more videos from the holidays and new year...

decorating the Christmas tree...

Christmas Day...

Santa at daddy's work...

haven't been here for a while...

Keeping up w/ my blog is difficult these days (school started again in Jan. Only have 3 classes, but one includes weekly clinicals and one is Pharmacology- enough said) :( i'm kinda bummed I missed blogging for the Christmas and New Year, but I'll summarize it with pictures :D

Mom and Dad were here from Florida for Christmas/New Year week and Mg. Rey was here from Canada Nov- Jan. Fun was had by all and Mg. Rey's gift to everyone was to work on whoever's house needed fixing...including us! :D YAY!!! We finally got a mouse hole patched up (which btw, we never knew we had! EW!), got our base boards nailed in, got the leaks in our bathrooms fixed (actually, Jenner's friend from work helped us with those), and many more! We had a couple of trips to Sushi Deli 3 with the Canadian...those were FUN! - Mg Rey didn't know we were going there for Sake, needless to say, not everyone survived the wrath of the Sake Bombs, but that's a whole different story that we will leave to the memories in our heads! hah!


My nephew from New Jersey also moved in in January. He's taking up Audio Production at and art school here and so far so good. He says he's never liked going to school as much as he does now. Everythings going well, although, he got me re-addicted to coffee! My sister bought us a Keurig coffee maker! We were soo excited! haha.

Jeremiah and I got to go to Sea World with the Penaranda's the day after Christmas! Miah loved to see the Polar Bears, Pengpengs (penguins), and Shamu. oh, he also loved the popcorn!

Family time during the holidays and the beginning of the year was plentiful and fun times...for the sake of saving time for studying, I'll just let you see the pics and videos. Enjoy!

hmm, guess you can only post 2 videos per blog?? more vids to come...

Haircut time for Miah = terrible time for mommy & daddy

Sooo, it was that time again...the dreaded haircutting time for Jeremiah. I thought I prepped him well. I told him that he could finish watching Lightning McQueen, then we would cut his hair. He even saw me prepping the kitchen floor with big trash bags to catch his cut hair & asked, "what u doin mommy?" BUT, once I got him on the chair & plugged in the clippers, OMG, he started crying for dear life! then of course the little one comes close to the kitchen (it was funny, she never went past the counter to see what was going on) & starts crying cause she hears her brother screaming his head off! So I have Jenner still at work due home any minute (which seemed like a lifetime), Jeremiah, hair partially cut on the chair in the kitchen, crying his eyes out & screaming at the top of his lungs for me to "turn it (the clippers) off! turn it off mommy!", and Emma, balling just as loud as her brother! Finally Jenner arrived and I let him try to negotiate w/ Jeremiah while I put Em down for a nap. 30 mins later, Em's sleeping and father & son are still in the kitchen, Miah's hair still partially cut. OY! No joke, it took like 3 1/2 hrs to finish cutting the little man's hair! Terrible terrible time, however, for all the struggling & crying he did, I must say, his hair doesn't look too shabby!

not a great photo to show off his new 'do, but he was happy!

Our little walker

Just a snippet of Emma's walking skills (with a preview of Miah's stubborn-ness too!) Emma's walking everywhere now-like she's the ruler of the house! haha. They grow so fast! Seems like just yesterday Emma was still holding our hands to walk & Miah was saying only one word at a time. I guess it's true that time does fly when you're having fun - sometimes I wish it flew slower though. My babies are growing too fast! *tear*

Miah's haircut

Jeremiah's hair was getting pretty long so I thought I'd cut it before getting ready for our Thanksgiving feasts. We've only taken him to a professional twice & both times he cried his eyes out, so I decided to buy some clippers & tackle the task myself. I think I've cut his hair maybe 5 or 6 times already and it's always been a hit or miss, depending on his mood. This day was not a good mood day. He kept pulling his shoulders up and crying. I'm surprised he doesn't jump off the chair! Anyway, we were both getting frustrated so I decided to shave his head.

Poor Miah. I always feel sorry for him because he hates getting his hair cut. I think it's cause the cut hair sticks to his neck & it gets itchy. He usually likes his haircut after he's calmed down & taken a shower. After his shower I put a hoodie on him cause I had shaved his head so much that I thought his head would be cold. Poor baby, he was so ashamed of his haircut that he didn't wanna take his hoodie off. Luckily after hours of telling him his haircut was nice, he began to like it. At one point even pointed to his head & said, "Mommy, nice hair cut!" and smiled. The top picture was Jeremiah at Thanksgiving dinner, not minding his haircut at all.

Well, today is the picture below it. This was before we went to Grandma Marie's house to watch the Charger game, see all the cousins and welcome our cousin from Canada who just flew in last night. Mind you, we didn't see all these people on Thanksgiving so they didn't know about his hair. Needless to say, when we went in, everyone in the house made a fuss about it and he got ashamed & would not take off his hoodie. They weren't making any bad comments, but Jeremiah has never had his hair this short, so I think everyone was just surprised. Poor Miah, I felt so bad for him, but I took off his hoodie anyway (not w/out a fight) just so he could see it wasn't a big deal.

Luckily it didn't bother him anymore and I think he's back to liking it. I'm still trying to get used to how short it is, but I can't stop touching his head cause his hair is so soft! haha.

Thanksgiving 2009

Usually, every year, Thanksgiving involves going to 3 different places to stuff ourselves with turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, pancit, ribs, roast beef, etc. This year we only went to Grandpa Rudy's and The Dela Cruz's house. Auntie Marie had surgery the Tuesday prior and had told us that they weren't going to plan anything for Thanksgiving. Thankfully, she's doing well. Regretfully, we didn't take any pictures at Grandpa Rudy's, but as always the food was DELICIOUS!!! We met up with my sister and her family there, but after 2 or so hours of getting our grub on, we had to leave to go to Jenner's sisters' house. The spread is always eyecatching & of course delicious as well.

This year I also decided to join Annalou in some Black Friday shopping madness at Toys R Us. It wasn't too bad. We got in line around 11pm & doors opened at 12am. We split up & found things on her list. Good tag-teaming. Luckily Jenner got paid so I was able to spend a little on the deals. The best part of the morning was when Annalou bumped into an old friend of hers (whom she was trying to avoid, but kept seeing! haha) Worst part of the morning-the line! I think we stayed in line for 2 hours and I just made it home in time for Jenner to go to work at 5am!

All in all it was a great Thanksgiving.

I'm thankful to God for my loving husband, my caring children, my health and also my family & friends that have enriched my life with their friendship! God has blessed me!!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

awww maaann!

This Saturday we went to watch the Pacquiao fight at my cousin's house. (Go Pacquiao! It was an exciting match!) Before we got to their house, we picked up some chicken wings. The drive to the restaurant seemed longer than usual and I guess we made a U-turn, at which point Jeremiah says, "Aww maaann!" and his dad says, "Aw man for what J?" and Miah states, in the same tone as his first aww maaann, " Wronggg Waaayy!" He cracks us up!