Weekend Happenings

Hello Monday, my first 5 day work week in three weeks, not sure how I'm going to survive, maybe I'll take Friday off, LOL.

Friday was another off day. Baby Fox got sick on Thursday so he stayed home from school on Friday. Mr. stayed with him while Mini Fox and I went and did some errands. As I was driving I could tell Mini Fox was doing something in her car seat and when I went to get her I see that she's gotten her arm out of her shirt. Houdini I tell ya.

Love that I've trained her to automatically say cheese and smile when she sees a camera or my phone, it's awesome. We were at a used book store and I bought one of the books I thought I was missing from my Harry Potter collection, turns out I was wrong and still have that copy, oops!

Side Note: I've only read the first 4 HP books, eventually I'll read them with Baby Fox...and then Mini Fox.

Friday night Mr. and I had somewhere to be in San Diego but after we were done we decided to go to a nice dinner. We went to West Farm, it's on the same exit as the one for Legoland. It was really good. The chef came out and gave us a taste of a sauce he was working on, delicious! If you're in the area, highly recommend, plus they have their own farm that they get all their veggies from. Yum! I forgot to take a picture of our dinner, we were just hungry.

We had to sit in the bar area as there wasn't any open tables available until 8:30pm, boo. 

I did make Mr. not eat this so I could take a picture of his dessert, Bread Pudding.

Saturday I tried to Vlog, so watch for that on Thursday, not as many pictures. Although we didn't do much. We went on a new hike, it's called Top of the World in Laguna Beach, really awesome hike! It's 6 miles round trip and so much fun. View from about 2 miles in.

See that trail behind us? That's the trail that we used to do!

These pictures are just not doing the view we had any justice at all. I'll have to bring my point and shoot next time, iPhone just isn't cutting it.

You can't tell, but that is all ocean behind us.

After I got back we made breakfast and of course the kids wanted to go to the park...that is 3/4 a mile away from our house...alright then, I guess I'm doing some more walking.

 

We get to the park and there are probably 100 people sword fighting in the park, no joke. You can't really tell from this picture, but wait for the video on Thursday, it's crazy!

Relaxing after the park waiting for lunch to magically show up.

During nap time I got ready to go take pictures of my friends company party. I even did a little video for them. I figure we're on a boat, how many pictures can I take of people talking? So I decided to do a little video. It came out cute, I think. It wasn't windy or anything, LOL.

Sunday was really low key, and I only took two pictures, oops. I took Mini Fox grocery shopping for the week, then when we got back we headed to swim lessons for Baby Fox. We think we might do ISR (infant self rescue) lessons for Mini Fox. Has anyone done them?

That 4th bottom tooth finally decided to polk through, so now she has 4 upper teeth, 4 lower teeth and a set of molars.

The kids wanted Sunflower Seed Butter (like peanut butter, only with sunflower seeds, really yummy, get the Trader Joe's one) and jelly sandwiches. And when did Mini Fox get old enough to sit at the kids table?!

Mini Fox ended up getting what Baby Fox had and what you see on her plate, yea she didn't eat any more than that, she really just smeared it all around, lol.

Sunday night made dinner, worked on the video and editing pictures for my friend so I can get those off to her and watched Game of Thrones. Anyone else watching that? I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't watched it yet, but wow, that last part there was awesome! Can't wait for next week. Confession, Mr. and I have HBO Go, and we binged watched the first 8 episodes this week, so we could watch the last two episodes in real time.  I don't think I could wait every week for a new episode. haha.

How was your weekend? Anything fun and exciting happen?
  
Linking up with Faith, Heather and Daily Momvitity for Mommy Moments,  Erin for Weekend Snapshot4, B Loved Boston and Champagne & Suburbs  for Weekending, and Monday Madness with Ashley at A Cute Angle

Friday Favorites #30

Happy Friday! So happy it's the weekend! Saturday I'm going to take some picture for a friend's company party, it's on a boat going out of Newport, so excited for that. I hope they like the pictures, wish me luck! Here are some fun things happening over here.

First this is happening today! The list was released today and I'm so excited. It's not too late to join, head over to Alison's blog to check it out. As always my Style Blogger friends are linking up this go around too, come link up with us, it will be fun! Also the Style Girls and I are going to host another giveaway, so make sure to come back to check that out in a couple of weeks.

Have you downloaded the app Like Parent? It's super funny, not particularly accurate, but fun to play around with anyway. Pretty self explanatory how it works from the picture below right?

Baby Fox is sick...poor guy, so when he asked to go to Yogurtland before dinner, I couldn't help but say yes. #yesmom

Mini Fox's first time getting her own, she was in heaven.

Evidence

Love the interview I did with Baby Fox this week, in case you missed yesterdays post, here it is again, I can't get enough of this kid. And the fact that he spent most of the interview upside down. Hilarious.

I stayed home on Wednesday and got some good snuggles in with the kids. Yes I'm wearing workout clothes, I figured I'm eventually getting to the gym today, so might as well

I'd also like to mention that it's my brother's birthday today! He lives in Vegas now, but we miss him like crazy!

Any big plans for the weekend? Let me know in the comments below!

Linking up with Erika, Andrea, and Narci for Friday Favorites, September Farm and The Farmer's Wife for Oh Hey, Friday! April and the girls for Five on Friday, Jennie for Friday Favorites, Caitlin and the girls for High Five for Friday

Interview with a 4.5 Year Old

Hi, Hi! Today is my "Friday" Yay! Three days off, I love three day weekends, they are the best. Last week I posted a video so I figured, why not post another one, maybe it will become a thing. Who knows! What do you think? Would you watch them? 

Anyway, I saw this questionnaire going around on FB yesterday and thought, why not film Baby Fox, instead of just asking and writing down the answer. I know I'll look back on this next year and love hearing his cute 4.5 year old voice. If you want to do this with your kid, and you post it on your blog, leave a link in the comments so I can check it out! If you don't have the time just watch a few seconds of it, Baby Fox is literally jumping around on the couch doing somersaults while answering questions, it's hilarious.

Here are his answers if you don't want to watch the interview.
 

1. What is something mom always says to you? Ummm...that's something you love, that you love me, and that you think I'm cute...and you're a good cook
2. What makes mom happy?  When I do nice stuff to you...clean up

3. What makes mom sad? When I don't listen to you

4. How does your mom make you laugh? By telling me jokes
5. What was your mom like as a child? I like little mermaid, tangled and brave
6. How old is your mom? I don't know how old you are? 64
7. How tall is your mom? (oops forgot to ask this question)
8. What is her favorite thing to do? Snuggle me, play with me
9. What does your mom do when you're not around? You watch tv with my sister
10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? You would be famous for my sister
11. What is your mom really good at? Good at cooking
12. What is your mom not very good at? Not very good at turning on the TV
13. What does your mom do for a job? You do nice things to me, you think I like that and I Love you, and I think you're awesome...(break for phone call)...So what do I do when I go to work? You make airplanes.
14.What is your mom's favorite food? TACOS!!!
15.What makes you proud of your mom? Cooking good food
16. If your mom were a character, who would she be? Annie in Einsteins (As in Little Einsteins)
17. What do you and your mom do together? and Bells? We play games, play tag, play hide and seek
18. How are you and your mom the same? We have the same fun
19. How are you and your mom different? You have lighter skin and I have darker skin...actually we have the same dark skin...we play different by ourselves, when we play together we play the same
20. How do you know your mom loves you? You love me to the moon and back...A LOT
21. What does your mom like most about your dad? That Daddy loves you the most
22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go? Super Mex...now can you ask my favorite place?
23. How old was your Mom when you were born? I don't know? 0. (Uhhh...not quite buddy)

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A blank one for you to copy and paste, if you want to do it too.

WITHOUT ANY prompting, ask your child these questions and write down EXACTLY what they say. It is a great way to find out what they really think. When you re-post put your Child's age.

1. What is something mom always says to you?

2. What makes mom happy?

3. What makes mom sad?

4. How does your mom make you laugh?

5. What was your mom like as a child?

6. How old is your mom?

7. How tall is your mom?

8. What is her favorite thing to do?

9. What does your mom do when you're not around?

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for?

11. What is your mom really good at?

12. What is your mom not very good at?

13. What does your mom do for a job?

14.What is your mom's favorite food?

15.What makes you proud of your mom?

16. If your mom were a character, who would she be?

17. What do you and your mom do together?

18. How are you and your mom the same?

19. How are you and your mom different?

20. How do you know your mom loves you?

21. What does your mom like most about your dad?

22. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?

23. How old was your Mom when you were born?

Linking up with Amanda, for Thinking Out Loud and Vanessa and Penny for Thinking out Loud, Nicole at Treat Yo' Self Thursday and Lulia, Stephanie and Sarah for The Ladies Collective and Joey and Kristin for Stuff and Things

 

My Life In Numbers

My style friends Deena, Lana and Carrie have joined together to do a May recap post. I love that Deena has done that the past few months and thought I would join in. It's a good way to keep track of what we've been up to.

So here we go:

Taken on May 23

6 - Times I took an outfit selfie and then never posted about it.

3 day old hair, deserves a bun before going to actually get my hair washed and cut.

1 -  Number of times I was taking a selfie and got laughed at. Yep didn't realize anyone was behind me when I was taking this...plus my purse was on the wrong arm, oops!

2 - The number of times I actually got in the water.

20 - Number of posts written

9.27 - Number of miles I ran

10 - The number of miles I hiked

25 - Number of selfies taken with my family

1800 - Number of miles I drove to and from work

6 - Number of days Mr. was gone on his business trip

3 - Number of Vlogs I made

4- Number of swim lessons Baby Fox had

2 - The number of times we ate Sunday dinner at my parents house.

Also linking up with Because Shanna Said So, Get Your Pretty On, The Pleated Poppy, Tucker Up , Shopping my Closet,  Molly and Carly and  More Pieces of Me and On the Daily Express,

Show and Tell Tuesday: When I Grow Up

It's another Show and Tell Tuesday with Andrea, and today's topic is: When I Grow Up. 

I talked about it a bit here, but for those new here, just keep reading, for those that are regular readers...well maybe you forgot what I said up there in that link and you'll keep reading anyway.

From a very young age I adored animals, I loved all cats, dogs, horses, everything...except reptiles, those I'm not totally keen on.  I was going to turn down reptiles of course, they could go see a reptile specialist or something.

I wanted to be a Veterinarian with every fiber of my being. I was 100% sure that I was going to be a Veterinarian. I was going to help all those cute furry animals get better.

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 When I was about 7 I was in my backyard laying on the pool deck getting warm after swimming when I cute furry neighborhood cat came over the fence. He sat down right next to me and I of course hugged him and nestled my face into his fur. I then got up and walked to the house and by the time I got to the house my face had swollen, my eyes were almost swollen shut and everything itched like crazy. I remember my mom having to put oven mits on my hands so I wouldn't scratch my face off. It lasted most of the evening, I was really allergic to cats, makes for a bad Vet right? Remember my allergy test? Yep cats and dogs was one of the welts on the far upper left. Dream Dead.

After that I remember being in 4th grade and reading one of those stories during English and one of the stories had a little boy wanting to be a ichthyologist, there was a footnote and it said that an ichthyologist was someone who studied fish. For whatever reason that always stuck. Then I saw the movie Jaws and instead of being scared I was fascinated.

I knew then I wanted to be a shark biologist/ichthyologist and study sharks and fish.  I just knew that's what I was going to be. It was still dealing with animals and I was going to save the world. Okay not really, I just knew that I wanted to study sharks, their behavior, everything about them. I wanted to be that for a good 6 years, and then I went kayaking with my uncle in Santa Barbara and realized how deathly afraid of the ocean I was. We were kayaking out past the pier and all of a sudden I was scared, I was so scared and I thought, if I fall out of this kayak I might not be able to get back in I'm so scared. For a while I wanted to to send other people in the cages to get the data, and I would just analyze it...my sister made fun of me to no end because of this. Dream Dead.

Around my junior year of high school I going to work with my dad, as I did during the summers (he was a medical sales man so he drove a lot). I remember we were driving near downtown LA and I was looking at all of the impressive buildings and thought, I think it would be cool to design the wiring and lighting in those buildings. My dad looks at me and said you should look into becoming an Electrical Engineer when you go to college (don't confuse this for an electrician). And that's exactly what I did. I went to school to become an Electrical Engineer because I wanted to work with architects and design buildings.

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And that brings me to where I am today, sort of. But that's a story for a different day. And yes I do know what all of those symbols mean and do use some of them in my everyday work.

Also linking up with Jasmine, Tuesday Talk and Mommy Moments