Momfessonal Favorite - Favorite Hair Products

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to all of those in the service who gave their lives fighting for our freedom, to do things like blog whenever we want to about whatever we want to.

Today I'm linking up with Andrea at Momfessionals for a little Favorite Hair Products. First I have to say I have the straightest hair you'll ever find. So I don't need all those fancy anti-frizzy hair products. And I don't color it...yet, those gray hairs, man, they are coming in fast! Here are my top favorites...of the moment, cause you know I'm a girl and it changes on the monthly.

My all time favorite shampoo and conditioner is Philosophy.

Favorite Shampoo and Conditioner 

But I don't use this on the daily because of how expensive it is...it smells divine, and the bonus? The Amazing Grace shampoo is a shampoo/body wash. Double duty and it smells amazing. My hair is always so silky smooth after using these.

What I always use is TRESsemme Shampoo and Conditioner, and I also really like their heat protectant spray (far left bottle)

I also work in my favorite deep conditioner. Every 10 days or so.

When I'm washing my hair, I just recently started doing this:

I also, I can't find/remember the video that said this, but I stopped piling my hair on top of my head when I was washing it. I just leave my hair down, and rub the shampoo into my roots on top of my head and then lather it up and once it's really lathered I work it down into my hair ends. Then I do Dani's tip for conditioner, I feel like I lose way less hair doing these two tips in the shower. (go to 2:11)

I also, stopped brushing my hair when it was wet, I felt like after the shower and my hair is wet, I would brush it and I would lose so much hair! I feel like I don't lose as much when I wait till it's complete dry. I also bought a bamboo brush based off of this gals recommendation and I love it! I bought  cheap one, and it seems to work really well, and I feel like it's making my hair a little more healthy and shiny. Go to (2 minutes), and doesn't she have gorgeous hair? Who wouldn't want to follow her hair care tips?

I think that's all I have for now. I don't have a favorite hair spray or moose since I rarely use those things. Currently I use Sexy Hair Spray and it seems to do the trick, but I use it, maybe 3 times a year? Should I be using it more? What are your hair care tips and secrets?

Also, at what point did you start dying your hair because of the grays? I want to try and avoid it for as long as possible, because well the up keep is just daunting. Thoughts?

Happy Long Weekend!

Happy long weekend! I got today off, so I get a 4 day weekend, woo hoo! Here are some of my favorite things this week.

 He's totally getting into coloring and drawing. It's so awesome for him to sit there for 30 minutes just coloring away. Mini Fox just wants to do what he does, so she'll also sit there for 30 minutes.

He was so proud that he wrote his whole name, he wouldn't go to bed without writing it out for us. He's so smart!

Last named blurred out, but he did write our last name too

Clearly Mini Fox was in a weird position. Oh well!

 Blurry, but the kids wanted to be animals and get Mama. It was adorable.

Then she wanted to wear the Fox costume.

 Reason she's crying? Her brother wasn't home when she got up from her nap. She was devastated.

We bought the flowers as blubs from Costco. We didn't realize how big (they are up to my hip!) they were going to be, but they sure are pretty. There are lots more flowers starting to bloom, going to be so pretty when they are full bloom all at once!

Hope you all have a great three day weekend! Just wanted to remind you to enter the giveaway I'm in for $400 gift card to Nordstrom. Click here for the original post.

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Linking up with Erika, Andrea, and Narci for Friday Favorites, September Farm and The Farmer's Wife for Oh Hey, Friday! April and the girls for Five on Friday, Jennie for Friday Favorites, Caitlin and the girls for High Five for Friday

TBT - Fox Kids Edition

I have been looking at old photos of the kids, so I thought this would be a great time to do a TBT to the kids. I can't believe how big they are getting!

Just before heading to the hospital, needed to get that shower in.

 Horrible picture, but this is the last one I got before heading to the hospital, 2.5 hours after this picture was taken we had a baby!

First picture with Baby Fox

First picture with Mini Fox

First bottle for Baby Fox, 1 month old

First Bottle for Mini Fox, 1 month old

First food, carrots - don't worry it's one of his favorite foods now.

 

Completely different experience with Mini Fox, she loved it the first time. - Peas, still one of her favorites.

Case in point, this picture was taken last week.

First time crawing - Baby Fox

First time crawling - Mini Fox (yep same room, almost the same exact spot)

First birthday - Cars Theme

First Birthday Party - Ladybug Theme

I do believe they have the same look on their faces with the cake...LOL. Definitely related.

And this bring us to a close on TBT the Fox Kids

Also linking up with Amanda, for Thinking Out Loud and Vanessa and Penny for Thinking out Loud, Nicole at Treat Yo' Self Thursday and Lulia, Stephanie and Sarah for The Ladies Collective

My First Pair of Camo's and Vlog

I finally got a pair of camo. I wasn't on board with the camo jeans until I kept seeing all the ladies from the style challenge wear them, and I just had to get in on the fun. But by the time I was on board it seemed like EVERYWHERE was sold out. I finally found them here. I was hesitant at first, but so glad that I just bit the bullet and went for it. They fit perfect! Well minus the length, but I have that problem with every pair of jeans.

That untucked part that looks while on my right hip, driving me crazy, sometimes I wonder, when Mr. was taking my photo, didn't he notice how funny it looked? Oh well, you get the idea. I love, love, love this shirt, it's so comfy. I want it in every color...if I could only remember where I got it...

Funny how just before taking these photos, I really caked on the make-up. I darkened my eyeshadow a bunch and brightened up the cheeks, yet you can barely tell I'm wearing make-up. Funny how that works. I do however LOVE my lipstick. I just got it, it's the Maybelline Buffs collection in the color Untainted (#950). I think it's the perfect everyday color for me.

Onto some randoms: Okay really just one random.

Did you know I have a youtube channel? I just think it's so cool when I see daily vloggers and how cool it must be for them to look back on certain days and not just look at pictures (like me) but actually see what they were doing, and watch a video of it. I'm sure I'll love looking back at my kids when they just started talking and see what it was like, instead of just looking at a picture. So I'm going to try and take more videos of my kids and then post it here for you to see. Keeps me accountable, cause I have SO many videos and I do nothing with them. So this is me trying to do something with it. If you subscribe to my channel, that's part of an entry to my giveaway, so go ahead and do both! $400 to Nordstrom, great way to get your summer wardrobe!

I tried to do a whole weekend worth of vlog to make one long video, but my software had other plans for me. So I had to break it up by day. I just keep fighting with the software, frustrating, but it's something I really want to do...so here are the first two days. By the time I figure this out, I'll be a month behind, LOL.

I'll eventually get the hang of it...so they might come at you sooner, instead of 3 weeks later, LOL. 

Until then happy Hump Day!

Linking up with Because Shanna Said So, Get Your Pretty On, The Pleated Poppy, Tucker Up , Shopping my Closet,  Molly and Carly and  More Pieces of Me and On the Daily Express,

Show and Tell Tuesday: Momfessional Moment

It's another Show and Tell Tuesday with Andrea, today's topic - Momfessions (you know confessions we do as a mom), clever Andrea, Clever. I don't know if this word was out there before you coined it, but I'm going to go ahead and give you full credit. Here was go:

Snacks Time
My kids will not eat those stupid gold fish/cheddar bunny crackers. I just want them to eat some snack food that I can throw at them, when we are out and about and they're whining that they want food. I keep buying them, and they keep not eating them.

Dinner Time
While we're on the food subject I give them the same dinner over and over again because I know they like it, and most nights I don't have time to make them some elaborate dinner. So most nights they either get pasta or chicken nuggets and some frozen veggie.

Nap Time
Mini Fox really does need a morning nap and a late afternoon nap, but if I did that then they kids would be tag teaming me on the nap time. So I keep up Mini Fox, most days she gets super cranky, but I do it so that both kids will take a nap at the same time. On those days that I don't have to work, sometimes I'll keep them up super late, so that by the time they wake up Mr. is home from work.

Computer Time
Sometimes when I'm "cooking" dinner, I'll really be on the computer doing something else, and half the time I overcook/burn whatever it is I am cooking, oops!

Bath Time
I usually take a shower/bath at the same times as the kids, 1) because it kills two birds with one stone and I don't have to use the hour I have after they go to bed, taking a shower and 2)I'll take just a little longer so that Mr. has to dress Mini Fox, and I tell Baby Fox it's a race with Mini Fox to get dressed, so they run off to race to get dressed and then I have 2 minutes of peace to do my after shower routine.

Car Time
I don't like kid music, I always hear all these parents say we have Disney music on repeat in the car. So I've never EVER put it on in the car, they listen to what I listen to because I don't want to hear Let it Go on repeat.

TV Time
I would rather watch Tangled, Frozen, Little Mermaid on repeat then watch one minute of Power Rangers or Ninja Turtles. Any time Baby Fox wants to watch those things, I tell him he has to chose something that Mini Fox will like too and she doesn't like those shows, which is semi true. She has the attention span of about 2 minutes when watching those shows and about 10 minutes when watching a princess show.

School Time
I take a picture of Baby Fox's school work hang it up on a wall for a few days and then toss it. I feel like I should feel guilty, but no one has time for all that paperwork. My intention is to make a book with the artwork/school work, but who knows if that will actually happen.

I think that's all I have for you today. What are your "Momfessions"? Please tell me I'm not alone.

Don't forget to enter my giveaway! $400 to Nordstrom, what could be better?!

 Also linking up with Tuesday Talk and Mommy Moments

The Monday Before a 4 Day Weekend

Happy Monday, or something like that...Last week Mini Fox was under the weather, I'll save you the details. Friday rolls around and we hear that she hasn't had any wet diapers since she woke up. And even then her over night diaper didn't have much. She refused to drink anything, Mr. took her to the doctor (I couldn't get home, insert sad face and getting no work done), and the doc said that if she didn't have a wet diaper in a few hours to take her to the ER.

Sick kids is just so sad...she just did this all day long, on who ever would hold her

 So scary trying to get a child who is lethargic and wants nothing to do with eating/drinking to do just that. We had said if nothing happened by 8:30pm that we would take her in, Good news, we did get her to drink enough liquids that she did have a wet diaper, finally...at 8:15pm. Cutting it close there girl!

The kids after they got back from the doctors relaxing together.

Mini Fox slept really great, so Saturday I got up early for my hike. Which turns out the trail was closed, so I went to my usual running spot and did 5 miles. I haven't really run since my half marathon, so I was pleasantly surprised when I didn't have much trouble getting in those miles.

At the car about to start

Half way point, stopped to take a picture before turning around.

I got back and the kids were already up and wanting breakfast, so no shower like I usually get in. A friend had told me about some cupcake pancakes that she made that her kids loved. It sound fun, so I used the idea of Pioneer Woman's recipe, but let's face it Mama doesn't have time for homemade.

I used our favorite pancake mix.

Added a few chocolate chips to some of them.

and out came these gorgeous things...They smelled delicious and I'm told they are very cake like. Baby Fox ate the chocolate chip ones by themselves, and then added some syrup to the plain ones.

I wanted Mini Fox to rest, so they watched Frozen while I cleaned up. We don't normally let Mini Fox use the pacifier, but when she's feeling a little under the weather, anything goes.

Caught them holding hands, so cute.

After the movie the kids had some pent up engery, so we took them to the park. My legs were pretty dead, so I was walking while Baby Fox rode, he didn't understand why I wasn't running next to him.

We had some friends over. Don't worry, full disclosure was given to them about Mini Fox's ailment the day before...they still wanted to hang out.

Sunday we headed to a the girl in the above picture 3rd birthday party.

She was so excited for cake

Not a happy camper...poor thing, the BRAT diet did what it said it would do, but then...well you know how that goes...

At Baby Fox's swim lessons, waiting patiently for it to be over.

We had my parents over for dinner. Actually my parents brought us dinner, it was awesome. Then we watched Sword in the Stone and called it a night.

 Good news, I have another Giveaway for you guys! This time $400 to my favorite store: Nordstrom! Now go meet some new bloggers and get in the running for some money. How would you spend it?

I would get this:

Swim Outfit

or this:

Toss up between these two swim suits. Same idea slightly different colors.

Swim Outfit #2

So here are the important details. Good luck and I hope one of my readers wins!

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Prize: $400 Nordstrom Gift Card

Co-hosts: 101 Things I Love / The Palmetto Peaches / Parenting Healthy / Deliciously Savvy / 2 Just B You / Something Gold, Something Blue / Style Tab / The Fashionista Momma / TonieGirl / Peaches In A Pod / Stripes 'n Vibes / Rocks Fashion Bug / The Southern Texas Charm / Jenn's Blah Blah Blog / Prosecco & Plaid / A Good Hue / Foxy's Domestic Side / Chasing My Halo / Cameron Proffitt

Giveaway organized by: Oh My Gosh Beck! (Please email becky@ohmygoshbeck.com with any questions.) 

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