The Adventures of a Calamari Queen

Hi friends! Happy Thanksgiving week (holiday here in the US). We hosted our first Friendsgiving yesterday and we had fun! Thank God it was a success!HA. Lots of food and everyone had a great time especially the kids! Mia is such a great host to her little friends:) It is a lot of work but it’s so worth it! Hubs prepared the turkey and I’m not a fan of turkey so I wanted to make another dish that I like so I made roast pork belly (lechon belly).

This week, I had my birthday too! My Dad In law stopped by to bring us Chic Fil A! It’s mine and the kids favorite fast food:) so it was great! We wanted to try a new Vietnamese restaurant for my Bday dinner but it was too cold, raining and Matthew was still recovering from a cold so we decided to just do take out.

With our Friendsgiving hosting, we shopped at Costco to get some things. Hubs and I had their sushi and poke (we almost always get costco sushi now because it’s good value).

Hubs has been putting our new window blinds up. He did such a good job! We saved so much on labor costs!HA Thanks Hubs:)

Thanks Dad In law for the bday lunch! Thank you God for another year. I’m so grateful for all the blessings for the past year. Thank you Jesus!

Birthday Dinner at home!Kids had pasta:)

We still tried to get our walking done this week!

Somebody lost a tooth this week!HA

Early this week, we shopped at the Asian market and ate at Jollibee! My kids are big fan of the chicken joy and spaghetti! I’m so proud!HA

Have a good night friends! May your week be safe, productive, and healthy. Happy Thanksgiving week America! We are hosting this Thursday, I’m excited to see family!

Hi Friends! Happy Friday:) Hubs and I are sick this week (colds, congestion) Tis the season of colds! It’s not that bad but it’s still miserable though. We took things slow this week and both kids are home too because our local school district is having their teachers/work conference so no school for the younger kids. It’s been a rainy, wet week here too so we mostly stayed home (we did walk around the neighborhood 3 times this week when the sun showed up).

It got so windy a few nights ago that our neighbor’s tree fell!

Mia and I started watching Christmas movies already! I don’t watch the Hallmark Channel anymore, they’ve gone woke.

Homeschooling this week:)

Another walk!

Pizza treat after playing at the park!

Perfect fall day and Mia loves riding her bike!

Read a loud while having breakfast. We’re reading fall/thanksgiving theme this month! We borrow books from the library (online) and youtube read a loud channels.

Mia wanted to try this turkey cookie from the grocery store! Kids like them.

Hubs and I treated ourselves with sushi tonight. Kids had fried chicken:)

Have a healthy and fun weekend friends! Stay safe and Take care:) We have no plans but to have a restful weekend! Talk later:)

Hi friends! It’s a rainy Friday night here. It’s getting dark so early now. Anyways, how’s its going?! I can’t believe it’s November already. The weather sure feels like we just want to stay inside. My walk challenge finally ends last October (30 Day walk challenge) and I think we (including Hubs/kids) did well. Out of 30 days I think we missed like 5 days, so not bad! We plan to continue this month but I don’t think I will be “documenting” our walks!HA

Family walk earlier this week.

Bumblebee and spider woman!

We had dinner at Five guys after trick r’ treating!

Our walk earlier, still so pretty outside!

This month, I plan to continue my decluttering/simplifying the house. I have lots of things to donate this weekend, after Mia’s birthday and halloween things around the house were overwhelming me. Holidays are here so I’m determined to keep things simple. I’m tempted to have our Christmas tree out though!HA. We’ll see!

I hope you’re having a great evening friends! Have a wonderful and safe weekend. Take care:)

Hi Friends! Happy Sunday:) Yesterday, we had a late Birthday party with Mia and her friends. She wanted to have it in a bouncy play center but it was fully booked during her birthday weekend, thus we had a late celebration yesterday. The Kids had fun and Mia really enjoyed her party. Thanks to all her friends and family for spending time with us.

After we got home and settled, I did my walk around the neighborhood. It was such a nice fall day!

This was our family walk last Friday evening. Spiderman was having fun with us.HA!

I hope you’re having a restful weekend friends. Stay safe and Take Care!

Hi Friends! It’s been raining most of the day here (Hailed too!) so we’ve been hanging out at home. We did a quick little family walk but it was really cold too and the kids started whining to make it short!

View this morning from one of the bedroom. SO pretty:)

With all the rain we’ve been having these past couple of days. Mia is working on her legos that she got for her birthday! She finished this boat/yacht one.

We still tried to go to the park despite the cold….

A little cake pop treat this week!

I got pretty pink roses this weekend too. I have no fall decorations inside the house, with my decluttering lately I have no desire to add more decorations . I’m pretty happy with my fall candles and fresh flowers!

Last weekend, our neighborhood had a halloween event for the kids. We participated and the kids had a blast! The line was so long and we waited for an hour to get inside.

Going strong with our walk challenge, this was last week’s and loving the view!

Tonight I made pasta/shrimp, something quick and easy!

Have a great Wednesday night friends. Stay safe and take care!

Hi friends! Happy Wednesday:) Yesterday, Mia and I had our walk challenge and we had fun looking for different mushrooms around the neighborhood. We were pleasantly surprised at the different varieties. I don’t think they’re edible!

The landscape teams have started to clean our streets so it was kinda sad to see some dead looking trees and Mia said winter will be here soon! We really enjoyed all the fall trees around us.

Last night, I made this Baked potato with tuna sriracha mayo. I saw this from a BBC magazine I borrowed from the library (online). Very affordable and Hubs approved! He likes tuna sandwiches so I thought he might like this.

We went to Costco today! Prices are still up,what else is new!Boooo…

Hubs and I shared Costco sushi, while the kids had pizza! We had leftover sushi and oxtail stew for dinner tonight.

Kids enjoyed the sunshine today at the park while I did my walk challenge (I did the park loop a couple of times). What a beautiful fall day:)

I hope you have a great Wednesday friends. Stay safe and take care! Lots of craziness going on out there.

Hi Friends! It’s been a rainy Monday here but I still did my #30walkchallenge after the school bus picked up Matthew! It was nice to walk around the neighborhood though, listening to the raindrops. The rest of the morning we did homeschool, baked cookies, decluttered, laundry, etc.

After the walk, I made homemade Bacon, egg, and cheese muffin! Hubs and I enjoyed it with coffee/milk! We will probably do it again this week because we have all of the ingredients.

We had last nights leftover beef teriyaki for lunch today.

I cooked Oxtail in peanut sauce for dinner tonight. It’s not really cooking if I used the crockpot 🙂 HA! I’m trying to not use my gas stove when I’m braising oxtail meat because it will take hours. I’m trying to lessen our gas bill this month. It turned out great and Hubs approved!

Oxtail (we call this Kare-Kare in Philippines), Paired with garlic fried rice and shrimp paste:)

Hubs is painting our window trimmings tonight. So it’s just the kids and me right now. We are enjoying Bluey and some Disney shows! Very exciting Monday night.

Have a restful Monday night friends! Stay safe and Take care:)

Hi Friends! Today we had a slow Saturday (sort of), Hubs needed to get something from Home depot (it’s a family affair!HA), then we did a little shopping from our local Safeway to get the basics for the week (milk, eggs, bread, etc). The kids loved looking at the Christmas and Thanksgiving decorations at Home Depot.

I did my walk challenge today, while Hubs watched the kids! Leaves are falling already in some parts of our neighborhood.

We ordered pizza and meatballs tonight.

We are watching Lost You Forever! It’s a Chinese drama that our Chinese friend highly recommends!

I baked Banana bread because the kids requested “banana cake”!

Yesterday, Nana and Papa visited and played with the kids! Thankful for my In laws for taking their time to see and invest memories with them.

Last Thursday was such a nice fall day, we had a long walk and took lots of fall pictures!

We had a blast discovering different kinds of mushrooms in our area!

I made Japanese Pork Katsu yesterday, Hubs approved:)

I hope you are having a great evening friends! Stay safe and Take Care:)

Hi Friends! We had a playdate at our community center this morning. It was nice to see other kids in our neighborhood playing/singing!

Breakfast together this morning! It’s been raining and getting cold here.

We wanted to have a family walk but it started pouring! So we ended up going to Wingstop for dinner!HA. The rain stopped so I ended up going for a walk alone.

Hubs got treats for the kids!

Love this time of year. So pretty:) #day11 of my 30 day walk challenge.

This was our family walk yesterday. Somebody got tired!HA

Talk later and Take care!

Hi Friends! This past weekend our City had a big 2 day event to celebrate the salmon returning home to spawn…. We enjoyed the fair like food (lots of different cuisines) but we got the Mexican corn (elote), korean cheese dog and refreshing lemonade! The big hit for the kids was the cotton candy character! Mia picked Ducky:) I’m still thinking of my Korean Cheese dog!HA

How Pretty is this tree!

Sunday morning Matthew was still showing signs of his cold, so we decided to keep him back from church. We decided to get an early start on the birthday celebration prep. The whole family went to the Asian market to get groceries and we stopped by at our favorite bakery. Hubs really liked their egg tarts:) We wanted to cook crispy orange beef and sweet and sour garlic shrimp for Mia’s birthday dinner with my In laws (most of the ingredients we need are from the Asian market).

We really enjoyed the food. Crispy Orange Beef was a HIT! I made pork belly humba and my DIL loved it:) Mia got lots of love and attention this week! Thanks to our families for their generosity. We appreciate all of your thoughtfulness. Mia said this was the best birthday ever! Thank God we had a great weekend celebrating her.

Mia and I did our 30daywalkchallenge! Today was Day 9!

Have a great Monday evening friends! Take Care:)