Weekend Recap

It seems that I haven't done one of these in a couple of weeks. I had a three day weekend, it was glorious, but that means that next week I have to work 5 days, boo! But it was a super relaxing weekend, which is how I like it.

Friday I dropped Baby Fox off at Preschool then Mini Fox wanted to see Mr. Ed our pool guy. She loves hanging out with him. She wanted to show him her new bubble gun. It made her ridiculously happy, and the bubbles ran out in 2.5 seconds. Worth it, need to go find some more bubbles.

 

After that me and Mini Fox did a few errands, went and dropped off some cookies to a friend (forgot to take pictures), went to the bank and then went to Costco. We went into the cold room at Costco and this is how she prepared herself...DRAMA QUEEN. Oh and to be that flexible again...

After I picked Baby Fox up from school I took the kids over to my parents for naptime so I could head out to the doctors. On my way back, I might have taken a detour to the mall to pick up some Easter stuff for the kids and some bike shorts for Mini Fox. Now that she's potty trained, bloomers aren't going to cut it anymore under her dresses. I picked up Mr. to go with me to pick up the kids, they love riding in the cart to the car.

My mom came over for dinner, and since she didn't have a car, my dad picked her up on the way home from and watched the end of Inside Out.

Saturday was pretty low key, this girl helped making breakfast.

Then we took the kids to the park before I had to head out to look at a venue for the Gala I'm helping organize.

 

And just this weekend this guy got brave and jumped from the highest he's ever jumped from. Yes it looked this high in person.

Saturday night I did a lot of cooking. I made Mr. his birthday cake, since I won't have time to do it on Tuesday and he wanted me to make in on Saturday so he could eat it all weekend. They kept me company while I cooked.

I just thought it was so cute, when the egg hatched she threw her hands up and said POP!

Sunday was really nice too. Church followed by me eating my very first donut in 8 years.

this girl loves her some donuts.

 

We headed home and the kids wanted to go to the park again. She's getting better at her scooter.

 

I tried to go with Baby Fox around our loop while I ran, but I ended up having to stop too much.

We went on the swings.

Mr. and this little lady went for a small hike.

 

When we met back up we went on another hike in the other direction.

 

 

We walked up to see this thing. The kids couldn't wait to get in it.

 

They are so cute.

 

Sunday night was pretty low key, naps followed by a yummy pork chop dinner. How was your weekend? If you have kids how did they handle the time change? Mine did pretty good, but we'll see how they do tonight when bed time comes.

 

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Friday Favorites #60

Wow, I've done a Friday favorites for 60 weeks, crazy! Well happy Friday Foxy People. I have today off, and am going for my year physical...wish me luck.

In case you missed it this week:

 

Monday: Over on The Blended Blog I posted a tutorial on How to Make a Burlap Easter Wreath

Tuesday: Kids Behind the Blog

Wednesday: Style Perspectives: Shades of Pink and my weekly hair styles

Thursday: Picture Perfect Project

While cruising around Facebook land, I watched this video and while it's an ad for Under Armour, I think it's a really good commercial showing us just how hard those athletes work, tirelessly, day after day. I for one CANNOT WAIT for the summer Olympics. How about you?

Guess what? I won a giveaway! I know right?! So exciting, it definitely gets a spot on my favorites for this week! Thank you to Beth, Courtney and Whitney you made my week!

This is all of the goodies I won! Fantastic right?

 

Speaking of giveaways, don't forget to enter ours! The ladies over at The Blended Blog decided to celebrate our new Style Perspective series with a $65 giveaway to Pay Pal! Don't forget to enter, if you don't enter you can't win! See above, I entered, I won! And I won't even make you click back on the post that has some super cute outfits and super cute hairstyles and the initial giveaway announcement.

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I continue on my pursuit to wear my closet, like I said here. 10 days in and feeling good! So far I feel like this is really making me be intentionally with my outfits, thinking, I might want to wear that shirt next week to..(fill in the blank) so I wear something else. My first few days of outfits can be found here. Here are days 4-10:

 

Because what would a favorites post be without my favorite kids? Some pictures from the week:

Sunday we went to visit my cousin and her new baby, she is the sweetest little thing ever!

When the kids woke up Baby Fox sung Hush Little Baby to his sister. It was the cutest, Mr. got a video, but haven't gotten a chance to get it off his phone yet.

Park time!

We had some left over Heavy Cream from some cookies I made, so Mr. made some whipped cream, cause why not. The kids loved it!

oh and some pictures of me being silly taking my photos for Wednesdays post. I keep meaning to put them at the bottom of the post, but then forget...so you get them now. I'm such a dork. I know.

 

I have today off, so it's my weekend, woo hoo! Hope everyone has a great day/weekend! See you on Monday!

Linking up here

Picture Perfect: March

Back linking up with Whitney, Courtney, Beth and Elizabeth, Stephanie and Desiree for another month of The Picture Perfect Project.

As you know I am trying to take intentional pictures for the yearly calendar I make for the grandparents. Click here for the previous two months. This month it's hard since St. Patrick's Day and Easter fall in the same month, so I might use the Easter picture for the April, because Easter is April 16th (my Dad's birthday), so that seems appropriate. We'll see. But for now, here's the picture I got for March. In full disclosure, Mr. took the pictures while I jumped around in the background like an idiot trying to get them to smile or do something/anything to smile. Team work right there.

 

 

And as soon as the pictures were done...they both asked to take a jump shot picture. It's blurry, but it's the cutest thing ever. Their smiles are just so big, they were having a blast jumping for me.

 

What pictures have you taken recently? Let's see them!

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Style Perspectives Week 2 and a Giveaway!

Hi Foxy Fashion People! Week two of our Style Perspectives link-up! Last week we styled outer layers or wraps, here's what everyone wore:

Didn't everyone do such a great job? Keep reading all the way to the end, there might be a giveaway waiting for you....So this week we are all styling shades of pink.

I decided to style it two ways. Actually I put this outfit on, My brightest most pink shirt I own - I got it on Jane.com. It's from the movie Cinderella (the new one) and it says Have Courage and Be Kind. Don't you just love that? Of course my mom has one too, so we might end up wearing this together too.

Jeans - Loft (similar*), Shirt - Jane.com (Exact*), Blazer - Nordstrom (Similar*), Leopard Flats - DSW: Naturalizer (similar*), Belt - Target (Exact*)

And then while I was taking these pictures, I really wanted to put on that cute pink skirt I wore for Valentine's Day...because why not. And I finally got to wear my new leopard heels I got! Which by the way are SUPER comfy! I couldn't find the exact ones, but here* is something very similar.

And why wear a fun skirt (Similar* and similar*), if you're not going to take fun pictures?

For my hair I did that blow out method the night before...this is what it looked like the next day.

There you have it, my take on Shades of PInk. What is your Shades of Pink?

 

*This post contains affiliate links, which means that if you click on a link and purchase an item - I may receive a small commission.  THANK YOU!

Here are all of the prompts so you can join in next week!

Now onto all of the hair style I've been doing lately:

Last Wednesday was clean hair day, so I just threw it up into a side braid. I'm trying not to curl it every time it's clean, so I'm trying to find straight hairstyles as well. I tried some of those sponge curlers (remember the ones you wore as a kid?) and it didn't hold...at all.

Thursday I knew I was going to drive to work, so I didn't have to do a style that was car nap-able...this style was inspired from Missy Sue,  I added the pony tail and the next little bubble part because there wasn't much hair at the end.

Here it is from the front as I'm on my way to meet up with my friend at Disneyland, yep I changed.

Don't worry I was in my driveway when I took this

 

Friday was that day when I should have washed it but knew I was going to Disneyland and would want to wash it when I got home, so I put it all up. Instead of doing my braided crown I tried something slightly different and did a fishtail crown....totally different right? Haha.

Before hitting up Disneyland, I got my nails done with my mom, and guess what? We wore the same outfit...again...totally unplanned.

Saturday, clean hair again, so I did a twisted braid. Forgot to take a picture all day, so this was at the end of the day, just before going to bed.

Sunday we had a full day, going to my cousins to visit her new baby and our Christmas make up with some family members. So I did a half braid crown. Again the end of the night, 16 hours after I initially did the hair style. Better late than never?

 

Monday was my last day before washing my hair, so I tried the waterfall braided messy bun. I think I might have finally conquered the messy bun, okay let's not get ahead of ourselves, really it was one time...but it was stable enough that I worked out with it later on Monday and it stayed!

So those are my hair styles this week! Anyone have anything they want me to try? I know a friend of my mom's send me a video on FB asking me to do one, so I'm going to do it sometime this week. Maybe Friday.

And onto the most exciting part! The giveaway! Yep that's right we're giving away $65 in Pay Pal Cash! Go enter and good luck!

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Now that you've entered, go check out all of the other ladies from The Blended Blog and see how they styled their look!

14 bloggers each picked a look that defined their personal style.  The featured blogger on the Blended Blog showcases her signature style (the prompt for that day) and then the other bloggers (on their personal blogs) show how they interpret it.  Make sure you stop by the Blended Blog to see the featured lady and who had the most clicks from last week!  Please link up on the Blended Blog to show us how you would wear the prompt!

Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After : Library-Lovin'-Lady

Daily Style Finds: The Personal Stylist

Foxy's Domestic Side: The Crafty Engineer

Grumbling Grace: Toddler Tamer & Teacher

Simply Shaunacey: Reformed Frumpy Mommy

Two Teens and Their Mama: Stylish Midlife Mama

RSquared: The Not So Nerdy Accountant

Shoes to Shiraz: The Shoe Hoarding French Teacher

Puppies and Pretties: Cube Dwelling Fashionista

Mishaps and Mayhem of Solitary Life:  Single Girl, Simple Style

A Lovely Little Wardrobe: A Casual Petite

Making the Most of Everyday Classic Yet Current Over Forty 

NickandNik: Mama with Curves

Living on Cloud Nine: Blissful Fashionista

An InLinkz Link-up

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Kids Behind the Blog: March Edition

Linking up with Crystal, Beth, Meghan, Jessica, and Stephanie for Kids Behind the Blog. Such a great link up because we are always showing them off on the blog, but never really ask them questions, so here it goes:   

Baby Fox Age: 5 years 2 months

Mini Fox Age: 2 years 6 months

  Baby Fox:  

That's an ice cream sundae, half eaten

  What do you enjoy doing with Mommy and Daddy?   Baby Fox: Spending time with you Me: Doing what? Baby Fox: Spending time going to the mall Me: Anything else? Baby Fox: And when we get to have family time
Melt my heart with that last statement.   Name one thing you are really good at? Running!
  What is one thing that Mommy and Daddy tell you often? Not to do bad things   What do you want to be when you grow up? DOCTOR!!!!! (said very enthusiastically)   What do you think Mommy and Daddy do when you go to bed at night? Do the dishes...and watch TV.

 Of course had to film it, mostly so I could capture their answers, and why not show you right?
Baby Fox Kids Behind the Blog: March from Foxy's Domestic Side on Vimeo.

  Mini Fox Kids Behind the blog March from Foxy's Domestic Side on Vimeo.

  Mini Fox:  

Also eating ice cream, no chocolate sauce, I know, clearly not related to me!

What do you enjoy doing with Mommy and Daddy? I like going to the park!   Name one thing you are really good at? To Patty!   (translation: She is nice to the person who watches her during the day, she's been super mean to hear lately and we've had countless talks with her about it)   What is one thing that Mommy and Daddy tell you often? Use my words
(this sort of goes with the one above and being mean and using her words instead of hitting)  

What do you want to be when you grow up? Get big and wear big dresses

  #goals, haha    What do you think Mommy and Daddy do when you go to bed at night?   Mini Fox: Wear diapers at night time. Me: What else do you think? Mini Fox: Get color pieces of paper and send them to Grandma   (Say what? Where did she get that idea?)
And of course the video that Mini Fox did.  

 

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Easter Wreath Tutorial

Remember last week I showed you how to Make A Burlap Wreath?

Well this week I'm over at The Blended Blog showing you a tutorial on how to make my Easter Wreath, so head on over there to get the details!

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