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Hi friends! We’ve been enjoying some fall weather this week! Leaves are starting to change their colors and something is in the air that tells me the HOLIDAY season is upon us! HA! I’m not really into holiday decor/pumpkin everything type of person (I do decorate for Christmas!), but I do try to add a little something into my everyday life that seems fitting for the season. Last week we shopped at Trader Joes and they had lots of fun stuff that I don’t mind trying this month.

I’m excited for October because it’s Mia’s birthday month (no party for her because of covid) but we still want to make it a little special for her! She is into paw patrol lately so she’ll get some paw patrol stuff for her bday gifts.

This month I plan to do lots of “cozy” things! HA! My sister is with us and she’s also into Hygge lifestyle. We plan to declutter, drink lots of coffee, home cooked meals, candles, fireplace, reading books, and HALLMARK movies too!

Going to hangout with Hubs and sister now! Going to watch a movie and enjoy a drink ( tea for me and wine for sis, margarita for hubs!!) Later friends!

Hello Friends! How you all doing? I know it’s official Fall season but I wanted to share what we did last summer:) We visited friends in Idaho and had a wonderful trip. We needed to just get out of WA and spend time with friends. Lots of sunshine and time in the water ( we did pool, beach, falls!). I was a little anxious about how the kids would handle a long road trip, but thankfully they did well! Thank you, Jesus!:) Only 2 or 3 meltdown in the car if I recall.

We also did our yearly visit to the Ocean here in WA! Mia had so much fun playing in the sand and flying kite for the first time. The weather was not the best though because of the fog and smoke from the fires that’s happening here in WA and California. No smores on the beach and BBQ outside due to strict policy about fires!

I hope you are all doing great friends! Stay safe 🙂

Hello Friends! How are you all doing? Things are “slowly” getting back to normal here in our area. I see traffic happening and I see a lot of families out for picnics and at the lake/beaches (maybe because of the weather!). How’s your summer going? It’s been hot here so we’ve been taking advantage of that and trying to go out most weekends. We’ve been to the lake near us because you can still social distance and not worry about wearing mask.

So our garden is a big failure this year! I don’t know why but normally by this time I’m dehydrating our tomatoes because of abundance but this year it’s 0 tomatoes, it’s pathetic. Aside from our roses and hydrangeas everything in our vegetable box is pathetic looking!

Have a great day friends! Stay safe always:)

Hello Friends! How are you all doing?! We are living in chaotic times right now with the pandemic and riots, protest,etc! It’s so overwhelming looking at the news and what’s happening in our state too. As for us here at home, we continue to pray for healing, peace and justice for our country and the world. Come quickly Lord!

A couple of weeks ago, we had our family here at home because Zach wanted to try his sous-vide machine (it was a Christmas gift 2 years ago) and he finally wanted to use it. We had steak and we really liked the result.

If it’s not raining we do try to get outside and check out our garden’s progress. Sad to say some of our peas didn’t make it. Our zucchini is looking great right now! Can’t wait to see what we’ll end up harvesting soon.

Stay safe friends!

Hello friends! How’s it’s going?! We are still in the “stay at home” order from our Governor here. It’s been a gloomy week (rain almost everyday) so nothing new is going on here. Aside from me taking care of the kids , watching Hallmark movies (Christmas movies are my fave! HA!) and hanging out with Hubs. Everybody is healthy, but life is pretty mundane right now. I’m not complaining though:)

Hubs is finally done with our small vegetable garden and so far the snails are not eating anything! UGh! They’re the worst. I’m looking forward to harvesting this year.

We had a wonderful mother’s day at home. My MIL and DIL also celebrated their bdays so we just had a combined celebration. Hubs got me flowers and a hanging flower basket. My DIL grilled burgers and we ordered sides from Met Market and got their chocolate cake too. It’s my favorite cake! SO good! I have no discipline when it comes to their chocolate cake!HA

It’s almost lunch time here friends so off to feed the kids! Have a great day and Take care:)

Our Matthew turned 8 months this week and we celebrated it this past weekend with our family here. He’s doing so well and we praised the Lord for that! My In laws brought all the food and took care of everything, so that was nice. We had pot roast and roast veggies! YUM!

We ordered his cake at Met Market! Love their chocolate cake:)

Mia is really into collecting rocks lately!HA

I’ve noticed lots of people are gardening during this quarantine and we are also starting to plan what we want to plant this year (might be late to do this though). Hubs got some veggies to plant this week and Mia is really excited to help.

My little gardener hard at work! So cute:)

I will surely post about out little garden once hubs is done planting! He does all the hard work, thanks Hubs!

Hello Friends How are you all coping with this pandemic? Looks like things are starting to open up in some parts of the US and thats a good thing. I’m not sure if things will be back to normal like before. Hubs is the only one really going out for us like getting the groceries and necessary errands.

We are still on the “Stay at home” order from our governor! He just extended it last I heard. Who knows when we’ll have a “normal” life in this pandemic.

We’ve been watching movies, KDramas for me and Hubs (HA! all over Netflix right now), reading/coloring with Mia and if it’s sunny outside she’s doing a lot of biking and scooter. She’s getting so good at it. Matthew is doing well too! Such a happy baby:)

Stay safe friends!

Hi Friends! How was your weekend? We watched the Superbowl at home and invited my In laws to join us. We are not big football fans but the Superbowl is a fun excuse to get together with family. It was Matthew’s 5th month of being with us too so we got Krispy Kremes to celebrate our mattiboo. He has come a long way and we are really happy with his progress!

It’s snowing here right now and we are just enjoying being cozy here at home. Hope your Tuesday is going well friends!

Hi Friends! Snow is finally here in the PNW. We got a couple of inches (this is our 3rd day). This is the first time that Mia was able to participate and play and she loved every minute. It’s like a ghost town in our area right now! HA! Schools are suspended and lots of accidents already on our major road from our house. Stay safe friends!

Little Matthew stayed inside and enjoyed being cozy with my mom. He’s still not allowed to be outside (flu season).

We’ve been drinking hot cocoa this week.

I made braised pork hocks and soup this week too. Perfect for this weather.YUM!

Lots of napping after playing outside.

Hi Friends! How’s your 2020 going? It’s been a busy week here so far, with a newborn and active toddler, I’m exhausted! I’m grateful for my moms help, especially with Matthew. We had a good Christmas with our families, especially Mia. She did her first ginger bread house on Christmas eve and it turned out great! I think it will be part of her holiday traditions. Happy Birthday Jesus! Here’s more of our Christmas 2019: