BenSpark Family Adventures

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00998 General Mills knows how much I love Lucky Charms cereal. The recently sent me a care package of eight bags of their marshmallows. So, now when I have Lucky Charms I can add some additional marshmallows to the bowl. Today I made a video of the Lucky Charms Funko Pop! figure that I received from Funko. I enjoyed a bowl of Lucky Charms while I made the video and this image was used as my background. The spoon is from General Mills, too. Here is the video.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00997 Eva has been working really hard in Krav Maga. Today she received her green belt. This is the last belt in the three month rotation. When she earns her brown belt she starts the six month rotation. I’ve seen her grow in her skill and confidence so much in the past year. She’s made friends in her classes. This Summer Eva went to morning classes with me and worked with the daughter of one of the women in my class. They became friends and do a great job working with each other. Her friend also pushes her to work harder in the class and you can see how much she has improved. She is very committed to her training and it shows. She’s always happy on Krav days and says that the dojo is her favorite place to be. She’s even gotten comfortable with her instructor’s humor. She was very intimidated at first but is no longer as timid. She gets to help demonstrate once in a while and no longer gets totally embarrassed about it. I am so excited to see how far she goes with this...

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00996 I have a lot of Funko Pop figures. The folks from Funko have been working with me and sending me some great figures for me to review and so many of these on this wall are from them. I have three in my possession now that I need to make videos about and then they will also go on the wall. Yes, I have been affixing them to the wall with command strips. This appears so be working out fairly well so far. A couple of my Transformers ones, not pictures, did fall down but I figured that I did not press the command strips down tightly enough so I opened each from the bottom and pressed down the command strips and then put the Pops back inside the boxes and they then stayed up. I’ll be adding to the wall a lot more as I go forward and even get some of my other Pops that have been put away for lack of room to display them. I’m just not sure what to do with the ones that no longer have boxes. I didn’t start with keeping the boxes on them. I probably should have.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00995 LEGO has put out some new LEGO sets for Marvel. They have been putting out some based on the first 10 years of Marvel movies called The Infinity Saga. These sets span the ten years to pull from any of the movies that have been released. While three out of the four of these are pretty much from Infinity War and Endgame the one with Iron Monger is from the first Iron man movie. I always enjoy getting another Iron man type set with a new mech. I look forward to building these. I have also seen some sets base don the What If series and plan to pick up the Iron Man on Saakar one. It has another Hulkbuster type mech but with a more colorful look.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00994 There was a fundraiser for the school tonight at the Towne Tavern, a new restaurant in the Triboro plaza. There have been many restaurants there over time and this is the latest one. The food there was very good, I meant to grab a photo fo the chicken and waffles that Allison and I shared but I was too late. I almost missed this Mac and Cheese that Andy had. We also shared a giant pretzel which came with a warm beer cheese. Andy liked it so much he kept the rest of it for his Mac and Cheese and made it a more fancy giant mac and cheese. He had said that he wanted the adult sized one but we had him get the kids one and then learned that they were both the same size. The mac and cheese was giant!

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00993 Eva went to the Thrift store today and came home with this t-shirt because she, like me, loves a good pun. This one was great. We’ll have to hit a Mexican restaurant for tacos soon so she can wear it.

Photo-A-Day 2.0 #00992 A while ago I was finally able to place an order to get one of the standard Gigawatt figures. There had been a special 1985 version but it sold out almost immediately. I would have liked to have been able to find that version but it was not to be. I am happy that I actually did secure one of these. I love both Back to the Future and Transformers. This crossover is a great one and the figure is a cool one in an old school Transformers type box. The box even has tech specs on the back! I love it! IDW has even made a comic book series. It is a fun one and this is an awesome figure.