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Monday, October 17, 2011

Great starts

It's a beautiful Monday morning and my poor little baby boy woke up this morning with a fever. :-( I think this is his first one. He's not fussy just warm. Hopefully fever will break soon.

I've decided to use our currently least utilized room in the house (the dining room) as a place to have my Quiet Time with God's word. I've been extremely inconsistent with my QT even though I literally spend time in prayer every morning and night. That's because B keeps me accountable. It's a part of our daily routine and you know how babies thrive on routine and structure. Anyhoo, it' been really nice to step back into God's word. Rather than just reading through it, I feel like this time around reading Genesis has been more like reading a really amazing story/adventure? I know, sounds kind of silly but whatever. It's all good.

My husband recently bought a Keurig machine that makes hot/cold coffee/tea beverages. I hate to admit it, but it makes really great tea. I hate to admit it only because my hubby was ridiculously excited about getting this machine and just couldn't stop raving about it. And I didn't see how it could be so awesome. Well, apparently it is. I'm having some English Breakfast tea this morning with some agave sweetener and a splash of milk. That along with a delicious blueberry muffin. Good food for the body to go along with the food for my soul.

Have a wonderful Monday everyone!

Friday, October 14, 2011

Friday Foto 2011.10.14

As I ease my way back to my blog, let me try something with routine. As many other of my fav bloggers do-theme days. I'll do photos in phriday. Haha. Most likely they'll be pics from my phone and most if those pics are of my little bundle of joy :-)

Here he is at...you guessed it...3 months old ;-)

Thursday, October 13, 2011

How do I do this?

Well I'm glad to know that I can blog from my phone, but clearly that's not the most preferred method. Since the DH has started to work from home more often, I've been booted off of the home laptop I'd been using for so long. Not to happy about that. He did build a desktop for me to use, but all of my old files STILL haven't been moved over yet. Did I mentioned that I married an IT guy? So much for having a technologically advanced home. On top of all that I have hardly been using my point and shoot camera for two reasons. First, I got an iPhone in April and it takes great pics and videos so I alway have that with me to use. Secondly, the battery keeps dying so fast. Really sucks. My friend once said, "the best camera to have is the one you have with you.". So true. We've now been in the market for a new camera. Apparently that's a popular thing to do when you have a new baby-get a fancy schmancy camera. However, as with most major purchased in this household...we still haven't gotten a new camera and we've been looking for about a year now. But anyhoo, this is about to turn into rambling post. I mean, I can't help it. I haven't blogged for OVER A YEAR! lol.
Okay, so my goal for this next week is to get back to blogger. But first, I've got to get my work area back in order. That was another part of the hubby working from home deal-I lost my craft room. That's now the guest room and future baby #2 (whenever that happens) room. We turned the old guestroom into our joint office space now and as it stands right now...my work area is not working for me. Wish me luck. I really really miss blogging.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Over a year

Ohmygoodness!! I can't believe it's actually been over a year since I've posted anything!!! How very very quickly time flies. Well, this post is just so that I can see how blogger from my iPhone will work. Long story but I'm less and less often using our home computer anymore. Might have to do with the fact the I'm running around all day trying to keep up with my little bundle of joy :-)

Friday, July 23, 2010

ouchie update and a giveaway link

so for anyone who's still out there...i'm doing 99% better! 1% is for the slight remnants of soreness i still feel in my lower back every now and then. but the fact that i can move around, sneeze, get in and out of the hubby's truck on my own...without wincing in pain...makes me SO happy now :)

added bonus today...i was able to get my wedding ring set off of my swollen finger. i'd noticed how swollen my left ring finger had gotten about 3 weeks ago and i was starting to get stressed about getting it off since i wan't haven't any luck. and guess how. was it lotion? no. vaseline? no. olive oil? no. soap and water? definitely not. i even tried the string trick that i found on http://www.babyscenter.com/ and read all of the feedback on this post ...and the trick that did it? WINDEX. i kid you not! so i'm now walking around preggers and w/o a wedding band on. hope i don't get any funny looks. ;-)

okay...so another bit of fun news for any of you out there reading this...please visit my friend Anhesty who has a FABULOUS giveaway on her blog...the link to that is here. She's fabulous and so is the Shabby Apple boutique that to my surprise had maternity wear...awesome!

hope everyone has a WONDERFUL weekend...my goal this weekend...clean out my closet. i'm going to really have to let go of my former (way former...like 10 years ago former) skinny self. wish me luck!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

ouchie

i slipped and fell at the bottom of our staircase on Friday night and let me tell you...falling when you're preggers is the WORST time to fall. luckily, i didn't hurt my spine, just the major muscle adjacent to my spine. and luckily i fell on my backside and not my front side. my OB said my baby's pretty well protected in my body at 17 weeks. i had enough extra cushioning before i got preggers so i'm sure that helps as well. i saw my regular primary care physician today at the advice of my OB since i was still having some shooting pains 3 days after this happened. my regular doc said that the best thing for me since i was preggers was to just continue to take tylenol and suggested i use a heating pad. he said it would take about 10 days to heal...and today is day 4.

i'm super thankful for the prayers and encouragement from friends and family. i can not wait for day 10. i'm going to really have to try harder to not be so clumsy going forward.

and mark my words..the next house we get if we ever get a second house...it will be a one story house. ;o)

Friday, July 2, 2010

world's worst blogger is back!

mauahahaha....it's been ages hasn't it my friends. hello? anyone still out there...heeheeheee....okay...so i figured July would be a good time to try to get back into the swing of things. but i was recently inspired by Kelly Purkey's blog post about starting a new-half year in July..that i figured now would be just as good a time as any to start blogging again. dont' get me wrong...i still read all my favorite blogs as often as they are updated....i just haven't been motivated to blog myself. it's a lot of work i tell you. i must be super duper lazy. lol

i actually just this afternoon downloaded pics from my camera...they went as far back as the beginning of april. i have clearly failed my P365 challenge. oh well...life apparently went on.

today is a very very raining day...but to be quite honest...i love rainy days...especially when i'm at home! as much as i hope it clears up a bit this weekend i am really not looking for the mean hot sun to reappear. really...the last couple of weeks have been brutal.

so if you any curiosity as to why i've been m.i.a. lately...well it's probably because i spent most of april, may, and june sleeping....apparently...it's one of the big symptons of being preggers....alas! there's my bit of good news! and a good enough reason to not have been blogging, social networking, etc... DH and I are expecting our first bundle of joy this December :) after 3 long and hard years of trying to have a family...God has really answered our prayers (and the prayers of many of our friends and family). so, now i'm 4 months along...and i'm beyond excited about this new stage of our lives!

needless to say...i've been far removed from my favority hobby...scrapbooking/cardmarking. i just tried to make a birthday card for one of my hubby's co-workers. it's ugly. i'm going to have to try again. seriously. i was so on a role with my cardmaking fun. now, i really suck at it. sheesh.

and although i almost always carry around my trusty little red Olympus point-and-shoot camera...i've neglected to take more photos. boo for me.

okay - so how about some pics from this past 2nd quarter of the year. i do have just a few to share...

my mom brought me some Vietnamese chicken noodle soup to work...complete with chopsticks and Asian soup spoon...it was SO yummy

my bff Mia asked me to make cupcakes for Sarah's 2nd birthday...this is starting to seem like a tradition ;o)

i think i may have broken my favorite frosting gun...but i think it was worth it...

becuase it seems that the birthday girl was pretty content with her cupcake

let's play "where's sarah?" now shall we?

later that day...i went to a baby 'sprinkle' for chloe who was expecting her second child

cute (and yummy) cake...

cute decorations...

and a group of lovely ladies around chloe who is front and center in the pink :)

got to celebrate this little fellow's baptism...although i missed the actually baptism (since i was in attendence at my church that sunday)....i did get to celebrate with jakey's family and friends that afternoon :) he's excited to get to open his gift from his favorite asian auntie...yes, that would be me :)

i also got a visit from my favorite japanese friend Taka and her half korean half japanese baby girl Hibari...these girls were so fun to hang out with

during the latter half of april...andra and i took a long lunch to visit Vanessa and her newborn baby boy JC - absolutely precious!

one of the best things to happen in april was that the Tran clan moved to Katy and are now just about 5 minutes from us...woohoo! and they love having folks over to eat...here's one of the feasts that i got to stop by and have on my way home from work one day...

chicken pitas AND banh xeo - yummy!

mr tran and their oldest son evan

mrs tran and their youngest mark...even with their hands full with two young boys...this couple has managed to invite everyone in katy to their home for one, two or several meals...gotta love them

okay - so apparently during the month of may i took zero pictures. must've been sleeping all the time. so now we move on to June.

i tagged along with the hubby who had to go to Las Vegas for a conference...we stayed in City Center at VDara...a casino-less hotel in Vegas...and it was great!

this is where i spent a good portion of my time...working remotely on my laptop while hubby was at the conference...

this was a part of our view

the kitchenette area looking into the living room area

our first night there i opted to stay in for room service while the hubby met up with co-workers for dinner...i was soooo exhausted that day that i just wanted to stay in. unfortunately while i was having my overcooked burger...hubby apparently got to go to some super great buffet at Paris. no fair i say. at least he brought me back some delicious freshly made crepes from Bellagio...that i scarfed down before i could take a picture of them. oh those were such yummy crepes. le sigh.

normally i love ordering breakfast room service...this time was no exception.

this was a $10 dessert plate made up of three pieces of mochi. ridiculous. you can by a box of a dozen mochi for $4. i didn't order this dessert by the way. this was at a sushi place located in the Forum shops. so cruel to not to be able to eat sushi - the uncooked stuff. :(

i don't know where were flying over at this point...but i just thought it was an interesting thing to see so many of these circles.

i did get to surprise our house church that evening since my flight got back from Vegas earlier than anticipated...and we got to celebrate Tania's birthday...