Manic Shopping

I'm not a spoiled wife, Just a very blessed wife. The hubby is such a giving soul he never questions my spending habits. I have been on a shopping spree. Looking for summer clothes and clothes to take on our up coming cruise. I could spend hours and hours shopping, something the hubby and our boys don't understand and will never understand. Yesterday Mary Bell and I spend the whole day shopping at South Coast Plaza I love that place. I know I could spend not hours but weeks and weeks there.We had such a fun day. UM MARY, We need to do it again!

Inside the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception

Matzlan, Mexico

Bless me Father for I have sinned...

I have fallen into wicked evil ways of manic shopping.

I've stayed pure and virginal to manic spending Lord, but I was tested sorely lately and I failed.

I was weak.... so very weak - and I fell into temptation of sexy shoes and figure hugging clothes.

Manic shopping got me Lord, it got me good.

If I'm going to hell for my evil ways,

" At least I'm gonna go lookin good!"

My Chinese Heritage

I was going thru some old pictures and found a long lost photo I have been searching for years. It's a photo of my ancestors that was giving to me by my grand Auntie Teresa. My Grandmother (my father's mother) is full Chinese she was born in Canton, China. This picture was taken in the late 1800's. The old woman sitting in the middle bottom row is my grandmother's, Grandmother.

I have forgotten how much this photograph of my ancestors gives me the creeps but I am grateful that I have it and it's now in a very beautiful frame to remind me, that I have Chinese Heritage.

The Price of Gas So, who wants to complain about the price of gas? I think pretty much everyone, everywhere has been complaining about this recently. I've seen other blogs where this has been discussed. And then I've seen people from other countries leaving comments about how $4.00 per gallon sounds pretty good. So, I did a little looking around to see how much gas costs around the world. On Wikipedia I was able to find average gas prices from around the world. All of the prices are from April or May 2008. The most expensive was Sierra Leone at $18.42 per gallon. Can you even imagine paying that? No one else even comes close to that price. The next highest prices I found were: Turkey- $10.13 Eritrea- $9.58 Germany- $8.63 Belgium (Brussels)- $8.44 France-$8.07 Finland- $7.98 And the cheapest: Kuwait (Kuwait City)-$0.78 Saudi Arabia (Riyadh)-$0.45 Iran-$0.41 Nigeria (Lagos)-$0.38 Venezuela (Caracas)- $0.17 So, if I had to fill up my 17 gallon tank in Sierra Leone it would cost me $313.14 If I was filling up in Venezuela it would cost me $2.89

New Pictures of the Triplets

Angela finally E-mailed me a few pictures of my babies. Gosh I miss them! They are all as silly as can be.   This past weekend the Weydemullers took Grandpa and Grandma out to Denver to check out the sights.

Aunties American Idols

As I was going thru some of my unposted stuff on my Blog I found these three video's I forgot to share Opps! Presley and Haydan ham it up for the world to see.... I could never get Kieran to sing me a song but hey Two out of three ain't bad!

Messiah?

h Last night as Cory was watching Current Channel on Directv he Tivoed this silly cartoon. He called me over to watch it. It was so silly I just had to share it with you. If you are bored with politics at the moment, as both parties look for their candidate to run for the presidency watch this video. So are you going to vote for the Nut with two boobs?...or the Boob with two nuts. HA!

Invisible Rope

I laughed when I saw this video it reminds me of my childhood days when my friend and I would do things like this. This one is called Invisible rope. All you need is a friend and the ability to mime. Ha!

Crude oil prices keep breaking through record high prices. About the only thing you can do is try to find the cheapest prices. See where the best prices are, and save yourself all of that driving around

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Did you know

20 things you can use before tossing

1. Dry Cleaning Bags:  Use to pack suits, dresses and fine clothing when travelling, this will help protect it from wrinkles when packing. When storing the bags make sure to keep them safely out of reach of children, they really are that dangerous.
2. Butter Wrappers: Once you’ve removed a block of butter from its wrapping, place the wrapping in a plastic container or bag and refrigerate. Use it to grease baking pans.
3. Business Cards: Use the other side to label storage boxes and tubs and tape to the outside of the lid or side so you can see at a glance what the container is holding.
4. Used Envelopes: These make excellent lists for groceries, To Do lists, bookmarks and labels.
5. Cardboard Egg Cartons: You can use these to make homemade firestarters.
6. Tissue Boxes: Once they’re empty you can use these as a plastic bag dispenser, just fill with grocery bags and you’ll be able to neatly pull out one at a time.
7. Plastic Grocery Bags: Use as garbage pail liners,paint tray covers, packing material.
8. Plastic Bread Clips: Save a few of the square plastic clips that keep bread bags closed to use as tiny scrapers. They come in handy to remove labels, price tags, and even do a good job scratching lottery tickets.
9. Newspaper: Line kitty litter boxes for easy cleanup (top with kitty litter), protect work surfaces from crafts & interior paint jobs, giftwrap, use as packing material when moving or shipping.
10. Plastic Strawberry Baskets: Use as a homemade bubble machine, hold small packets in the pantry.
11. Cleaner Spray Bottles: Clean thoroughly and use to hold your homemade cleaners, use to spray plants…very important to clean thoroughly first.
12. Mesh From Veggie Bags: If you buy veggies that are bagged in nylon mesh, you can use that mesh for various cleaning jobs around the house and yard. Just wad up the bag and use it as a scrubber.
13. Styrofoam Food Trays: Clean thoroughly, wrap in foil then use as trays for giving gifts of baking.
14. Pantyhose: Use in the garden to tie plants to stakes,make shower spa bags plus there are 20 ideas found here.
15. Paper Towel Cardboard Rolls: Use to wrap extension cords, Christmas lights (keep untangled).
16. Citrus Peels: Use to make your own homemade citrus cleaners, candy peels to use in baking or freeze the peels to use for zest in recipes as needed, Save your peels from citrus fruits like lemons and oranges. You can toss them in the fire place when you have a fire going to give the room a nice, fresh smell.
17. Packing Foam Peanuts: Save them and reuse when packing breakables, storing Christmas decorations or sending gifts in the mail
18. Brown Paper Bags: Once used, twist into small rolls and use as fire starters.
19. Laundry Bottle Caps & Scoops: Wash thoroughly and use as sandbox, pool, bathtub toys or pet food scoopers (for dried food).
20. Cereal Liner Bags: Clean and use for stacking meat patties before freezing, store bread crusts, cover food in the microwave

Look into my Eyes

Off to see the Weydemullers

This morning Rudy and I dropped Mom and Dad off at LAX. They are going to spend time with the Weydemuller's and give Angela and Pat a well deserve break from the Triplets.  Yay Re-enforcement is on the Way Angela!  

My Caffeine Level for today is:

Everybody knows how much I love's me my Starbucks and have to have it every morning,  Well this morning as I ordered my cup of  Joe I asked Dan my barista  to make it a double shot today and he laughed and said "You better check your caffeine level today, So I did! Insanely High - A vibrating crackhead

Oh GOD I better lay off the yummy stuff for now!!!

Charlie Bit Me

I love sweet adorable Charlie and you will too!

Take off the towel!

 ( There is no nudity)

If you just had only a towel on, would you let a guy have a look under that towel for $500? Well this woman did, but things didn’t quite go according to how she would’ve hoped. Watch the video to see what I mean. Funny stuff

Coffee Beans

Can You find the man in the coffee beans?

Here’s the deal, amongst the coffee beans there’s a picture of a man’s head. It’s not as easy as you might think to find it. Then again you could spot it right away and make me sound like a liar! and say to yourself, “that was easy. What was she talking about?”

Annoying Telemarketers

Have you ever had one of those annoying telemarketers repeatedly call your house. No matter how many times you say “don't call again,” they still call.   Well this video clip is funny. Basically what it is, a telemarketer calls a guy, and the guy pranks the telemarketer. Funny stuff.

We are going on a Alaskan Cruise

We Postponed our Mediterranean Cruise till the end of this year, We kind of jumped on this cruise pretty quick without thinking if our son Jon could take time off work, (two weeks to be exact), and the cruise line could not find two room cabins next or close to each other so we decide to book our Mediterranean Cruise for the end of this year. So, when my husband announced  Sunday that we are 100% confirmed on another cruise, it sounded natural that we were going to Mexico or the Caribbean.  when I heard "ALASKA"  I thought to myself  OH DEAR GOD we are not old enough to do that cruise yet. You see I believed Alaska Cruises were only for the old who were on their last trip before the kick the bucket. Yikes....

I guess I was wrong.  Than a big fear came over me,  Alaska's Cold weather, OH Crap that means I can't wear any open toe high heel shoes or sexy clothes and there is no way a Bathing suit can be worn on the ship without passing out from the cold.  Damn that means I would HAVE TO dress warm,  Noooooooo! I hate to lug around a sweater and wear tennis shoes Yuck  that just don't sound like a summer vacation... Holding a Pina Colada drink doesn't look right next to warm fuzzy clothes well at least the drink will have an umbrella when it rains my drink will not get watered down. lol

On June 21 we will be Boarding the "STAR" (NCL) Norwegian Cruise Line in Seattle, Washington

Our Itinerary includes: Cruising Alaska’s Inside Passage, Ketchikan, Juneau, cruising Sawyer Glacier, Skagway and Prince Rupert in Canada.

Rudy,  Thanks for adding so much adventure to our lives. I'm sure I will truly love this Alaskan cruise just as much as you always look forward to an Alaskan Cruise. I just didn't think it would happen in our 40 something life. I love you Baby for all you do for us!

Rudy's Promotion

And how was your weekend? Mine was just wonderful it started off with Rudy making an announcement over Friday night dinner. Directv Promoted my husband to Senior Director of Technologies for Latin America. Now that's what I call a great accomplishment!!!

How proud my Husband makes me. He deserves every bit of that title. I believe for a Latino Man to keep moving up that ladder of success that's fricken amazing!

If you know Rudy you know how humble he is. I got on the phone to tell my parents the great news, Rudy said "why do you have to get on the phone and tell the world" he likes to keep things quite and if you know me, I'm a pretty loud person.

So here I am Tooting my husbands horn! Sorry Rudy but you make me so proud and I want to shout to the world about you!

Hmmm new promotion equals more money. Oh ya I'm loving it! Thank you God for your many Blessings.

Baby #18

The Duggar family just keeps on growing! Michelle and Jim Bob announced live on  The Today Show that Michelle is pregnant with baby #18,   The new baby is due on New Year's Day, Jan. 1, 2009.

I don't know about you but this all sounds crazy to me. I love watching this show it's so interesting but "What planet do they live on" How much can a uterus take! Yikes. My uterus hurts just thinking about it.

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Happy Mothers Day

A little boy asked his mother, “Why are you crying?” “Because I’m a woman,” she told him. “I don’t understand,” he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, “And you never will.” Later the little boy asked his father, “Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?” “All women cry for no reason,” was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry. Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked, God, why do women cry so easily?”God said:

“When I made the woman she had to be special.I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet gentle enough to give comfort I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining. I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly. I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart. I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly. And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed.” “You see my son,” said God,

“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides.”

Never a dull moment

Mary Bell came over for some girl time. I love every second I spend with her. When we get together we become Lucy Ricardo and Ethal Mertz. Tonight we decided to do some IMac Photo Booth Pictures, Pretty scary huh! Check out my Jay Leno chin and my beaver teeth Ha! I love this picture below a few years we attended a pajama New Years eve party Mary and I decided to flash Santa Claus and Rudolph the red nose reindeer.

You see never a dull moment with my Mary Bell, I love her.

Joke Time!

A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning. The wife said, “You should do it, because you get up first, and then we don’t have to wait as long to get our coffee.” The husband said, ” You are in charge of cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job, and I can just wait for my coffee.” Wife replies, “No, you should do it, and besides, it is in the Bible that the man should do the coffee.” Husband replies, “I can’t believe that, show me.” So she fetched the Bible, and opened the New Testament and showed him at the top of several pages, that it indeed says……….”HEBREWS”

The Silent Treatment A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight. Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper, “Please wake me at 5:00 AM.” He left it where he knew she would find it. The next morning, the man woke up, only to discover it was 9:00 AM and he had missed his flight. Furious, he was about to go and see why his wife hadn’t wakened him, when he noticed a piece of paper by the bed. The paper said, “It is 5:00 AM. Wake up.” Men are not equipped for these kinds of contests.

Arm, Leg what's Next?

This is what my piggy bank looked after filling up my SUV.

I'm driving the wrong car time to downgrade to something smaller.

Stuff Just because it's Monday

If you are offended easily by potty humor, you might not want to watch! But if you need a good laugh watch this it's so funny. There is no nudity or bad language. It's Monday and I have nothing else to do so I am posting a few things that brought some laughter to my day. Enjoy!

Lyrics to the song

When the Triplets returned back to California February for a couple of weeks that turned into a couple of months, I told myself before Presley returns back home she is going to learn to sing the Strawberry Short cake song. She made her Auntie Norma Proud just listen for yourself.

Book Titles You Won't Find in Your Local Library:

Looking for a Way to Make Car Trips Fun?

Looking for a Way to Make Car Trips Fun?

I was just looking around the internet and found MomsMinivan.com. This is a site where you can create fun games for those normally long and boring car rides. There are bingo cards, string figures, games with aluminum foil and more. 

I wish I had this much information when my Boys where younger. 

Go Fish - The Mom Song

Mother's Day is right around the corner and I wanted to share this video with all my Bloggy Mama's enjoy.

Things that make you go Huh!

Last night Rudy and I joined George and Mary Bell for a Movie and Dinner. We love getting together with the Bell's every second of our time with them is full of fun and laughter, They are such a fun couple to hang out with. Tonight we went to see the movie "Expelled"

No Intelligence Allowed.

In the film, host Ben Stein tracks down scholars who have been "expelled" by the academic community for their support of intelligent design (ID), a research program that flies in the face of Darwinism. Dembski is featured in the documentary. "This film exposes the hypocrisy of an academic and cultural elite who pretend that they value freedom of inquiry and expression but in fact suppress it when it clashes with their deeply held materialistic convictions," Dembski said. He and other proponents of ID have suggested that the universe shows signs of having been designed by an intelligent being. he premise of the movie is about the struggle between evolution theorists and the intelligent design movement

I’m not afraid to question my beliefs from time to time. I know God can handle my questions. What I don’t understand is why evolutionists are so intimidated by the questioning process. Maybe because the question isn’t just scientific. Perhaps it’s a Spiritual question after all.

The atheist professors interviewed in "Expelled" could not state how life began, one had the audacity to say"life began on the back of crystals WHAT? The other one who wrote a book on the 'God Delusion' could NOT say he was 100% certain about the lack of intelligent design! The Richard Dawkins interview at the end was exceptional.

Ben Stein did an incredible job interviewing scientists and visiting locations around the world. I really enjoyed the music in the movie. Stein’s message is that we should defend the right of free and open scientific inquiry into intelligent design.