rainbow birthday party

The kids had so much fun yesterday, the rented bouncy house was so worth it, the kids kept busy jumping all afternoon, between snacking on cupcakes, cakes, sweet treats and potty breaks. The weather was gorgeous and many of their school friends came to celebrate the special day.

five!

Kids, they grow up so fast. This is Jovan and Sofia on their first day at NICU, they were premie babies born at 33 weeks at a combined weight of 7 pounds.



This is them today, this morning actually; giggling and having their traditional birthday cupcake breakfast. Since it's a school day, hubby and I volunteered to make some tacos and bring some yogurt for their friends at school and read a couple of books.

Happy Mother's Day!

My mom does not use computer, she doesn’t even know what a ‘blog’ is, but I just want to give her a shout-out here on this space for being such a wonderful mom and grandma for Jovan and Sofia and for always being present for us her kids. This was a photo of my mom, me and my little brother circa 1975.



I am planning on cooking for her today, help her put some curtains up and some wall decor (she just moved into her new apartment) and just visiting with her all afternoon.

happy Easter! and the giveaway winner

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Thanks to everyone for playing along and also for sharing your beautiful milestones.

And now some photos of our Easter weekend. Have a wonderful Easter everyone!

Christmas eve

the night before Christmas eve, I got really crafty and spent the whole night making felt stockings for eight kids...


I stuffed them with some candies and left-over favors I saved from the kids previous birthday party.




there were plenty of food and mom made my favorite Christmas sticky rice cake.


SIL was the appointed Santa...


the anticipation is killing them...


at twelve midnight we opened the gifts. Needless to say, the kids got all the stuff they've wished for and more. It's safe to say I won't be buying them any toys for the whole year.