TBT - House Edition

Before I start - I woke up at 4:25am and thought, thank God it's Saturday, only to realize, hope I have to get out of bed to go to work. Yes you read that correctly, I get up at 4:30am to go to work. Good news, Mini Fox didn't wake up till I woke up, so that's a plus.

Onto throw back Thursday - House Edition: Front and Back

We bought our house as a short sale. We got lucky and the previous offer was okayed by  the bank, and all the t's were crossed and i's dotted, but then their funding fell through, enter us into the equation, we had the same exact offer and they literally crossed out the previous person and wrote our names in.

Our house needed a lot of vision, I mean a LOT. In one spot inside, you could see the following wall colors: Red, Brown, Blue, light purple, dark purple, green, and orange. It was like Rainbow Bright threw up in our house.

That's us 4 years and 5 months ago.

Now when you see that house color behind us, it doesn't look too bad, but let me tell you, it was horrible! It was actually orange. The neighbors called it the pumpkin house.

We considered painting the roof green for Halloween, for like 1.2 seconds.

Here's the back:

  Yep that's a whole lot of orange!

We'll get to the front yard and backyard/pool in another post.

Our first order of business was to paint the house. We got the keys and the very next week we had painters there. The first day of painting, I pull into the driveway and no less then 4 neighbors came out to tell me Thank You for painting the house. Our next door neighbor said that she almost passed her house because she was so used to turning into her driveway next to the orange house. I actually DID pass by our house, oops!

Second order of business was to get water in the pool. Doesn't it already look so much better?

As soon as the water was added, Mr. had to go swimming, the water was freezing but he said "I worked hard to get this pool, I'm going swimming."

After getting a few quotes to get the inside painted, we decided we're going to paint it ourselves and have the rest of the work done by professionals...Which meant that we lived like this for 5 months:

Dining room looking from kitchen

Dining room looking from the other side

Living room, looking from the front door - yes all of our work clothes are on there

Family room

Kitchen/Eating area, standing in the family room

Eating area, standing near the dining room door

The living room, all "moved" in, the movers just left, and let me tell you, we decided to move on one of the hottest days EVER!

 The reason you ask why our clothes are on those hanging racks? Well the upstairs was completely unlivable. I mean, the carpet was supposed to be white, but was actually brownish because it was so dirty, stained from pets (we did get the house professionally cleaned before we moved in, but they can only do so much). We lived in a room downstairs, which I never took a picture of, go figure!


Come back next week, and I'll show you our front and back yards!

2 Kids and White Pants

I've been wanting a pair of white pants for forever now, and I finally got them! I was/am hesitant to wear them around Baby Fox, he thinks I'm his human napkin. So I wore them on a MNO (Mom's night out) and decided, perfect opportunity to wear them!

Shirt - Loft,(on sale right now for $10!) Pants - Loft, Shoes - DSW (old), Scarf - Old Navy (old), Belt - Target

Whenever I wear these shoes, I always get a ton of compliments, it took me forever to decide to wear them, but I'm so glad that I finally wore them! Now I wear them with everything, plus they're comfy, so that's a double win in my book! Also I'm really into scarves right now, like I can't buy enough of them, and I wear them almost everyday. Why did it take me so long to jump on the scarf train?

And just cause she's cute, here's Mini Fox sleeping at the doctors office, has no clue she's about to get 2 shots.

Linking up with Because Shanna Said So, Get Your Pretty On, The Pleated Poppy and Tucker Up

Weekend Recap

Friday my Dad wanted to go to the beach to feed the seagulls. I'm not sure why someone would want to feed one, but hey, chance to go to the beach, ok why not?

Here's Baby Fox looking at the ocean. Not really, he's just climbing on those stumps.

 The beach had this awesome playground for kids. Yes it was warm enough to wear shorts and t-shirts, don't hate us.

Mini Fox enjoying her stroller view of the ocean

 

 

Baby Fox didn't quite get that you're suppose to tear the bread into pieces, so he would just throw the whole piece of bread.

While I was feeding Mini Fox, all of a sudden the whole beach erupted into applause and cheers, why? This couple just got engaged, how sweet is that?

Then we went to lunch at Johnny Rockets

Mini Fox enjoyed herself too

Baby Fox enjoyed the fries

 

 

And you might ask what we did for Valentine's day? Got Thai take out and Baby Fox colored a ginormous card for me.

Me and my Valentine, love this kid! That card opens up 4 times to make a giant poster.

By the time I got around to scooping my dinner up, Mr. had eaten half of his, making for a bad picture

Mr. and I don't do Valentine's gifts, okay that's not true. Mr. gets me a Valentine's gift and I usually make him something. I made this for him, can you guess what it is?

If you guessed Creme Brulee, then you would be correct! This is without the sugar part of it, they're cooling

Saturday we went on a hike. Well it was going to be a hike, but then Baby Fox found trail he wanted to go on. Daddy dressed Mini Fox for our hike. Perhaps not hike appropriate, but she was definitely cute.

Our hike turned out to be more flat. But it was fun, was able to do some jogging with Mr. We haven't gone out jogging together in a really long time, so that was fun. Looking forward to many more hikes and walks with the kids.

Baby Fox wanted to take this big rock home, we told him he couldn't because it was marking the path.

Then we stumbled on this gem, of course the boys wanted to see what was up those stairs on the other side. It was a trail, in which they both wanted to go on, so me and Mr. picked up the stroller and carried it across these awesomely stable boards and up those stairs.

This is what was up those stairs.

Sunday Mini Fox and I went shopping together. Target, the mall, Bed Bath and Beyond, Buy Buy Baby, it was so much fun. I can't wait till she's old enough to really get into the shopping part with me. After nap time I took Baby Fox over to surprise my parents with a visit.

Then invited them over for Sunday dinner. We had ribs, bake potato and salad, yum!

We end every night with some reading.

Doesn't Baby Fox have the coolest bed?

And that's what we did. Guess what? Only 5 more months until I can finally upgrade to a phone with internet! I can wait that long...right?

Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Heather

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy day of love! I went to a MNO and am back and just wanting to wind down, so yes it's 12:30am and I'm still not in bed, should be, but I'm not. Oops, will regret it tomorrow. But I had to share the cute photos I took of the kids.

Back when I just had one kid and had ample amounts of time, I did photo shoots with Baby Fox for each holiday. This was his Valentine's day one, he was 1.5 months old.

Doing the same thing with two kids and a wiggle 5 month old? Not as easy as a 1.5 month old let me tell ya. But here they are...

And then Baby Fox was spent and didn't want anything more to do with pictures...even after several attempts at bribes.

Mr. surprised me with flowers and chocolate covered strawberries (that he dipped himself! Double broiler and all) today, cause he knew I was going to be home from work today and he couldn't surprise me.

See there are strawberries, I just at most of them before I realized I should probably take a picture.

We're getting wild tonight and ordering take out Thai food and hanging with the kids. Boring but I wouldn't have it any other way.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Leggings!

I've jumped on the leggings train. Full on jump with both feet without looking. This girl said buy some, they're the most comfy things ever, I said okay. She wasn't wrong, these cover up the "muffin top" and sort of squish everything into place. I had been wearing them under skirts and dresses

but decided to go all out and just do it! So I did, and I really do love how this outfit came together. I put the shirt on, and thought it needs more then a necklace, so I put the scarf on. We were going to a birthday party that was going to be a little cold, so I added the light sweater.

Shirt - Nordstroms, Sweater - Nordstroms Rack, Scarf - Francesca's Collection (old), Leggings - Nordstroms, Boots - DSW

In other news, guess what Mini Fox did over the weekend?

Does anyone else find it odd, that she can't roll from tummy to back (which is suppose to be the easier direction), but she can go from back to tummy. Strange. Anyway, she decided to do this at 2am, and then was so confused as to how she got there. I watched her in the monitor, she would look around, then lay her head down, the look around. When I went in to get her, she had this huge smile on her face, like she was saying, See Mommy what I did?

Because I posted something about Mini Fox, I'll post something about Baby Fox. My parents take him to the library once a week. They were looking at a book about a Wooly Mammoth and my dad says, so they lived a long time ago, and without missing a beat Baby Fox says, like Ice Age? My dad was floored, he had forgotten, no my son's not a genius but he just pays attention and had just recently watched Ice Age (the movie) on TV. haha, I should have played along though right?

Linking up with Because Shanna Said So, Get Your Pretty On, The Pleated Poppy and Tucker Up

Valentine's Day Card

First, I'm so tired today, I stayed up watching the Olympics, anyone else watching them? 

As most of you already know I am a scrapbooker, yep, I'm nerdy like that. While I don't get to do it very often any more, but have the equivalent to a Micheal's in our guest room, I do enjoy any excuse to break out my stuff and create something.

I have a Cricut Expression. It looks like this:

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It's one of the most amazing machines ever invented, okay I might be exagerating, but it's a pretty cool machine. You can pretty much cut shape/lettering out and then use this:

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 If you don't know what this does, they make stickers. Yep that's right, you stick anything in there, and it puts a sticky backing on it, and viola you have a sticker.

I digress, with Valentine's THIS WEEK I thought that I would re-create some cards that I made a couple of years ago for some friends.

They looked like this:

This insides looked like this:

apparently I didn't know how to spell pretty when I made these, oops!

Everything was cut using the Cricut, how cool is that? So if you don't have one, go out and get one and start creating. I think this years card, will look really similar to those owl ones up there. Need to finish them by Wednesday so I can mail them out. Wish me luck.

Happy Monday!