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March 19, 2010

March 8, 2010

It's my birthday today...I'm 32...wait, am I? Where's that calculator...yup, 32. I lost count after 21 haha. I tried to stay up to finish reading for a quiz today, but I was already falling asleep and figured if I was that sleepy, there's no way I would remember anything! Anyway, I'm just sitting at the kitchen counter drinking coffee and eating a bagel (which I never do cause I'm always in a hurry), thinking about my life and what I wanna change to be a better person. STG: more productive study time. Oops, 5 mins till I gotta pack up the kids in the car for Lolo and Grandma's house, then school all day for me. I think I'm gonna try to just relax today while at school :D Maybe take a nap in class. j/k. Better yet, I'll make a list of my goals...Have a great day everyone! I will! :D

Thank you God for giving me a life full of love! I am truly blessed to have a great husband, loving children and fantastic family and friends!

Happy 65th Birthday Dad!

My dad's birthday is on the 6th of March and mine is on the 8th, so we usually celebrate together by going to eat seafood...our birthdays are usually during lent and we tend to get together on Fridays. This year Dad's birthday fell on a Saturday so we decided to have a small bbq at our place since there's so many grandkids. Surprisingly our youngest brother, Anthony, was able to make it! We usually only see him out and about during the holidays. Our other brother, Jr was also able to sneek away from work for lunch too. The middle bro, Don, is still in Oklahoma :(

Anyway, it was good family time. Jeremiah convinced himself it was his birthday eventhough I kept telling him it was Grandpa's. I just let it go after a while and let him blow out the candles with his cousin Valerie. The adults even got to play a little poker later that night and some of us eventually made our way to Barona! :D Thanks to Jenner & Rex for babysitting!!!

A Kai & Miah (and Emma) weekend (Feb 20, 2010)

This particular weekend Miah was missing playing with Kai and it just so happened my sister needed a mini-vacay! So, she brought Kai down for the weekend. I thought it would be fun to get the boys in the kitchen so the project for the day was cupcakes! ooh, were they excited! Emma watched and enjoyed the end product.

playdate (feb 19, 2010)

Jeremiah & Emma finally had a playdate with their friend Joelle! Luckily I had a day off from school and so did Jos and Shirl! I had been meaning to take Miah & Em to My Kids Clubhouse and they loved it! It was a really cool place for them to play, plus they had tables where the parents could sit & get some work done if they wanted. Definitely going back there!

Valentine's Day and Manny Pacquiao

Valentine's Day this year was quiet. Jenner & I usually have lunch or dinner a couple days before or after Feb 14. so I didn't mind when Jenner asked if he could go to a meet & greet for Manny Pacquiao with a friend from work. This was the only picture he could get. They weren't allowed to use personal camera's to take a picture with Manny and charged $40 just to take a picture with him! Jenner saved his $40 for this pic. haha. He did however buy a signed boxing glove...yes, A single glove. AND he didn't even get to see him sign it! They were already presigned, but they did come with a certificate of authenticity.

Anywho, the kids and I had a nice day at home relaxing :)

drums

So, we've been wanting to get Jeremiah a drum set for a while just to get him exposed to different things. Since tax time was good to us this year, we finally did it! Jenner & Mikey convinced me to get the regular sized set to save money by not having to buy one later down the line when Miah would outgrow a jr set. Anyway, we found a decent set at Best Buy of all places and luckily Mikey was here to set it up and tune it.

The kids were at Lolo and Grandma's house when we bought it, so before I picked them up we rearranged some furniture and set up the drums in the kids play room/guest room. Jeremiah usually doesn't want to leave Lolo's house (probably because he always gets his way there!) so I had to coax him by saying he had a surprise at home. Being the chocolate freak he is, he thought it was some type of chocolate something or other and kept saying, "Is it chocolate Mommy?"

So we finally got home and boy was he surprised! He didn't like the cymbals at first and was hesitant to make so much noise. We just let him take it all in until it was bedtime. The first thing he said the next morning though, was, "Mommy! I pway the cymbows??" and headed straight for the playroom!

Hopefully he starts practicing more so one day he can become a famous drummer and buy daddy & mommy a house! :)