Make Summer Picnic Time Easier with BrylaneHome & Giveaway

A product was given for review for my honest opinion. No other compensation was given.

Picnic Season is here!!! Whether you are having a picnic this Memorial Day (like our family!!) or at a family reunion or even at Fourth of July, BrylaneHome has all the items to make your picnic great, whether rain or shine!

I have highlighted two of my favorites below:

Oversized 10' x 15' Instant Pop Up Gazebo With Screen

$599.99

Now: $269.99

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This spacious, portable, pop-up gazebo sets up in minutes and lets you enjoy the outdoors longer by shading you and your outdoor furniture from the sun.

• features a rust-resistant steel frame
• fire-retardant polyester canopy
• nylon netting keeps insects out
• guide wires and ground stakes secure in lawn or soil
• easy, no-tools assembly
• includes wheeled carry bag for easy storage
• spot clean
• fill this spacious gazebo with our extremely comfortable outdoor furniture to extend your patio well into your backyard.

This large outdoor gazebo offers a huge 10' x 15' shaded area perfect for picnics, parties and relaxing.

This Gazebo is a great way to take advantage of the sweet smell and feel of the seasons without giving up the comfort of your living room recliner and sofa. It protects from the sun (No SUN BURN!) and I love the nylon netting that keeps out the pesky mosquitoes and flies that can ruin a picnic! It is super easy to set up and is nice and roomy for lots of guests, tables or food!

This Gazebo is perfect for family reunions, grad parties, summer picnics, and so much more!

Picnic Caddy

$29.99

Now: $19.99

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This great picnic caddy keeps table clutter free and stores everything you might need for outdoor dining and entertainment! It's easy to carry no matter where you're going.

• measures: 6½"H x 11½"L x 12"D
• rust-proof vinyl-coated wire basket has individual sections for flatware, condiments and paper cups, plus a stay-put napkin holder and lower plate compartment
• fold-down handles
• saves trips back and forth!
• great for dining on the patio!

This picnic caddy is perfect for holding all of your dining essentials and it's easy to carry. It's the ideal accessory for camping or a trip to the beach and comes at a great price. I love that it holds down napkins that are ALWAYS blowing away in the wind outside and it makes me multiple trips in and out of the house turn into only ONE!

Make sure to check out the entire selection of great picnic items from BrylaneHome and 'like' BrylaneHome on Facebook and 'follow' BrylaneHome on Twitter!

Buy It: You can purchase both these items from the BrylaneHome website.

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* Thank you to BrylaneHome for their product for review! Disclosure - This product was given for review for my honest opinion. No other compensation was given.*

Plan the Best Family Reunion Ever!

As Memorial Day approaches we know it is unofficially summer and vacation time! 

One site that can be really helpful planning the fun family reunion this year is MyHeritage.com. It gives members a free family tree where distant relatives spread across the globe can interact with each other on travel plans. The site is used by 56 million members around the world (approx. 10 million in the U.S.) and 17 million family trees!

One of my favorite features of the site is the genealogy overview. I love to learn about my family history and this feature is so helpful! It lets you grow your family tree visually so I can piece all the people together and see it visually! Then you can publish your family tree to the Internet on your own family Website and share it with family and friends so that everyone can learn what you found out about your genealogy!

My other favorite feature is the facial recognition fun you can have! It makes finding family members so easy because you can annotate your photos and discover the identity of people you don't recognize in an old family photo! You can even find which parent your child looks like more or even what celebrity you resemble!

If you got to be the lucky family reunion planner this year then check out these examples of how MyHeritage.com will help you this year:

· Updating the extended family of invitations, dates and locations with shared calendars & wall posts

· Polling the family tree on reunion themes and activity ideas

· Getting younger members of the extended family involved in planning

So head on over and plan the best family reunion your family has ever seen!

* This post is sponsored by MyHeritage.com. All opinions are 100% mine!*

P&G and Kroger Honor Our Heroes!

Now that May is under way, we start to look towards Memorial Day and honoring our troops and all the people that have sacrificed their lives for our country's protection!

Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Kroger and its family of stores have recently announced that they have joined together to support the USO in its mission to help American troops and their families. They have called their new campaign the P&G and Kroger Honoring Our Heroes campaign.

One of the coolest features about the campaign is the fact that Kroger is donating $250,000 to the USO, who in turn will deliver innovative programs, critical services, and entertainment events to lift the spirits of America’s troops and their families!! With more than 160 locations worldwide the USO touches America’s military and their families millions of times each year.

Customers of Kroger's will also benefit from the USO campaign because of the Mega Event sales promotion that will coincide with the Honoring Our Heroes campaign!! Yeah!!!

During the Mega Event sales promotion, customers at participating stores receive $5 instantly at check out when they purchase ten participating Mega Event items. Kroger shoppers can also receive additional savings on P&G products by redeeming P&G BrandSAVER coupons at Kroger’s family of supermarkets across the country, including Kroger, Ralph’s, Food 4 Less, Fred Meyer, Smith’s, Fry’s, King Soopers, Dillons, QFC, City Market, Jay stores and retailers nationwide.

Another very cool part about the campaign is the digital opportunity P&G and Kroger have created where you can virtually “shake the hand of a hero” (the proper gesture to use with US troops in uniform to thank them for their service to our country)!! You check it out and honor a hero yourself on www.honoringourheroes.

On top of all these great offerrs there is still more!! Hurry over to "shake hands with a hero" because the first 50,000 people to utilize the web applicationcom will receive a special offer on one of the following P&G brands: Tide, Downy, Gillette, Pantene, Old Spice and Prilosec.

For more information on the Kroger and USO partnership, visit http://www.honoringourheroes.com/.

* This post is sponsored by Kroger and P&G. All opinions are 100% mine!*