Friday Favorites #162

Hi Foxy Friends! It's Friday! Yay! Today is Baby Fox's first jog-a-thon and is super excited about it. Last year we were on vacation when he had his jog-a-thon, so he's pumped and ready to run. You know all 15 minutes they have allotted the kids to run. haha. So let's get to my Friday Favorites:

Monday: April Favorites
Tuesday: Boxy Charm Unboxing
Wednesday: Currently and Favorite Spring Shoes
Thursday: Sentence A Day

I know I posted two videos this week, who am I? Anyway. It would mean the world to me if you subscribed to my YouTube Channel and check out some videos. My most popular one is How To French Braid Your Hair, with close to 69K views!

This weekend my brother decided to come visit...but first Friday we did dinner some new friends. It's always nice to find another family to hang out with. I see us doing lots of stuff together in the future.

Friday my brother got there nice and early so he could make it to Baby Fox's baseball game. It was nice to see him. I only got to see him for a hot second before I had to take Mini Fox to her soccer game.

So Mini Fox's soccer coach is actually a friend from elementary school. He was one of my brother's good friends, so he was happy to see my brother show up a little later. And coach's sister ended up coming too, so it was like a mini reunion. Yes I am that short.

After soccer and baseball were all over, we headed over to the gym for swimming assessments. It's that time of year again when we get the kids into swim lessons.  They are both water safe, but we'd like them to be stronger swimmers, so we continue each summer with a couple of months of a refresher course.

Then the kids, my brother and Mr. had a huge Nerf war, much fun was had by all.

Sunday my brother left bright and early to head home. Meanwhile we decided to go to the Carlsbad Flower fields to take some pictures. We told the kids if they were really good that we would then take them to Legoland for a bit. It worked and I think we got some good pictures.

The opening of the new Legoland hotel was on Sunday, so we stopped by to check it out.

This picture cracks me up.

In the Hotel courtyard they had a whole playground for the kids. So awesome right?

And they had entertainment for them too, they played hide and seek and other games with them.

Then we headed into Legoland and got on 4 rides in an hour, it was awesome. We thought it would be super busy with the hotel opening, but it wasn't bad.

This guy is tall enough to ride on the boat by himself...wahhh, when did he get so big? What you don't see is Mini Fox crying her eyes out because last time we came she was able to go with my cousin's kid who was 48 inches and both my kids weren't but they all got to go on. I guess they changed the rules, because she wasn't allowed...cue the tears for the whole ride.

We headed home and they went for a dip in the spa.

Pretty darn good weekend from start to finish if you ask me.

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All the other Mondays we have topics for discussion. Please join us!

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You guys...these tips...holy cow...going to try some of them out, but in the mean time, one of her tips for strangers taking photos of you, take the photo of yourself of what you want captured and then show the stranger what you are looking for...what?! Genius...how many times have you asked someone for them to cut off your head? No just me? Well I'm trying this next time, not that I have people take photos of me when I don't have anyone I know...but next time I'm all in.

Hope you all have a great weekend! Mr. left today for a week, so I'm alone...with two kids...haha, just kidding it's not going to be that bad...right?

Linking up here 

Sentence A Day: April Edition

1 - Happy Easter, good day with family and friends.

2 - Happy 13th anniversary, we celebrated by taking the family out to dinner, wouldn't have it any other way!

3 - Arg...sat at doctors office for 2 hours to be seen by doctor for 5 minutes.

This picture was taken before I knew it was going to be a two hour wait!

4 - So excited to be going away for the long weekend, we all need this!

5 - At at my favorite Mexican place in the mountains (slightly out of the way), and instead of stopping at half, I ate the whole darn thing.

6 - Hiked for 1.5 miles and all the kids did GREAT!

7 - The Big Bear Zoo was awesome, the kids loved it and they were all rescue animals.

8 - Home from the mountains, and instead of getting stuff done I took a nap.

9 - Mr. left for the week for work, boo!

10 - We started Baby Fox up with karate again, he's loving it.

11 - Love when I get to work from home, get to sleep in 3 extra hours!

12 - He's back and we survived!

13 - Dinner with friends, love ending our week with them.

14 - Full day, little league snack shack volunteer, soccer, and baseball all followed by my cousins 40th birthday party, sans kids.

15 - Celebrating Dad's birthday, lasagna and carrot cake for the win.

16 - Love being able to take the kids to trampoline and gymnastics class.

17 - Took Baby Fox to Karate and got over to the gym for a short run, which is better than nothing right?

18 - Working Out feels so good.

19 - Disney On Ice, so much fun, and the kids of course loved it!

20 - Love Friday with our friends, a little surf and turf to end the week isn't bad.

21 - Fun day full of soccer, baseball and a little league fundraiser with friends.

22 - Had a nice day out with my aunt wine tasting...well I ate the food, they wine tasted, haha.

23 - Leaving for Santa Barbara, looking forward to a few days away.

24 - Best day EVER!

25 - So good to see the kids!

26 - Got in a 2 mile...let's call it a slow jog, while Baby Fox was at baseball practice.

27 - Dinner at a friends house is always a great way to end the week.

28 - Soccer, baseball and seeing my brother after 4 months is a pretty darn good day.

29 - Flower Fields and Legoland for an hour for the win.

30 - Ugh, sick again...boo, but glad I can work from home on days like these.

31 - It was hard waking up this morning, shoot me now.

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An InLinkz Link-up

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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An InLinkz Link-up

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: