Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label birthday. Show all posts

Sunday, April 10, 2016

FIVE & DitL

our youngest turned 5 yesterday!!!! and we had a birthday party for her at the Aurora Kids Gymnastics with a few of her friends and family (grandparents are in town for the week too!).  she had a blast and so did the adults...wink!

favor bags for her friends
here's a few close ups of those favor bags...

i used some project life cards from the jade core kit, stamped {THANK YOU} and the heart and had Selene write her own name on them, punched holes and attached them to the paper lunch bags with twine. for the paper bags, i cut off about 2 inches from the top and used a fiskars border punch.  one boy and five girls. simple and cute. they loved their goodies.

here's a sneak peak of my Day in the Life album for 3.29.16...
i have finished it and so love how it turned it out.  i love doing this project and plan on doing it again throughout the year.  i had gotten the mini-kit and used all the journaling cards and only have a few left of the cute circle chipboards left.  i am not sure i'll be getting future ones since i do have the story kits to use plus stuff from my stash.  but i will be participating for sure.  once i take photos of this album i'll share....

not sure what we plan on doing today.  i have today and the next 2 days off.  my parents are in town from WA until this coming friday.  so happy they are here. and oh my these next couple of months before we move to OH are gonna be busy ones with jesse's cousin coming in next month and my sis and her family coming in june.  FULL HOUSE the next couple of months!  love it!

my goals this month is to study my butt off for my ACE Personal Trainer Certification exam which is in early may.  then the next couple of months: get some project life layouts done, maiya's album done (not sure i'll have it done before she leaves), prep for 4 Zumba master classes (2 of them with instructors and the last 2 of just me, myself and i) and get ready for our move.   BUSY BiZY!!!!

so looking forward to all the biZyness... xoxo.

Monday, March 28, 2016

paper & stuff...

being a paper playa....
stuff for my soon-to-be 5 yr old lil girly girl...can you tell she loves pink?

the birthday banner...
the tassels...well i still gotta make pink ones..
these were my first time making tassels..practice ones.
first every paper pompoms...i'm so proud of myself.
paper doilies...and seeing how i should do a centerpiece out of them.
(see photo above for end result).
the cupcake toppers...oh so cute!
love them. can't wait to use them for her party.

Saturday, December 26, 2015

#44

oh yes, i did one... happy 44 to me!  aaa-oo!!!






detailed but still clean & simple. see...i'm trying to embrace my inner minimalist.

and yesterday, i worked on de-cluttering my scrap stuff...BIG time!  i just combined and organized all my cocoa daisy kits i was keeping in a big bin. finally got all the supplies out of those plastic/brown bags. getting rid of stuff i know for sure i will never ever use or are just not my style.  see all of those lined up on my table and on the floor...those are the ones i'm keeping.  aaah it feels good to be a semi-minimalist of my supplies.


and this is what happened too yesterday...

a visit from santa

after playing, she went back to sleep...

my first ever attempt of making homemade cherry-strawberry pie...


caught hubby cutting up his prime rib he just got hot out of the oven...

and just around the neighborhood on xmas afternoon...



have a good one!  and i'll be going to someone's zumba class, just gonna be a student for a change and then our 2 teenagers come home today!  yes...the family of 5 again!

Sunday, December 29, 2013

forty-2

yes...i am forty-2 as of 12.26.13!
woke up early before everyone...
had my breakfast and milk coffee...
put on my new zumba gear...
and headed to zumba class and danced my bootay off!
what a way to start out the day!


came home to my familia and got this...

then had a late lunch con mi familia here...




proscuitto fig pizza..yumm-o!


and the rest of the night, just me and them (maiya was in WA at the time)...



i made this the night before (good thing i did because i couldn't wake up early on my bday morning)...
i used the cocoa daisy december "home again" kit.

my biggest accomplishments this past year:

  • getting my license as a zumba instructor
  • getting to teach a few songs at the base gyms
  • studying for my ACE Group Fitness Certification
  • doing my first zumbathon on 11.23.13
  • getting an offer to teach at the arctic oasis community center on base
  • networking and making new zumba friends and instructors
can u say "zumba cra-cra???
yes...i am!

what i want to accomplish this coming year?
  • pass my ACE exam
  • lose 5 - 10 lbs by this coming summer
  • be the best zumba instructor i can be
  • get back into scrapbooking
  • do my project life albums
  • update my blog
i'm gonna get there too!

just wanna say thank you so much to my family and close friends who have supported me throughout this Z journey, especially to my hubby and my daughter, maiya!  
i love you so much!

xoxoxoZUMBAxoxoxo