humbled

Jadeline is still in the middle of t-ball and so far her season has been great. What's even better is her Tball coach. You see, we all meet someone in our life who in one way or another touches our lives. Coach Gary is my age and so far is surviving brain cancer. He mentioned that it all began with a migraine headache in 2008 when his wife took him into the hospital, encouraged to have a CT scan, and his life changed forever. Coach Gary said, he use to take his life for granted. And looking into his eyes, it was humbling for me to see that he was living his life for every minute and is thankful that he is able to be coaching. We are lucky to have him coach our daughter - and i hope he'll realize that he is her first tball coach!

May already??

Seriously? and i do mean it. . . did the past few weeks just pass me by? Can we desperately stop time so I can enjoy the joys of mothering my children for every single second and minute .. or maybe having a date night with my honey... or maybe finding that joy again to create something??

How do you find the balance? Do we just put a few things on hold while life moves on??

American crafts and scrapbooking

supplies: American crafts dear Lizzy fabric paper, patterned paper, and stickers, martha stewart butterfly punch, creative cafe pearl brad, making memories alph stickers.

Supplies: american crafts dear lizzy patterned paper, sticker brads and thickers, making memories pattern paper and brads.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ASH!

15 things about our second child:

1. ..loves basketball!
2. ..favorite color so far is red.
3. basketkball team: Cleveland Cavaliers
4. ..favorite food: anything with shrimp
5. is an animal lover. someday wants to be a vet.
6. ..hopes to attend OSU after high school.
7. prefers hard candy than chocolate.
8. is as tall as his daddy
9. struggled in math - and now gets A's in that class.
10. encourages his big brother that "he can do it!"
11. caters to his little sister.
12. ..if given a choice would prefer to play outside than on the xbox
13. .. enjoys running! outside and on the Wii.
14. idolizes Lebron James
15. ... is shy.

scrapbooking

I've been having a scrapbooking block. Not so much digitally. But using paper, glue, embellishments, etc.. So i thought, well, i will resort to scraplifting. I just need to copy right?

My inspiration: Iris Babao Uy. I love her work!

It's a saturday

and I'm already in bed! What a change in lifestyle, now that i'll be working every other Friday night. But today I:

• woke up at noon.
• got ready to take Jadeline to her first tee ball practice.
• and the family went to watch Cody play in his baseball game.
• had a snack @ Bobalicious - had a halo halo.
• went to craft warehouse to find scrapbooking stuff and found nothing.
• went to the mall to pick up a few things.
• made shrimp jambalaya for dinner and it was really good!!!!
• made 1 scrapbook page.
• read my book - the Last Song

.. a bit productive if i say so myself!... and now am feeling lazy and sleepy!

Blink of an eye!

Same 'ole, . . . time is going by way to fast! I wish I could make time stop, you know, make it slow down a little. But its darn impossible! Kid's are growing so fast! They change, they test your buttons, they love you, .. and yet i can't seem to enjoy it as much as its worth!

Ashton's basketball season is over! Just when I wondered, .. how much longer?!! And it felt like the beginning when tryouts were in November of last year! Anticipating him being on the freshman team, to screaming and cheering at games, to being frustrated in hopes that they win the next game, to being hopeful that he starts a game, to sigh and wonder when it would end....

It's different to see him home all the time when he had practices 6x a week. Now, you find him joining us at the gym in hopes he gains strength and stamina for next season.

Bobby.. sigh! What can i say? He sprained his ankle coaching the our boys with basketball. Correcting techniques, breaking bad habits, improving their game to only find himself rolling his ankle. Um, .. yeah.. to bad he wasn't wearing his basketball shoes when he stepped on Troy's feet.

Troy,.. this transition has been well. I think he's slowly finding himself in school. Realizing that school and education isn't really difficult. He's been hanging out with us in the gym at 24Hour for nearly 2 months now. And amazingly with hard work, and an easy change of his eating habits, he's lost 15 pounds!

The princess. Sometimes I wonder if she's really 6 years old - more like 6 going on 21! She's beyond independent and knows what she likes or does not like. This year, we put her ballet shoes away, and bought cleats for tee ball! Practice starts tomorrow!

And myself? I told myself I would not but any clothes. BUT I needed jeans. I really had to retire the 3 jeans I've owned for 3 years. (Hence, i only own 4 jeans and now its just 3 because i only replaced 2.) Anyhow, do you realize how hard it is to find jeans? I was hoping to head back into the store and but the exact jeans I'd retire. Unfortunately they don't make those jeans anymore. So the hunting began. And it was painful! 7 jeans, citizen of humanity jeans, gap jeans, joe jeans, etc.. but the ones that did fit and like- I sure wasn't planning on paying almost $200 for one pair! (How can i justify paying that much when it cost as much as a 5 day hopper ticket to Disneyland!). SO we walked into the levis store, and I thought, what the heck, I've never owned a pair, i'll try them on. But when you are petite, a mid-rise jean does not fit well! The sales person suggested i try on some 'skinny' jeans. And i told her, "oh no! I'm not fitting my short legs in skinny jeans!! and tapered? no way!" But she insisted and what she called 'skinny' wasn't so skinny as i thought. It was 'skinny' jeans with a boot leg. ... and they have become my favorite jeans!.... ... I know.. i have no life ;)....