Friday Favorites #52

Hi All! Happy Friday! I have next week off, and today off so it's extra happy for me! I work from home for a month followed by a week off for vacation, best life ever.

The title says #52 but really it's not, at some point I must have missed some, I think I'm around 49 or so...

Guess where these lucky ducks got to go yesterday...wish I could have joined them!

 

Lucky Ducks

 

Two nights out with friends...joyous! Thank You Mr. For watching the kids...well the second on the kids went to bed before she got there.

It's midnight when we took this picture, we're tired and I got up at 5am....wait correction 5:02am.

I tried to take a selfie to show you guys that I actually got dressed...and then this happened:

Finally one by myself...although I sort of like my photobombers better.

 

My favorite thing to do is family errands. We headed to Costco...really so the kids could ride with me on the cart.

Just kickin' it in the basket...

 

While picking up dinner she was memorized by the dancers and was doing some dance moves of her own.

Back at home, full and happy.

Hope you all have a great week! Happy Thanksgiving if some of you are taking off!

 

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, and Jennie for Friday Favorites

Guys Behind the Blog: 4th Edition

Linking up with Betsy's Guys Behind the Blog Q&A again. Click here for Mr.'s always hilarious answers from previous months.

1. What sports did you participate in as a child? What sports did you watch growing up?

Basketball (wait you participated in basketball), umhummmm...Dodgers baseball and LA Lakers and Chicago Bears Football.

2. If you could line up your ideal Super Bowl, who would be facing off, where would they play and who would you pick to win?

Huh...OH it would be the Bears against the Green Bay Packers and they would play in San Diego so I could go watch them and the Bears would beat them 93-2...no wait, 92 to nothing. Oh wait, they can't really play in the Super Bowl, so that's not really possible, because they are in the same division, but it's my dream, so I can have the Bears beat the Packers in the Super Bowl.

Look how little Mini Fox was!

3. Do you prefer the summer or winter Olympics? If you could participate in one Olympic sport, what would it be?

Summer for sure, I would be 100 Meter Dash, so I could be the worlds fastest person on the whole planet and Baby Fox would think that was the coolest thing. And Baby Fox would ask, Dad how fast are you, and I could answer the fastest man on the planet.

I can't find the longer version of this, but we hope that Baby Fox loves the Olympics as much this time around as he did the last time!

4. What is your favorite food to eat at a sports party (ex: World Series, Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, etc.)?

At a sports party? I like chips and dip especially the is it 7 layers, 8 layers? You know what I'm taking about? It's a 7 layer, but only before the kids get there, you know how I feel about that, and I would get there first and scoop a bunch if it on my plate.

5. Who is your all time favorite athlete and why?

Awwww...I'm not like...I don't know, I've never been that obsessed with people, just teams. The coolest thing I saw was Kirk Gibson hit a home run to win a game for the Dodgers in the World Series.

Me: Okay you're done...

Alright, blog gold from Mr.

New Friends

I have been posting outfits for the past who-knows-how-long, actually I could figure it out, I'm just too lazy to do it. This is what I've been wearing...and old pair of workout pants that I've cut off one of the legs to fit my cast and then comfy clothes...

Last night I actually got dressed up and went to dinner with friends, but of course forgot to take an outfit post when I got home...This is actually what I wore:

But I finally got to add my coat that I bought at the Nordstrom Anniversary sale in July of 2014!!!

Yes it's blurry, yes they really are that much taller than me, yes the girl in the middle is slouching. Good news on the coat, they have one very similar* on sale! Only $34, but it says sale ends today! It's super warm, and soft, great peacoat in my opinion. So glad that I got to take it out on it's debut outing, even if it was just 54° out.

Anyway, today is one of those days where I went to write a blog post and came up completely empty so I went to pinterest to find a quote...this one spoke to me. I am not a writer...hence why I'm an engineer and use words like hence in a sentence twice. I don't have eloquent words flowing out of me...so I figure take this quote how you see fit in your life.

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Right now in my life, this quote feels like it applies to friends. I have been having issues finding friends in my mom life. I feel like it's so hard to find them once you leave college. We moved out here with a really good friend and her husband,  I don't know what happened but now we rarely talk...anyway...after we stopped hanging out as much, I really thought there are other people in my life that I really love spending time with, so I made an effort to hang out with them, text , call and really get to know them. I am so happy that I went out of my comfort zone and "took another shot" at making friends. You are never too old to make new close friends and make new memories with great people, who I wouldn't have probably gotten to know so well had that negative thing in my life happened. Do I miss that person? Yes terribly, but until she's ready to get over her issues, I'll be here with open arms, but won't be dwelling any more or letting the negative things affect my life.

Wow that got a little more serious than I thought, based off a random quote I found, and probably doesn't make sense to you, but hey, I feel better. So thanks for listening/reading my random rant of the day!

Happy Hump Day Peeps! I have 5 more days of this pink cast of mine! Woo hoo! At least I hope, I really hope I'm not that person that they say...oh so sorry, you're in it for another week...NOOOOO!!!! No that won't happen, it can't happen, Mama has Christmas shopping to do!

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Show and Tell Tuesday - Giving Back

Linking back up with Andrea for another Show and Tell Tuesday. This time she's asking us about service organizations we are involved with. When I was in college I was in a service organization called Sursum Corda, it was some of the best times, and I met some of my best friends in that group. Since college I have volunteered at things here and there, but, and it's said I have to add this, I just don't find the time as much as I used to.

That being said the most recent charity thing I've been involved with is Thomas House.

I had mentioned a few weeks back that I went to a Gala to raise money for them and their cause. I think this is such a worthy cause and really reminds me of Good Shepard, one of my favorite volunteer things in college.

Thomas House is a place that provides a safe and supportive environment to families with children to help them get back on their feet. While at the Gala we actually got to meet Sandra and hear her story. She is doing well and attending college all because she and her family had Thomas House to support them when they needed it.

At the end of the night they said if you hadn't bid on anything that you could still help by placing your number in a backpack that was being passed around and that would be donating $100 for a backpack and all of the supplies the kids would need for the school year for one student. Sandra had mentioned that she was always on the receiving side of the backpacks and didn't realize how much love, support and work went into providing those backpacks to her and her brothers each year.

My friend has been asked to be a co-chair for next years Gala and I intend to help out as much as I can, in whatever way I can. For now I have "adopted" one of the kids for Christmas and am currently going through his Christmas list and trying to get everything he needs. 

When I got home I told Mr. that it was such a great organization and that it was something that I think I really wanted to get involved with when the kids got a little older. For now we will donate when we can and help out anyway we can. I'm looking forward to getting the little foxes involved with volunteering and helping others.

 

What charities do you support and why? Leave it in the comments below!

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S'mores without the Camping

Friday night dinner, usual thumb wars happening.

We saw these* at Target online, and had to get them. Of course Mr. and I got a pair for ourselves too. But you'll have to wait for ours, I currently can't get mine over my cast, haha! But if you want them, you have to go now, they are running out fast! The men and toddlers are sold out online. And they are by one get one 50% off...of course I didn't get that deal...darn!

Getting a picture of both of them at the same time, impossible.

Hey at least they are both looking in this one...

After trying to get pictures, we played some hide and seek, we were hiding in Mr.'s office.

and then they attacked him.

After I put the kids to bed I headed out to the movies with my mom and sister. I guess they just recently changed some of the theaters into VIP, so we paid an extra $3 but got reclining chairs...Which worked out for me, since I was a little worried bout not keeping my foot up for 2.5 hours. Sexy cast and boot right? Can you all guess what sweater I am wearing?

In case you didn't get it, here's my outfit I wore on Friday night. And it really is the MOST comfortable sweater* in the world! Yes it's expensive, but if you wait for the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale it's much more "affordable", I say that in quotes because it's still expensive for a sweater. But you'll be wearing it almost every cold day of the year...so cost per wear is definitely low (girl math right there)

Oh and we saw The Intern, so cute and yes I cried, I'm such a baby.

Saturday we decided that Mini Fox was still sick enough that we didn't want her relapse, so we had my parents take her for the day while we went to my cousin's kid's 1st birthday party. We missed Mini Fox, but did not miss the whining we would have gotten had she been there. The party theme was S'mores, so cute, she did a camp theme everywhere.

Trail Mix to make for the road, although my kid made one right when we got there.

Super cute right?

They had a pizza guy making pizza in their driveway, yum! Funny, this guy has been to two other parties we've been to. Random.

She had all of the fixings for S'mores...

Baby Fox thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Birthday boy wasn't so sure about his cake...

OH and we finally got a cousin picture...usually we just take a picture of all of the kids, but this time we took a picture of us! This is only some of them, but it was great to get to see all of them and catch up.

Sunday morning snuggles with this guy, we were watching The Lego Movie.

This girl helped me make pancakes. She's a really good stirrer...she's going to be a great help in the kitchen one day.

 The plan was that Daddy was going to take Mini Fox to the store with him, but that didn't really work out, so we played outside instead and I worked on a craft that I have been meaning to do for a year, no joke I bought all the materials last year. (The laptop was to try and find a tutorial, which I didn't really find a great one, so I made it up as I went.)

 

The kids seemed to be doing good, so Daddy snuck off to the grocery store.

This kid is going to give me a heart attack.

 

Oh and guess who didn't have enough stuff to finish her project...boo! But the part I did finish I really liked.

 Look at this ginormous rose that is growing on our side yard? So pretty. Reaching for the Heavens.

 And that was the last picture I took on Sunday. The rest of the day was lunch, naps, dinner, baths, more play time.

How was your weekend?

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