Monday, January 11, 2016

Weekend Recap and How We Store Our Christmas Decorations

Mr. got his Christmas gift in the mail and had to put it together right away. He's so excited to get a little cardio in the morning before he leaves for work.


Saturday was a stay at home type of day. My dad dropped of some donuts for the kids.



I wanted to get the Christmas decorations down. So while they ate breakfast/donuts and watched Star Wars, I started taking stuff down.


I thought I'm always curious about how people store things, so this is how we store our stuff, in bins, and lots of them.


A side view to get the depth of the bins. I have to admit that there is one more large bin that was in the garage that houses one of our Christmas trees and a few odds and ends.


In our garage we have lots of cabinets, on this top shelf we store all of the decorations for the Red/Black/White Christmas Tree.


A little closer up, the thing on the middles shelf on the right is a scarecrow that I forgot I had for Thanksgiving.


To the right of the cabinet we keep some of our Halloween/Thanksgiving and Christmas decorations. Plus some camping stuff and that big box on the far right is left over carpet from our carpet installation...6 years ago.


In our third car garage we have these bins. One of them is old clothes and things from my childhood, two of them are extra toys that we rotate and the other four are for Christmas decorations.


Oh and one last spot, Remember how the one of the large bins hold a Christmas tree? Well the very bottom of the tree doesn't fit in the bin, so it goes there on the top left shelf. There's also some climbing gear (that jug in the middle of the two bins is climbing chalk.)


After we got most of the Christmas stuff put away we took the kids over to the park, the kids like taking this "secret" passage to the park, yes she's wearing her Pj's, we couldn't get her out of them, and why fight it? It's a lazy Saturday.


She was so excited to ride on her scooter. She was running to me to retrieve her scooter.


She is still trying to get used to the scooter, so her brother was helping out, my heart was bursting with pride and love.




and this is the reason it's best if Daddy takes the kids to the park by himself...I had quite a few heart attacks! Yes he seemed as high as this picture...I was sure he was going to go flying off.


Speaking of flying, he does like to jump off the swing, at least he has enough reason to jump off when he's a little lower.


Sunday Mr. took Baby Fox to the movies to see Star Wars.


Mini Fox and I went to my favorite store...we sent this back as a reply.

She's saying, "[I'm In a] Basket Full of Stuff"



We were at Target, then went grocery shopping and came back ate lunch and she took a nap while I did some blog stuff. Pretty low key weekend if you ask me. Just what we all needed actually.

How was all of your weekend? 

Linking up with  Erin for Weekend Snapshot4B Loved Boston and Champagne & Suburbs  for Weekending


Friday, January 8, 2016

Friday Favorites #52

First Friday Favorites of the year. This year



This week on the blog I wrote quickly recapped the best Christmas break


Recapped my December in Numbers


Shared my first week of hair styles from my Hair Challenge.



and last but not least finally shared our family photos we took last year, and our Christmas card!



Remember my hair post from Wednesday? When I got home, Mini Fox saw me and immediately wanted hair like me...I tried to get a picture, but she wasn't in a picture mood. But I did it the same exact way and she was so excited. I can't wait for her hair to get a bit longer so I can do it everyday.





Oh my gosh...this lady, crazy town.





This video, hilarious...totally the opposite of the video above. 


New Year's Resolutions
Realistic as hell
Posted by Funniest Videos Online on Friday, January 1, 2016




Caught these two snuggling and playing the iPad, which when we asked Baby Fox what he wanted to name his iPad he said "Smarty Pants", he's so funny. The first couple of times he asked for Smarty Pants I stared at him blankly, until he told me with a huge disapproving sigh, like Mom how could you forget.




I love this family of mine. I just wish the shadow from my arm wasn't across Baby Fox's face, but I'll take it :) You can't see this, but both kids decided to wear their Batman Jams.


Linking up with ErikaAndrea, 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

Thursday, January 7, 2016

Family Photos

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...

See last years photos here.

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