Friday Favorites

Happy Friday! Today is my off Friday, woo hoo! Here are my Friday Favorites this week.

We went to the park last night and this is what he did, we've been working on it, but this is the first time he really did it on his own! 

A few pictures I found on my phone that didn't make it to my Tahoe post

Breakfast, I love this picture, she loves her some pancakes.

A picture of both kids in the snow, it doesn't look like it, but they really did love it.

Taking some pictures at In and Out on our way home

Waiting in line at the grocery store, take some selfies

But then she got distracted by some turkey

Love that we can get some park time after work.

My favorite, when she just wants to hold my hand

Hope you all have a great weekend! Ours is pretty low key, after all that traveling last weekend, we needed a down weekend.

What are you looking forward to most this weekend?

 Linking up with: Erika, Andrea, and Narci for Friday Favorites,  September Farm and The Farmer's Wife for Oh Hey, Friday, 
April, Darci, Natasha and Christina for Five on Friday 

Awkward

 I thought I would start a series about the awkward things that happen to me.

 
Here's the first one up, since it just happened this morning:

I printed something out at my desk, as I'm casually walking over to the printer, I realize that there is a stand up meeting with 10 people going on...I really needed the printout, else I would have waited for it to be over. It was like I was walking through a Soul Train Line. Seriously, everyone started laughing because it was just so awkward.

 You know minus the whole dancing part, everyone in stone silence watching me walk through their line. Since their stand up meeting was in the hallway on the way to the printer. I turned bright red and could have died. Okay not really, but it was super embarrassing and awkward.

So what's your most recent awkward moment?

Linking up with Amanda, for Thinking Out Loud and Vanessa and Penny for Thinking out Loud, Nicole at Treat Yo' Self Thursday

Unexpected Results

You know I saw this outfit on someone's blog, and knew that I had to try it. And of course for the life of me I can't remember who's blog it was and of course I didn't pin it, darn! I did however tell that person I was going to try it. If I figure it out, I'll post it back. If it's you that had that outfit, let me know so I can give you a shout out!

When I came downstairs in this outfit, Mr. said...um, I'm not so sure about this one. But after he started to take the pictures, I think he came around. I absolutely love it, too bad it's getting way too hot to wear something this warm. But definitely on my list to wear if I go out for an evening with friends and it's slightly cooler than. Translation: anything lower than 70°.

Unexpected #1: I loved this outfit WAY more then I thought I would, and I think it might be the necklace pushing this outfit into the love category for me.

I think the necklace really gives it that punch that it needed. When I put the outfit on by itself it was just okay, but add the statement necklace and it punches it up a notch.

Wednesday fitness update:

I don't have much to update, since we were in Tahoe this past weekend, the diet sort of went out the window. Harder to eat the Slow Carb way with 10 other people around. That being said I was eating carbs like no other, specifically the chocolate chip cookies I baked before leaving. Boy were they yummy. And you know what I learned?

Okay this part is TMI, so skip down to the next paragraph if you don't want to know. But when I was eating all the carbs and fruits and stuff, it really stopped me up! I had no idea, I've always had issues, but didn't realize cutting out the carbs and sugars would seriously help me in that area. Thank you Slow Carb!

Okay back to regular talk, I also figured out with all the extra carbs that I felt super bloated. Like really bloated, I don't like that feeling. And thinking back I used to feel really bloated all the time, but just thought that was normal. Nope, not normal (for me at least).

We're in week 4ish, and so far so good. I sometimes am left feeling unsatisfied with what I ate, but that's okay, as long as I get my cheat day there is something to look forward to!

Not sure what I'm going to do for my cheat day this week...what to eat, what to eat. Going on a hike this Saturday, so for sure I'll probably stop at the bagel shop on the way home. Yum! Carb it up after the hikes, always helps.

Unexpected #2: Little to no carbs a week really helps my digestion...who knew!

What is unexpected in your life?

Linking up with Because Shanna Said So, Get Your Pretty On, The Pleated Poppy, Tucker Up , Shopping my Closet and Molly and Carly for Let it Shine

Tahoe Vacation

Hi Guys! I'm back from our vacation. I was so tired on Sunday when we got back that I actually went to bed when the kids went to bed. I was exhausted. I've recovered and ready to show you a ridiculous amount of pictures of our trip to Lake Tahoe.

We woke up the kids at 5am to get going (according to the iphone map it was going to be an 8.5 hour trip without stops), our hope was that they would stay asleep and sleep for a good while before waking up.

The first couple of hours Mr. and I just sat and enjoyed the views.

Pretty sunrise

 

Baby Fox woke up first and we let him watch some movies we had on the iPad (first time ever). He thought it was super cool and didn't realize we couldn't hear what he was listening to, so he would comment to us and start laughing and look at us to see if we were laughing too.

Breakfast time, and about half way there. Genius to get 2.5 hours of drive time while they were still sleeping. We stopped here for some breakfast, it was actually pretty good.

We changed the kids into some regular clothes. Mini Fox and I were waiting for the boys to finish, perfect time for a selfie. Notice my curly hair, I did it really quick before we left because my bedhead was ridiculous.

Mini Fox didn't want her picture taken.

Someone enjoyed her breakfast

yes the pancake was really that big

 I said, let's take a selfie and then told everyone to lean in. Notice Mini Fox is leaning in but facing the wrong way, she totally thought because she could see Daddy that she was looking the right way.

The owner gave Baby Fox a sucker and Mini Fox some chocolate chips.

Back on the road again, we stop one more time at a park to let the kids play (no pictures apparently), and we make it to the cabin, 11 hours after we started our journey. The kids did great! We decided to go on a walk to the lake.

Can you believe this picture is straight out of the camera, no color correcting? It was gorgeous!

Friday everyone else met up with us (8 adults and 6 kids 4 and under) and we decided to go up the gondola to the top. Turns out it was a bit pricey, but we had already promised Baby and Mini Fox we would go, so we kept our promise, while everyone else stayed behind and ate some lunch.

Walking over to buy our tickets

Just got on the gondola, Mini Fox isn't so sure

Selfie, even though Mr.'s head is chopped off, I love that Mini Fox is all smiles

We stopped at the look out point first. Don't worry, she was okay, she just fell, she stopped crying 2 seconds later.

Then we headed back onto the Gondola to go to the very top.

Making snowballs

Just don't eat the yellow snow Mini Fox!

Love this picture! Yes it did hit me...on my legs

He wanted to taste the snow too.

Someone made this cute little snowman.

The best part I think, Baby Fox found this car in the snow.

Look at my hair, still totally curly! This dry air is amazing for keeping curls, and basically nothing else, because everyone's skin was so dry!

The view from the top

I made everyone my famous heart attack in a dish AKA artichoke cheese dip

This girl and I made dinner Friday night for everyone

The other kids were still taking their naps.

Yummy!

Dinner is served!

That salad was so yummy!

These two are 10 days apart and are two peas in a pod.

 

Before bedtime antics. The kids adored the bunk beds...

Story time...yep there are 4 kids in there.

And then the two older kids proceeded to play on the bunk beds until midnight! When I finally went in there for the umpteenth time and told them they had to go to sleep. I totally felt like my parents when they would come in and yell at us to go to sleep when we had slumber parties. When did I turn into my parents?!

Saturday after breakfast we took another walk to the lake.

Then after the smaller kids took their morning naps, we ate lunch. Left over dinner, yum!

The kids got some mac and cheese

Then we all headed out to the snow place. It's so sad how little snow there is up there. Usually people are skiing well into April and May and sometimes even into June! It was the last day the play place was open, so glad that we caught it in time.

She pretty much laughed the entire time. I wish you could hear her laughing in the videos I took, but you can't really hear anything.

Waiting for her turn.

Love this picture of them

We headed back for the kids naps...and miracle of all miracles we got 6 kids to nap at the same time! This is reason to drink some beer and relax, ah so this is what it was like before kids.

Dinner was bacon fried rice, yum!

After dinner we took one last walk to the beach, actually it was just me and Mini Fox, Baby Fox wanted to stay behind and hang out in the cabin.

Saturday night was pretty low key.

Baby fooseball

Obligatory kid shot

 And then they were done

Story time, same stories different Dad

 

These are our people, they moved up to Northern California and we miss them so much, but are so happy that we could vacation together!

Great trip, we left at 5am on Sunday and we made it home in 11 hours, totally exhausted but worth it! Until next time Tahoe!

Linking up with Faith, Sarah and Heather for Mommy Moments, Bella & Lisa for Weekend Link-up,  Meg for Mingle Monday and Erin for Weekend Snapshot4