May In Numbers

Today I'm linking up with Deena for my month in numbers. If you want to see my previous months, click here.

3 - The number of birthday parties we went to this month

2 - Playdates with friends, one I haven't ever met, just online. Hi Meg! The other an old college friend that I haven't seen since college, it was great to see/meet them. And of course I took no pictures of either thing...did it even happen if I didn't?

2 - Trips to Disneyland for me
3 - Trips to Disneyland for Baby Fox

1 - Pirate show...

Baby Fox is one of those kids up there on the boat!!! I was so proud of him for going up there and not freaking out.

23 - The number of hours that my MIL was in town visiting.

1 - Concert...Pentatonix! Recap here.

4 - The number of allergy shots I got...woo hoo! It used to be 32...a month, yes 32 shots a month.

12 - The number of selfies I took, I feel a little bummed, so low...I need to up my game next month. I realized while putting together the selfie collage, I just didn't take many pictures in general in May, strange.

5 - The number of Mother's Days I've celebrated.

1 - The number of times I got to see my brother...but I had just seen him a couple weeks prior to this, so it was cool to see him twice in two weeks time.

18 - The number of selfies Baby Fox took in 1 minute.

I think I'm all numbered out for the month. Hope you are having a great Monday....going to be a long week for me, I only worked 2 days last week...this week 5...ugh!

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Create 28: A Summer Wedding Style

Welcome to day 5 of Create 28. In case you are new here, Create 28 was created by The Blended Blog's very own Carrie and Whitney, they've let us take over and we're going to do our best to make them proud.

If you missed some days, fear not, we are recapping each week every Wednesday on The Blended Blog with a link up. Feel free to join in on this weeks prompts, pick what you want and link up! Go check out Sheila's Nautical look from yesterday!

Okay now that introductions are out of the way, let gets to my prompt, Warm Weather Weddings. I can tell you that I have been to my fair share of weddings, heck I've been a bridesmaid in 7 weddings! There was a time when we were going to 4-5 weddings a year. Most of the weddings that I have been to are on the fancier side, so I tend to go somewhat fancier in my attired. But I always feel it's better to be over dressed than under dressed. My go to wedding look and still is a favorite is a strapless A line dress, and usually I pair it with some sort of colored shawl. Most times though the weddings I go to are inside so a shawl isn't needed, but I like to have one with me, just in case.

And one with pockets...even better...

First time away from Baby Fox when he was 6 months old...

We actually have a wedding coming up on June 25th, and I'm going outside my norm and wearing this cute skirt and lace top (which I bought back in December, knowing I had this wedding to go to).  I think it's just perfect for a warm summer wedding. You can see other ways to style this skirt by Grace, here and here.

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Here are some other dresses I would pick for a warm weather wedding. Any one of these could be styled up with some heels, cute accessories and a clutch. I tried to give you a variety of choices, solid colors, textured and floral. Hopefully you find something in here that you like!

Row 1   Dress 1 // Dress 2 // Dress 3 // Dress 4
Row 2   Dress 1 // Dress 2 // Dress 3 // Dress 4
Row 3   Dress 1 // Dress 2 // Dress 3 // Dress 4

If I could pick any of the above dresses, I would pick this one. If I didn't already have the outfit for the wedding I'm going to I would snatch this up in a second. I think it's just so feminine and perfect for a warm summer wedding with the lace sleeves.

Dress // Shoes // Bracelet // Clutch // Earrings // Nail Polish (Color - Lovie Dovie)

Friday Favorites #72

Happy Friday Foxy Friends! My family and I are off to the lake for a few days with some friends, so excited to spend some time with them and relax a bit...at least I hope it's relaxed hehe.

In case you missed it this week:

Monday: Let's Talk...Summer Plans
Tuesday: A Summer Wreath Tutorial
Wednesday: Style Perspectives - A Summer Dress
Thursday: Sentence A Day

Apprently I really like summer, since 3 of my 4 titles have the word "Summer" in it.

Starting right now...we're doing Create 28, where each of The Blended Bloggers styles a prompt for 28 days of outfits. Fun right? All the styles will be recapped on Wednesdays with a link up, hope you join along in the fun! My day is on Sunday, where I'll be styling a Summer Wedding Look.

Another fun thing coming up on The Blended Blog is What's In My...where the 1st Tuesday of each Month we peek inside your purse, junk drawer...etc. First link up is on Tuesday come see what's inside of our purses...mine was a wreck! And actually doing this post made me clean it out finally, haha!

Down to my last few things in my closet. I can't wear everything right now, since I have to work, but I think these are going to be my last two outfit posts of wear everything in my closet...crazy, it took exactly 2 months to wear almost everything in my closet...now what? Hmmm...maybe not repeat an outfit...but that would take work to remember what I had paired together. Anyone out there use a good app to keep track of that? I've been wanting to download one, but not sure which one to do, and I don't feel like taking a picture of everything in my closet.

The one on the right is sort of cheating...it's a bathing suite cover up, but I legit wore this all day...so I thought, this counts, right?

What's a Friday Favorite without some sort of favorite dessert I found scrolling through FB?



Happy Friday all! Family and I are off at the Lake, hopefully enjoying ourselves and not waking up too early, although the people we are going with are early birds...ugh. Wish me luck and mostly the kids luck...I expect several break downs and a lot of naps in our future.

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Sentence A Day: May Edition

Thank you Rebecca for the idea! Here we are our first link up! I hope you wrote down your sentence a day and are linking up with us. It's so fun to read about someone's day in just one sentence.

1 - Pentatonix was the best concert EVER, especially with good friends!

2 - So sore from Saturdays workout I can barely walk, must workout..that will make that pain go away right?

3 - Started a toned Arm Challenge, Baby Fox did the first round with me and rocked the burpees.

4 - R.I.P.P.E.D to the Core is my favorite workout class.

5 - MNO, yummy food and good company.

6 - Disneyland in the Rain = No lines/Waiting = Awesomeness

7 - 1st birthday party with an In and Out Truck, YUM!!!

8 - Best Mother's Day = Time with Family

9 - Did that same workout from day 2...please don't let me be sore tomorrow, so far so good!

10 - Love watching Mr. and Mini Fox on the swings.

11 - Not as sore from my workout on day 9...thankfully.

12 - Had a great day being spoiled by my family.

13 - Another Disneyland date with Baby Fox and a friend and her daughter, so much fun!

14 - Mother in Law is coming!

15 - Mother in Law left, 23 hours is too short.

16 - I'm still sick and had to miss my favorite workout

17 - Kids are spoiled and went to Disneyland...again.

18 - Daddy makes a good horsey

19 - I lost my voice, waaaahhh!!!

20 - Met up with blogger friend Meg for the first time, super fun but big park playdates make for little time to talk, kids are evey where.

21 - We were gone for 2 birthday parties from 9:30am to 4pm, exhausted.


22 - Took Baby Fox to a pirate show with some friends, so much fun!

23 - Missed my workout, still sick

24 - Advil Cold and Sinus is my friend
 
25 - I ate a bag of Swedish fish (you know the candy) for breakfast.

26 - Finally feeling better...thank goodness!

27 - Took 2 hours to get home from work...blah!

28 - Mr. and Baby Fox got last minute tickest to the Angels Game and had a blast!

29 - Low key day, church followed by a whole lot of nothing.

30 - Friends over for some BBQing and swimming.

31 - Allergy shots, enough said.
 
Go check out some of the other ladies and see what they did this month. I just love doing this, and re-reading about my month and remembering everything that happened. Such a great way to reflect on the month. I hope you'll join us next month, link up will be on July 7th.

What are you waiting for? It's only June 2nd you can catch up! Go do it now...I'm bossy like that, I know.

An InLinkz Link-up

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Style Perspectives: A Summer Dress and Hair Challenge 22

Here we are with our last prompt from Style Perspectives, today is Andrea's turn and she picked A Summer Dress.  I love me a good dress, I think if I could I would wear one everyday during the summer I would. Unfortunately kids sort of prevent me from doing that. Go check out what Andrea has in store for you and see who got the most clicks last week! Here is recap from last week:

I decided to style one of my favorite colors, pink! This is a spaghetti strap dress but since I detest wearing a strapless bra, I usually go the sweater route so I don't have to wear one...does anyone else do that?

I love the little eyelet detail on the dress. I got this from Old Navy on clearance a while back, such a good score!

I had been trying to do this braid for a while. I tried once in Vegas, but failed since I couldn't hear the directions...but my second try I could hear the directions and it took me about 30 minutes to do it, it was worth it, super cute and in case you wanted to know I used about 15 rubber bands. I wish I was kidding.

In the end I think it was totally worth it and turned out great! Definitely going to be something I do again, when I have ample amounts of time to do it...since it is a time consuming thing. I need to find some hair ties that doesn't take out half of my hair with it when taking them out...ouch those things hurt!

Now onto the Hair Challenge. I've been noticing a pattern, I don't do much during the week, and do everything on the weekend. I need to change that, but then that would require me to get up slightly earlier than I already do I would usually prefer the extra 10-15 minutes of sleep. Sorry about that.

Saturday I saw this tutorial and wanted to try it out, I think it's a fun do for summer. Although I can't tell you how many bobby pins I'm using...at least 15...probably more like 20...

Sunday for church I wanted to try something a little out of the norm and fun. I didn't like it at first, but I spent so much time doing it I just went with it, but it grew on me and in the end I really liked it. It was something different. I think sometimes having such dark hair with no highlights makes it hard to see the smaller braided details...

There is suppose to be a braid and a fishtail in there, but the fishtail when I puffed it out turned out wierd when I went to tie it back so I had to bobby pin it some to get it from sticking out which I think changed the look...but hey I still think it's cute.

This one...not so sure about. I wanted to do this type of crown braid, when the thick part was on the top of your head instead of the skinny part...I think it's too close to myforhead. And I took a group picture that made me look like I had an alien head...so this one is out...at least with the braid right on my forehead like this...looking back at the video she had pulled bangs out in the front to frame her face...I need to get me some layers.

But the back looks pretty good.

Now that the Style Perspectives is over, what's next for us? Good thing you asked because the ladies have taken over Carrie and Whitney's Create 28! Each one of us is taking a prompt and making it our own, we'll be posting a recap of all of the looks on Wednesday's over on The Blended Blog and we'll still all be hosting the link up.

 Hopefully you'll find some inspiration and link up one of your Create 28 outfits! Here is the first weeks prompt:

For the other prompts click here. Hope to see you there all dressed up and ready to go.

 

Now go check out how all of the other ladies and how styled their summer dresses.

ONCE UPON A TIME & HAPPILY EVER AFTER : Library-Lovin’-Lady

DAILY STYLE FINDS: The Personal Stylist

FOXY’S DOMESTIC SIDE: The Crafty Engineer

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

WHITNEY À LA MODE: A book-loving French Teacher

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