MLK weekend

i finally got a chance to download pics from last weekend.  sunday was my first trip to Fresh & Easy.  my nephew, mikey, loves that place and jenner said they had reasonable prices.  other than it being small, I liked it and I am definitely adding it to our places to shop for groceries...

ALTHOUGH,

you can't beat buying a cart full of fruits & veggies for under $20 at Henry's! :)   

anyway, they had some uncooked pizza dough at fresh & easy and i thought it would be fun if the kids made their own pizza.  they were pretty excited-YAY! good idea me!

sauce...

cheese...

now the wait...

& viola! PIZZA (with extra extra cheese)!

em was pretty proud of her creation

& j requested a photo of him eating his

mommy & daddy had our own, but i forgot to take pics. boo!

it was muy delicioso!

on monday the kids wanted to finger paint!!!

i knew it was a good idea to keep my art supplies from design school!

(trying to convince myself i'm not a hoarder & working at becoming a semi-minimalist. lol)

my little artists hard at work...

emma's creations...

the bottom one looks like a rat! eek!

j's creations.  he said the bottom one is train tracks...not surprised! haha



family day

to my surprise we had an impromptu family day today! I didn't have school and apparently Jenner only had to work at one of his jobs and got off early.  we rarely have days to just hang out, so today was perfect! 

Jenner heard about this all you can eat vietnamese restaurant and wanted to try it out.  I love me some Pho and spring rolls so it was a done deal for me!  For the most part the kids did well.  It helped that there was a fish tank the length of one whole side of the restaurant, though.  You never can tell how J & Em are gonna do when we go out to eat.  Actually Em is all about eating- definitely her mother's (& father's) daughter, so we don't really worry about her not getting our money's worth in that dept, but J can be a picky eater. 

Anyway, I had no complaints about this restaurant & the food was pretty yummy. 

I don't remember what the name of it was though.  I'm pretty bad at that. haha.  All I remember was that it was across the street from Tapioca Express! :)

After lunch we went window shopping! YAY!

Jenner had been wanting to take me to the Costco for businesses -there's a name for it that escapes me at the moment, but, OH!  It's the Costco Business Center...

I think?

(I should really do some brain exercises!)

Anyway, we went there and I LOVED IT!!!  I wish they had more items for baking, but I was so excited to find out they had a 25lb bag of flour and sugar!  I had only seen those online until today! 

We ended up buying more than we needed, I mean, wanted, but only spent a little over $30!

That's amazing for a costco trip!

We didn't really have anywhere else to go after Costco, so we asked the kids where they wanted to go and J said..

"THE PARK!"

So, to the park we went.  Of course he requested to go to the park with the train tracks that was near our house.  Our plan was to walk around the track a couple times, but Jenner found an outlet that, in all our years of going to this park, had never seen before! So we followed it and walked over a couple "bridges",

(which were really just a foot off the ground, if that. haha)
to be precise,

the "shake-shake bridges" as the kids called them,

 in reference to the Thomas the Train, Misty Island Rescue DVD, of course.

Anyway, this track went in between the golf course & park to the far end where the big playground was. 

After a while of playing on the playground we tried to get the kids to leave, but Emma found a friend and sat down at the table in the playground and said,

"Hi! I'm Emma!"

it was so cute and I wish we could've stayed longer to watch them, but it was pretty cold.

so, with more coaxing and a bribe of walking back on the train tracks we finally left.

When we got home it was too late for a nap so we just made some adobo for dinner, got the kids showered and put them in bed early..YAY! :)

now, on to exercising!

motivation! motivation! motivation!

you're skin-ny mommy!

the other night jenner went out for our good friend's birthday get together.  it was too late for us to get a babysitter so i stayed home with the kids.  after dinner i let them play while i watched a little of the miss america pageant on tv.  jeremiah happened to walk by me as the evening gown portion of the pageant was on so I told him, "look j! what a nice dress she has on! and she's so skinny! i wish i was skinny like her!"  he looked at me and said, " you ARE skinny mommy!" I thanked him graciously, then he said, "ya! look at your hand, there's skin on it! you have skin all over mommy, see? your skin-ny!" 

I just laughed and said, "you're right, J! i AM skinny!"

oh, the minds of children! they are so smart! :)

i'm pretty bad at blogging...

but i'm really good at facebooking - which i'm going to try to switch & reverse this year.  I have a tendency to update my fb status often with little stories about j & em and after i click on post i think to myself that i should have just put it on my blog. 

here's to more blogging this year!

:)

the holidays were awesome and full of family & fun. 

this was our tree...

& our family tradition of jeremiah putting the tree topper on...

this was thanksgiving at the delacruz's

(for some reason we didn't take pics at my family's houses. boo!)

christmas morning at home...

mommy was kinda surprised that Santa didn't think of the mess these blocks made, but was happy the kids were happy.  jeremiah was so excited that he got the Thomas the train Track Master trains he asked Santa for.  he's officially obsessed with Thomas the train...and friends!

later that day, we got ready for late lunch at Lolo Rudy's and dinner at Owo Pete & Grandma Marie's house.  jeremiah didn't take a nap so he wasn't excited about me wanting to take his pic.

here's the chaos that is christmas at grandma marie's every year.  

& this was just one side of the room! :)

& finally, NYE at home.  Usually I'm the only one up for the turn of the new year, but this year everyone stayed up with me!  I was so excited that I made us all party hats! :)

this pic was taken right after em told me that I was her "bes pwend!"

<3

emma was so excited to say happy new year!  we missed the actual countdown cause we were on the phone greeting family so we did our own countdown. the kids loved it!

jeremiah wanted to test out his camera skills. 

it took him about 30 mins to take this pic, but he did pretty well!

here was our last minute NYE treats...

& so starts another diet! haha.

I think I gained 10 lbs over the holidays! I started my official workout this week...not gonna say what exactly that entails because I have a bad habit of not sticking with it when I admit that I'm exercising, so I'll just keep it to myself :)

We thank God for the blessings he gave us in 2010

& we look forward to all the blessings to come in the new year!

Happy 2011!!!