On St. Patrick's Day

~~ you'll see in the picture how much we love
the St. Patrick's Day ha hah!
yup, coz of the yummy cakes!

we are lucky to have friends who are so generous!
and that's are great neighbors/friends Nel and Al
They didn't brought just one cake,and yup again,
two delicious cakes!

ok, the chocolate cake, or more on fudgy brownies,
was brought 5 days before St. Pat's day and Nel
and I, just made fun putting a candle on it
and sing "hapi ert day" (happy birthday) for Oz.
Coz Ozzie loves singing and do that blow-the-candles thingie.

The oh-so-gorgeous flowerie cake, they brought it on St. Pat's Day,
they also brought some ribs (smoked by my hubby), addition to our yummy dinner,
and the traditional corn beef,cabbage and potatoes were of course the star meals.
(sorry no picture)

That weekend of St. Patty's, Nel & Al were generous enough with their
time to take us to St. Pat's parade in our town, hmmm..not much
exciting with that, but we took Ozzie to the park and what a fun that was!
especially to Ozzie, don't you love friends who loves your kid..blessing!

So this year, our St. Patty's day (or week) was extra-special
because of our special friends who we celebrated it with!
Thanks Nel & Al, let's do it again next year, greener than ever! :)

 

 

 

 

On Valentine's Day

~~ we didn't do any special things on Heart's Day,
we just decided to wear Red,exchanged cards
and took a few pictures for remembrances.

~~ and oh, of course THANKS AND LOVE to hubby for a very
nice ruby ring he gave me,fabulous! and two cards,
he can't decide which one he'll get for me so he did
get both. And also BIG THANKS to my friend Nel, who
gave me a beautiful Valentine's card with a very
lovely messages inside...

~~ Its also so much fun to celebrate it with
our little guy Ozzie and that night we went to have
dinner in our Fave Buffet place in Rockford
with our friends Nel & Al...

Then we just called it "our date night for February"...
OMG. we are not sure if we are able to continue this
date-night thingie, scheds are prety tight and so is
our budget...anyway...our healthy marriage is
what really matters. Date night is just to spice
our marriage a bit, with or without it...
we're stayin' as fabulous as ever...!

 

FUN TIMES WITH NEW FRIENDS!

 

~~ I am soooo beyond Happy the first day
I heard from my mother in law that we have
a Filipino neighbor, I didn't get a chance to meet
her right away, but when I met her...I am so excited,
especially when I found out that we have a lot of things
in common, she's so funny and smart...

Her name is Marinel, but she like me to call her Nel.
And I like that.

Ok, Nel has a friend name Lorievic. (we call her Vic)
So Nel introduce me to Vic, then Vic introduced us to May...

Ha hah. I know, anyway, now not only one,
but I have 3 new good Pinay friends...
how cool is that?

So we set the day to hang out and meet
and of course have a good time!

Just check out the pictures for the proof
of undeniably fun times!

MORE FUN PICTURES!

 

 

THE FABULOUS GIRLS SOLO MOMENTS!

 

OZZIE WITH THE GIRLS AND MOMMY!

 

FUN TIMES WITH MY BESTFRIENDS!

~ Two of my bestfriends here in States are
Flor and Jonah, we've known each other
for 5 years, our friendship grows and
we all have created a very strong foundation
and became each other's strenght at all times...

we don't get to see each other that much,
we all have different schedules and lifestyle,
but one thing si for sure, when we get the
chance to hang out...we know how to have fun!

that day that we finally got a chance to got together,
we had lunch, just a simple Filipino meal,
tinolang manok w/white rice, and I just made a macaroni
and cheese and cupcakes for the kids, and Flor
brought some siopao for our snacks.

after lunch, we of course have to sing in videoke,
Filipino party, KARAOKE/VIDEOKE is a must,
party is not seem complete without singing,
and also I have to mention, talent doesn't really necessary,
as long as you know the song, you've got some groove,
you're good to go!

that was so much fun!I can't wait for it
to happen again and I miss you both so badly!

JONAH & FLOR :)

 

THE KIDDOS!

 

Meet my Little Professor...

 

SUPER BOWL PARTY WITH OUR FRIENDS!!

~~ OZZIE & TITA NEL ~~



~~NEL & AL ~~







~ Jeff and I normally go to one of our
Friend's Super Bowl Party, but this year
we just decided to just to stay home
and invited one of our couple friends.

I am so happy that I met Nel.
My friend Nel is also from the Philippines.

And she has a very cool husband name Alan.

All of us get along so well and we hang out a lot,
well at least Jeff and Alan, nowadays,
I still see Nel here and there but I have somewhat,
busy schedule so it doesn't happen as much as I want to...

anyway, so the super bowl (though
i know it was almost 2 months ago)
turned out to be really cool and fun!

we don't even need a big crowd coz
alan himself when he got excited as if he carried a one whole
town ha hah, peace out al, though I know
he doesn't even know about my blog ha hah.

yup, definitely gonna do it again, next year

Our Date Night...

~ Okay, I got the idea when I was watching one of
Oprah's episode, that really, a date night once
a month helps big time to kind of rekindle a couple's
relationship...

we'll see about that.

okay, as I am writing this one, its actually
26th of March, since that january date night,
we honestly surprisingly found a way to have a date night.

though the February one, the considered date night was
Valentine's Day, that we actually celebrated with our
friends Nel & Al, and sorry no pictures, just a few ones
with our family, we all have worn red shirts as we celebrated
the heart's day!

More pictures...

~~ this is by the way the original picture,
the picture you see above was the edited one.
isn't this picture funny?
come on, have a good laugh (or even a smile :)



~~ we did see the Avatar in 3D,
one word, AWESOME!



~~ before we leave of course, ozzie
and mommy need to have a picture as well...

To My Ever So Love Twin Lakes....

Dear My Love twin Lakes,


oh.oh.oh. my God....
My beloved ever sooo Love Twin Lakes..

I don't even know how to describe you...I remember I was about 8 weeks pregnant
and we could not find a decent, cheap rental house in illinois and we kept looking at
the newspaper and found one here in Twin Lakes..
and we don't even exactly sure where was it...we got lost about twice,
and we found you...

First house we saw, first house I love.....my hubby kept telling me, we are going
to keep looking (at that time).....i kept thinking about you, and the excitement
is just feels great...like you know, when you wanted something so badly...
you just need to have it, or to be there....

i like the house, i have a few complains about the storage because God knows
how much stuff we got....men oh men! but the place...
Twin Lakes feels sooooooooooo much home to me...
Like a buddy..yah know...

I love the neighborhood, I mean, 5,000 population, one decent grocery store,
or you can drive about 10 miles and be in town for more option, library,
church....good-friendly people, lots of restaurants.....though honestly
i didn't have the chance to visit and check-out a lot of it...someday...

after I gave birth to my son, we took him here and I experienced a roller coaster
emotion, I was one of those woman who does not like visitor after giving birth, why?
because I don't have the strenght and energy to clean and the house
was just a mess every where i turn my head.....i am embarass...
and no one is there to help me clean up...
though my hubby is a good cook, he is a good messer too...

oh well...

Before that, when I was pregnant with Ozzie, I was about 7 months preggers
I was so upset with Jeff because I wanted to go to church that Sunday and he gave me a million excuses, i decided to take a walk and sort of explore this small town, I know where church is.....its about 30-40 minutes walk, maybe longer when you were pregnant...LOL

and there I met Emma, a 67 year old lady who was born in the Philippines
and gave me a lot of confusing stories about her life...she took me home and
to make the long story short...we became friends..

anyways...as Ozzie started growing up and me feeling bored, i thought
of exploring quite a bit more, this time, how long it'll take us to walk from
grocery store, Sentry, and its across the street of the church so basically same distance, its just take a little bit longer because I am pushing his stroller....

also, this place helped me build so much happy memories with my sister, with benya
especially on their first visit, i wasn't feel so hopeless and useless at that time because
there's a place to go if we want something, especially food, my sister has a very special and passion in cooking and we shared a lot, i mean super a LOT of laughters in every isle of that lovely grocery store.....every walked that we made as we shares all our hopes, dreams and looking back in our childhood and even in adult life, how we miss
our dear brother back home and how it would have been so much fun if he'll be here with us laughing our ass of...just the thought of that makes our hearts melts...

I knew since then that I am started to build a very special relationship in this
place, in this special town... I love that breeze every morning, it really ease all your stress and even you feel a little sad that day, this little town embrace me with love every single day...
even i just walk out to get the mail and I look all the trees, my neighbors who
I really don't know well but I know they are kind people....

Home sweet home indeed...

I will promise with the help of our Loving Creator that once I started driving, I will come to visit you, and I am delighted when I share to my husband Jeff how much I love you and he actually consider living back there someday, and ohh..just the thought of that makes me smile...so we'll definitely be together again...

So stay as beautiful as you and continue loving all the great people there....

you're always be in my heart my loving Twin Lakes...

I will see you soon...i miss you already.

Lake Elizabeth and Lake Mary...(Twin Lakes)

Dear St. John Church

Dear St. John,

Thank you for all the opportunities!
You have made me and Jeff closer
because of our Faith..

Thank you for all the great ladies
who look after the kids so the parents
will be able to spend a peaceful time
with God and themselves...

You always have been one of the greatest
gift that God has given me since we moved
in Twin Lakes....you have this huge heart
who embrace me everytime I visit you...

And I promise I will continue
visiting you....I will...I promise..

(i honestly didn't realized until i made
this post that the date in the board
was mine and my sister's birthday..wow!)

Hello Hickory Road.....

Dear Hickory Road,


~~thanks for all the memories,
though we weren't super close
with our neighbors, I always feel
so comfortable knowing, people
who lives in our street are kind
and most of days chances you
see someone walking...would say Hi and
gives you smile :)

its a very quiet neighborhood,
though across the street, lives
a very young couple who happened
their house turned into seem
a wild party house, and accidentally
hit our family van.

thank God for my husband's guts
to talk and address and finally
everything was settled and that was
a relieve...

i also met two lovely ladies who takes
care of our mails who of course
very important to me because
I do my business, shopping, and more
on-line, I consciously build a good
relationship to them.

Its just lovely to meet good people.
you don't have to know everything about them..
you just believe in your heart that
that there so many good hearted people
here on earth and if you let them come into your heart :)

 

Creative Imagination :)

~~When we were on the process of moving
Ozzie just love to play with lots and lots
of boxes, there were times that I have to hide
it from him if he was not looking or if he is asleep.

coz he'll just throw a tantrums and
as everyone knows that moving is not the most fun
thing to do.....

but since the stress is pretty much under
control or at least trying to be right until now,
i am always fascinated to see him play with all
these boxes as if they were really talking
back to him and I know that was his
creative imagination...

would that be nice to excatly know
what's really going on in their young mind?
hmmm...fascinating!

 

Having Fun is a Choice and need a little bit of hardwork too :)