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Let’s face it preparing lunches is hard! You want your children (and yourself!) to eat healthy but not become bored.

Here is where Wholly Guacamole comes in! The One Lunch, Two Ways gives you inspiration on how to create two different lunches using similar ingredients! Perfect isn’t it?! 

Have you visited the Wholly Guacamole site lately?

Right now you can visit their site and find:

Are you creative and competitive?

How do you feel about photo contests?! Photo contests are my favourite.

Here is what you have to do:

Use Wholly Guacamole minis and get creative while making lunch, snap a picture and enter! The best lunches can win lunch boxes full of guac products and a gift card for $100. Full rules and regulations can be found here.

Please note that this contest is only open to residents of the U.S.

This weekend we were able to participate in Walmart’s 2013 Toy Testing! 

What an incredible experience – needless to say my children were beyond thrilled at the idea of testing toys (can you blame them – even I was excited!). I had never been before so was unsure of what to expect. Walmart was fantastic and sent out an agenda before hand explaining the age groupings, refreshment area and so on. We were able to show up thirty minutes before hand to register which was fantastic (it is so hard to keep children entertained while waiting in line to register!). 

The toy selection was incredible (each numbered toy had three of the same toy so there was more than enough toys for the children there). Our youngest was in his glory in his section – shooting small bullets, playing with superheroes and being with other children.

This toy was our little one’s top pick! 

By far the section I enjoyed the most was the 6-12 year old area. The toys were incredible! I can not believe the variety and imagination of the toys that are coming out! You barely even know where to start looking. 

Here are some of our eldest son’s picks:

Overall it was an incredible experience that I was so happy to be able to share with my family. It is something we will never forget. I can not wait to apply again next year.

Over the weekend we had a scary summer storm – to be honest it is the worst I have ever been in. We were terrified! Our little one cried and cried. 

When the storm started moving in we were actually at the soccer field for our eldest son’s soccer game. All of a sound these fierce looking dark clouds moved in. This is what we captured from our car:

By the time we made it home the sky cleared up a little bit and had a strange look to it. Within twenty minutes our view looked like this:

What I learned from this experience was how ill prepared we were for an emergency – we were without hydro for over fifteen hours! We had to go to the store to buy candles, flashlights and had no emergency rations. It was terrifying! 

Do you have an emergency kit ready to go? What do you keep stocked in it?