I recently had the opportunity to review a S107G Mini Gyro.  In plain English, it is a remote controlled helicopter.  While the review is over on Lisa Reviews, I wanted to talk about it over here too just due to the amount of fun my kids and our family has had with it.  It is oftentimes hard to find something that interests everyone.  The S107G Mini Gyro does just that:

We brought this over to Bill’s brothers house for a small get together they had over the holiday weekend.  What amazed me most was that everybody tried it — even my mother-in-law!  (She flew it over my brother-in-law’s house!).  I taped in the house due to the wind.  It was super windy outside when I was trying to tape, and it wouldn’t take off.  However, my brother-in-law’s house is set up perfect for flying helicopters.  I think everybody took a try at this. I do have a word of caution though — we lost the back propeller when it crashed into the deck (so be careful around decks).  We think it went between the planks.  The best part is that it comes with a spare, so our helicopter still works. 

My kids can fly this too.  Bill has to help them a bit, but they do a pretty good job.  Will’s birthday party is this weekend — do you think everybody is going to play with it again?  I do!

The Syma S107G is one of those things that everybody enjoys.  I recommend it for any upcoming gifts you may have (or just get one for yourself!). Thanks again to XenonProject.com for sending us the RC helicopter to review!

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Now, that you have read about the worst week ever I have to tell you about the best day ever.  Yes, you heard me – BEST DAY EVER.

The day started off like any other except Bill got tickets for the Chicago White Sox.  Sometimes his job has some nice perks like when supplies give us tickets to games.  Normally, Bill just gets invited to go with others.  Last night, he was given four tickets.  Since he couldn’t find anybody business wise available, I got to go (yeah!).  He also took his brother and his friend:

What we didn’t realize was that these tickets allowed us into the Jim Beam Club.  If you’ve never been there, it is awesome.  Free alcohol, free food.  Oh yeah, and we had a pesky 2.5 hr rain delay.  In the club though, we stayed dry.  Our seats were covered and the club itself is like a high end sports bar.  Sooooo, during the delay I swore the Josh Harris walked by.  I told Bill who agreed.  And this is where the fun begins.

I normally don’t get star struck.  I’m from Green Bay.  We see Packer players in the bars.  Heck, I’ve even shook Mark Cuban’s hand.  I’ve met Carson Kressley.  Wasn’t nervous for any of them.  Josh Harris walks by and I thought I was going to throw up.  Seriously.

First, I had everybody at my table giving me crap.  They told me to go up and talk to him.  However, I didn’t want to be a jerk.  I didn’t want to bother him.  Plus, I was just too damn nervous to do it.  Then I posted to Twitter and Facebook that I saw Josh Harris.  Then the ribbing to go talk to him started there.

Fate intervened though.  My friend Anne from Green Bay texted that Green Bay was flooding and asked if my parents were okay.  I went into the lobby and called my sister to make sure everything was good.  While I was talking to her, Josh Harris walked by.  (Now, I just realized that not all of you may know who Josh Harris even is.  Let me start by saying the Bill and I are huge fans of Deadliest Catch on Discovery.  HUGE FANS!  I even got to interview the Hillstrand brothers a year or so ago.  Josh Harris is the son of Phil Harris.  Phil Harris was the captain of the Cornelia Marie on Deadliest Catch.  I say was because a couple of months ago Phil Harris died.  The Discovery cameras were there to capture it all, and it is slowly playing out before our eyes on Tuesday evenings).  Now, I knew it was do or die time.

I hung up with my sister (who told me that everybody was okay) and got my guts up.  I walked up to him and told him that I was a huge fan of the show and that I was so sorry about his dad.  He got up and gave me a hug.  (I died and went to heaven.  I wish it wasn’t like 100% humidity last night because I may not have showered today but I was too damn hot and sweaty).  There was another really nice lady standing close who asked if I had a camera.  I said yes and pulled out my phone.  Here’s what she took:

Granted, it’s not the best picture (especially since I have to wear my glasses cuz of the damn pink eye!).  However, he touched me!  LOL

Seriously, Josh Harris has to be one of the nicest people I’ve met.  I could easily sit down again with him and talk.  After the picture was taken, he was like where did you get that phone (I have an EVO).  He has Sprint too, and I told him how to get one for himself.  :)  Hey Sprint — Hook a buddy up — Give Josh Harris one of your EVOs!  He was just so super cool and normal to talk to.  He said he comes to Chicago a lot and told us some background stuff on the show.  The other thing that impressed me was that anybody who wanted a picture — he stopped what he was doing and did it.  He talked to everybody.  He thanked the people who told him they were sorry about his dad.  OH yeah, and I told him I was a blogger and that I was going to put his picture of us up.  He was totally cool with it!  He told me I could use it anywhere I wanted.  :)

Josh Harris is a class act.  I hope I see him again if he comes back to Chicago (Hey, call me up Josh if you are here again!).  I could only wish that all reality stars where as nice and down to Earth as he was.

I’d love to know though — who is a fan of Deadliest Catch?  Would you have said hi to Josh?

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If you ever watch Noggin, you will know that they have commercial free programming (and I love them for it.).  In between shows, they will put on videos and little mini cartoons.  Yesterday, one of the fill ins was with Joe (I think) from Blues Clues.  He was talking about what he was thankful for.  After it was over, Madison proceeded to tell me “I’m thankful for my little brother”.  It was the cutest thing ever.

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How was your Halloween? Here is Chicago we had a beautiful day. The last two Halloweens it was so cold that we have to dress the kids in layers of berghaus clothing, and they were still cold after about an hour. Not that they wanted to quit trick or treating or anything, but I was worried about how cold it was. However, this year, we didn’t have that problem. I think it was almost 70 degrees out.  I definitely had the kids and myself overdressed.  I actually found myself sweating at times.  Isn’t that crazy?

We went with my neighbors and their kids and ended up trick or treating for about two hours.  About half way through, we went back to our houses and got a wagon.  Will was getting super heavy a that point.  Bill would have been here to help, but he got stuck in a huge traffic jam trying to come home (obviously, everyone had the same idea to leave early).  After the third house, I quit walking Will to the door.  His 27 pounds gets quite heavy when you have to walk up porch steps several time.  However, Madison made sure he was taken care of.  She asked at almost every house for candy for her little brother.  Then she would run to Will and put it in his pumpkin.  It was cute, but highly embarassing for me.

After two hours, Bill ended up getting home, and we went to his brothers house.  We were suppose to trick or treat over there, but the kids were pretty much done (which was fine with me, because I was beat).  We just ended up ordering pizza, and the kids just played together.

All in all it was a pretty good day.  How about you?  How did you spend your Halloween?

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I’d like to start by saying that I didn’t want to cut his hair.  I like the little curls he had in the back of his hair.  I thought they were cute.  However, everyone and their brother was bugging me to cut his hair.  When everybody else was getting their hair done on Sunday, I thought there would be no better time to do this.  Now, you can’t tell how curly from this picture, but it was pretty bad (and cute).  Will has such fine hair, so I did not want to do a buzz cut.  It would look like he had no hair if we did that (especially if we were in a low light situation which a lot of my house. We have corners in our house that we get about as much light as tea light candles give off). Bill agreed, so at least, we didn’t have to fight over that.  When we got home, Will was due for a nap and was not in the mood for pictures.  However, I did get this one.  This is Will with his new haircut.  What do you think?  (Bill thinks he looks like a little man.)

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