Friday Favorites #34

Happy Friday! Guess what? It's Nordstrom's Anniversary Sale for all of us who didn't get access last week. I am writing this on Thursday night and I have my shopping cart ready to go for Midnight tonight! Don't think I"m not staying up. I'm not letting those East coast folks get the stuff before me!

Here are my 5 Favorite things this week.

Look what I finally got up?! Miracle right? Anyway, it's a Mommy/Son date, guess where we went? Watch to find out!

OH and might have done a little extra vlog with Baby Fox, I'm going to try to get that together for next week sometime...stay tuned.

Some of the things I'm getting from the sale. I have all the tabs open and ready to go for midnight, please tell me I'm not the only one.  The sweater: Sheaffer has been talking about the "blardigan" (she coined that term because it's like a blanket and cardigan all wrapped up into one), I am finally just going to do it. For two years now...at least I think it's been that long, I've been hearing about it, I want to see waht all the fuss is about. I'm pretty much expecting to live in it.

Blardigan ($60.92) \ Dress ($24.90) \ High Low Shirt ($12.90) \ Eye Shadow ($15.00) \ Lip Gloss ($25.00) \ Jeans ($59.60)

Sale prices are in the parenthesis

What did you get for the Anniversary sale? Anything I need to know about and have to go get right now?

Playing hide and seek...cutest thing ever! Can you see Baby Fox too?

Family outing to get some dinner, the kids like to ride in style.

This girl has been in triple the amount of time outs as Baby Fox. Boy we're in trouble when she becomes a teenager...seriously. She was in time out this time because she hit Daddy in the face. She never cries, she just stands there with her nose in the corner waiting for us to come get her and give her a hug. Bless her heart she's a sweet but opinionated thing.

Don't forget to enter the giveaway for $500 for an Amazon Giftcard! Good luck!

 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, and Jennie for Friday Favorites

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My Name is Sarah and I Can't Figure Out Youtube

If you're new here, welcome! So glad you stopped by. Find out a little more about me here. Leave a comment so I can get to know you too!

Okay back to the not scheduled post...haha.

I am having some serious Youtube issues this week, but I guess it's a learning process and now I know to NEVER delete anything unless you are positive. Anyway...I had Saturday Vlog all ready to go...but now you'll have to wait till tomorrow. In the meantime....

Come on my hike with me!

It was a gorgeous day out, finally the sun was shining and that June gloom was gone.

If you didn't see it, go check out my giveaway, $500 GC to Amazon, who couldn't use that?

Also linking up with Amanda, for Thinking Out Loud and Vanessa and Penny for Thinking out Loud,Lulia, Stephanie and Sarah for The Ladies Collective, Annie and Natalie for Thoughts for Thursday and Joey and Kristin for Stuff and Things

$500 Amazon Giveaway!

Hello, hello, remember this morning when I said that I had a hiking video all set and ready to go, or so I thought and then it never happened? Well I got it up, so today you're getting two posts!

And Here's that amazing giveaway I was talking about it! Now go meet some new bloggers and enter to win. Easy right?! Good luck!

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Boo!!!

I had an awesome hike video all ready to go and was uploading to youtube then I had to leave for work, so I was just going to put in my post when I got to work, and guess what? It never finished, I guess the computer locked or something happened, because the video never finished uploading...so instead I'm going to give you some random pictures that were taken mid week, and never got put in a post. So here ya go, a nice photo dump for you.

Love sleeping baby pictures

 Running hard!

2 seconds after I took this picture, he stops and starts to pant and says, I just can't go any further.

A girl and her truck and blankie

 

Girl already knows how to walk in wedges...

And is pretty good at it too.

This picture makes me laugh every time... I might have used it for her 2nd birthday invitation :)

She has Mr.'s tongue, in case you were wonder, which you probably weren't and now it's TMI

I see you...

and I have a giveaway starting at tonight! Come back for the chance to win a $500 Amazon Giftcard! Who couldn't use one of those?!

Love and Hate

I love this tag, I loved reading everyone's Love/Hate things, I found that so many times I was saying...YES that's ME! I was tagged by Vanessa and Deena  go check out their Love/Hate posts. Here we go, 10 things I love and hate. Although hate is such a strong word, so I'm just going to go with with things that make me cry, mostly because I found a picture of Mini Fox crying and thought that it fit.

1. These people

2.  My Saturday sunrise hikes

3. The summer and being able to swim after work before dinner. Love when it's lighter later.

4. Perfect days, one that involves my family and being with them every second of the day.

5. That I joined Alison's Challenge over a year ago and I found that clothes makes a huge different in your confidence. I didn't realize it at the time, but she really changed my life.  She made me try things I never thought I would and love

Like a Jean Jacket or Jean Vest

6.  The smell of the pavement after a good rain 

7. The first sleep after you change your sheets

8. Baby snuggles, nothing beats when they lay their little heads done on your shoulder.

9.  Gilmore Girls - that show makes me ridiculously happy, I can watch reruns over and over again. I think it's the fast pace talking? I'm not sure what it is, but I just love that show. Maybe it's that it was something I did with my Mom when I lived at home, every Tuesday night we'd snuggle up on the couch and watch GG.

10. Planning parties, I love throwing people parties and the looks on their face when they see the decorations and all the people that come to help them celebrate. I love creating the party decorations, I think my favorite to date was the backdrop I created for Baby Fox's half birthday this year.

She is crying in this picture because she wanted to suck on the pacifiers that are sitting on her lap and I wouldn't open them. Life is rough.

Like I said, I didn't want to put the word hate on a picture of my daughter, so I did cry instead, these things don't necessarily want to make me cry, but pretty darn close.

1. People who can't drive. I drive over 100 miles a day to and from work, so when it comes to weekend driving, people drive me crazy. They drive super slow in the carpool lane and then you're stuck there, driving behind someone driving super slow when you can clearly see that there is a good mile between them and the next car. 

2. When people at work send me an email and spell my name wrong. Like really? You just entered my email address in your address box, and it clearly says saraH, that's just being lazy.

3. Being hungry, enough said. Speaking of which, I am super hungry right now.

4. The first 26 weeks of pregnancy, morning sickness is no joke.

5.  Feeling left out. Although I try to pretend it doesn't bother me, but deep down I'm dying to know why I wasn't invited, or if they don't like me, I'm super insecure when it comes to feeling left out.

6. When people think they are more important then others. A few examples: That guy who wants to turn right, but is in the left hand turn lane and then holds up everyone else in line wanting to turn left just so he can wait for all the cars to pass so he can turn right? That guy. Or when a lady cuts in line in front of me at the grocery store (when I have two squirmy kids in my Costco cart) and when I say something, she says, she was there first when clearly she was in that other line over there. That lady. Or when people take up two parking spaces, and they know they've done it and don't fix it because their time is more important than anyone elses, just back up and adjust, it takes 2 seconds.That guy.

7. When PMS takes over and I'm crying/mad for no reason and I know it's ridiculous, but I'm crying anyway.

8.  Ants, I hate them in my house, I hate them when I have a picnic and I hate that they make me feel itchy just thinking of them. (as I scratch my head)

9.  Scary Movies. Well that's not true, I do love watching a good scary movie, but the aftermath is not pretty. For months I'll have nightmares, seriously.  We've had to stop watching all scary movies for this reason. We just started watching the Netflix show called Sense8, have you heard of it? It's boarderline too scary for me, and in reality it's not scary at all. But really good, we've only watched 2 episodes, but so far we're hooked.

10.  Not knowing the ending. Of anything really, a book, a movie, sports event, I just want to know how it ends so I'm not sitting there in anticipation. If I just know the ending I don't have to worry about what's going to happen next and can just enjoy whatever I'm watching. I probably should add being out of control. This is definitely a control thing, but that's for a different post ;)

I'm supposed to tag 10 people. 

Shaunacey @ Confessions of a Frumpy Mommy

Alison @ Puppies and Pretties

Leslie @ Once Upon a Time and Happily Ever After

Jillian @ Cornflake Dreams

Crystal @ Hall around Texas

Sarah @ Tucker Up

Amy @  The Farmers Wife

Karli @ September Farm

Beth @ Our Pretty Little Girls

Courtney @ Sweet Turtle Soup

Also linking up with Tuesday Talk  

Mommy/ Son Date

Hello Monday, I seriously need to go to bed earlier, I'm tired today. At least it's my short week, I have Friday off, woo hoo! Something to look forward to. But onto our weekend.

Friday we went to a birthday party for one of Colton's school mates. It was at Scooters Jungle...this place must be all the rage, our second one in a month, watch the vlog here. I actually brought a camera, but it didn't have a battery in it...doh!

She thought this was hilarious, put the hockey puck in the goal, retrieve, repeat.

So cool that the kids are old enough to actually sit still enough to take a picture :) We told Mini Fox, okay go over there and take a picture, Baby Fox sat down and said, Mini Fox sit here, she sat right down and stayed there for a good 4-5 minutes while they wrangled kids.

Then they said to stand in line and wait to wash hands before going into the party room. They are just too cute.

Guess what her favorite part was?

Family picture

I tried to get some Thai food afterward, but when I got it home, it tasted funny, so I called and they said they make a big batch of it in the morning and it was going to come from the same batch. But then she said oh wait, they might have a made a new batch, let me check. She comes back and says she'll make me a new one. I get there, and I said I wanted to try it before I went home...and of course it was the exact same thing. They said it smelled normal, but I think it was different. Now that I think of it, I think they put too much fish sauce in it, and that's what made it funky. I hope this isn't how they make it all the time.

Saturday, I'm back with my hikes! Had to take a couple of weeks off because of Baby Fox's 1/2 birthday party and then the 4th of July. It was also the first time it wasn't foggy! Woo hoo. We could see all the way to Catalina, amazing hike with great people. Perfect way to start the weekend.

I vlogged Saturday, so not as many pictures. But come back Thursday for the Vlog

 The view without all the people.

My dad stopped by when I was making breakfast with this baseball tee, he got it for $5 at a garage sale, score!

Yep still have Baby Fox's backdrop up...don't have the heart to take down all of my hard work

 I took the kids to the grocery store, so Mr. could spray for bugs. Mini Fox thought she wanted to go on my back...she changed her mind 3 minutes later.

I actually took this picture to make sure she was in the Ergo correctly, LOL.

Saturday night I promised Baby Fox to take him to the movies and dinner for a Mommy/Son date. He was in heaven. We saw Inside Out, such a cute movie, I was literally choked up the entire movie until the end and I just couldn't help it. Luckily I had been warned and brought tissues with me.

He picked going to Islands for dinner...we're waiting for our seats and he doesn't want to take a picture. He just wants to eat.

At dinner, Baby Fox's "Mom, another one, REALLY?"

Got him to coooperate some what.

To cap off the evening we went to Yogurtland. The perfect evening with my boy.

Some Sunday morning snuggles

Off to swim lessons and this girl...when did she get to be 5?!

That ponytail kills me.

Baby Fox is doing really well in swim lessons.

The rest of Sunday was laid back, the kids went to the park with Mr. while I made dinner, then they did some swimming, really tire them out before bed. Perfect evening.

What was the best part of your weekend?

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