The World Through Baby Fox's Lens - People

Yet another installment of

My Sister

Not sure who's birthday it was...hmm...

My "Mom Uniform" lately, as much as I hate to admit it, as soon as I get home I change into my "uniform" Nursing tank top and shorts or pants depending on the weather.

This is the son of one of the first ladies I met when I moved out here.

Our Nanny

Baby Sister

Linking up with Nicole

My New Go To Outfit

I've jumped on the jean jacket trend. I've fully embraced it and I'm going with it. It's my new go to, finish an outfit by adding a jean jacket. This dress would be so plain without the jean jacket. I do think that I want to get a cropped jean jacket though, that would probably have looked a little better with this outfit.

Yesterday was super hot, 94°, I wore it to work, but once I got home I immediately changed into shorts and a tank top (my not at work, I'm finally home outfit).

Some Random Stuff:

• I hate when I'm an emotional wreck, like you know your being totally unreasonable but you're crying anyway, sometimes you just gotta go with the flow, and hope that everyone in your path understands and still loves you. Luckily Mr. knew and just stayed out of my way till he left for choir practice. When he got home I was back to my normal happy self.

• We introduced Mini Fox to some food last week, specifically oatmeal. She likes chewing on the spoon, but each night she gets a little better and eats a few more spoonfuls. Hey we'll take it, the last two nights she's slept for 8 hours, when I woke her up to feed her when I left for work. yay!

 

•  Last night Baby Fox wanted to hold Mini Fox, Mr. tells me that Baby Fox put Mini Fox on his chest just like this so she could watch tv with him. Love that they love each other and just want to be near each other all the time.

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

My First Fix - Stitch Fix That Is

I was so excited about my first Stitch Fix*, a service that you pay a $20 styling fee, fill out a questionnaire and then they send you 5 pieces of clothing/accessories for you to try.  I've had several friends order from them and love everything they got, so I decided to go for it.  I ordered it last month and then had to wait 4 weeks before I was going to get my fix...insert twiddling thumbs and bouncing up and down with excitement.

I told them I wanted it to show up on Monday April 7th, knowing that I was going to be out of town the weekend prior and wouldn't really have time to go through the box and get it back to them in three days. So, we're just about to leave, I'm getting together last minute things for our trip, and in walks Baby Fox with a delivery for me! What?! I thought I said Monday, it's Friday and I don't have time to go through the box right now, we were literally minutes from walking out the door. So that excitement that I felt, had to be rushed and then put on hold because I wasn't going to be able to open it till at least Sunday!

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Of course I panicked because I wasn't sure with it being Friday what day I needed to get the stuff back in the mail, so I quickly emailed them and said, hey I wanted this on Monday and you sent it 3 days early, I'm not sure when I'm suppose to return it. They sent a response back saying that I should have thought about when I really wanted my box and that I should really only take three days to return my stuff, never mentioning my original question of when I need to return it. They did say that they would put something in my account saying that I might be a little late to return my package. First I didn't appreciate that fact that they said it was my fault, and then they didn't answer my question. They did however respond pretty quickly.

We get home Sunday, put the kids down for their naps and then I anxiously open my box!

Oh so pretty, so exciting.

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The pieces were definitely interesting, but I wasn't totally sure about them. With my 5 pieces of clothing/accessories came a style card, which was great to help me figure out what would look good with what they sent to me.

My first response, I don't think I like any of it, I showed Mr. each piece and his first reaction was the same. Uh oh..

The first piece was this top. Here is what the style card showed:

I thought it was just too boxy, and a didn't really do anything for my figure, but I wasn't totally hating it, but Mr. didn't like it at all and at $58 I didn't think it was worth it. I think if it fit a little better, I would have kept it.

Next up was the this top:

I paired it with this skirt and my Jessica Simpson polka dot shoes. Hey not too bad, Mr. said he even thought it as okay, and didn't totally hate it as much as he did when it was untucked. The problem with this shirt, is that I tried it with jeans tucked and untucked and neither one looked very good on me. I think the sleeves or lack there-of looks a bit too big. Again not $58 worth for me to keep it. I think if the sleeves were a bit shorter and fit my shoulders better, I would have kept it.

My accessory that they sent to me were some earrings. Not my style, but they were fun but not for me or $38. I don't wear earrings much, at work I wear headphones most of the day to block out office noise, and any earrings hurt my ears with the headphones.

They sent me another skirt, this one, I just didn't like AT ALL, but I tried it on, and tried to style it. Here's the style card:

I thought what they picked to go with it looked great, I had neither one of those pieces or those colors. The best I could do was this orangey top. The skirt had an elastic waist and didn't really have any form to it. It hung to me in all the wrong places and just made me look chubby, IMO, it was $58, this one was a hell no! I hated everything about it.

  

So far I'm striking out, insert super sad face

 

I still had one more skirt to go, and it was cute. Here's the style card:

I couldn't even take a picture of this because 1) I really had NOTHING that would go with it and 2) it didn't really fit, was too tight and looked like it was plastered onto my body. It said it was A-line, but it was more of a pencil skirt, IMO. This piece was also $58.

My final thoughts

The Good:

• I think that the principle of Stitch Fix is really good, you get something in the mail, you get to try things on that you might necessarily try on yourself and there is a prepaid envelope to send everything back in. Super easy for the on the go lady.
• The stylist tried to get my out of my comfort box, but just didn't pick pieces that will look good on me. 
• They asked for your height, which I thought would work to my benefit, but turns out they don't seem to use that information at all.

The Not So Good:

• I said in my styling profile that I liked tops to be fitted, and neither top that they sent me was fitted.
• I lost $20 styling fee, I wanted to like just one thing to keep something, but I just didn't want to force it.
• I don't think I like elastic waist skirts, both of these skirts were elastic waisted.

What they Can Improve:

• I wish that they had petite sizing, I think if I had that, things, especially the tops would have fit way better and I probably would have kept them.
• On the questionnaire, they ask how you like the bottom half of your body to be fitted, well in pants I like fitted, skirts I like to be loose or A-line, which wasn't an option.
• It would be nice if they had a choice for you to pick like you want them to put a whole outfit together for you, like one skirt/pants and 2-3 different tops and an accessory, or 2 bottoms, 2 tops and an accessory that all can coordinate together.

Bottom Line: 

With all that said would I try it again? Probably not, I don't want to take the risk of losing another $20. I would rather go shopping myself and spend $20 on something I know I'm going to like. If I get one of the sales people to help me, then I have my stylist right there, no need to pay $20 for something I'm not going to like/keep.

But never say never, so we'll see, but for now I'm probably not going to sign up for another fix for a while. Maybe if I have a special cocktail occasion to go to, I will, but not for work/casual clothes.

*Stitch Fix has no idea who I am and did not ask my nor pay me to write this review, although if they'd like to give me a free try, I'd be more then willing to try again :)

Big Bear

This past weekend we went up to Big Bear with some friends. They said that they would watch Baby and Mini Fox so we could go to a surprise party for my besties 40th birthday surprise party. He said he had no clue until he drove up and saw all the cars, oops.

This is her and her little, we haven't seen them in  more then 8 months! Way too long in my opinion, but life always seems to get in the way.

Her oldest has a knack for getting the youngest to sleep, how adorable is that?

I totally spaced and never took any pictures of the cabin we stayed at, let me just tell you it was AMAZING! It was 4 bedrooms, with a loft up stairs.

Baby Fox got his own room, when I went to check in on him he just looked too cute not to snap a picture.

Baby Fox was trying to understand how to play foosball.

Saturday morning we woke up to some awesome guitar playing, Mr. and Mini Fox enjoyed the show.

The whole reason we went up there was to show Baby Fox snow, while there wasn't a lot of snow up there, there was a tubing place open for us to play in.

Checking it all out while we were waiting for Daddy to get us tickets to get in.

Mini Fox just hung out in the stroller and chewed on this for a while

There they go, onto the magic carpet, he loved this part.

Riding down with Daddy, he absolutely loved it. Mr. and I switched off who went up with Baby Fox, obviously because someone had to stay with this cutie

It got super windy and cold, I gave her my hat. She pretty much just laid in the stroller just like this the whole time we were there

Down they go!

Then it was Mommy's turn to go down, I was really nervous and scared, but was happy I did it. We had a great time and it really wore out Baby Fox, he took a great nap when we got home.

And then just like that he was done and wanted to take everything off, and go home. Crazy kid insisted on taking his jacket and snow pants off.

Speaking of being tired, see who else was sharing a room with Baby Fox? In real life that bear didn't look scary, but on the monitor, it looked like it wanted to eat Baby Fox.

When we got home our friends son and his family were there picking up their boat, Mini Fox's first play date. The other little girl got upset when Mini Fox had to take her nap, but was so happy and all smiles when Mini Fox woke up from her nap.

See how she's missing a sock? Yea Mini Fox took it right off her foot

We then headed over to birthday boys house for dinner. We bought Baby Fox Frozen, and had an impromptu movie night. I think Baby Fox had a little crush, he had the time of his life and wanted to stay there all night.

They wanted to keep Mini Fox.

When we got home Baby Fox got a few cuddles in before heading to bed.

Just cause she's so cute, ready to leave.

We had the best time up there, and are so thankful that we have friends who invite us to go to their cabin with them! We hope we can do it again! Now back to work, at least it's a 4 day work week for me...yay!

Come back tomorrow for what I thought about my Stitch Fix.


Linking up with Carly and Molly

No Doubt She's Mine

My mom brought over some pictures of me

 Even our parts are the same, woah

That's my Godfather in both pictures, 34 years later...

I showed the first picture to Baby Fox and he said "Mini Fox!"

Style Me Please!

This was taken in Chicago, I was 22 weeks pregnant

 Want to know what Mr. got me for our anniversary?

Let me rewind, firstly I'm doing this. It's a Style Me Spring Challenge by Alison from Get Your Pretty On. She's giving us a list of 18 things to create 21 different outfits.

When she announced it I thought, this could be really interesting. I went home that night and was talking to Mr. about it and thinking I wanted to try it out. Mr. turns to me and says, you know you should do it, it's only $10 and if it doesn't work out it's only $10. I said, yea I guess I will do it. Then he says, so how about I take you on an all day shopping spree and we buy all the things that you need for the challenge together, that can be our anniversary gift. Say what?!A man who's max amount of stores he can go into is 2, just offered me a shopping spree? A date of shopping, no kids all day. I'm in! So that's what Mr. got me for our anniversary, a shopping spree. I think he must love me!

In other fashion news, I decided to get a fix, a Stitch Fix that is. It comes on Monday and I can't wait. I'll show you pictures of everything I got next week. I can't wait.

Summary: Friday I get the Style Me Spring Challenge list, and Monday I get my Fix. Next week is going to be awesome!

If you want to do it too, you have until 11:59 Central Time to get on the LIST, it's $10 what do you have to lose? Alison said that if you're not completely satisfied with the list then she'll give you your money back. So you have no excuses go do it! Then we can swap style pictures.

Linking up with Nicole