Thanksgiving Dress Ideas

Hi Foxy Friends! Happy Wednesday. Here in the States it's Thanksgiving in a couple of weeks, like what the heck? How did that happen? So today's prompt over on The Blended Blog is Thanksgiving Looks. I have to admit, I typically try to wear the dress I get for our family photos to Thanksgiving too. See....

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2014

Apparently I have no pictures of me, where you can see my dress, but see the kids wore their outfits.

2015

I had ankle surgery and couldn't wear what I had on for the pictures, comfortable was key (3 weeks post surgery). See the walking boot barely peeking out.

2016

2017

This year I wanted to wear something different, but I've already worn it to two different functions...cause it's so cute. So I'll show it to you now. Thanks to the lovely Deena for taking my photos, that are NOT in my backyard!

Dress (similar style, not print) / Heels

*tip with the heels (I guess when dealing with Patent leather...if it's too tight on your toes, put on thick sock, and use hair dryer to heat up the patent leather and then stick foot in to stretch it out. Obviously don't heat it too much to damage the shoe. It took maybe 5 minutes of repeating this for the heel to fit around my toes correctly).

I love how flowy it looks while walking

I'm wearing this strapless bra, in case you wanted to know.

Truth be told I wore this to my high school reunion...not sure if I should wear it again to Thanksgiving, thoughts?

And then there is what I wore for our family pictures. I think I'll wear one or the other depending on the weather. Typically it can range from hot to super hot! I love this dress! Now that I'm looking at it, I'm wondering if I should have gone with a different shoe...darn it!

Dress is sold out where I bought it, but I found it somewhere else

A little twirling never hurt anyone either.

Yep I just always look like this when I'm done twirling.

Alright, now check out the lovely ladies below and then go link up your Thanksgiving day looks over on The Blended Blog!

Kellyann. Sarah. Andrea. Deena. Carrie

Lana.Vanessa.Whitney. Abbie.Shelly

Linking up here

Dressember

Back in June or was it July, Stephanie came up with this idea to wear more of her dresses and skirts in her closet. She realized that she had a ton that she never wore, so what else do you do when you have a blog? You ask all of your blogging friends to join in. We all said we didn't think we could do a full 30 days, so we settled on 10. I made my 10, and then forgot to take pictures of 2 outfits, so really I got 12 days, woo hoo!

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So what did I wear? Here ya go.

Date night dress.

This dress is one of my favorite Spring time purchases.

So what I get from doing this challenge, EVERYONE should own a jean jacket, apparently I wear it a lot as a completer piece. Perhaps I need some new completer pieces...hmmm... Also I love floral and stripes. 

So did you try out the challenge? How did you do?

Real Outfit Pregnancy Post

Did you know it's sort of hard to find a maternity dress for a petite 5'3" gal? Well it is. I've been trying to find things that I can possibly wear after pregnancy too, so when I came across this dress at Nordstroms I had to jump on it. I might have bought it in two different styles and two different sizes and had them shipped to me so that I wouldn't miss out on this great deal!

The best part of this dress it? It's one of those convertible dresses, so I can make all sort of styles depending on my mood, and it feels like I'm wearing pajamas, win in my book!

24 Weeks and 5 Days Pregnant

Dress - Nordstrom's (Watch the video and how many ways you can wear this dress, I chose strapless), Shoes - Nordstrom's (these are those famous shoes that this girl keeps talking about, I wore them all day 6 months pregnant, if I thought they were that comfy, you need to go get them right now!), Sweater - Old Navy (old)

Necklace from Forever 21 (old), Mr. wanted me to give him full credit for buying this for me for my birthday last year, without my input or help.

And of course my little photo bomber. He insisted on being in the picture, and then after two shots he got bored and left.

See those wrinkles there on the bottom, this is because I had been sitting in Mr.'s little sports car for over 2 hours trying to get home...ugh, I hate LA traffic!

A few random facts about Baby Fox's eating habits:

He likes warm prune juice and warm milk and will not drink either cold.

Likes oatmeal cold. Yep we started putting brown sugar in it and he likes it cold, so we basically stir the oatmeal with milk add some brown sugar and serve cold...yum?

Last night we can add another random thing he likes cold...rice. Yep we had some left over rice from dinner the other night and he wanted it cold...hard, cold rice, sounds delish...he ate it all up with no problems what-so-ever.

Such a weirdo, but I love him anyway.

Linking up with Shanna today

Random Wednesday

I wore this last week to work...it's the most comfy sweater dress ever. I got it from, where else, Ann Taylor Loft, man I love that place! So I have a confession, I have the biggest calves EVER. It's in the genes, I mean guys at the gym come up to me and ask me what I did to get my calves, I say, they just are, while I glance at their chicken legs. I tell them, I'd be happy to switch with them. All this to tell you it's HARD for me to find boots that go up over my calves. Most boots come with a 14" circumference. These babies...are 16" of amazing boots! So if you have larger calves get these, they fit over skinny jeans and are just plain awesome! And they're an affordable price too! I think I wore them three days in a row when I first got them.

Necklace - Mr. got me for Christmas a couple years ago from Forever 21, yep he went into F21 and got me something, what a guy!

And of course it wouldn't be a photo shoot without Baby Fox photo bombing it!

 

And now onto some Random Things:

Two of my favorite bloggers have decided this week to take a break from blogging and focus more on themselves. Good for them, but am sad that they are going to be leaving for a while. I hope that they figure it all out and come back, eventually. Just in case, I won't be deleting them from my news feed.

Having no microwave makes me have to cook more meals, boo. Left overs just aren't the same when it takes just as long to heat it back up as it did to make it. Last week I actually made the same meal two days in a row from scratch because there was no way to heat up the pork chops I had already defrosted before the microwave broke. Our new microwave still hasn't shipped yet...I'm getting impatient.

My husband makes me laugh so hard, I love that after almost 10 years being together he can still make me laugh like no other. He's a funny guy.

Remember Baby Fox's first time out? Well since then he's shut off the light a couple of times, and each time we say "remember what happened when you turn off the lights?" He looks at us and says yea, and walks over to the corner to put himself in time out. We then say, no no, you don't have a time out right now, just don't do it again. And that usually stops him from turning off the light, until the next night at least.

I got a paper cut at work yesterday, right on my finger joint, does that qualify for Workman's comp? I think it should, it hurts! Why is it that the smallest of paper cuts hurts so much?!

Hope you guys are having a great Wednesday. Only 2 more days left of work!

Linking up with:

Linking up with Shanna at Because Shanna Said So for So Random Wednesday
And The Pleated Poppy for What I Wore Wednesday

So Random Wednesday

Hope everyone is getting back into the swing of things, I am still on vacation for another 4 days, woo hoo! It's going to be SOOOO hard to go back to work.

Anyway, since I haven't done an outfit post in a LONG while I figured the new year would be a good way to start, here's my outfit from Christmas eve.

I got this jacket from my husband for Christmas, I absolutely love it.




Jacket - Via Spiga, Dress - White House Black Market (old), Shoes - Jessica Simpson (old)
 

Belt - White House Black Market, Necklace - Swarovski, Bracelets - Forever 21

Some Random things swirling around in my head:

Baby Fox has decided to boycott food (just keep reminding myself, he won't let himself starve)...just when you think you have things figured out, they change it on you and you have to figure out what they are willing to eat, all over again. Joy. On a brighter note, he ate a hotdog for the very first time last night...so maybe he's starting to like real food...keeping fingers crossed we can move on from the pureed food I make him.

I think I like time off of work way too much, I think I never want to go back, although I would miss the extra money from two incomes, so I guess I will go back on Monday.

I cleaned up the entire house yesterday, Christmas decorations are gone! I felt so accomplished yesterday, and ready to begin the new year fresh and with a clean house!

Happy New Year once again let this year be the best year yet! I know I'm looking forward to what's in store for this little family!

Linking up Because Shanna Said So for Random Wednesday

That Time I Wore Make-up

Okay, so it's not full on make-up, but it more then I do on a normal weekday. My thoughts on not wearing make up during the week, 1) I work with engineers, they could car less about what I wore or if I had make-up on. 2) I absolutely HATE taking it off, especially if it's a gym day, I don't want to be one of those girls who goes to the gym in full make up, but I'm too lazy to take it off. Plus I need to find a new eye-make up remover. I typically will use a waterproof eye liner, which always proves hard to remove, any of you have suggestions? 3) I wake up at 4:45am everyday, I get tired and sometimes rub my eyes...rubbing eyes with eye make up on is no recommended. Bottom line, don't get used to seeing me with make up on. But...I did actually go through a whole compact of foundation/powder from Mac, before it either broke or I lost it...so I'm getting better then in years past...I'm growing up...and stuff.

I decided to try out colored tights and the belt over the sweater thing, mostly because this dress is sleeveless and I really like it and wanted to wear it to the birthday party we went to on Sunday. That and my comfy jeans were dirty and I didn't feel like wearing my slightly uncomfortable jeans which requires me to wear really tall shoes so they don't drag on the ground to a 2 year old birthday party.

 Please excuse the lack of water in the fountain (no excuses we just took the water out because we weren't using it enough and it was starting to grow things) and the no plants in the background (just got our backyard re-done and need to save up money to buy the plants that go with it - you know how it goes with home improvement)

So it's not a lot of make-up, just enough to make me look put together and not tired, IMO of course

Dress -Old Navy (similar), Sweater - H&M, Belt - Target, Tights - Loehmann's, Boots - Jessica Simpson

Resale Boutiques

When we were in Santa Barbara last week we went to Down Town State Street and I walked into my very first Resale Boutique called The Closet. I've always wanted to go to one, but never knew of a good one to go to. I think I hit the jackpot on my first try.

I scored this awesome fake leather jacket for $36! Make me feel like no one is going to mess with me and better get out of my way when you see my walking down the street.

This jacket didn't get to see outside of the hotel, but I still wanted to wear it as soon as we got back to the hotel. I'm just glad that I happen to have things in my suitcase that would work with this jacket. Score for me!

Dress- Old Navy, Boots - DSW, Tights - Loehmann's, Jacket - The Closet (can't remember the brand, it wasn't something that I had heard of before), Jewelry - Forever 21

Randomly there was also a receipt in the jacket pocket dated to summer of 2010, it was the jacket owners birthday and she went to a bar. Always makes you wonder, who owned what you're wearing, what has it been through, and what are those people doing now? In any case, I love my new jacket and can't wait to find other outfits to pair this jacket with.

So what's your favorite resale boutique? I might just be hooked.

Yep, It's Still Hot

But not too hot that I couldn't wear a little sweater today. You know because the fridged 64° temp the morning definietly warrents a sweater.

This necklace is actually a long pendent, I wore it here, but I wanted to shorten it, so I just put the clasp down a little further and put the 8" "tail it created down the inside of my dress...can I say cold metal down the back at 5am, is not ideal.

Spoke To Soon

So yesterday we woke up to 90° weather, I guess summer wanted one last hurrah. I just bought this dress at Old Navy, I wanted to get some use out of it while I still could. I'm going to say I love these last warm days, only because I know fall and colder temperatures are on their way.

Just Add A Blazer

I'm relatively new to this fashion thing, but one thing I noticed a lot in the fashion blogging world is blazers. Everyone just adds a blazer, and BAM put together awesome outfit. I thought I would give it a try. I found this blazer at H&M, I fell in love with the polka dots really, I can roll the sleeve and get those cute polka dots on the outside, yes please! Since it's "Fall" around here, I decided to take my summer dress and make it Fall.

The Mr. said, be sassy...

I think I need to find some cute tights to go under all of my dresses and skirts, doubles my wardrobe in the fall/winter, why didn't I think of that sooner?!