10 Favorite Places To Travel

Last year I participated with Erin for 10th on the 10th and she's continuing it this year, click here for those posts. As we head into Summer we are talking about 10 favorite places to travel to.

Mr. and I have gone on some pretty awesome trips. I decided to break it up into 5 places I have been and 5 places I really want to go to. These might not be my favorites, but I think they could be.

5 Favorite Place I've Been:

| ONE | Bora Bora

I've recapped it here, but who wouldn't love over the water bungalows, and didn't see one kid for 2 weeks.



This was 13 years ago.



| TWO | Santa Barbara

This is one of our favorite places to go, before we had kids we would go on a whim on weekends. Now we have to plan a bit better, but it's pretty awesome to relax and unwind. Here's our last trip.



| THREE | Yosemite

So much fun, we love camping and driving up. There is so much to do there. Mr. and I have hiked half dome before (highly recommend), it was a hike of a lifetime.



We are loving that we can share this with our kids.

| FOUR | Italy

We went on a 3 week trip to Italy and Switzerland, but my favorite part was Italy. We had so much fun in Rome and Cinque Terre and Florence. Each place contains it's own beauty. I would love to take the kids one day and explore some other parts of Italy.




| FIVE | Park City, or any place we can snowboard

We love taking snowboarding trips. Fun fact: we didn't start snowboarding till our late 20's and actually postpone trying to have kids so we could have one more season of snowboarding. Mostly we got to Park City...I mean when the mountain looks like this, what's not to love. We found a run that mostly no one goes on...see no people here. Not sure why as it's so pretty.



Same fun as above, but just after that view.




Places I would like to travel to:

{ ONE } Italy, summer vacation

One day Mr. and I would like to take the whole summer and live in Tuscany...although we'd be open to any country side sort of thing. We think it would be so fun to take the kids whole summer vacation and live there. One of the reasons we contemplated homeschooling, so we could live somewhere for a few months while we teach them the history behind it. A picture from when we went to bike riding in Tuscany.

{ TWO } Whistler

One day we will snowboard in Whistler, we always here how amazing it is, and how everyone thinks it's the best place to snowboard, who wants to meet us there?

{ THREE } Maui

Mr. love Hawaii and in our 14 years together we've never been. We were going to go this summer, but it didn't work out as Mr.'s Best Friend is getting married at a destination, so we've got to do that, more details to come on that! But Maui...we're going summer of 2019, anyone want to join us?

{ FOUR } Europe

I know this sort of is a copy of number one, but I want to travel all over Europe and explore all of the small towns, and eat all of the local food. I think would be great life experience for the kids to see different parts of the world. We'll start with Europe and work our way around.

{ FIVE } Great Barrier Reef

I want to go here and snorkel and scuba dive before it all dies away and it's a distant memory. Mr and I have done a few resort dives (meaning you don't have to be certified, and they only take you as deep as you can hold your breathe and swim to the top). It's really an amazing thing to do, and if we got to the Great Barrier Reef, we will definitely be getting certified!

This is us snorkeling in Cabo.

So where is your favorite place to travel? Anything I need to add to my list?

Friday Favorites #166

Happy Friday Foxy Friends! Slowing getting back at it after taking 10 days off of work. The week was long, but at least next week is my off Friday, so that helps. Plus it's Baby Fox's last day of school! I can't believe he's going to be a 2nd grader! But here are this weeks favorites:

If you missed it this week:

Monday: TBB Asks - Summer Edition
Tuesday:  FabFitFun Summer Unboxing (BEST BOX YET)
Wednesday:  Styling Summer Skirts
Thursday: Sentence A Day

Help me and Mr. settle a debate we're having in our household...it's about cereal, it's about to get serious. LOL, j/k.

In the spectrum of cereal to milk to soggy ratio...

One side of the speturm - Rice Krispies you don't want to be soggy at all, so you typically will pour milk and eat right away.

The other side of the spectrum - Shredded Wheat (you know the big ones, where two fit in your bowl kind), you want that pretty saturated in milk, otherwise you tear up your mouth eating it.

So the question is:

Where do you stand on Wheat Chex? My stand is that I want it to be crunchy, while I don't want it as fresh as Rice Krsipies, I definitely don't want it on the Shredded Wheat side. But I am on the camp of I want it crunchy, not soggy at all. Mr. is in the camp that he wants it to be more soggy, less crunchy.

He told me to ask all of you. So where do you stand? Close to Rice Krispies or closer to Shreaded Wheat? Sound off below so I can prove to Mr. I am right!

It's been a couple of weeks since I shared what's been going on with us? We'll start with Memorial Day weekend, we were so busy, so I'll try to pair down the pictures. Started out with Bunko Girls Night. This is a new group of friends, and loved getting to chat with them.

Then Saturday I went to a baby shower for a good friend, isn't she so cute? I look like a giant compared to her...I'm 5'3" (I am wearing heels, but you get the point).

This girl came with me and loved every minute of the girl time.

My Mother-In-Law was in town, so we went to our favorite Mexican place with her sister.

Then decided to get some yogurt so we called up some friends and we all took over the place...Literally, we took every seat in the place. Not seen in this picture are the 4 other kids and 2 other adults, haha.

Sunday was church, these kids are so cute.

Of course there has to be a silly picture.

Monday, Memorial Day, went to to a friends house for a BBQ (the same friends from yogurt and church above). This is max capacity of the amount of kids that can be in one pool by the way.

Nice when the kids can all swim...see that hat I am wearing? Mr. said I would never wear it when he bought it for me last year..I'm proving him wrong and wear it  ALL the time.

Some other pictures from the past few weeks. While we were together for a sad reason, so glad that these kids have each other (those are some of my cousins kids, plus my cousin, you know the adult on the back left).

We also got to try out a winery, which was fun and the kids got to play games while we did wine tasting, win-win.

We thought we were going to miss our good friends (our Friday night dinner friends) daughters birthday party, but we were able to finish what we had going on and get there in time. Which was a nice way to end a really rough few days.

Sunday my cousins called us up and said, hey we're coming down your way to pick up a new to us car, can we stop by and have lunch with you? Of course, love a last minute cousin visit, so we headed out to In and Out.

I got home from grocery shopping and found these two playing the ukelale together, so dang sweet, maybe time for some music lessons?

I decided to make a pot roast for dinner, so Mini Fox is watching me make the gravy...I just love that she is on her tippy toes trying to see what I am doing.

She recently got this dress from a friend, and holy cow, why does she look 7? Where did my baby go?!

I bought the kids some colored pasta, and they were freaking out about them, and we told them let's do a taste test, so we covered their eyes and taste tested them...yep they didn't get one of them right. They were fine eating the pasta after that. Parent win.

Wow, this is probably one of the most amazing things I've seen...how does that girl do that?! So happy that they got a golden buzzer! I cried tears of joy with them, they deserve it with all of their hard work!

While we're on America's Got Talent, here is a guy, dad of 6 who wanted to show his foster children that anything is possible. He is really good too, I just love this show. Simon is so nice now.

I remember growing up my favorite night with my mom was watching the beauty pageants and thinking I want to be one of them someday. They were all so smart, some of them future doctors and lawyers...I just thought it was so cool. Now I'm so happy that they are changing the platform and actually making it about the person instead of what they look like. Getting to know each contestent, because I ALWAYS picked the person i thought had the most personality while stating their name and where they are from...cause we can tell so much from that...NOT!

Also, you know how I am a part of The Blended Blog, well we've been hosting a Friday Loves and we decided to put it over on our own blogs to get the word out, so link up with us each Friday!

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Linking up here 

Sentence A Day: May Edition

1 - Baby Fox got to go to Waffles and Coding today, so super cute.

2 - Love taking my R.I.P.P.E.D To the Core class.

3 - Got a workout in while Baby Fox was at baseball, I'm going to miss baseball when it ends in a couple of weeks.

4 - Wahhhh, Mr. left for China for 8 days!

5 - So busy, with Mr. gone, Baby Fox had baseball, Mini Fox had soccer followed by a birthday party and then some friends came to our house for dinner, my heart is full.

6 - Church followed by grocery shopping and then the pool with some friends, unexpected day, but a good way to spend a Sunday.

7 - Baby Fox's last day of Faith Formation, we'll see you next year, when Baby Fox will prepare for 1st holy communion, how is he old enough?!

8 - Worked from home so I could register Baby Fox for camp...crazy long lines, and then a window shades guy came over, so excited to get our shades...hopefully this will help with the hot summer months.

9 - Love my Wednesday workout, always fun to workout with friends.

10 - Treated myself to a facial and it was glorious, might have to add this into my routine, don't think I can do it every month, but definitely every other?

11 - Dinner with friends, Thai food again, but is always good.

12 - So happy that Baby Fox got to pitch today, he's been wanting to pitch an inning and he did great, plus Mr. is finally home! Here is a video if you want to see him in action.

13 - Had a wonderful Mother's Day with family, church followed by shopping by myself and then dinner with my parents and sister.

14 - Ran around in circles in my room to get to 10K steps, needed 1200 more before bed, haha.

15 - Loving our new routine, drop Baby Fox at karate at 4, drive to gym, workout, let Mini Fox take her karate class (she takes the free lessons at our gym...), then pick up Mini Fox, then Baby Fox, then hit up some allergy shots, phew that was a lot!

16 - Getting my workout on, I love this class.

17 - Much needed Mom's Night Out, so good to catch up and talk all night long.

18 - Decided to make Lumpia (which didn't turn out exactly, but was still good), Mongolian Beef and broccoli and bacon fried rice, all so yummy!

19 - Mini Fox's last soccer game of the season, followed by a Mother's Day Tea, followed by a PTA sponsored Mom's night out...man such a long day, but super fun.

20 - Mr. and Baby Fox went to the little league baseball game, so myself and Mini Fox had a fun day of church, a play place, followed by lunch and then her bestie over for some more playing, her best day ever.

21 - Egg Roll in a bowl is where it's at for dinner these days.

22 - First swim lessons of the summer for Mini Fox.

23 - Baby Fox had his open house, man they have been busy.

24 - Last minute Bunko night with new friends, always a fun time.

25 - Received some heartbreak news, it was expected, but still doesn't make hearing it any less hard.

26 - Grandma is here visiting!

27 - Didn't get to see our Friday night dinner friends on Friday, so we did it on a Sunday instead, love long weekends!

28 - What a fun day with new friends, I hope there are many more of these to come this summer!

29 - Taking the week off, started it off by going to my favorite Wednesday night class, but on a Tuesday morning, I never get to do that.

30 - Another day off to do what I want, I like not working...rather working very little, Mr. says I'm doing more now then when I work, haha, that might be true.

31 - Again no work, so I did all of the cricut projects I wanted to get done.

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Summer Skirts

Hello Foxy Friends! If you are here from The Blended Blog, welcome to this space of mine! I know you are here just to see the cute picture of my daughter posing like a #fashionblogger. So here ya go:

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 Mini Fox Outfit Details: Skirt (they are really shorts, only $3.99) / Shirt / Flip Flops

Our outfits just happen to coordinate it. It was not planned at all. Although when I was trying to decide what to wear, she walked into my closet and said wear this...pointing to the scarf, so I did pick the outfit around that scarf right there.

Outfit Details: Skirt / Tank (similar) / Scarf (similar, but not really) / Shoes (similar)

Make Up Details: Foundation / Finishing Powder / Eyeshadow / Eyelashes / Blush / Bronzer
 / Eye Brow Pencil 

Here are some more pictures of the girl...she just loves posing for pictures. Wonder where she gets that?

Seriously, I should just stop taking my own outfit pictures and let her do it instead.

Love this picture of us...and I have no idea what the lipstick I was wearing, I can't for the life of me remember what I put on...probably Lipsense

Here are some other skirts that would be perfect for summer:

This midi jean skirt would be perfect for shopping or church.

This asymmetrical one is just fun and I'm obsessed with grey stripes right now...evidence here.

This one is fun for the beach.

Who doesn't like gingham? This would be perfect for errands or church.

Floral is just fun no matter what. After seeing all of my choices, looks like I am really in a midi skirt phase.

Now link up your favorite summer finds!

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Summer FabFitFun Unboxing: Best Box Yet!

Hi Foxy Friends! I got the Summer FabFitFun box and I couldn't wait to tear into it. It actually sat on my dresser for a week before I could do an unboxing. If you don't know what FabFitFun is, it's a seasonal subscription service where you pay a flat fee (about $45 a box) and you get $200 worth of product. Every box is totally worth it, but I think this Summer box totally knocked it out of the park!

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Watch the video below to see what I got.

Breakdown of what I got:

Tarte Contour and Highlight Palette  - $45

Ring - $55

Sportband - $15

Enzyme Peel - $45

Cleansing Brush - $89

Sunscreen - $32

Ring Dish - $14.99

Make Up Carrier - $58


Details on Me: Dress I am wearing is this one, necklace is from here.
Make Up Details: Eyeshadow / Eyelashes / Blush / Bronzer

TBB Asks: June Edition

Hi Foxy Friends! Sorry I have been MIA for a bit. We had some family stuff going on, and I decided to concentrate on family and being in the moment for a bit. But I couldn't miss out on TBB Asks Monday, those are my favorite days! Go link up your answers here!

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1. Walk or Bike? Bike, because you cover more ground. But we rarely bike around here, so I guess walk? We like going on hikes whenever we travel to a new spot.

2. Favorite Picnic Food? So the only picnic food I really eat is the kind you can take to the beach, so I really like pretzel bread with salami, mustard and cheese with some  Kettle BBQ chips.

3.  Pool or Lake? Pool, we don't have a lake? Or can I pick beach? We do have those.

4. Favorite Flavor of Ice Cream? Chocolate Malted Crunch from Thrifty's (now located in Rite Aid), do you have that where you live?

5.  Ice Cream Cone or In A Dish? Ice cream cone every time and a sugar cone.

6.  Flip Flops or Slides? Flip flops, these  are the ones I am currently rocking, and have bought a couple of pairs because I wear them out. But I just bought these, I hear they are comfortable.

7.  Jean Shorts or Jean Capris? Jean shorts, capris don't actually work on my legs. My calves are too big for those, and they make me look WAY shorter than I already am. These are my current favorite.

8.  Favorite Summer Fruit? Strawberries and grapes...preferably when eaten at the same time. (It's in my lunch today, favorite part of my day when I get to eat my fruit, sad but true).

12.  Favorite Berry? See above, Strawberries hands down. Especially when you can get them fresh from a farm stand.

13.  Kind Of Bathing Suit? I like bikini's, but am afraid those days have passed (minus when I'm at home and no one but my family is seeing me), so I'm into the one pieces right now. Currently I am rocking this and this and this I got last year and they are still selling and I get a TON of compliments on it every time I wear it.

14.  Dresses or Skirts? Dresses all the way, specifically any of these.

15.  One Word To Describe Summer? Epic, I always feel like we have the best summers, and they are just getting better now that the kids can travel. Bring on summer!

What are some of your answer? If you don't have a blog, or didn't do this, answer in the comments below!