Currently - February

Hello Foxy Friends! I'm finally remember to link up with Anne from Anne In Residence...she gives us 5 prompts to follow each month, this month is loving, embracing, tasting, wearing, and preparing. So here it goes:


Loving:

I'm loving the that kids are finding new things that they love. She loves all animals and horse riding days are her absolute favorite day.

This kid has recently discovered flag football and loves it. This is his first game, first touch town...he was an awesome play.

Embracing:

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Hmm....embracing the fact that I want to be organized, but am not an organized person. If someone organizes for me and tells me where to put things, I'll keep putting them back. But if they have no home in my house, then it just sits on a table somewhere and stays there until I can find somewhere to put it or Mr. puts it somewhere. Hence why I bought this set of drawers. My desk is a mess, so I thought if I had somewhere to put the over flow make up and beauty storage it wouldn't sit ontop of my desk...so far I'm 3 days into trying to build it...it's not easy man! Okay it's easy, but the directions are not great, and I ended up putting 10 railings on backwards...so that will be a problem to tackle today. I'll keep you posted.

Tasting:

All the vegan things? Actually, not really, but we tried a few things on a whim. I made these beefless strips in a Veggie Stir Fry. Just to let you know, they go from cooked to burnt in 2.5 seconds, so if you're making them, make sure to watch it. I cooked these, took them out then cooked the veggies, then added them back and used the sauce that came with the beefless tips. It was good, but had a lot of carbs in it.

This one has less carbs, so next time I would make it with this instead.

We also tried the Impossible Burger, and we decided if you were Vegan it would be an amazing find. It has the texture of a burger and tasted pretty good. But we all decided we would choose real beef over this one. But I would be super excited to have a good vegetarian/vegan burger to eat if I didn't eat meat.

Wearing:

I'm sure you guys are so done seeing this, but I can't stop talking about it. This sweater is on repeat right now, and I don't want warm weather to come so I can keep wearing it. Mini Fox keeps trying to steal it, she has it on backwards.

Preparing:

We're going on a trip next week and I really need to start preparing for it. It's going to be cold, and I'm not sure what the kids are going to wear yet...yikes! Also need to get the kids Valentine's Day cards together. They're going to miss their Valentine's Day stuff at school, but both kids still wanted to participate in the festivities at school. Valentine's Day just sort of snuck up on me, and I feel not ready! Which reminds me, if you have some time, you can make this Valentine's Day Robot for your kids, this really only works for a smaller class size though.

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Off The Shoulder Little Black Dress + Currently

Hi Foxy Friends. Welcome to another week of The Blended Blog Style! Taking a break from the style link up because today I'm the co-host with Anne for Currently. Today's topics Planning, Seeing, Making, Pretending, Wearing. Head on over to The Blended Blog to link up your fashion post though.


Planning:

What our summer is going to look like. So far I've come up blank. We were going to plan a trip to Hawaii, but Mr. found out Southwest is going to start offering flights to Hawaii, so he figured flights would go down...so I think we're going to wait on that one...

We're going to try and get a campsite in Yosemite, so planning on camping this summer.

And lastly, trying to plan out the camps that Baby Fox is going to take this summer. So much planning and schedules haven't come out yet, so this planner is itching to pull the trigger and I can't because no one else likes to plan 6 months in advance, haha!

Seeing:

Medieval Times! We went for the first time last weekend and it was AMAZING. So much fun and you know what? The food was REALLY good. Much better than I thought it was going to be, that's for sure.

Our knight won the battle and the friend we were with got crown the queen of the tournament, so I got them to snap a quick picture with Mini Fox.

Making:

My very first palette sign! I just started doing it, and the person I'm making it for might (but probably not) read this...so I won't give it away, but I'm super excited, the first half turned out pretty good. Home Depot cuts wood for you, helpful when you can't fit a 6' board in your car.

Pretending:

I'm going on vacation soon, when in fact I'm working 50+ hours a week...Looking forward to October for a 5 day girls vacation though! Can't wait to see these girls again!

Wearing:

I wore this to Mom's Night out last month and it was the perfect outfit for keeping my legs warm, and still being able to wear a dress even though it was slightly chilly outside. I also added a moto jacket, not shown.

Dress (Similar) / Boots (similar)

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3 Fall Outfits

Happy Wednesday Foxy Friends! Hope you are all having a great week. I have a bit of a sore throat, but am hoping that it goes away by the weekend, too much fun to be had this weekend! Getting a two for one today. I'm linking up with Anne from Anne In Residence and her monthly "currently" where she gives you the topics to talk about. This time her cohost is Dana of Something Good, this month the prompts are styling, saving, searching, picking, and making. Which works out perfectly for what I'm about to talk about.

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Styling:

I've mentioned this a few times, but this month I am participating in the Common Threads Challenge, where we pick 5 things from our closet and then each day have to use one of those 5 things and pick our outfit around that.



Wondering what I picked? Wait no longer, here are the 5 things I picked.

Black and Whit Striped Skirt (Similar) / Burgundy Tee / Black Blazer / Skinny Jeans / Booties (Similar and 50% off!) /

So we're three days into this thing and these are the three outfits I've chosen so far. Sorry, you're only going to get a full outfit one or two of the days, as the other days, I am working and don't have time to take a full picture, and I don't have a mirror that I can take a picture with. The one that I have I would be shooting into the sun, so you would see a whole lot of bathroom and not much of me. haha.

Day 1:

Simple outfit for a day doing errands and cooking.

Skirt / Tee (color: green berry) / Shoes (Similar)

Day 2: 

Grey Pants (similar) / Tee / Heels (Similar)

Day 3:

Dress (similar but long sleeve version)  / Cardigan (Similar) / Booties

Saving:

Hopefully money because I am remixing my closet up.

Searching:

For the perfect desk for our bedroom. It will also serve as a background to my Youtube videos. I'm thinking about getting this.

Picking:

Nothing at the moment. Pumpkins in a couple of weeks? Does that count?

Making:

I'm making a Wine Pull for a fundraiser I'm helping with on Saturday. Full details when I get my act together. Oh and if you don't know what a Wine Pull is, you label wine corks with a number, and then have a cute way to display, and people pay x amount of dollars to pull a wine cork and then they receive a wine bottle that has that number that you pulled. Many I have to get my act together...got to start this! At least I bought all of the stuff to do the project?

So what are you doing currently?

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Strips and Floral

Today I'm over on The Blended Blog hosting our Link Up, go over there to check out more details of an outfit I straight up copied from my friends Lisa, Deena, and Christy.

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Skirt (Similar)/ Shirt (similar) / Shoes (similar)

Confession: While trying to find a skirt similar to the one I have on, I found one...and then bought it myself, because it also comes in black and white polka dots...I had to, for $18, add to cart!

Also linking up with Anne from Anne In Residence and her monthly "currently" where she gives you the topics to talk about. This time her cohost is Lowanda of Sunshine and Elephants and the topic is  celebrating, watching, welcoming, preparing, and photographing.

Currently we are:

Celebrating

Mini Fox! I can't believe she's 4 already! When did that happen? Wasn't it just yesterday that she looked like this?

Watching

Several things, just finished Game of Thrones. Currently at this moment we're watching Dark Matter, which is about 6 people who wake up on a space ship and don't know who they are or how they got there.
 

 

We're also just picked up Beyond, which is pretty good, although we're only 3 episodes in, but it's about a kid who was in a coma for 12 years and wakes up to people wanting to get him and him figuring out where he was the last 12 years and trying to get those memories back.

Welcoming

A new cousin into the family. Curtis's cousin is getting married weekend after next, excited to see them get married and and celebrate their marriage. Plus my Mother-In-Law and Brother-In-Law are coming into town to celebrate too, so we'll get a few days with them.


Preparing

For Mini Fox's birthday party. Do you sense a theme here? My life revolves around it. I tried to use my new Cricut the other night and totally failed miserably, and am on such a time crunch, don't have time to figure it out, so I pulled out my old one and got the job done. Today I'm buying the food and ordering some more food and trying to get my ducks in a row so I can actually enjoy our day out on Saturday.

Photographing

We went out to Julian to go apple picking last weekend, see #2 above, and had a blast! I actually brought my big camera and took all of the pictures. So much fun. This one was my favorite, and I took it on my iphone...

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Camo and Coral

Hello Foxy Friends! Today I have a two for one. While we were in Toronto and walked a bazillion miles looking at everything Toronto I had a chance to take some photos of my outfit. So get ready to see some photos that are NOT my backyard, I know you're jumping for joy too.

These pants arrived Wednesday before I left for Toronto, and when I put them on I knew I had to work it into my wardrobe. I was going to link them, but it looks like they are all sold out, boo!

and of course I had to do a jumping picture in front of a graffiti wall.

Linking up with Anne from Anne In Residence and her monthly currently where she gives you the topics to talk about. This month her guest host Erin, okay let's get to the topics

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Planning: Currently planning a Mom's Night Out for tomorrow. It got postponed from last week to this week, and now it's turning out that many can't come till later, so I'm thinking about pushing it back 30 minutes. Other then that, not planning much.

Wishing: That I had more vacation time to spend with the kids this summer, but alas I don't, stupid corporate world, not giving us enough vacation time, but I am glad that we have some fun things planned for this summer.

Learning:  How to use my new Cricut. I have several projects I want to do but using new software freaks me out, so I've been avoiding it.

Browsing: All of the fashion things. I mean as soon as I put a self imposed shopping ban on...I find all the things I want. Like this, this and this. 

Going: To swim lessons. Usually we take the school year off and then start back up for the summer. My mom was a genius and said, why don't you make their lessons for after Baby Fox's karate class, so he'll go to Karate and then swim lessons right after. Perfect timing. I hope Min Fox learns lots. She's pool safe, but she doesn't know any strokes or anything. Baby Fox knows the basics to most of all of the strokes, but we'd like him to become a better swimmer. I think I might be the only parents that sits there and watches the entire lesson. I like to know what they are capable.


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Fashion Files Jean Vest

Happy Wednesday Foxy Friends! Today is the first Wednesday in May which means the ladies over at The Blended Blog are starting a new series called Fashion Files. Where you find an outfit that you want to recreate or gives you some inspiration and style that.

I decided for my first look I decided to try and find something to style my jean vest with. I've really only styled it twice, here and  here.

I went to pinterest and found this pin. I thought, I have all that stuff, I can do that.

I put it together...and I'm thinking I might need to get a longer vest. It's just not quite there for me. Sometimes you win at outfits and sometimes you don't. Perhaps I need to grow 6 inches...

This is the shirt that I got in Vegas when I went to the blogging conference with The Blended Blog ladies.

I just discovered Anne from  Anne In Residence and she hosts a monthly currently where she gives you the topics to talk about. This month her guest host is Nancy of NY Foodie Family and the questions are:

Baking: Sadly nothing. I did make some chocolate chip cookies the other day for a work friend who I accidently prevented him from going to his birthday lunch, so to make up for it I made him cookies. All was forgiven...actually it was just a bonus for him, he was never that upset to begin with.
 
Listening: I don't have much time to listen to the radio now and days, but I'm loving this guy on YouTube.

These guys are putting out a lot of content, loving this version of this song.

Loving:
Just discovering the boomerang app. I know I'm the last to jump on board, but it's so fun! Expect some more posts about this app.







Remembering:

Last April and meeting up with some of The Blended Blog ladies in Vegas and being so excited that I finally get to hug them again in 16 days. We've only been planning this since our last trip together...13.5 long months!

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