I just realized that I never showed you guys the family photos we took back in October! I showed you our outfits, but never the pictures, and I showed you the envelope of our Christmas cards, but never the card inside, fail on my part.
I am in love with this card! FYI on Cyber Monday Shutterfly has an awesome sale, it's 50% off, plus another 25% off of that, deal and a half! But they only run the extra 25% off on Cyber Monday, so start planning now! The "Merry Christmas" is actually Foil Pressed, it was so pretty in person.
Warning: This is going to be picture heavy...
My favorite of the kids:
Some Other great family photos
Silly picture. I seriously have never taken a good jumping photo, haha.
Favorite of Mr. with the kids
Nothing gets me more than Father/Daughter kissing photos, so cute!
Blue Steel faces
My Favorite of Me and the Kids
Favorite silly picture..let me preface this by saying it was about 85° that day, we were hot and Baby Fox was sweating, so while walking to the different locations we starting taking off his sweater...Just had to get this shot.
And then of course of me and Mr.
I absolutely LOVE how the pictures turned out, now to try and figure out where we're going to take next years photos...and oh what to wear, what to wear...
If you're new here, welcome! I hope you'll participate in my hair challenge at least one time, if not for a month, see how you like it. Last year I really wanted to concentrate on make-up. I was completely lost when it came to make-up, so I spend some serious time on Youtube and practiced a ton. I now actually enjoy putting make-up on for just a regular day, instead of reserving it for Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas and those very special holidays.
This year I want to focus on my hair, trying to figure out those soft curls people keep talking about, or just doing a messy bun that looks effortless, they keep telling me, "messy bun in 10 seconds" I'm more like, huh? What?! How is that possible?! Try more like 10 minutes...no make that 20 minutes. So this year is all about intentionally doing my hair more and maybe in the process I'll be able to show you how to do a "quick half up do in 5 seconds" haha, j/k, but you get my point.
Once I decided I was going to turn my One Week Hair Challenge into a full year, I was on board and even did my hair for Christmas. Go me!
So I still have to work on how the front of my hair looks. I have such a defined part that it's hard for it to want to stay together on top of my head, if that makes sense.
But at least the back looked pretty darn good.
I'll go ahead and pat myself on the back...hehe.
This is the tutorial that I sort of copied. Her's is fuller, how does she do that? I will figure that out! I'll keep you all posted.
I went back to work on Monday, I actually had to go into the office instead of sitting on my comfy couch, so I decided to try and do my hair. I had about 2 minutes before I had to leave to catch the vanpool and at 4:30am I just don't think you're thinking all that straight. I got to work, thinking my hair looked okay, then around 9am, I decided to get breakfast and take a photo...and boy did I get a surprise, it looked awful!
I immediately took it out, left it down and after breakfast I ran to the bathroom to try something else. This looked much better. Nope I don't wear any make-up to work. Actually I do, I wear concealer, powder and a hint of blush, so I don't look totally dead. Imagine what I would look like without those things, yikes! Maybe one day I'll do my make-up before work, my problem is that I have NO eyelashes, seriously, I put on mascara and you can't even tell I'm wearing it and then by hour 2 it's gone and then I just look like I've either been crying or been out all night, neither option is a good look. I love fake lashes, but don't think I could do those everyday. What do you all do?
For a first go, no brush, or hair products, I think it turned out pretty good. Now to just get thicker hair so those big spaces don't show up....hey it's the first week, hopefully I'll look back at this at the end of the year and just laugh.
Link up what you try and do, even if it's a fail, we'll all learn something in the process right? Like this weeks lesson, don't try and do your hair in 2 minutes at 4:30am. Doesn't have to be fancy...just something out of your usual style. Happy Wednesday!
I'm a day late, but today I'm linking up with Deena for her Month in Numbers. See my other monthly numbers posts are here. I just got a new computer for Christmas and so far I'm loving it! Actually this is my first post that I'm writing from it, Mr. just put my December pictures on it, so I could get started. He's in the process of transferring all of my other photos, it's going to take 6.5 hours to transfer everything, that's a crazy amount of photos.
1051 - The number of Spritz cookies I made over the holidays.
20 - The number of allergy shots I got
No she doesn't give me my allergy shots, but she pretends she does, looks like a pro right? I think she's been to one too many appointments with me
1 - Birthday Tree, Cake and birthday boy
5 - How old Baby Fox just turned, I can't believe he's 5! Where did the time go?
140 - How many Christmas Cards we sent out.
28 - How many selfies I took...okay that's not true.
I didn't add pictures like this
and this
because it was text messages between friends, and embarrassing, although not enough that I didn't tell you about them. I told them that that curling wand made my hair look super funky, you can imagine the conversation we were having. Hilarious.
9 - The number of times I went to Physical Therapy.
5 - The number of days this girl spent sick, poor thing, but happy to report she's finally back to normal.
4 - The number of Carolers that my cousin hired to sing at the cousin party, talk about fancy, and the kids LOVED it!
27 - The number of cousins at the cousin Christmas party. Only 3 were missing, pretty impressive.
19 - Well technically it was 17.5 since Mr. and I were trading off who got to eat with everyone.
500 - Approximately how many gifts the kids got this year, no joke.
Not Measurable - The amount of fun we had these past few weeks. Such a blast and we're ready to welcome 2016!
Hi, Hi! I should have just said I'm taking a break instead of thinking that I was going to blog last week, oops! Sorry about that. We just had the BEST break ever, we are relaxed, slept in till 9am most days and did so many things. In fact I won't even try to show you all of the pictures, but just a few of the highlights. I'm super tired and I'm actually going back into the office starting tomorrow, so hello 4:30am...boo! So this is going to be short and sweet and I'll be back on Tuesday with my December in Numbers with Deena.
We went to LEGOLAND.
Stayed in the hotel (full review coming soon!) and had a blast!
We had a great Christmas morning.
We had to wake her up...she was slow to wake up
Baby Fox got an iPad for his birthday!
We hosted Christmas for 19 people, and Mini Fox got the stomach flu just as people were ringing the doorbell. But that didn't get us down, we still had a great time celebrating with great friends.
and singing Happy 5th Birthday to this guy!
I made that cake for him too, looks normal on the outside.
But a party on the inside! Woo hoo, he loved it! Tutorial coming soon!
This girl spent some time being sick.
But got over it in a few days
We got to see some friends
Went to the park a few times
Rounded off with New Years Eve with our favorite Persian food.
And Mr. made some homemade whipped cream
And then they ate ice cream, whipped cream cookie sandwiches.
Then headed to Knott's Berry Farm with some old friends, so much fun!
These two are only 10 days apart and were so cute together.
So much packed into such a short time but it was so much fun! I'm almost ready to go back to work tomorrow! Yikes, speaking of which, I'm not sure my body is going to know what to do when I have to wake up in 7 hours...I should be sleeping. See you tomorrow! Don't forget to link up with me on Wednesday for my 2016 Hair Challenge!
