Somewhat of a lazy day!

Well today was a very cloudy day! Kate and I didn't do a whole lot today.. But I decided to make homemade play dough! My mom gave me this recipe that she got from a friend a long time ago. Kate loved that we got to use messy stuff like flour and salt oil and other stuff.. We were suppose to make blue.. I really don't think it looks blue it looks more like teal..LOL.. We also attempted orange and that one came out better.. Well at the end the kitchen was a disaster. I forgot to take a pic for those of you who think I am clean freak to believe me. I had flour on the floor and Kate decided to put water on the already done dough! After it was all done I was like OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This ended around 5:30 pm and my friend Lillian was coming over to go to dinner and drinks. Well I did my magic and got it done by 8.. I had to call her and delay an hour. Well we went to Chilis which I thought was funny cuz my friends back in Hawaii were doing parents night out and they were also going to Chilis.. LOL!!! We did dinner and then came back to my place to chat and catch up! It was nice talking to another adult.. Tomorrow it's family day at my mom's house. Well if it doesn't rain.. So we shall see.. Here are some pics of the homemade crap! LOL!

Bounce on it!!!!

Today was a normal day! I recieve magazines in my mail about my area all the time. My area is fairly new and I don't know it to much. So I went exploring past my street. Well I found a few things. First of all I found a post office about 5min from my house. All this time I have been using the one by my mom's house. Next I found Picasso's Place it is an art studio for kids. They offer childcare!!!! And the last thing I found because I didn't go that far from my house is Bounce on it!!! I had already heard about places like this but never seen them.. Well I saw it. It is a large humongous room with tons of bouncers in it. It must of had like 10 or more.. It is only for 12 and under which it great for my little one. It only cost 5 dollars for Kate to get in. They go by age on price. So you can be there from open to close and only pay 5 bucks. Take that Chuck E Cheese. LOL!!! Kate had a blast. She jumped and got on the slides and just ran every where. WHen we have our rainy days this will be the place I am taking Kate.. I really am missing Hawaii but at the same time I am glad to be doing different stuff.. Stuff like this you don't find over there.. I found another bouncing place right acroos the street from my house.. Jump n Jungle is the name of that one.. It looks like I will have alot to choose from for Kate's Birthday..

28 already!!!!

So I turned 28 today!! Not a great reminder on getting closer to 30.. Well the day started off with a wake up phone call from my mother.. She does it every year.. She wanted to take me out to lunch and drinks.. My hubby called around 12:30 pm for a quick wishing me a Happy Birthday!! Made my whole day.. My best friend jamie tried to find him at walmart but had no luck.. LOL!! Hey she tried.. Well talk to my hubby for about 3 min.. Kate and I left to mom's house.. My mom took me out to Joe's Crabshack.. Love the seafood place.. They have a playground which allows us to hang out longer.. I had a white russian... As some of you may know (Jamie) that is my favorite drink.. I had a shrimp platter and Kate had pizza and fries.. Delicious.. My brother told our waiter today was my b-day.. So they came out and sang to me.. Pretty cool. When we got home my dad had a cake waiting for me.. Yummy! The best part is yet to come but I didn't know this.. When I get home and check my mail I had 3 boxes waiting for me.. My hubby sent me a 24 kt red rose with a card that said. I love you not only for who you are but for who I am when I am with you.. AHHHHH! The rose is so beautiful. He said he chose this one so it would last me forever.. He scored triple points for this.. LOL!!! He also sent a box to Kate with an ACU top for her and my nephew.. He had the ACU tops done exactly like his.. He also sent Kate the Alvin and the chipmunk movie and a Dora ACU backpack.. She loved everything..A reminder of how wonderful my husband is. I miss him so much everyday. The 3rd box had goodies from my friend Jamie back in Hawaii. She also scored brownie points for this.. I will be doing some major babysitting when I get back.. Inside the box was a I love my soldier shirt,a 4 pk of my favorite drink white russians,a frame with our street on it and a pic of the house I left behind,a Hawaii magnet,singing birthday card,a copy of the Army times,chewies for Junior and a princess puzzle for Kate.. She went above and beyond for me today!!! She is awesome.. What a perfect way to end my b-day.. I was so happy I had tears on my eyes.. I am enjoying a drink as I sit here and write this.. Thanks Jamie!!!!!!! I took Kate to flip school... This is one birthday I will have with me forever.. The only thing missing was my hubby but maybe next time they will have him at walmart.. Thanks to everyone who helped make this day a special one..

Easter and all before that!

Well it's been a long time.. If I remember I left off on moving in.. Well I did.. I went and got furniture from Ikea! I love that store but the only thing is you have to build everything your self.. Major pain in the ass.. But I had a blast shopping.. Well I am settled in.. I am just buying little stuff here and there as I go.. Don't want to buy to much.. But enough to make it my home for now.. A week after i moved in Valentine's day was knocking at mt door.. I got pictures and a card from my hubby.. Kate got a cinderella outfit. My mom took me to Bennigan's.. We had a delicious appetizer that consist of quesadillas, southwest eggrolls, potato skins..(yummy) I also had a drink.. An Irish Bulldog.. So good!!! I had a chicken and cheese plate w mushrooms.. Last but not least we had dessert.. This fried brownie thing that was so incredibly delicious.. It must of had enough calories for a week but my hubby isn't home.. Very good food.. After that we came home and just relaxed.. After Valentine's day not to much happened.. My friend Lillian has been coming over here and there.. We hang out and have drinks at my place.. March started as good as it could.. We made it to number 3 of the deployment.. He has been gone for 3 months now.. 12 to go.. It sound like a lot but the time is going by so fast.. Well not fast enough but it's going?. Although I will say all the drama that came with March made it go by just a little bit faster.. Drama not a good thing when our hubbies are deployed but some stupid people don't care.. Stupid immature freak out about everything stupid walkaholic people.. But that is not my story to tell.. Although I was kinda of involved in it.. But those people will get theres.. We started Spring Break.. I was out all week.. We went to the Zoo, Museum of natural Science, Johnson Space Center and the Downtown Aquarium.. We had a blast.. Kate was loving it.. That weekend I just came home and fell on the bed like in the movies.. LOL!! Exhausted.. But the week went by pretty fast.. I am glad we did all those things.. Kate was in heaven.. Well then with a blink of an eye came Easter.. Now we do Easter a little different.. Friday night Kate and I decorated eggs.. She loves doing that and she did a great job.. Saturday morning we filled them up with confetti and covered them.. We don't do your traditional hard boiled eggs. My mom did it like this every year.. We fill the eggs up with confetti we hide them then find them and then we break them on each others head..We will get crazy sometimes and put flour in them.. Very messy but so much fun.. I did it this way in 06 with a couple of friends back in Hawaii and they loved.. We also don't make the traditional ham.. We make Fajitas,sausage,charro beans,rice,pico de gallo, guacamole sauce and salsa.. That is our traditional food for Easter for us.. My mom make this mexican bread pudding type called capirotada.. It is pretty much toasted french bread with pilloncillo sauce, raisins , bananas and some other things.. It is so good.. We hung out with family and friends.. Kate had a blast cracking eggs on everybody's head.. My nephew Brandon didn't like it so much. Would scream if you came near him with an egg.. After we hung out in the backyard and had beers.. Kate and I came home took a shower to get confetti out of our hair and went to bed.. Well today is my birthday and it just started but by the end today it will need it's own blog..

Catching Up

It's been a while but it has been hectic around here. Right after 3 wise men day Kate and I got really sick.. I was so sick it actually knocked me down. I haven't been this sick in about 10 years. It was horrible. It took me over a week to fully recover.. Kate was pretty bad also. She got nasty fevers and a really bad cough. It too her about 2 weeks to recover. After that I enrolled her in Gymnastics. She loved it. She will be going every Monday until June.She has gone 2 weeks now. Next Monday will be her 3rd week.. I am also having fun with her.. I laugh during the whole class watching all the kids do the exercises.. I am glad I was able to find something for her to be distracted.. After that I started looking for a place of my own and found one. (Long story behind that). I got a one bedroom in Pearland Tx right across the street from her gymnastics school.. I move in Feb.. Well last weekend I met up downtown with Leo's grandparents Nana and Grandad.. They were in town for a Mary Kay convention. So Kate and I stopped by their hotel for a visit.. We chatted for a while and then had dinner. We caught up on things since I had not seen them since our Disneyland trip in June..Kate and I will be flying out to Arizona soon to go visit them again. Can't wait for that.. My husband's Birthday was the after that. It was very depressing since he wasn't here for us to enjoy it with him. And for that matter he won't be here for the next one either.. We sent him out a care package for him to receive on his Birthday. It had candy,jelly bellies and some other goodies. Oh and a Star Wars Birthday card with the theme music. It was a funny card that said a long long time ago and then you open it and said you were born. He called that night and said that card made his day and laugh. I was so happy to hear that.. The rest of this week has pretty much been the same. I am just shopping around for stuff for my new apt and tomorrow I am taking my car to register it in the state of TX. I am going to be kinda of sad to see my Hawaii plates go. I move in next Friday. I was going to Killeen this weekend but the move postponed everything.. But it is for the best.. I will be going at the end of the month when I am settled.. Also in a week I can say 2 down 13 months to go.. Slowly but surely.. That deserves a whole nother blog...

Happy Three Wise Men's Day!!

Today was a good day.. The weather was awesome. We were all able to wear shorts.. It's suppose to be nice and warm for at least a week.. Well last night I explained to Kate what today was.. I told her she had to put a shoe on the window sill for the 3 wise men to bring her gifts.. She put out 3 shoes.. 1 for her,1 for me and 1 for her papa.. I thought that was the most wonderful thing that she remembered her papa. The next morning she woke up and she had money in 1 shoe and a present underneath the other.. She was so excited!!!! She got a Dora present for her new v tech game system she got for Christmas.. After that we had a traditional Mexican soup that my mom makes.. I went to go pick up the cake. Well the correct name is ROSCA DE REYES (try and pronounce that) LOL!!! My mom made our version of Mexican hot chocolate called CHAMPURRADO!!! We each choose a piece of the cake and you have to open it before you eat it to make sure there is no baby in there. The reason for that is a couple of years back my dad tried to swallow one and almost choked. LOL!! So now we make everyone open there piece so there will be no cheating.. Now if you get a baby the way it goes you are suppose to throw a party FEB 2nd.. But life is so hectic and that day does not always fall on the weekend so we kind of made it our own.. The way we do it is if you get a baby you have to take everybody that participated to dinner.. This year I got a baby, my nephew Alex and so did Kate. So I have to take everybody out for dinner twice.. Luckily for me when I cut Leo's piece there was nothing in there.. If the cake is big enough we go for seconds and same rule applies.. It is really fun and good.. My mom's champurrado was the bomb.. This is Kate's first year doing this. She was very excited.. She loved the cake and was so excited she got a baby in her piece.. She still doesn't know how it works. LOL!!! Another one of our great traditons that I get to share with my daughter.. Hope she will pass on these traditions to her kids..

Happy New Year!

Well this is kind of late but Happy New Year everyone. Well New Years eve was good as it could get with out my hubby home. All though now I can say he will be home next year. We did our usual traditions. This might sound weird to everyone but this is what we do. We wear yellow underwear. We wear them backwards and at the stroke of midnight we change them to the correct way. My mom gives us 10 dollars in ones so we will have good luck with money all year. We each put a dollar in to a vase in the middle of the table for good luck. We also eat 12 grapes. Before you eat each grape you make a wish. Then come the hugs and the toast. This year Kate toasted with apple soda! I was very excited about that. She held her glass up and everything. By the way she also wore the yellow under wear. She stayed up until 12:30 like a trooper and then knocked out! We all stayed up until 3:30am drinking beer and listening to music. My mom made Fajitas,sausage,mexican ribs,pico de gallo,charro beans, and rice.(Jamie's favorite)! Oh she also made this really spicy salsa. It was nice to be home and do our traditions. I haven't been home for this since 2002! I still missed all my friends in Hawaii! I had them in my thoughts when the clock struck 12. All though it was only 8pm in Hawaii.. LOL!! Looking forward for tomorrow when we do our 3 wise men day cake. That's for another blog. I will let everyone know in another blog how we celebrate that day!