Friday Favorites July 14, 2017

I'm linking up again with Erika, Andrea and Narci for the Friday Favorites!  I love reading everyone's favorites too!

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The girls of The Home Edit instagram stories feed crack me up every day.  I love their organizing, but  on stories they have the quirkiest personalities and I love me some quirky girls! The regular feed is full of beautiful pantries and closets, but the stories is more of their personal life and behind the scenes banter.  

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Playing salon with Carolina is something she started wanting to do since she had her haircut.  Is it not the most relaxing thing for someone to brush your hair?  She also loves to clean out my brushes which I'm happy to let her do!  

I got this idea from the Daily Connoisseur, who I've been reading for years and now she has books published and a youtube channel.  She mentioned it in one of her recent videos.  If you haven't read her blog or her books, check them out!  I love her original book about her experience as an exchange student in France.  It was transformational indeed for her to have created a successful career around telling others about it.  Thanks for the idea. Jennifer!

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I got my hair cut and highlighted.  I was aiming for a similar haircut to Carolina because I'm all about twinning with her while she still likes it.  Mine is a bit more adult than hers, a modern bob.  It turned out a wee bit too orange for me but I'm blue shampooing all the time trying to tone it down.  

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Operation Zero Inbox is in session.  Who else has so many emails and doesn't take the time to go through and delete them.  I spent a few hours looking through, unsubscribing and going down rabbit trails.  I want a decluttered inbox!!  

What do you do to help you?  I have used mailstrom and also unroll.me to help tame the junk mail and subscriptions.

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Oh my goodness, this stuff is my afternoon caffeine splurge.  I really love it and it's probably keeping me going right now at 12:22 am!  I probably shouldn't drink it in the afternoon actually.  Whoops!

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Friday Favorites // June 16, 2017

I'm linking up again with Erika, Andrea and Narci for the Friday Favorites!  I love reading everyone's favorites too!

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Today is the day before our Carolina's fifth birthday so I can't not include that!  We had her party early and I have the full details coming on Monday.  Here's a preview.

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We got to go on a date night!  This doesn't happen much and we're so grateful to our friend Jill, who calls herself the kids' fake grandma.  She loves them and takes care of them so well.  They adore her and we do too.

We went to Coltivare in the Houston Heights.  It's a very chic restaurant that grows a lot of their own vegetables in the courtyard garden.  The food is incredible although we didn't like what we ordered 100%.  We got mussels which were giant mussels.  I felt like I was digging into a heart or some kind of organ.  Blah.  The flavor was good but I couldn't stomach it.  Then we got pizza which had incredible crust but way too much prosciutto.  

I'm not selling it, but if you are in Houston, you should try it.  The seasonal menu is usually delicious.  My favorite thing is the spaghetti with pepper.  You can't go wrong with that.

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Last night we got to see the Astros!  We had a great time.  It was $1 hot dog night and Gustavo may have eaten 6!  Yikes.

Here's us in our matching Converse.  I wish I could say she loves them but she doesn't.  I have to fight her to wear them every time!  She said they are boring and don't have any sparkles.

I guess I'm going to have to do something about that.

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I'm so excited that I got my The Ordinary order in!  I can't wait to try it!

Hope you have a great weekend! 

Friday Favorites // June 2, 2017

I'm linking up again with Erika, Andrea and Narci for the Friday Favorites!  I love reading everyone's favorites too!

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We went salsa dancing last Friday night!  Gustavo and I met salsa dancing when a mutual friend invited us both to go dancing with a group of people who were taking dance lessons. It was love at first dance!  Haha!  That was 13 years ago and we've hardly been salsa dancing since so we were happy to remedy that situation!  If you are in Houston, check out The Aquarium on Friday nights during the summer.

I cut our friends out of the picture because I didn't know if they would want to appear on the internet, but we had so much fun with them and went to the Cheesecake Factory afterwards.  

Side note, Señor Gustavo wore his dark sunglasses all. night. long, even after dark.  He couldn't break character!

Here is Gustavo giving a salsa lesson to our friend.

Its mesmerizing, isn't it?

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We went to Ikea to get some organizing things for our horrendous shelves in the laundry room and spotted a duvet cover that matched me.  

You see how easy it is to get distracted at Ikea?  We did have a purpose and here are the shelves so full of disarray.  We take off our shoes here and they pile up plus all of our crafts and paints are stored here.  

For the record, I had a big problem with buying more bins to put things in when I already had bins available, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet and get something that matches.   I think it makes a big difference in the feel of peacefulness in our home as soon as we walk in the door.

We still have a situation with so many shoes but as the kids grow out of them, I won't buy as many. Ok, who am I kidding?  That's the plan, though.

This is a look inside one of the bins.  It holds our paints and the handy little attachable box to put paintbrushes in is only 79 cents more!  

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Three is this recipe for banana chocolate muffins that the kids helped me make this week.  They are so delicious.  Even Gustavo said they were the best muffins ever!
  

Carolina actually did measure the flour and sugar all by herself. I barely watched her so she must have done ok.  When Papa said he loved them she was so proud!

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This is a picture of me trying to write this blog post.  I'm a total Mommy blogger with kids all over me all the time!  I wouldn't trade it for anything but if there are any typos in my posts, I'm going to blame them!