Category: celebrations

Happy New Year Friends! I Hope you had a fun and safe New Years! We had a simple NYE with my In laws. We still have lots of leftovers from Christmas (mostly cheeses) so we had cheese appetizers, I grilled some shrimp, and we ordered BBQ from a local restaurant! It wasn’t very good (the bbq), very disappointing! We watched a movie (on Netflix) and called it a night! We did watch the Times Square celebration though! We were in bed by 10pm though, I was so tired. I normally wait for the Space Needle fireworks display on tv but last night, I could care less!

Family Selfie before we end 2017! Thank You Lord for a wonderful 2017, it went by too fast! I think having a one year old baby did that to me! HA!

First Breakfast of 2018! My hubs baked banana bread (he’s the baker in this family!) and gotta have a big cup of coffee to enjoy the first day of the year!

My In laws spent dinner with us. My DIL prepared Tenderloin steak; it was so good! My Mom In Law helped me prepare Twice baked potatoes. It’s very rare that we do things in the kitchen together !HA! She is more of a baker and I don’t like baking:) We are so different but we do get along very well. Love my Mom In Law Kathy, she is such an inspiration! My Hubby made cheese fondue for us to enjoy while we prepared for our New Years Day dinner! I also made another Roast Pork belly (Lechon belly in the Philippines) I just had an extra pork belly and I just want it out of the freezer!

Thank You Family and Friends for taking the time to check here in my little blog! I pray that 2018 will be full of blessings, good health, peace and laughter to you and your family! God bless you and Keep you always!

Blessings,

Calamariqueen

 

 

Hello Friends! Merry Christmas EVE! Merry Christmas to my family and friends back home in the Philippines! We attended a Christmas service this afternoon at our church, then Chinese food for dinner! I’ve done a lot of things in preparation for tomorrow, we’ve been hosting Christmas day festivities for a long time now! We (my In laws) have brunch here, open gifts, watch Christmas movie/ naps/ walk around the neighborhood, then Christmas dinner (nothing fancy though). Have a wonderful Christmas Friends!

Before we left for Church I cracked some crabbies for tomorrow! I’m in charge of the crabs because I REALLY enjoy cracking! hahaha (the Hubs is not complaining but has mentioned that I’m so weird!)

My audience during the cracking! HA

Dinner at Yea Wok! We really enjoyed our dinner, we’ll be back again!

Watching the snow after we got home! I hope there will be lots of snow on Christmas day! It will be magical:)

Listening to a Michael Bublé Christmas album while folding laundry! HA! We have very simple Christmas decorations this year! Nothing new, but I might get something during the after Christmas sale this week! I love a good deal:) Anyway, Good night Friends!

 

Hello friends! Yesterday was my birthday and we had a simple celebration. We had dinner at a local restaurant near our home, Hubs had sushi while I got my fave steak Pho!  We are planning to have a little get away celebration  in the coming weeks, so we are looking forward to that. Thank You to all my family and friends who took time to greet me, your birthday wishes are appreciated. Thank You Jesus for another year:)

Hello friends! Happy Friday:) I hope you are having a good week and a restful/fun weekend ahead of you. We are planning to do some “summer cleaning” in our garage tomorrow. Anyways, I wanted to share our Independence day celebration earlier this week, we had a simple hamburger feast with family. We also celebrated Mia’s (9 months) and Riley’s(7 years) birthdays. I’m so thankful that I got to live here in America, so much opportunity and freedom! There’s really no place like it in the world. God Bless the USA!

Hey friends! I was meaning to post our Christmas celebration activities but I have a little 3 month old cutie that’s been distracting me:) I wanted to share our activities during the Christmas season (lots of pictures!) lots of family time and great food!

We went to the Snoqualmie area (Hyak park if I remember correctly) and had a snow day! It was fun but we didn’t stay for a long time because I was worried that Mia might get too cold! We can’t wait to see her play and build a snowman!

Went to Seattle and checked the Teddy Bear suite at Fairmont Olympic Hotel, loved their Christmas decorations and the Teddy bear room was really cute!

My sister In law Julia hosted a Christmas family dinner at her place. Lots of family time and yummy Italian food!

We attended Christmas eve service and little Mia Boo behaved so well and was a pro!

After the service we had dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant (I forgot the name)..it was quite interesting! We didn’t really like the food and the whole place was busy and it would be our last time to dine there.

Christmas morning, we always have cheese popovers that Zach makes, bacon and fruit. Just simple but hearty food. We read Bible verses about Jesus’s birth then open gifts. Lots of snacks in the afternoon and delicious seafood at night/dinner but usually we’re all too full to enjoy the seafood so we always end up eating most of it the next day! Mia got lots of gifts from Santa ( Grandparents, Aunties and uncles). So thank you to our families for sending Mia gifts, we appreciate all of your thoughtfulness. I got Ugg boots, an Instant Pot (that I’ve been using a lot lately), and some gift cards too.

We also visited Zach’s Grandma after Christmas, special time with Great Grandma Jean and Mia! And more family time…