Wednesday Randoms

I'm awake, yes it's 8:45am, but I'm awake. I've been awake since 6:30am, not cool. Okay it is cool that Mini Fox slept from 12:30 to 6:30am, but then took an hour to fall back asleep, at which time I thought...hell with it, might as well get up. And now all I can think about...when is naptime? Good thing she's doing this right now:

This picture was taken on Sunday, this is not her sleeping right now.

I have a shopping addiction, I've gone to the mall three days in a row...yes THREE, no wait, I'm going back to day so make that 4! I have a problem, I've been to Old Navy three times, Gymboree 6 times, no joke (long story short, I worked the system and saved $50 in a round about way, hence the 6 trips.) Mr. gets an extra paycheck this month and you better believe I am spending it as we speak. Mini Fox has proven to be a good shopping partner.

I did, however, find our outfits for our Christmas card, which we're taking pictures Thanksgiving weekend, I was stressed to the max, but I figured it out and it's all going to work out. I have faith. The whole outfit is based around this baby. I'll give you a clue, I spent more money on the kids outfits then ours. Go figure.

And just cause we can...chubby bunny :) remember doing that as a kid?

Don't worry, we did it with Baby Fox too :) He didn't have quite as much cheek to work with though.

and that's all I have for this random Wednesday!

Linking up with Shanna

Weekend Recap

My brother and Sister-In-Law came to visit us this weekend! It was the first time they met Mini Fox, so we were all excited. They drove out from Vegas Friday evening, so we didn't see them until Saturday morning.

First things first, Friday, Mini Fox got her two month shots, insert sad face here. This was taken before we went to the doctors. She had no idea what was coming, poor thing. After the doctors we headed off to Costco, yep, I concurred Costco with two kids...luckily one of them slept the whole time, and that my friends was the last time she slept until Daddy got home. Luck for me Daddy was not fatigued from a crying, shot ridden baby, and suggested some Tylenol for the feverish, crying baby, it worked like a charm. Note to self, give baby girl some Tylenol after her shots.

Saturday my Bro and SIL came to visit, yay! They fell in love instantly

Mr., Bro and SIL took the dogs (theirs not ours) and Baby Fox to play at the park. Baby Fox wore out the dogs and they came home because the dogs were tired, not Baby Fox, isn't it supposed to be the other way around? Then we headed to lunch at Whole Foods. I thought this was a pretty good self portrait taken by me.

Bro and SIL spoild Baby Fox by buying him a cupcake, yum!

 

Then we went home for naps and dinner at Kings Fish House, SIL and Mom double fisting it, in reality, they ran out of Martini glasses so they got two smaller glasses.

Baby Fox helping Ampa (aka Grandpa) to the car. My dad got his knee replaced last week and is in recovery with an old man walker, I told him to complete the look he need some tennis balls on that walker of his.

And this little girl turned 2 months!

Sunday we took a walk to breakfast, Baby Fox walked the whole 0.6 miles there, granted most of it was down hill.

Then we came home and all three cars got washed. I have to thank Baby Fox at this time because he insisted they clean Mommy's car too. Thank You Baby Fox!

Baby Fox's dump truck also needed a wash.

And this girl did this part of the time

All in all it was a great weekend! Can't wait for next weekend, we have Mr.'s family coming into town!

Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Megan

The Geek In Me

Baby Fox's remote control car broke in half, yep that cheap little plastic could not hold up to a 2 year old, go figure. So what does one do when faced with a 2 year old asking Mommy to fix his car?

Glue? Nope. Electrical Tape? Yep! And that's exactly what I did, used electrical tape to fix that bad boy up, can't even tell I used it.

I used electrical tape to fix my phone too. Hey it had a black backing and it wouldn't stay on, so I used electrical tape. The AT&T guy actually laughed at me and said he's never seen such good work, he didn't even know I had tape it, it was that good. So if you ever need anything professionally taped back together, I'm your girl.

Yes I realize I am the biggest nerd ever, but my profile did warn you.

Work It!

I got cleared and am working out again, yay! Let me tell you, the Double Bob is a freakin' beast! Seriously, it takes so much arm strength to just push it a foot, I might die.

My first week working out again was last week, I am part of this thing called Stroller Strides, it's a great way to socialize with other Mom's and get a great work out in. This isn't some sissy workout, it's hard core, especially on Friday with this lady. Everyone knows Friday is a great workout before the weekend, she teaches several different workout classes around town and is an awesome motivator.

End of class ab workout, yep, I was taking pictures while others were doing abs, the three ladies standing on the left, are pregnant and due soon, I give them a pass.

Last Friday all the kids dressed up and we did a little parade and stroller trick or treating, I think Baby Fox is the cutest one out there, I might be biased though. Mini Fox was in costume, but she slept through the whole thing.

Me and my Zebra

Halloween Fun!

I know you're back to find out what we were for Halloween:

I'm a Park Ranger trying to tame all of her animals.

 

If you can't tell, Mini Fox is a monkey with that red tutu I made yesterday

We went trick-or-treating with the same group of friends that we've gone with the past two years, we say, if you do anything twice it's a tradition, so we continued with the tradition and ate dinner and did some trick-or-treating. Sort of crazy that we went from 3 kids to 6 kids between us in 3 years.

Cutest picture of the night? Baby Fox pulling his friends in the wagon, how appropriate that the zebra was pulling the princess and pirate.

Other honorable mentions:

It got a little scary when the bear broke free and tried to eat me

But luckily these ladies were there to save the day

So instead of eating me, he did this

Phew, that was close.

And to end the night? All the kids ready for bed

More Tutu Fun!

Made Mini Fox a new kind of tutu. We decided to change her costume, from my original idea so I got to make a new tutu. I didn't make a tutorial because I wasn't sure if it was going to work. But if I do it again, I'll definitely make a tutorial and it will be better, since this one didn't turn out perfect, and I know how I can make it better. But if are just itching to make a tutu, then I sort of followed this and this.

It came out almost perfect, I won't tell you the imperfections, cause it still works, and I'm sure she's only going to wear this once...so why spoil the fun?

 

This was going to be her costume:

 

My little pumpkin

 

And then I just decided to have fun with the tutu, since it was already made

 

 

Happy Halloween. Stay safe, and I'll post what our family theme is tomorrow! So come back and see what I used that red tutu for :)

Halloween Project

You know I had to do something, I can't remember where I saw this, so I can't give anyone person credit. But here's our version, simple easy to do. We did 6 of them in about 10 minutes. It only took 10 minutes because Baby Fox kept wanting different colored feet, and we'd have to wipe off the last color to put the new color on.

Happy Halloween!