A new year...
The old is gone and the new has come...excited to see what is ahead and looking forward to many more blessings to come. My Uncle Vic passed away on Dec 31st 2009. He fathered 5 children, 3 girls and 2 boys, now grown with children of their own. Many people turned to the Lord with Uncle Vic's help. My husband and I are examples of the people he reached out to. We prayed, had bible study and our lives set sail to a wonderful path of finding the Lord. He will be missed greatly. Today I spoke to my Auntie Annie, she was reminiscing about their early childhood high school, where basketball was played, food cooked in the kitchen by her and enjoying the all the friendships shared. Tears were upon our eyes, talks of Christmas past, family gatherings, togetherness. Once a vibrant group of family members, now reaching the ages where we do not know when will God take us. Health issues, family matters the most. Helping each other in times of need. Finding that family relationships are what really matters.

Life what is it really all about. Finding your path to God and making your peace with him. Building relationships and growing in the knowledge of him our Savior Chirist the King. We praise God for everything joyful, sorrow and in between. Love carries us along persevering til the end. Grandma Placida B Maddela, left a legacy of love and the love for God. Praying on her knees every night that her family will always stay close to God and be protected by Him. Answered prayer Lola Iday...May God grant us serenity, peace, joy, contentment and love for all...
Happy new Year everyone and thank you for your friendship and constant love. To God be all the glory!

Cricut Cartridge: SENTIMENTALS: We've got it at a great price at Ohmycrafts!

Cricut Cartridge: SENTIMENTALS: We've got it at a great price at Ohmycrafts!

learned something today

Hahaha I learned how to place blogs adding this to my Igoogle home page...terrific! I love this idea and listening to my music while I surf the web!!! lol

Gypsy

Yippee! Yesterday I received my early Christmas present from DH GYPSY !!!!! I love this. I played all niter and didn't go to bed until one in the morning! I uploaded almost all of my carts and I need to do George Basic today. What a great invention! I was able to design 2 word book I plan on for a Christmas gift for my sisters! I have to do 4 more...I have 5 sisters and no brothers, now I have 4 brother-in-laws but they are like brothers in blood.

We are a tight family this past Thanksgiving was a testament to our love for each other. The girls went out to shop hehehe and the DHs stayed home with some of the boys and they cleaned up! This was a great surprise to us and what a thrill I felt! They not only allowed us to shop but they gave from their heart!!! I love my family!!!! lol

I've got to go...need to visit Josie to get some KANGEN waterhttp://www.kangenwaterusa.com/ ...It's a water ionizer making it alkaline. What makes Kangen Water so special?
Kangen Water acts as an extremely potent antioxidant
Kangen Water will reduce the acids taken into the
body, which can aid in weight loss.
Kangen Water works to detoxify your colon by
neutralizing free radicals, keeping your immune system
as strong as possible.
Kangen Water super-hydrates, which leaves you
feeling energized while simultaneously increasing your
body's ability to absorb important vitamins and minerals.

I can't wait to receive my unit! Brian filled out forms for us last night and I hope to get this KANGEN WATER SD501 by next week. This unit makes all the acids in my system dissipate. I feel the effects already and I've only been drinking this for about 2 weeks!

Lesson learned for the day how to place slide show on the sidebar! Yippee! This took forever it seems but just clicking several buttons got me to where I wanted to go! Happy with the results and can't wait to post some of the Christmas cards I've made.
Lovely day looking forward to Roland coming home early so we can spend more time together. Last weekend we were at a marriage retreat and I had a blast! Learned so much more on how to be a better woman of God firstly and to be more loving to my husband. I am now officially his lead cheerleader, helper, and hopefully a great best friend. Loved our times together...

I made some Christmas cards last night and will take pics of those. Will try to post these on a slide show before the weekends. We go to our family group Thanksgiving celebration tomorrow and for potluck my share is a vegetable gratin and banana cake. Roland got a taste of it last night, the cake I mean, and he ate two pieces and wanted me to pack him a couple more this morning for his breakfast at work. He's been working 12 hour days these past few weeks and I see he's exhausted. Need to give him something to help pick him up.
The picture above was taken at the Vargas' home a celebration of some church family togetherness. Lovely idea by Ron Kitamura, sad to say he hurt his back and was not able to attend. Shirley his wife was there. The planning took a few weeks to prepare and we all had a blast! Don't we look happy? We were very happy!

butterflykisses

I am learning daily on how to use this blog. I can't wait to really get going and show all the happenings in my life. The slide show of my mini albums as well as pictures of my family. Aren't they adorable! I love sharing about these things and can't wait to go full speed! lol. Happy day June is coming over and we will hang out! Sending the cards for Cards for a Cause...plenty filled up a box over 2oo cards within for the needy...makes my heart happy! Blog again soon and hopefully videos when I learn how...

Learning how to post slide show is so fun! I can't wait to share all the goodies I've done so far. I love colors and these albums make me happy! Looking at all the blogs I've been visiting has encouraged me to do more. This is soooo fun!!!! I can't wait to share what I've been learning so far. The blog hops are so interesting!

Wed third post

Today is a good day! I was able to accomplish most of what I planned for the day. Cooked sinigang and Brian's GF Maritza came for dinner. Able to help the Alexanders for Sean's sake. Prayer requested for Sean, he suffered a head trauma while skiing and he's been in a coma for almost a month now. I received news that things don't look good and Luann had to fly down to Utah to be with him. Charles her husband will fly tomorrow. My problems pale in comparison of what the family is going through. We went to midweek all valley midweek at CSUN. Campaign for lost soul has began. Door hangers were given to us all and we are to meet and hang these flyers Wed for our midweek we will meet as a group and spread out throughout the valley. I pray that we will be able to help others as we have been helped. God is calling us all to seek him with all of our hearts. Can't wait to see what the Lord has in store for me, for us all. I am very thankful that Roland's perseverance when it comes to work. I know he's been wanting to retire. Ta,ta for now...

second day

Only my second day to post and I am loving it!!! lol. This blogging is so interesting....I was able to even set up my blog page without anyone's help...this is freedom!!! I can't wait to share this page with my family...I wonder what they would think? I hope they like it! Today was a good day. I went to the BP clinic and I am on target! After Roland called and asked if I wanted to meet him for lunch! Wow! Things are looking up! We ate at our favorite place Daphne's Greek Restaurant. As usual Roland ordered his vegi plate and I ordered quarter lemon chicken lunch special and the meal even included drinks! I tasted their pecan chocolate it was delish!!! It wasn't even sweet like I expected. Yummm....the filo dough within created an interesting crunch to the chocolate and I thoroughly loved it. I went to Michael's Arts and Craft and it was there that I finally got to enjoy the sweet perfection. I later went to Target to pick up some necessities and priced out the ironing board...the good one was too expensive! So I went home prepared dinner and felt body pains and I laid down to rest. I tried to do Nigella's Choco Pots, for me, it was too sweet...next time I will lessen the amount of sugar. Ta ta for now!

Wed June 10, 2009

It's my first time to use my blog and I am a little nervous. Stayed up late last night making cards for Father's Day. Mike, my oldest son, came to watch the Laker playoff with his dad and brought his project with him. Niccole arrived later after meeting with a Kelly (her grandfather passed away) to help her out. Baked oatmeal pecan coconut cookies, liked by all. Brian, my youngest son, came home after church midweek. I cooked italian sausage and white bean soup with ham flavoring. Brian specially like the soup and said "this is good Mom!"

Going on FB last night I learned that my friend Hazel's daughter and son was in a car accident. They were transported to the ER and I will go to see Hazel and have lunch with her and if she needs for me to drive her to the hospital. The minivan was totalled according to her and it turned over on it's top. A woman entered the intersection and made a left and Erica was going straight, she's in the right of way. I pray that they are not badly hurt.

Ta ta for now...