PLACES, PEOPLE, EVENTS, GOOD FOOD AND MY LIFE

How's your Easter Sunday celebration guys? My husband and I had a great Easter Sunday. We went to the church in the morning then had an Easter lunch together with my parents-in-law and had a good talk thereafter. Oh! I can't wait for my husband and I to hide Easter eggs for our little girl to hunt and tell her about the Easter Bunny. Being a soon-to-be parent is really exciting!

Hi guys! Are you excited about celebrating Easter Sunday? How are you gonna celebrate it? Maybe if you are a parent with little kids you might conduct an Easter egg hunt. Wouldn't it be fun doing the old tradition of dying or painting chicken eggs or do the modern custom of substituting chicken eggs with chocolate eggs or plastic eggs filled with confectioneries? Oh, I'm so excited to do this tradition with our daughter soon! It's pretty fun hiding some eggs that she will have to hunt for on Easter morning. Anyway, I wanted to share with you a picture of the Easter egg that my father-in-law painted for last year's Easter...

Yep! my husband and I had a COLD Valentine's Day celebration as I mentioned recently. This is in continuation of my post about the topic "MY COLD VALENTINE" by the way.

"Cold" in a literal sense that it was snowing on that special day. Geeez! I am really looking forward to spring and how I wish the weather will be better in the next couple of weeks so we can do some outdoor activities. Anyway, my husband turned the cold day into a warm and romantic Valentine's Day celebration.

Two days before Valentine's Day I was surprised with a special package delivered in our house. Guess what? He surprised me with a Hoodie-Footie Snuggle Suit hehe! I have no idea that he will give it as a gift coz we are laughing at the Hoodie-Footie commercial before. I told him that "If I were to wear that, I will look like a Care Bear" but deep inside, I wanted one of those hehe! It's a very special gift that I like and that truly made me smile upon opening the package and it's also a nice gift to keep me warm during winter.The hoodie-footie snuggle suit shown in the image above is personalized with my name. Together with it are heart-shaped chocolates, Valentine card, a red bag to store the hoodie-footie suit and other accessories. The hoodie-footie when worn looks like the image below:
By the way, during special occasions, my husband usually gives me a teddy bear but now I am the life size teddy bear (sort of) hehe! I am one of the care bears now!
On the day itself, I'm just expecting a dinner in a restaurant since I already got my gifts earlier. After he got up from the bed in the morning, he went outside and got the boxes of chocolates that he stored in our pick-up truck and after a couple of hours, I got a flower delivery from a flower shop. My husband was full of surprises and he is so sweet! Isn't he?



We ended up the day with dinner at Lone Star Steakhouse even though the wind outside was so strong that snow got into my eyes and it was hard for me to see what I am stepping on. That's how we celebrated our Valentine...simple and warm in a cold weather.

A friend of mine asked me "How's your valentine?" I told her that I had a COLD VALENTINE! ^_^ L.O.L! Literally, my husband and I celebrated a COLD VALENTINE last week because it was SNOWING that day hehe!. Anyway my husband turned the cold day into a simple, warm and romantic Valentine's Day celebration with gifts, chocolate and flowers that he gave me and we also had dinner in a restaurant that night. The wind was so strong that snow got into my eyes and it was hard for me to see what I am stepping on. Over all we had a good Valentine's Day celebration and I will talk more about it soon (& more pics soon).

How about guys? How did you celebrate Valentine's Day with your loved ones?

It was my husband's 30th birthday last week! I'm so busy looking at my mother-in-law's cook book and even searching online on what kind of cake to bake until I came up with the black forest cake recipe. Baking a cake is not easy for me as I am not a chef nor a cook and it's a fact that I just learned how to cook when I got married.

Oooops! Don't look too much at the cake because I'm really disappointed with my presentation (hehehe!). I guess I got so tired easily with this pregnancy thing and my lower back ached while decorating the cake that is why I didn't do it justice with the look of it but I should say that the taste was really great! My husband liked it! This is the third time that I baked a cake and I'll make sure next time that my cake will be perfect!

We celebrated his birthday on the day itself and celebrated it again at my in-laws house on the weekend. I wish my hubby all the best that life could possibly offer.

By the way, I also want to share with you the cake that I baked for my husband's birthday last year. This is my first trial:

I also baked a heart-shaped cake for our Valentine's Day celebration last year. This is the second cake that I made.

Hi guys! Hope each and everyone's Christmas celebration went well. My husband and I celebrated our Christmas celebration at mom and dad's house (my parents in-law) exchanging gifts and having a Christmas lunch. I received nice gifts from my in-laws and a special gift from my husband that I love so much - a new DSLR camera! My husband knows that I love taking pictures so this is his surprise gift for me. I guess I will be using the DSLR camera more often than my old Sony digital camera that I bought in the year 2005 when I was still working back home. Plus after Christmas day, I received a nice sleepwear, newsletter and card from a very nice blogger friend of mine, Demcy!

At my parents-in-law's house (before gift opening)

gift opening

My husband gave me a new DSLR camera as his Christmas gift for me.
I also received an adjustable tripod from hubby.
My husband and I received kitchen stuff like a crock pot, waffle maker and
candy dish as presents from mom, dad and bro-in-law
a body massager that we received from my bro-in-law
my sis-in-law gave me a nice winter cashmere scarf
My husband received computer books from his parents and I received some cash
from my parents-in-law that I can use for my maternity and nursery staff.
Lastly, after Christmas day I received a surprise Christmas package from my
dear blogger friend Demcy consisting of very cute sleepwear, a very nice
newsletter and card. Thank you so much sistah Demcy! It's so sweet of you.

By the way, Happy New Year everyone!!!

(the snowman we made last year)

First of all, I would like to greet everyone a Very Merry Christmas!!!Hope your Christmas preparations went smoothly and your Christmas Celebration will be great.
I would like to share with you some of our pictures that my husband and I did for our Christmas preparation right after Thanks Giving Day.

My husband putting up the star. We also decorated our stairs with Christmas garland, lights, and other ornaments
and our front door with a wreath.

Our Christmas tree.

This snowman reminds me of the real snowman that my husband and I made last year.
I'm not sure if I can make it this year since I feel nauseous most of the time.

This is the new ornament that we have which my sister-in-law gave us.
The 2 snowmen represent me and my husband
and look at the text written in the tummy of the snowman in red.
It has the word "BABY" with a down arrow...

My husband prepared hot chocolate with marshmallows and
finger foods to eat while decorating the Christmas tree.
Plus, he played Christmas songs as background music to feel the Christmas spirit.
wrapping up gifts for the family

If you want to buy a real/fresh Christmas tree, you can choose and cut your own Christmas Tree at Alfeldt's Christmas Tree Farm located at 509 N. Cherry Street, Oakdale, IL 62268. They also have a gift shop where you can buy Christmas stuff and have picture taking with Santa Claus. They will even give you a free small Christmas tree plant that you can plant in your yard.

Since I am nauseous when we went at the Christmas Tree Farm this year, I am not in the mood to take several pictures ( I just took 2 pictures) but I would love to share with you some of the pictures we had last year at the farm.

Here are the pictures last year. Scroll down please:

I was wearing 2 winter jackets in this picture. It was so cold that day.

the Christmas tree farm.
My husband lied down to cut our Christmas tree,
my father-in-law assisted him in handling the tree.
My bro-in-law cutting his own Christmas tree.
the Christmas tree farm.




Our Christmas tree last year! (@ home)
our nativity

Hi everyone especially to my family! As I mentioned yesterday in my previous post, here is the video of our Independence Day celebration held in my brother-in-laws' house.(It's hard to take a good picture of fireworks in the air so I am sharing with you the video.)


Click here (photos)

My husband was off work today and we will go to my parents-in-laws' house later for lunch. I am more excited for tomorrow, Independence Day that we will celebrate at my bro-in-laws' place with fireworks and food together with some friends.

Independence Day here in the United States is a federal holiday celebrated on the Fourth of July. The United States claimed its Independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain on July 4,1776 and so Democracy was born. Americans celebrate freedom and independence each year with barbecues, picnics, fireworks, parades, carnivals, concerts, baseball games, ceremonies and family gatherings. To all the people of America Happy Independence Day!