This and That

The most important thing happening today, Mr. is taking his family leave and spending the next 7 weeks with these two.

I can see where Baby Fox gets his smile, can we say carbon copy?

Can Mini Fox's Pj's get any cuter? I love them, I wish I had them in every size.

Saturday we met up with some friends for some lunch, this is what Mini Fox wore, I love her "shoes" We call them her gladiator shoes.

Look who's sitting up? She turned 6 months yesterday, so it's only appropriate to document the fact that she can sit and not totally look like a drunken sailor.

I made this tutu and these headbands for a friend who just had a baby girl. My friend is one of those people on the let's be surprised at the birth to find out the sex. I don't know how she does it, this is her second and both times she didn't know. Since she has a boy I thought I would give her the most girly things I could possibly think of. Plus I had all these supplies on hand.

I wore my new Toms, my first pair ever, I think I'm in LOVE!

Sunday:

Mr. made Baby Fox his specialty of green eggs and ham

Because we still wear Santa pj's in March, we're cool like that

 Ampa (aka grandpa), Nana and Auntie Cole came over to watch the kids so I could go see Mr. sing his in choir (yep you read that right, he joined a choir).

Baby Fox got my dad down on the floor and then gave him a pillow cause his knee is hurt (my dad had a knee replacement a few months back, and Baby Fox is really aware of it, and always trying to kiss it better), not sure why the pillow is near his head, but you know...then Baby Fox had to get a pillow for himself because he wants to be like Ampa.

I went to see this guy sing, he's stand on the top riser, far left in this picture

Well you can see him in this picture, front and center

Here's a little snippet

Mr. is getting serious about his music and is spending some of his family leave time writing and recording music. I'll keep you posted on that, he said I would be able to post it when he's done with them, he said he might even start a blog.

After we got home Baby Fox wanted Mr. to set up his tool bench he got from my brother and sister-in-law for Christmas, I know so late, but it's like getting a new gift right?  2.5 hours later they're done!

Mr. and Baby Fox play a game they call "bump" it's like bumper cars but with a tricycle and a Plasmacar, they crashed and both died, I had to bring them back to life with kisses and tickles.

And that was my weekend in a nutshell.


Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Heather 
Also linking up with Carly, Molly, Susan and Amber

My little fasionista and fashionisto (is that even a word?)

So I might have made up a name, but what's the boy version of fashionista? Mini Fox was dressed in the cutest outfit last night I had to share. That hat? I die.

She's working on sitting up, she's growing too fast, slow down baby girl!

 

The other night a bunch of clothes came from Macy's that I had bought for Baby Fox. I told him the package was for him and f course he wanted to open it. I pulled out all of the clothes and immediately he wanted to try everything on. He laid this one out and started taking off his shirt.

He said, it looks just like Dusty (from the movie Planes) and said, thank you so much, I Love it. 

p.s. his favorite color is orange

Next up: Another orange shirt, he's taking off the tags here, I told him he needed to try it on first to make sure it fit, he informed me it did and he wanted to keep them.

 

I also bought those camo shorts for him

 

He's showing off his shirt and how well it fits.

There were a few other shirts, but he needed help putting them on and he had them on and off so fast I couldn't snap a picture. We had to go to bed just after this and we actually left the clothes lying on the ground. After I got the kids to bed I picked them up and put them upstairs. Fast forward to morning, he comes downstairs and goes to where we left the clothes and tells the nanny, where did my clothes go?! Mommy returned them! (insert sad face), she informed him that I didn't return them and that she had seen them upstairs in my bedroom, he gave a huge sigh of relief. Boy loves his clothes.

And then he put this outfit on last night, cause everyone needs camo pants, Curious George and a cape. So maybe not so fashionisto as I thought :)

Hope everyone has a good weekend! We have a pretty low-key weekend, lunch with friends on Saturday and hopefully catching up on some sleep! Mini Fox was up at 2:45am last night and then didn't want to go back to sleep until 4:30am at which time I then had to leave for work, doh!

Don't forget to set your clocks forward an hour on Sunday! Looking forward to later days and going to the park after work.

TBT: House Edition - Mr.'s Office

Here we are another Thursday and another look into our renovation. If you missed it here is the back/front of our house and the back/front yard. Now you guys get to finally see the inside of our house! Let me tell you, it took about 20+ gallons of primer to just get the walls ready for the paint, which then took another 2 coats, so basically we painted every wall 4 times. So here we go our first room, Mr.'s office, he hates it when we call it a man cave, but who are we kidding, it's a man cave.

This room was green when we moved in, and had a bunch of cables coming from every which way.

You can't really tell, but it was really mint green.

This is the first room we primed, because it had the least amount of work that needed to be done. My dad really pitched in an helped to prime and paint the room. In case you were wondering, we painted it with Dunn Edwards Riverbed.

My dad did really good at painting the flat walls, but didn't have so much luck with cutting into the ceiling and the corners. That's where I come in.

Look it's all done! Yep I did the "cutting in" in every.single.room. If I never cut in again, it would be too soon! After looking at the house, you can that I started in this room, the cutting in on this ceiling was a little crooked compared to the rest. It was a good room to practice in.

For the baseboards, we ended up replacing every baseboard in the house, which of course meant that I had to prime and paint all of those too! The guy we worked with, cut all of the baseboards for each room and then let us paint them and then he installed them, saved me a lot of time on my hands and knees having to paint already installed baseboards, then all we had to do was fill the nail holes, sand and paint over those small spots.

We also had new windows installed, which had to be framed, since the windows were a little crooked, this way it sort of hid that fact. Of course those also had to be painted, we spoke with the window guy and he let us do the same thing, we painted then he installed, which meant we painted all of the window frames in one weekend.

Here I am, I've already filled and sanded, now I'm just touch up painting over the holes.

My brother is in medical sales and he got us a bunch of scrubs to use while painting, it was nice that they were loose, and comfy, I understand why everyone wants to wear them all the time.

The last touch before the carpet, re-installing the electrical covers.

When we bought our house, Mr. wanted a nice bathtub and a BIG TV. Fast forward 5 months, and we finally got cable! Since we were only living in one room, we thought it was pointless to get cable or internet (which we ended up sometimes "borrowing" from our neighbors who's internet wasn't on lockdown), so we had no choice but to paint and fix our house when we got home from work.

Mr. got his big TV! We have no furniture in there, but we have one really big TV!

We decided to go with shutters in some of the rooms. Mr. sent this to me at work when they went in, I was so excited, we had the tv boxes in front of this window for so long so that our across the street neighbor didn't have to watch us watch tv.

We did end up getting some furniture, some from a furniture auction, which is for another post, but we got a great deal on and then some from my aunt and uncle who moved. So here's the finished room, I actually took these pictures last night.

I attempted to hide the stuff that was on top of the table below the table, but I clearly failed, since you can still see all the kids toys down there, opps! We do try to keep this space mostly kid free.

That's Mr.'s office area back there, did I tell you guys he writes music? That's his "studio" back there, he has all the equipment that he needs to write the songs, record and edit back there.

Yes this is a massive couch and I've had girls night out and we've fit 11 girls on this couch all watching Magic Mike, I'll let that sink in (this was taken after some people left).

So that's Mr.'s Office, next week, I'll show you our stairs. You'll definitely want to come back for that.

Facebook Ban

I don't usually talk religion, but today I'm making an exception. Today is Ash Wednesday. I was reading an article titled The Ash Wednesday Diet. I started reading it and realized I kept nodding my head in agreement, I think that it sums up what I should be doing for the next 40 days. Thinking, repenting and leading by example.

There are 10 steps for his "diet", but these are the ones that resonant what I want to accomplish during this season of Lent.

1. Focus on loving God and all his greatness, instead of celebrities, action figures, “real” housewives or even world leaders that think they know best.

2. Be careful of wolves in sheep’s clothing, like politicians, promising you something but taking your liberties away.

3. Set up standards of morality at home. Enough with the casual cursing. Teach kids some etiquette and manners, and use yourself as an example.

4. Spend time with your family, telling stories, and listening to those around you. Because someday you will wish you had.

6. Remember that violence begets violence. Young people are overwhelmed with graphic simulations of violence in video games and on the Internet. Cut it out of your life.

7. Be with the person you want, and respect your commitment.

10. Finally, stop thinking about how other people see you – but rather, think about how you see yourself. Love yourself for who you are – not for what a commercial or a magazine cover tells you you should be.


I especially like number 10, just be me. Be confident in who I am and what I want to be rather then being someone that I think other people want me to be.

Jesus was in the desert for 40 days of temptation, right now for me, social media - mostly Facebook, has been consuming too much of my time. I feel that I can be more productive and reflect more about who I am and concentrate more on my family and being a good wife, mother and friend.

And no post would be complete without some pictures. Love family selfies, apparently we like holding our kids upside down.

Rain Rain Go Away, Okay Not Really

Friday was my day off, so my weekend started off on Thursday with a Mom's Night Out at my house. I'm always nervous hosting something, thinking, no one is going to come, but it turned out successful and everyone had fun. I hosted a Tutu Making Party, using my tutuorial (get it?). Anyway, everyone couldn't believe how easy it was and were shocked that people charge so much for something so simple!

Friday it rained ALL day, I can't remember a worse storm where it rained buckets on and off all day long. We went to the mall :) But just as we were leaving the house, it started pouring and since I parked outside and not in the garage, we had to wait for the rain to pass, so I took pictures of the kids while we waited.

I love her pants! They're from Nana and Ampa (my parents) from Janie and Jack

The rain finally stopped and we headed to the mall, where I didn't have a camera and couldn't take a picture, wish I had a phone with a good camera! 4.5 more months!

When we got home it wasn't raining so we jumped in some puddles, which was hard to find, apparently our backyard drains really well, this was the only puddle we found at the park.

Pure joy

After nap time, Ampa came over and Baby Fox and my dad spent a while outside watching worms inch across the pathway. Baby Fox was slightly scared of them but was totally interested in them and wanted to be carried across the path.

After we put the kids to bed we stayed up super late to watch the end of Breaking Bad, so good! I highly suggest it. Now we can catch up on all of our shows that we've neglected the past month. Like Black List! If you haven't seen that, you have to watch it, so good!

Saturday we went to a birthday party to celebrate a 1st birthday

There was a huge thunder and lightening storm, we tried to get Baby Fox to see the lightening but he kept looking down or away the moment lightening would strike. But we certainly tried.

Me and the kids, love this picture!

Sunday was low key, Mini Fox got a bath - yep that's a Fox towel, it even has a little tail :)

Baby Fox and I did some errands and met up with Ampa for lunch (love having him close by, we can just call and say hey meet us for lunch) We went to In and Out, yum!

Sunday night was low key. Mr. went up to get Mini Fox up from a nap, mind you it's now 7pm, and he's taking forever to come back downstairs. When he finally does she's in a different outfit. He said, we'll I had to change her diaper and since she was mostly undressed I decided to play dress up doll. This was her outfit.

We had a great weekend, and I got a "free" car wash because it rained so hard, so the rain can stay as long as it wants, we need it!

Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Heather