This beautiful weather is REALLY making me want to get outdoors and have some fun with my family! Outdoor games are a great way to add excitement and healthy exercise to your family time. Basketball, soccer, and even chess can turn a regular day into extraordinary time! Even simple games like Murbles, which requires very little equipment, can keep you entertained for hours. You will get a dose of exercise and fresh air that will improve your health and well-being. Take advantage of the nice temperatures and enjoy some outdoor games today!
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Comfortable Camping Means Family Fun
Camping is a great way to get your family out of the house for some fresh air, relaxation, and bonding. Whether you are in a tent or Airstream, staying in the great outdoors will provide a rejuvenation to mind your body. It’s a great way to get in touch with nature, but you don’t have to miss out on the little luxuries of life while camping. Portable grills allow you to cook gourmet meals on any type of outdoor excursion. With gas and charcoal models available, you can be sure that you’ll find exactly what you are looking for. Portable hammocks make luxurious relaxation possible. With a portable hammock, you don’t need trees or hardware. Everything you need is wrapped up in one portable package. They are cozy, comfy, and easy to take on all your camping excursions. Another great item to take with you on camping trips is family games. You or your children may miss your everyday electronic devices, such as video games and computers, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t have a great time. The Murbles Game is a great source of family entertainment for camping trips. It is easy to play with no setup. The Murbles set is color customizable and easy to take along. With great food, a relaxing environment, and family entertainment, your next camping trip will be a home away from home that allows you to get in touch with nature in the most comfortable way possible.
Thinking Outside the Picnic Basket
When you think of the word “picnic,” do you automatically associate it with warm and sunny outdoor excursions to the park or the beach? If we open our minds a bit, though, we can quite easily visualize picnics happening anywhere, at any time of year.
Picnics don’t have to take place out of doors. A picnic meal can be set up on the living room floor, at the office, or in the treehouse out back. All it takes is a little imagination and a bit of whimsy. What really makes a picnic a picnic is a thoughtfully packed snack or meal, a blanket for sitting on, and good company. It doesn’t require sun, warmth, or outdoors if those three ingredients are not available.
Consider using a Picnic Basket or Tote that includes cloth napkins and washable, shatter-proof dishes and utensils. Not only do these picnic sets give a picnic style, they make the experience environmentally friendly, too. Here are a few tips to ensure a perfect picnic:
- Packing a salad? Take your dressing along in a separate container and add it to your salad just before eating. Your lettuce and veggies will stay crisp and delicious.
- Avoid bringing foods that need to be reheated if you won’t have access to a microwave or other cooking device.
- Hard cheeses, fruits, hummus, crusty bread, and chopped veggies like broccoli, carrots, and cucumbers make excellent picnic fare. They’re healthy and don’t require refrigeration if they’ll be consumed that day.
Thoughtful Gifts Combine Fun and Function
Finding fun gifts that are also useful can present a challenge. Gifts that are purely fun can quickly become space hogs when they lose their appeal. Gifts that are purely practical in nature are, frankly, pretty boring. There are quite a number of great gift ideas out there that successfully combine the fun with the practical, but the key to choosing the right gift is knowing the recipient.
If you have a football-loving friend who also loves to cook out on the grill, it would be hard to go wrong with a gift like the Portable Football Grill. Shaped like a football, it definitely offers a unique and fun spin on grilling out. Because it is portable, this grill can be used on the back patio and at the tailgating party.
If, on the other hand, you have a friend who is environmentally conscious but also enjoys fun home decor, a smart gift idea would be a Solar Mosaic Glass Lantern. These colorful and casual lights are solar powered, so no wiring is involved, and there are no operating costs. Solar lanterns are ideal for illuminating backyard patio tables since they require sunlight to operate.
How about the friend who loves spending time outdoors, but who also appreciates quiet time in front of the television watching movies or shows with the family? The ideal gift would combine the fun of watching TV with the ability to enjoy the fresh, clean air of the great outdoors. The solution comes in an Outdoor Weatherproof TV. Outdoor TVs are designed to withstand weather exposure, and they make a welcome addition to outdoor patios, sunrooms, pool areas, and covered decks.
Fun and functional gifts are everywhere, but they provide the most joy to the recipient when you take time to consider your friends and what characteristics they would most appreciate in a gift. It really is the thought that counts.
The Key to Bringing the Party with You
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So many exciting events are coming up…New Year’s Eve and the Super Bowl are two in particular that rank high on our family’s “Best Excuses for Hosting a Get Together” list. Frankly, the best part about get togethers, aside from the wonderful company, are all the yummy eats and lip-smacking drinks.
Whether or not you like to spike the eggnog at your party, you’ll want to have plenty of beverages on hand for thirsty guests. At our house, there’s no room for a stocked bar, so we keep our GoBar Portable High Top Bar tucked away until we need it for special occasions when drinks will flow continuously. Once we set up the bar in a convenient spot near the food table, we stock it with whatever we’ll need for the evening ahead. Beer, wine, soda, juices, blender, ice buckets, and glasses can all be kept on the bar and on the sturdy storage shelf, which remains hidden behind one of three festive skirts.
What are festive skirts, you may ask? This is one of our favorite features of our portable GoBar. Depending on the theme for the party, we dress our GoBar in one of the three skirts that are included with the bar. For the New Year’s party, we choose the formal skirt, the Super Bowl party features the football field skirt (of course), and our summer beach party requires the tiki-themed skirt. They add an extra touch of fun and flair to each of our parties.
Now that our friends have experienced the GoBar, they ask us to bring it with us to their parties. Because it is lightweight and portable, it’s never a problem. We’re not planning to stay up until midnight this New Year’s Eve, nor do we care which teams finally make it to the Super Bowl — what we love about these events is spending them with family and friends and having a memorable time.
