Friday Favorites #177

Hi Foxy Friends! Happy Friday, woo hoo, we made it, why is it that short weeks always seem the longest? Today is my off Friday, which means that I am mad rushing to get ready for Mini Fox's birthday party on Sunday. It worked out that her birthday party is on her actual birthday. I can't believe that she is turning 5! I feel like 5 is really little kid status, sniff sniff. Anyway, onto Friday Favorites, head on over to The Blended Blog to link up your Friday favorites!

In case you missed it on the blog...I haven't blogged much but I did blog three days this week.

Monday: The Blended Blog Asks: Cozy Edition
Tuesday: Recent Amazon Purchases
Wednesday: Summer to Fall Transition Outfit

I also posted a YouTube video on my last Boxy Charm unboxing for a while. I stopped my subscription service for a bit. But don't worry I am still getting my FabFitFun and that unboxing should be coming next week, if I can get my act together!

Last week was birthday week, which meant that we did lots of birthday things. Thursday (my actual birthday) got blogged here, so go check out what I did on my birthday. Friday, my friend asked to take me out to dinner and something fun. We had no idea what we were going to do...but figured we would figure something out. On Wednesday another friend posted that he had extra tickets to go see Pageant of the Masters, have you seen it? It's in Laguna Beach and probably one of the most spectacular things I've ever seen. They use real people and recreate famous paintings and statues. And when I say recreate, it's so hard to even describe, like they have all the actors stand in the scenery and then they do magical lighting and suddenly the people don't look real, it's like you can see the actual brush strokes and you have to think, I just saw there were people in there, but now it legit looks like a painting. Anyway, back on subject, we went to dinner at The Deck in Laguna Beach...this was our view.

Then we headed over to the Pageant, it was outdoors (sort of like the Hollywood Bowl), and it was so much fun. They also have an art festival you can get into before the show. Kid art was there too.

View from our seats.

Saturday Baby Fox got his purple belt!

And Mr. and I went out for a birthday dinner.

We drove home with the top down.

Sunday I was busy making a project for a friend, and then later in the afternoon some friends kids came over to spend the night. My friends hubby surprised her with a trip to Paris, so we offered to take the kids for a night to let the grandparents rest a bit. They were thankful. Mini Fox serenaded them as they arrived.

All ate dinner.

Ate popcorn and watched Happy Feet

And then knocked out around 9pm, successful night if I do say so myself.

Monday the kids woke up about 7:45, couldn't have gone any better. We ate breakfast of protein pancakes with chocolate chips.

Watched Ever After. Played, watched Ever After...rinse and repeat...basically it was on in the background.

They went swimming...somewhere in there we had lunch and then the kids grandparents came to pick them up.

I would say that it was successful considering that they didn't want to go home.

This girl also started school on Wednesday.

I have to mention that she also wants to be a farmer...

So that's what happened in my world...oh and I've been busying making these...

Stay tuned for what it turned out to be....still working on it!

Linking up here

Sentence A Day: August Edition

1 -We're going on a trip, so excited, have been waiting all summer for this trip!

2 - 7 hour drive to visit our friends, so good to see them, and good new, Baby Fox ate cheese and LIKED it...writing that down!

3 -Montery Bay Aquarium, did not disappoint, so much fun exploring with friends.

4 -Hike which turned into impromptu beach day, the kids had a blast, good thing we had extra clothes.

5 - Haven't seen these folks in 3 years, good to see them and catch up and explore the City (San Fransisco).

6 -Fun day with my aunt, uncle and their granddaughter (our cousin), at the boardwalk, love that it worked out that we could visit them too.

7 - Long drive home, did it with one stop to grab food for the road, traveled 1240 miles in the last 6 days, but worth it.


8 - Last day of vacation, spent with cousins in Newport enjoying the ocean view and pool time.

9 - Back to the grind...at least I get tomorrow off.

10 - My off Friday and my brother is in town, we did a whole lot of nothing, but did a yummy tacos at our house, thanks Mom and Dad for making it for us! :)


11 -Met Shelly, EEEEEKKK!!!

12 - Finally get to see our "Friday Night" friends on a Sunday. I think the last time we saw them was a month ago? Maybe a year...haha, just kidding, after seeing them 1-2 times a week, that was a long time! (okay that was longer than 1 sentence).


13 - Day started out with treatments with my aunt, then lunch and then an unexpected date night (kids went to Disneyland with a friend), great way to end the night at the ocean.

14 - Karate, working out, dinner.

15 - Swim lessons and my favorite workout class

16 - Packing for our trip, packing for our trip, but first a workout.

17 - We're going to Yosemite, woo hoo!

18 - We're in Yosemite, woo hoo, setting up camp is hard work man.

19 - The kids rocked that steep hike, so proud of them.

20 - Hiked 2.5 miles to a lake...it was empty.

21 - 8.5 hour drive home....so long, but the kids did great.

22 - Back to normal life, swim lessons and working out

23 - MNO to see Crazy Rich Asian, loved it!

24 - Mini Fox got her second hair cut every and then met up with some friends at the park for dinner and watching the kids play.

25 - Gymnastics make up, followed by Baby Fox's first day of school hair cut, karate and then concert in a park, full day happy heart.

26 - Church followed by getting some stuff done around the house, and then one last time getting ice cream with friends before school starts, it's been our summer tradition.

27 - First day of school! Enough said.

28 - Walked in the gym and just wasn't feeling it, so I talked to a friend for 20 minutes but then found some motivation and ran a slow 3 miles.

29 - Last swim lesson of the season, minus the make up we have in a few weeks, Mini Fox went up a level and Baby Fox is almost ready to move up if we decide to continue swim lessons for him.

30 - It's my birthday, did my usual Thursday thing, Baby Fox to karate, did some gym time and then went to dinner with my family and parents.

31 - Holy heck, it's the mid of September and I just realized this never got posted!

An InLinkz Link-up

Summer to Fall Transition Outfit

Hi Foxy Friends! What? 3 days in a row? Who am I? Today The Blended Blog is back at it with our regularily scheduled themed Wednesday posts. You don't have to follow the prompts, but if you're running out of ideas for outfits, I find that having a promt helps get my creative juices flowing. I got this dress, because I needed to get to free shipping. I don't like to pay for shipping, so if I can add a few more items to get free shipping, I am all in. I know girl math.

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Anyway, I've been wearing this dress non stop since I got it a few weeks ago. For you short girls, this maxi is for you! I'm 5'3", and this maxi is pretty much perfection. I think if you were up to 5'5" it would be good, anything above that, sorry ladies this isn't for you. But if you are looking for a maxi that you don't have to alter or wear incredibly high heels, this dress is for you! You can't see but I'm wearing flat sandals.

A great way to transition maxi dress for Fall a simple jean jacket. You better believe I'll be adding this jacket come Fall. Currently the temp for Saturday is suppose to be 91°F...yikes!

Dress / Jacket (similar) / Bracelet / Sandals (similar)

Make Up: Foundation / Eye Shadow/ EyeLashes / Blush / Eyeliner / Eyeliner for cat eye  / translucent powder/ Lipstick is Lipsense

So what is your favorite transition piece? Link up your outfit down below!

An InLinkz Link-up

Recent Prime Purchases: September

Last month I saw Andrea post her favorite Prime Purchases, and she was linking up to Tayna who hosts the link up. I mean how fun is that? We all purchases stuff from Amazon, might as well share the wealth of knowledge of the goodies! Okay let's get started!

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This one I mentioned here.  I have to admit I love using them. My family makes fun of me to no end but I like not having to feel a metal fork or spoon on my teeth when eating. I don't use it for everything. But when I can use them I totally do! Get the forks here and the spoons here. For those that are wondering, before I bought them I made sure that we had room for them in our drawers. Which I realized we had a whole kitchen drawer we weren't using, so it's in there now, the drawer has a purpose now!

I also mentioned that we bought these. Surprisingly they work pretty well. The curls are pretty crazy when you first take them out, but once they have a chance to relax the curls are really pretty.

I have an older car so I needed to buy something to hold up my phone while driving. I know it's taken me forever to get something, but I finally got something and I won't ever go back. Instead of going on your vent, it goes in your CD player...yep gotta have one of those for this to work. We liked it so much that Mr. got one for both of his cars (yes he has two cars) too.

Our day care situation is changing, so Mr. is going to have to start taking the kids to school in the morning. Up until now (yep 7 years) we've only had one set of car seats, and those are in my car. Don't worry we've bought 2 seats for everyone else and their mom to take the kids, we just didn't need another set for us. Fun fact: We've bought 10 car seats, only 4 of those were for us to use. Anyway, Mr. bought these for his car, and for $25 you get two of them, they are super protective of your car, and has something at the head to attach to the headrest so it doesn't fall down.

Next on the list was Crazy Rich Asians. Some friends and I were going to go see the movie, so I wanted to try and read the book. Yep I still read paper books, although I might get the Paper White for Christmas. Really good book and easy read, plus the movie was good too!

That's all for now. What have you been buying that I NEED to get?

Linking up here

TBB Asks September

Hi Foxy Friends! Happy Monday and happy Labor Day, I know many of us are off enjoying family's right now, but what's the first Monday of the month without a little #TBBASKS? This month is all about Cozy and getting ready for Fall.

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1. Slippers:  Yes or No? Yes, during the Winter months. And I prefer slippers that are more like thongs, because I suffer from that girl thing where I have a comfort zone of  2 degrees. Those last ones, I like because the back of your foot is free so they are easy to slip off.

Pink Slipper / Red Slipper /  Grey Slipper

2. What is your favorite blanket? The really soft ones from Costco are pretty awesome, and they are cheap.

3. Thin or thick pillow?  I think I am a middle of the road kind of girl. Currently I have feather synthetic pillow from Target. I have no idea which one..I went around squeezing them and then picked out the one that had the best squeeze.

4. Favorite warm beverage? I'm not one for warm beverages...but if I have to choose...I guess I'll go with...hot apple cider? Truth be told I've only had this maybe 2-3 times in my life.

5. Robe: Yes Or No? No, I feel like the sleeve length always gets in my way. Anyone have an awesome robe they like? I typically will wear this if I am cold in the house and already have my Pj's on.


6. Favorite comfort snack food(s)? I really like popcorn, like a LOT. Is that considered comfort food? Not sure, but it is in my book.

7. Movies or TV Series Binge? Depends, but lately we've been finding netflix shows to watch. We won't/haven't ever really binged watched movies. Once when we first got married we watched all three Tremors, but haven't done that since. So I guess we're TV series bingers.

8. Actual PJ's or Leggings? PJ's all the way. These are my favorite brand.

9.  Do you cozy up on the couch or chair? Couch...we have a super big couch, so there is plenty of space there.

10. Hoodie, t-shirt or sweater? Hmmm...not sure how to take this question...I guess I really like that sweater I pointed out in question 5 to get cozy with (staying with the theme), so let's go with sweater.

Now head on over to The Blended Blog and link up your answers, or comment down below and let us know what you prefer!