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Motherhood, Sewing, Family

future chefs

~ Etc.

here are the matching aprons I made for my girls for part of their valentines gifts.



adi is screaming, “stop taking my picture!” hahaha easy Jay Jr.!

i grew up helping my mom cook dinner since I was little and i want to do the same with my girls. I want to make sure they can cook/sew before they leave for College and marriage. adi always helps me now(more like POURING way too much pepper or salt or making a huge mess) and I can’t wait to cook with ana either. future Iron Chef’s here they come!

I just need to make my apron now

so i can be twinners with my girls. 😀

Pearl came to visit

~ Etc.

My sister Pearl and David and their two daughters came to visit. Ellis their oldest is only 6 days younger than Adalie and last time they met was in Korea and they fought and screamed at each other constantly. But this time they got along so well thank goodness! Adalie still asks me, “Where is Ellis? She’s far away? Oh no!!!” She misses her a lot. I miss all of them too.

Jay and David. They didn’t plan this I promise.
My beautiful sister Pearl and baby Caitlyn.

Sorah made delicious Korean food for all of us.

At Tucano’s

Playing airplane.

BFF’s

At Chuck-a-Rama. Out of all places it’s Pearl and David’s favorite place to eat in UT. 🙂

Cutie patootie Ellis.

Even though all we did while they were here was eat, eat, and eat some more, we had a blast! We love you guys!

Ana’s head got stuck!

~ Etc.

Today was so scary. Adi and Ana were playing with the kitchen tools while I was cooking dinner like they have many times. Well today Adalie decided to put the container on Ana’s head and push it down as hard as she could. I turned around at Ana’s screaming and I frantically tried to get it out of her head. But it was so tight and stuck that the metal bars were squishing Ana’s forehead and the back of her head that her top of the forehead was protruding out like a centimeter. For a second I thought it was kinda funny but when it didn’t come out no matter what I did, I started panicking and freaking out. Adi put herself on time-out cuz she knew she did something wrong and she just watched me cry, scream, and freaking out. I tried over and over to get it out but it was not moving at all and Ana was screaming and crying more and freaking out as more time went by. I had no idea what to do and in my heart I pleaded, “Heavenly Father! Help me!” as I tried once again and it just came out with barely any effort.  Now Ana has a permanent dent in the smack middle of her forehead.  Poor thing.

V-day weekend

~ Etc.

Flashback:
Right before Valentine’s four years ago I went on a trip to Hawaii with my sister and this beautiful bouquet of flowers was delivered to my hotel room. Jay had arranged to have it sent all the way from UT.

And Jay made this sign and a lei flower made out of straws and colored papers that took him like 1 1/2 hrs. to make. He had planned to wear the lei flower and the sign waiting for me at the airport but the night before I was suppose to come back, I told him to not pick me up because we were broken up and I didn’t want to lead him on. Yes I was an idiot. I would do anything to go back in time so that I could see him holding this sign and wearing the necklace! How cute/funny would that have been? That’s one of the many things I love about him. He’s not afraid or doesn’t worry about what other people think when he’s declaring his love. 🙂 I tried to find the necklace in our basement but I couldn’t find it. I was pretty sad, I searched for it for almost 2 hrs. 🙁 I also cancelled our V-day date where he had brought a diamond necklace to give me. To this day he gives me a hard time for breaking his heart then. I’m truly sorry hun but guess what? I’ll always be your Valentine from now on. So stop bringing it up!!! haha.

For our V-day weekend:

We went to the Aquarium.


 Ana is at the stage of smiling for pictures just like Adalie was and I love it!

Adi wanted to take her doll Nemo to the Aquarium to go find the real Nemo.

Thug-life!
We went to an Asian market and Chipotle afterwards and got lots of delicious food. Then we watched The Box. The most eery, weird movie ever. I hated it. 🙂

We got Ariana a front-facing car seat! Same same as sister Adalie! She seemed to love it.

We go to In-n-Out once a week so this week wasn’t any different. Cheeseburger animal style, fries and strawberry shake!


And Jay surprised me with a date! He told me we were going to a Nu Skin fundraiser party for Haiti and so we got our whole family ready to go and I went into the bedroom to get something and saw a dark human figure in the bathroom and I screamed in horror! The person turned out to be one of my best friends Janie who came to babysit for the night. I think I scared her too by my loud scream. Janie insisted babysitting for us last year too and Gloria came later to help babysit. They’re both such amazing, thoughtful friends. Thank you girls, we love you!!!
(And of course Jay had to match me on our date. I think we’re the ONLY couple where no one believes Jay when he says, “It was Sarah that tried to match me.”)
Then Sunday happened to coincide with the Korean new year so after church we went to my brother’s house and ate rice cake soup. Then we had a really nice relaxing day at home.
I made the girls matching headbands and aprons for Valentine’s. More pics to come soon. I’m making my apron right now so I can match them too!

It’s so hard to take a good picture with both of them looking. 🙁 My Valentine one.
When we were waiting to get seated for dinner Jay told me I could buy anything I want at the mall so I ended up getting a Nemo doll and Mickey Mouse for our two little girls. You know you’re becoming an old married lady with kids when you buy something for your kids instead of for yourself. And now I’m thinking why the heck did I do that? Everytime Jay offers me this which doesn’t happen often, I end up never getting anything. WHY WHY WHY? Next time… 😉 haha nah, I realized I didn’t need anything and everything I want and need was right in front of me.
My Valentine two.

My Valentine three. Oh I love them ALL!!! They’re the funnest, sweetest, cutest bunches of three I’ve ever met in my life.

t-bone lovin’

~ Etc.


Jay came home from work beaming last week. The reason? Eighty bucks worth of T-bone steak. We eat steak every Sunday. And I mean EVERY single SUNDAY. Have I mentioned Jay makes the most A-M-A-Z-I-N-G steak? You’ve gotta come try it. 😉