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Hi Friends! It’s been a cold and windy weekend here, so we’ve been staying most of the time here (Hubs took the kids outside for exercise!), while I watched our current Kdrama show (Dynamite Kiss) and a little house cleaning. Last week, we visited our favorite Christmas tree farm to pick our fresh tree. We’ve been coming to this farm for the last 3 years, we just love it because it’s so cozy and convenient for families because they provided a hay ride to tour the farm and free drinks like cider and hot cocoa.

We decided on this noble fir. It smells good and is just the perfect size for our living room.

Here is the final tree! Looks so pretty and we love it:) We have minimal Christmas decors this year. We got 3 new ornaments this year (one from Yellowstone park and 2 from the Christmas tree farm). Aside from the real tree, we got a real wreath to hang on the front door. I will buy poinsettias for our everyday table and side table this week and that would be it.

Have a good evening friends! Enjoy the rest of the weekend:)

Hello Friends! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family/loved ones and enjoyed delicious food. We had the usual Turkey and side dishes. Me and my sis are not turkey fans so we made some filipino dishes like Caldereta (filipino style beef stew) and Turkey adobo. My Dad in Law and Hubs liked the adobo. He suggested that we should make it again next year.

Hubs homemade rolls, which were a big hit last night!

Thanksgiving is kinda over here, although I know some people will still be getting together and celebrating this weekend. For us, we plan to get our Christmas tree tomorrow (this weekend) and have our stockings out. I plan to keep our decorations simple this year, and will have to focus on the real reason for the season and that’s the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. Thank You God for all your blessings and grace to us!

We did some shopping today at an asian department store and the kids wanted to check out a Five below store. It is far from our house but we didn’t have anything planned so we gave in. It was a fun little adventure:)

I hope you have a safe and great rest of your week!

Hi Friends! It’s been a long time since I got here on the blog. We’ve had a busy August (2 week road trip to Idaho, Montana, Wyoming) visiting Yellowstone and Glacier National Park. I will try to share this week about that summer road trip. It was fun! With back to school for both kids, taking care of the house and family, it was just too hectic for me!

We had a late birthday celebration for Mia and a fall family get together this month with my Hubs extended family. It was such a fun weekend surrounded with family and friends!

Mia and friends had a craft party, and enjoyed chic-fil-a and cake!

A little selfie after the party!HA. It’s so pretty outside right now, Fall is showing off:)

Family get together…

Matthew and his burnt bun…

s’mores time..

I hope you had a great and restful weekend friends! Take care:)

Hi Friends! July is over, going to the Zoo was one of our bucket list items this summer and we decided to visit this past weekend. The parking was terrible though, what do you expect it’s summer time and it was a nice sunny day. We got to see most of the animals, except from the Polar Bears that were hiding because it’s too hot for them. The zoo keeper said rainy days, or colder, or in the mornings are much better to visit if you want to see the bears. I enjoyed the aquarium and the animal show the most. So fun to watch animals do tricks and perform!

We got sushi for dinner (it was really good) and the kids had burgers!

It was a fun day with my little family. Thank God that we get to do this before the summer ends.

Take care friends! Stay cool:)

Hi Friends! A couple of days ago, we spent the day at our local lake! This is one of the reasons I love our location because we have easy access to a decent one. They also have a big playground with swings, and a zipline for the kids. We stopped at our local Safeway to get food from their deli to make it easier for me! HA! Lots of family and kids camp groups were swimming and kayaking this day. So it was fun for me to people watch while the kids build sand castles! It was one hot sunny day, so we had ice cream to compensate:)

Have a wonderful day! Take care and stay cool:)

Hi Friends! June was a little hectic here so I wasn’t able to spend time here. Summer is finally here, we are enjoying the weather (80’s) most of the time. We are doing things locally like visit our local beaches, parks, zoo. We had fun watching fireworks last night after we had our 4th of July dinner with family. I hope you had wonderful weekend friends!

Some pictures I took in the month of June:

Our strawberry plants did so well this year, we had a lot of sweet strawberries we enjoyed together with vanilla ice cream!

Grilling season time! I grilled fish and pork belly. We do this a lot growing up in the Phillipines.

Our farmers market officially opened! We got some flowers and fruits.

One of Mia’s friend will be spending her summer in China and before her family left, we invited them for an afternoon tea party!

Lots of park time!

We got to visit a “Rose Exhibit” in the mall, the pic is not giving the Roses justice! HA, so many kinds of roses out there!

Hubs planted this 3 years ago, and they’re doing well!I love the color:)

Visited the nursery couple of times.

Enjoying a summer afternoon.

Frozen yogurt treat!YUM!

Have a great weekend friends! We are going to the beach this afternoon to enjoy the warm day.

Take care and stay safe!

Happy Friday friends! Hubs was able to join us for a lunch date at a Japanese restaurant that I wanted to visit today. We love it when he can spend time during the day and get to eat out with us. Special times!

Some scenes from our week:

I’ve been walking almost everyday this month, it’s one of my goals to prioritize exercise and so far I’ve been able to keep that. Just walking around the neighborhood and listening to audiobooks.

I finally got some double delight roses from the garden! They are my favorite roses. So pretty and smell amazing.

Drawing time while waiting for the school bus.

A little shopping time with my Boo!

I’ve been watching korean mukbangs while coloring!

Got some dirt (on sale) because I’m planning to plant some vegetables this weekend. I already planted 3 tomato plants!

Have a great friday evening friends! We will have a rainy weekend here so not sure what our plans will be! Take Care and Stay Safe:)

Happy Mother’s day to all the Moms out there. I hope you had a great day with family and friends. We had my In laws celebrating with us, and got to enjoy steaks and seafood tonight. I got flowers and cards from Hubs and the kids, thanks to my family for all the messages too!

Yesterday, our community had an Asian American Pacific Islander celebration and we got to watch performances and a little Filipino fashion show. It was such a fun event I get to share with the kids.

After the event, we got some takeout food! I got salmon poke:)

Mothers Day dinner!

I hope you had a restful weekend friend. I did a little decluttering this weekend. I plan to do more this week. Little by little so it’s not so overwhelming for me.

Take care and stay safe!

Happy May friends! We are having a wonderful sunny spring day today. Mia and I played a little badminton outside while waiting for Matthew. A couple of weeks ago, for our spring break, our little family visited the ocean again! We stopped at Westport first to get Bradys oysters and check for tuna belly. No tuna belly..boo!

It was a fun getaway, we really like going to the ocean and plan to visit again this year! It’s 2.5 -3 hours drive from us so it’s not that bad.

I’m excited for the month of May! April has been long with our family/kids got sick. I’m still doing some spring cleaning around the house, lots of donation to be dropped this weekend!

I hope you’re having a great May friends! Stay Healthy and Take care:)

Hi friends! Matthew had a school performance this week and of course we’re all there to watch him and his friends sing. They’re all so cute and having a great time. Thankful to all the teachers who are so patient and loving to our kids!

The kids wanted Ramen for our usual Friday takeout, it’s been a while that we visited our favorite Ramen place in Bellevue so we decided to go and eat there. Normally, I would get the garlic tonkotsu ramen, but yesterday I got the miso ramen (for a change) . It was good but I still prefer the garlic tonkotsu (Hubs order).

It’s been a gloomy Saturday and the kids requested we go to their favorite indoor playground! When the weather is nasty outside we do tend to just do this, the kids get to have fun and Hubs/I get to relax and enjoy dimsum (it’s in front of the playground).

That was our day friends! Hope you got to relax and do something that gives you joy. Stay safe and take care!