As Thanksgiving approaches, families get excited about so many of their annual traditions. From adding a little DIY to your Thanksgiving to making your Black Friday checklist, Family Entourage is here to share ideas… plus we can’t forget traveling over the holidays and capturing all those fabulous memories together.. For more information visit FamilyEntourage.com
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00:00 The holidays are approaching and these ladies have you covered for Black Friday
00:04 deals for your holiday traditions and joining me to talk all about it are the
00:08 geniuses behind Family Entourage, Mei Ling and Kelly who are not on a bicycle
00:13 or running on the beach but they're at home and getting us ready. How are you
00:18 ladies? We're doing good, Brad. Good. All right, let's jump into of course the
00:24 tradition of you know doing the DIY stuff, right? Right, the holidays always
00:31 provide a little bit more extra time at home and so what better way to use that
00:35 than create some gifts for your friends, family, loved ones, co-workers. We love the
00:40 Cricut Joy Extra because all those things you see that you know that
00:44 personal touch you can make at home super easy. So this is one example of
00:48 what we created. We took a craft pumpkin and we picked out a saying on the Cricut
00:53 Design Studio and then we printed it out right here with our machine and then we
00:56 put it on there. This is a great for a housewarming gift or something like that.
00:59 The Cricut Joy Extra makes it super easy again to take those things that you see
01:03 all online on Pinterest and and do it yourself at home. So I like it. Okay, the
01:07 surprise of course the kids are the toys on Christmas. So what do you got for us
01:12 there? Okay, so one of the holiday traditions is Black Friday shopping and
01:17 whether you're physically going to stores or you're doing that online
01:19 surfing, there are tons of toys that top the list. So one thing that we're real
01:24 excited is that Toys R Us, they're back. They're in full force inside of Macy's
01:28 stores and so we looked at Jeffrey's Toy List. What are some of those hot items
01:32 that we need? And then of course a lot of them mirrored the movies that were
01:36 coming out. We're talking Mario Brothers, you know, whether it's that Nintendo
01:39 Switch and you're playing the game, Lego, down to the idea of Nerf. We're blasting
01:45 each other or laser tags. Anything that gets those kids active and moving around.
01:50 But it's so great. You can go into any Macy's store and you can see a Toys R Us
01:55 section there and grab everything that you need or online do your Black Friday
02:00 shopping and all of your holiday shopping. I love it. I love it. Okay, let's
02:04 talk travel because this is very important because you guys were just I
02:09 think vacation in Hawaii before of course the big wildfire over there and
02:15 so let's talk a little about travel now and Maui's reopening right to welcome
02:19 people. Yeah, you know, Brad, one of the things that we loved when we visited
02:22 Maui was the people, right? You're not just going on vacation. We really got to
02:26 know the people that we interacted with and they became friends and family to us
02:29 and so as Maui reopens, one of the things that they're sharing with us is they
02:33 want to encourage people to come out. If you're planning that holiday trip, Maui
02:37 is open. Check, obviously check the different hotels and restaurants you
02:41 want to visit to, you know, make sure each individual one is open but the
02:44 Kanapali Beach Association has reopened and they want to welcome visitors.
02:48 Another thing you can do with your friends and family if you end up going
02:50 to Maui is you can do volunteer tourism. So they've got lots of service projects
02:55 all around the island where you can be a part of those relief efforts and again
02:59 people are asking how can we be a part of the relief and help out?
03:02 That's one of the ways and again all the tour all the all the islanders are
03:06 saying please come back. They need the tourism, obviously the rebuilding but the
03:10 tourism helps with that rebuilding. Okay, now that it is the holidays we want to
03:14 make sure we have some memories. How do we do that? Mixbook is making it so
03:18 simple for you to take those holiday memories or any memories throughout the
03:22 year and turn them into photo, beautiful photo books, calendars or even your
03:27 holiday card. Each year we take our family photo around Thanksgiving time
03:31 and then that turns into our holiday card. So as Mixbook we had, you know, our
03:34 last couple of years that we've put that out but one of the things that's so
03:38 simple is, you know, you think oh gosh I've got so many photos how do I even
03:41 begin to go through them? Well they've got a great technology that's on their
03:45 handheld devices, your phones or laptops and you can go through and it will group
03:50 photos. It will also make a book for you and then you can change aspects to
03:55 whatever you want or if you're like me and you really enjoy that scrapbooking
03:59 element you can start with a blank book and and access all of their themes and
04:03 stickers. I mean we can even make a recipe book. It's really endless what you
04:07 can do that has that personal touch and the quality is so great with Mixbook.
04:11 There you go. That's what I love. You guys are always on top of things for the
04:15 family. That's why you are the family entourage and so where do we look for
04:20 all this at? Absolutely head to familyentourage.com and we've got you
04:25 covered. I love it. Ladies thank you for joining us.
04:29 Thanks for having us.
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