DIY: Easy Heart Origami

Here’s a Simple Heart Origami to teach kids just in time for Valentine’s Day…

Family Friendly Magazines

I LOVE LOVE LOVE magazines.

There are many different magazines out there but I have to admit that its the family friendly ones are the ones I love the best.

My favorites include:
Family Fun Magazine- It has tons of activities and craft ideas for children

Parenting Magazine- It has very useful articles and they have a great pool of parents for taking surveys and polls for different subjects

Cookie Magazine- It’s a cool parenting magazine that features celebrity parents, trendy fashions for the family and more fun stuff.

Kiwi Magazine- It features fun ways to raise a family the natural and organic way.

Caffeine and Creativity

It’s probably the caffeine keeping me up, but this website also got me excited about making cards soon!

Embellish Magazine

Can’t wait for my craft area to finally get done!

Baby and Kidz Expo 2010

Looking for an inexpensive way to enjoy a Saturday with your family?

Drop by at the baby and Kidz Expo on January 30-31, 2010 at The Pasadena Convention Center. The event starts at 10 AM and ends at 6PM.

Admission is $9 per person but children 12 and under are free. By the way, if you bring their ad from some magazines, you will save $2. Not bad!

I’m looking forward to seeing local vendors featuring family friendly products and services.

Visit the WEBSITE for details. I’ll be there on Saturday, maybe we’ll see you there?

Survived Week 1

I just over my first week of working in Commerce. And its been one LONG week! Waking up earlier, trying to get ready the night before, driving, the BIG trucks and too MANY cars on the freeway, and still in the midst of moving into our new home.

I’m super duper exhausted! I’m so happy Hubby has been picking up the slack and doing the move and most of the settling in to our new place while taking care of our two precious pumpkins as they wait for me to come home from work, in between his two jobs.

I just wish that I had more time to help put stuff away and get settled in, but eversince I went back to work, the kiddies have been demanding twice, nope three times the attention I used to give them.

Its times like these when I just appreciate weekends the most. No taking the kiddies to school, sleeping in a bit, doing errands, relaxing with the family. I thank God for every little bit of rest, accomplishment, and comfort.

I know it might still be a while till we can finally just survive doing the things we love instead of just the jobs we have, but for now we’re grateful for having them and the experiences we’re learning every single day.

Crockpot Chicken Soup

This morning, I asked hubby if he’d like leftovers for dinner tonight or something freshly made. I knew it, he was gonna say the latter. I had 5 minutes before I had to drop off Aaron in school and head on to work….

I grabbed a pack of chicken wings from the fridge. Then I chopped some celery, peeled and chopped a couple of carrots, peeled and diced half an onion, opened 2 cans of chicken broth and tossed them all in the crockpot. Then, I added a cup of water to keep it from drying up. And finally I put some salt, pepper and some onion powder to taste.

I turned on the crockpot to LOW and rushed out with Aaron.

After I left hubby was feeling creative and added some shell pasta. Our dinner was ready when I got home. Woohoo!

So here are the ingredients if you want to try to make this Crockpot Chicken Soup yourself at home. It’s super easy!

Ingredients:
1 1/2 lbs chicken wings
1/2 stalk of celery (chopped)
2 carrots (peeled and chopped)
1/2 onion (peeled and sliced)
2 cans of chicken broth
1 cup of water
salt
pepper
onion power
shell pasta (optional)

Directions:
Combine all the ingredients in the crockpot and leave on LOW for 8 hours.

I said the recipe was easy, not fast…LOL
I gotta love my crockpot!

Easy Appetizer Menu

I’ve always wanted to do an appetizer party, and here’s a menu of recipes online I can use…

Tomato and Mozzarella Bites

Bacon Wrapped Pineapple Shrimp

Salami and Cheese Appetizer

Baked Crab Rangoon

Cheesy Spinach and Bacon Dip

Mini Fritatas

Children as blessings…

Last Sunday, we saw a couple that adopted a super adorable baby girl from Philippines. We heard about all the time, money and work that they had to go through for the adoption to go through.

They’re such a sweet couple and we’re very happy for them. How exciting that they now have a little angel they can call their own.

I’m always thankful of my children but more so after seeing this new family. I got reminded of how precious children are and how blessed we are that we are able to have children and entrusted by God to raise them and take care of them.

“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” (James 1:17)

Design Dazzle Blog

As I started surfing the net for birthday ideas for my Sweet baby girl that’s about to turn 2 in March, I stumbled upon this blog…
Design Dazzle

They have amazing party and design ideas for kids. I even found the cutest Tinkerbell theme party on their site.

New year …new look!

This 2010, I will TRY to fix myself up more often. I would love to be made over by a pro, but for now, I’m asking tips from friends and loved ones, and using the handy dandy internet.

Just today, as I was thinking of trying out the smokey eye look, I receive an email from ELF, they have a special deal, get the New Year Look for $10. And thats not all, they gave me a code of 2010 to apply at checkout to get the items for free. That’s right, FREE! You can use it too!

Since I’ve been thinking of ordering more foundation and blush, I decided to include it in my order as well.

My order totaled to $15.95 and that included shipping, woohoo!

By the way, i just learned that ELF has a youtube channel to give tips on putting on make up for people like me who are a bit new on this makeup thing….