HAPPY NEW YEAR

I had my grapes and everything...and I don't feel sick anymore....cool beans!

My 100th Post

Wooow...I've posted 99 (not counting this one) posts on my blog, geeez.
Well, when better to post your 100th post then at the start of the New Year eh?
Well, I'd like to say this has been the best year of my life, but I'd be lying...but I will say this....
2008 was a year of learning, a year of adapting to change, and a year of spiritual and emotional recovery. I can't say I've fully recovered, but I feel I'm well on my way, and I think that the Lord has something extra special for all of us who have had a difficult last couple years..maybe not this year, but he does have something special saved for each and everyone of us!
I have so much to be thankful for, a beautiful, intelligent daughter, a family that cares for me, trials, tests and tears which I'm still learning from, making new friends, Glenn coming to visit, and so much more!
Now as the New Year comes, all I wish for is- that whether or not I have a "good year," I'll grow closer to the Lord no matter what, that I'll find my niche in life, and that I can be the mother Amelia deserves.
So.....Good-bye 2008, 2009 is just around the corner.

But me oh my...I do have to say....what a way we're going to begin our New Year! No grapes, no T.V even if we had the grapes, and all our home sick. YEHAW! LOL
PTL, we'll figure something out....no partying for me though *sniffle, blows nose, coughs, and lays down for a nap*

Christmas day

Not many pictures, sorry, I only have two. Amelia and her favorite toy, the big puppy.
Now she wakes up and the FIRST thing she says is....."PUPPY."

Merry Christmas

I have no Christmas pictures, but I thought this one was so cute and just exuded the Christmas spirit, hehe.

Congrats to Lita and her male Eman......

For their beautiful baby girl--Amelia.
I didn't want to post this before cause I had no picture....but now I snuck one from their blog (nyuck nyuck).
She was born on the 19th of December.
Lita had to have a cesarean so please pray for a swift recovery for her.
Love you Lits, hope I can see you sometime.

The Box Skit,

This is done really well! I was super impressed, and really liked it. GB the ones who did it.

Stuff my babes is up to

It's crazy, sometimes I look at Amelia and think, "My gosh! Shes already so big! How'd time go by so quickly?"
She's such a crazy little thing. She says: mommy, mama (or amama, or gma for grandma, depends, heh), pato (for the duck in pocoyo, which is a little cartoon I put on for her), there are more words, but I just can't think of them all right now...but her latest and favorite one is puppy. Shes been saying it all day for the last week or so. Last night I was at Aqua so my mom put her to bed, and apparently she put herself to sleep by repeatedly saying, "puppy, puppy,puppy"....adorable!!! She goes up and down the slide by herself now to, which is a bit scary....but it's just too CUTE!! Park pictures coming as soon as I get them off my camera.

Jumping Chickens

We have these chickens which keep coming into our garden...and they walk and cluck about a bit and go back into the neighbors garden. I really don't understand these guys...they look all pijos but then they have frogs and chickens in their garden...eh? Oh well....if it makes them happy. But yeah...jumping chickens!!!

The adorable children I'm related to

Yup...they're a good looking bunch of kidos

Highlights of my week

I went to Aqua to work at the Aqua kids (not one of the highlights of my week) on Friday, and me and Esty got hungry (you're not supposed to eat while working there) so I went and bought a little pack of chips so we could sneakingly eat them, anyhow...so I'm down at mercadona, I buy the little pack of chips, and the lady gives me a bar of bread, and says something about you can buy a bag of this kind of bread, and it'll come out to 33 cents a piece....so I'm a little confused looking at her, she sticks the bread in the bag, and I go on my merry way. I was shocked, in a good way.
Highlight: I GOT A FREE BAR OF BREAD....YAHOOO!!!!!


The next day we went out witnessing, and it was this huge potato roll...me and Ezy had to go to Alameda by metro, and we were supposed to meet up with the other team that was witnessing, but I guess we miscalculated the time it would take for us to get there, so they got tired of waiting around and left without us. I was all freaked that the other guys would get lost and stuff cause none of them know much spanish, and Ezy was trying to comfort me (bless her soul, lol).
Anyhow, as we were walking around, we saw these little Emo Hiphopers (EMO WANNABES??? WANNABES OF THE WANNABES!!!!) so these emo kids were there dancing hip hop (???) and Ezy says....man, those emos are just sad.
GET IT, GET IT???!!! Muahahahahahah, we laughed so hard.

HIGHLIGHT: Ezy saying "Those emos are so sad."
ohhhhhhhhh....and we also bought pringles!
And only a few people will understand the dream thing....right guys? I almost pee'd my pants laughing. Too good too good.



Yesterday me and Ozie and were going to watch an... ehem... movie. Lalalala...whatever....Ozie will understand....right Oz? Windows, errr...tasty things.....lalalalala. ohhh...and french people tripping....muahahah....YOU HAVE GOT TO FIND THAT MOVIE IN ENGLISH!!!!!!
Then we went out to play football...was the bomb, sum little stranger boys came and asked if they could play with us (since we are nice people) we said yes.
Was me, Fran, Timmy, Val, Ema, and Ozie....we rock the boat all day everyday. muahaha.
People running around like maniacs, pyscho kid kicking the ball to Vals stomach, same guy that didn't pass the ball to Ozie (machista!!!!!).
HIGHLIGHT: Trying to find something tastey to eat with Oz, playing football with the freaks mentioned above

Pity I don't have a picture of any of these things.

This is what police do in our country

Yup....they stand around and watch as the cars go by. LOL.
No, but really, its crazy, they were learning how to conduct the traffic...so they were all standing around WATCHING as a couple police tried conducting the traffic.
WEIRDOS

Geee

I never post! Anyhoos...it was Fran's birthday on the 29th....he came today, and I have no gift for him...grrr! So heres a pic of my dear brother...apparently hes good looking...so, errr, yeah...girls, enjoy!

Poor eardrums

We had a goodbye "party" last night for Mel...we had a karaoke and yeah...I pretty much destroyed everyone's eardrums...lol. But we had fun....or I hope everyone had fun....lalala.

Sniiff

MEL'S LEAVING!!!! This is like sniffle sniff. Who's going to be the one who thinks I adore her? What's going to happen to the "Mommy and Mel"?
Who's going to sing with me?
Who am I going to vent to??
Who am I going to say my perverted comments to?
Who's going to go around saying "me gusta margarita"?
GOSH....so many things that I'm going to miss about you female.
Remember me every time some one says one of those typical stupid comments I tend to make...hehehe.
I will miss you Mel....I do give half a rats ass (only half mind you, lol.)
Anyhow...you enjoy yourself at you're brothers wedding as much as you possibly can...and don't you DARE forget about us. AND AND...uh...yeah...be you...cause nobody else will ever be able to be like you (or so I hope...heh. JOKING).

Outting with kiddos

I only have two pix of Mel from that outting...I won't put them up cause...well, I didn't ask. hrm...
Anyhow, it was me, Mel, Jordan, Antwone, Amelia, and Joshua.
We got some chips and juice and had a little "picnic". We had another adventure I'd rather not talk about on this expedition...Mel....ARGH! We're just like...such superheros! LOL.

Birthday post

Well...it's Amber's birthday today...so I thought before the day is over to post a happy birthday post.
yesterday was exactly 2 years since I met her. It was the day that I went to Birmingham, and me and Filz arrived there late at night. Everyone knew I was going...but only a few select knew that Filz was going (it was a surprise for Amber) So Glenn and David F. picked us up at the bus station (we had arrived at London and got the bus to Bham)and they told Filz to call Amber and pretend he was calling from Valencia...and he walks in the house, goes upstairs to Abe and Libby's room where Amber was, and yeah, in he walks into the room while talking on the cell with Amber.
Amber's reaction was priceless....she threw the phone across the room pretty much, and ran past Filz, out of the door. Her face was hilarious!! Anyhow...yeah, the story of how I first met Amber.
The days after that I didn't get to know her much cause....welll...yeah, Filz was there, lets leave it at that...hehe.
But after when I had more time to get to know her, I discovered shes a crazy, fun, easy to talk to, person.
When she came to visit Filz in January, and I was going through a difficult time, I talked to her and she made me feel really good, and shes a real good listener, and yeah..just nice to talk to.
I love you Amber...I hope this year brings you surprises as wonderful as the one Filz gave you on your fist birthday with him...hehehe.
Have a happy new year!
(scary pic of us, I know....but the only one I had, enjoy...hehe)

A good day

I have a new computer!!! One without a broken screen, one that (hopefully) won't overheat every couple hours, one which doesn't have a broken DVD drive, and has a webcam, wowza, I am happy. TYJ.
This afternoon me and Amelia went to the park by ourselves, was very nice. Amelia went on the slide about 13 times straight, loved going on the swing, and we saw some little boys who she would go running up to, but once she got to them, would run back and hide her face in my legs. SO CUTE!!!
The only pity of not having anyone else there is that I have no pictures, but oh well, you can't have everything, PTL

The Foolishness Of Us

I'll let the pictures speak for themselves, we're a bit odd.



...and one cute one of Amelia

Sigh...no pictures

Glenn and Mark came....Glenn for 2 weeks, and Mark for 1....this is a LATE post, cause they left last week....but since I didn't have any pictures, I didn't post anything, but I still don't have pictures, cause we didn't take any....grrr....we're useless people. hehe.
Anyhow...miss you guys!!

Amelia walking

For those who wanted to see a vid of Amelia walking...here theres one.
She likes the park quite a bit, runs around all over screaming and stuff, and she thinks the swing is quite fun too.

Aqua Park

Amelia's fist time to a water park, she really liked it...she flipped with all the colorful balls too, heh.

Birthday presents

Mel's is the beer mug, Ozie gave me the little penie (I'll get a better pic some other time), and Nat gave me the shot glass....ohhh...and Rachel gave me sumthing I like too, but I don't have a picture of....ohh well, I like these things, they make me smile. LOL

Amelia walks (for real this time)

I know in the video she doesn't walk much....but she walked down almost half of the hallway already...
Will get another video tomorrow.

As the year went by.....

Just thought I'd mention.....

I'm going through a faze where I really don't find much entertainment watching movies....there have barely been any I watched this year, that I've watched ALL the way through and ENJOYED.
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Except for tonight...I strongly recommend you watch 3:10 to Yuma!!!
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Hehe, weird for me to be posting something only to say that, and also kind of lame....BUT....yeah, I haven't been posting on here at all lately, so I thought I had to put something up, hehe.
And also say that I'm nervous and frustrated and annoyed about my party planning...and feel it will be an utter disaster...but I trust that the Lord has it all in his capable hands.
Also pray I can do something nice for whenever I celebrate Amelia's birthday party....shes turning one on the 31st though....
Goodnight.

Late post of my birthday

Well....it was my birthday on the 12th of August...and here are some pictures of that day. I will have my party on the 29th though....anyhow, this is the cake, ice cream, and lollipop day:D
Me and Esy feeding each other lollipops with ice cream (I fed her her lollipop, she fed me mine, no saliva was mixed, LOL)
So funky.....
Make a wish and blow out the candlesI'm happy, I'm feeling glad, I've got lollipops in my hand.......
Don't get me wrong.....it was a delicious cake....the thing was I wasn't used to cutting it, so yeah, I was worried I'd do a disaster.

Counting the days

Our WnR

Esy's and my first freeday together!!! Wuhooo, we rock. We went to Nuevo Centro and treated ourselves to a CBO. Esy bought stuff, I didn't, but yeah....we enjoyed ourselves, at least I did.
Highlight of my day, (if you know me you'll understand) was that on our way back in the metro, the train stopped at a station, and all of a sudden Esy said, "look a lollipop." I dashed towards it to save it, and arrived in the knick of time. LOL.The found lollipop
And this, was our menu.....

Pleased with the CBO Esy?Eating fries happily.
YEAHHHH, the "grunge" and the "hippie" LOL