My husband and I purchased the bowflex sport for both of us to use.  We both have used free weights and machines before and considered purchasing a home gym with weights but after researching it we decided to go with the BowFlex.  We chose the Sport model simply because it was the best value.  It has everything we wanted, the rowing option, the leg attachments, and the lat bar, a...

Most of us have heard it - walk 10,000 steps per day for better health - but how many of us do it?  Forget about 10,000 steps, how many steps per day do you actually walk?  If you're like me you're thinking oh, probably close to 7,500 or so - throw a fitness walk in there and you're at 10k easy.  If you're like me, you're wrong!  This nifty little Omron P...

The Epson PictureMate Personal PhotoLab is a small printer that prints 4x6 photos.  The approximate cost of each photo, taking into account ink and paper, is 29 cents, so not too bad for an at-home printer.  The print quality is excellent - I would compare it to a photo shop any day.  You can plug this in or use batteries, which makes it portable.  This is a great feature to...

The HP Deskjet D4160 is a nice printer to have at home.  It's an inkjet and has a farily quick print rate.  The paper tray holds about 50 sheets of paper and loads in the front.  You can print on plain paper or card stock, as well as tranfer paper.  The color is true to what you expect.  It does run through the color ink pretty quickly.  There are two ink cartr...

This camera was a replacement for our previous digital camera that broke - it was cheaper to buy this than to replace the other one!  We were all for it - smaller, lighter, and more megapixels.  Well I wish we had chosen a different camera.  Don't get me wrong - the pictures are excellent quality, it has a great zoom and digital zoom (of course you do get "digital noise&...

We had been thinking about upgrading to a digital SLR for a while but kept putting it off due to our lack of knowledge about SLRs.  Finally we decided to take the plunge...we were between the Nikon D50 and the Canon Digital Rebel.  Price wise they are similar, the Nikon does not have as many megapixels but it processes pictures differently so there is no loss of clarity or quality.&nb...

Julie is the latest in the line of historical dolls released by American Girl.  I have to say I was not too pleased to hear about this, since Julie was 9 in 1974 - the same as me!  So now there this a historical doll my age!  Anyway, back to the review...American Girls are very very popular with the tween crowd and my daughter is no exception.  I was pleased to see that Juli...

Brothers and Sisters is a tv series that started in 2006.  I've heard about it from friends and they've encouraged me to watch but I just never got around to it.  Finally I bought the first season and wow - is this a great show!  This is about a family of 5 brothers and sisters and their mom, Sally Field, and how their lives are so intertwined.  Even as adults and wi...

Double Cross - I was excited to read this, I love the Alex Cross series, but was hoping for a little more substance than some of Patterson's recent "co-author" books and he delivered.  It was still a quick read, as all of Patterson's books are,but there's enough of a story to satisfy you.  Alex is back and with another new girlfriend.  He's no longer on ...

Here it is - the last in the Harry Potter series.  What a challenge JK Rowling has to wrap up Harry's story in a way that will leave the reader satisfied and ready to say goodbye.  Fortunately she accomplishes that, at least for me.  We find Harry, Hermione and Ron in their last year at Hogwarts and Voldemort is still alive.  Sadly, Dumbledore is not but he is able to ad...

The Build-a-Bear for the Nintendo DS is genius...it follows the store experience from beginning to end:  choosing, stuffing, putting the heart in, fluffing and yes even buying the clothes.  You get to name and adopt your new furry pal and then off to the cub condo to play games, earn buttons and buy things.  This is rated "E" for everyone.  My daughter is 9 and LOV...

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is the 5th movie in the series and has a different "feel" to it than the others...it is faster paced and more action packed.   Harry, Ron and Hermione are definitely getting older and facing more difficult tasks.  I loved this movie!  From the beginning I was drawn in to the action.  The movie is a little long at 2 hou...

We have HotShots Golf and love it, so when we saw HotShots Tennis we had to have it!  We is me, my husband, and our 9 1/2 year old daughter.  Well I'm here to tell you - HS Tennis is MUCH harder than the golf game!  At this point it's so hard it's frustrating.  The tutorial is good and it should get better (we hope).  The tutorial walks you through it step b...

My husband got HotShots Golf 3 for his Christmas last year and I wasn't sure how he would like it - he's been playing Tiger Woods golf and this is definitely NOT a serious game.  I was pleased to find out that he loves it!  The whole family (me, him, and our 9 1/2 year old daughter) have been playing this game.  It's pretty easy to learn, and there are tutorials that ...

Okay I know, it's deodorant and a gross subject but hey, we all use it (or should!).  I have never found a product that did what I thought it should and that's to stop perspiration.  After all it is called ANTIperspirant right?  I saw Secret Clinical Strength and thought "Hmmm, I must not be the only one with this problem!" and then I saw the price and thought &...

ToothTunes is a battery operated tootbrush that plays a popular song for two minutes so the user knows how long to brush.  This is a great concept!  I have not had to argue with my daughter about brushing since she started using it.  There are many different songs to choose from, all the way from KISS to Hannah Montana.  We've have never had the batteries run out be...

The Acuvue Oasys with Hydraclear Plus by Johnson and Johnson is one of the newest contacts available, and I have to say they are great!  I can't believe the difference.  My previous lens was the Acuvue 2.  These lenses allow 100% more oxygen in and the difference is moister eyes.  The lens is also larger and covers more of the eye.  At first it's a little hard t...

This is Terry Goodkind's final book in the Sword of Truth series, book number 11.  The series is a fatasy/sci-fi genre and Goodkind writes it well.  The book picks up where the previous one left of, with Kahlan still caught up in the chainfire spell and not remembering who she is and Richard still a prisoner of Jagang's.  It seems impossible for Goodkind to find a way to ...

Crocs seem to have become the latest rage in footwear so it was only natural that they would design something for cold weather wear - the Mammoth is just that.  The Mammoth is based on the original croc design, then the bottom holes are covered, the back strap is removed and a "wooly" liner is inserted.  What you end up with is a very comfortable very warm shoe!  These ...

My family is over 1000 miles away from my parents, so when my father had a heartache and a double bypass closely followed by my mother's diagnosis of ovarian cancer I felt that I needed to find out more information about how to help them out.  There are a lot of books out there on caring for your parents but I was looking for a guidebook type, or an instruction book.  I chose this...