SO MUCH TO DO, SO LITTLE TIME

A few more to go and its going to be Thanksgiving. Its our turn this year to host the Thanksgiving dinner at our house. Its going to be a loooooooong few days for me. I have so much to do but with very little time. I won't be online much as I have to clean, organized, go food shopping and cook before Thanksgiving. This is going to be extra special for me this year. Why? My cousin and her family from Chicago are driving down. She is also picking up her parents and sister is New York. Its going to be a full house. My kids are already very excited to see their cousins. I feel so overwhelmed and stressed. I just want things to be perfect, but perfection is to much to ask, lol. I am really looking forward to having my side of the family again. The last time they were here was 3 years ago also for Thanksgiving. I just hope my family will have a great time!

MY DAY

I turned _ _ years old today, happy birthday to me!!!

This is the first time that we really didn't do anything for my birthday. Last year I had a big birthday celebration in the Philippines. With the loss of my grandpa I just wanted to have a regular day. Ralph went out and got me white roses, card and a cake for my birthday. He really didn't have to but he said its not a birthday without the cake. My BIL Larry came down yesterday so he decided to make us dinner, his meatloaf. It was great and probably the best meatloaf I have ever tasted. I can't wait until I have the left overs tomorrow for my lunch, lol. I just want to thank family and every body who gave a few minutes of their time to greet me a happy birthday.. Thank you, I didn't know turning 21 (12 yrs ago ) was going to be this fun, hehehehehehhe

DADDY DAY

A Happy Happy Father's day to the my husband!

I just want to say that its easy to be a father, but it takes a real man to stand up to his responsibility and a Dad, Papa or Tatay. God has generously blessed my kids and I a man who truly loves his children. I grew up not really knowing my father. God didn't want my kids to grow up like that so he sent me a man a good man. A father who will gladly lift up his kids so they can reach the stars, lay down his life to protect them and most of all love them with all his heart. To all the wonderful Dad out there, Happy Father's Day again..

A DATE TO REMEMBER

Romantic night out turned out to be so disastrous. Ralph and I had been looking forward to our date last Saturday, it was suppose to be an advance celebration for our 4th wedding anniversary. Well the day started out real smooth. I got dressed up and even did my make-up extra special. Kaitlyn was behaved and even gave both Ralph and I a kiss before we left and said she will miss us. I should have known that we have always had worse luck when it comes to planning dates.

Our date turned disastrous when Ralph found the wrong restaurant, lol. We just burst out laughing. We continued driving to find the right restaurant which took a little while. When we finally found it and got in, we were shocked to find out how long the wait was going to be. Guess how long? The wait was 2 1/2 hours to be seated. Ralph and I just turned around and went out. Red Lobster was just across Firbirds we went to see if it was also swamped and it was. Minimum wait was 30 min. After hearing that we just hightailed on to the road. We decided to just eat at our favorite Chinese buffet but Ralph wanted to see if Texas Roadhouse and Lone Star. Both places were also swamped. But before the end of the night we finally found a place where we didn't have to wait at all. And that story is for another time. Our date may have turned out to be a disaster but it was a day worth remembering. Ralph and I laughed so much and just had a good time in spite of everything.

GOOFY SMILES

Hanging out with my kids outside while waiting for Andrew Juniors 1st birthday party. This was taken last Aug 14, somewhere in New Jersey. It was the second weekend of the month so we got Kayla, to bad Ralph had to go to work. We took one car going there with my BIL Angelo driving. We arrived there about 12 noon and boy were we starving. Party wasn't going to start anytime soon and my kids had to eat. I couldn't just give them potato chips for lunch, so even though the party didn't start I went and got potato salad for the kids to munch on. While waiting for the other guest to arrive we sat down on the swing and had fun taking pictures with my new phone. The kids were goofing around so much that the pictures really came out good. It was a nice day to have a party but most of all I had a great time hanging out with my two beautiful princesses. They looked so beautiful in their respective dresses.

67th CELEBRATION

Pictures were taken Feb 28,2009 on my MIL 67th birthday. Ralph was working, Kayla was with her mommy for the weekend. Angelo came down for the day and made us dinner, it was pork chops in tomato sauce. It was so delicious that i gorged on it so much, i could barely stand after.
We just had cake after with MIL blogwing the cake with Kaitlyn and the last picture is of her after having some of "mima's" brithday cake. Even if it was just the 4 of us we still had fun playing with the wii. I wished i could have done more for my MIL since she is such a big help to me. She love Yanni and I'll probably go to the mall one of this days and surprise her with his cd.

AS SHE TURNS A YEAR OLD

My first born is one year old and i feel like i have been cheated. Time has robbed me of my memories of her when she was just an infant. My brain has been foggy, it just cleared when Kaitlyn was 6 months old. Where did the time go?Did it just flew by me? Or i was to wrapped up with the thought of trying to be a good mother to both kids. All i know is that she is growing up very very fast

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Kaitlyn was in her element yesterday and was having such a blast with her uncle Angelo. It didn't happen right away though, when they first arrived she was like an octopus. Arms and legs wrapped around my neck and my body so tight like she wanted to crawl inside of me and hide,lol. It took her about a good 2-30 minutes before she actually warmed up to her uncle Angelo. After that forget it she was all over him. Wasn't able to take a good picture of her with her birthday dress that we got at Walmart for $16 and the little patent black shoes for $9. She looked so cute and so girlie,lol. Here are just a few of the pictures taken yesterday.

We didn't get to take a picture of her blowing out her cake wearing her birthday dress, i changed her too early as i know she would want to eat a piece of her cake as soon as they were down blowing out the candles. Oh well! The important thing is she had fun and got what she wanted, a piece of cake!

yummy! at last i got to eat another birthday cake again!!!