Our Fourth of July Weekend

I started the long Holiday weekend, by trying these things out. Have you heard of them? They are actually pretty cool, they are stickers, that you heat with a blow dryer. Pretty simple, after the first one the next 9 nails went pretty fast, and the best part is, you don't have to wait for dry time, so I was done in 20 minutes. Next time it will probably take me less time than that, since I'll know what I'm doing.

The finished product. I like them, but I don't think I would use this as my main source of doing my nails. Yesterday I did a TON of cooking/washing dishes and they stayed on, just the tips were starting to wear down, part of that I think is that I don't think I totally put them on correctly. Next time should be better. I bought some skull ones that I can't wait for Halloween to roll around. I personally would only use these for things like this, not for solid colors. And that's my review.

Friday my aunt and uncle were having a party at their house to kick off the festitivies. My uncle gets VIP passes to the fireworks. Love having family in high up places :)

They hired some taco guys to make the food, yummy!

Mini Fox LOVES the pool..

Ice cream social time...

Baby Fox's favorite cousin...and they happened to match too, totally not planned.

These two...

After swimming and eating we headed to the fireworks show.

He wasn't thrilled that I was taking a picture of him, lol. Yep we were VIP on "The Hill", lol.

Tailgating before the show

Cousin #4 would kill me if she knew I posted this...I really like it mostly cause her daughter (cutie #3) was posing exactly like her mama.

All of the cuties! We were only missing 1 of them.

My dad brought some headphones for Baby Fox, last year I had to cover his ears the whole time, he thought the headphones were so cool.

Firetruck stopped by

 Mr. somehow wrangled Baby Fox into his lap a good 30 minutes before the show started...

Best photo bomb ever :)

And then he somehow ended up with both kids

But eventually I got Mini Fox

She was super tired and spent most of the show like this

The fireworks were pretty awesome.

We spent the night with Cousin #5 and his family. His son wakes up at 6am...let me tell ya, that's early! The boys waited paitently for an appropriate time to go to Mini Fox up. Finally at 8:45 we told them they could go get her...they ran.

Then we had breakfast

And cousin #4 and her family came over

They brought over this race track that you use your iPhone with and it someone stays on the paper...I don't know how it works...but it's pretty cool.

Lunch time!

Cutie #1, Auntie Sarah you take too many pictures, haha

Baby Fox fell asleep almost immediately. He got woken up 2 hours early and went to bed 2 hours late...he was tired!

We went grocery shopping when we got home and had a pretty low key night.

Sunday was spent going to church and cooking a lot.

Baby Fox comes up to Mr. and says Daddy, swaddle me!

After naps, Mini got some water table time, and Baby Fox and Mr. went swimming.

Then I had MNO, or MNI (Mom's night in?) at my house. We had a rep from It Works come out and give us a presentation along with beauty night. Us sharing our favorite tips and tricks. We had so much fun, just hanging out and learning about the product. I hope that it works for everyone! Forgot to take a picture, when i thought of it someone was out of the room and I forgot to take one when they came back, darn.





It was a great weekend, although with MNI last night going late and still having to get ready for today, I'm on tired girl!



Tomorrow I'm going to have the pictures I took of the kids for our monthly photo shoot. Stay tuned!

Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Heather for Mommy Moments

and with Bella & Lisa

Dinosaurs and Monster Truck Party

Not sure if you guys knew, but Baby Fox was born on Christmas

Yep that's a big stocking! And his hat said "Special Delivery"

Instead of throwing him a birthday party in December (cause let's face it, there are only so many shopping days in December and the last thing people want to do is go to a birthday party on a potential shopping day, you're welcome economy), we throw him a half birthday party. This was last years party, Construction Theme (My most repinned thing on Pinterest).

This year's theme was started out with Dinosaurs...and then suddenly after the invitations were sent out, he wanted monster trucks too. If that doesn't say boy, I don't know what does. If he wants monster trucks too, dinosaurs and monster trucks he'll get.

I relied very heavily on my trusty cricut. If you don't have one, you NEED one, yes you need, I feel that strongly about it. Wait for Joann's to put it on sale, or amazon, just get it, you'll thank me later. Okay, back to the party.

I got a bunch of stuff from Oriental Trading Company, like these dinosaur napkins and plates and these monster truck napkins and plates  and these blow up dinosaurs and then made the rest of the decorations.

I found this gem from a FB after party resale group, score! But you can buy it here.

We've had enough parties at the house to know what works for party flow. Having the food here, keeps people moving around the house.

Close up, if you can't tell those are t-rex foot prints

I lined up the dinosaurs and trucks just above the food, and then labeled those. They were super last minute, and I didn't print out a mac and cheese one, although I think people were too busy eating the yummy food to notice. We catered from Lucilles's BBQ, they have excellent food and if you order their mac and cheese for catering, tell them you want it extra creamy. When we got it, we though, oh gosh, we got too much, and then it was the thing people were scraping the bottom to get every little bit out.

I also had dinosaurs around the house, some of the trucks were chasing the dinosaurs, some dinosaurs were chasing the trucks and then Mr. made one of the trucks run over a dinosaur, poor guy he never had a chance.

Drinks, there were about 30 adults and 20 kids and we just bought a 12 can case of Coke Zero, Diet 7-up and Coke, and that was plenty of soda and we had lemonade and of course water. Love those little half bottles from Costco. I rounded out the drinks with some organic juice boxes for the kids.

It was actually a swim party but I didn't get one picture of people swimming. I always tell myself I'll be better at taking pictures, but then when the time comes, the party is always too fast and I miss the opportunity. Darn.

Like I said Monday, I made the most delicious cookies ever, and people couldn't stop eating or raving about them. I might be making them again for 4th of July...I don't expect there to be left overs.

Cake table, a good friend made the cake, isn't it awesome?

Wait let me get a close up for you.

How cool is that volcano? The bottom part is chocolate while the top part is rice krisipies! (TIP: Our friend bought a sheet cake from Costco, and then scraped off all of the frosting and decorated it herself, guess how much frosting was on it? 3.5 pounds, yep you read that correctly 3.5 pounds of frosting, think about that next time you eat a cake from Costco)

See, everyone discovered the cookies and their almost gone...

We did cake about 2 hours after the party started (just before people started to leave for nap time)

Most of the people from the party...some people were being dumb camera shy and didn't want to get in, go figure.

All in all it was a great party with some even better friends. Thank you for sharing in Baby Fox's half birthday. 

Cousin #3

Baby on left is 7 months, Mini Fox (9.5 months) and Baby on the right is 5 months

Next year, note to self, take more pictures! Or designate someone to do it!

Linking up with  Angel and  Nicole

Bright Red Lips

Back for week 3 of  Summer Style Me with Alison,  here's week 1 and week 2. For some reason I had trouble taking pictures on the actual day. I admit, Sunday I did a lot of outfit changes...Mr. was patient with me. Without further adieu here are my outfits this week:

Day 10

So this whole outfit was substituted...well I did have the bright bottoms, it called for shorts, but since I had to go to work, bright jeans it was.

I picked out the button down and then was trying to figure out a necklace, and...well I ran out of time, and just threw on the scarf. I need to figure out a belt, suggestions? Leopard to go with my shoes? Too much? Thoughts?

Pants - Loft (old), Button Down - Target, Scarf - Old Navy (old), Shoes - DSW (old)

Day 11

So this would be one of those outfit that I did on Sunday with Mr. And then when I uploaded them onto my computer and organized it, I didn't put it in the correct day, thinking I didn't have that outfit....

Tee Shirt - Target, Shorts - Loft, Shoes - Target, Watch -Jane.com (old), Earrings - Target

Sort of loving the statement earrings. I don't usually wear earrings, but after this Summer challenge I think I might have to change my mind.

I think put this one on...This is actually what I wore on Friday to do my errands and get ready for Baby Fox's party. Plus I bought the fedora yesterday and wanted to incorporate it in some pictures.
This outfit brought to you by Target...okay not really, but it did all come from there.

Tee Shirt - Target, Shorts - Target, Shoes - Target, Fedora - Target (can't find online)

I sort of love how this picture looks like I have one of those blow machine gently tossing my hair in the wind...in reality, I have no idea how it happened.

See bottom left? Yep that's Baby Fox he jumped into the picture thinking we were doing full length. And by we I mean me and my tripod, Mr. was out golfing.

Day 12

My usual spot was really sunny, so I figured I was in the sun, might as well stand somewhere else. Shadows...boo.

Shirt - Old Navy (on clearance rack), Shorts - Old Navy (Similar), Watch - Jane.com, Earrings - Target (similar)

Yep, I'm wearing red lipstick, fun right?

Day 13

This was Baby Fox's party day, I do have a black and white polka dot bikini on under this...was too self conscious to take a picture of it. But it is there.

Skirt - Target, Shirt - Old Navy (Old), Bathing Suit - Victoria Secret (old), Bracelets - Jane.com (old)

Day 14

I still haven't found a black maxi dress, so this will have to do, and I haven't found a vest either...one day I might find it.

Maxi - Nordstroms (old), Shoes - Nordstroms, Necklace - Jane.com (they always have them, just need to keep checking back)

Day 15

I'm not entirely sure about the mixing patterns. It looked better in person? Hmm...thoughts?

Shorts - Loft,  Striped Tee - Target, Shoes - Nordstroms (no longer in this color), Statment Necklace - Jane.com  

Day 16

I pretty much followed this outfit, but since I was taking make-up outfit posts (green shorts above), and the fedora was already outside, I added it to the outfit. I have to admit the fedora is growing on me. I can see myself wearing this to the park to help shade my face. Functional and pretty, score!

Skirt - Nordstroms, Shirt - Target, Sandals - Target (no longer available), Necklace - Jane.com, Fedora - Target

And that in a nutshell is my week of outfits, well what I mostly wore and didn't take any pictures and then made up for it on Sunday.

What are you loving this week?

I'm loving bright lipstick.

I'm linking up with some of the other challenge ladies, go check them out and give them some love

Shoe to Shiraz | Just Jordan | Blog by a Herzog | RSquared | Mishaps and Mayhem of Solitary Life |

Grumbling Grace | 2 Teens & Their Mama | The Kelly's |

A Little Lovely Wardrobe | Confessions of a Frumpy Mommy | 

Family Love Inspiration Education | A Little Bit of Life, Love & Fashion |

Foxy's Domestic Side | My Running Stitches | Leading a Colourful Life |

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


Here are the outfits from the Spring Style Me,  outfits 1 & 2, 3 thru 9, 10 thru 16 and 17 thru 21.