What's Up Wednesday - May Edition

 Hi Foxy Friends! Today I'm linking up with Shay and Sheaffer for What's Up Wednesday, where we share what's going on with us. I haven't done one of these in a while, so let's get to it:

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1. What We're Eating This Week

I made this a couple of weeks ago and had to repeat it again. It's the best and so easy Tikki Masala, garlic butter rice and homemade Naan. The cauliflower was made by a friend, and he doesn't follow recipes, but he air fried the cauliflower and then cut up some herbs he grew in his garden and then sprinkled on the same spices we used for the Tikki Masala. 

If you make this, I used 2% Plain Greek Yogurt. I bought this Garam Masala spice and this Kashmiri Chili Powder.

2. What I'm Reminiscing About

The last time we went to Disneyland was January 2019. We had bought tickets to go again because capacity is low, but with the new rules and stuff, it looks like the day before we go they might go full capacity, so I think we're going to wait a bit longer, until Disneyland figures out the crowds, because I've heard they are pretty knurly right now, even with 35% capacity.

3. What I'm Loving

The the kids are back doing what they love.

After falling off her horse 2 months ago, Mini Fox has gotten her confidence back, and is doing so well. We figured out what horse is the best fit for her, of course it's the biggest one our horse school has, but Mini Fox is loving it.

4. What We've Been Up To

All the sports! Baseball, Football and Horseback riding. Along with karate and piano for Baby Fox. 

5. What I'm Dreading

Nothing really

6.  What I'm Working On

Need to make some coaches cup for our team party week after next, need to get on that soon. This is one that I made last week for a friend for their daughter's soccer coach.

7. What I'm Excited About

Summer! The kids have a few exciting camps they are going to go to and mostly I'm excited for our vacation in July!

8. What I'm Watching/Reading

Currently watching Wu Assassins, so far it's pretty good, not the best acting, but the plot is interesting.

We just finished watching Snowpiecer on HBO Max, highly recommend this one. Basic plot is scientist try to fix global warming and accidentally make the climate go to -127°, not livable by humans, so they create a 1001 car train that the world now lives in, there is a first murder and they have to solve it.

9. What I'm Listening To

Hmmm...random Youtube things, nothing to report home about.

10. What I'm Wearing

The weather is starting to warm up so I'm wearing dresses and skirts. Get this dress from a cute local mama owned online boutique here. Unfortunately it's out of stock, but this dress is pretty close.

Love this skirt and it comes in so many colors and patterns. And the shirt is so cute too, here is one that is similar. And and everyone needs these sandals, they are so comfy. Unfortunately they are not available any more, but keep checking back to see if they do go back in stock.

These shorts are hands down the best purchase of the year...okay maybe no year, but best shorts ever!

11. What I'm Doing This Weekend

Memorial Day weekend, Baby and Mini Fox are going with my dad to put flags on Veterns graves. Baby Fox did this a couple of years ago, and now Mini Fox is old enough to go with. Usually Memorial day is when we heat our pool, as if to say hey Summer is starting.

12.  What I'm Looking Forward To Next Month

Looking forward to Summer, swimming in the pool and hanging out with friends and going out to eat at actual restaurants, which we haven't done much.

13. What Else Is New

Finally caught a butterfly just hatching out of their Chrysalis. The other 2 we missed by a couple of hours, darn!

Alright that's all we've been up to late. See you on Friday for Friday Favorites!

What's Up Wednesday: February

Hi Foxy Friends! Today I'm linking up with Shay and Sheaffer for What's Up Wednesday, where we share what's going on with us. So let's get to it:


1. What We're Eating This Week (more like what we've been eating lately)

Mini Fox's favorite breakfast, eggs in a hole, which I shaped like a heart.

We had lobster for Valentine's Day, it was delicious.

I've also gotten into making homemade bread, like everyone else during quarantine. I probably make 2-3 loaves a week for friends and family.

2. What I'm Reminiscing About

Our last trip we took was a year ago. We went to visit our friends in Canada and met up with some other friends and it was wonderful and I miss seeing their faces. We use to travel to see each other a couple of times a year, so going a full year without hugging them is hard.

3. What I'm Loving

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These leggings. I have several pair and they are all comfy and hold everything in, the ones below you can find here.

4. What We've Been Up To

This kid got his expander yesterday, so we've been dealing with trying to figure out how to eat...any tips for us? It took him an hour and a half to eat dinner. Poor guy.

5. What I'm Dreading

Not much right now, I was dreading Baby Fox's expander, but it went in with no problems.

6.  What I'm Working On

Maybe opening and Etsy store? I keep making things to put in it, taking all the pictures, but have yet to do it...I just need to do it already!

7. What I'm Excited About

We just booked a trip to Maui for July! Really hoping it works out and we can go!

8. What I'm Watching/Reading

Firefly Lane, so good, on episode 6 and need to know who the funeral is for!

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Also just started reading The Summer I Turned Pretty, although I have only read a few pages.

9. What I'm Listening To

Currently Mini Fox singing herself to sleep.

10. What I'm Wearing

I'm obsessed with this jacket. I might have bought it in a berry color too.

11. What I'm Doing This Weekend

Baby Fox has baseball tryouts, hoping that we an actually have a season this year, fingers crossed, good sign that we have try outs this weekend. And Mini Fox has her horseback riding lessons.

 

12.  What I'm Looking Forward To Next Month 

Mr's birthday, which also happens to be when the world shut down, so one year of quarantine...yikes, that is crazy to think about. So guess I'm not looking forward to that part, but this will be two birthdays in quarantine for him.

13. What Else Is New

Hmmm....I recently cut Mr's hair... and it didn't turn out horrible.

So what have you all been up to. I'm going to start blogging more, I loved that this was a way to document life, and I've really fell off of that, so here's to new beginnings and me starting to blog once again...I can do this! Although I've said that in the past...I'm serious this time...really! 

What's Up Wednesday: February

Hi Foxy Friends! Today I'm linking up with Shay and Sheaffer for What's Up Wednesday, where we share what's going on with us. So let's get to it:


1. What We're Eating This Week

Mr. made a chilli recipe he had at a friends house, it was really yummy.

I also made this instant pot recipe and Mr. kept saying how good it was, so it must have been good.

If you do end up making this recipe, I only pressure cooked it for 25 minutes (45 minutes and 25 NPR is a ridiculous amount of time) and NPR for 10 minutes and it turned out perfect. I also added a corn starch slurry to thicken up the sauce. In hind sight I should have taken the meat out, taken the fat off of the sauce and then did slurry, but hey I'll do that next time.

2. What I'm Reminiscing About

All the fun we had while on our Canadian adventure, already planning when we can go back!

3. What I'm Loving

The pictures that Larissa took while we were in Canada, gorgeous!

4. What We've Been Up To

All of the kid things...not sure how we got here, but here are the kids after school activities...

Baby Fox: Karate, Religious Education formally known as CCD, Football, Baseball

Mini Fox: Religious Education, Soccer, Gymnastics and Horseback Riding (but only for 2 more weeks I think).


5. What I'm Dreading

Not being able to work out with all of the kids said activities (see prompt above). But I've figured out paths to run while I'm waiting for the kids, and then there is always YouTube workouts at the park while I'm waiting too. I really like Blogilates, as most of her videos no equipment is needed.

Oh also dreading Mr. going on his buisness trip, hate when he has to travel for work, he was doing it so much last year, it was nice to have him home for 3 months, guess all good things must come to an end.

6.  What I'm Working On

Hmmm...trying to organize my desk area...and need to finish cleaning up the garage from the mess that was Christmas. Hosting 20+ people a lot of stuff gets thrown into the garage, so need to clean that up, I think this weekend we'll finally have some time to get that done.

7. What I'm Excited About

Watching baseball and soccer again, I love watching Baby Fox play baseball and Mini Fox play soccer.

8. What I'm Watching/Reading

We just finished watching Lost in Space on Netflix and really enjoyed it.



9. What I'm Listening To

I carry my old iPod Touch in my purse for YEARS, and this week I decided to charge it up and see what songs were on there. Re-Obsessed with the song on there. I think the last time I turned it on was 2014 (I assume, since the calendar is stuck on December 2014).  Anyone else still have their old iPods? I remember thinking that this screen was SOO big when I got it too. Now look how small it is in my hands. Also in the video's section, I had Dawson's Creek season 4, Pitch Perfect and Twilight...that makes me laugh.

10. What I'm Wearing

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Wearing all the things from Belong Lifestyle (not affiliate). I just got back from visiting them and got to buy some of their stuff coming up for Spring and you're going to love it! Go see what they have, and because it's a Canadian store, we get a great exchange rate, and the shipping is $5CAD no matter what you get, which means $3.50 for us! Great deal!

Also Target is having their buy one get one 50% off sale of bathing suits for the family. It ends on Saturday night so better hop on it. Includes some of the cute cover ups too!

Go to this post to see more details.

11. What I'm Doing This Weekend

Baseball and soccer...and then Mr. is going out of town so taking the kids to the movies on Sunday. Going to see Sonic...anyone see it?

12.  What I'm Looking Forward To Next Month

Next month I'm looking forward to celebrating Mr's birthday and a friends 40th birthday, should be really fun!

13. What Else Is New

Can't think of anything else that is new...hmmm...need to figure out the kids summer schedule still. Trying to weave it all together is like the air traffic control guy...so hard! haha!

Hope you have a great Wednesday! See you Friday when I recap our Canada trip!

What's Up Wednesday: January

Hi Foxy Friends! Today I'm linking up with Shay and Sheaffer for What's Up Wednesday, where we share what's going on with us. So let's get to it:

1. What We're Eating This Week

Made pot roast and going to make a chicken/veggie stir fry. Oh and I'm also going to 2 MNO this week.

2. What I'm Reminiscing About

The other night we were talking about when Baby Fox used to have a buzz cut and then found this gem, when I thought it was a good idea to take an almost 3 year old and a 3 month old to Disneyland with a friend.

Another buzz cut photo, and he loved his sister so much and pretty much would do anything for her, still does actually.

3. What I'm Loving

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This sweater, it's cute and I got it on sale, it's no longer on sale, but still a good deal for under $30.

And this is one of the warmest sweaters ever, it's like wearing a cute hug.  And it has different prints and colors...is it weird if i get the black and buffalo plaid one too?

4. What We've Been Up To

Trying to get over being sick...ugh. I was the last man standing and then I went down, darn kid snuggles got me. It's worth it though, both kids are almost back to normal.

I was also able to go on one of Baby Fox's field trips, I never get picked to go, so it was nice that I was able to go. We went to a science center.

5. What I'm Dreading

Not much. We have a bunch of fun things lined up in the next few weeks.

6.  What I'm Working On

Working on changing out a sign in my bathroom. I really like the frame but got tired of the saying, so I took out the middle and am working on making a new saying on it, that I will pop back into the frame, more on that later!

7. What I'm Excited About

We're headed to Canada to visit some friends and we're so excited! Going to be super cold, but we have so many fun things planned! This is the third year in a row we get to see each other in Jan/Feb. and it's a tradition I don't want to miss! Oh and Alison is joining too!

8. What I'm Watching/Reading

Okay, I haven't been reading anything...does kid books count? Mini Fox just got If You Give a Mouse a Brownie...haven't read that one, I really liked it.

Watching, Mr. and I watched The Witcher over the break, really good. It's based off of Mr.'s favorite of all time video games. He liked seeing back story of some of the characters and me not knowing anything really enjoyed it too. It has to do with Elves, Witches and other Mythical creatures, so if you don't like those things, you won't like this.

Also we are currently watching Messiah, not sure where it's going to go, but we REALLY like it. So far in the first few episodes it's a man who is very Jesus like spreading the good word and there are people who are believers and others who are skeptics about his true intentions.

I've started re-watching Reign, re-watching as in I've seen the first season only, I decided to watch from the beginning though.

And last I want to start watching You, I've watched the first few episodes when the first season came out, but got sucked into The Originals and Legacies...so I'm going to watch that now too.

9. What I'm Listening To

Hmmm...not listening to much, currently this is my favorite song and I have on repeat.

10. What I'm Wearing

This cute jumper, I'm obsessed with jumpers lately, even though it makes going to the bathroom awkward, I still love them!

And wearing this if I was going to go out for Valentine's Day

11. What I'm Doing This Weekend

Friday Baby Fox has football, I've missed the last two games, so it will be nice to be able to go. Then Saturday our school is doing a kids production that we'll be going to that, to support some of our friends that are in it. Sunday I just realized is Super Bowl Sunday...which means we're headed to my cousins for another cousin party. Yay! Wow I felt like February was so far off, but nope it's happening this weekend!

12.  What I'm Looking Forward To Next Month

Looking forward to our trip to Canada, and we're also doing an overnight trip with my extended family to the mountains, that should be fun.

13. What Else Is New

Hmm...finally got this video edited, after only 8 months of it sitting on my computer. Better late than never right? Don't worry I have a bunch more that I filmed and never got around to editing...they'll all be coming out sooner or later. If you want, go subscribe to my Youtube channel so you can see when I release new videos, I would appreciate the follows!

Happy Wednesday! Only 2 more days till the weekend, woo hoo!