When it comes to my iPhone, I am picky about the apps that I download. I have my favorite apps that I use daily, but I also have a few apps on my phone that I have installed for the times when I need to keep my youngest entertained. There is a new app that just launched on iTunes today called Tricky Stories that is really cute for those ages 2+. I have been testing out the app this week and my 5 year old son LOVES it!

Tricky Stories is an app that encourages children to use their imagination and create a world of stories through an interactive story book. Right now the Tricky Stories is available with the Magic Castle Enchanted Sticker Book.

Once you enter the Tricky Stories: Magic Castle app you will enter an interactive sticker book that provides hours of fun for the kids.  In the Magic Castle you will find CUTE stickers of princesses, knights, kings, horses, gnomes and more! Those are the sticker people that you can interact with. In the Magic Castle you are also going to find a variety of animals such as the friendly fox, a big cute bear or maybe my sons favorite, the Owl!

This app really lets children use their imagination. They can fill their own little world up with stickers and then interact with the environment they created. They can also use the little camera icon on the app to take a picture of their stickers on the screen. When a picture is taken, the app saves the picture and also has the ability to save the photo in your photo storage on your device you are using.

The Tricky Stories: Magic Castle App includes the following features:

• Interactive backgrounds with fun animations and sounds
• Variety of stickers to place in the Magic Castle
• Friendly animal characters to play with in the Forest
• Camera to snap your photos and to collect them in your photo album
• Trees, clouds, sun and rainbow come to life when you tap on them
• Shake your device to let fruits and flowers fall from the trees

Today you can purchase Tricky Stories on iTunes for only $1.99. This app is currently available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod devices. Visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tricky-stories-magic-castle/id668546517

Find out more about Tricky Stories at: www.TrickyStoriesApp.com.

When it comes to food, I will admit that I have turned down different foods before because they were labeled as “diet”. For instance, I don’t like any type of diet soda. If it is the only thing to drink available, I would probably go without. I haven’t tried all diet drinks so therefore I might be missing out. Since my family can be a little picky when it comes to diet related foods, I thought it would be fun to play a little trick on them.

One day a box arrived from Weight Watchers that had some of their Brownie Bites. What you might notice is that the box does not say anywhere that it was from Weight Watchers, that part was the secret. Once we opened the box and unwrapped the blue packaging was a box of the Peanut Butter Brownie Bliss and the Triple Chocolate Brownie Bliss bars. All of my family, including me were eager to try these…

So we all tried the Brownie Bliss bars and my kids LOVED them. My daughter Hannah said the Peanut Butter Brownie Bliss was now her new favorite. After the bars were demolished from both boxes, I told them there was a little secret that I had been keeping. I have to also admit that I enjoyed this little prank…

In the box that Brownie Bliss Bars came in was another two boxes, but only marked as Weight Watchers. I knew these were inside, so I didn’t let anyone look inside the box because I didn’t want to ruin the surprise. It was pretty neat to see everyone enjoy these without knowing the brand behind the bars.

Right now there are two different flavors I personally like them both. If I had showed them that they were Weight Watchers before I tried them, I would have NOT got the reaction I did. They would have NOT been eager to try them and I might have been the one eating them all instead of my kids.

Here are the current two varieties of the Weight Watchers Brownie Bliss products:

• Triple Chocolate Brownie Bliss™ – A decadent brownie layered with creamy, chocolate ganache and a chocolaty coating. Each individually-wrapped brownie is 80 calories.
• Peanut Butter Brownie Bliss™ – A decadent brownie layered with creamy, real peanut butter and a chocolaty coating. Each individually-wrapped brownie is 90 calories.

Want to try these too? Or maybe even pull a little prank on your family? The Weight Watchers Brownie Bliss Bars have been hitting shelves this month, so keep your eye out!

Disclosure – I received product samples to facilitate this review. No monetary compensation has been received and all thoughts and opinions stated herein are 100% my own.

I received a product to facilitate this review. No monetary compensation has been received and all thoughts and opinions stated herein are 100% my own.

When my shipment of college books came in last week, my husband mentioned that he was glad that he didn’t have to pack those around. I have a backpack for my books but boy are they going to be heavy on my back. I am thinking that maybe I should get myself a rolling backpack like the Sunrise Rolling Backpack from J World New York that Hannah received to review.

Last year Hannah had a JWorld Rolling Backpack and LOVED it. When this new Sunrise Rolling Backpack arrived, Hannah’s gave me a big smile and told me that it was a COOL backpack. She immediately wanted to take it from me and fill it up with her new back to school supplies we had just bought.

What I like about this backpack is that it is very roomy. It can hold my daughters stuff for school, her lunch and even a jacket if she wanted to. I also like that it has a couple pockets for her to put various school supplies and a mesh pocket on the side for her water bottle.

The Sunrise backpack has been designed with a recessed three stage locking handle with push button. For those days when you don’t want to roll your stuff to school, you can push down the handle and use the straps to use it as a regular backpack. This particular design is also available in over 30 different patterns!

Here are some additional features I want to mention:

• Fabric is made of 100% Polyester
• 10″ high and 14″ wide
• Soft and noiseless wheels for stable and controlled motion
• Air mesh cushion padded shoulder straps and back with slip-in system
• Color matched bottom mold for more protection
• Organized front pocket with pencil holder, key fob and mesh pocket

For those that fly, this backpack has also been designed to fit under the airplane seat or the overhead compartment!

For more information on J World’s line of backpacks, visit: www.jworldsport.com.