Sentence A Day: October Edition

Hi Foxy Friends, it's been a hot minute, but I finally remembered to fill in my dates. I love looking back at these and remembering everything we did. Check out the other ladies participating in the link up down below.

1 - Wow that workout was unexpectedly hard/good, now to keep it up...fell off the workout wagon a bit.

2 - Another workout, super sore from yesterdays workout, but felt good to get back at it.

3 - Much need MNO...forgot to take a picture with everyone, oops!

We got this one, the street was really pretty, and we got lost trying to find the restaurant, so what do you do? You take a photo.

4 - Full day of errands, dentist and then dinner at our house with friends.

5 -  Had to miss soccer games so I could help set up for Thomas House gala, so happy we raised a ton of money to help families get back on their feet.

6 - Fun birthday party at the pumpkin patch, then dinner with Aunt and Uncle makes for a great way to end the weekend.

7 - Almost took the kids to piano and as we are walking out the door remember that we changed it this week to Wednesday, phew glad I remembered.

8 - Baby Fox went to his first Cotillion class and both kids started up this season of their religious education. (Going to write a post on Cotillion next week!)

He got paired with the tallest girl there.

9 - No school today, so of course I planned for Mini Fox to go to her 6 year check up and then got both kids their flu shots, they weren't particularly happy with me.

10 - Got some hill runs in while waiting for Mini Fox's soccer practice to end, ended up being a pretty good workout in.

11 - Great way to end the day with dinner with friends.

12 - Full day of soccer, Mini Fox has her game at 11:30am while Baby Fox's game was at 5pm then take out at my favorite place.

13 - Baby Fox went to a birthday party, so we took Mini Fox and a friend to see Abominable, it was super cute and Mini Fox loved getting some time with just us.

14 - Love that our gym is next door to the kids piano class, so they get enrichment and I get to go workout.

15 - Mini Fox was Star of the Week this week at school, and today was family day, she got to show us off in her class, Baby Fox even left his class to come participate.

16 - Both kids had their parent teacher conference today both kids are doing great, learning a lot and their teachers love them, then we headed to my aunt and uncles to spend the night so we can catch our flight early in the morning. (airport we are flying out of is about an hour away from us, our flight was at 7am, yeah that's early for the kids to get up, Aunt and Uncle live 5 minutes from the airport).

17 - We're leaving on a jet plane, getting to see Curtis's family was so much fun!

18 - Mini Fox lived her best life and got to hang out with some horses for the afternoon and I'm pretty sure I've never seen her more in her element.

19 - It rained most of the day, but we still had a blast seeing my cousin play in the University of Washington game and he scored a touchdown, the kids did great sitting a quarter of the game in the rain and even though they lost, we still had so much fun.

20 - Last day in Seattle, one last breakfast with my aunt and uncle and saw Mr.'s dad one last night before taking off.

21 - Didn't go to work today, that's nice after coming back from vacation.

22 - New routine of my parents taking the kids to their church class, while I go to a circuit class then go pick them up, perfect evening.

23 - Back at my favorite workout class.

24 - Mini Fox didn't go to soccer today she had a slight fever and with it being 100° out, thought it would be best to stay home, we snuggled and watched TV instead.

25 - Kids Boo Bash (Halloween Carnival) at school and they outdid themselves, so much fun hanging with friends.

26 - One soccer game, followed by Baby Fox's belt for blue with a green strip, then Trunk or Treat at my parents church.

My dad was cooking the hot dogs, we snuck back into the kitchen to say hi.

27 - Friends Oktoberfest, was so much dang fun, I have amazing friends.

Still need to work on my front of the picture squat.

28 - 5K run while the kids were at piano lessons, I actually stopped at 3.16 miles...then realized how close I was and turned that treadmill back on.

29 - Man that workout was butt kicking, love how hard Karen pushes us.

30 - Normal Wednesday, soccer followed by my favorite workout class.

31 - Another Halloween in the books, lots of parades at the kids school, lots of candy and trick or treating and the kids didn't have school the next day makes for one amazing day.

Trading candy

Join us next month! We post on the first Tuesday of the month!

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

What I've Been Buying

Hi Foxy Friends! I'm back to share all of the things I've been buying lately. Did you know you can see how many orders you've place on Amazon? You can only do it on desktop, and we've bought 164 things thus far in 2019..I'll let that sink in...

Thank you Tayna for hosting this link up!  Click here to see my past purchases. Anyway, here are the things we've been buying on Amazon.

*Some of the links are affiliate links and I will  either receive a small commission, at no cost to you, if you click on it or if you make a purchase from one of these links, I may also receive a commission on the sale of the product. Click here for my disclosure page.

This night light is amazing, we have the cool white one. Each of the kids has one and I have no idea how they sleep it's so bright, but they both seem to like them. So if you need an awesome night light for your bathroom or hallway, this is the one to get.

They kids also share this Star Sky Night Light. They rotate each night who gets it. Yep, so every other night someone has that bright LED night light and this one...you can set a timer for 99 minutes, and can make it a solid color or all colors and they can blink and/or rotate. We use it most nights and it's still going strong 1.5 years later.

I got this last week to put the cookies I made for the kids school cake walk. I think it's the perfect size box for a little treat for the holidays. I put a little cute sticker on the box to jazz it up a bit. I fit 6 large size cookies in there to get a size reference (I made toll house chocolate chip cookies and instead of getting 48 small cookies, I made 24 cookies).

Are you like me and not very good at keeping sunglasses? Perhaps it's because I don't have an expensive pair and feel like I can throw them around? In any case, I just bought three pairs of these. Awesome story, they are $12.99, so pretty reasonable already. I went to buy them and they were randomly on a lightning deal for...wait for it...$7.99. I literally caught the last 3 minutes of the sale, so that's why I ended up with 3 pairs, haha!

This is me in the sunglasses.

Recently we went on a trip to Seattle. We didn't really want to lug around our car seats, so we bought these. I would NOT recommend these for smaller kids, but with an almost 9 year old and a 6 year old we felt like these were awesome travel car seats. It places the lap part of the belt in the right spot and then there was a strap so you could adjust where the shoulder strap crossed on your kid, which is the main reason we bought these travel seats.

In other things Non Amazon I've been purchasing:

The ladies over on Belong Lifestyle had mention in their facebook group that if there was something that intimidated you that you should buy an accessory in that print to see if you like it or not. Snakeskin is that for me. So I bought these heels, they are super cute, comfortable and reasonably priced. So if you're like me, buy these and see if you like them!  So far I'm on board! Mr. loved them!

Recently Kohls has had some pretty great deals. Right now they are having an awesome sale with an extra 20% off, so I got these shorts for Baby Fox for under $5 each. You better believe I bought 4 pairs in different sizes.

Fall Make Up Look

Hi Foxy Friends! I got this and filmed this awhile ago but just got around to editing...but it's my new favorite Senegence (some of you might know it as Lipsense) collections. I got my hands on their new Fall products and I'm in love! It's my new go to everyday look, it's seriously the best!

*Some of the links are affiliate links and I will  either receive a small commission, at no cost to you, if you click on it or if you make a purchase from one of these links, I may also receive a commission on the sale of the product. Click here for my disclosure page.

If you want to get some too, hit up my friend Becky. She also has a pretty awesome facebook group where she gives you tips on how to use the products and what's happening at the company. So many new things coming out, I want it all! By the way I don't get compensated for this, I just like the product and Becky!

So here is my final look.

It's hard to capture with lighting the eye look, next time I'll go outside. 

Primer
Foundation
Spot Concealer
Concealer
Blush
Eyebrow 
Bronzer
Eyeshadow - Senegence Cafe Collection
Eyeliner
Eyeliner for wing

My 5 Secrets to Happiness

I was following a prompt today, but apparently they also took a page out of my book and neither one of them are blogging, so now you just get the post. Today I'm talking about my 5 Secrets to Happiness.

| ONE | Find your tribe or several

I once wrote how to make friends as an adult. I'll admit, it's super hard, you have to put yourself out there. Be vulnerable to asking someone to go for coffee or get lunch, but I promise, if you make an effort they will too. But being lonely is way worse that asking someone to go shopping and finding your tribe.

I have my on line tribe, who I just went to Canada with for 6 days, it was amazing.


I have my mom tribe when we first became mom's, who I don't know what I do without. Mom schedules might get in the way, but they know how to come through for me if/when I need it.

 Then I also have my mom sports/school mom tribe, who really keeps me wanting to go to my kids functions, cause really it's the kids playing and the adults talking right?

Then you have those friends that you've been friends with since you were in single digits and no matter how much time passes they still drive 200 miles for your 40th birthday.

| TWO | Spend quality time with your spouse or significant other

Just like your tribe, you still have to work on your marriage/relationship. One of the reason I drastically cut back on blogging, I was spending too much time blogging and not enough time being present in the moment.

| THREE | Working Out

This is my time for me. I do so much chauffeuring that sometimes I don't get that hour I need/crave to workout. Wednesday is my day. I have a class that I love to take and the kids know this is my day. I will do anything and everything for  them, but I need at least one day to workout. Ideally it's more, but I'll take the one day.

| FOUR | Vacations

Because who isn't happy when on vacation. This summer we were lucky enough to take a few trips with friends and it really was the best. More of those kinds of vacation coming soon!

| FIVE | Crafting

For me I love crafting, doing all the DIY's. Currently my thing is making key chains, and Tumblers...so if anyone wants one, hit me up!

So what makes you happy?

Prime Purchases

Last year I saw Andrea post her favorite Prime Purchases, and she was linking up to Tayna who hosts the link up. Super fun, right? You see what I'm buying that I don't need/purchasing and we all get to then want to buy all the things, keeping the economy going right there. Click here to see my past purchases. Okay let's get started! But first while in my account, it says that we've purchases 143 things this year...yikes! Okay I know I am a little behind on this one, but hey two posts in one week, I'm on a roll!

*Some of the links are affiliate links and I will  either receive a small commission, at no cost to you, if you click on it or if you make a purchase from one of these links, I may also receive a commission on the sale of the product. Click here for my disclosure page.

Kids Suite: fits true to size, the pants have elastic on the back so it will fit a variety of waist sizes. Baby Fox typically wears a size 7 in shorts, but the 7 jacket and pants fit exactly right now, so he had no room to grow, so we went with an 8 and everything fit great.

The kids love these bars, but only the Chocolate Chip kind, the variety pack at Costco the kids don't like one of the flavors, so we get these, even thought they might be slightly more expensive, we're at least not wasting

According to Amazon I have purchased this 28 times, that is 336 bars eaten...yikes! I eat one of these everyday...minus some Saturdays and Sundays, but every weekday I eat one.

Mini Fox wanted a Dinosaur birthday party, so I bought these figures to put on the cake.

We also bought this for the cake too.

I know you wanted to know what the cake looked like, Mini Fox did a great job placing all of the stuff.

In a couple of weeks we're headed out of town to see our cousin play football, it's his senior year, so we're finally getting out there to see him play. Anyway, the stadium has a clear bag rule, so I got this one, it's big enough for all of the stuff we'll need to bring to the game...not sure what that is, but we have kids...enough said. haha. Wonder if we can bring water bottles in? Funny enough, this is the same brand of packing cubes we bought, see how used them to pack for an 8 day trip using only a carry on.

After 16 years, my clothes drying rack finally broke. I bought this one and I really like how sturdy it is. It snaps together, so no more trying to move it over an inch to have it collapse. So that's good. And it folds up small enough to fit next to the cabinet so I can hide it when guests come.

Mr. bought the kids these musical note flash cards, so far so good.

I've always wanted to get these, and I am not sure why i waited so long to get them...But I did a super cute hair style on Mini Fox the other day. They are sort of tricky to use at first, but I got the hang of it...sort of!

 

So what have you been buying on Amazon lately?

Fall FabFitFun 2019

Hi Foxy Friends! I know the posts are few and far between. Life man, it hectic and busy and...well you know. I know you know. Anyway, I got my last FabFitFun box for a while and I'm sort of sad that I cancelled my subscription. But I have SO MUCH STUFF that I need to get through, so maybe next year sometime I'll start back up. So here is everything I got in the FABFITFUN box.

If you want to get a box for yourself, use this code for 50% off. I will receive $15 in shop credit if you purchase through that link.

Products Mentioned:

*Some of the links are affiliate links and I will  either receive a small commission, at no cost to you, if you click on it or if you make a purchase from one of these links, I may also receive a commission on the sale of the product. Click here for my disclosure page.

Amika Straightener  $80
Kate Spade Lunch Box  $30
Earrings $36
Eye Mask $25
Hair Mask $30
Exfoliating Cubes $24
Moisturizer $18
Salt and Pepper Mill  $26
Wallet $60
Cheese Plate $30

Formal Family Picture Outfits

Hi Foxy Friends! It's been a hot minute hasn't it? Life has gotten in the way of blogging, it's not that I am not getting content, I have, just don't have time to edit and write and post. One day I'll get back on it, but for now, you get sporadic posts. Guess what time it is? Yes fall is coming, but family pictures are upon us. It's my FAVORITE time of the year. Figuring out a location, outfits, it's my jam. Mr. often refers to it as my Super Bowl and he couldn't be more right. If there was a job where I find people's family outfits, I would start a business. Any takers? haha. Anyway, this year our photographer suggested that we take super formal pictures at a local college. Heck I'm game. So this is what I have so far. Let's start with me, because we all know you start with mom. If you didn't, click here to get some tips on picking family outfits.

*Some of the links are affiliate links and I will  either receive a small commission, at no cost to you, if you click on it or if you make a purchase from one of these links, I may also receive a commission on the sale of the product. Click here for my disclosure page.

I bought both of these dresses, I hope one of them fits! Which one can you see with the other family outfits.

Mom
Dress 1
Dress 2
Heels
Earrings
Necklace

Mr. is wearing his tux, but I found a reasonably priced tux for you all.

Dad
Tux Jacket
Dress Shirt
Tux Pants
Shoes

I decided that I wanted Mini Fox to have a little color, break up the black of everyone else. Not sure if this dress is too mature looking for her, we'll see when it shows up. I was looking at Suit prices for boys and man they are expensive! Think $100 range, Kohl's, JCPenny, Macy's...It was crazy.

Girl
Dress
Tights
Shoes


Boy
Boys Suit (Under $40!!!)
Shoes

I'll let you know what I choose after the dresses arrive. Heck neither one of them might fit, so I might have to go a completely different direction, I have 2 weeks to figure it out, eeeekkk! I'm not panicking, I'm not panicking...