Showing posts with label sister. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sister. Show all posts

Monday, June 27, 2011

I am so so behind!

I truly am so so so behind on blogging! I blame the camera. Yes, the darn camera!

The camera had gone bad!

Here's some examples!


This is me and my sister.
My nieces and my girl romping in the ocean!


See those darn lines????? On those wonderful pictures????

It had freaked me out! And had me hoping it was temporary. It was but it came back and it remained to this day! Grrr..

So we were forced to go out and search for a new camera. So this is now our 3rd Canon camera in our 6 years of marriage. Nothing fancy about this camera. It had served us so well and gave us so many precious pictures and memories.

We had been using the new camera! I just have not downloaded the new program and all. But I have to because our "sim" card is FULL. I am dreading the process of getting out the new disk and download it and all. I reckon I'm one of those wayyy behind novice on computer savvy. Sigh...

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Bear with me then you'll soon be overwhelmed with all those newsy blogging. :0)

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Friday, January 21, 2011

Annabelle's first sleep out with Jasmine






Last month, Annabelle had her first sleep out with her big sister, Jasmine. She was terribly excited about going out with her and kept saying she will not cry. She is a big girl and that she loves Jasmine.

I told her she need to pack in her pj and clothes for next day. She had no problem packing them in her backpack and waited impatiently all day for Jasmine to come and get her.

When Jasmine came, Annabelle was all ready to go out and have some fun with Jasmine.


Annabelle with Jasmine with her drink and backpack. All ready to go!


Monday, August 10, 2009

Silver

Silver is our cat that we as a family adopt together from my sister last year this month in her home in West Virginia. Somebody left that kitten on their property and she already have several cats and really couldn't have another one asked us to please please adopt her.

My senor was relucant to adopt the kitten. I tried to tell him that this kitten clearly is good with kids.



And what's one more cat to our already 2 cats and 3 dogs.

When my senor went down to the basement of my sister's home to get our kids to go home. He saw that our kids and my sister's kids were playing with this kitten. He was convinced! He could not believe that but he is seeing it.

The kids have dressed him in one of their doll clothes. Coo coo, darling baby? Darling doll? Ooh a darling kitten!!

With no hestitation, my senor grabbed the kitten and told my sister, we're taking him home with us. My sister was happy to know and clearly relieved she would not have to take the kitten to the animal shelter.

Of course my sister's kids were not happy that we were taking the kitten home. You can see them being

very unhappy. I felt bad for them.

Silver quickly made himself at home during the car ride home with both our wee kids.

Silver is a fun kitten to play with. We had another week before we were to go home. We stayed at the condo in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee for the week. Silver was content while we were on the go. We'd come home looking for him. Usually, he's in the same spot or he has move to another spot.

As Silver grows, his mischief grew too. He's full of life.

Our german shepard, Suzi loves to

stalk all our cats but Silver is the bravest of all our cats. He'd fight back and Suzi would walk backward carefully away from him. Sometime Suzi will block Silver's path and just lay down daring Silver to come through. Often one of us will have to yell "Suzi!",

she will immediately get up and come toward whoever yelled "Suzi!" then Silver will grab this opportunity and zash thru the opening.



Some morning, we would see this rabbit in our back yard munching on our grass behind the pool area. We all are usually happy to see the rabbit and always are careful not to attract the dogs' attention to the rabbit.

That only morning, our wee boy was able to walk close to the rabbit. Suddenly Silver was out our sliding door running closely behind our boy. I was soo happy I had my camera handy.

Of course the rabbit zoom away before Silver ever got too close. You can see Silver looking beyond our fence for the rabbit and probably was yelling at the rabbit to stay away? He's a better guard cat than our dogs. LOL

Often we'd find frogs and lizards in our bedroom. Sometime they'd be still alive or dead. Silver playing with the lizard.



Yesterday while we all were eating breakfast and Silver was struggling with something in his mouth and Suzi was blocking him from entering our bedroom. Suddenly my senor pointed to Silver and said he has something in his mouth.

When I saw and I realized it was a blue jay and it was still alive in Silver's mouth struggling. I took picture of them first then took Silver outside. My senor and I had to fight with Silver to release that poor bluejay. Silver's jaw was fastened tightly! Finally Silver released the bird and the bird tried to fly away but only fluttered and hopped away. I got our kitchen towel and pick the poor bird and put it near our grapefuit tree.

Of course, the poor bird became the topic of our breakfast dinner conversation. I told my senor, my sister lost out a good hunting cat. My senor disagreed with me and said it's a good thing they didn't have Silver. I asked why? He replied, Silver would have hunted down all her chicken! My sister now have a menageries of chicken and roosters.

Oh my goodness! She'd have skinned Silver for that. I'm glad we have Silver here. Thank you, dear sister!

Thursday, April 23, 2009

My sister, her recipes

   My sister has a list of recipes on her own blog, mountain mama. I haven't checked them all but I did tried her Chinese recipes, egg rolls and beef stir fry. Hoo Boy, it was a huge success and its not so bad making them like I had thought it'd be. They sure were YUMMY! And they had smelled so good that my stomach rumbled. It's that good!
  The first time I made the egg rolls, my step son was supposed to help me but for some reasons we got side tracked and I went ahead and made them without him. I had dropped the thong holding the egg roll down in the hot oil and splash went the HOT oil on my face. OUCH! Ouchy ouch! I zooom to the bathroom and splash cold water on my face and thank goodness I was wearing my glasses. And I had heck of a time washing the oil off my glasses. There was no blisters on my face and whew! My face dried up and I put aloe gel on my face constantly otherwise I feel my face shrinking smaller and smaller. I don't want my face to be like a dried walnut. Silly metaphor! But that's how I felt and put on aloe gel so often that my wee girl notice and wanted the aloe gel on her face too. 
  She said ooh that hurt and point to the red spots on my face. I wasn't a pretty sight! Then eventually it peeled off like sunburn and now I'm back to normal. WHEWWWW!
  I still had some cabbages left and other stuffs for making another egg rolls batch. This time my step son was around and he was totally all for it and did the whole thing by himself and with a little guidance from me. He did really good and I think he enjoyed the whole process, cutting, measuring, rolling, dipping and of course, the best part, eating it. :0)
  I'd encourage you all to try it out. My sister, has a recipe listed with pictures with step by step so it made it easy to follow. And I did wonder where to find the egg rolls wrappers and what the package would look like. She had the details and pictures which made my "shopping" so easy and felt confident enough to try and make it.
  Thank you sis for the wonderful recipes and making it so easy for me to follow. Do go ahead and try making it. I know I will be making it again and again and again. Yes, again and again. :0)

Monday, April 20, 2009

My sister, my inspiration

My sister, my inspiration.
  Because of her, I am inspired to create my own blog. My sister is more the literacy type, she writes poems, stories, and her own blog. She reads a lot. But so do I but the only difference is I'm not much of a 'writer'. I can just try and see how this new blog of mine goes. I can think of some stuffs I'd like to include mostly for my wee two children so they'd have something to learn, pass on or just simply read.
  I am new at this and I have a lot to learn, the layout, font, settings and whatever else is included. It should be fun but it's also a bit scary. Heh.