albert the pin trader

happy birthday, chad! we celebrated chad's birthday the same way we celebrated mine.. disneyland and guppys! anthony actually forgot to bring his annual pass today, but thankfully they gave him a courtesy pass which allowed him to get in without it. after getting into the park, we only had about an hour left before it was going to close, so luckily our friends let us join them in line for the matterhorn. i felt like everyone in line behind us was mad that we cut, but the worker didn't seem to care, so i guess that's good. haha. after matterhorn, we said bye to our friends and then then anthony, his siblings, and i went to ride alice in wonderland. cute! we pin traded for a short while after that, and then headed to guppys to meet up with the rest of the family for dinner. hope you had a happy birthday, chad!

serena the cupcake

yay! the minnesotans arrived for their mini california vacation today! woohoo! we celebrated their arrival with a taco party. everyone loves my mom's tacos. after eating, priscilla and i made a quick trip to blenders because she's been craving it ever since she moved to minnesota! when we got back home, i was excited to see serena try on the cupcake hat that i bought her for priscilla's mad hatter party this saturday. i think she looks adorable in it. don't you agree?! i also like how she is semi-winking in this picture. (=

p.s. you can buy a cupcake hat here.

emilie the funny talker

november is full of birthdays! today we celebrated eanna's birthday at the mejia's favorite restaurant.. sam woo! anthony typically does not care for chinese food, but he loves going there 'cause of their house special beef (or as emilie likes to call it: house special bip). she's so silly! after dinner, we went across the street to guppy's for dessert. i am going to overdose on that place pretty soon. too! much! brick! toast!

lucille the mother-to-be

what a busy day!! anthony and i started our day off bright and early at st. philomena to commemorate his uncle's 1 year death anniversary. after mass, we joined the rest of the family for breakfast at manila sunrise, and then i went to meet up with rianne. she took me to get a pedicure for my birthday present! now my toes are lovely. haha. after rianne dropped me off back at home, i took a nap for a while and then woke up shortly before mark, jenn, and john stopped by. good thing they came over, 'cause otherwise i probably would've slept the day away! later in the evening, anthony and i went to lucille's sport-themed baby shower. lucille has always been super petite, so i guess i should not be surprised at how incredibly small she still is. but seriously.. it looked like she was just hiding a cantaloupe under her sweater. haha. after the shower, we picked up jenn, and then she and i went out to royal-t in culver city to check out the hello kitty exhibit again. it was pretty crowded there, but we were still able to see most of the artwork. we stopped to get some boba on the way home, and then after dropping her off, i went to wingstop to buy some lemon pepper wings. the guy who worked there laughed when he saw my hello kitty ring and wallet. good thing he was unaware of the fact that i just got back from the biggest hello kitty party ever!

wow.. who actually cares to know this many details about my day? haha.

marcelo the waiter

tonight we had our fifth and final birthday dinner.. this time with our friends at el pollo inka! our server was so polite and patient, even though there were 19 people in our party. the funniest thing i remember about dinner was when the live band played "jingle bells." we all clapped and cheered for them when the song was done, and the lead guy had the proudest, happiest look on his face. it was so cute! after dinner, half of us came back to our house to hang out some more. ricky and i tried to make pizookies for everyone, but for some reason, the cookies and brownies came out completely burned!!! they were like charcoal. yikes! and even though the whole house smelled like a bonfire after that, i still had lots of fun playing "catch phrase" with everyone. we probably kept our neighbors awake with all the shouting that was going on. haha! fun stuff!

thank you, friends, for coming out to celebrate with us! you guys/gals are the best! (=

yosh the friend of a friend

isn't funny how you can know so much about someone, and even feel like you know them on a personal level, when in reality you've never met the person? haha. that's how i feel about a lot of my friends' coworkers who i always hear stories about. i actually have met yosh (anthony's ex-coworker) a couple times, but never chatted with him long enough to know all the things i know about him. haha. i just think that's funny. i'm actually really close to all of my coworkers, so i know all of their families, but i wonder if any other random people know all kinds of things about me! anywho, anthony just switched over to t-mobile, which means he now has unlimited text messaging. he used to get mad whenever someone would send him a picture text 'cause it would cost him 50 cents. but now he can send and receive all the pictures/texts he wants.. so text away! this is what he sent me earlier while he was having dinner with yosh. haha.

p.s. yosh's name is actually steve. there's another example of me acting like i'm close to the guy. i refer to him by his nickname, even though only his close friends call him that! (=

david the warrior

we had our fourth birthday dinner tonight! this time, we ate at olive garden with my family. love that place! i always want to eat there on my birthday, but we always end up eating next door because nobody ever wants to wait for a table. but this year, my parents promised that we would wait no matter how long it took. luckily, we got seated right away! i was supposed to ask our waitress to pose for today's picture, but she was busy helping other servers when we were leaving. so instead, i took a picture of the great king david. and right before i snapped the shot, my mom decided to pick his nose. haha.

buzz lightyear the gentleman

it's my birthday! we celebrated this great occasion by going to disneyland for the second day in a row. and this time, chad came along to join the party. we rode indiana jones and buzz lightyear. mr. lightyear was quite the gentleman! when i was taking his picture, i noticed that he would stop to pose whenever my camera's flash was pointed at him. haha. i did it three times, and he stood still for the picture each time. what a nice guy! =) so anyway, after disneyland, we went to guppys for dinner. i felt like eating soup, but the soup i got there was super weird. it wasn't even soupy.. it was thick and gooey. yikes. at least the shaved ice was good.

ursula the villain

happy birthday, anthony!

i woke up super early this morning because i had to bring toni to the greyhound station in LA. she slept over last night, and we tried to stay up all night to chat, but toni ended up sleep talking instead. haha. i realized that she was not making sense anymore, so i told her to just go to sleep. =P

but anyway, we celebrated anthony's birthday by going to disneyland with venus and grace. the park only stayed open 'til 8:00 tonight, so we only got to ride buzz lightyear and big thunder mountain. we spent the rest of the time pin trading! it is SO much fun. i love it. but what i did NOT love was when one of the ladies working there rejected me when i asked if i could take her picture for today's post. haha. oh well. after leaving disneyland, we went to have dinner at cpk. i had a fun night. hopefully the birthday boy did, too!

uncle edmund the mochi dropper

anthony and i went to dinner at furaibo with his family tonight to celebrate our upcoming birthdays. we had so much food! and even though uncle edmund was stuffed from dinner, he was still excited to have some mochi ice cream for dessert. but one second before it went into his mouth, his arm was bumped and the mochi fell straight onto the floor. hahaha! it was so sad but so funny. so anyway, anthony and i both got cool presents! i got lots of hello kitty stuff and lots of disney pins for my soon-to-be pin trading hobby at disneyland. yay!