10 Things I Love About My Home

When I saw Becky do this, I knew I had to participate in it too. Each month there is a topic to discuss and it's numbered, there is nothing better then that. Seriously, here are the topics for the rest of the year. Thanks Erin for hosting.

This month we are writing about things we love about our home. Here are my top 10 things:

| ONE |

Before we even bought our house, I told Mr. if we buy this house, I'm getting a new stair case. Of course he obliged and I just LOVE the look of it.

This is where we started, it came a long way. Here are the details on our stairs if you want to see the process.



| TWO |

Is it okay to like the stairs twice? Haha, just kidding sort of, but I just love Christmas time and the Christmas tree that we put near our stairs. I can't wait to start decorating! Confession: We might have to start decorating early because we're going to be gone the weekend before Thanksgiving, and Mr. is going to be gone the two weeks after Thanksgiving, so we might be decorating for Christmas middle of November, I'm sort of excited.

 | Three |

Okay moving away from the stairs, haha. I am going to go with our bathroom. Surprisingly...when I said that I wanted new stairs, Mr. said he wanted a big TV and a Claw Foot Tub. Our bathroom is stupidly big but that clawfoot looks amazing in it. Now we just need to get rid of the dollar tree drapes we bought so we could take a bath and I would be one happy Mama.

Apparently I don't have a great picture of our bathtub...oops, well you get the picture. Here is the post on our bathroom renovation.




| FOUR |

We did a mini remodel on our kitchen end of last year, and I love it. I'm actually doing a post on our remodel next week, so stay tuned for that! Even though we didn't do much, I just love having functioning doors and drawers...such a treat after 7 years, haha!

| FIVE |

Last year Mr. make Baby Fox his own Lego Wall, I think it turned out pretty awesome, and every time I walk into his room, I just smile because so much love and effort went into it by Mr.

| SIX |

Mr.'s office area.  He wanted the claw foot tub and a big TV. We got it, and it's a great room to retreat to after the kids go to bed. The kids are allowed to watch TV in there on a limited basis, so it really is our little piece of the house that is unjaded by kid stuff.

| SEVEN |

Our closet, we ripped out everything and Mr. put in all hanging rods for me, and just recently we put in some shelves, which I have yet to take a picture of. Oops.

| EIGHT |

Our backyard, we did a HUGE renovation a couple of years ago and are so glad that we decided to do it then instead of waiting a bit. We use it ALL the time. Granted I hate going swimming, actually I like swimming when it is 100° with 90% humidity, anything less then that, I am happy to watch.

| NINE |

Our family room mantel, I love how big it is, and how I can pretty much put anything on it and so much of it, although storing all that stuff is starting to become a problem, I think it's so much fun!

| TEN |

We have the perfect house for party throwing. We have limited room in our living room, which is perfect for party throwing. We love hosting parties for our friends and family. Especially kids parties, I love making these back drops for this huge wall that we have.

I might be a little late to the party, but better late than never right? What is the favorite part of your house?

Linking up here

Kids Behind the Blog: September Edition

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 8.5 months

Mini Fox is 4 years (waaah, as of 2 days ago)

Baby Fox

How is school going so far? Good. Tell me something you have learned. Ummmmmm......nothing...nothing yet. {He's only been in school for 2 weeks, and he's in a 1-2 combo class, so I think the teacher is still trying to get a feel for where everyone is.}

Have you made any new friends yet? Yes...what are their names? Isaiah
 

What is your favorite thing to do after school? Relax.

What is your favorite TV show right now? Teen Titans Go
 

Do you have any pets? No. 

Mini Fox

How is school going so far? Good
Tell me something you have learned. Umm....I learned homework...no I don't know what I learned. I learned numbers.

Have you made any Friends yet? Yes, there are three new kids....I don't know their names.

What is your favorite thing to do after school? mmm...we don't usually do nothing, but my favorite thing to do after school is Chucky Cheese. {clearly she needs school with that double negative right there}

What is your favorite TV show right now? Octonauts

Do you have any pets? Umm...No. But Ms. Heidi has one that's Penny

Linking up here

Friday Favorties #133

Happy Friday Foxy Friends! I have today off, woo hoo. Prepping for Mini Fox's birthday party, holy cow I have a ton to do and not much time to do it! Mr. wants to go on an outting tomorrow, which leaves me today to finish stuff up before the party on Sunday...trying not to panic. Today is the first time that I will be dropping both kids off at school and will have 4 hours to get stuff done...before party day, that's huge! Now hopefully I can be super productive! Okay onto Friday Favorites.

In case you missed it on the blog this week:

Monday: The Blended Blog Asks - September Edition
Tuesday: Yosemite Trip - Day 1 and 2
Wednesday: Floral and Stripes
Thursday: Sentence A Day - August Edition

The past weekend was so much fun!  Saturday we went to the beach with friends (the same ones we went to Yosemite with), and while our method to getting to the beach was questionable (think 4 children walking on the side of the road...like bike lane side of a busy road) to get to a neighborhood that had a bridge to where we wanted to go...to get to the beach, but once we were there, no one else was crazy enough to do it, so we had the beach to ourselves...

This was to our left

In front of us (those are our kids)

To our right, and with all of that beach space, the kids wanted to dig right under Mr.'s feet. Go figure.

After that we all went home showered quickly dropped the kids off and went to my birthday dinner at Ruth's Chris...yummy!

They even had a happy birthday in the menu for me, how cool is that?

Best Ceasar salad EVER!

Steak...yum. I only ate half, Mr. had the other half the next day.



Great way to celebrate my birthday, with good friends.

Sunday we took the kids apple picking up in Julian. So much fun! Definitely going to be a yearly tradition! We meet up with some good friends we haven't seen in over a year! Crazy how fast time flies. The kids took about 10 minutes to warm up to each other and then they were off and running.

Afterwards we went across the street and had a picnic, the kids played and played until we thought it was time to go, they were having a blast.

Then we decided we weren't done hanging out and we needed to find something else to do. We tried to go to an antique market but that was a bust, but there was the cutest swing ever there, that of course I put the older kids in and think I got the BEST picture. If they ever get married, this is SO the picture we are using! Yep he's pushing her on a swing...yes I told them to smile, yes I told him to push her...yes this was totally staged, but they kids pulled it off so well, like they actually liked it.

Afterwards we went to a place that did Mining for Gems, super fun, and the kids again had a blast!

Showing off their loot, good thing I brought an extra clothes for them to change into!

We also couldn't leave without an apple pie!

Such a great weekend! Monday was catch up day, which we really needed! We actually didn't get out of our pajamas until we had guest over for dinner...which was Thanksgiving! We decided we needed some turkey in our lives so I made it happen, so good. I think I'm good until Thanksgiving.

So good! And we had left overs, which was the best part.

As usual linking up with The Blended Blog to share a little blogger love.

First up is Rebecca Jo from Knit By God's Hand, have you read her blog, she is super sweet and writes down to earth, this is her kind of posts. She's the one that I got the Sentence A Day from. Go read her sentences from this month! And can we say #hairgoals?

Jamie from No Delusions of Grandeur also linked up with us for the first time. I haven't read her blog, but based off of her sentences, she is definitely someone I want to start following! Go tell her hi from me. Plus anyone taking a picture like this I want to be friends with.

As always here are a few things I've been loving around the internet land.

I shared this guy singing favorite 90's music, and here is the 2000's, loving this guys videos!

haha, this is hilarious, I feel this way about pumpkin stuff. I wish I liked it, but I just don't. Anyone else with me? Anyone?

Who is ready for 33 new Hallmark Christmas movies? This girl is...now to figure out how to get the Hallmark Channel!

Linking up here

Sentence A Day: August Edition

1- Traffic sucks, why must it take 2 hours to get home everyday?

2- Late to R.I.P.P.E.D but better 10 minutes late than never.

3- Allergy shots, again, back to the beginning of the column, boo! Why must I be so allergic to everything?!

4- Hanging out with mom and sister, feel likes forever!

5- Fairy trail hiking with friends, so fun!

6- We set up a 12x15 tent in my living room.

7- Why isn't my stair stepper counter working?!

8- Swim lessons, only 3 weeks left!

9- Man that was a long drive home, guess no gym today, time to pack for the trip!

10- We're going on a trip, we're going on a trip!

11- Wine tasting and random trip to see Elephant Seals.

12- Beach day, the kids had a blast and it was nice that they can finally entertain themselves.

13- Driving home, long drive, but the weekend with friends was worth it.

14- When your car registration and tags come in the mail, put them in/on your car immediately, thankful for AAA for saving my butt some time, 10 minutes and $20 and I have my tags and registration in my hot little hands.

15- The kids got their Halloween costumes, now, for them NOT to change their mind would be a miracle.

16- Working out to the new release and boy is it hard!

17- Mini Fox is sleeping at my parents, so it's just Me, Mr. and the boy.

18- Fright night lights, or something like that. Bestie moved to my town, which means we can watch her son play, he's in JV and usually plays on Thursday, so we had to come for his one Friday scrimmage.

19- Birthday party, followed up with going to a friends work back to school night = perfect day.



20- Super productive, cleaned out closet, grocery shopping with two kids, hung out with friend and talked about the camping trip, who's bringing what.

21- Baby Fox has soccer practice, might as well get a workout in, some step ups using the bench,  burpees, squats, lunges, stair running, feels good.

22- I had all the best intentions to workout...but it just didn't happen.

23- Packing for a trip, we're going on our first camping trip, will all this stuff fit into the trunk?!

24- Taking two days to get to Yosemite, glad we did that, the kids did great and the hotel had a pool.

25- Within the first hour, Baby Fox comes up to me and says, this is the best trip ever, can we stay the week?

26- The kids did amazing hiking to Vernal Falls, so proud of them!

27- 8 hour drive...worth it!

28- First Day of School, I have a first grader!

29- Last swim lesson of the season...I get my Tuesdays back, woo hoo!

30- It's my birthday, it's my birthday!

31 - Feeling lazy and tired, no workout today.

I hope you'll join us next month! We post the first Thursday of every month! See you there!

An InLinkz Link-up

Strips and Floral

Today I'm over on The Blended Blog hosting our Link Up, go over there to check out more details of an outfit I straight up copied from my friends Lisa, Deena, and Christy.

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Skirt (Similar)/ Shirt (similar) / Shoes (similar)

Confession: While trying to find a skirt similar to the one I have on, I found one...and then bought it myself, because it also comes in black and white polka dots...I had to, for $18, add to cart!

Also linking up with Anne from Anne In Residence and her monthly "currently" where she gives you the topics to talk about. This time her cohost is Lowanda of Sunshine and Elephants and the topic is  celebrating, watching, welcoming, preparing, and photographing.

Currently we are:

Celebrating

Mini Fox! I can't believe she's 4 already! When did that happen? Wasn't it just yesterday that she looked like this?

Watching

Several things, just finished Game of Thrones. Currently at this moment we're watching Dark Matter, which is about 6 people who wake up on a space ship and don't know who they are or how they got there.
 

 

We're also just picked up Beyond, which is pretty good, although we're only 3 episodes in, but it's about a kid who was in a coma for 12 years and wakes up to people wanting to get him and him figuring out where he was the last 12 years and trying to get those memories back.

Welcoming

A new cousin into the family. Curtis's cousin is getting married weekend after next, excited to see them get married and and celebrate their marriage. Plus my Mother-In-Law and Brother-In-Law are coming into town to celebrate too, so we'll get a few days with them.


Preparing

For Mini Fox's birthday party. Do you sense a theme here? My life revolves around it. I tried to use my new Cricut the other night and totally failed miserably, and am on such a time crunch, don't have time to figure it out, so I pulled out my old one and got the job done. Today I'm buying the food and ordering some more food and trying to get my ducks in a row so I can actually enjoy our day out on Saturday.

Photographing

We went out to Julian to go apple picking last weekend, see #2 above, and had a blast! I actually brought my big camera and took all of the pictures. So much fun. This one was my favorite, and I took it on my iphone...

Okay now onto our Fashion post link up, thanks for continuing to make our link up a success! Click on some links and find some new people to follow!

An InLinkz Link-up