Full Weekend

Three day weekend here! Woo hoo, nope I don't get today off, my work is stingy like that. Friday was one of my off Fridays. Yay, I'm so thankful for every other Friday off.

Friday morning I cut up some pineapple, after I was done Baby Fox said, Mommy take a picture of me with the pineapple. I was getting ready to take it he says, wait, Blankie wants to be in it too. I asked him who he wanted to send it to, he said his friend M.

I finished that whole thing over the weekend, no one had any of it except me...at least it was healthy?

After I dropped off Baby Fox at school we headed over to M's house to help his mommy prep some of his birthday party stuff.

Mini Fox wanted to join in on the fun of making the gift bags, actually I should say gift solo cups.

Aren't these the cutest? They are mini solo cups...actually if you want to get technical, they are disposable solo cups. Perfect for Mini Fox. Cheers!

A little Frozen for the kids. Love this picture!

We picked up Baby Fox from school and headed out for a few errands. I bought him some nunchucks at Daiso (have you been to one? It's a Japanese store and everything in the store is $1.50, they have the BEST stuff in there!)

Baby Fox told me this is how you store nunchucks when you are walking

Easy access for taking the bad guys down.

After nap time I took Mini Fox to pick up a bike helmet from a friend (forgot to take a picture, but she loved it, she wanted to take it everywhere we went this weekend). On our way home we stopped at Costco for some gas. I couldn't believe the price...awesome!

Then to make our Costco trip even more awesome, I decided if I got down this isle and get a spot then we'll go in, if not we'll just keep driving and go home (I was on the fence about going in, as you can tell). But then we got the very first spot, that's NEVER happened. I bought a lot of meat and a lot of berries...when I got home Mr. said, I didn't realize we needed so much meat, lol. Oops.

My big girl in the cart, she didn't even notice I was on the other side of the conveyor belt. 

Saturday I took Baby Fox to get his hair cut. He played video games for the first time, he was in hog heaven.

After we got back we headed to M's birthday party and Chuck E Cheese's. 

This is what I helped make on Friday.

Mini Fox took down a slice of pizza...with 4 teeth. Okay not really, I tore pieces off for her, but she thought she could eat it like this.

Mr and I had a basketball showdown...I got schooled.

Baby and Mini Fox played some games.

She was obsessed with all the games that you could drive, this green game didn't even work, she just liked sitting there.

This one made a honking noise when you pushed the button, she loved that.

The birthday boy got to go in this ticket blower and get all the tickets he could, although he was feeling shy so Daddy helped him out.

Mini Fox pretty much loved Chuck E Cheese...I find him creepy, but hey I'm not 1.

Baby Fox ate just the fondant icing...gross right? He loved it.

M and Baby Fox are just a month apart.

Do you see Baby Fox's outfit, guess who dressed him? We tried to talk him out of it, saying, are you sure you like that together, go look in the mirror, he insisted that he went together, well alright then, who am I to argue?

Of course it wouldn't be a Fox weekend without more going on in the same day. We had some friends come over for some dinner. Same friends as the other weekend, same food, different house :)

The leader of the band, taking after her Mama.

Sunday was swim lessons, the first time since July? It's been a while, but we figure we want to start now before everyone wants lessons and it's hard to get the time we want.

Baby Fox did AMAZING, before he would cry at the start of EVERY lesson, this time, he was a champ, listened to the teacher and did great. The other student was a friend of ours, so at least they knew each other. That probably helped.

Back floats

Baby Fox holds on to the teacher while the other student gets some instruction

More back floating

Some unders

Meanwhile, Mr. and Mini Fox were in another pool getting some Parent and Me lesssons. She did great too!

After swim lessons we headed to Starbucks becasue we're big suckers and Baby Fox wanted a cake pop. We ran into a friend we met at O's birthday party. He invited us to go to the Great Park and do a kids gardening thing. We weren't doing anything, so why not?

He planted a flower bulb.

Dug up some worms

You know nothing says farmer like a Starbucks in one hand and a worm in the other (farmers everywhere are cringing as we speak)

We fed the chickens so at least they got some food.

Then we headed over to the hot air balloon. Wow it was amazing!

This is the balloon coming down from the ride before us

 Waiting for our turn. Baby Fox is holding up his ticket.

What else do kids to then climb on a fence?

Finally made it, waiting to go up!

She thought she would be a better "pilot" I think differently.

400ft up

Such a random trip, but so much fun! Great way to end the weekend.

Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Heather for Mommy Moments, Bella & Lisa for Weekend Link-up,  Meg for Mingle Monday and Erin for Weekend Snapshot

My Favorite Vacations

Since people are probably in the midst of planning weddings for the summer, I thought I would share 5 of my favorite vacations we've taken. Granted all of our vacations are my favorite but these my favorite right now.

Our honeymoon. The whole thing was amazing, it was 2.5 weeks of island hoping, 8 hotel rooms in 20 days, but Bora Bora was my absolute favorite place we stayed. The view from our over the water hut. One day I'll recap this for you and give you tips to traveling to French Polynesia

We spent a lot of time at the pool

Horse back riding, you know the usual.

For our first anniversary we went to Barbados, so much fun!

Submarine tour

Our East Coat Road Trip we went from Washington DC to Vermont and back in 2 weeks. With a few stops along the way.

Our best friend through the whole trip

We were actually going to see my cousin graduated from Dartmouth and decided to visit some friends in DC as well and might as well go to New York cause it's on the way right?

Beauty and the Beast on Broadway, awesome show!

Our trip to Europe. We went to Rome, Florence, Cinque Terra, and Switzerland. It was such an awesome trip with some amazing friends (those same friends who live in DC)!

If you look closely you can see all of our coins mid air (although Mr.'s is barely leaving his hand)

Spanish Steps

A trip to Rome wouldn't be complete without seeing the Pope, so cool how close we were to him. It was pouring rain, so instead of having it outside they did it in St. Peter's. Loved it.

Onto Florence

Of the 2000 pictures that we took of this trip, this is one of the ONLY ones that Mr. is smiling and not closing his eyes, seriously. And it's because we found this market with the best cappuccino ever.

Bike Riding through Tuscany, amazing.

Next up Cinque Terra...by far our favorite part. We stayed in the "fourth" town, I wish we had just one more day here, but we only gave ourselves one day to explore.

Onto Switzerland

Cause everyone who goes to Switzerland goes to an Alanis Morrisette concert right? They had this outdoor festival and she was the headliner...crazy right. No one speaks a lick of English but they all knew every word to her songs.

The view from our hotel room...yep every town there has their own castle. Cool right?

 It was supposed to be a big group of people who went up to Yosemite, but in the end it was just me and Mr. it was great spending time together and hiking lots.

The time that Curtis and I hiked this guy, also known as Half Dome:

We took this picture the day before when we went for a drive, we couldn't believe we were going to hike that!

Yep it was raining when we started on our journey

At Nevada falls, most people turn around cause the hard part is after this, but we felt great and wanted to keep going.

We kept seeing these signs. We'd run into some rangers and they would tell us that we should turn around that the Half Dome is probably wet and it's super dangerous to climb up when it's wet. But we kept on going. Figuring lets at least get to where we really can't go any further.

We're getting closer!

We finally make it and have to take the cables...I don't know if I can do this!

Yep we climbed up that!

We made it! Remember that little point jetting out in the first picture? Yep that's where we are standing!

What made this trip so amazing was that usually there are hundreds of people hiking this and you can sometimes wait hours to get up the cables...but us, there were about 10 people there because most people did even start the hike because of the rain. We took the longer less steep way back to camp...

We made it! Still smiling and ready for some dinner!

There you have it, 5 of my favorite vacations.

What are your favorite vacations?

 Linking up with: Erika, Andrea, and Narci for Friday Favorites,  September Farm and The Farmer's Wife for Oh Hey, Friday, 
April, Darci, Natasha and Christina for Five on Friday  

Outfit Perfection + Some Randoms

Mr is not so good at taking my picture inside...we're going to have to work on that. Somehow he made my head look huge...although I'm sort of wondering if my head really is that big...hmmm?? Anyway, this is my favorite combo, leggings, tunic, tall boots. Perfection in my book.

Big head...I think he was just standing too close, next time I'll have him stand farther away...so happy that it is staying lighter a little later.

Random Stuff:

 Yesterday Baby Fox had to go to the doctors for a routine check up. 

In case you wanted to know, he's 34 pounds and 39.8 inches

They told me that he would have no shots so that's what I told him and then when they got there, he had to get two shots...

Don't worry he got the special treatment last night, ice cream before dinner.

Last night Baby Fox was doing his usual bedtime delay tactics, so I thought I would take a bedtime picture, might as well fuel the fire a bit.

I might have been tickling him at the time to get that smile

Hope you're having a great Wednesday. Work is crazy, so I appologize for not being able to visit all of your blogs. I miss being able to read them all, everyday. Silly work getting in the way.

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