Friday Favorites #151

Happy Friday Foxy Friends! So happy it's Friday. We're getting together with some friends for dinner tonight, and I'm making a Butternut Squash Lasagna. I'm going to try to take pictures and do a post on it. We'll see how much time I have to do that. Anyway, let's get started:

Monday: 10 Memories With Mr.
Tuesday: Meet My People
Wednesday: Valentine's Day Photo Shoot
Thursday: Grocery Haul

So far this year I'm on a roll with the YouTube videos. Please go check out my channel and subscribe, it would mean the world to me! Any videos you want to see? What are your favorites to watch?

Last Thursday went out for a much need MNO. We went to this upscale bar, that we equated to the bar the people go to after they get divorced and are newly single? Or young girls trying to get older sugar daddy's? Yep...all of the above.  But it made for great people watching.

Friday we left for the mountains with some friends, much needed time away with great friends. So much fun, hope we can do this more often!

When we got up there, we got some lunch and then headed to the park before....

Hitting up Snow Tube slopes. But first a picture with Mr. Bear.

 

It was night tubing, so this was the only picture we got before it got too dark. We left just before the masses got there, as soon as they started closing down some of the runs because they were too dangerous, we figured it a win that no one got hurt and left.

A little Twister before bed.

Saturday while the littlest was napping, took the kids to the park.



Then we went on a small walk/climbing adventure.

Yep they all got up there on their own...through that channel...

Then made their way up to the top of there...I might have had several heart attacks trying to figure out where they were.

Lots of Olympic watching happened...we might have even found Mini Fox's sport...2020 here she comes!

Kidding, she's much for of a luger or slopestyle snowboarder.

When we got back on Sunday, Mr. studied for some tests and I took the kids to In and Out.

The kids get stickers...and this is what Baby Fox did...

I asked him why everyone was sideways and he said "because they just had an earthquake"...haha, so funny, I don't even think he's even woken up for an earthquake before. We had one a few weeks ago and both kids slept right through it.

We love watching the Olympics, especially the snowboarding events. Chloe Kim, hadn't heard of her until last Friday when we started watching the Olympics, but watching her win gold, amazing! And this story I found...made me tear up. What sacrifices parents make for their kids, and I would do it over and over again if I had the chance.

Who else is obsessed with watching? Happy weekending! Talk to you Monday when we have $10 Target haul. If you can, jump on over to Target, find $10 worth of stuff and report back and link up with us!

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Sprouts and Costco Weekly Grocery Haul

Hi Foxy Friends. I always see people doing grocery hauls and thought I would do one too. So here is my haul for the week.

Receipt breakdown:

Sprouts:

Produce
Cara Cara Oranges: (0.52 lb) - $0.51
Clementines (2 lb bag) - $1.98
Green Grapes (2.36 lb) - $7.06
Organic Spring Mix - $3.49
White Onions (1.12 lbs) - $.86
Peaches (1.79 lb)  $3.54

Grocery
2 can organic black beans - $1.98
Organic Fruit O's cereal - $3.99
2 Organic Chili Mix packets - $2.98
Organic Prune Juice - $7.99
Organic Pear Juice - $4.49
2 cans tomatoes - $3.38

Dairy
Organic Milk - $5.99 (on sale)

Deli
Smoked Gouda - $3.26

Meat
Xtra lean Ground Beef - $7.74

Total: $59.44

Costco:

2 Mediterranean Salad Mix - $5.99 each
Raspberries - $7.49
Premiere Chocolate Protein Shake - $19.99 (on sale)
Chicken Packets - $12.39
Salmon - $21.61

Total: $73.46

So what do you think? Should I keep doing this? Do you like the receipt breakdown? Tell me in the comments if I should make this a series.

$150 Valentine's Day Cash Giveaway

Hey Foxy Friends! I have a Valentine's Day Giveaway for you! I know who couldn't use $150 cash?! If you're already following me on social media, then you have a few entries, so those are free! So what are you waiting for? Go enter!

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Happy Valentine's Day

Hi Foxy Friends! Happy Valentine's Day! I decided to take a break on outfit post today to bring you my cuties. I saw this tutorial on Danielle's blog about creating bokeh hearts. I knew I wanted to try this out for Valentine's. When the kids were born, I was all about creating themed pictures for the kids...

Baby Fox 2011

Mini Fox and Baby Fox 2014

This year I decided to do another photo shoot for Valentine's day since it's been a while. I'm so excited how it turned out.

I love how they came out! Now to figure out how to use this same method for St. Patrick's Day.

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Meet My People

Hi Foxy Friends!  I thought since I have some new foxy peeps around I would introduce my people. People you see frequently around these parts. Plus check out the other bloggers below and get to know some new people.
  
Mr.:

Well I just talked about Mr. yesterday, so go check out that post for more details. But he is the one that supports all the crazy ideas that I have and never once gives me the eye roll when for the 100th time ask for a picture.

Baby Fox:

The one that made me a mother. What can I say, he really was the perfect first child, NEVER cried, I mean never. Is super sensitive, so I have to watch my tone with him, because if he thinks you're mad at him, he will cry. Is the most loving and caring brother any sister could ask for and pretty much bends over backwards to do anything to make her stop crying. (Yes she does use this to her advantage sometimes). Loves baseball and soccer, learning, especially math, and is currently loving his trampoline class. He almost has a front flip.

Mini Fox:

What can I say, she enter this world, just like her personality, loud, in charge and knowing what she wants. She has the best imagination, can entertain herself for hours and loves to tell a good story. Loves her brother something fierce and always wants to do what he is doing. Loves her morning cuddles, was a super hard transition when he started going to school full time and didn't get her morning cuddles with him.

Parents and Siblings:

They are the best, I could not ask for a better extended family for my kids. I love that they live close enough to us that they are a constant in the kids lives and that they each have their own relationship with them. I don't know what we would do without them, helping us out all the time, taking the kids to and from activities. I love that my dad can drop off donuts on a random Wednesday just because.

Cousins:

Many of them are missing from our most recent get together, but I love that we are able, as adults, or organize ourselves and let our children be able to grow up like how we did when we were younger. Although we all live within a 100 mile radius, and sometimes it's not always easy to get together, we make it happen. Heck I see my cousin who lives 100 miles away probably more than I see some friends that live miles from me...

These kids, I love them so much! How much longer can we get them to wear matching PJ's? Forever? The oldest (farthest left) said the only reason he was wearing them was because Auntie Sarah bought them, you better believe I'm riding that Auntie train as long as possible, haha.

Related: Meet My Tribe

Find more "Meet My Loves" stories here...

Sarah | Johannah | Whitney | Stephanie

Sarah | Dara | Heather | Beth

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10 Memories With Mr.

Last year I participated with Erin for 10th on the 10th and she's continuing it this year, click here for those posts. Well this year she has come up with 12 new topic, the topic today is 10 memories with your spouse. Wow, so many memories, but I'll try, here I go:

| ONE |

When we met, I picked him up at a bar in Hollywood. Yep that's right, I talked to him first, we were both dating someone at the time, we broke up with said people soon after and the rest is history.

| TWO |

Our first date, was pretty much picture perfect. We went to Malibu, and sat on the sand and talked while watching the sunset, then we headed to Mimi's Cafe to eat dinner, followed by ice cream and walking around the most picture perfect park (think old fashion street lights and benches under tress). Really the most perfect first date.

| THREE |

When he surprised me with our honeymoon. He just told me that I needed a passport and some bathing suites. I had no idea where we were going, and he told me at church towards the end of the ceremony as we were watching everyone receive communion.

| FOUR |

Our trip to Italy and Switzerland. We knew that we wanted to take one more big trip before having kids. So we took 3 weeks off and went with some really good friends. So many great memories, and I can't wait to take the kids one year.

Throwing coins into Trevi Fountain.



| FIVE |

Hiking Half Dome. I saw a picture of it in someone's cube and I asked what it was, they said Half Dome and I immediately Googled, and then emailed Mr. and said hey want to hike Half Dome...he immediately said yes, without evening knowing what it was, despite having knee surgery 7 weeks prior he hiked it with me, and it was such an amazing experience.

 

Related: Hiking Half Dome


| SIX |

Buying our first house together, we found out our offer got accepted on our drive home from hiking Half Dome.

| SEVEN |

After having kids it's hard to get away, just the two of us. I really cherish those times to reconnect and visit our old stomping grounds, when we were two people who on a whim would go to Santa Barbara or San Luis Obispo the following weekend, just because. I love that we could do that, and that we still try to do that, although it takes a lot more planning then thinking about it 1 day prior to leaving, haha!

Visiting the elephant seals in Cambria

| EIGHT |

Having Baby Fox, what a surreal moment, one moment you are just two people in love and the next you bring this human into the world who is completely reliant on you. Wow, we just stared and him and cried and had no words.

Related: Baby Fox's Birth Story

| NINE |

Of course the mega fast birth of Mini Fox, wow. I love hearing Mr.'s version of events, and the fact that Mr. knows me well enough that I was going to have this baby fast and lie to the hospital (of how long my contractions had been going on) so that they would tell us we could come in. 1 hour later...she was here.

Related Story: Mini Fox's Birth Story

| TEN |

One of the more recent ones is watching the sunrise at the Grand Canyon with the kids. I love that the kids wanted to go and we loved sharing that experience with them.

Here are the other topics in case you want to join in.