Days 3 & 4 combined!

Day 03 - A picture of you and your friends
Yes I am a slacker, I didn't get a chance to update yesterday. I am trying to get as much time in as possible at work so I can have some money! I went home last night and crashed on my bed and fell asleep til morning. Can you say Tired? I will update a picture I promise tonight. The one I have in mind is actually from Junior High. I am still friends and still keep in contact with the girls in this picture, I just need to find it and scan it.
Day 04 - A habit that you wish you didn’t have
Hmm this is not a tough question, because I have lots of habits that I wish I didn't have. Maybe we will just go down the list....
1: Twirling my hair, yes I have picked this dirty habit up from my mother and now I can't stop. Whats really bad is now little Amaya is picking it up to. At night you will see her twirl her hair to go to sleep. This habit drives Rhandie crazy!
2: I am a candy freak and so is Amaya, I have trained her well. We need to have sweets. Even in the morning, when I stop to get coffee (with lots of vanilla creamer and lots of sugar), my little mini me has to have her slurperee(slurpee) in the mornings. Yep we even slipped a couple of times and got her the coke one. Bad mommy!
3: Jealousy, I know I hate to admit this one but I am a very jealous girl. IF I even think you have something for my cute little hubby, I have no problem putting you in your place. I know this is something I wish I didn't have and believe me Rhandie would like this to disappear too.
Hmm maybe thats it, unless I have something else in the future I can think of.

Day 02 - The meaning behind your Blog name

This one is a plain jane answer... My blog name says it all inthelifeoftheubans, yep just to give friends and family info about whats going on in our day to day life. When I have time to update the stuff and if I have the new pictures updated on my computer. This 30 day challenge is really going to keep me current, maybe I should do this a little more often.
Other than that little piece of our blog name and what its about, lets update on the new info we are going through.
Jaycee has been out of school for the last couple of weeks, she is happy, and we are enjoying our time with her being off. She gets to go entertain Amaya at Lolas house and occasionally she gets to spend time with her friend TJ.
Amaya is growing like a weed, she loves to spend time with her sister and mom and dad. She is currently into doing the "Black Rosary" this month with Lola. They are having fun with it! She is very entertaining and can't wait to be big like Jaycee so she can do all the same things.
Rhandie has been really busy with school. He went back to get a Business Degree with the Pheonix College. He is doing really well and so far is getting A's. Go honey.
I on the other hand am just trying to keep it all together. Right now I am doing what everyone else is doing and trying to put in more hours at work, considering Christmas is coming up. All the kids love it, this is their favorite holiday and the parents on the other hand dread it. Christmas comes so fast and leaves as fast as it comes, the only thing is, is that you are so broke after wards. Your bank account never recovers after the Holidays. Oh well what ever makes our kids happy we do right?

That is what we are up to. Nothing really crazy or dramatic just living the life of the ubans!

Kendra you have inspired me once again!

This little (BIG) challenge that a friend of mine is doing sounded kinda fun, so I thought I would try it on my blog and see if I can stick to it. I know I usually don't get past the first couple of days on these things, so we will see if its something I can finish. It's a 30 day blog challenge. Yes write about this stuff for the next 30 days. Here it goes, this is the agenda!

Day 01 - A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself
Day 02 - The meaning behind your Blog name
Day 03 - A picture of you and your friends
Day 04 - A habit that you wish you didn’t have
Day 05 - A picture of somewhere you’ve been to
Day 06 - Favorite super hero and why
Day 07 - A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you
Day 08 - Short term goals for this month and why
Day 09 - Something you’re proud of in the past few days
Day 10 - Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad
Day 11 - Another picture of you and your friends
Day 12 - How you found out about blogs and why you made one
Day 13 - A letter to someone who has hurt you recently
Day 14 - A picture of you and your family
Day 15 - Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs that play
Day 16 - Another picture of yourself
Day 17 - Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why
Day 18 - Plans/dreams/goals you have
Day 19 - Nicknames you have; why do you have them
Day 20 - Someone you see yourself marrying/being with in the future
Day 21 - A picture of something that makes you happy
Day 22 - What makes you different from everyone else
Day 23 - Something you crave for a lot
Day 24 - A letter to your parents
Day 25 - What I would find in your bag
Day 26 - What you think about your friends
Day 27 - Why are you doing this 30 day challenge
Day 28 - A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then?
Day 29 - In this past month, what have you learned
Day 30 - Who are you?

So for my day 1 an interesting picture of myself, hmmm I am at work and now I am going to have to find something or maybe post it tonight.
The 15 interesting facts about me hmm.....

1-I am a mother of two beautiful girls who I have managed to keep alive
2-I kill all living things, mostly plants, fish and frogs thats why I said I am glad that my kids are still alive lol
3-I love gory stuff, blood and guts excite me.
4-I am an ambulance/firetruck chaser, I have to know whats going on.
5- I can have a really crude sense of humor, yes I have learned it from some of my friends!
6-You can't get any whiter than me!
7- If you fall I will laugh and then pick you up, but first I will get my humor out of it.
8-I am not a prissy girl. I mow the lawn, I scoop up dog poo and horse poo, and clean up all my kids messes. I think I learned not to be grossed out when I did my CNA training.
9- I have mad road rage. Yes, my dad says that I need to stop, but that would mean that people would have to stop pissing me off.
10-I can talk! Okay alot.
11-If you are having a bad day come over sit next to me and I know I will do something dumb to chear you up, its the blondness.
12-I tip over when I am on my motorcycle, I run into walls,doors, just about anything, I fall down stairs, I am a very clumsy girl.
13- hmmm what else? I love to do crafts, but I hardly ever stick to one thing. I will have multiple things going on at any given time.
14-I could eat cookie dough, brownie mix, cake mix batter all gone without cooking it.
15- I use to be a skinny little thing with no stretch marks and be a really quiet girl before I got married and had kids, now I am sorry to say I am anything but little with stretch marks and I am very talkative. You will know when I am around.


I hope this gives you a laugh, just remember its all TRUE!!

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Justin and Karenza for the most amazing Lake Powell Trip Ever!!

Yes we went to the amazing Lake Powell and we were in aww! My little brother Justin(not so little anymore, he towers over me)and his girlfriend Karenza are working down there (I don't think we will ever get them to come home). Anyways they hooked us up with an awesome houseboat and speedboat for 7 days. The houseboat was litterally home away from home. It had three full bedrooms a full kitchen, two bathrooms a living room and then also an upstairs bar and slide. Talk about fun!!! The girls were in heaven, loved the water, swam like fish, and slept really good, all I can say is perfect! They also loved being out on the speed boat, we spent alot of time kneeboarding, wakeboarding, tubing, fishing, and sun tanning. Every morning Jaycee got up got her swimming clothes on and was ready to jump in the water, Amaya soon followed her footsteps and they would both be out most of the time before breakfast. The whole family had a blast. Justin and Karenza were awesome entertainment, they helped with everything including the kids and Jaycee was even begging us to leave her there so that they could be her parents lol. Wow, I was a little hurt, but you know Jaycee living by water, having a boat whenever you want, tubbing, and fishing what else would she want right? That is a Jaycee for you! I did try and talk Justin into keeping the girls and he politly said NO, ha ha ha okay I will try again next time. My parents were there as well as Jeff, Lisa and AJ. We all had the best time. We did catch a lot of fish and the girls had a great time catching them with Jaycee's scooby do fishing pole and Amaya's barbie fishing pole, I think they had the best luck of all, I did end up taking over the barbie pole at the end of the trip. Rhandie said if I am a good girl he will get me one of my own! You know hunny my birthday is coming up lol. This was Rhandie and Amaya's first time to Lake Powell and you should have seen their face when we finally got there. It was exciting!! Karenza took some amazing pictures I will post as soon as I get them back from her, and you can see how much enjoyment we all had.
Maybe next year we will get to do it again!!! Thank you to my brother and Karenza for making this happen, there is no way we would have been able to do this without you! Not to mention you both have some awesome tans going on. We love you guys so much and can't wait to see you soon!!!!

Random Thoughts!

Today I just have some random things to blog about. Here it goes, yes we celebrated our Anniversary!!! 6 wonderfully, amazing years together (this is what I say, Rhandie may beg to differ). We didn't really do much, other than go to Lagoon. We arrived about 1:30 and only stayed til about 7:30, yep we are old lol! We went on a a couple of rides and then felt sick, our brains did get shaken baby syndrome and our bellys just didn't feel right. We will leave that stuff to the kids. However on a different note Jaycee and Clint actually went on the same day, totally not planned. We did have a good time just hanging out and going on rides.

We did finally get our pictures done, Yipppeeee! Its been forever. I think the last time we had a family picture done was when Jaycee was about 3-4 years old. Yep she is almost 10, so that tells you how long its been. Sorry Amaya, this is your first. The photographer did an awesome job, thank you so much Steph! You can check them out at www.simplyzenphotography.com she is amazing, and worked very well with us. I have alot of favorites so yeah I can't just pick one.

This weekend we are suppose to go to Idaho, yep you heard right, Idaho. We love that place. So relaxing, peaceful and of course some of our Most Favorite People are there. We all can't wait to meet our newest family member little Brielle. I have quite a library of picures on my phone, but I haven't gotten to hold her yet, I am dying, I need to hold her and smell her head. Yes you heard right, I have this facination with smelling their heads. I still do it to this day poor Amaya, I think that I have done it so long to her that she doesn't even notice anymore. I am a little worried because this morning when the girls woke up they had a little cough, yikes. Never fails! Everytime we are suppose to go on a vacation the girls get sick. Argh maybe I will just leave them at Aunt Sherry's so I can still see the baby.

Going back to this morning Amaya was in heaven. Her daddy was still there when she woke up and that means she gets to snuggle with him. I call her a little snuggle bug. She does perfer to snuggle next to Rhandie in the mornings but at night you better watch out she is all about mommy. If Rhandie even comes over to kiss her she will moan because she thinks he is going to put her to bed, she is so use to mommy putting her to bed.

Also my wonderful, hot hubby has started school, yep he is a school boy again. He is liking it and doing very well getting back into the swing of it. He has his little backpack, school supplies and his laptop, so cute to look at him. On Tuesdays we really don't get to see him because he works and then its straight to school he does't get hom til 10 at night, and yep we are all passed out by then. I am so proud of him! Way to go Hubby! I love you so much!

Back to us not really doing anything for our Anniversary, the reason being is because we are going to Lake Powell at the end of Sept. We need to save our money for that. Justin has hooked us up with a houseboat!!! I can't wait, plus my little monkeys are fish. They love the water and can spend the whole day just playing so I know they will get a kick out of it. We are also going to do some fishing while we are there. Amaya has never fished before, other than pulling the dead ones out of our fish tank. Rhandie has never been to Lake Powell, so its really exciting to him and then Jaycee of course loves to do anything but school. She hasn't been there for a long time, so it will be fun to compare pictures. Thanks so much Justin,can't wait to see you its been a long time!

I know that I have told you all that I would put new pics on, but I don't have new pics on my computer, hubby hasn't had the chance to upload the pics off the camera and put them on the computer, and frankly I am not smart enough to do it , sorry!

Home Sweet Home, boy do we all miss you!

It feels like we have been around the world for the past month and 1/2. We traveled to San Francisco, had a blast. Went to Idaho for two consecutive weekends in a row and of course had a blast, and last of all went to Las Vegas and had a blast. Yes, its time for us to stay home for a while and just recoop. The kids are tired, I am tired and yes the hubby who loves his house is tired. Our next trip will just be for the adults going back to Vegas the end of August. It's a trip worth waiting for.

The last trip to Vegas in which the whole family went was kinda crazy. I swear everytime we go on vacation someone gets sick. For Jaycee it was San Francisco, in which she was miserable, and for poor Aya it was Vegas. Aya came down with a head cold the night before, we were thinking of just bagging the trip and staying home, but the girls were totally psyched to go, so we packed up the SUV and headed to Vegas. Anyone who knows Amaya knows that she hates to take medicine. She won't take it to save her life, its a big fight and usually ends up in a throw up mess. It didn't change on this trip, we begged, we bribed, we fought we tried to say it was candy, yep didn't work. It was hard, and even more hard for her. We did find a medicine and by adding it to Capri Sun and of course ice from the hotel vending machine turned out to be wonderful. She didn't even notice, she thought it was a special Juice made just for her, and yes it was. She would drink it like nothing and ask for more, what is that the same girl? What a disguise the Capri Sun did, whahooo! For the remainder of the night we hung out in front of the hotel at a place called the "Hawaiian Marketplace". Wow what a cool place. It has these outdoor vendors, a bunch of places to eat and of course Hawaiian dancers, what could be better. Well for Aya it would be not having her head hurt like crazy and being all stuffed up, she still enjoyd it and was begging to go back throughout the trip. She even tried to immitate the dancers shaking her hips and moving her hands, it was so cute. She has got moves. Jaycee was pretty entertained by the guy throwing fire and dancing around the fire. She went up and gave him a tip, I know we are starting out kids off early lol. We made it to M&M world, and to the Coke factory, by that time the kids were spent and was time to go back to the hotel and chill. We spent quite a bit of time in the hotel just hanging out. Rhandie on the other hand was in paradise. There was a ton of Filipino foods all around and he wasn't going hungry at all. He wanted to try everyone. We walked into a restaurant and immediatly Amaya and Jaycee smelled it and said, "We are not eating here," so funny, okay so we dropped off Lola and Rhandie and the two girls and I headed to KFC. Yeah thank goodness for the good old fried chicken. That was our deal we would drop off Lola and Rhandie and we would head somewhere else. That way everyone would be happy. We had fun, wish everyone was feeling good and it wasn't so hot. The temp there was over 100* argh, hot hot hot. It was funny to see the girls expressions when they saw all the naked girls photos laying all over the ground, hummm what do you tell the kids they are for. Just don't look at the ground keep your eyes up, I mean what can you say? They are everywhere and they are handing them out like candy, yep Vegas not a very kid friendly place. We also took the kids to the Adventure Dome in Circus Circus, they loved it. Totally cool place for kids.

Amaya did have her Dance Recital and yes she did awesome. So pretty and we went over her staying in her spot and also not trying to flash the audience. On the rehersal she didn't understand that lifting up her dress was so cute but not really appropriate, and staying in her line and not running over the other kids was also a good thing. On her recital she did perfect. She was even the "Leader" as Sabby called her. She had her moves down, stayed in her spot and no flashing. We did record it so you will all have to check it out. At the end she was pretty tired, but still went out there and shook her booty, man she was getting down and enjoying herself. So cute!!!!
It is just nice to be home and hopefully we can stay home for a while. Relax, enjoy the outdoors because right now in Utah the temps are staying in the mid 80*'s. Ahh sitting outside swinging with a popsicle. Yummy!!!

We are back!

I know we have been back for a little while now and still I have not logged on to tell you all how it went. It was awesome! The girls really enjoyed Circus Circus, and we ended up with a ton of stuffed animals. They played the games really well and Jaycee was super good at this Dog game where you have to get as many balls into his mouth to win. She won twice even against adults. Thats my girl, you go girl. Amaya loved the entertainment.
We then stayed at my in laws and it was fun, the girls got to play alot with their little cousin, and even fought over who got to play with him. We had to remind them that he wasn't going anywhere and that they need to learn to share him. We celebrated his first birthday and spent alot of time with the family at the Wharf. We ate at Bubba Gumps Shrimp Restaurant, played at the Warf, took a boat tour under the Golden Gate Bridge & around Alcatraz. It was amazing. I do wish that poor Jaycee was feeling better. She got sick at the time that we left the house on our road trip. We made it to Wendover and she started in with a bad cold, fever, and massive coughing. We had her on a bunch of meds to try and help her feel better, didn't work that well. She just wanted to stay in and sleep.
Rhandie was in heaven with all the filipino food that was in the area, he wanted to eat every two hours. We even got food to go and took some back home.

It was really fun just getting out of Utah and taking the kids to see other places. In June it will be crazy for the first two weekends we will be in Idaho, and then the last weekend we are going back to California.

Jaycee is out of school for the next three weeks, she is so excited. And little Amayas dance rehersal is coming up around the 18th of June. She got her costume and is so excited. I can't wait, my kids are growing up so fast and they are doing really fun things right now that is so exciting. I love being a mommy!!