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Hi Friends! Hope you are having a restful weekend:) We spent ours mostly at home. It’s been a sunny weekend so the kids got to use their kiddie pool! Hubs and I joined the fun too. I finally got to cut and enjoy my double delight roses (it’s such a joy!HA). We took the kids to the park and got some boba tea and treats after. My In-laws visited us this weekend too and got to hangout with the kids.

Pretty double delight roses that I put in the patio table to enjoy while the kids are in the kiddie pool.

I borrowed this Marie Kondo book from the library and I enjoyed reading it. It inspired me to continue decluttering and have things at home that bring me joy! I’m still doing my “less spend year and haven’t bought any new clothes, shoes, candles, etc”. My goal is to be intentional with what I bring inside my home/life. I continue to declutter (it’s a process for me and I’m taking my time so it’s not too overwhelming for me). SO far, so good!

It was a nice day at the park, not too hot and the wind breeze was great!

DIL watching the kids and bought us Jack in the box treats! Thanks Papa:)

After church we stopped by at Costco to get some groceries. Inflation is real folks! We got produce and convenient food that we will enjoy these summer months (chips, frozen meals).

Another picture of my roses just because it’s so pretty, smells so good too!

Have a nice Sunday evening friends. Hubs and I are watching Kdrama on Netflix (The Queenmaker), we are enjoying it so far.

Take care!

Hi friends! Happy Thursday:) Hubs and I had cleaned our patio this past weekend so we can enjoy our yard more this coming summer! It feels like summer here in the PNW lately and I’m here for it:) We pressure washed, weeded (there’s more to do though) and got flowers from Home depot to add color to the patio. Hubs put the kiddie pool out for the kids and they’ve been using it everyday!

This past weekend we celebrated Mother’s day and Birthday celebrations for my In laws! We had Korean and Thai food. My family (Hubs) prepared breakfast for me, I requested filipino corned beef breakfast (it hit the spot!) HA! Thanks to my sister who sent me my favorite filipino canned goods! We enjoyed family walks and tiramisu cake too! It was a wonderful Mother’s day weekend:)

Have a great Thursday night friends! Talk later:)

Hello friends! The kids got invited to a birthday party this afternoon (Mia’s friends from gymnastics) and we had a blast! It was a wonderful party with lots of fun activities and yummy food:) The rest of our weekend was quiet, we stayed home aside from doing the grocery shopping to get ingredients for our cheese fondue (we had gruyere cheese that we wanted to use last night). My Dad in Law (Papa) also visited and played with the kids:)

Mia and I enjoyed doing beads this weekend too. We listened to an audiobook (Little House on the Prairie). Thank You Jesus for a nice weekend with my family and friends!

Have a restful Sunday night friends! Take care!

We’ve been having a great spring here and we are taking advantage of it and getting outside! I started to clean our yard/weeded my vegetable box and planted 1 tomato plant!HA. The kids and I visited the nursery already last week because Mia wanted to have her own little plant box. She’s been diligent in watering her plants too. Washington State’s national flower is the Rhododendron and they are all over my community. I can’t help but take pictures because of the pretty colors!

We visited our local lake this past weekend. The water is still very cold though. Come summer time this place is packed!

Have a great Wednesday night friends! Hubs and I are relaxing and watching a Korean show. It will be an early night for the kids because they didn’t nap and they had fun running around playing at the park earlier with my Dad In law!

Take Care!

Hi Friends! Happy Monday:) Hubs and I had a lot of fun cooking this month. We made some yummy food and we enjoyed spending time together in the kitchen on the weekends. I already have a list of dishes I want to make with him for next month!HA..this is some of our family meals that we’ve enjoyed cooking/eating!

We went to the Asian market and Costco this month, so I made Filipino dishes like pork/chicken adobo and Filipino style spaghetti that my kids love!

Pork/Chicken Adobo and Sweet and Sour Fish (escabeche)

Filipino style spaghetti

Jalapeno poppers that Hubs likes.

When we visited Costco early this month, they still had the $5 something per pound for their Dungeness crabs, so we got 3. We made crab rangoon, and gnocchi with crabs!

We also got some salmon from Costco. We had roast salmon with bang-bang sauce and roast veggies.

Pork ribs soup!

Sweet and sour shrimp that we really liked and enjoyed! Hubs found the recipe online!

I used the left over salmon and made gimbap!

Spicy braised chicken

Air fried chicken wings paired with salad.

Roast chicken and veggies

Steak gyro with yogurt sauce (from Trader joes)!We really enjoyed this too.

Happy cooking friends!

Hello friends, last week the family had a little weekend getaway to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary! Ocean Shores is just 3 hours drive from our city and we always like visiting at least once a year. It has become a family tradition. Hubs and I had low expectations because we checked the weather and it said it will be a rainy weekend. Luckily, we had 2 days of nice, sunny days and just 1 cold/rainy day! The kids had fun and no meltdowns at all! WIN!!

We stopped at Jollibee for breakfast because it was on our way to Ocean Shores. The kids loved their sweet filipino style spaghetti.

We had dinner at Bennet’s Fish shack! We got their prime rib sandwich, crab sandwich, and halibut sandwich!

On the actual Anniversary day, we had Ramen for lunch and enjoyed desserts from Crumble Cookie and Lady M Mille crepes (we got pistachio, strawberry, and chocolate cake slices).

It was a nice little celebration with my family and we thank God for giving us 15 years of married life (18 years together!), and pray for many more years of togetherness!

Have a great Saturday friends! Take care:)

Hi Friends! Hope you all had a great Easter:) He is Risen!

We had a good Easter weekend! We didn’t do any easter egg hunt with the kids outside our house. The weather was nasty! Gray and rainy and cold! We didn’t really want the kids exposed with lots of people around them. Matthew had a cold a week ago and just recovered. Hubs put eggs around the house so they had a little egg hunting!HA

We had a little walk around the neighborhood and found a rabbit and a deer! It was exciting for the kids. My In laws stopped by Saturday afternoon to deliver the kids easter baskets and dyed eggs with us.

Easter Sunday, we went to Church and attended the first service (8am). We got donuts and I cooked bacon and eggs for brunch! My DIL took care of our easter dinner (ham, roast veggies, potato gratin, cake). Hubs and I made deviled eggs. It was a big hit! We did deviled eggs with bacon and lox. Before dinner the kids had a little egg hunting around the house.

Thanks to our families for the kids Easter Baskets! Have a great evening friends and take care:)

Hi friends! Happy Monday:) Monday is always a little busy for us because it’s Mia’s Co-op day and she takes taekwondo class. She is not really into it, but we wanted her to finish this class and try to have as much fun as she can. After her class we wait to pick up Matthew at his preschool!

We are really into beads lately, and we’ve bought more beads this weekend so we can design different patterns. Mia plans to make keychains for her grandparents and aunties! She is excited.

I did a little decluttering in one of our kitchen drawers this afternoon. It was a quick one, so YAY for me! HA…

For dinner I made Bang Bang salmon(recipe I got online), it’s so simple but delicious:) We had it with roasted brussels sprouts and leftover crab meat from this weekend.

Good night friends! Take Care:)

Hello Friends! Hubs and I started a little spring cleaning these past days. We cleaned our refrigerator (took all of the shelves apart and did a good scrubbing). I’m glad that’s done! Hubs took care of our dining room chandelier too! I plan to do a lot of spring cleaning this month. I will try to show them here (maybe!). We went to Costco today and got a lot of stuff for the month. One of my goal this month is to really keep track of our monthly grocery expenses, and just be aware of our finances in general.

I had a wonderful time doing my walk around the neighborhood while Hubs watched the kids. Matthew napped and Mia did her legos. It’s still cold outside but it’s important for me to get out and get some walking done!

Costco still has their 5.99/lb. crabbies so we got a package to enjoy this weekend. The kids had pizza:)

I hope you guys have a great rest of your weekend friends! Take Care:)

Hello friends! A couple of weeks ago the family had fun visiting Imagine Children’s Museum (I think 1 hour drive from our place). We thought it was going to be a rainy weekend but it turned out nice and sunny (still cold) day!HA. Anyways, the kids had a great time and the museum had lots of cool ideas/sections that the kids had fun exploring. We plan to visit other museums that our State has in the coming months. We had pizza and boba drinks in the car after because we got hangry! The Pizza place messed up our order 🙁 it was still good though.

Two weekends ago, we visited Seattle since I wanted to try this restaurant because I was scrolling IG and saw someone posting about it (IG made me do it!HA). We rarely eat out with the kids because our toddler Matthew can get antsy if he stay in a chair for a long time. But surprisingly, he did better than we expected, brunch was great! The food not so much!HA.. Hubs didn’t really like his food (salmon sashimi don) the salmon wasn’t the freshest for him. We had the Chicken Katsu and Nanban rice plates and we liked it. Dessert was great!

Mia had a little play date with her BFF after our lunch so we got home after!

We plan to do more weekend fun with the family in the coming weeks! We are trying to be intentional with exposing the kids to more family fun and experiences as much as we can!

Have a great day friends! Stay healthy and safe:)