kids say the darndest things

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That's me and my niece, Angelika, she often gets confused as my daughter... I think it's our strong Mendoza genes.

We are about 20 years apart and it's funny how sayings and such have changed since I/we were kids. Recently on one of her field trips I played the Stella Ella Ola clapping game with some of the kids and the words have evolved to something with "cheese and macaroni"!

And just the other day, Angelika had said a variation of the saying for determining North, East, South and West. When we were kids it was either Never Eat Soggy Wheat/Wieners... yesterday she had said Never Entered Shreks Washroom!

bahahahahaha! Kids are too cute :)

Semi Famous! - - - Happy Birthday Babe!!!

Just surfing the net at work… waiting for the day to end when I decided to check out what my old photographers have been up to. The days leading to my wedding I constantly checked their website for inspiration for my wedding day photos… And we made it to their website!!! My husband and I, as well as our wedding party :)




My handsome husband scored a singles spot... ain't he gorgeous?!?! and btw HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE!









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30 seconds of pure joy...

... "how bout you and me have a picnic"

my husband literally pissed his pants EVERY time he's viewed this... we replayed it a dozen times by now :)

it's pickin up!

The snow is almost all melted and spring is in the air! That only means that summers coming and my life is only going to get busier, luckily, I have only two more papers and presentations to complete until I get my degree… oh man! It’s sooooo close! After all my procrastination, I don’t know why I wait so long! As it was easy breezy… not to knock down the program, but I’m not sure about the instructors and the grading system. The way the course works is a series of eight papers and presentations to be completed in two semesters, if you don’t hear anything back from the instructors after submitting your final draft it’s usually a good sign and you’ll be able to present. After a day and a half of presentations students are assembled into groups to go over a case, after working at it for a few hours we draw for times to present on the final day. Groups don’t usually fail this, as long as they do it… the only groups that have been said to have failed is one where two members broke out in a fist fight…a fable I’m sure. After the group presentation, student papers and presentations marks are available for pick up, typically when I receive my package of markings, I bounce… after 3 days of presentations and nerves I just want to get the hell out of dodge. When I finally got a chance to review the marking scheme I was needless to say confused! There are several points and topics that must be discussed, the instructor is to rate your presentation based on whether you “failed to meet”, “somewhat completed” or “successfully completed”… for one of my presentations the instructor checked off “Successfully Completed” for everything and guess what mark I got!?!?! I got “D”!!! WTF!?! Whatever… it’s over, I passed (barely) but I don’t have to re-do it and I will be receiving my Degree as planned :)

But like I mentioned… summer’s around the corner, and that means ---- wedding season! Just received THREE invites in the mail today, so excited, as we only had one wedding to attend last year… my smoldering eyed - co worker Jonny’s and his beautiful wife Emily.

I love weddings! Yay 2010!

Chrismas 2009

I know it's kinda late, but in the attempt to make room on my camera for more debauchery here are some family pics from Christmas 2009

*mom n pops*

*me n derek*

*kuya and his family*

*justin*

*angelika*

Christmastime

It’s December 24! Usually by this time I’m relaxing not worrying about Christmas gifts or wrapping as I’m generally done all that by now… this year, unfortunately is not the case!

Just yesterday I kidnapped my coworker, Kayla, to help me hunt for the last few Christmas gifts on my list. As we were standing in line at the local Wal-Mart I noticed something a little different from any other year that is one of my holiday pet peeves…. PRICE CHECKS! It seemed that no matter what 30 person line you where standing in there was always one fool that wanted a price check on that pair of socks or frying pan or whatever miscellaneous item among their basket or cart. If it ever happened to me I wouldn’t have bothered the other Christmas shoppers in the line and I would simply leave that item behind. This time around, I noticed the line operating beside me was at a standstill, customers blankly staring at the cashier… a minute or two after a customer ran up with a shirt, the cashier swiped it thru and tossed it aside, and transaction totaled and completed thus after … I’m assuming that the size she was purchasing didn’t have a tag on it and she ran back out into the madness to obtain the price check, good on her for taking it upon herself to do the work! I think it makes it worse when you’re standing in line and you hear on the PA system “Price Check, till two… Price Check on till two, please”; at least this way people have no idea…

Christmas Eve and I still have one more gift to purchase… gotta find a cool stocking stuffer for my nephew, oh and think of a really good prank gift for him. For the past two years Derek and I have given him a prank gift for giggles: first year, a doll I received when I was a child for Christmas for my late Tito Peter… she’s hot! Lace dress, lace stockings and crimped hair, GORGE! second year, the pink tutu my bridesmaids’ dressed me in for my bachelorette party… and this year, I have no clue but it’s priceless when he opens it, the only reason why we do it!

Until the new year… Merry Christmas to you and yours and be safe when you ring in 2010!!!

my husband loves me :)

my poor blackberry pearl was seeing its last few days with me struggling to make things work with a broken trackball, but my thoughtful husband hooked me up with the new Bold 2

I'm in luuuuurve! Thanks Babeeee