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Your Shape Review

March 4, 2010

A video review of the Your Shape game for the Wii – with both positives and negatives of the game. Disclosure: I am participating in a three-month sponsored challenge for the Your Shape game. All opinions are my own and are not influenced by the challenge.

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Blogger Events and More Blogger Events…

September 22, 2009

I have seriously neglected this blog lately, because I’ve been so busy! There have been an enormous amount of blogger events over the past few weeks – so much so that I’ve even had to miss a few. I am, of course, first and foremost a mom, so I’ve been sticking to local events. First [...]

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Week 4: Active Life – Extreme Challenge

September 7, 2009

This week, we tried to get my son more interested in Active Life: Extreme Challenge, and successful when we found a game he was great at – the BMX Racing Challenge. The BMX Racing Challenge is played by running in place on the game pad, and my son is super-fast. He beat his sister twice, [...]

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Week 3: Active Life Extreme Challenge

August 30, 2009

This week, in the Active Life Extreme Challenge, my family played the Namco game for only half the week, as we were on vacation the rest of the week. It was the perfect activity for the beginning of this week though, because the weather outside was incredibly hot and humid so the kids didn’t really [...]

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Week 2: Active Life Extreme Challenge

August 22, 2009

When I last wrote about our experience with Active Life: Extreme Challenge, the new Wii game from Bandai Namco Games, my family had split into two teams – the girl team, with my daughter and me, and the boy team with my son and my husband. The “boy team” was in the lead, but I [...]

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Shred Sled for Active Kids

August 22, 2009

When I told my 11 and 8 year old boys that a Shred Sled was coming for them to try out, I was officially elevated to “cool mom” status for a few days. I have to say I was a little nervous. I’m not a big fan of skateboards or kick scooters. In my mind, [...]

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Jodi + Running: Take 3

August 10, 2009

I RAN TWO MILES WITHOUT STOPPING!!! But let me back up and tell you the story. After posting my second Jodi + Running: Take 2 story, I had a variety of reactions. My sorority sister Polina commented that I should consider trying the Couch to 5K program. The truth is, I had considered that a [...]

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The Bikini Story

March 17, 2009

I was glad when my friend Steph posted in her blog that she is inspired by the phrases on the lululemon bags. Because I am too! And the phrase she quoted is my all time favorite – Do Something Once a Day That Scares You. Although, to be honest, in practice, I replace the word [...]

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