The Brumwell Chronicles

 The summer season is fast approaching, and that means it's time for parents to start getting ready to get their kids outside for some amazing fun times! While it can be hard to compete with electronics; there are a few things that every kid loves. One of those things is Bubbles! And what's better than bubbles? Ginormous BUBBLES!!!   Thanks to the  South Beach Bubbles  you can get your kids outside with giant, colorful, high-flying, and long-lasting bubbles. They are fun for all ages and ideal for almost any outdoor event! There are multiple kits to choose from and parents can't help but join in on the fun.  There was a small bit of a learning curve to get the giant bubbles without popping them, even the youngest of our crew (2-year-old) was able to get some great bubbles blown. Be prepared for a little bit of a mess if your little one is wild and slings the wand out or around, but other than that they are easy and a lot of fun! Even the adults simply could...

 In case you weren't clued in by my name; I love the Summer. My birthday is in the Summer (which is how I got my name), I love being outside in the sunshine, and the kids are out of school which means we get to SLEEP INNNNN! There are BBQs and ice cream all the time, campfires, beach trips, I mean the list of reasons why I love the summer go on and on!  The list of reasons why I don't love the summer can pretty much be summed up into one thing... it's HOT! If you're in the south like me then there is no relief from the heat. Even being in the shade is still so hot (thanks humidity!). Having a place to swim in the summer is so important. Unlike some of my southern friends, I'm not a huge fan of swimming at the lake or river.  So when Tryazon emailed me about the opportunity to try out The Coleman Power Steel Swim Vista Series II from Bestway, I of course said Yes!  This pool has so many awesome features like it's steel frame (which is rust and corrosion resistant...

If there is one thing that our family loves, it's a good game night! One of our favorite gaming companies is The OP Games. They make lots of family friendly and fun games. One of my all time favorites from The OP Games is call Telestrations. It's a fun take on the game telephone, but you sketch stuff out. For those who don't know.. I'm an amazing artist.. amazingly bad artist. Even so this game always leaves us laughing and playing "one more round"  When I got an email from Tryazon asking if I wanted to host a game night for a new OP Games game called Telestrations Upside Drawn, it was an easy YES!  Players use only a pen and board in a race to be the first team to sketch and guess the secret word.  Players divide into teams of 2 or 3, each team gets a dry-erase board and marker, pick which color side of the card to use. Each team has a guide, someone who controls the board and knows the secret word, and a guesser(s) who controls the pen and does the sketching...

It is time that I let y'all in on a little secret... I am not actually 22 anymore.. *gasp* I've joked so much about staying 22 and refusing to age that I have actually started to forget my real age! Seriously, just ask my friends and it is a running joke that no one knows how old I am, not even me.  However, it is starting to get more and more noticeable that this is not the face of a 22 year old. This is the face of a very tired mom, who laughs a lot (aka has hard laugh lines), who spent years refusing to wear glasses because she didn't like them (aka spent years squinting and now has the forehead lines and crows feet to prove it). It has started to make me so self conscious. One of the first things people notice about you is your face, and when you don't feel great about the way that your skin looks on the outside, it effects how you feel on the inside. I once read that the reason Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen never smile in photos is to help prevent wrinkles.. I tried t...

Last month I got the chance to work with  Trayzon  and  Silk'n  to test out the  Silk'n Infinity . To say I was excited about this would be a huge understatement! I absolutely hate doing any hair removal treatment. It is time consuming and never ending! I will admit that after I received the device I was a little nervous to use it... Would it hurt..? Would it actually work..? Would it be something that I was comfortable using and actually keep up on using until I got results? If you are anything like me you have tried a lot of different methods to remove unwanted hair. Shaving, waxing, creams, strips.. Shaving is so time consuming and has to be done multiple times a week. It dries out my skin and leaves me with bumps and ingrown hairs and it makes shaving painful and even more annoying! Considering the fact that the average woman starts shaving at age 13 and goes until age 50, that's 37 years we are spending roughly 15 minutes 3-4 times a week shaving....

I started writing this post over a year ago and even though I worked on it several times I was never able to finish it. Be forewarned that there are probably more than a few grammatical errors and times where I switch from talking in present to past tense because I've rewrote this I don't know how many times and each time I cry and then when I try to reread it I cry and I'm just a mess and so is this post. I'm fast to share funny, embarrassing, or down right awkward moments that I have in my life. To me, those are easy to share. It's the serious moments, the big and important life moments that I struggle with sharing. Some things need to be shared, and I really want to share an amazing woman and the struggles that we went through over that last 2 years. The summer of 2017 my Mother-in-law was having trouble with her hand, she thought it was a pinched nerve or arthritis. We kept telling her that she need to go to the doctor and have it checked out and she kept sa...