Wednesday Happy Thoughts

Happiness is...

1. Great day today!
2. Nescafe's 3-in-1 coffee
3. New books to read!
4. Steady Days by Jamie Martin - a really nice read.
5. Online friends
6. Bong and Jia's wedding last Saturday
7. Blogging
8. PAYPAL!
9. Looking at old travel photos :)
10. Got my PC sound back. YEY!

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"Princess Flower Girl" for a Day.

Ate A that is! That was what she fondly calls herself last Saturday. We've been looking forward to this day for months! Ate A's first time to be a flower girl at Bong and Jia's wedding. Check out a few photos of the "Princess Flower Girl"...

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Ate A had the time of her life! She walked very slowly while walking towards the altar. Not to mention, she was smiling too! She was so well-behaved the entire mass! I couldn't believed that she only went to us right after the mass. We were so proud of her. (*grin*)

Will post more photos of the wedding soon! Watch out for it!

Wednesday Happy Thoughts

Happiness is...

1. Shopping Online
2. A new job offer
3. A new loot! (woot!)
4. Sold almost all the coach bags
5. Magic Jack - a way to talk to my Mom for hours!
6. Red Mango's frozen yoghurt
7. The weather is getting better...
8. More online assignments
9. Supportive Hubby
10. Twitter!

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Celebrating Ate A's 4th Birthday in Friday's

It was a blast! It was just only me, Hubby, the kids, and the Yayas. Plus we invited my sister too. We loved Friday's so much so we decided to have dinner there to celebrate Ate A's 4th birthday. I also want people to sing for her just to surprise her. :)

At first, I thought we ordered so much that we wouldn't be able to finish everything but surprisingly there was only half dish left. We were that hungry I guess! Ate A opened her gifts (from us and her Tita Trish). She was ecstatic to know that we gave her a jumping rope and a hulahoop.

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Ever since last Christmas, Hubby and I vowed to give her simpler and cheaper gifts. Since she receives a bunch from relatives, she wouldn't be able to appreciate expensive gifts anyway. The point is that we just have to give her what she really wants (as long as it's affordable and suits her age).

Her Tita Trish gave her...

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...a NICE pink bag, which Mama likes so much and might use it one of these days too! LOL!

It was a fun dinner. We ordered A LOT (thanks to Hubby's suggestions) and I felt so guilty eating a whole bunch. After dessert, I was already thinking of the fastest way to burn fat. Here are the culprits...

- Asian Salad
- Fried Mozarella
- Chicken Fajitas
- Sizzling Chicken and Shrimp
- Bacon Cheeseburger
- Pasta

That's a lot, right? It's like we had one meal each! And surprisingly the bill was just enough for the budget. With that, I was glad. :) Check out more photos...

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Ate A's Moving Up Day

Last Saturday was the little girl's moving up day. I can't believe that the schoolyear was finished already. It seems like we just enrolled her and here we were watching her march for her moving up day.

I was so proud of her. She has improved a lot and now she can talk to people already unlike before. She has overcome her shyness a bit too but needs more improvement. Of course she learned a lot from school but the most important thing is that she had so much fun!



Ate A got an award as the "MOST DILIGENT". Teacher said that she learns fast, listens to class all the time and is very attentive.

Boy, I'm so PROUD.

Congratulations my little A! You made Mama and Dada PROUD.

New Blogger and New Template

Finally after several months of putting off this task, I finally upgraded to a new version of blogger and was able to change my template!

YEY!

I can't believe how easy it was to change the template with the new version of blogger. You can also drag and drop "gadgets" wherein before I needed to code the HTML codes.

I'm glad I upgraded to a higher version. How do you like my new template? (*grin*)

The BIG Fight.



We haven't booked a ticket to watch the Pacquiao-Clottey fight LIVE. So now our radio is turned on and here I am looking for some live streaming. I would say this is the first time we haven't booked anything. I guess Hubby is not that interested about this fight as much as Pacquiao's previous fights. He said he was too lazy and don't want to go out today.

Any suggestions were we can watch the fight online?

Summer is Definitely Here!

After so many days of denying that it's not summer YET, I finally gave up and accepted the fact that it is really SUMMER. After being so HOT these days, I had to accept and probably plan on the kids' activities in the next two months! I'm going to work a lot of hours for March and April so I was hoping that Ate A would have an activity that she can do while I work. Although she doesn't get bored easily but I don't want her to end up watching TV the whole summer! Baby A on the other hand is fine with our routine as of the moment. Well at least we have one trip to look forward to. Hubby, myself and the kids again but we will meet the Yayas when we get there. So at least we won't get that tired unlike our HK trip. I promised Hubby that we won't bring so many stuff in the plane this time. Although I was insisting on bringing an umbroller like uppababy vista but he still wants to think about it. The question is are the kids going to use it? We won't walk that long anyway and we'll just use it in the airport. So, I'm still deciding on that one. How about you? What are your summer plans?

Wednesday Happy Thoughts

I'm a bit late again. A day late is not too bad anyway. I keep on forgetting that I passed the Wednesday again. I'm just so busy lately and yesterday I was so engrossed in looking for exterior shutters that I forgot about posting this. Well at least I got to learn that there are companies that offer ready-made shutters for our future house. Who knows, we might get them in the future. :)

Happiness is...

1. Alex's 4th birthday!
2. Dinner at T.G.I. Friday's
3. Enjoying programming again :)
4. Stephenie Meyer's THE HOST
5. Booked our flight for the Holy Week
6. A new Yaya by the 21st
7. Not too hot weather today
8. More sleep this morning
9. 3 kilos of lanzones (My!)
10. The kids getting better from cough and colds

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Ate A's Birthday Celebrations.

Well we decided to keep it simple this year and had two celebrations for the little girl. One is celebrating with her classmates in school by just bringing Jollibee foods - Chicken, Spag, Burger, and drinks. And the other one was celebrating it by having dinner in Friday's.

Her party in school was so simple. Since they were practicing for their Moving Up Day on Saturday, they can't stay too long. So I only asked for their eating time for Ate A to blow the candle and then eat their food. We had plenty of time to setup. I even got to talk to one of the mothers there about credit repair services. A nice idea these days if you need help in your credit line. I will probably check it out one of these days.

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Her Dream Cake (as of the moment)

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Very Simple party for the Little Girl


Last night was a blast! Since her birthday was really yesterday, we decided to just have dinner at Friday's and ate a LOT. HA! I couldn't believe we finished all of it. Well, we had take out food but it wasn't a lot so it means that we were able to finish around 5 to 6 dishes. It was fun. Will post more on that later.