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Sesame Place is currently offering one of our best deals of the year—purchase a 2011 Season Pass and enjoy unlimited admission the rest of the 2010 season plus all of 2011! Season pass holders enjoy unlimited admission to Sesame Place, a 30% discount on all food and merchandise in the park, entrance into exclusive Season Pass Member events and kids eat free at Dine With Me! with the purchase of an adult dinner.

Sesame Place’s 2011 season passes are available in three levels. Sesame Passes, $92.00 per person, gives guests unlimited admission into the park, exclusive access to member events, plus a 30% discount on food and merchandise. Big Bird Passes, $122.00 per person, allow guests additional benefits including complimentary general parking, complimentary meet-and-greets with characters, and 50% off single day admission to SeaWorld, Aquatica, and Busch Gardens. Super Grover Passports, $189.00 per person, offer the most benefits to guests. In addition to everything mentioned above, guests receive unlimited admissions to SeaWorld, Aquatica and Busch Gardens, complimentary preferred parking, and ride again privileges.

It’s been a couple years (6 to be exact) since we’ve been to Sesame Place. I still look at pictures and remember the fun we had both in the summer to enjoy the water play and during the Count’s Halloween Spooktacular.

Take advantage of this awesome offer or better yet enter to win a family 4 pack of tickets here at LookWhatMomFound…and Dad too! Visit Sesame Place and tell me 1 ride/attraction you or your children would be most interested in. These tickets are good till the end of the 2010 season, Octover 31st. Sesame Place is open on weekends only starting September. This giveaway ends September 10th, 2010.

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American Girl officially announced plans to say farewell to Felicity Merriman, one of the company’s treasured historical characters introduced in 1991. Felicity’s complete product collection, including her best friend Elizabeth Cole™, will soon be removed from American Girl’s catalogue, Web site, and retail stores and placed in the American Girl Archives™. Because stories are at the heart of the company’s mission to celebrate girls, the Felicity books will still be sold on americangirl.com, at American Girl’s retail stores, and at bookstores nationwide.

Felicity, a spirited girl living in Williamsburg, VA, in 1774, has captured girls’ imaginations with her compelling story of strength and determination in Colonial America. Countless girls have found a friend in Felicity while learning about the trials and triumphs of growing up at the start of the Revolutionary War, from saving a beautiful horse named Penny to learning how to be a proper gentlewoman.

Felicity’s departure makes it possible for the company to introduce new characters and product offerings. Even though Felicity will be moved to the American Girl Archives, she retains her place within American Girl’s family of historical characters—nine-year-old heroines who give girls today a glimpse of what life was like growing up during important times in America’s past.

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It’s hard; whoever told you motherhood was going to be easy was a liar and setting you up for disaster. Early mornings, late nights, interrupted sleep, messy house, wrinkled clothes, no alone time; these are just some of the things moms look forward to on a daily basis.

Don’t get me wrong, everyday isn’t a whirlwind of laundry, errands and school meetings. Some day’s you’ll have sweet moments cuddling on the couch reading “But Not the Hippopotamus” 14 times or heart to heart talks about the difference between mimosas and margaritas.

Each day is different and brings new challenges, new obstacles, new miracles, new laughs and new smiles. With all the hard times and headaches also come overwhelming heart pounding love each time the words “mommy, I love you” is uttered from their lips. Watching them grow and seeing the impact they make on the world around is all worth it.

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If you are like me you probably have a ton of family movies on formats that aren’t DVD like 8mm, Hi8 and VCR. I have been wanting to convert all of my Hi8 family movies into DVD format and finally am getting to it with the help of VCR 2 PC.
VCR 2 PC allows you to transfer your tapes into MPEG4 format allowing you to save the file on your computer or burn them to DVD or transfer them to compatible mobile phones and portable multimedia devices. All you need to do is connect a VHS, VHS-C, or 8MM camcorder to the front panel jacks to backup your camcorder videos. When you're finished archiving your videos to your computer, VCR 2 PC is the perfect VHS player for any room in the house.

Here are a few features of the VCR 2 PC for all of you techy people:

• Connects to Windows XP and Vista machines via USB 2.0 port
• Capture video at resolutions up to 720 x 480 (NTSC) or 720 x 576 (PAL)
• Sends video uncompressed over the USB cable
• Burn Video to DVD Export video to iPod or PSP® format
• Plug and play USB computer connection Standard RCA and composite outputs for connection to any TV or home theater system
• Standard RCA inputs for connecting video cameras
• Auto-tracking, variable speed slow motion, playback, and rewind
• Soft-touch, backlit buttons

• Windows
• Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Vista (SP1 32-bit or 64-bit)
• XP (SP3)
• Available USB 2.0 port (USB 1.1 ports are not supported)

The VCR 2 PC was pretty simple to setup and software was easy to install. It took me a few minutes to figure out that I needed my Hi8 camcorder in order to convert to tapes as I was trying to insert them into the front of the machine. What can I say sometimes I am just simple, LOL. All in all the VCR 2 PC in a great machine and pretty easy to use. The only thing I wish was different which I don’t even know if it is possible is to convert the tapes without having to play then at regular speed. If you only have one computer this will tie it up for the length of your tape. My tapes are typically two hours long so my laptop is tied up. You may be able to use the computer while conversion is in process but I don’t like to take any chances so I just leave it alone while it is working.