The Adventures of a Calamari Queen

Hi Friends! Merry Christmas:) I hope you had wonderful time with the special people in your life celebrating our Saviors birth. We have a tradition that we sleep over in our living room and movie night (Christmas tree lights on the whole time) the last weekend before Christmas! We picked Home Alone as the movie this year.

Hubs and I got to enjoy a Sushi lunch date!

Last minute Christmas shopping!

Baking cookies with the kids!

Christmas Eve service with the family and we invited our friends to join us too!

Christmas eve dinner, we ordered roast duck and Chinese food. I also cooked pata tim (braised pork hocks). Enjoyed all of our food:)

We also opened our stockings on our Christmas eve gathering!

Christmas morning

Snackies

For our Christmas dinner we had fillet mignon, crabs and king crab legs, potatoes! Hubs made Bernaise sauce so we can build “oscar style” if you want.

We’ve been resting and taking it easy since yesterday because this Holiday season was really busy for us. I was so overwhelmed and I needed to take things easy this week. Matthew seems to have come down with a bug or something, he had a fever last night. Praying he will be better and this will be a quick recovery.

Have a good rest of your evening friends. We are enjoying some Kdrama and Harry Potter movies!HA.

Take Care and Stay Safe!

Hi Friends! Yesterday, we watched the Nutcracker Ballet show in Seattle! They do this every Holiday season. I’ve seen the show a couple of times but this is my first time with Mia. The show was great (I do find the first part a little boring) and the second/rest of the show is amazing especially the stage settings, clothes and dances! Mia enjoyed it but she said she liked Swan Lake better!HA.

After the show, Hubs picked us up and surprised us for a steak dinner at Capitol Grille Seattle. We really enjoyed our steaks and will probably go back again if Seattle traffic is not such a mess. Before dinner, we did stop at Kerry Park to enjoy the view and take pictures! It was crowded though, so we didn’t stay for a long time.

Have a great Monday! We are back to homeschooling, house chores, and getting the house ready for Christmas (slowly decluttering, donating toys). Just enjoying home and being productive yet focusing on the reason of the season. Anticipating the celebration of Jesus Birth:)

Stay safe and Take care!

Hi Friends! I’ve been MIA here because it’s been busy here since Thanksgiving. My family visited us and spent Thanksgiving with us. Lots of family time and road trips here in our state. It’s always a special time together with my sisters, lots of Filipino food involved too!HA

Some of the pictures we took!

Enjoying Christmas lights at Tulalip Resort Casino! So cold but the lights (7.8 million) will put you in a Holiday mood:)

I will share more of our trips this week. We are still resting after we got colds last week. Finally feeling like my old self, after losing my voice these past days!HA. The house is a disaster so we will be doing lots of cleaning and sanitizing this week too. Have a goodnight friends!

Hello Friends! This past weekend, we had a little road trip with the family (together with my sis) to celebrate our Birthdays! Hubs and my Sister are November celebrants too. It was just a quick trip. We rented a cozy house on the water in Ferndale but visited Friday Harbor (San Juan Island), Neighboring towns like Bellingham and FairHaven! We ate too much food!HA! We dined at Anthony’s, Downriggers, and Black Cat! Totally enjoyed all of our food. Thank You to all our friends and family for all the Birthday wishes. Thank You Jesus for the gift of life, to celebrate birthdays with family:) To God all the Glory!

Ferry ride going to San Juan Island!

Ramen dinner after a long day at San Juan Island!

Brunch at Black Cat restaurant!

Have a great evening friends! Stay safe and warm:)

Hi friends! One of our fall bucket lists is to visit the Pumpkin Patch and a local farm to see animals and pumpkins! We had so much fun riding the horse “hayride” and picking our pumpkins this year to carve. We had apple cider and popcorn after for treats. The kids got to pet the pigs, goats, and \ponies! It was such a perfect fall day:) The kids carved the pumpkins a week after!HA.

Have a good rest of your Monday evening friends! Take Care and stay safe!

Hi friends! A couple of weeks ago, we watched the Swan Lake Ballet. Mia loved and enjoyed the experience. This was her first ballet show. I’m so glad that she had fun because we really want her to explore arts/entertainment through performance art. It makes my heart happy to see her enjoying and giggling throughout the evening!HA.. My sister treated us to a nice John Howie dinner before the show, so it was a great night! John Howie Steak House is a personal favorite of mine:) Thanks, sis!

This is my second time to watch Swan Lake, and it’s always a treat to see such a performance.

Have a great Tuesday evening. Stay safe and take care:)

Hi Friends! We had a wonderful weekend catching up with friends, and back to swimming lessons with the kids. It was a mix of fun and rest. Our friends just got back from China early this month so I was looking forward to hearing about their vacation. They gave us some thoughtful gifts. The kids, especially Mia, were really excited!

How cute are these magnets?!

I got a pretty mirror!

Swimming class day! The kids are loving their time and are really building confidence.

After Church, we had brunch at a local restaurant! Hubs ordered brisket Eggs Benedict, while I had the traditional eggs Benedict. It was delicious!

Can you tell that Hubs loved his?HA! In fairness the brisket was tender and full of flavor:)

Hubs had a little baking session yesterday afternoon! He baked pumpkin spice muffin. I just loved a good cream cheese frosting!HA. It was so good, even the kids had two muffins each!

We put plain pumpkin seeds and pumpkin seed with pumpkin spice.

Mia and I got to enjoy a nice Monday afternoon at the park. What a beautiful fall day! Thank You Jesus:)

Have a restful Monday evening friends! Stay safe and take care!

Hi Friends! We had a wonderful weekend with family, we visited Hub’s Auntie/Uncle at their home. They have a big lot, and plant a large variety of veggies/flowers so it’s always fun to visit. It’s always a special time when the kids get to pick fresh vegetables and fruits. I forgot to take pictures of our lunch, it was so good and Auntie prepared “farm to table” style, 90% ingredients from her garden! What a treat:)

This morning, our Church had its Official Fall kickoff! It was pretty busy, and we got to serve as door greeters! We also got to witness a lot of baptisms today! Praise the Lord for that:)

After Church we stopped by at a neighboring park because the restaurant I want to try was still closed!HA

The restaurant I wanted to try and Hubs obliged!HA. We all loved the instant Chapagetti black bean noodles and this place served real black bean noodles! I loved it but the rest of the family prefers the instant one!HA

Hubs wanted to try making ramen noodles this week or next week, so we checked out the asian market close to the restaurant. We’ll see how the noodles turn out…

I wanted to try this red light therapy. I’ve seen lots of good reviews for this brand, so hopefully this will benefit the family!

Have a good rest of your Sunday evening friends! Take care and stay safe:)

Hi Friends! This weekend we had fun celebrating Matthew’s birthday. We had a simple family dinner with my In laws. We surprised the kids at Playtorium (indoor playground) and lunch at Red Robbin last Saturday. It was a fun filled day event of playtime, shopping for gifts, and dinosaur ballon!

Friday night, we stopped by at Costco to get his birthday cake (we ordered some dinosaur cake toppers at amazon!He was amazed by it!HA). It was a simple and special celebration of our little miracle! Thank You God for blessing us with Matthew.

Birthday boy having a meltdown at Costco parking because he saw some of the halloween costumes and we will not get him any of them.

Stopping at Chic fil a for dinner!

It’s been years since we had Red Robbin. We had one in our area before but Costco bought the area so lots of shops closed and moved to the neighboring cities.

Dinner with the family. We had Prime rib roast, crab cakes, roast veggies! I wasn’t able to use my “pretty” plates and transfer the veggies to a nicer container!HA..Ooopppsss…

Enjoying some of his gifts this morning!

Have a great Monday night friends! Take care and stay safe.

Hi Friends! We were suppose to have a “movie at the park” in our neighborhood but it rained the whole day so they had to postpone it! Oh well! It was a productive day with homeschooling and house chores today so this weekend should be a little more relaxed. Friday nights we normally do take out and have a family movie time (the kids picked Rio tonight). They’re always looking forward to some popcorn and treats!

Feels like a Fall day! Hubs started using the fireplace this week.

Sushi for us and Ramen for the kids tonight.

Movie treats!

Earlier this week, we did enjoy a nice sunny day at Bellevue Park. This is always such a busy park and parking is limited! We are glad we got to visit this time. We had burgers at Shake Shack after!

YUM!

Eating out now days can be so pricey! We decided to share a milk shake and plenty of water!HA

Every time my sisters visit Washington state we always go to this coffee shop! We don’t have this in our neighborhood so I got to try their caramel macchiato (thanks Hubs) for the first time, and I did like it! This was located inside the mall (after our shake shack dinner).

We had my In laws over last Sunday and we had pizza and wings!

Yesterday Hubs boss’s boss offered us Door dash, we picked our Local Ram restaurant to get dinner. It was such a nice gesture, and I appreciated it because I didn’t have to cook diner:)

They wanted to be “twins” today!HA

I finished this Chinese drama (it’s on Viki ), my Chinese friend recommended this actor and thinks I will like him!HA, She is so right:) I did enjoy this show “The Oath of Love”. Xiao Zhan is now my favorite Chinese actor!HA

Anyways, I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! Stay safe and take care:)