S'mores without the Camping

Friday night dinner, usual thumb wars happening.

We saw these* at Target online, and had to get them. Of course Mr. and I got a pair for ourselves too. But you'll have to wait for ours, I currently can't get mine over my cast, haha! But if you want them, you have to go now, they are running out fast! The men and toddlers are sold out online. And they are by one get one 50% off...of course I didn't get that deal...darn!

Getting a picture of both of them at the same time, impossible.

Hey at least they are both looking in this one...

After trying to get pictures, we played some hide and seek, we were hiding in Mr.'s office.

and then they attacked him.

After I put the kids to bed I headed out to the movies with my mom and sister. I guess they just recently changed some of the theaters into VIP, so we paid an extra $3 but got reclining chairs...Which worked out for me, since I was a little worried bout not keeping my foot up for 2.5 hours. Sexy cast and boot right? Can you all guess what sweater I am wearing?

In case you didn't get it, here's my outfit I wore on Friday night. And it really is the MOST comfortable sweater* in the world! Yes it's expensive, but if you wait for the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale it's much more "affordable", I say that in quotes because it's still expensive for a sweater. But you'll be wearing it almost every cold day of the year...so cost per wear is definitely low (girl math right there)

Oh and we saw The Intern, so cute and yes I cried, I'm such a baby.

Saturday we decided that Mini Fox was still sick enough that we didn't want her relapse, so we had my parents take her for the day while we went to my cousin's kid's 1st birthday party. We missed Mini Fox, but did not miss the whining we would have gotten had she been there. The party theme was S'mores, so cute, she did a camp theme everywhere.

Trail Mix to make for the road, although my kid made one right when we got there.

Super cute right?

They had a pizza guy making pizza in their driveway, yum! Funny, this guy has been to two other parties we've been to. Random.

She had all of the fixings for S'mores...

Baby Fox thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Birthday boy wasn't so sure about his cake...

OH and we finally got a cousin picture...usually we just take a picture of all of the kids, but this time we took a picture of us! This is only some of them, but it was great to get to see all of them and catch up.

Sunday morning snuggles with this guy, we were watching The Lego Movie.

This girl helped me make pancakes. She's a really good stirrer...she's going to be a great help in the kitchen one day.

 The plan was that Daddy was going to take Mini Fox to the store with him, but that didn't really work out, so we played outside instead and I worked on a craft that I have been meaning to do for a year, no joke I bought all the materials last year. (The laptop was to try and find a tutorial, which I didn't really find a great one, so I made it up as I went.)

 

The kids seemed to be doing good, so Daddy snuck off to the grocery store.

This kid is going to give me a heart attack.

 

Oh and guess who didn't have enough stuff to finish her project...boo! But the part I did finish I really liked.

 Look at this ginormous rose that is growing on our side yard? So pretty. Reaching for the Heavens.

 And that was the last picture I took on Sunday. The rest of the day was lunch, naps, dinner, baths, more play time.

How was your weekend?

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Friday Favorites #51

 Hands down my favorite picture this week:

Old Navy was having some killer deals yesterday and I snagged this vest*. I might have also bought it in burgundy and olive only because I wasn't sure which color I wanted. I'm fairly certain the white, and then maybe one of the colored ones...and then I thought, hey why not add a couple in for my mom too...shhhh, don't tell her. So cute right? And apparently it's fleece lined.

She told me this snake was her Elsa hair...adorable.

With the kids being sick naps have taken a back seat to sniffles and runny noses and coughs...today they both napped, score! Mr. says that we should get rid of the video monitors, I say NEVER! Okay not never, but do I have to? What are your thoughts? Really I only use it for bedtime, so when I go to bed instead of walking into their room I check the monitor.

 

 

I decided I'm going to make this cake for Baby Fox for his birthday. I'm so excited to make it...I want to do a test run, but then I don't want Baby Fox to see it either...decisions, decisions...I just bought all of the supplies last night, yay!

 

What was the best part of your day? Hope you have a good weekend. We're headed to a birthday party for my cousin's kid and hanging around the house, hoping Mini Fox gets better.

P.S. Mini Fox is staying behind for the party so she can rest and get better with my parents.

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The Last

I was going through old posts...trying to find something and I came across this post and thought I would do it again, because it's fun.

The Last -

Person I texted: My sister, she texted me to tell me that a friend of ours kid wrote down that Baby Fox was his cousin. Which isn't too far off since we do spend Christmas with them every year. I think if you spend Christmas together you're family.

Movie I Watched:  The November Man. Have you seen it? It's on Netflix and it's sort of James Bondish which is funny since it stars Pierce Brosnan. It's a little complicated plot, but Mr. and I both enjoyed it. And it's on Netflix so no renting anything involved.

Person I Talked To On The Phone: Mini Fox's doctor. I called to see if we should bring her in. They said only if I wanted, but they really thought it was a virus...poor thing, her voice is all scratchy and is hacking up a storm and can't breathe...makes for problems in her pacifier world.

The Last Package To Arrive: I'm really embarrassed to say this, but this is what my front door looks like. I haven't had time to open them. Some of them are Christmas gifts for the kids so I can't open them in front of them, and then I forget to open them when they are in bed.

Outfit I wore:

Weeeelllll, I've been living in shorts and t-shirts. Shorts because I can't get pants over my cast, and t-shirts because I need access to my upper arms for my allergy shots, fun times. I just took a picture right now what I'm wearing. I washed my hair today, you're welcome :) And I haven't worn make-up since before the surgery and I'm not hating it :) Excuse the mess in the background, I was blogging on my kitchen counter.

Thing I cooked:

I cooked a tri-tip on the grill in the dark last night. I should have taken a picture, bad blogger.  I also made a baked potato and rubbed some oil, and garlic salt on it, threw it in the oven, crispy on the outside yummy on the inside. My favorite way to eat a baked potato. (If you want to do it too, make sure you microwave and cook the potato fully before putting the oil and garlic salt on it.)

Thing I ate:

Said tri-tip and bake potato...oh and peas. It was yummy.

Picture I took on My iPhone:

Sadly it was of Mini Fox being all sick yesterday. She was just feeling miserable and so I took a picture of her to send to Daddy. He brought home ice cream.

Show I watched:

Grey's Anatomy, I seriously love that show! Although this season isn't as good as last season...hoping it picks up. All you Grey's fans out there, what are your thoughts on this season?

Game I Played On My iPhone:

Umm...I don't have any games on my iPhone, but I did play what was the numbers games that everyone was obsessed with a while back? Oh...2042, or something like that. After I beat that I stopped playing, then I got a new phone and it went away, and I haven't loaded any games since. Any games you guys recommend? The last board game was Hungry, Hungry, Hippo, where my kids wiped the floor with me. Mini Fox was probably the best player...a 2 year old...

That's all for today. I think I'll do these once a quarter or something, it's fun to go back and read what I wrote the last time :)

What was the last thing you ordered online? Anything I should know about?

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Mommy/Son Disneyland Date

I forgot to recap Disneyland with Baby Fox a few Fridays ago, so here it is.

My parents had Mini Fox for the day, so I picked up Baby Fox from school and off we went to Disneyland. He was so excited. We hadn't gone just me and him before, and if you can do it with just one of your kids, it's so special and they love every moment with you! We got there a little later than I wanted, but hey what can you do. I really wanted to see the electrical parade, so I packed us a dinner and told him we were going to have to camp out to get good seats and eat dinner while we did. Good plan right? I even brought juice boxes to occupy him.

Here's us getting there and on the tram.

We walk past the security people and guess what? They're closing Disneyland early for some Halloween event at 7pm, say what?! Talk about disappointing...but at least California Adventure would still be open, and we had about 4 hours before they were going to kick us out. Gotta take the iconic picture in front of the 60th anniversary sign, even though you can't see it, it's there.

As we walk under the tunnel, we see that they've closed off the pathway for a parade, and we were in luck there wasn't anyone where we happen to walk in at, it was the beginning of the parade and we got front row seats, score!

It's Mickey starting off the parade right!

I just love Mary Poppins, I'm wondering when the kids will be interested enough to watch it...maybe/hopefully next year!

The Chimney sweeps were pretty cool too. They were the last boat, so we followed them down Main Street.

It was almost as if we were in the parade!

Second ride up was the Buzz Lightyear, one of Baby Fox's favorite. If you want to know who won, gotta watch the video (see what I did there?)

At some point we went on a Casey Juniors Circus Train, and we were caged in, oh no!

Yes we were caged in, but he chose that car...like really they locked us in and everything. I was thinking, if there was an emergency how are we going to release the little pin he put in the door?

Last ride we did at Disneyland was a racing ride. It said that he couldn't drive because he wasn't tall enough, but I saw plenty of kids shorter than Baby Fox driving, so I probably could have let him drive...although do I really want my 4 year old driving...mostly we'd probably be a ping pong ball on the track.

As we were walking out they had all of the Halloween decorations up and lite, couldn't help but take a picture of this cute Mickey Ghost.

We walked over to California Adventure, as did the 100's of other people, luckily the line went fast, and went into Radiator Springs to Flows Café to eat our dinner I brought. For some reason he really liked that we were sitting next to these oil cans.

He said he wanted to make a potato chip and apple sandwich. Yep there is chip, apple, chip.

He said it wasn't so good...haha.

After dinner we say Lightening McQueen right across the way, so we snapped a picture with him.

The last ride of the evening was his second favorite ride, the Toy Story Ride, another shooting game, and actually this one is really fun too, one of my favorites. It's a semi long ride where you shoot "balls" from your "gun" and you have to pull a string to release them..I did a very poor job at explaining that, it's all digital. While we waited in line, he ate a Mickey Mouse Ice Cream Sandwich, which was super  rock hard frozen, so it took a while for him to eat it.

It's about 10 at this point and he's out. Good day out with Baby Fox.

 

I don't have many pictures, because every time Courtney goes to Disney World she vlogs it, so I copied her. Note to self: next time I will charge the battery the night before, oops! Hope you enjoy!

 

P.S. If you wanted to know, and didn't want to watch the video, I won at both shooting games...going to savor this while it last because one day he's going to be wiping the floor with me.