Hello Foxy Friends! Today I'm participating in a super fun progressive party hop...what you might ask that is? Well, the ladies over at The Blended Blog have put together three weeks of progressive parties. You start at one blog for drinks, then hop on over to the next for apps, then main course and dessert, how fun is that? This week we decided our progressive party theme is an easy after Christmas meal, cause who wants big elaborate meals after all the holiday eating? If you're coming from Deena's blog, welcome, if you are starting here, go back to see what Deena has you drinking before you see what I have for your apps.
Everyone likes eating appetizers right? You show up to a party and you just want to snack on something while chatting with friends, I'm here to show you how to put together a fun cheese tray. I personally like hitting up Trader Joe's, for those that don't have a Trader Joe's, hit up your local grocery store and head to the fancy cheeses.
TJ's has a to of choices, almost too many choices!
This is always the one we get when putting together a cheese tray, it is so delicious, goat cheese, yum! If they don't have any of this particular one, get a goat cheese, you won't be sorry.
These are some of the other choices I would have picked.
I would pick 3-4 because that's what is going to look good on a cheese platter. For Easter this year we were in charge of bringing a cheese platter, and guess what I bought? A cheese tray, I felt so grown up buying my very first cheese tray and knives...I got this these cheese knives, the cheese tray we bought is no longer available, but we picked on that was long so that we could fit more cheese on it...I added some little cards that I made, but these are super cute, or something like this, which I have since bought since Easter. I added some grapes, cause isn't that what you're suppose to do? I bought a variety pack of crackers from TJ's and called it a day.
So there you have it, notice when I took this picture, that most of the goat cheese one (on the right) is half gone. So good, now I want to go get one...Now go see what you're going to eat for your main course at Lana's blog.
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It's that time again, Kids Behind the Blog with Crystal, Beth, Meghan, Jessica, and Stephanie.
I just love this link up and look forward to seeing all of the other
kids answers. I feel like I'm watching all these kids grow up right
before my eyes!
Baby Fox Age 5 Years 11.5 Months (Will be 6 in 13 days...waaahhh!1!)
Mini Fox Age: 3 Years 3 Months
I was asking these questions to the kids when they were at my parents house over the phone...Here we go:
Baby Fox
Which Reindeer is your favorite?
Rudolf
What do you want for Christmas?
umm...I don't know.
What would you do if you caught Santa at your house?
I would ask him for lots and lots of toys
What if Santa got stuck in your chimney?
I don't know, help him out.
Do you want it to snow on Christmas? Why or why not?
I want it to snow on Christmas because we can have snowball fights.
Have you been naughty or nice this year? Why?
Nice!! I forget that part.
If Santa asked you to fly in his sleigh with him would you do it?
YES!!!!!
What is your favorite Christmas movie?
Umm....Frosty the Snowman
If you could change the color of Rudolph's nose what color would you make it?
Brown, like all the other reindeers.
Am I done?
I didn't ask the last question...didn't want to push my luck.
Happy Friday! So happy it's Friday, I'm full on suffering from it's the end of the year and I don't want to work right now. Looking for the break between Christmas and New Years.
A few more pictures from our Cabo trip, then I'm done, I promise. Mr. convinced me to do a resort dive. Have you done one of those? Well it's a scuba dive that you don't need to be certified to do, they give you a few instructions in the pool, then you watch a video and then they take you out in the open water. We've done it before, so I wasn't as freaked out as before...which was good. I'm really glad that I did it with Mr. Here are some of the pictures.
We weren't that close, but not too far behind this...oh wait, you can see someone over there in the upper right, so yea we were this close...
Eel anyone?
On Tuesday I did a home tour, but I thought I would do a quick tutorial on how I converted our door into a holiday card holder. This is one of my favorite parts of Christmas, getting everyones cards and being able to look at them each time I go into the kitchen.
This is the door that is in our kitchen.
If you push on it, it opens to reveal our heater. The previous owners put this cork board in there, which has turned out to be super helpful.
First I find wrapping paper that that goes well with the house, I happen to use this last year and it worked out great that I was able to save it for this year. I attach the top side to the top of the cork board with staples. Then I wrap it down the door and back up to attach the other side to the bottom of the board.
Then I add that same polka dot ribbon from our Christmas tree, and put that vertical on the door.
Then I do the same ribbon horizontal.
I love that it looks like a present. I used to put a big bow in the middle, but in the end it just got in the way of putting more cards on the door, so I ditched that last year.
Then I use my reindeer clothes pins and Christmas Tree Clothes pins to hold the cards on the ribbon. When that gets full I start using the really small clothes pin to attach the cards to each other.
We got some Christmas cards since I took the last pictures, so here it is getting full, loving it!
Last weekend was fun, it was nice to only work 4 days after a vacation to get 3 more days off, which made this 5 day work week LONG!!!
Friday I got to take Baby Fox to school, then did a ton of errands with Mini Fox, I was inpressed with how many we got done.
Saturday we hit up the gym and then then the rock wall Baby Fox has been begging me to go back to...he rocked it as usual.
I finally got up on the wall again, it's been a while.
Then we got home and cooked our second Thanksgiving dinner, we felt like we didn't get enough turkey the first go around, so why not do it again...probably with doing it again a week later? Hard to find a small turkey...so 23 pounds it was. We used the Test Kitchen recipe which requires you to flip the bird half way through, I had Mr. do the heavy lifting this time...last year I did it and nearly killed myself.
Finished, it was yummy! Minus the fact that I couldn't get it thawed all the way in time, which I didn't really know, so while the temp said it was good, the way middle parts weren't...so we ate what we could for dinner and then threw it back in the oven...THEN it turned out good...anyone else have funny Turkey stories to share? Please tell me I'm not alone.
Sunday was a good friends birthday party at a play place we'd never been to, the kids loved it.
Cake face...
Confession time: Then we hit up In and Out for lunch...which was the second time this weekend we had it. Don't judge. Mini Fox was not happy I wanted to take a picture, she just wanted to play with her blocks.
If you don't read anything in this post, watch this...seriously.
On a totally different note....swooon. He seems like such a good guy in real life.
Happy Monday Foxy Friends! Today I'm joining the lovely Deena for her Month in Numbers link up. I love looking back on the month and seeing all that I have done, click here for pervious months. So let's get started.
3300 - The numbers I had to travel for work....again, hopefully this is the last time for a while. 4 - The number of allergy shots, woo hoo, the numbers is the same, I didn't slide back any steps, moving on forward!
2 - The number of times Mini Fox went to the voting booth.
13 - The number of days off I had, first day of vacation started with random lunch with Mr.
7 - Of those days were spent in Cabo with my family and friends
5,000 - The number in pounds of chips and guacamole I ate while in Cabo, yum! 1 - It was the very first vacation for us as a family that included more than 2 days, it was awesome and something we're going to do way more often now that the kids are a little older 2 - The number of soccer games we watched, and also the number of years Baby Fox has been playing soccer
6 - The number of days we had someone in our house for our kitchen remodel
*picture is poor quality because I took a screen shot of my facetime with the kids and Mr.
1 - The number of parent/teacher conferneces we had. Seriously guys I feel like I'm real life adulting right now. 6 - The number of hours we got to spend some with some friends we haven't seen in a while...well I guess technically that number is 12, but 6 of those hours we were sleeping, haha.
3 - The number of days I forgot to call Baby Fox's school to let them know he wasn't going to be in school, oops, perhaps this adulting thing isn't for me.
6.5 or so - The number of hours I binged watch Gilmore Girls with my mom and sister.
Hello Foxy Friends! Welcome to another week of The Blended Blog Style. Thank you for those that continue to link up and make this party a success! It's a new month, new Wednesday theme, we thought we would share things that are cozy, so each week in December we're going to share what makes us cozy for the Holidays.
I decided to share my comfy lay around the house outfit, and maybe if I go out, I'll throw on a pair of boots and call it a day. If I'm feeling really fancy then I'll change out the leggings for some ripped jeans, but on this particular day I was just feeling lazy and was trying to decorate the house for Christmas. Plus it's finally cold enough for this sweater to make sense, haha, just a week ago it was 90°, yikes!
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This sweater is so soft and wonderful, everyone should have one. This one isn't available any more, but this one would work, so would this one, or this one, I'll just take one of each, one cannot have to many sweatshirt right? More importantly these leggings, oh these leggings are amazing, they're thick so you can't see anything when bending over, and they come up high on the waist to cover up that tummy from too much turkey. Did I mention they were comfy?
What is your favorite lounge around the house outfit? Link up below with your favorite outfit this week!
, which I have since bought since Easter. I added some grapes, cause isn't that what you're suppose to do? I bought a variety pack of crackers from TJ's and called it a day.
