Crazy Weather!!

Crazy weather we are having. All I did today was clean the house, you know... it's the spring cleaning bug I have lately except when you look outside the house winter is still in full swing. Brrr, more coldness. The snow was really coming down heavily for few hours. I am so glad it when it finally stopped. Anyhow, we accomplished so many things today. We painted Miguel's room. Jason cleaned his room and I'm preparing the second bedroom for painting. We have lots of stuff to take to Goodwill. I feel tired but I feel good. I painted the boys bathroom last week by myself. Yay!
This is looking outside my neighbor's yard thru my window.

Here's my painting job. Green was the old color, I just toned it down a knotch by white paint and wiping it out with a rug to give the washed look. Too much tlc-home improvement watching. LOL!

I made barbeque spare ribs too! Oh, it was so yummy! The boys loved it!
I have shared this album already, but I change it a little bit and took a better photo. Well,not really better. I don't take good picture without a sufficient light source. I made this forHambly DT call. Dind't get the spot but left me with an album I will treasure forever. :)The quote/poem I used was by Mother Teresa!

Life is a PROMISE fullfill it - 28 Years ago, we made a promise! We were young, so many things we didn't know and so many things we learned along the way. We celebrated the ups and survived the downs. No matter what lies ahead of us.........in sickness and in health, till death do us part!! This was the promise!

Life is LOVE enjoy it - The fear of growing old before you is gone! You helped me accept the reality of life with open arms. GRANDMA is a sweet music to my ear. It is all about love and I am enjoying every minute of it.

Life is BEAUTIFUL admire it - My body, my mind, my soul.... I take my time doing things in my every day life. I want to experience the delights of the senses in every little things. My food, my music, the nature and my ART. I want to focus and enjoy the beauty in life, to live for the moment and savor life to the fullest. To allow PASSION and AWE in my everyday life. I am CREATIVE!

Life is a CHALLENGE meet it -

This was last weekend! Our monthly scrap get together. Thanks to DG for providing a place for us to scrap and of course the good food! excellent job DG!

I worked on a mini album.

Here is the finished project after a week later.

Scrapbook Trend Toot!

Yay, I can't believe I got picked again!!
Looking forward to getting copies of the June and July issues, can't wait!!! :) I am so inspired!
Quick post of what I made tonight! The kids are on mid-winter break and watching TV right now while I scrapped my heart away and Yes, I finished 2 layouts that I really really love! :0)

My Valentine weekend really inspired me to create this!!!

Valentine Weekend!!

We usually dont make plans for Valentines day and I have to baby sit Ari anyway!
I did not feel like doing anything anyhow! Until my husband told me he wanted to go out somewhere! and I'm thinking, go where?!? It was years and years since we last go to a bar or
during that time we called it disco LOL!!! He said he wanted time alone with me ( really, he can be sweet sometimes). But, it's was too late now coz i have to watch Ari and he's sleeping over. Then my niece, Jasmine came to the rescue. She came by and took over Ari . It was past 10 o'clock at night and I am really getting tired, the traffic going home from Beng's house was a mess. It took me almost 2 hours to get home. I was so tired and was ready to call it a day except i have to go out with Chris "somewhere"!!! Wherever his heart desires!!! :)
We drove around and around and around and guess where we end up? We end up in a hotel room. "smile"!! I have to say it was a Great Valentine after all! Movie, room service for breakfast, it was fun! So we got home around 7 and the kids are still sleeping! I told them about it later and I think they are a bit disgusted! :) but happy for us!

It was also Audrianna's birthday, she turned 8 years old! It was a fun party and great food.
The barbeque was a hit and the weather was perfect for it!

I think it was Ari, who had the most fun of all!!! He was exhausted after the party! and this little boy can eat so much barbeque!!

Miguel and the hoola hoop!!!

Miguel and Audrianna, they run around and wrestle all day!

Malayah!!!! I'm so amazed how fast you grow. You are so SWEET!!! Beautiful and a wonderful Valentine weekend!!!

Exciting Week!!!

Really just little things that made my week exciting!!

I have been watching and a big fun of this site, http://gettotallyrad.com/.
They offer "photoshop actions" that are out of this world. :) Oh well at least
for me! The price is a little bit out of my budget but I am saving for it. They do
offer free trials that they can send if you ask........and so I did!
This is totally the coolest action ever. I love it!
Here is the original photo i took last summer of Chris taking a break from cleaning the yard!

and this is the after photo! the action is called troy! oh i love it!

Another sample, my niece Audriana last summer! this is the original photo!

and the action-troy applied here!

Inspired!

Yes, February is a LOVE month, perfect reason to create Love-Themed layouts and

lots of Valentine cards! LOVE LOVE LOVE is in the air for sure! Thanks to my SBO sistas, I have never finished so many challenges in a week in long time! Check it out 4 layouts and some cards!

Not his favorite!!! Miguel and veggie lasagna! He did try as you can see! I have to sit

beside him to make sure he eats it! He did pretty good! :)

LOL, can you tell how much he liked it?!? Could it be my cooking, maybe?

A little sign of spring!!!

Magnolia tree in our sideyard is showing some signs of spring!

That's exciting! Chris work on the yard yesterday and it's looking nice again!

Introducing ROCK!!!

Yes, we have a new member in the family. He is a mix breed.

Labrador Retriever and something else! He is 5 month old. Not too sure if I'm happy about my husband taking him home. I'm really worried about lucy. He is such a big young dog to match with Lucy. So we are still debating if we are keeping him! So, What do you think?

Jan'09 Recap!!!

Hello everyone!!! WOW, it's been a month since my last post. I been meaning to update but
I was too busy and a bit lazy. But here I am, life as usual........mostly work and some fun!!!

First off - I finally got our tree, Christmas tree down and put away. Yay!!! I did it today!

Celebrations :
01/18 - was our 28th Wedding Anniversary! We had dinner at Cheesecake Factory. I truly LOVE that place, nothing extravagant but we had a really GREAT time together.
01/20 - Jeng turned 27! I have plan to take her out to lunch one of these days, and I made her
an album and a card. I hope to see her tomorrow and give it to her.

This morning, I got up early and took some pictures of the trees in the front yard, and the window and more pictures of trees!!!

I made these cards last night!! I got the new MS heart punch, oh I love it! I got it at Michaels and that was the last one! Lucky me!! I then went to Wall-Mart and got the MS bird punch and

another lace edge punch! It is so addicting!! LOL!

Oh and speaking of shopping........scrappy shopping. I am now the owner of QK-Revolution.

This is a major purchased for me and I thought about it for a long time! :)

I got it on e-bay for a really good buy, that's what I think until I got the Washington and the Journal alphabet dies. Then I thought maybe I should have gotten the Cricut instead?!?!

Oh well, I really like the alphas!!! :)

This is going to be Chris Valentines Card!

I'll give this one to my daughter, Jeng!

Here's the album I made for her birthday!!

More Valentines Cards!!!

Here are the layouts I made for this month. I'm really suprise

I made these much.