Friday, December 30, 2011

Break

We are in Findlay right now. We decided to 'gift' our kids with snowboarding. Our friends in Findlay have been asking us to come out here to snowboard with their kids for a while now so we just decided why not since we will be busy soon, what with the baby and all.

Nilun is pretty excited and i'm not sure about Naree. She is still a nervous i think. I'm not even sure if she wants to do it or not. We will see tomorrow.
Too bad there hasn't been any snow here in our neck of the woods. Ohio hasn't has much snow. It snowed about a total of 2 days this year for winter. I have a feeling we will get hit hard sometime in January or February. Not looking forward to that.

We had wanted to leave a little early for Findlay but we had ordered shoes for Naree for Christmas and it was to get here today.
So we decided to stay home and wait for the package to get here before we head off since my sister-in-law wasn't home either.
We ended up waiting till 6 pm!!!! OMG i was a little frustrated. I wanted a head start on our drive. Lien was pretty mad.

I had tried to call them 3 times around 3 pm and 4 pm to try to see where the package is now or if we were even going to get it. I couldn't get any one on the phone.....just the machine. {i really hate these automated calls} Seriously why can't a live person just pick up the phone now a days? Is it that hard?
Anyways i couldn't get through.....
Lien got up from his nap around 5:30 and he was getting irritated. We really wanted to get going. So he called them up. I will spare you what he said or did. He was upset and ok so he yelled into the phone a bit and demanded to the automated voice that he wanted "a representative dang it!"
2 minutes later he WAS TALKING to a live person!
WHAT?
I tried 3 times and couldn't get through!
I guess i will have to learn to yell and scream my way to a live person! lol
Hey whatever works right?
He talked to someone and he demanding to know how the status of the package was and if he was even going to get it.
The other person on the line said they didn't know when we would get it but they know it's been in the truck out for delivery.
Lien was livid....on the line of saying "you saying you want me to wait around ALL DAY for you to bring me my package? What if i have something to do? I've been waiting all day and i have to be out of town. YOU need to have some kind of system that will at least tell me what time the package will come or between what time it will come...."
The guy made the mistake of telling Lien "you can come pick it up."
Bad idea!
"if i wanted to pick it up i wouldn't be waiting for you all day long. I would be there this morning already. YOU were suppose to delivery, that's your job."
He then said this is the worst customer service ever and hung up on them.

We decided to just leave. So i left a note for the delivery guy to just leave the package by the back door. My sister-in-law would be home by then of course.
While we were packing up the car, just only 15 minutes after, the call the UPS guy shows up.
He was rude.....
We were outside by the car loading and up and he didn't even come give us our package. He just left it at the front! Jerk......
We are usually not mean or bad customers. We are the opposite, we always think of other people and such and try not to give any trouble but this was beyond ridiculous.
We didn't mean to be rude but it was just too much. They really need to work on their deliveries. Get some kind of time system or something. Technology is booming right now, there's got to be a solution.

But we did get an extra package! We also got a package from my dear friend, Bori and her boyfriend. Christmas presents!!!! {i forgot to take pictures.}
I knew the package was coming but didn't know it was coming with the shoe too. Two in one.....not bad!

I am blessed to have such a wonderful friend. She is so thoughtful to send us Christmas gifts. She didn't have to but she did and we appreciate that.
She is also my children's' Godmother.

How's that for a day huh?
So now I'm all showered and relaxing. Hubby is out in the living room chatting with his buddy and the kiddos are in their buds' room playing.
Tomorrow morning we head out to the mountains and maybe get some snowboarding done. How exciting is that?
It's been a good Christmas break so far!
I'm so blessed to be with my family.......there's really not much i could ask for. :)

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Merry Christmas 2011

This year has been an adventure for us. Some bad and some good but we have made it through. I'm so blessed in so  many ways with how my life has turned out.
I have such a wonderful family who loves me and cares for me so much. How did i get so lucky?

I am grateful for my family and my friends. Grateful to have a life full with love, laughter, and happiness.

No amount of gifts or money can buy me those things.

This Christmas we were able to get the kids some things that they had wanted. The kids seemed pretty happy to get everything that they wanted.
To see my kids face while they open their presents......that's a great feeling.

When i was a kid, we didn't get many presents. One for each of us and it was pretty much something cheap. But we were still excited to open it. A barbie from the dollar store, t-shirt or underwear.....we were still happy.
We didn't have much growing up so to see my kids happy and having more than i could - that is a feeling i can't explain.
I am grateful that i have a life that enables me to provide for my kids and to give them what i didn't have growing up.
I know that i am blessed. I have a wonderful husband who works hard to provide for us and i thank God every day that i have him.
Did i mention that i'm a very lucky girl?

I hope every one had a very Merry Christmas and i hope every one was/is as blessed as i am to have such blessings.

As usual we went over to mom's for Christmas Eve so the kids can open their set of presents from grandma. And then we had dinner.

They were pretty spoiled. :)
We stayed and chit chat for a few hours and then off we went for our annual Christmas lights outing. I try to keep that as a tradition for our family to go every year around Christmas time to see all the holiday lights.

I was pretty disappointed with downtown Cleveland this year. They normally have lights on every tree on every corner but this year there was nothing. The only holiday lights they had up were in the middle of downtown and that was it. We were disappointed. Only shows how our economy is still in the shits. What a shame.

At midnight we let the kids open presents at the house. They were pretty excited. After presents we hung out and ate {again} and then we watched a movie {i forget what movie it was}. We didn't sleep til about 4 am but we enjoyed hanging out as a family. :)
See, even Yuki got presents but he was only interested in only one. A toy gingerbread. :)
Lien bought me a Coach purse. Had no idea he was going to do that. Didn't even think he paid any attention to what kinds of purse i liked. He picked the right one. I like big bags. :)

This time around next year we will be celebrating Christmas with an addition to our family. Can't wait!!!

Merry Christmas!

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

photo challenge

A picture of your most treasured item.


My Monkey pendent zodiac necklace.
For over 7 years i've had this necklace and i've never taken it out. It is my prized possession.
The Monkey is my Chinese Zodiac sign.
Sad to say i've lost my necklace. After over 7 + years i can not recall where i've lost it.
One day i was showering and i was wiping my neck and realized it was gone. I just don't know where it went. I searched and searched and searched but i still can not find it. It is a sad situation. I am so mad at myself for losing it. I wish i can recall where it is or when was the last time i remember wearing it. I know i didn't take it out.
It has gotten loose a few times but i've always managed to catch it in time. I'm so bummed {even now, after 2 months} and sad that i've lost my most valuable thing. This is the only piece of jewelry i like to wear constantly. I don't even wear my wedding ring! Well now i do simply because i wore it before finding out i was expecting and by the time i wanted to take it out, i couldn't. My fingers got too big! lol

Hopefully one day while cleaning or something i will find it. I hope it is somewhere in the house. I really miss it. I feel weird without my Monkey necklace. :*(



Have you seen it?

Friday, December 9, 2011

Christmas Concert

Some pictures from Nilun's Christmas Choir concert a few days ago. He has been into getting dressed up lately. Ties and all. I think it's pretty cute! My little boy isn't such a boy anymore is he?



Did i mention how much i hate my camera right now? The blurriness of my camera is really irritating me. The diopter that adjusts the blurriness of pictures is right where my thumb goes and it has been moved a few times. Now i just can not adjust it to where it was when i first bought it.
Now all my pictures are turning out not as clear and crisp as they used to be. I'm so mad and annoyed. I need to take it in to Dodds and see if maybe {please please} maybe they can help me with this before i pull my hair out.

Friday, December 2, 2011

Lights and gingerbread houses.....

I love Christmas! It has to be the best holiday of the year. I love looking at the lights. I love the music/sounds all around the mall. People mingling and enjoying themselves. I love the atmosphere of this holiday season. There is something about it i just can't explain.
I love that we get to be with our families and share traditions. What's not to love about that right?

When we were living in Idaho - back when we were kids. Every year for Christmas dad would take us girls and head out to find us a real Christmas tree. Mom worked two jobs so she wasn't able to go.
Every year we get a real Christmas tree. I really don't know why but it seems that was the tradition in our house back then.
When we get home with our tree dad would go about making a stand for the tree. He would nail it to the tree so the tree will stand and we'd decorate it.
Dad wasn't around much....or should i say he wasn't much of the kind of dad that would spend time with us. He was more of the provider type and not the 'there' daddy type..
So this was always a welcome treat for us.
That's about the only time we actually do spend time with dad: Christmas tree shopping!
We didn't mind at the time. We knew our parents were busy parents. Working a lot to provide for us girls.

We didn't have much presents around the tree because we couldn't afford much but we were still happy just to get something.
A barbie from the dollar store, socks, underwear.....etc.....
It was just awesome to unwrap those presents. And back then, let me tell you! I was as excited as a kid in a candy store to get a barbie from the dollar store! Seriously.....i thought i had won the lottery.
The kids made gingerbread houses a few days ago!  I am trying to get this to be one of our tradition. So far so good....
And now i feel like my kids are having it so much easier than we did. They are some lucky kids. So i hope this holiday season and for many more holiday seasons to come.....They will remember how it is to be grateful and remember that there are some out there who aren't as fortunate as they are and that they will appreciate all that they have.
I also want them to always remember that it isn't what you get, it's what you give. And never expect anything in return.
I hope to start many traditions with my own little family. So far we are doing good. :)

We will be adding one more to our family soon. This Christmas we are enjoying the time for the 4 of us....
We are going to celebrate having another year with us each other.
We celebrate having another year of health...
We celebrate another year of love and laughter. ...
We celebrate another year of friendships - old and new..
We celebrate being a family....
We celebrate being able to provide for each other....
We celebrate life!
This time around next year, we'll have another reason to celebrate! It'll be our baby's first Christmas! We just can not wait.