Today I'm linking up with Shay and Erica for Workin' Wednesday, I can't even believe that we are shopping for school supplies. While our school doesn't start for another 3 weeks, we had to do the shopping this past weekend because we're going to be out of town or busy every weekend leading up to the start of school. First day of school is not only going to be a 6 hour day (instead of 3, like Kindergarten), but we'll just be getting back into town the night before from camping. This is the school supply list that Baby Fox's new school sent us.
Things that I used to love as a kid buying for school, pencil boxes, there was nothing better then getting all of your new pencils and erasers and then putting them into a Hello Kitty Pencil Case. Turns out the one I used to have is now considered vintage...man I feel old. But I loved those plastic things.
Okay one last thing as a blast from the past. Trapper Keepers, man those things, and then having the matching pencil case that clipped into the three ring binder, bomb.com. I had one similar to this girl.
Okay getting off topic here. But it's so fun to remember all the stuff I used to love about the beginning of school, new school clothes, picking out what to wear on the first day, new shoes and just the anticipation of a new school year and learning new things. I loved all of it. I really hope Baby Fox loves school as much as I do, from the looks of it, I think it's going to love it.
I put together a video of all of the stuff in Baby Fox's School Supply Haul. If you could click on it and thumbs up the video, that would mean the world to me! Thank you so much for supporting my channel.
Also linking up with Erin for 10th on the 10th and with
What is something that you absolutely loved about the new school year?
Happy Monday Foxy Friends! The last TBB asks was such a success that we decided to make it a monthly thing! Join up with us the first Monday of the month, find the questions on social media or our blog for the next month. Easy post if you ask me. I'm all about easy and not having to think too much or too hard! So here are this months questions.
1. Pool, Lake or Ocean? Oh touch choice...I love the ocean when you get the beach to yourself, otherwise pool!
2. Camping, cottage or hotel? I love camping, but ask me again after Yosemite with two kids 6 and 3, haha! So let's go with hotel since it's been 8 years since the last camping trip.
3. Favorite Ice Cream Flavor? Chocolate Malted Crunch from Thrifty, if that isn't available then any chocolate/peanut butter combo.
4. PJ's, Nightgown, T-shirt/Shorts or Birthday Suit? PJ's. I like shorts/pants and a top. Nightgowns tend to get all twisted up.
5. Fave Summer Beverage? I'm so bad, but Diet Squirt, I love it so much. But I have really been into Robert Mondavi, Flume Blanc 2014, so dang good. If you like a good white wine, this is going to be your best friend.
6. Would you rather be hot or cold? Cold, you can always add layers, you can only take off so many.
7. Sandals with heels or flats? I love heels, mostly because I'm short, if I didn't have to walk so much at work, I would wear them everyday.
8. Shorts or skirts? Skirts, I like how flowy and free you are.
9. Sit in the sun or shade? Shade, always the shade, goes back to #6, I don't want to be hot.
10. Water, tea or soda? Soda, specifically Diet Squirt
11. Fave summer fruit, vegetable? Give me all the berries. My favorite combo is cut up strawberries and green grapes, put both in mouth at same time, my favorite. Although I love a good corn on the cob. Too many decisions, I love it all.
12. Sunrise or Sunset? Sunrise. I hate to say it, but I see the sunrise from my office every single workday and it's always breathtaking.
13. Bike Ride or Walk? Bike ride, you get to see so much more that way. Bike riding in the hills of Tuscany was amazing.
14. Winery or brewery? I've never been to a brewery, to beer taste, I've been to eat the food, but didn't do the beer tasting part, so I'm going to have to say Winery.
15. Garden or no garden? No garden, although if someone could plant, water, prune and sustain for me, that would be great, I have a black thumb and kill anything just looking at it.
16. Big summer concert or music in the park? Music in the park, there are so many talented people out there to listen to.
17. Fave cookout food? Steak, corn on the cob and baked potato (but that happens in the oven).
18. Dine indoors or patio? Patio, we don't get many bugs where I live, so we can sit outside all day long, it's the best.
19. Fave summer destination? Oh this one is hard...can I pick hanging with friends? Usually we have plans with friends and we get to do so many things because of it.
20. Big theme park or local carnival? Theme park, I don't raelly like local carnivals because typically they are in dirty dusty places which really gets my allergies going.
21. Drinks blended or on the rocks? Blended.
22. Posicle or freezie flavor of choice? Popsicle, strawberry flavor.
23. Hot Dog or Hamburger? Hamburger, yum.
Alright that's how I answered them, now you answer one of them! Go check out how the other ladies of The Blended Blog answered.
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! Click here for all of the other KBTB posts.
Baby Fox is 6 years 7.5 months
Mini Fox is 3 years 11 months
Baby Fox
If you could change one of your family’s rules what would you change? I like all of them.
Are you a good friend? Why or why not? Yes, because I am nice.
Where is your favorite place in the whole world? Cabo
If you could invent anything in the world what would it be? A time machine (Said with a big smile)
What are you most excited about this year in school? The new playground.
Comments from Mom: Mini Fox was in the room with us, and Baby Fox wanted to go first, so he was whispering the answers to me in my ear, he thought we were being so sneaky. Also for school, I thought for sure he would say starting a new school as we decided to send him to a different school this year from last year.
Mini Fox
If you could change one of your family’s rules what would you change? Uh, change from...not going out by the street without my mom. That's what I want to change and not get her mad for buying toys.
Are you a good friend? Why or why not? Yes, because i'm really sweet and I like Elora, I love Elora, I love everybody in my family. I have a lot of neighbors and a lot of cousins. And I have friends at the gym, and I like them too. I have a lot of friends already. Alright, bye, that's it.
Where is your favorite place in the whole world? Chucky Cheese, can I pick too? And Ikea and Chucky Cheese.
If you could invent anything in the world what would it be? Um, a castle and unicorn and all the animals except not dinosaurs.
What are you most excited about this year in school? Going back and getting some new shoes and meeting all my friends, and I really, really love my friends.
Comments from Mom: Funny she said Ikea, she had just gone there the day I asked, so it was fresh in her mind. I am pretty sure she always says Chuck E Cheese and we hardly go there too. I laughed out loud to the except dinosaurs, and then in the background Baby Fox screams NOOOOO!!! I like dinosaurs, why can't you have them too?!
Here is a video I put together of how to make Cake Pops. Really the beginning part is how to do a basic cake pop, I just gave it S'mores flare, so skip the marshmallow and graham cracker coating if you only want to know to make the cake pop only. Now go impress some friends and make some cake pops!
Last weekend we packed up the kids and the car and hit the road towards Sequoia. It's the first of many trips we're taking this summer and the kids did great and had a blast and said they would sit in the car again to have a trip like that. I consider that a success! It started Friday, we wanted to leave after morning traffic but before afternoon traffic, which gives us exactly 2 hours to leave, haha, just kidding, it's not that bad, but it feels like it sometimes. We left at 10:40, in case you wanted to know.
What we do almost every trip we take, stop at In and Out, it really wouldn't be a trip without a stop.
We got to Sequoia around 4pm and decided instead of hanging out a subpair hotel that we would just go into the park. We stayed just outside of Sequoia so we decided might as well take advantage of the 3 hours of daylight and head on in.
We gave Baby Fox an iPad for his 5th birthday, we were letting Mini Fox use Mr.'s iPad for the trip. We told them that they are only allowed to have them in car rides over 5 hours, and even then they can really only have them for the second half of a trip. So after lunch we finally let the kids have the iPads, they were excited, but to their credit, never asked for them because we had told them they weren't allowed to have them until after lunch.
She informed us that this Christmas hat was her hiking hat.
We went for a small walk down this path and found a really cool alcove with a really pretty waterfall.
and a small space for the kids to play around in.
Started off just walking around.
And turned into swimming...haha, oops!
She built a rock tower, she wanted a picture next to it.
We stopped at this place for dinner, my Dad calls Baby Fox Buckaroo, w thought it was fitting to eat here and take a picture. If you are even in Three Rivers, a must place to eat, SOOO good, you can eat outside over looking the river and there are toys for the kids to play with. Get the grilled cheese, amazing.
When we sat down everyone was so done of me taking pictures...and they were hungry.
After pleading with them, I just joined in, Mr. thought it was hilarious no one was cooperating.
And what a family selfie without a little zombie action?
The kids got to sleep in the same bed for the first time and thought it was the coolest thing EVER! They hide under the covers when they were suppose to be sleeping and were whispering to each other, like we couldn't hear...haha.
Saturaday we were up bright and early so we could get into the park and get through the construction, they said the wait could be up to 3 hours, so we figured that the earlier we started the better off we would be, since most people probably didn't stay right outside of the park, ended up on the weekends they don't work, so it wasn't going to be too bad. We were the first car at the stop, and only had to wait 10 minutes.
It was down to one lane, so we were waiting for all of the cars to come down. I got out and took a picture of course.
First stop was at the vistors center and the first place we could park. We heard that parking could be tough so we wanted to just find a spot and park. Good thing we did because parking was crazy up there. Turns out there is also a bus system that takes you between the popular spots. So it ended up working out really well. Did I tell you my brother also drove 6 hours to come hang out with us? The kids LOVED having him there.
My little zombies.
We saw that this hike was paved, so thought that was a good starting place.
20 feet in we saw this unpaved path and thought, hey let's go here instead. We ended up having to ditch the stroller at some fallen trees and shimmy our way under the tree. She pretty much held my brother's hand the whole time it was super cute.
After that we took a bus to General Sherman.
The boys got distracted doing this.
General Sherman, biggest tree in the world.
Then we took another bus to grab some food.
Turns out I left my sunglasses on the roof of my car when I went to get the stroller. Still sitting there 4 hours later. People are so honest. Or they didn't see them, in any case, glad I didn't lose them. Dirty car I know.
After that we decided to make our way to Kings Canyon National Park, where our second hotel was. It was a little over an hour away. We lost my brother due to a gas station thing, but finally found him about 2 hours later, we all checked in and then decided we would take advantage of the light and do one more thing. So of course we hit up General Grant. Original ranger house.
General Grant
It's hard to describe how big these trees really are. As you can see the cars are super small compared to them. If you ever have a chance, you should go. We stayed at the John Muir Lodge in Kings Canyon and it was great!
We were all pooped after all that hiking and touring around. We layed on the bed and watched shark week until it was time for bed.
The next morning this girl did not want to wake up, but we had to get going, finally at 8am we woke her up and she just wasn't having it...we are going to be in trouble when she gets older!
As always some things I've been loving around the blogland
The ladies over at The Blended Blog have created a super easy Monday morning post the first Monday of the month. It's called TBBAsks...where we ask a bunch of random questions and then you answer. What better way to have an easy post, answer some fun questions for your readers. Here is the list of this months questions, to be posted on Monday August 7th. Come link up with us!
Felicia from The Starving Chef, just came out with a Harry Potter Inspired treat and her video of the recipe is just so cute, I had to share! Plus how good does that treat look? Yum!
Have you heard about the new show The Sinner? Holy cow, I actually
watched an ad before a youtube video and was totally hooked. I can't
wait to watch it. But knowing Mr. we'll have to wait till all of the
episodes air before we can start watching it. The reason I know I'm
going to like this show, it's only 8 episodes, and we get an ending,
the.end. I told my parents to tape it, so we can talk about it when we
see them next.
One last thing, have you heard of Tailwind? It's a scheduling tool for Pinterest. It's actually pretty cool, unfortunately it isn't free, but I have gotten a lot of traffic because of it. Anyway, someone in another group was asking about a good Tribe, and no one had, so I suggested we start our own mom's one, and people seemed interested, so I'm starting up a group! I'm calling it Lift Each Other Up, because we as bloggers should do just that, pin each others pin and get it seen! If you want to join click here. Tailwind makes this an affiliate link, sorry about that. But if you do join Tailwind, using this link you get the first month free, which is a $15 monthly cost to try out. So that's cool, try it out for free, if you like it, keep using it, if not, ditch it!
What are you up to this weekend? I think we're going to go on something called a Fairy Trail Hike, where someone has put fairy gardens all along this hiking trail for kids to find. How cute is that?
. Turns out the one I used to have is now considered vintage...man I feel old. But I loved those plastic things.
