Currently + Favorite Sandals

Linking up with Anne and Carrie for Currently. This months topics  are celebrating, creating, wearing, sharing and going.

Celebrating:

Well last month we celebrated 13 years of marriage, and this month we are celebrating Mother's Day. Each year I'm thankful for my children and what awesome little humans they are.

Creating:

The kids want to create a YouTube Channel, so I'm busy doing that. Filming enough stuff, before we upload our first video, so we can keep content coming at least once a week. They want their first video to be a cook with me video, so I'm busy editing that.

Wearing:

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The Blended Blog prompt for today is summer sandals.

 

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Okay so the sneaker is not a sandal, but they were so stinkin' cute I think everyone needs a pair!

I have those exact flip flops and they are so comfortable and the rhinestones on the top just make them fancy flip flops. I like wearing them at weddings after my feet have decided they no longer want anything to do with heels. They feel fancier than wearing regular flip flops. And did I mention how comfortable they are? So much so I'm on my second pair.

The ruffle wedge comes in 4 colors too, I want one in each color, they are just so darn cute.

The metallic sandal is a great way to be able to slightly dress up any dress, or wear with some shorts for a more put together look, and it comes in 5 different colors.

I think I could do a whole post on cute white sandals, but I'll refrain and only show you these, cause those flowers, adorableness on your feet. If white isn't your thing? Don't worry they come in 3 other colors.

Did you know Aerosoles, made cute wedges? If comfort and stylish is your thing, I'm fairly certain you NEED these wedges.

Sharing:

Thank You Wikibuy for the free product. As always all opinions and thoughts are my own.

Have you heard of Wikibuy? They recently reached out to me recently wanting me to check out their service. Funny they reached out when they did because I was going to buy a bunch of stuff from Tarte anyway, and of course Tarte is on their list, so it found the coupon code to save 25%. 

Prior to using Wikibuy, I was using a different service sort of similar, but it NEVER worked! It NEVER found any good deals. The great thing about Wikibuy is that it not only searches for coupon codes to use but also searches for the best price, so you know you're getting the best price.

So let's say you are on Gap.com and you find something. This is what comes up.

Then you click on the try codes and it automatically tries it for you!

Finds the best code to use and codes that no longer work.

This time it saved me $36.78, pretty good, for doing no work at all!

On amazon, it also looks for the best deals, to make sure you got the cheapest price.

It let's you know if you can save money.

In this case Wikibuy is actually selling this product that I can get cheaper.

In this case, I had bought something through wikibuy and had some credit with them, when you buy from their website, you get wiki credit that you can use on future purchases or items from their redeem Wiki Credit.

So because I shopped through them, I saved $7 on a future purchase, pretty awesome for shopping online, which I do on the daily. I would definitely use them! And if you're not comfortable buying things through their website, at least use it for the discount codes and finding cheaper prices.

Going:

Making summer plans. So excited for all that we have planned, and I'm sure we're not completely done yet. So far we are headed up to San Jose area to visit a good friend and her family. This is the same family we went to San Luis Obispo last summer with. It will be good to see them, they've been through so much the last few month, it will be good to hug them.

Then we just booked The Great Wolf Lodge for a night stay. Sort of excited to see what all the talk is about, and now that the kids are bigger and can hopefully go down a lot of the slides, I think it will be a good way to kick off the summer.

Then we are headed to Yosemite to round out the summer, I still can't believe we got a camp site! Those things are like gold man. But excited to do some exploring, camping, hiking and enjoying our friends before school starts.

Who knows what else we'll do, but for now I'm looking forward to all things summer. Oh and how could I forget to mention the beach, lots of beach trips!

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April Boxy Charm Unboxing

Hi Foxy Friends! I know, two videos in a row, sometimes it works out like that. I was hoping to get this one out, sooner, but time and going away with Mr. something had to give. So I'm bringing it to you now.

Here's what came in my box this month, remember I paid $19.33 for this box, but got 3 full products. If you want to try out Boxy Charm, here is my affiliate link. I have no idea what I get when you sign up....anyway, here is what I got in my box this month.

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Tartiest Pro Glow - $29

ColourPop Eye Shadow Palette - $22

Dr. Brandt Pore No More Cleaner - $42

The Brow Gal Gel - $22

Adesse Liquid Lipstick - $24

If you want to see these things in action:

 

April Favorites

Hi Foxy Friends. How is it the last day of April already? Today I have my April favorites for you in video form.

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Here is all of the products mentioned:

It's A 10 Hair Mask
Marc Jacobs Foundation
Moroccanoil Hand Cream
Fitbit Flex 2
Coach Backpack

Friday Favorites #161

Hi Foxy Friends! Let me tell you going back to work after having 6 days off, hard work I tell ya! But I made it and luckily I only had to go to work for 2 days, then weekend! Plus my brother is coming to visit this weekend I  haven't seen him since Christmas...wow has it really been that long? Long overdue! Okay let's get to my favorites...I usually recap my previous weekend on Fridays (I know it takes a while to get my act together...anyway...) but I recapped that on Monday this week. So I'm going to recap my three day getaway with Mr, along with other stuff.

But first...in case you missed it:

Monday: What Spring Looks Like In My World
Tuesday: Big Bear Adventure
Wednesday: Graphic Sweater Obsession
Thursday: How I Do My Make Up

Mr. and I love going to The Simpson House Inn, it's a 5 star bed and breakfast in Santa Barbara, usually the prices are for 10 year anniversary type things, but they had a cyber Monday sale, the first time ever, that we've seen, so we jumped on it and booked the trip. The last time we were here was for our 10 year anniversary, so 3 years ago. Man time goes fast!

This is the main house, we stayed in a cottage just to the left of this picture.

This was our room. The part to the front is a different room, but we had that door and the windows on the second floor that you can see.

What we love, is they have a fantastic happy hour, with hot appetizers and yummy cheeses.

After we stuffed our faces with the Hors D'oeuvres, we decided to head to State Street to walk around a bit before dinner. We were going to try and hit up a movie, but decided to take a nap instead...it was glorious. We ended up this fun bar called Fox Tail.

Strange that it was Mediterranean and burgers, but it worked. We got the Baba Ganoush and the Shawarma Sliders, both were delicious. We ate a little on the lighter side, because of all the food at the hotel, but it was nice to try some small things out.

When we got back they had turned down our bed and gave us chocolates with a personalized card (it has our last name on it, but they personalized the card, it was pretty cool).

We ended the evening with a fire and some champagne. By the way the Kirkland Champagne is delicious! Highly recommend.

What happens when you stay at a bed and breakfast? You get breakfast of course! First morning the hot breakfast was French Toast, I don't care for French Toast so I opted for eggs and toast and fruit. You tell them what time you want them to come and then they set up breakfast for you anywhere we wanted. We chose in the room, since it was low 50's outside (too cold for these softies).

Even came with a cute card of encouragement.

After we ate breakfast we were lazy and casually got ready. First stop of the day...wine tasting of course.

We were the only ones there and the let us in the wine barrel room.

We bought a few bottles of wine, it was buy two get your tasting fee "waived" so we had to get 4 bottles right?

After wine tasting we knew we wanted to try out this taco place called Goa Taco...you guys...if you are ever in Santa Barbara, you HAVE to go to this place, so dang good! Instead of the normal corn or flour tortillas they use something called Paratha, the best way to describe it is like a flaky pastry, but not sweet, like a dessert.

They have unique tacos too, we had the pork belly, duck and lamb.

We chose to eat outside.

The top one is the duck and the bottom one was the pork belly, both of these were delicious. After we finished these, we were somewhat full, but wanted to try some other flavors...

p.s. Mr. took a bite out of the top one, before I yelled at him that I hadn't gotten a picture...if you look closely, you can see the missing bite, haha.

Second round was lamb (not as good, in my opinion as the first two, but still really good) and a queso oaxaca quesadilla. So dang good, seriously, that is a must have too! I would definitely go with someone you like so you can split everything, because these things are big!

Afterwards we went to see Black Panther, and it did not disappoint. We headed back to the hotel to relax a bit and of course go to happy hour. This time it was meatballs made by Oprah's chef, they were very good, no pictures, oops. Since we had a big lunch, and the happy hour we decided to skip dinner (thought happy hour could be considered dinner) and head to the beach to watch the sunset...unfortunately this beach is not west facing, but we still got some pretty views, despite how cold/windy it was.

We ended up walking to the end of the pier.

Last breakfast before leaving...we had such a lovely time reconnecting and being without the kids for a few days, but we were both ready to be home. Morning inspiration.

The breakfast...was some sort of corn and black bean with eggs? I can't remember what they said it was, but it was good!

Then we packed up and headed home. We hung out with the kids for a couple of hours and then I decided I wanted to hit up my normal Wednesday night workout class. Can you find me?

So that was our three days away. If you're still with me, thanks for sticking around for the full recap. I love reading back on these as the years pass, so that's for putting up with the long recaps.

So what are you doing this weekend? My brother is headed to town and we're hoping to hit up the flower fields as well. Plus Baby Fox's baseball game...going to be the first game where it is kid pitched...lord have mercy on us all!

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How I Do My Make Up

Hi Foxy Friends,

I had gotten a new foundation, so I thought I would review it, and then thought, hey now would be a good time to show everyone how I do my make up too. Two birds, one stone...that saying seems so mean. Anyway, here is my review:

Products mentioned:

Tarte Foundation

Tarte Shape Tape Concealer

Make Up Forever Powder

Too Faced Primer

Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eye Shadow

Urban Decay Eyeliner

Tarte Double Take Eyeliner

Pur Eyelashes

Mac Bronzer

Brow Pencil

Lipsense - Plumeria

Make Up Forever Powder Foundation

Marc Jacob's Foundation

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My Graphic Sweater Obsession

Hi Foxy Friends! I have a confession...I'm currently obsessed with making graphic sweaters...and I'm sure I'm going to start making t-shirts/tank tops now that it's getting warm. I know I am going to make a taco one on a tank for the gym, cause why go to the gym...to eat tacos of course! Anyway, I saw this phrase on a sign and thought, hey that would make for a good graphic sweater. Then when I went to Seattle I made one for each of the girls too.

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Sweater (I made) / Jeans (similar here (high end), and here (budget friendly)) / Shoes / Bralette (from Costco)

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