Birthday Cards

Thanks  to  friends and families who  sent me  cards and gifts during my birthday.

Hubby's card this year was extra   big hehehe.

Just  updating  quick, will be busy again. I am not going to scrap my car but I will definitely do something.  Thanks for dropping by and for commenting.

Incredible Prices

My husband found a great deal on shoes online so he bought him a pair and also bought me a new pair of running shoes.  It arrived  this morning and we were amazed how fast the shipping is.   Finding an incredible s price  is easier these days especially if you have the patience in  browsing the net.  Comparing prices from one merchant to another is a great way to finding the best deal there is.  We do that all the time to save money.

Anticipating

On the second day of water outage, the pipes started to have a gargling sound like water will start pouring down so all of us stared at our faucet, anticipating for the water to come out. But we did not get lucky, the gargling sound disappear after 30 minutes.

We ended up going to Follansbee, nearby city, to take our showers at my NIL.  Thanks a lot Jen and Jim!

After  taking showers, we let the kids bond with Gracie and other kids for a while before we headed back home.

THe little one was so excited in showing Ms. Burrito her toys.

Rubberized lizard toy under their chins.

Oh it's the worst feeling you'll have when you lost water. It's bad when there's a flood but it's also but when there's nothing, even a drop.  When that happens, you would want to look for a property to rent in york or somewhere where water is  abundant.

Love Birds on a Trampoline

I was enjoying my morning coffee earlier, (yeah I know, I said that I quit before but my husband keep giveing me a cup every morning hahaha. It is now in moderation though, just one cup a day) then I saw these love sparrows  doing sweet stuff to each other.  It made me smile and murmured "my husband would love to see your  presents again when you left" lol.  Yup, hubby cleaned up the pile of poop of birds yesterday when the kids   wanted to jump in the trampoline.

This trampoline is good buy (well, I got it for almost free from reviewing a website) because the kids love to jump in it.  I jump in it sometimes with my son.  Aside from trampoline, I found out that  some people uses needak rebounder for health purposes.  For those health conscious people, a rebounder is a good alternative for exercising.  According to the  review I have read online, exercising on a rebounder strengthens ever organ of your body.

Hubby is a health buff and he is  maintaining his good healthy body through  regular exercise.    He was  off the track for  months there when he first retired but then he   found some health issues   of  gaining weight so he started to  work out again.  He is doing great with keeping fit actually.  He is motivating me to  go on with  my work out once again.  Although I am not gaining weight but I do need to exercise to further enhance my existence hehehe.

So if you  are looking for an equipment to  keep you fit, you might want to   give a rebounder a try.  You can read what people are saying about this  exercise equipment through visiting the link I have provided above.  This looks like a fun way to exercise actually.  It is like a bouncing  in a trampoline.  So what are you waiting for, keep fit with rebounder.

I realized that as you grow older, your capabilities of doing stuff is  getting limited as time passes by.  But if you maintain a healthy lifestyle and  stay  active mall the time, the chances of  getting sickness is very slim.  I think, that is what everybody needs to know to avoid  visits to the doctor  or hospitals as we grow older.  No wonder why my mother wants to do things most of the time.  She gets crancky if she isn't doing anything.  

Shadowy Bloom

A lovely bloom from my SIL's front yard. I can't resist not to take a photo of it.  She told me  the name of the bush but I forgot it's name.

My husband received another certificate from  his school.  He made it again to the Dean's List last term.  We are so proud of you hon.  I stumbled upon  A level courses online and  want to share it to you guys,  you might be interested in checking it out.  I am sharing this post to weekly memes.

Lease or Buy

Which do you favor, lease or buy?  I always go for buying rather than leasing but some people preferred to do car leasing than buying one.  With buying, you own the car while  when you lease you will  pay for the time the is in the contract then  when the contract goes off, you can either pay it off to own it or  give it back to the leasing company.

Follow Up

My husband called the contractor this morning to see if they have a specific timeline in renovating our porch but the proprietor wasn't there. We are hoping that they could start this week but I guess were wrong. We want them to work here wile we are still here. We would be out of town for a week sometime in July so we are worried about that. Anyhow, here's a link for hotels in york if you guys need one.

Triple the Charm

I am a Guest Friend over at Today's Flower this week and I am delighted.  Special thanks to Luiz for inviting me.  Below is the first bloom in my garden.

I took photo of this one when my daughter and I went for a walk.  I dunno what kind of flower this is.

And this lovely orchid is from Lowe's.  The two that I bought last December  are still alive  and I am waiting when it will bloom.

I call this post triple the charm because those three are all charming.

Bonding Kayaking Trip

Guest post written by Suzie Quentin

My sister and I haven't always been the closest. We were really close in age, had a lot of the same friends and therefore butted heads a whole lot. But I want to make sure that we don't butt heads any more. Or I'm at least really making an effort with this anyway. She's a little more outdoorsy with me and is always doing these extreme sports. I'm definitely more girly, but I thought that it would be fun to try this out with her. So I'm planning a kayaking trip for us to take at the end of the summer. It's really just a trip to a river where we will kayak for an afternoon, but I think it will still be amazing.

While I was busy planning the trip last week, I ran across this sitehttp://www.Clearwirelessinternet4g.com and after I read through it some I decided to sign up for the internet service at home.  I'm really going to be roughing it for this kayaking trip, at least for me anyway. But we're staying at this really cool hotel with a spa there!

Cancer Battle

We visited my BIL the day after Father's day. We were suppose to visit him on Father's Day but his wife told us that he was so sick due to the last chemo that he received.  His battle with cancer is  still not done because even if the big amount of it was removed from his lungs, there still some that spreading  in his liver.  Since they can't do an operation, the doctors are just hoping that  it will be cured through chemotherapy treatment.  

These photos were taken when  he  has still a long hair, after  a couple of chemo, his hair started to fall off so his wife decided to just shaved it off.  He is now bald.

My kids are very fond of Dave because just like my husband, he is also very good in dealing with children.

I hope and pray that the chemo treatment will cure the remaining cancer  in his body.  

ON the other note, my gardening is over so my next project/task would be to clean up all our windows.  We couldn't replace our existing blind with Wooden Blinds yet but hopefully, we could do it by next year.  Thanks for dropping by folks!

Kissably Fresh Breath

I have read some raves about ecigarette online for this past couple of weeks. Some people say that using eCig is better than smoking the real cigarette because you get to feel smoking the real one but minus the tar and smoke that comes out of the real one.  It says at one of the websites I read that even if you use eCig, you still have a kissable fresh breath which is  the opposite when you smoke the real cigarette.  So which one would you pick?

Frugal Gardening

Here's what keeps the frugal gardener busy.  Transferring my plants from  our  front walkway to our backyard.  I am done with it now so we are just waiting for the contractor to start with the porch renovation.  Oh, I still have to transfer my roses but I'll wait for the  construction to start, maybe they could help me dig out my thorny roses with their  equipment hehehe.

Here's our vegetable garden looks like now.  The lettuces and the beans are  getting thick and the tomatoes are catching up too.  We put the wire fence around it  to  hinder our  dog from getting inside and tearing up the plants.

New addition to  our backyard.  I dressed up the mailbox we put  there for  the bird and planted  some flowers around it.  I also connected it to the Lilac bush that we planted   there three years ago.

I used  the rocks I found  at the  flower bed in front instead of buying bricks.  Thanks to my SIL for  giving the kids those concrete  car and star molds a couple of years ago.

The only thing I bought on this flower bed is a bag of mulch.  There you go friends, it might not be as fancy as your garden but I am trying to beautify my backyard without spending  too much. I am trying to save some moolah for Tuscany Holidays, opps... you know that I am just kidding right?  What I am not kidding is that, I am  saving for our upcoming getaway next month.

Gearing for a new Career

I can tell that  the schooling is getting  into  my husband  already.  I mean he is happy that he get to spend a lot of time with us when he is not in school but he got used to being at work all the time when he was still in the military.  I guess he misses  working sometimes so he would blurt out "I'll be glad to get over with school."   

He still have until August next year to graduate with his bachelor's degree in Accounting but he is already gearing for a new career through looking for jobs available in every  state.  He even  consider moving to some State if he can find a good job such as   charlotte jobs or anywhere that would give him a decent salary.  He browses different job availability in the military sites.

Wrinkled Knuckles

I seldom paint my nails but for mother's day sake, I painted both my nails and my daughter's. It was a special little bonding  between me and my little lady,..

Ms. Burrito said "We should do this more often Mom."  LOL!

My wrinkled knuckles is my contribution to ABC's W.  I grew up planting rice in the field with my bare hands and my hands was so rough because of calluses before.  Glad the calluses went away but not the ones in my feet, very unattractive .. sigh.

Download iTunes Free

Do you pay to download your favorite iTunes music?  If you do, it's time to save your   money and download this iPhone application that Flixlab is offering for free.  Yes, it's free!  You can find out how to download it through visiting the Flixlab in Facebook.  I bet that iPhone  users will love this  new stuff that they could use  in tweaking their photos and videos taken by their   phones.  

You have to have an iTune account to be able to download different applications such as HD TV shows, movies, and music.  So what are you waiting for, a new cool feature to your  iPhone  will make it even better. The application will enable you to  make  movies  in seconds and do some   creative stuff with your photos. 

Happy Father's Day Dads!

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads in the world!

We just came home and it's a perfect time too because it is now raining.  We attended mass at noon then went to  my FIL's home and cooked dinner.

After we ate and bonded with Dad, we took my husband to the mall for a little shopping spree as  our Father's Day gift.  He did not find  the one that he wanted which is   a pair of  new running shoes but we bought him a pair of Levi's  pants and four T shirts.  We will find him a  shoes next time.  

How about you folks, did you have a good Father's Day celebration?

Paper Roses

I posted some photos of this flower at my other blog and I named her Powder Puff because I don't know the name. Three commenters identified it as three layered poppies. Maybe this belong to poppy family because the way the  bud hang down, it resembles  how the poppy looks like when it's getting ready to pop the flower.

Whenever I see the full bloom of this, it reminds me of the song Paper Roses because it looks like a crepe paper made  flowers hehehe.

Thanks for visiting!

8 Years and Counting

In a couple of months, hubby and I will be celebrating our 8th wedding anniversary.  I  am  glad that  joining the free online dating worked out for me and him.  We are now happily married  with two beautiful children and I couldn't ask for more.  There are so many couple I know  who found each other through online dating. It's not really impossible to find   someone through the net, you just have to be extra careful when dealing with people  online because  there are also  predators who are just waiting for the right opportunity.

Beat the Summer Heat

You ca beat the summer heat through using replica sunglasses to protect your eyesight.    Summer is all about fun and fashion.  Picture yourself out in the  beach with  a sexy two piece bathing suit laying in the sand  or playing beach ball.  I am so excited with our upcoming trip  next month and I can't wait to meet  a good friend  of mine thru blogging weeee.  I won't reveal the details but the whole family is really excited about  it.

Back it Up

The computer unit that  my FIL gave us is the  one that I am using now and  I think that it is getting ready to retire.  It's becoming so slow and and  the hard drive is getting full.  I have downloaded tons of pictures that I took so I  need a  data backup service to  protect all these images.  We have saved some of this in the external hard drive already but I am not sure if it will hold of these new ones that I have downloaded.  I will be needing a new PC soon, that's if I have  savings left after our trip and our porch renovation hehehe.  The most  important thing is to back  my  data up.

The Day I Turned...

Water is  very vital to our existence, hence to our everyday lives.  On the day I turned 38, the water supply in our area disappeared.  What a day to celebrate your birthday isn't it? 

Nevertheless, it was fun as I was surrounded by loving people, my family and my in-laws.

My husband volunteered to cook  which I was very happy.  Our plan was to just cook at home and invite my FIL but we ended up going to his house because we did not have water.

So the day I turned 38 was very memorable.  Thanks everyone for the greetings!