4th Of July Fun

Hi Foxy Friends! I was feeling pretty awful today, basically slept the entire day...but feeling slightly better. Hopefully on the mend....Advil Cold and Sinus is my best friend right now. Anyway, I thought I would dedicate a post to our 4th of July fun! That way I have it all in one post. So let's get started.

My cousin always throws a party the day before, so the kids can decorate their bikes for the parade the following day. We drove the 2 hours out to their house, stopped at our favorite sandwich place and then drove to a park nearby to eat it.

The kids looked at the fish and I got a cute picture.

Oh and I did some fun 4th of July nails too, I just love Color Street!

Soon the cousin were together again. It's been a while since we've seen them in a normal setting, so the kids loved every minute of being together.

I was in charge of the candy bar...red, white and blue theme...I think I did a pretty good job :)

Got a great picture of the girls of some of the kids...I love this age, they really cooperate when you want to take a picture.

The kids discovered the joy of 4 square.

Ate some dinner.

We were having so much fun, we almost forgot to decorate the bikes! But here is the before.

Mini Fox was really getting into it, with some help.

And the after, the kids did a great job! So great that we ended up winning best group! We call ourselves the Firecracker Cousins.

Afterwards we played, Right, Left Middle...but with real money. It was fun.

Everyone really got into it. You should play it at your next party...so fun.

Then we had a massive sleepover.

Breakfast the next day consisted of Flag Waffles.

Off to the parade we went.

Cousins ready for the parade.

First time getting a group shot...with our winning certificate front and center.

Baby Fox did great on his bike...definitely time to upgrade him! I was worried about nothing, he went into the lead and I tried to run to keep up, but couldn't...

Some of the cousins decided they wanted to ride back home instead of taking the cars...I volunteered to take them...it was a lot of running on my part to get them the mile or so home, safely, but they all listened and stopped at streets and waited for me to catch up.

Small party afterwards to eat some more breakfast.

Rested a bit, then headed out for dinner, movie and firework watching. We parked our cars where we were going to watch the fireworks, did dinner and movie and it worked out PERFECT!

Tried to get a shot of everyone watching the movie...

Waiting for the fireworks to start.

Perfect way to end 4th of July extravaganza.

Until next year! How was your week?

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Sentence A Day: June

1 - Today was hard, but having family around to support each other during this difficult time makes it better, this will bring us closer together.

2 - I thought yesterday was hard, today was emotionally draining, saying goodbye is never easy.

3 - Took two naps and our cousin came to have lunch with us as they were passing by, that was unexpected but super nice.

4 - Getting up at 3am after having 10 days off, the definition of sucky.

5 - Getting a 1.5 mile run in, between karate and swim lessons is better than nothing right?

6 - I love Baby Fox's love for math, Mr. gave him some sequences to figure out tonight and considering he didn't know what they were, he did fantastic!

7 - Woah, that circuit class was insane!

8 - Mini Fox had an intro to horseback riding lesson today, and she loved it, she is so darn cute.

9 - Star Wars Days at Legoland and Mini Fox wanted to participate in the cosutme contest, although shy, she did great and can't wait to do it again next year.

10 - I love going to church and watching the kids play afterwards, it's so cute, and exactly the church family we wanted to find.

11 - Uncle Jeremy came to record a song with Mr., the kids loved seeing him when they got home from gymnastics.

12 - Baby Fox was so cute with his reader theater performance, so glad that I was able to attend.

13 - End of the school year party for Baby Fox,  and our baseball team won a party at a play place because we had most volunteer hours, awesome way to end the season and let the kids see each other one last time.

14 - Last day of school for Baby Fox, what a great school year, 2nd grade here we come!

15 -  Fun day with friends, first working out, then pool time at the gym, then came home to more friends and more pool time, great day!

16 - Graduation lunch followed by double date, doesn't get much better than that!

17 - Happy Father's Day, great day celebrating Mr. and Ampa (what my kids call my dad)

18 - Gymnastics day, and Mr. came with us, and then we got In and Out and had dinner with my sister and Dad.

19 -  Love Tuesdays, I drop Baby Fox off at karate for 2 hours, I go to the gym, get a good workout in and then pick him up.

20 - Happy half birthday to Baby Fox, we're going to Great Wolf Lodge!

21 - Had the BEST time at Great Wolf Lodge, Mini Fox feel asleep on Mr. so Baby Fox and I went on a ton of slides together, it was awesome to have some time alone with him.

22 - Mr. had poker night and the wives did a MNO at the cutest wine place.

23 - Apparently feeding the kids is more important than the gym, skipped my class to get milk and eggs for the kids, but caught a different one, then it was a super productive blog day.

24 - Accidental 2 hour nap, not mad about that.

25 - Gymnastics and trampoline class, I love how much they love going.

26 - Build a fort and VBS is really tiring them out, but they love it.

27 -  My favorite workout!

28 - I'm loving my new schedule and how I get to workout 4 days a week, instead of 1.

29 - Both kids finished up their camps with a fun party at the end.

30 - Dinner with friends, always a good time, especially when you are eating ice cream at 9:30pm.

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Happy 4th of July

Hi Foxy Friends! Happy 4th of July to my American friends! I couldn't get my act together enough to do an outfit post...instead I'll tell you that I'm wearing this shirt with these shorts.

Now I'm going to show you my kids over the last few 4th of July's.

Baby Fox 2011

2013

Mini Fox 2014

2015

2016

2017



Hope you are staying safe and having fun! See you tomorrow for Sentence A Day for a month!

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TBB Asks - July Edition

Hey Foxy Friends! How is it already July? You know what happens on the first Monday of the month...it's The Blended Blog asks, where we ask you questions and you all answer. It's a great Monday post and an easy way for your readers to get to know you. So let's get started!

1. Will you go on a Summer Vacation this year?

Not really? We're taking two really long weekends in August, but other then that, nothing. We were going to go somewhere big in December, so we decided against a big vacation this summer. But now we're not doing the December thing and it's too late to plan a big summer thing. Oh well, next year!

2. Do nothing but relax or pack it all in vacation? 

We like to do both, do something one day, relax the next, do something else one day, then relax. At least we try. When we went to Rome, we had one thing on the agenda each day, and then we had a secondary, would be cool to see list...so after we were done with our one thing, we would assess to see how tired we were and started checking things off the list. Did we get to everything? No, but we did a lot, and never felt really all that tired.

3. What month do you like to vacation?

If the kids didn't have school, I would pick (and Mr. and I use to do this every year). The week after Memorial day, it's a short week, so you get a "free" vacation day from work, and it's almost always my off Friday, so for 3 vacation days, I get 10 days off. Pretty awesome. Typically we try to book vacation around my off Fridays.

4. Cruise: Yes or No?

I am a YES all the way, Mr. on the other hand is a hell to the no way kind of guy. I'm working on him. He thinks Titanic...enough said.

5. Favorite vacation tradition?

Umm...we don't have one? Oh well I guess we buy magnets whereever we go but that just started since we started traveling with the kids a couple of years ago. I know that Lindsay from Lindsay's Sweet World, buys tacky frames...her wall of frames is so awesome. I'm interested to see what other people say. Perhaps we need to start a new tradition.

6. Most memorable vacation?

I would say our 3 weeks to Italy/Switzerland with really good friends. That was always the trip we said we would take before we had kids, and we did...a year or so after that, but still it happened. 

Throwing coins in Trevi Fountain...if you look closely you can see all of our coins...Mr.'s is almost in his hand, and then you can see the sparkle of everyone else's coins above our heads.

7. Pack light or pack it all?

I used to be a pack it all including the kitchen sink...but lately I've been TRYING to pack just what I need...sometimes that fails me, as the one time I went on a buisness trip and didn't pack enough clothes and had to buy a blouse to wear to work...haha. Actually I brought dresses and it was super windy, and I couldn't wear the dresses, and brought no back up clothes. One day I'll find the happy middle ground.

8. Hotel, Condo or House?

Hmmm...I think it depends on where we are going. I like them all? House definitely if we are traveling with friends, it's more fun when you're all together. Condo if it's just the 4 of us...and I guess Hotel if there is something fun there, like Great Wolf Lodge.

9.  Favorite thing(s) to eat on vacation?

Ice Cream...dessert...and more ice cream...and anything bad that I don't normally eat at home because I feel like I can't.

10. Warm or cold destinations?

Both...I know it's cheating. But I really like snowboarding, so obviously those would be cold...but I also like laying on beach and doing nothing but swimming and reading...