The Adventures of a Calamari Queen

Hi Friends! June was a little hectic here so I wasn’t able to spend time here. Summer is finally here, we are enjoying the weather (80’s) most of the time. We are doing things locally like visit our local beaches, parks, zoo. We had fun watching fireworks last night after we had our 4th of July dinner with family. I hope you had wonderful weekend friends!

Some pictures I took in the month of June:

Our strawberry plants did so well this year, we had a lot of sweet strawberries we enjoyed together with vanilla ice cream!

Grilling season time! I grilled fish and pork belly. We do this a lot growing up in the Phillipines.

Our farmers market officially opened! We got some flowers and fruits.

One of Mia’s friend will be spending her summer in China and before her family left, we invited them for an afternoon tea party!

Lots of park time!

We got to visit a “Rose Exhibit” in the mall, the pic is not giving the Roses justice! HA, so many kinds of roses out there!

Hubs planted this 3 years ago, and they’re doing well!I love the color:)

Visited the nursery couple of times.

Enjoying a summer afternoon.

Frozen yogurt treat!YUM!

Have a great weekend friends! We are going to the beach this afternoon to enjoy the warm day.

Take care and stay safe!

Happy Friday friends! Hubs was able to join us for a lunch date at a Japanese restaurant that I wanted to visit today. We love it when he can spend time during the day and get to eat out with us. Special times!

Some scenes from our week:

I’ve been walking almost everyday this month, it’s one of my goals to prioritize exercise and so far I’ve been able to keep that. Just walking around the neighborhood and listening to audiobooks.

I finally got some double delight roses from the garden! They are my favorite roses. So pretty and smell amazing.

Drawing time while waiting for the school bus.

A little shopping time with my Boo!

I’ve been watching korean mukbangs while coloring!

Got some dirt (on sale) because I’m planning to plant some vegetables this weekend. I already planted 3 tomato plants!

Have a great friday evening friends! We will have a rainy weekend here so not sure what our plans will be! Take Care and Stay Safe:)

Happy Mother’s day to all the Moms out there. I hope you had a great day with family and friends. We had my In laws celebrating with us, and got to enjoy steaks and seafood tonight. I got flowers and cards from Hubs and the kids, thanks to my family for all the messages too!

Yesterday, our community had an Asian American Pacific Islander celebration and we got to watch performances and a little Filipino fashion show. It was such a fun event I get to share with the kids.

After the event, we got some takeout food! I got salmon poke:)

Mothers Day dinner!

I hope you had a restful weekend friend. I did a little decluttering this weekend. I plan to do more this week. Little by little so it’s not so overwhelming for me.

Take care and stay safe!

Happy May friends! We are having a wonderful sunny spring day today. Mia and I played a little badminton outside while waiting for Matthew. A couple of weeks ago, for our spring break, our little family visited the ocean again! We stopped at Westport first to get Bradys oysters and check for tuna belly. No tuna belly..boo!

It was a fun getaway, we really like going to the ocean and plan to visit again this year! It’s 2.5 -3 hours drive from us so it’s not that bad.

I’m excited for the month of May! April has been long with our family/kids got sick. I’m still doing some spring cleaning around the house, lots of donation to be dropped this weekend!

I hope you’re having a great May friends! Stay Healthy and Take care:)

Hi friends! Matthew had a school performance this week and of course we’re all there to watch him and his friends sing. They’re all so cute and having a great time. Thankful to all the teachers who are so patient and loving to our kids!

The kids wanted Ramen for our usual Friday takeout, it’s been a while that we visited our favorite Ramen place in Bellevue so we decided to go and eat there. Normally, I would get the garlic tonkotsu ramen, but yesterday I got the miso ramen (for a change) . It was good but I still prefer the garlic tonkotsu (Hubs order).

It’s been a gloomy Saturday and the kids requested we go to their favorite indoor playground! When the weather is nasty outside we do tend to just do this, the kids get to have fun and Hubs/I get to relax and enjoy dimsum (it’s in front of the playground).

That was our day friends! Hope you got to relax and do something that gives you joy. Stay safe and take care!

Hi friends! It’s been a rainy Monday here. My family has been sick for a few weeks now, so I haven’t been online. Thankfully, we are on the mend and slowly back to our routines. Spring is officially here in our part of the world, we’ve visited the University of Washington Quad because of their Cherry Blossoms! So pretty but crowded!HA

Mommy-daughter pizza date!

We got to Facetime with family!

Pretty spring flowers while on my walk!

University of Washington!

This month, we are celebrating our 17th wedding anniversary! We are still recovering so no fancy events just spending the afternoon at the Ballard locks and kids wanted Jollibee after! Hubs and I plan to try a nicer restaurant when we have both of our taste buds back!

Have a great Monday evening friends! Stay Safe!

Hi Friends! It’s been a month since the last time I’ve been here. The rest of February went so fast! We visited the ocean for a weekend, we try to do this every year (we plan to do more of this). We had friends over for dinner recently. When its’ sunny outside we go on family walks and enjoy the park. It’s still cold outside but signs of spring are showing, so that’s exciting! 🙂

We always go to Bennets Fish Shack when we visit Ocean Shores! We like their prime rib sandwich and some seafood dishes like crab melt sandwich.

We had date nights in the month of February!

We watched Dogman the movie. Silly movie….

BFFs!

Strawberry chocolate! She had fun making this:)

Homeschooling/painting time!

Tonight, we had teriyaki/sushi/ramen! We do takeout every Friday night.

I’m looking forward to watching Kdrama and this durian ice cream (this had been the best durian ice cream for us, so creammmmyyyyy! exclusively from Costco!)

Hope you are having a good Friday evening friends!

Hi Friends! It was a nice surprise to wake up with fresh snow this morning. No school for Matthew due to icy road conditions so it was another fun day at the park for us (after Mia and I did our homeschool). What a beautiful winter morning. The sun was out, blue sky and fresh air and snow! I find myself thanking God for such mornings,I’m so grateful I get to do this with my kids:)

I’m still on my low spend year (I think this is my 3rd year). It helps me to be mindful when shopping, especially with clothes. I have been donating some of my shirts so I decided to get casual shirts. I got a good deal with this one (60% off)! Basic shirts for Matthew and a linen jumpsuit for Mia.

WIth the cold weather, I made beef rib soup for dinner.

Wednesday morning! School was cancelled because of icy road conditions. Off to the park again! A neighbor made this giant snowman.

Hubs was doing errands and we decided to have pizza and tacos for dinner as a midweek treat!

Have a good Wednesday evening friends! Stay warm and healthy.

Hi friends! We had snow this weekend, so the kids had a little fun outside and built a snowman. We didn’t get a lot of snow, but enough to make it fun for the kids (and our neighbors too). It was a fun and productive weekend! We stopped by our local donation center because I’ve been decluttering kids clothes and some kitchen stuff. Every time I visit this place, it motivates me so much to stop buying things we don’t need!HA.

After the donation center, the kids wanted to eat Jollibee and visit an indoor playground. It’s been so cold and rainy we obliged! The kids had a blast:)

This was Sunday morning before Church!

Hubs prepared cheese fondue for dinner after playing outside!

It’s been a busy day here! Mia and I were still able to have a little walk. School was delayed for two hours today, looks like tomorrow things will be back to normal! I would love more snow days but based on the forecasts it will not be happening.

I hope you have a good Monday evening and stay safe!

Hi Friends! It’s been a cold and rainy week here, looks like we could get snow too but not sure if it will be a winter wonderland for us. Can you believe it’s going to be February tomorrow?! It’s been such a long month here with the weather and cold season. I’m thankful that we had minor colds when the kids were sick this month, I know others had it worse. We just try our best to support our immune systems!

We watched President Trump’s Inauguration!

The sweetest boy ever!

Dad in Law got crumbl cookies for the kids!

We were able to do date nights this month! We had Italian and sushi dinners. Hubs is so busy this month so we always look forward to our time together.

Hubs made me a latte and delivered in bed! HA

I hope you are having a good Friday night friends! Take care and stay safe:)