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Having fun with The Good Dinosaur.

The trailer to The Good Dinosaur has me really intrigued and my little girl is already asking if we are going to see this when it comes out. I love movies about strange friendships and I can not wait to see this one. I just hope it is not a tear-jerker.Are your kids excited about…
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September 14, 2015
Rocking out with the Blue Man Group #BloggingBlue

(Disclaimer: The Fandads were provided with seats for a performance of the Blue Man Group show. As much as the Blue Men tried to hypnotize us, all words and opinions are our own.) Every time I would see commercials for The Blue Man Group, I would say to myself “I want to see that show,”…
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September 3, 2015
Swinging away with Spider-man at the Marvel Universe Live show.

Anyone that knows me by now knows that I am a huge Spider-Man fan. If I could be any superhero that is who I would want to be. My love for the web-head goes back to my grammar school days and there was just something about him that I related to…minus the being bitten by…
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August 20, 2015
Our Children’s Happiness, a Parent’s Happiness: A Two-Way Street

I’ve heard it told that what can be most damaging to a child’s healthy development are a parent’s unfulfilled dreams. These words have hovered in my mind insistently over the past year as I’ve had to make many monumental , or what felt like monumental , life decisions while in the midst of a protracted…
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August 14, 2015
Wizard World is going to “Kick off The Con” on August 19th. Will you be there?

The Fandads have been lucky to get the chance to cover Wizard World for the past few years, but last year was a great time because we got to attend the pre-con party and other off-the-convention floor events that you can check out here. This year will be covering the event again, but the cool thing…
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August 13, 2015
Nurturing Manhood in my Sons

When we started Fandads five years ago, we had a somewhat of a vision of what we wanted to do. We wanted to share how two “fanboys” grew up into “fandads” and how they passed down their geekiness to their kids. As in life, things do not always go as planned. We veered away…
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August 1, 2015
Grilling with the Fandads! #Sponsored

I was originally going to call this post “The five things that you need to grill this summer”, but I started to think about it and realized that you can not pick just five things. There are so many great foods out there to grill that you will leave something out and people would start…
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July 17, 2015
Playing it safe with the Kidde RemoteLync Monitor. #Sponsored

When I was little I never really was concerned with safety. I would ride my bike everywhere without a helmet. I would jump over fences without looking at what was below and just rough house with my friends throughout the day until it was time to come inside. It seems that when you were younger…
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July 17, 2015
Mud, St. Jude Warriors and the Importance of Sun Screen.

A few weeks ago I ran the Warrior Dash for the fourth time and this time is was a little bit more special than my previous ones for 2 reasons. Number 1. This was the first time that my wife was going to run it with me. Number 2. I was running it as a…
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June 29, 2015
Half a Decade in Gaming

Five years. It seems like a healthy chunk of time but you’d be surprised just how fast it can go by. My oldest will be five years old this summer. It’s a great milestone, she’ll be entering Kindergarten in the fall and she’s becoming her own independent person. Although it’s sad to see your little…
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June 21, 2015