has announced the winners of the 18th annual Toy of the Year (T.O.Y.) Awards, including those toys that earned a highly coveted spot on the Top 10 list. This year’s #1 toy is Invasion of the Bristlebots from Klutz: an activity kit featuring tiny, careening robots kids assemble from toothbrush heads, then use to race, make art projects with, and more. Also among the top winners are Lego’s Feeding Zoo, a 53-piece Lego set that allows young zookeepers to tame their boredom by creating animal exhibits, the kid-invented RipRider 360˚ from Razor, a steel-frame trike that lets kids “drift” and perform full 360˚degree spin...

Weekly Event Round-up: Grand Illumination in Downtown Denver, Breakfast with Santa and More!

Holiday celebrations will be in full swing this weekend. Our weekly event round-up includes some great festivities to get you in the Christmas spirit! Friday. Denver lights up for the holidays at tonight’s Grand Illumination in Downtown Denver. The sparkles start at Union Station: Before the lights go on at 6:30, visitors can sample treats, listen to a choir, work on a craft project and visit with Dinger Claus — the Rockies’ mascot will be in special holiday uniform. Shortly after, the switch gets flipped on the City and County Building’s classic light display, followed by a “Glow Walk” down the 16th Street Mall with carolers and glow sticks. The event kicks off Downtown Denver’s “Winter in the City” campaign, two months of holiday activities, entertainment and special deals. Enterta...

Mile High Mamas’ Annual Happy Thanksgiving Wishes!

“What we’re really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?” ~Erma Bombeck Enjoy your Turkey Day (and annual stuffing)! ~The Mamas Editor’s note: I realize baby Maddie is dressed as a peacock. But you try finding a cute picture of a kid dressed up as a soon-to-be-overstuffed slab of meat.

Entertain Your Guests at the Pepsi Center!

Are you having family, friends & out-of-town guests in this week for Thanksgiving but still finalizing some plans?  Well, the Pepsi Center has got exactly what you’re looking for!!  With four games in five nights, they are the hotbed for cool entertainment virtually every night this week!  Get your fill of Avalanche and Nuggets games, while you treat your guests to first-class entertainment right here in town.  It is a great way to have fun and support your local sports teams! Here is what the schedule looks like for this week:  Enjoy!  Wednesday, November 25 – Avalanche vs. Nashville – Arby’s Faceoff  4-pack Thursday, November 26 – Happy Thanksgiving! Friday, November 27 – Nuggets vs. New York  – Family Night Tickets Saturday, November 28 – Avalanche vs. Minnesota &#...

Santa Express Train..A MUST this Holiday Season!!

I have found the perfect way to share all the joy of Christmas with your little ones this year.  Imagine this….. You arrive to a train station lit up with Christmas lights.  You go inside to the train depot and buy your tickets to board the Santa Express Train.   As you board the train, you are greeted by Santa’s helpers;  elves of course!  They escort you to your seat and bring you hot chocolate and sugar cookies.  You look at your kids dressed in their pajamas.  Aren’t they adorable?   You watch as their eyes light up at the excitement of the anticipated stop at the “North Pole”! During the train ride to the “North Pole”, beautiful Christmas music plays.  You even get to hear Twas’ the Night Before Christmas played over the speakers.   It i...

Daily Deal-Black Friday Deals Part 2

You should be able to get a bang for your buck with some of these prices.  Remember that just because it’s on sale for Black Friday doesn’t mean it’s the absolute best price.  There are SO many deals so this is just a brief highlight of the Walmart, Target, and Kmart deals that I thought were worth mentioning. Walmart Doorbusters are from 5am-11am Electronics: Emerson 32″ LCD 720p HDTV $248 Magnavox Blu-Ray Disc Player $78 Nintendo DS Lite $98 HP Desk Jet F2430 All in One Printer $25 Rock Band Special Edition X Box 360 or PS3 $50 Kodak CD 82 Digital Camera $69(12MP, 3x zoom) Phillips 4GB MP3/Video $29 Tom Tom One 125SE GPS $59 Toys: Hungry Hippos, Connect 4, Battleship, Gator Golf $9 Graco Baby Doll Playset $19-includes stroller, highchair, swing, travel diaper bag,...

Review & Giveaway: Steve Spangler’s Science Toys

With the holidays just around the corner, we are bombarded by ads for toys. All the bells, whistles, and batteries required can make your head spin. I’m always on the lookout for new toy ideas that foster learning with a hint of adventure, so when Claire and I were asked to review some of Steve Spangler’s most popular science products, I jumped at the chance. Yes, The Casual Perfectionist received these items for free in exchange for an honest review, and we were not forced to give a glowing review. The positive reviews practically write themselves with these toys. I love toys that teach. I love science that disguises itself as toys. I love toys that are powered by magic. (Scientists will say they’re powered by the Laws of Physics and whatnot, but I know the truth: It’s all magic.) Here is...

Places to Cut Your Own Tree

Holiday revelers have plenty of options when it comes to finding the perfect Christmas tree. They can buy artificial timber preloaded with lights and ornaments. Or, they can opt for the real deal, selecting a Colorado spruce or Douglas fir from one of the many precut vendors who set up shop this time of year. (photo by Istockphoto.com) But there’s nothing quite like assembling one’s family for a trek to cut down a live tree. The mission requires plenty of preparation — like donning layer upon layer to keep Jack Frost at bay. But the result is a tree closest to the one you’ve been dreaming of all year. Tree shoppers also can bypass the ranches and farms listed here and go straight to nature. Beginning in early November, the Colorado State Forest Service sells permits for $...

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