My brother, Michael, decided to make spaghetti for dinner tonight. He’s not much of a cook and needed a little guidance from our much younger sister. Here are some of the conversations I heard coming from the kitchen: Aprille: “Why is the water not boiling yet.” Michael: “I didn’t want to over cook it.” Aprille: … Continue reading Top Chef
We helped my aunt with some pre-wedding stuff today and she treated us to lunch at the Cheesecake Factory where we stuffed ourselves silly. I loved our strawberry shortcake dessert. (In the picture: Ana, Sister Aprille, Cousin Tia, me, and Aunt Sharon) Aprille took this picture and it reminded me of a similar picture … Continue reading Always room for Dessert
We had record highs in Colorado today and I decided to take advantage of the 78 degree weather and took the kids to the Denver botanical Gardens. Everything was pretty much brown and dead but the indoor tropical exhibit was still in full bloom and quite beautiful. I really enjoyed the Japanese garden. Continue reading Indian Summer
During our lunch at Jason’s Deli JoJo straight knocked out. I guess she wore herself out throwing a tantrum earlier on that morning. Continue reading Sleepy Head
My Tita (Aunt) is visiting us from the Philippines. I love our family get togethers. Man, there’s a “gang” of us. Continue reading Balajonda Clan
Tonight was the best night ever!! Wata and I went to the New Kids on the Block concert (her birthday gift to me). It felt like a dream when they took the stage. Over a decade and a half of waiting for these guys to reunite and my wishes finally came true. The show was … Continue reading NKOTB
Soon after I recovered from being sick, JoJo caught some kind of stomach bug. She spent most of the day in bed but seems to be much better now. I guess it’s because she really wants to go to school tomorrow… Oh if she only knew. She’ll be hoping for sick days when she’s older. … Continue reading Tummy Ache
My poor baby gets mistaken for a boy all the time… hello, she’s clearly wearing pink! Today I decided to girlify her a bit with a little clip. She doesn’t really have much hair to hold back but cute nonetheless. A little developmental update: Her first word was “mama” about a couple months ago which … Continue reading I is a girl
Too lazy to cook dinner tonight so we all decided to go out to eat at TGIFriday’s. Just some pictures while we were waiting for our food. Continue reading TGIF… almost
I’ve been under the weather for the past week or so and I’ve gotten behind. Here are a few things that happened at the end of October. Quick visit from Uncle Ray. Thanks for the Haribo gummy bears! A couple weeks ago Ana started to climb up the stairs. Now I really can’t take my … Continue reading Backtrack