Let The Celebrating Begin

Today I had an early dinner with two good friends from work as an early b-day celebration.

They are not able to attend a get together that I will soon be having so they wanted to treat me out for dinner.   They asked me to choose a place to eat and of course I choose a Japan restaurant, Gin Sushi  Check out all the yummy food that we ordered.

                                          Mixed Sushi Combo

                             
                                          Spider Roll and Dragon Roll

Cherry Blossom Roll

Beef Teriyaki and Tempura

I could not believe that the three of us were able to finish almost all the food that we ordered.  I guess we were all very hungry.  Thanks Diana and Iris for taking me out to dinner.  It was truly an honor to have such a delicious dinner today with two good friends.  I am so sorry for not having anything crafty to share for the last two posts.  I promise to share some thing crafty with you soon.

My Fun and Relaxing Weekend

I hope that everyone had a good weekend.  My family and I had a very fun and relaxing one.  We had one b-day party to attend each day so it left us time to run errands and  spend time together at home. I even had some time to craft.  :)  The party that we went to on Saturday was a Dr. Suess themed one that my good friend put together for her twins.  The twins wore sweatshirts with Thing 1 and Thing 2 on them.  My family and I had a great time spending there and was very impressed by the awesome decorations.

Check out the cupcakes that she made to resemble Thing 1 and Thing 2.

Each child go to fill up a take out box with some goodies.

Even the grown ups had a good time together.  :)

This afternoon we celebrated my FIL's b-day.  Here is a picture of my hubby's siblings and wives with his parents and grandmothers.

Thanks for stopping by today to see what I have to share.  Have a great week everyone!

Tea Swap for April

The theme for this month's tea swap was "tea time" and to use the colors yellow or purple. I interpreted the theme to mean to include different tea items on your card.  I of course chose to make my card using different tones of purple since that is my favorite color.  This is what I made for Sandra.

You can't really tell from the picture but if you click on it to take a closer look you will notice that I embossed the background with stripes.  It was fun being able to use two types of embossing on my card- one with an embossing folder and the other one with embossing powder.  Can you tell... I love to emboss! :) This is what  she made for me.

I love the two cards that she made for me and look forward to enjoying some tea with the tea bags that she gave to me.  I hope that all of you will have a weekend full of time to make some thing crafty to bring a smile to someone's face.  Big hugs!

Goodies For Easter Given and Received

I hope that all of you had a wonderful Easter.  My family and I had a very good one.  I am feeling a bit warned out from my vacation last week to SD and to Disneyland for two days.  My feet were aching!  I guess it did not help that I stayed up on Saturday and Sunday until 3am making the Easter treats that I posted in my last post.  Yes, my co-workers got their treats a day after Easter.  I ended up making 32 of the flowers with the lollipop in the center.  Here is a picture of some of them that my hubby put together into a little wreath.

Besides the other items that I previously posted I wrapped two gifts for 2 friends at work in the shape of a big candy.  I think they turned our pretty cute so I decided to take a picture of them.

Along with making goodies for family and friends I was fortunate enough to receive some cards and special treats for Easter too.

Thanks for stopping by today to see what I have to share.

Today is a Special Day to Me

I praise God for raising Jesus from the dead so that we can have renewed faith, hope, and happiness. I hope and pray that all of you will also be able to one day experience this like my family and I have. Because this is such a special day my family and I have surprised family and friends with some goodies to celebrate and to express our appreciation to God for what He has done for us.  Some people received chocolate crosses with a special meassage. 

Others received bags of goodies with their favorite goodies in them.  I made each one a special tag.

Some people received flowers that I made.  The center of each one is a lollipop.

Last but not least some people received a bag of jelly beans with a topper that I decorated. 

Big hugs and lots of love are being sent your way hoping that you will have a "Happy Easter."  Thanks for stopping by today.  I am glad that I was finally able to share some crafy items with you.  If you have some time, please leave me a brief comment to let me know that you stopped by.  Thanks!  :)

Dinner With Friends

This evening we had dinner with our friend Gail from San Francisco and her friend Mary from Morro Bay. We met them at our favorite Hawaiian restaurant- Back Home to Lahaina.

While we were waiting for our food to be served our kids spoke with Gail's hubby on the phone just to say "hello." They were asking Gail about him so we all thought it would be fun to surprise him and call him.

Here is the ono food that we ordered.













The kids had a sundae for dessert. Benson's meal came with a haulpia cheese cake, but we took it "to go" since we were so full from our meals. We all had a wonderful time together enjoying the yummy food, the beautiful murals of Maui,



and listening to the live Hawaiian band and watching the hula dancer.



Before leaving I gave Gail (and her family) and Mary each an "Easter" RAK and Gail gave a bag full of goodies to my family and I. 

A Mini Vacation in San Diego

Sorry I've been MIA for a bit. My family and I took a mini 3 day vacation in beautiful San Diego. We got back late Tuesday night.  We all had a very fun and relaxing time.  Here are the highlights of our trip.  Beware... this is a long post so you may want to get a snack and some thing to drink before you start reading.  :) The highlight of our first day of shopping at the outlets and purchasing a fun purse and a few other items for myself and my kids.  We also had a blast taking at visiting a Birch Aquarium

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and taking a stroll at the beach.

The view on the patio of the aquarium was beautiful.  It overlooked the beach.

We ended our first day by eating some yummy seafood.

Before going to our hotel we took a walk on the wharf and went shopping at one of my favorite stores- Crazy Shirt. On our second day we spent the entire day at Legoland.  We have been there many time, what they built with legos never ceases to amaze us.  They have certain buildings in cities such as SF, NY, Vegas, and LA made out of legos along with different famous people such as Elvis and Yoda.  This time around the there were new figures from "Star Wars" built out of legos.

We were lucky to get to see them since they will only be around for a limited amount of time.  We ended our day with eating Japanese food for dinner.

On our final day of our time in SD we went visited the Flower Fields in Carlsbad.  We have visited the fields many times, but we are always impressed by the beauty of the flowers.  I took group pictures of the flowers and took individual ones of each color of the roses along with different flowers that I thought were unique.

 My favorite one of course are the pinkish purple roses.

They even had flowers organized to form an American flag.  Isn't this just too cool?

My kids especially enjoyed playing in Santa's garden and going through the floral maze.  Half way home we stopped at Mrs. Knott's Kitchen for dinner.  Of course my hubby and I enjoyed their famous fried chicken diner which includes 4 pieces of chicken, soup, salad, steamed cabbage and ham, mashed potato, and dessert.

My son ordered a kid's version of ours and my son of course order mac and cheese.  It was the perfect meal to end our mini vacation.  On Wed. and Thurs. we went to Disneyland using our annual passes and spent 12 magical hours there.  We went for that many hours two days in a row because our passes expired today.  Thanks for sticking around to read the enrtire post.  Be sure to come back next week to see what crafty items I have to share.