The Adventures of a Calamari Queen

Hi Friends! I’ve been off here for a while. The kids had spring break and Hubs was out of town last week (he’s back now). We’ve been sick (.cough/colds/runny noses) and just starting to feeling normal now. During the break, we went to Seattle and visited the Pacific Science Center! Kids had great time, our favorite was the laser show and the dinosaur exhibit:) We really want to take the kids to places like this for experiences. They love to explore and discover things, Washington state has a lot of places like museums, science centers, and exhibits I’ve noticed.

Lots of park time, play dough, games and we even watched the Kung Fu Panda 4 movie! We don’t go to the movies often because it’s really expensive now (smallest popcorn is $9) and kids/matinee is like $8-9! HA. I wanted to surprise the kids while Daddy was away. It was worth it:)

I hope you are having a great week friends! Take Care and stay safe!

Hi friends! I hope you had a blessed Easter with your family and friends celebrating the resurrection of our Lord Jesus! Thank You Jesus for what you’ve done on the cross for our sake. We attended good Friday service and Easter Sunday service at our church. They also had a Spring Kids festival, lots of fun things going on like bouncy houses, a little petting zoo, and egg hunting! It was a busy weekend for sure!

We had Easter dinner at our house with my In laws! DIL prepared the HAM (we loved it!), We had the usual sides of potato gratin, asparagus, and mac n’ cheese. Before dinner we had a mini egg hunt in the yard for the kids (as if they need more goodies!HA). I decided not to give any Easter baskets for the kids this year. They really don’t need anything (Grandparents gave them chocolate bunnies and stickers).

Spring Kids Festival at Church!

I made this lox dip (it was YUM!)

We have a brand new month Friends! Have a great rest of your evening. Stay Safe and Take Care!

Hi Friends! Happy Sunday evening:) I hope you had a restful weekend. We visited 2 Korean markets this weekend and tried raw marinated crabs for the first time. I always enjoy watching Korean Mukbangs and Raw marinated crabs is so popular based on the videos I’ve seen. So after church, we stopped by our local Korean market and Hubs got some raw marinated crabs. We both liked it, and we will definitely get it next time. They didn’t have the soy marinated ones.

Yesterday, we visited a new park for us. It’s around Bellevue, nice trails and decent playground! The kids really liked it. After the park, we decided to visit another Korean market called H-mart! We rarely visit this market because the parking is too tight and the store itself is not that big. They do have a decent seafood and meat selections. We got Bulgogi and kimchi Gimbap, we loved the kimchi one.

After church we got Bagels from Blazing Bagels (Issaquah). It’s pricey but worth it to us!

We enjoyed Korean for dinner earlier. I can finally say I’ve tasted raw crabs and relate to some of the Mukbangs I watched!HA

Have a great night Friends! A wonderful and safe week for all of us:) Take Care!

Hi Friends! We had a wonderful St. Patricks dinner with family, a visit to the beach park (it was a gorgeous spring day/weekend). Dad In law prepared Corned beef and we had roasted vegetables and cabbage on the side.

It was a glorious Saturday at the Beach Park, traffic was so bad though and parking was full (Thank God we found a spot quickly after making a couple loops in the parking lot). The kids played on the playground and got their feet wet. The water is still quite cold!HA

It’s been a week since a Bird had been knocking on our windows, so we decided to get some bird feeds and Hubs and Mia built a Bird house made of a milk box! But a chipmunk has been visiting and eating most of the food for the last couple of days! The kids have been enjoying watching this whole situation unfold.

We went to Costco last Friday evening, and we got sushi for dinner. The cali-roll was a little dry and kinda disappointing. It was still a good price for what we got though!

We are off to a playdate at the park with friends this afternoon! Talk later friends. Stay safe:)

Hi Friends! Happy Sunday:) We visited our local Zoo this weekend (despite the rain, it did clear up most of the time we were there), our kids really liked the Zoo so we wanted to check the one closest to us because it’s not too big where it can be overwhelming for them. Although Matthew kept on saying he wanted to see Elephant and Giraffe (No, we don’t have that in our local Zoo!HA), he still had the best time!

After the Zoo, I wanted to try this new Korean place located at the Mall food court! I saw on Instagram about this, their Bburinkle Chicken, it was a disappointment though because they missed the cheese powder (the reason why I wanted to get it!HA). Hubs enjoyed his Bulgogi bowl and said it was great! The Kids had Burgers and Boba tea!

We passed a Candy shop and treated the kids to lollipop!

I’m continuing to declutter the house, and dropped things at our local donation center! We had Chic fil A for dinner after donating our stuff ( A little reward!). That was our Friday evening activities:)

Hope you had a restful weekend friends despite losing an hour this day! Stay safe and take care.

Happy March, Friends! Today we had fun tubing with my Dad In law! This is the first time for the kids and they were pretty excited about the whole thing. We had to drive for 50 minutes and it was a very pretty drive and clear roads so Hubs was not stressed!HA

It was just a perfect day for tubing because it wasn’t too cold and not crowded at all. We did 1 hour and 45 minutes, it was enough for us and the kids! Mia saw skiers too and she mentioned she wanted to try skiing too! Maybe next year:)

After Tubing, we stopped at Popeyes to get some chicken sandwiches (we love their chicken sandwich over chic fil a!).

Thank God we had a safe and great time tubing! Perfect weather to go and have fun, Hubs promised Mia we will do this with her before the winter season is over!

Have a good Friday evening friends! Take care:)

Hi Friends! This week we had a couple of nice sunny days where we could see spring coming soon!HA! I really need to clean our vegetable box and the yard in the coming weeks, so we can plant and start the garden.

Yesterday (Saturday), we decided to visit this Filipino restaurant that I wanted to try (thanks IG) but it was a big disappointment. Some of the fried dishes like Crispy pata and fried fish looked dry, the beef caldereta looked like its a leftover!UGH…AN hour drive just to see a mediocre Filipono dishes! What a waste:( We had dessert at a Korean Cafe called ONE DAY, dessert and our boba drinks were decent.

One Day Cafe:

We discovered a big Korean market in the area too! So that was the fun part:) I wish it wasn’t an hour drive from our place, otherwise, we would be shopping there often! So many selections and decent prices. I ended up getting this BIBIGO tteokbokki and a case of Chapagetti ramen because it was the cheapest price I’ve seen so far.

Tacoma Dome on our way to the restaurant!

That was our weekend friends! We had a relaxing day and lots of family time. Have a great rest of the evening and stay safe!

Hi Friends! Hope you’re having a great weekend. We had a park and ice cream date with my little fam this weekend! It was sunny but still so cold though. It was rainy last week so we wanted to go out and get some treats.

I wanted to have fondue for Valentines day but we ended up having it the next day (the 15th). It was a nice post Valentines dinner at home. Hubs and I love cheese so this is always a fun thing to do for us!

I made sweet and sour fish last Friday evening! It turned out good, and Hubs said he will have this again:) The kids had fish fillets/nuggets, we are still encouraging them to try non kiddie meals!HA

Yesterday, we wanted to get out and enjoy the sun despite it still being so cold! We had ramen at this new Japanese place near our church. It was okay but in fairness the serving were generous! The kids loved their noodles.

After the ramen, we wanted to try Molly Moon’s ice cream (we like salt and straw ice cream) so off we went to the nearest shop and got some ice cream. It was decent and pricey!HA. Now that we’ve tried Molly Moons, we can say that Salt and Straw is our fave! They have more selections/flavors too!

Bellevue park after ice cream treats!

This afternoon we stopped at Costco! It was a circus as usual but we survived:)

Hubs and I shared their salmon poke! Good enough for the price we paid.

That was our little weekend fun friends! Have a goodnight and take care:)

Hi Friends! Happy Valentine’s Day:) My In laws watched the kids today so Hubs and I got to have a little lunch date. We picked a dumpling restaurant and got treats after. We don’t give gifts to the kids (we did before) but my In laws gave them each goodie bags full of treats and stickers. They also bought pizza! Hubs and I got some chocolates too! Mia told me tonight that “Nana and Papa are so nice mommy!” HA! They’ve always been so generous to the kids:)

This morning we made some Valentines cards for my In laws!

Lunch with Hubs!

We got Boba and egg waffles after!

Beside the dumpling place is our fave doughnut shop! We got some fritters to give to my Mom In law, she likes apple fritters in this specific shop.

Valentines treats started last weekend in our house! After church we got some Krispy Kremes. Their donuts are too sweet for us ( a rare treat for the family).

My Dad In law gave us some chili last weekend, we made some chili nachos while watching Kdrama ( we don’t watch the Superbowl in our house).

I hope you had a great Valentines day friends! Stay safe and Take Care:)

Hi Friends! It’s been a very cold day so we’ve just been cozying up here. Fireplace is on, teas /coffees for us and hot cocoa for the kids! We had a playdate early this week with our friends at the park (so cold!). Mia also started swimming lessons this week, and she said she’s really enjoying it! Not a lot going on (Thank God!) I love days where we have calm and slow days. I remember the days when Matthew stayed in the NICU for 3 months and we had to go to Seattle everyday to visit. So I appreciate the slow days so much:)

We went to Costco this week and got some goodies! I really want to lessen our grocery budget this month, so I’m trying to be intentional with my grocery shopping. I hope I can stick to my list this week.HA! January was an OK month, I could do better but we got sick, so it was more than I budgeted!

Hubs and I enjoyed this Costco sushi!

One of my goals this February is to cook more at home. SO far I’ve been doing that! I made roast Pork roast belly, steaks, soup, and grilled fish.

The In laws watched the kids yesterday, so Hubs and I got a little lunch date and Hubs picked sushi again!HA

Movie night with the kids this week. We watched The Lorax:)

Have a great and cozy Friday night friends! We are going to play some card games and watch Kdrama (we are watching Marry My Husband on Prime) tonight. Stay warm!