Thursday, November 1, 2018

Hanart Culture Chinese Lantern Festival

Hi Foxy Friends! Today I am sharing the coolest thing ever, I had no idea something so cool was right in our backyard. It's called The Chinese Lantern Festival, starting November 15th. Right now till November 8th, you can get $10 off for an early bird special.


What is the Chinese Lantern Festival? This is how it's described:

The outdoor evening skies will become ablaze with the color and light with more than 1,000 beautifully handcrafted lanterns. The lanterns range in size from 12 – 23 feet tall, and combines art, tradition, and culture. This year’s theme, “The Wild,” features five different locations – America, Oceania, Asia, Antarctica and Africa, with lanterns representing wild animals from each region, including Cheetahs, panda bears, jellyfish, majestic cranes, lions, and even dinosaurs. The festival will also feature food, Kung Fu shows, animatronic dinosaur rides, demonstrations, and
shadow play for the kids. Enjoy Asian and American cuisine, while shopping the craft marketplace
where authentic Chinese jewelry, artifacts, dough figurines, as well as Chinese embroidery art,
sugar art, paper-cut and fabric art will be available for purchase.








How awesome do these lanterns look? I'm so excited to go. For more information click here.



So if you want to go they are open Thursdays – Sundays from November 15, 2018 to January 6, 2019 – Including Holidays 5:30pm-10:00pm



Location: Fairplex at Pomona -
1101 W. McKinley Ave., Pomona, CA 91768

Cost: Tickets $13-$21

If you want a chance to enter to win a pair of tickets, go here, a give-a-way by the Chinese Lantern Festival.

Follow along on their social media to see pictures and more.

Twitter: @LanternFests

Go get your tickets now, it's going to be so much fun!

Sentence A Day: October Edition

Hi Foxy Friends! Once a month we link up our one sentence a day for a month. It's a great way to quickly document your feelings of the day while it's happening. It's a fun way to look back at the month and see everything that has happened. Thank you Rebecca for the idea, an allowing us to run with it as a link up.

1 - Karate, followed by gym, makes for a great day.

2 - Unexpectedly got to go to the gym today, that was nice.

3 - Finally back at R.I.P.P.E.D, to find out it was canceled, darn it, but I took a equally good class, so that worked out.

4 - Got eaten alive at soccer today, my leg is in so much pain.

5 - Plans changed, so to make up for it I took the kids to after school treat, a play place and then we ordered dinner through Door Dash for the very first time, the kids got a kick out of it.




6 - Great day of soccer and watching my cousin play football at the University of Washington vs. UCLA game.


7 - Getting stuff done, laundry, crafting (sometimes I feel like I have craft ADD, I start one craft, to realized I wanted to finish another craft, and then nothing really gets done), but at least I prototyped out our Halloween Costumes and let me tell you, it's awesome!

8 - Crap, getting sick, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, not before the trip!

9 - Need to get stuff done before I leave...so much to do, so little time, still feeling sick, yuck!

10 -Working from home today to hopefully get some more rest and not be super sick for tomorrow, please don't let me be sick the whole time!

11 - Going to Hilton Head (recap here), but it was the longest travel day of history, 9 hours on a plane, followed by 4 hours in a car, to FINALLY get to the girls.


12 -A day shopping with the girls is a good day indeed, Mr. don't look at the bank account!


13 -A day at the beach and poolside and a fancy dinner out is just what the doctor ordered.

14 -Some more shopping, lunch, shopping followed by some relaxing and a movie with the girls.


15 - Spent some time in Savannah then had to drop Lana off at the airport...waaaahhhh, need to finish all the food and the alcohol before we leave...challenge accepted!


16 - Good-bye friends, looking forward to our trip next year, this time on the West Coast, oh and I had to buy some luggage to get all the stuff I bought home, oops!


17 - Much needed day off to recover from my trip, I might have taken three naps.

18 - Still sick, does anyone see the elephant sitting on my chest?

19 - Boo Bash at Baby Fox's school was so fun, and I went in with a few girls and had the best trunks out there, it made people smile in a sea of scary.


20 -  Soccer, Karate, more soccer, soccer pictures, and then a last minute date night!



21 - Plans changed and it turned to be a "lazy" day, which really means catching up on all things that I have been ignoring the last week, then I took the kids to my parents and they decorated a Halloween house while Mom, Sister and I watched a Hallmark movie.

22 - Feeling better, so I got to walk on the treadmill today, not running yet, but it's a good start.

23 - Pumpkin patch with friends followed by dinner together all for a school fundraiser on a Tuesday, yes please!



24 - Yay finally able to workout again...it's been 2 long weeks of being sick!

25 -Sewing Halloween costumes while the kid is at soccer is what a mom has to do to get it done.


26 -Took the kids to a play place after school, they loved it and a bunch of friends were there too.



27 -Soccer for Mini Fox, then the boys headed off to the ND/Navy game and the girls went to my parents trunk or treat.




28 -Busy day today, church, tried making a crock pot lasanga, friends over for haunted house decorating, followed by pumpkin carving and then a trunk or treat, then back to our house for dinner, woah, long day, but so fun.





29 -Fairly certain that workout instructor is not human, she just keeps going...and going...and going....but it was a good workout and pushed me harder than I would have by myself.

30 - Crap, still have my Halloween Costume to sew...I can do this!

31 - Such a fun time trick or treating and I got all of the costumes done, except one of my cables was bad, so mine didn't work, but at least the kids and Mr. had their costumes!




Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Long Cardigans and Catching Up

Today you're getting a two for one. I'm linking up with The Blended Blog and the host Lana for the theme Long Cardigans. Truth be told I don't have a ton of long cardigans, although I think it looks great on other people, being on the shorter side, it's hard to find the right length that doesn't make me look WAY shorter than the look I am going for.

10. What I'm Wearing

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Pants (similar) / Shirt (similar) / Sweater (similar) / Shoes (similar)



 I'm also linking up with with  ShayMel and Sheaffer for their What's Up Wednesday.

1. What We're Eating

I made a crock pot lasagna this weekend and it turned out great! I made a video on how I made it and will write a full post on what I would do different next time, so stay tuned for that!


Also eating these, I really like them and can finish them off within a week...oops!



2. What I'm Reminiscing About

Past Halloween costumes, awww, the kids were so small! I love that we have created a tradition with friends to dress up. My favorites are the family themed ones, this year, we're in full family theme, and I cannot wait for Wednesday!

2017


2016


2015


2014


 2013


2012


2011



3. What I'm Loving

Watching the kids thrive with their activities that they've chosen.

Mini Fox:

Soccer


Gymnastics


Baby Fox

Soccer


Karate


Being promoted to Purple Belt

4. What We've Been Up To

It almost feels like, what have we NOT been up to? Hanging out with friends, doing all the things Fall related, like apple picking, lots of pumpkin patches, watching the Dodgers loose, boo!






5. What I'm Dreading

Not much right now.

6. What I'm Working On

The Halloween costumes! I'm sewing, sewing sewing. I still have my top part to sew...so I think I'll be okay, but I need more TIME! Sneak Peek....


7.  What I'm Excited About

All the holiday things coming up and decorating for Christmas. With tomorrow being November 1st, is it too early? I'm thinking we might start next weekend though, it takes a couple of weekends to get everything up, I want to enjoy it for a long time!

8. What I'm Watching/Reading

Watching all of the shows that have finally come back for the Fall. Grey's Anatomy, Modern Family, Blackish, Fresh Off the Boat.

9. What I'm Listening To

The sound track to A Star is Born, my favorite song is this one:



11. What I'm Doing This Weekend

Going to my...I'm going to date myself, but most of you roughly know how old I am, but I'm going to my 20 year high school reunion! Like what?! How has it been 20 years?! A few friends and I are ditching the husbands and going together. We're going to get our hair done stay at a hotel, it's going to be a blast catching up and talking about the past.



12. What I'm Looking Forward To Next Month

Thanksgiving and going to the Polar Express in Arizona. Two of my favorite things to do!




13. What Else is New?

Not much, I pretty much told you everything...

Bonus Question: What's your all time favorite Halloween costume?

Hands down it's going to be tonights costume. We're going to be glow in the dark stick figure family. We are all so dang excited, and so far the couple of dry runs we did turned out great and gave me a chance to tweak them a bit each time. Don't worry I've been taking pictures and video on a full tutorial for you.

Now link up your fashion posts with Long Cardigans over on The Blended Blog.