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It’s been a smokey week here so we’ve been spending lots of time being cozy in our home. I still continue to declutter and am trying to be more intentional with our things. However, I got a couple of new clothes (4 tops and 2 pants), a lot of my clothes I find are too faded/loose that they don’t feel good on me (I started my “no spend year” and no new clothes for me this year, so I kinda failed the challenge! HA. It’s OK though, I’m doing good in the other category.

Hubs and I are cooking more at home. We still do Friday take outs and get some fast food every now and then. I personally try to limit eating out because the prices are getting so ridiculous and it’s unhealthy.

We have an abundance of cherry tomatoes so I’ve been dehydrating them last week. We put them in our soups and pastas.

One of my goals this fall season (before the year ends) is to declutter the whole house. I’ve decluttered my clothes already and the kids (the hubs is not interested decluttering his clothes!HA).

Driving Matthew to school and I took a pic of this tree.

We have a Salmon Hatchery in our city and we celebrated “salmon days” 2 weeks ago. Lots of activities especially for the kids, Mia had her face painted and she wanted to be a tiger!

I like to drink coffee and read books during the fall season (lately I’m into simplifying/minimalism books).

What we’ve been cooking and eating lately:

Take Care Friends:)

Mia had her birthday last week, we had so much fun celebrating our big girl and she had lots of fun and special memories with friends and family. Thank God for our adventurous and fun little Mia Boo!

On her actual birthday, we surprised her by checking in at a hotel (Hyatt Bellevue) so we can go swimming and have fun in downtown/city. We had an early dinner at STK but both kids didn’t like dinner,so Daddy had to go to Chic Fil A to get their dinner!HA. STK dinner was good, but I don’t think we will be back again. We ordered Ribeye oscar style(steak was decent) but the presentation was messy!HA. The crabs and asparagus was all over the place:( Oh well. We liked their mac and cheese though.

Saturday night, we had my In laws! Had to cut the celebration short because my DIL hit his head and had to go to the ER to get stitches. Thank God he is fine and nothing serious. Mia enjoying a gift from my SIL and an American doll from my sisters. Thanks to our family and friends for their generosity! We appreciate it so much. She got lots of nice gifts and has been enjoying them this week.

I made Pork Humba and green beans for dinner here.

We invited 5 of her girlfriends to Defy Seattle (a trampoline place) and pizza after. They all had so much fun jumping their hearts out!

It was a great but busy week for Mia, we are thankful to family and friends for spending their time with us.

Take care friends!

Hi Friends! Happy weekend:) The Hubs just got back from a work related event yesterday (gone for a week),so it’s been an exhausting week for me (kudos to all the single parent out there!) taking care of the kids/home. Thank God things went smoothly, just the normal everyday things like school, park, homeschool, cooking/feeding kids! Mia started her gymnastics class and she is loving every moment. Matthew is really adjusting great at his preschool too, no more tears when I dropped him at school! He seems to look forward to school now!HA

I’m looking forward to slower days this week! Have a great night friends. Take Care:)

We had a wonderful time swimming with friends today. Mia had a blast hanging out with her little BFF! They swam and played in the water. We are experiencing smoke around our area because of the fires in surrounding areas (since couple of days ago). This morning wasn’t that bad at all while we were at the beach. The rest of the afternoon was spent napping and relaxing. We’ve had busy weekends this summer,so it was a nice change for sure.

My sis who was spending summer with us, went back to the East coast last night. Before going to the airport, we had a nice yummy Dim sum/dinner of Siomai,pork buns, Lechon kawali (Filipino Crispy fried pork belly). We miss our family, we pray that we will get to see them these coming holidays!

Have a wonderful Saturday night friends! Enjoy the rest of the weekends. Stay safe!

Hi Friends! Been a while since I posted here, it’s been a busy last few weeks with us. Hubs was away for a long weekend weeks ago to visit friends in Idaho (he’s back now). Mia and I started our homeschooling 3 weeks ago, so far we are doing great. Matthew started his preschool (4 days a week). Dropping him at school is hard but he’s fine once he is with his other friends. We also celebrated his 3rd Birthday last week. It was a simple celebration with family! Time flies so fast, he is such a miracle. 3 years ago, we started our 3 months NICU journey at Seattle Swedish Hospital and now he’s going to preschool! Praise the Lord!

He’s loving anything Dinosaur right now, so I got some Dino Party decors for his birthday theme. We got the cake from Metropolitan Market.

Hubs smoked ribs and we got some side dishes from Met Market also.

First day of school pics!

Have a great Wednesday Friends! Take care:)

Hi friends! We had a lovely dinner at Daniels Broiler earlier because Hubs got a gift card from his workplace many years ago. I really wanted to use it before we forgot that we had a gift card!HA. We’ve been to their Seattle restaurant before, so we wanted to try their Bellevue location. Mia joined us because we wanted her to see a “nicer/fancy” restaurant and she loved every minute of the experience! It was so special:) We enjoyed the experience, service was quick and very accommodating. Steaks were very good! Sis and I shared a Tomahawk Rib eye, Hubs got his usual Ribeye too! Mia had Fish and chips. We all loved their Filet Mignon Steak bites (we had it as an appetizer). We shared a very decadent chocolate cake for dessert.

Hi friends! Happy Friday! This summer my family had really indulged in Dungeness Crabs. We have a local seafood market in our area where we get fat crabs! It’s pricey but for the amount of crabs we get, and when we compare it to eating out/crab restaurants it’s worth it to us to buy it from our local market. I do all the cracking and getting the meat out! I don’t mind it at all:) We did a couple of crab dishes like crab fried rice, crab rangoon, crab dip, crab rolls,sushi,crabs with noodles! We did this over a 3 day period. HA! Just like any other seafood, you have to eat it ASAP to enjoy the freshness. They go bad quickly.

Hubs made rolls and it was so perfect with the crab meat.

Hubs made us sushi crab roll. We love crab rolls, we normally pay extra just for real crab meat when we go out to sushi restaurants.

This is a filipino dish called “crab sotanghon”. Rice vermicelli with crabs and herbs. In the Philippines, we normally use chicken meat when we make this dish.

Have a great Friday friends. My mouth is watering as I look at these pictures again. HA!

Take Care!

Hi Friends! How’s your summer going? I’ve finally been able to get in here and share what I’ve been up to. My family visited us and we got to have some special family time. We didn’t travel outside WA and visited local cities. Lots of lake time and enjoying the waters. WA is such a beautiful place during summer time. We had a heat wave a little while back too, not a fan of that! HA. Mia had VBS at her old preschool and she had fun, especially seeing her preschool friends.

We celebrated my sister’s birthday, we had brunch and a home cooked dinner for her. It was scrumptious!

I hope you are having a great Friday friends!:) Take Care!

Hi friends! We are enjoying our summer (finally) here and celebrated Independence day yesterday with family. We’ve been spending most days in our backyard and our local parks. We got the kids a kiddie pool and they’ve been using it daily! Between that, and watering the garden, I don’t even want to know how much our water bill will be! HA! Brace for impact! LOL.

It’s been nice to have less structured days with the kids but come fall it will be a different story. I’m starting to plan for our homeschooling this year and getting materials, reading books about homeschooling, decluttering and still simplifying things in our home. We have family visiting us these coming weeks so we are looking forward to some family time. We are so excited!

Mia had fun during her soccer camp last week. This week she will start with her golf lessons. She’s excited:) One busy girl!

Have a wonderful day friends! Enjoy summer and take care:) God Bless!

Hi friends, this week was Mia’s last day of Preschool! They had a little program for all of the parents, showing us what they’ve learned for the whole year! I’m so happy for her because it was such a special year and she made lots of friends, learned so much, and built her confidence. Yesterday (Friday) we attended their end of school get together/birthday party of one of her classmates. Lots of fun despite the PNW rain!

We had dinner at a local Pizza/Italian restaurant to celebrate the event. Thank God both kids behaved. HA!

A little throwback of her first day of school!

Have a great Father’s day weekend friends!