Where have I been...

It's been hard finding time to blog. Our new routine is now just our routine, but some things like watching TV and blogging have been put on the back burner. In the end, these things take time. Time I don't have much of.  When I'm trying to fit in so much in my day after 5pm, not having these 2 things part of it actually has me with that little bit of quiet time at the end of the day. But I love my blog and love blogging our life. So I will try and make more time for it! ;) there are many milestones I don't want to miss! 

There are some new things in our lives that are taking up our time. Things like potty training! 

Little k understands what his potty is for. We sit him on it every night before bath time. We still have a long way to go :) but in baby steps we are doing well! 

...Things like family time and date nights! Take up our time :) 

And the biggest thing taking up our time right now is a new home! We decided to buy a new home to be built in November! So we have been doing a lot of running around choosing all the things that we want in this new home. 

With this also comes decluttering and staging of our current home to sell. I'll blog about that one day too! Ha! 

My goal is to blog at least once a week! Starting now! 

Happy Monday! 

Busy days!

I have less time to blog these days. Back to work has us soo busy! 

It's 930pm and I made myself give some of my time to my blog! 

Our routine is pretty smooth, mornings and evenings. Just that evenings are jammed packed doing one thing after another without a break all the way till bedtime. I'm starting to do my groceries online and getting them delivered so that will take out one thing from our schedule. So far that's working out great! 

Oh and slowcooker meals! That wil be another post. I love love my slowcooker. Today, ham and pineapple. Tomorrow beef stew! 

We are also fitting in 2 nights a week of working out in the basement once the little one is sleeping. Usually a half hour or so while I watch one of the shows I like, like modern family or revenge! Other than that there's not much time left to sit and watch TV! 

What is my little man up to these days? 

He loves daycare and is so happy to go every morning which makes all 3 of us super happy! 

He is learning and growing so fast! His vocabulary is getting better and better. He surprises me everyday! He knows a lot of shapes, colors, numbers and letters. He sings songs to us, he is always busy playing and learning. I love how he always practices until he gets it. He doesn't give up! And in no way could we offer our help either! He's mr independent. 

I love how we have conversations together. I love the conversations that have words, actions and sounds. Like the other morning we came down for breakfast and he was telling me the story of how he and baby Ella had cereal together the night before. The story went something like this. "Mama! Ella, krishan eat cereal here (pointing to the cereal bowl on the table where they sat the night before sharing cereal) Ella um um" (making a chewing gesture with his mouth, saying Ella ate the cereal like that haha) 

Ha! It was adorable. 

This weekend we went to visit my grandparents. Little k was showing my grandmother how to use his toy helicopter. Ha! They both had a blast playing together. 

Hope you all had a great Monday! 

Back to work and date night

Last week was my first week back to work! I'm happy to say it went pretty smooth. We still need to adjust our new routine a bit, but we did well for the first week. We were proud of ourselves ha.

Little K was great all week with his new full-time at daycare schedule (good as in good for a 2 year old  minus the terrible twos moments we have daily) 

Yesterday night my husband took me to a deliscious steakhouse to celebrate my first week back to work. We had a great time. The service at the restsurant was amazing, actually the best overal experience at a restaurant I've ever had. They even took us for a tour to the different floors the restsurant had to show us what it was all about. We sat in its lower level dining room where the ambiance was perfect, music, candle light, comfortable seating. Perfect.

We have been following a top 10 steakhouse list and this was the forth one we've been to and the best so far. I'm excited to try another one next month! 

Some 2014 goals

I have a long list of goals for 2014. I haven't sorted them all out just yet. I'm kinda overwhelmed with my list too. 

The simple yearly ones are things like: 

Drop 20lbs or more! Which included weekly working out and healthy diet choices. 

Attend mass more often

Be more organized 

Be more focused on what I want 

Do what makes me happy. Whatever that may be :) 

Spend more time with my family now that I'm going back to work Monday! 

Others include

Potty train K this year! 

Sell the house this spring and move! 

Join a meditation class. 

And some other personal and financial goals I have too. I'll be working on my vision board soon too. 

2013 I was blessed to have stayed home an extra year with my little guy. He has taught me so much this year. Watching him grow and learn new things these past two years of him in my life has been the best years of my life. He makes my world complete, I loveeee my little guy and seeing him so independent these days makes me proud yet sad at how fast he really is growing up. 

Tomorrow I'm back to work full-time and little K loves his daycare. 

The husband and I have a new routine schedule of drop off and pick up and I'm hoping it all goes smoothly! Wish us luck! 

The one thing about back to work that was exciting was shopping for new clothes! I spent a lot more than I expected but hey, it's a new year, new job, new goals, new everything ;) 

Here are some outfits I got! Not the best pics but... 

(Minus the red bra haha oops) 

 

(Eyes closed ;)

I bought 3 pairs of pants, 3 skirts, 8 tops, 3 sweaters, 1 pair of shoes. Whoo! 

Hope you all have a great Monday! 

Tamale fun!

My inlaws have a tradition of making Tamales for the New Year. I have helped many times before but this past weekend was little K's first time helping. 

My Mother inlaw prepared all the ingredients, which I'll need to steal from her one day soon! Together we all made a little assembly line to put them together. 

We had a fun afternoon making Tamales. 

Christmas 2013

Kristian's Christmas 2013 in pics! 

Ice storm 2013 

Lots of presents! 

Fun with family 

Fun with friends 

Meeting a new puppy cousin haha

Fun with toys! 

We are ready for 2014! 

Weekend in NYC

We took a long drive to NYC this weekend. 

On our way there Saturday we hit a snow storm. It was dark and only 2 hours left on our drive to get to NYC but it was too dangerous so we had to stop at a hotel by the hwy. 

We just had an evening in at the hotel. Having dinner, walking around and renting movies. 

We woke up early Sunday and continued our drive! The roads were plowed and we were on our way! 

Little K was such a good little traveler. He loved sitting cozy with his blankets and toys and iPad ha! Both ways he slept about 3 hours of the trip which was great too. 

NYC with a toddler was a little hectic. Fun but having him in his stroller walking around wasn't too much fun for him. And many restaurants in NYC did not want the stroller inside. Not much space for it. Overall little K was great, just had a few outbursts when he was over tired or bored. His new thing is screaming MINE on the top of his lungs. When anyone came near him or touched his toy or wanted to see what he was watching on the iPad he yelled NOO! MINE! in their face :/ 

Everyone still loved him tho haha he got free food everywhere we went ha! Free dinner, free cookies, free fruits. 

We walked soo much for 2 days! My legs are still so sore! 

We went to Rockefeller Center, Times Square, Empire State Building, shopping on 5th ave,  Manhatten, we also took a scenic ferry. 

Just a few pics from the tons of pics we took. 

Haha Macy's window. Little boy looks like Krisrian. 

Here and there

I haven't blogged for a couple weeks! We have been so busy! A lot going on here. 

A couple new things... I'm going back to work full-time in the new year! 

We are going to New York soon for a weekend trip! 

Anddddddd we are considering moving in the next year or so! 

2014 will definitely be the year of change. A new outlook on my life. Leaving the negative behind me and bringing in more positive. 

I've also been doing a lot of meditation and really focusing on personal and spiritual growth. 

I believe now more than ever that God has a plan for all of us. We need to be open and allow him to show us that path. In the middle of all the bad there's good waiting. Something better. Even when it's hard to see how that could be possible. 

Jeremiah 29:11 for I know the plan I have for you, declares The Lord. Plans to prosper you, and not to hard you. Plans to give you hope and a future. 

Little K is growing so fast and seriously a 2 year old going on 4. He is so independent, sweet, loving, persistent ha!  No mean no with him these days. 

His vocabulary is exploding and when he says new things I even shed a tear because it's all so amazing to me watching him learn. 

Christmas is around the corner and I still have a long list of gifts to get! I better get shopping!