Tasty Tuesday: 14 Karat Cake

Hey Foxy Friends! Today I'm over on The Blended Blog talking about Mr.'s favorite carrot cake recipe. He asks for it whenever there is an occasion to make cake. Go check it out. If you have a recipe to share, go link it up and share the wealth and knowledge.

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Spring Time Fun: April Showers

Hello Foxy Friends! If you're hopping over from Katie from Mishap and Mayhem of Solitary Life, welcome, glad you stopped by. Today the Blended Blog Ladies and I cooked up a fun Spring Time Fun link up to enjoy for the next couple of months, please join in on the fun! Today's topic is April Showers...such a hard topic to talk about, seeing as that it doesn't rain here too often.

But when it does, the kids like to jump in the occasional puddle, sometimes we have to go hunting for them.  And it had just rained, an hour or so before and we had to drive around to find the puddle, apparently the drainage in our backyard is stellar. Good to know.

We wear rain jackets even when it's just sprinkling, with crowns of course.

But the best part? Is seeing views like this while driving. The snow in the background and the hills all nice and green.

I don't own any rain gear per say, and try not to look around either, because you know, then I would want it all and only get to wear it a couple of times of year when it's sprinkling, haha. Although this year we've gotten a lot more rain and I totally didn't feel prepared. What do you do during April showers? Any go to rain gear? Now go check out The Blended Blog and start the loop, and see what the ladies are up to.

Come link up with us for the rest of April and May, here are the topics, now you have no excuse not to participate!

Don't forget to enter my $200 giveaway to Amazon! Can't win if you don't enter! 

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My Marriage In Numbers

I thought I would take a different approach to Deena's Month in Numbers link up this month. Since today is Mr. and my 12 year anniversary, I thought I would share 12 things about our marriage, here we go.

12 - The number of years we have been married.

11 - The number of months we were dating before we got engaged.

10 - The number of months we were engaged before we got married.

9 - The number of professional photos sessions we've had.

2010 (Baby Fox 1 month old)

 

1 year old

 

8 - The number of states we crossed on an East Coast road trip without listening to the radio (actually if you're counting there and back it was more like 17, but that's not on the list, so we'll go with 8 on the way up the coast).

7 - The number of years we have been in our house.

6 - The number of amazing vacations we've taken together, not including weekends away.

Bora Bora

5 - The number of months it took to remodel our house, and lived in 2 rooms, the others were a disaster and not livable.

4 - The number of cars we have bought together.

3 - The number of places we have lived together, 1 condo, 1 apartment, 1 house.

2 - The number of cute kids we have.

1 - The number of dishes I knew how to cook when we got married, fajitas in case you were wondering.

Happy Anniversary Mr.! I love you to the moon and back and then some.

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$200 Amazon Giveaway!

Hello Foxy Friends! I know a post on a Saturday! Easter is right around the corner and what would be better than to win $200 to Amazon?! I'm joining a bunch of awesome ladies to give one lucky person a chance to win $200 gift card to Amazon. Enter below, good luck!

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Friday Favorites #110

In case you missed it this week:

Monday: 4 Kylie Lip Kit Swatches + Video
Tuesday: My Top 5 10 Favorite Photos
Wednesday: Ball Game Outfit + A Video On 2 Ways To Curl Your Hair
Thursday: Spring Blog Hop - Cute Spring Easy Hair Style

And a fun announcement. The ladies over on The Blended Blog are starting a new Spring Time Fun Monday link up for the next two months. Starting on this Monday, first topic is April Showers, take that prompt as you will, pictures of rain, pictures of what you would wear in the rain, pictures of  rainy day activities, your imagination is your limit. Join us each Monday for a fun link up!

Saturday during breakfast I asked Baby Fox if he wanted to learn how to read a face clock and he said yes, so while eating pancakes I taught him, he rocked it.

Then instead of having to draw out a clock every time, we made our own and Mr. somehow had saved my compass and it made this engineers heart so happy to see my son using it :)

After breakfast our morning was filled with baseball.

Then soccer right afterwards. The first time this will happen in a while. Love when a plan works out.

That night we went to dinner with some good friends to celebrate Mr.'s birthday. We left all of our kids at our house with a babysitter and went out for 3 hours, can you imagine, eating dinner for 3 hours? It was amazing is what I'm telling you.

 

Then Sunday we laid low as I was totally sick, boo! At least I held out for our date night.

Linking up with The Blended Blog for some Friday Loves.


Marva wrote a beautiful post last week about being bold when you want to run and hide. I just love how she intertwined God and him knowing what he's doing and you have to trust in Him and push through all that worry and uncertainty.

I'm loving Deena's new project, where she is taking her grandmother's recipe book and making it into a book for her family. She's making it extra special by interviewing her grandfather and her aunts and uncles so she can add little stories inside the book near each recipe, how amazing is that? 

 

She also shared her Grandmothers biscuit recipe over on The Blended Blog. Go check out that here, it makes my mouth water just looking at it, don't you agree?

It's the end of the month so I wanted to recap all of the Hair 101 videos I've done this month. I hope you are finding these helpful!

As always here are some videos around the internet I'm loving this week.

Just when you think people only look out for themselves, you see this and you have renewed hope.

How cool is it that two people who are complete strangers can play something so beautiful together. Music is a language that everyone canspeak

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Spring Hair Style + Blog Hop

Happy Spring Foxy Friends! If you're stopping by one of the Spring Blog Hoppers, welcome to my little space. If you're starting here, don't forget to check out all of the other awesome ladies and their Spring Time posts.

Since I've been doing my Hair 101 series, I thought that I would do a Spring time hair style. Back when I challenged myself to a year long hair styling challenge, this was my very first hair style I tried. This was my first time doing ANYTHING to my hair other than a ponytail, this is how it came out, this was the original post.

 If you don't want to follow the pictures, jump to the end of the post for a video that I made. This is a super simple hair style, all you need is a small hair tie and some bobby pins.

Step 1:

Tease a small section of hair at the top of your hair. If you don't know how to tease hair, click here for a tutorial.

Step 2:

Take a small section of hair (between your eye brows) to the back of the crown of your head and tie it back.

Step 3: 

Take a small section on one side of your head and twist it away from you face. Pin it over the hair tie on the opposite side.

It should look like this when you're done.

Step 4:

Do the same thing on the other side, take a small section and then twist away from your face, pin it down on the opposite side, but just below the first twist.

Step 5 and 6:

Repeat step 3 and 4, to create two more twists.

This is your finished style. See how easy that was? Now get to styling and go impress your friends.

 

Now for that video that I promised you. Click here to see some other hair videos.

Looking for more Spring Inspiration? I've joined a handful of my favorite bloggers to put together a Spring Blog Hop. Just click on each link below to discover new, fun ideas for Spring.

The Bost Family Blog | Foxy's Domestic Side | Three Boys and a Girl Blog

Lindsay's Sweet World | My Glittery Heart | Not In Jersey

bybmg Blog | Hall Around Texas | Bright on a Budget

The Sirois Family | Wife Mommy Me | Twin Peeks | Secrets of a SAHM

On a side note, to keep up with the Spring time theme, the ladies over at The Blended Blog decided to host a Spring Time Fun Link up. Each week is a different category to talk about, but if you don't want to talk about that, then post anything Spring Time fun! We're here to have fun!

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Play Ball Kind of Outfit + How To Curl Your Hair

Happy almost MLB game day opening, don't ask me why I know this. Baby Fox has recently started playing baseball and he was put on the Dodgers. Which really works out for us, because Mr. is a hardcore Dodger fan, so we already had all of the gear! Lucky us because Mr. said if he would have been put on the Giants that he would not/could not wear/buy/support that paraphernalia, see die hard fan right there.

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I think nothing completes a baseball watching game outfit better that some great chucks.

I bought my t-shirt at Old Navy, which has a lot of the MLB teams available right now. They don't have my exact one, but this one they are selling is pretty close. These jeans are no longer available but these are a close second.

I decided I wanted a side ponytail, but it looks so boring just pulling it to the side, so I added a little twist in it with my favorite bobby pins and tied it up and it was super easy hair style.

This works out well being a dodger fan in that Baby Fox was put on the Dodgers. Mr. said under no circumstances would he ever wear Giants gear, even for his son, so let's hope he never gets on the Giants team.

Another week of my Hair 101 series, last week I showed you how to do a small pancake braid, this is the start to many hair styles actually. This week I'm going to show you two different ways I curl my hair. One is a uniform curl and the other is used for a more messy curly look. I even show you how it loosens throughout the day and what it looks like the next morning.

Any suggestions on other hair styles you want to see? Let me know, I'm starting to run out of ideas.

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