MONDAY!

I need to get ready for a party! and my mother in law will be here too! we should have some fun! have nothing ready!

December 13

This week went by fast! and my computer had issues! so no computer this past week! so sad! now time to buckle up and get things fixed up!
a week in one post!
have been trying to hard to do a picture a day!
Sunday we went to get our xmas tree and ran into our neighbors Addy and Joe we ended up having dinner together at the best pizza place in town! (pizza from mars!) funny place good tasting pizza! the girls got to get some new squishies and drew martians on a plate to display in the store! I got some more xmas decorations next door and now up on my wall!
Monday I was on a quest to find the right tree skirt! no luck ran out of time! the ones on my price range were kinda of ugly and the others way to expensive! pick up the girls from school spent way to much time doing homework!
Tuesday again on my quest to find the right tree skirt with no luck! then decided to go tot he market instead! did find out the gym up the street open its doors!
Wednesday finally found a tree skirt in the right prize range! yeah and it looks good under my tree! and we had wine night! the last one of the year! we had a fun time trying some good wines and good company except for the Grinch showing up! but it stayed far far away from me!
Thursday night we had a good busy day! also did some x-mas shopping will try to do some more on Wednesday- we miss dance night because of homework! we were schedule for a make up class on Saturday!
Friday night fun! did a bit of housecleaning! had the girls over to scrapbook! did not get to scrapbook pages, worked on some xmas decorations we will see how they look!
Saturday we went out to breakfast, got to take a nap, went to the mission to take some xmas photos of our friends, it was a fun photo shoot and a great sunset by the mission
Sunday -It was a great day at Legoland!We went with Maggie, Harrison & Diego the kids love it! except for the fact that they got no icecream! sorry kids the place ran out of icecream!

Friday Night

Today was also a fun busy day, the girls had the flag salute at school and a teacher did this great skit about the lost and found in the mpr room (all this poor jackets needing to keep the kids warm or was it all about upset parents having to buy new jackets???) then a little bit of xmas shopping, Mariana was over for lunch, the girls were over for a playdate. then they went to Ally's to see their xmas decorations. I also spent about 5 hours with the microsoft guy! not able to help me will try again on monday we will see! hopefully he can fix it! (note to self call the hp people to report problem!

Fun times at Legoland!

We went to Legoaland with the cousins and had a great time!

December 2

Today we were up early! girls took shower (note need to replace shower head in their bathroom) also faucets, toilet, tile, decor, paint, style! but if we can at least get that shower head replaced!

I did spent two hours with the Microsoft guy with no resolution! will try again tomorrow! we will hope this can get fixed! or maybe I should just get a new laptop! yeah right! not going to happen!

will finish cleaning up, then we are off to dance class and the tree lighting ceremony in downtown Oceanside.

December 1st

Not sure if I can blog everyday! but will try it this month! or at least until I board a plane on the 25th of December!

The 1st was a busy day for me! first after our morning routine, drop the girls at school, pick up girlfriends and went shopping for some Xmas decorations, were back in time to pick up the girls from school, we were home serve snack, left Madeline & Ally with Randal to do homework, went to the dentist with Rebecca's, she did great at the dentist! we went to get a treat! at home the girls did homework while I cooked dinner, did some laundry, we had dinner and we were out the door at 6:30 pm to pick up Alexandra, went to the girls Scout meeting, practice singing some songs, I made reindeer's to give away on Sunday. Then I had an allergy attack! it was the cat! had to get the heck out! rushed home took some benadryl, felt much better! time to read and get the girls to bed!

Thanksgiving 2nd part

The girls had the week of school, then we went to Sonoma, California for Thanksgiving! it was cold and beautiful! we had a nice time and the girls had a great time! I did for the first time in a long time went to Black Friday very early in the morning and it was fun! I got some great items at a great discount I do hope the girls appreciate all we do for them! or do we do it for us? I guess we are the ones getting the discount! even thought I did it alone I had fun!

Happy Happy Thanksgiving!

A week behind! but here it is! we had a fun and cold November in southern cal this month!
I think I saw some penguins or were just those early Xmas decorations! not sure the jury is still out on that one!

And this is why we like to have a blog! there are sometimes things you just can not remember! this month I got to go to Bunco! I do miss it! being part of a woman group getting together talking, laughing, eating chocolate! and just having a good time! and hopping to come out a winner! I did not win but I got to spend sometime with my neighbors and that was fun.

I also went to wine night, not the same but it was OK and it is just hard for me to know that ladies who I believe are my friends are not, friends that I would jump for, help, be there, enjoy, laugh, cry I guess that there are a couple of saying I need to repeat to myself
"Don't make someone a priority when they're only making you an option"
"Best friends don't let you do stupid things....alone."
You'll always be my best friend, you know too much.
A friend is someone who helps you up when you're down, and if they can't, they lay down beside you and listen....
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more. ~ Jasmine Fitzwilliam

ok done with the quotes! I guess I do not get why they keep hurting me!

I hate to say it but "were did the month go???"

OK will try to explain pictures!

This one is from Bunco! Tina & I showing off our wigs

This is the beautiful bride with all the kids!

The Happy Bride & Groom with his mom!

Madeline showing off our t-shirts! look mom we are all here!

A good tasting drink but after one to many not to sure!

Here we are at the VIP Party having a great time!

Hi, I realized we had a busy month but wow! I can not believe it has gone by so fast! we have had a great month so far! we went up to the bay area this month for Cousin Darryl & Jules wedding and like my kids said "mom this was the best wedding ever!" very very child friendly! we also got to go see the blue angels fly over San Francisco and it was a beautiful day for that event! and we did it VIP Style! and then the next day I got so sick from all the different food and drink I had! then back to a week of ballet, homework, girl scouts more homework! I also participated in http://www.survivorcrop.com/ a great scrapbooking event that raises money for the Komen foundation I was very proud to be part of this event. this week is almost over and need to do some last minute shopping before Halloween! happy happy Halloween weekend!

Last Minute Album

My husband said this week I might go visit my mother, and for a few months now she had asked me for copies of some of the pictures of his grad school graduation & of us, we had also gone up to Clear Lake, California a few weeks back to celebrate her birthday , I made her a quick 6x6 album and here it is! this is probably my first real scrapbooking pictures ever on my blog! yeah!

School is here!!!!!!!!!!!

Wow I sound like a broken record but were does the time go! it has been over two months since my first and only European vacation! since then we have travel to Sequoia National Forest http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/sequoia, Simi Valleyhttp://www.ci.simi-valley.us, Burlingame http://www.burlingame.org, Clear Lake! not to mention the many trips to Legoland http://www.legoland.com, California.We also have the girls schedule to take dance lessons this year, looking forward to seeing them dance their energy out twice a week!
Yesterday was the first day of school, they were both nervous and excited, Madeline likes her new teacher and also got to see that Mr. Webb came back to teach at Nichols! she also has two of her friends in the class, Grace & Amanda, I am looking forward to spending some time in her classroom every week!
Rebecca was very excited, she got up early and was ready to go by 8 am! her class does not start until 8:55! Both Randal and I were able to take them to school and as excited as they were the minute we left her in her classroom she not only cried! she screamed! and I felt so bad..............I cried too! but walked away! later on the day I looked in and checked on her and she was happy playing with her new friends! and as much as I was worried about today she did not even cry! so our two day, first week of school was just great! Now we are ready for a fun filled weekend! rest????? maybe!

We went on our trip!

My husband and I went on our first European trip together this summer. Our daughters stayed with my sisiters while we travel to Paris, Strasburg France and Amesterdam. We left on the 20th of June and were home on July 3rd!

Folow up!

So we went to Puerto Nuevo had a great time! Here are some pictures of the trip were we celebrated my fathers birthday as well as our niece carla who turn 18. Once again I can't find the pictures I took that day! I know they are here somewere! so at least I had one of my girls with the Alaskan dolls my father brought them from his trip.

About Puerto Nevo.......

I have pictures from Puerto Nuevo unedited I just have had no time. Dealing with life and adult Llama drama is just a bit to much! Husband graduated from grad school Yeah so happy to have him back! and now we are going on our trip to Europe this is what he wanted to do! and we are going! very excited! Ok so I could not upload! will try again tomorrow! need t get some sleep!

Saturday Family Day!

Hi, Today we went down to Puerto Nuevo to celebrate my fathers birthday as well as my niece Carla she turned 18th and dad's as he said it is just another anniversary!
The weather was a bit gloomy but we had a fun time with them all, and the lobster was great too! will try to post some pictures later! Once again I do not want to sounds like a broken records but May did fly by! It was a busy emotionally charged month were certain family events rock us all to the core? and the question is, how do you change your mindset when someone you love and care about is not who you thought it was? and this person has lied about pretty much everything for over 3 years? we say wow and are speechless...... and the hardest part how do you explain it to the children or do you? do you let the time pass and hope that it will heal the wounds? even though some of them cut way to deep? at this point I choose to ignore it and move on. will not tell my kids, will live my life as I know it! and then maybe someday we can talk about it.

When I was editing this site I remember a couple of things I do not want to forget!

There are fights everywere you might try to live your life without getting involved but sometimes you can not stand in the sidelines you have to be in it like they say!

I was in it a few times this past few months, do not really want to but had to for my childrens future. I went to the city council meeting to fight for my rights as a tax payer home owner who wants to be in a safe area! and it was so hard to sit there and listen to all this political talk I hated every minute of it. The outcome was in our favor but it was nail bitting!

The other was the Oside school distric meeting, here they are letting go of 61 good teachers! good teachers! I have to say that again and our hands are tied to do anything about it? no we can take action, but just how much tome do we have to take action is the question?? I will take the time to write a letter to Dianne Feinstein and others who should be protecting our children's education, which we can not afford for their future to be ignored.

May has delivered!

Wow mid-May! yes it has been beautiful here in Southern Cal! a bit col than usual but still nice weather. I have been preparing for my daughters 5th birthday! so much to do before Sunday at 1 pm! but working on it! need to check my guest list and order the food! today we spent half the day shopping for some last minute decorations! only to realize once I got home that we still do not have plates! I wonder if we can do with just pretty napkins! This has been a hard and lonely week for me! but need to get myself together for my baby! she only turns 5 once!

Happy End of April!

We had so much rain this month! I am looking forward to all the May flowers!
Today we are going to go to the strawberry fields and get some yummy strawberry's to eat! Madeline really likes to dip them in Nutella with whip cream! her favorite and mine too!
oops I remember yesterday was my brothers bday and forgot to send him a note! will do today! and since it is scrapbooking week! I am going to go and scrap tonight! hope to finish the x-mas albums! I am so done but need to finish! I am ready to scrap some spring pictures from this year and last year and the year before that! so many things to do and so little time! or like my hubby said need to work on time management! that is my plan for May be a little better on time management! work out more! and need to plan Becca's birthday party! she will be 5 years old!

School Open House Tonight!

My daughter Madeline is just so excited about open house at her school tonight! looking forward to seeing her classroom! it is fun to see her little happy face!

What to do...what to do!

Sometimes I just have a lot to do and not sure were to start! and once I tried to plugg away at one room my daughter starts to complain that she is bored, so I stop what I am doing and do what she wants me to do for about an hour or so. Then I try to get back to do what I need to do and

April 12, 2010

We had a fun filled last week! with family friends in town! we went to Lego land on Monday, Tuesday we had a fun time at the library and the park, then we were off to Mission Beach for a fun BBQ after watching the Sea World Fireworks we went home! Thursday we had cousin Kai, our friend Diego, Sebastian and Nicolas over and the girls went over to the boys house for a play date! that day they were so tired! and Friday we went to Mexico for the weekend! and had a fun time with their cousin Gerardo, I can not wait to do a scrapbook page on our fun times at the amusement park! looking forward to this weekend I will get to scrap away!

Happy Happy Easter!

We had a fun filled family day today! yesterday started as a good day and it just got harder as it went along.......
First of all thank you to my girlfriends who step up and help me with my kids yesterday! I knew that my friends brother had passed away on Monday, but when I got the call about going! I said yes and changed all my plans for the day and with help I was able to be out the door and on my way to a funeral. This was such an emotional day is hard to see your friends hurting and you feeling powerlessness to do anything about it! SO I did what I could, I stood by, hugged, nodded, cried, agreed, disagree, laugh and smiled! I was tired, sober and had a long drive ahead of me! thank goodness for loud rock and roll! that is what kept me going and got me home safe!

Then Sunday was a fun day filled with family and happy children all sugar up! The girls got to go to the store with daddy and bought some eggs and then had fun coloring them and adding stickers, Madeline was so excited to go hunting for the eggs I had to calm her down a bit. my 4 year old told us how her favorite part of Easter is looking for eggs! and grandma brought them a very pretty basket and grandma Yolanda gave them a very cute Ganz! yeah that was fun! will upload pictures maybe tomorrow, after Lego land!

Ok I will stop saying it!

But time does fly by!......
It is late and we are back safe from our trip to the bay area, we went to celebrate my husbands cousin's 40th birthday and had a great time! It was held at a restaurant in San Francisco called Bistro 9 and what a cute place and the food was great! we had yummy food, dance, laughed and got to spend time with family, old friends and we also meet some new friends! Stephanie had a fun time and Marco was a great dj! The girls had a fun day watching Alex baseball game, after a yummy breakfast on burlingame avenue and some playtime at the local park. Sunday we were a bit sluggish afterall we did not get to bed until 2 am! and now that we are getting older it is a lot harder to wake up! we got ready for a fun birthday party celebration with family and friends! Madeline had a great time with our friends and cousins, the cake was so cute and the taste was awasome! if you can say that about an ice cream cake from Ben & Jerry's!
Madeline had a fun time opening her presents and then we were back in the car for our drive back to southern California. My plan was to sleep as soon as I got in the car, but it was such a beautiful drive home I could not help but just look out the window! everything looked green and the wild flowers as well as all the pretty fruit trees are in bloom! I need to make sure I have my allergy medication in hand because once April gets here my allergies really get bad! something I do not want my kids to inherit from me!
Another thing I enjoyed about the weekend was spending time with my husband! he is such a great guy and hubby not to mention father!
Now a new week starts here in a few hours, need to get a couple of things ready for Madeline's birthday party on Tuesdays! looking forward to the arts and crafts, baking some cupcakes, eating pizza! and spending some time with my mom friends! also want to get together with my girlfriend's and scrap this weekend!
will try to post some pictures tomorrow!

March 11, 2010

Wow wha happen to January? I have so many pictures to edit! and looking forward to scrapbooking some more tomorrow with the girls! hope to get lots of pages done! we will see!
Today we went to the doctors office to get Madeline's stiches out! she is such a brave little girl! and is doing great! I miss my hubby and I am looking forward to spending some time with him on Sunday.

Nice and Clean!

Have to share that Minnie came back from the groommer looking quite pretty! but now that she has no hair and is not quite spring she is still a bit cold! and just looks at us and shivers! We had a fun weekend despite all the rain, the girls when on a play date Friday night while mom when on her own play date making jewelry. this was fun for me! but the girls did not like their play date. so we left pick up the girls, when back to my house for their fun play date here. I got to do what i like to do when I have the time is to scrapbook! and My friend and I scrapbook until we could not longer see straight! I did get another one of my x-mas albums done! yeah!

Minie Dilema

So have to remember this story and will take some pictures!
My daughters let's me know the dog smells like fish, I figures time for a bath, then I decided well maybe a little cut behind the ears would be good! and my husbands hands me an old set of clippers he no longer uses so I start to cut, cut, cut and cut some more! next thing you know I am tired of cutting and my poor dog looks awful! what have I done! I get on the phone and found pet smart will take her in and clean her up! poor Minnie she is just so upset with me! or so I think! I am on my way to have her look like a little lamb! This will work for the Easter pictures!

I read this on Oprah Magazine and had to share!

This article is titled "Friendship Detox" "When poison pals infect your life, sometimes you just need to say goodbye-and good riddance" this got my attention! since I have been dealing with a guilt and sadness of a loss friendship, and need to learn that is not all my fault, I guess when you become a stay at home mom you rely on your friends a little more for confort and companionship. My children are great and love them but we all need our girlfriends!

After the article talks about the different types of toxic friendship she goes on to say "I've had a few such friendship terrorist in my life, and I'm absolutely certain I've been one at times, too, but part of growing up means knowing when to stop playing pretend. Remaining attached to some people is like slaving over a withered garden without realizing all the plants are dead. And letting the negative relationships suck up time and energy only deprives us of the opportunity to nurture and appreciate those friendships that actually work."

"The truth never fails to show itself in those "thousand little gestures." True friends bear each other's burdens and accept each other's weaknesses, because without reciprocity, there is nothing. Friendship is about collaboration, not domination. Because we should be stewards of each other's rooms, I am happy to help you keep yours clean, but life is too fleeting to let you continue trashing mine."

by Paige Williams

anyhow this article made my smile and I had to share it! will try to add some fun pictures of our week in Mammoth later on the weekend! now let see if I can get some friends to share the weekend with me!

Last week of february!

Considering in my last post I was still trying to catch up on January! I almost skip February all together! we had a fun month, we got to scrap with our friends, we went up to Mammoth for a week, It was our first trip there and we had such a great time! the girls love to see all that snow! Madeline had fun in ski school so much so she went back for another full day of lessons and wanted more! Becca she had fun sledding and playing in the snow! the ski class not so much! o well maybe next year! We came back on Friday and Saturday I went to Ever After Scrapbooks! my favorite local scrapbook store! They were having a party showcasing what they found and bought and brought back from CHA and there were some very cute things! and I also won a raffle there! and I got to bring home some cute paper and alpha letters! Saturday night went to a party in San Clemente for one of my husbands friends and that was fun and the food was yummy! still trying to get the recipe for the chicken with mushrooms it was good! then I spend part of the week sick with a cold that was no fun! Got some meds form the doc and doing great all ready! Madeline got her bike! she can not wait for spring so she can go bike riding with her friends! have to love that time of year! the kids get to play outside more, the sun stays up a bit more to play and we get to hang out and have a drink!

Some other fun things that happen in January

Let's see, we also had lots and lots of rain here in southern cal! and a few of my girlfriends and I went to CHA in Anaheim California (That stands for the Craft & Hobbie Association) We had a fun day of shopping and seeing a lot of different techniques with scrapbooking (we only went to the consumer show which was a lot of fun!) have to say as much as I was not looking forward to eating there the food was good! we participated in the largest cropathon! that was fun! I entered a couple of raffles and I won! two of them! one was for the Wacco tablet I can not wait to have the time to use it! and the other were some very cute school theme supplies! add to my stash of scrapbooking supplies! all in all it was a great fun day with my friends and a fun kid free weekend! (my kids were at my sisters house and had a fun time with their aunt and cousins) My husband and I had a fun kid free Sunday morning!

Sill trying to catch up for January!

So for New Years Eve we went up to Big Bear with my dear friend Bridget and her family, they have a cute cabin near Big Bear Lake. They have 3 kids and our 2 very close in age and they just got along well! which made it for a very nice stay The kids enjoyed sledding as well as making a snow men,their favorite part was drinking hot chocolate with marshmallow's! They also enjoyed playing the game apples to apples Jr. with the dads. We did most of the cooking only on New Years Eve that we went to Bridget's friends house and had some yummy ham and the kid had pizza! The weather was great for Big Bear! and it actually felt warm when the kids were playing in the snow! The drive home was beautiful, the winding roads and the snow in the mountains.

Christmas Time Scrapbooks!

I did get very excited to give my sisters, brother and niece a Christmas scrapbook! and I did have a fun time the week of x-mas with the help of my niece and Gracie doing 5 different scrapbooks! and We did get them done! but once I got the pictures that is were it got a bit crazy and just overwhelming! between me and my two sisters, brothers, and brother in law we had over 500 pictures! now the task on hand was to look them over and edit them and print them for the albums! I do hope they are happy with what I choose to do for them! we will see! I should have them all done by next month I hope! Just a couple of nights ago I worked on one of the albums and was able to finish it! (almost need to add a couple of more pages cause 20 was not enough!) we will see and will try to post some of the finished product soon!

How is this for a title? Were did january go???

And the end of December! it was a fun and busy month, we went and visit Santa at the annual Santa Train in Oceanside, will try to add pictures from this events another time. We also enjoyed going to the tree lighting ceremony in downtown Oceanside, (this is the only picture I got this year of the girls and Santa!) the annual River Ranch Xmas party was almost as fun as last year. (This year we had some Lama Drama and me right smack in the middle of it! o well I guess this is how you learn who your real friends are!) and the others what are they but fakers??? and why???
Christmas was at my sisters house in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico! and my kids had such a fun time with my family! and for the hubby it was hard I know, I saw it he was sad (and how can you not be sad when your younger brother dies, His mother far far away!) I did try and the girls did their part but only time is going to heal or make it less painful! We had a fun time, wrapping presents, playing with the cousins, eating yummy yummy food! we had such a good time! we did have a hard time leaving for home. New Years another story for next time.