Tey Garcia

I’m getting better with this blogging stuff :) 

One day, Nathan was constipated and so we thought it would be a perfect time to introduce the toilet.  So we put him on the toilet and he was crying and fighting with us because he didn’t want to sit on it.  After he pooped in the toilet, he was all smiles again.  I have to say that potty training is hard work, but when they are ready they are ready.  That’s what happened with Lucas.  For the longest time he would only pee, but not poop in the toilet.  Out of the blue one day he said, “I want to poop in the toilet”.  Jan and I were so excited..no more diapers for Lucas!!  It’s not cute anymore when they are big.  I hope Nathan will potty train faster with Lucas around.  They say that the second child learns faster from the other siblings..  we’ll see

Lucas wanted to be in the picture…hahhah!

I’m always late, but it’s better late than never.  We didn’t do much this weekend.  I really wanted to take the kiddos to Disneyland this past week since our passes will be blacked out for the summer.  So Jan and I ended up taking them on Friday.  We got to Disneyland around 6pm and it was packed!!!!  We got to watch “Fantasmic” and alittle bit of the firework show.  Lucas really enjoyed it and knew most of the characters now.  We’ve been trying to introduce him to more of the Disney movies so that when we go there he knows who’s who.  Here are some pics of the kids and Jan:

On Saturday, we had Dim Sum with our friends Lisa, Tim, Wendy and Dennis at Lincoln Plaza.  Tim’s family owns the hotel and they started to serve dim sum recently.  We really enjoyed it.  If you are in the area…definitely check it out.  The price is not bad either :)  Later, we went to Denny and Kara’s baby shower.  It was fun hanging out with everyone and their kids.  Thank goodness we didn’t work…it was scorching hot that day.

Sunday was nice and relaxing.  We went to Cerritos to went Grandma Nancy and had dim sum again.  We usually do this every two weeks.  It’s nice for the kiddos to see their other Grandma :).

Hope you all had a nice weekend!

We had a wonderful weekend!!  Friday night was pretty fun for me..hahah!  Jan let me drink :).  Jan, the kids and I had dinner with our good friends Tim, Lisa, Dennis, Wendy, Mark and Kamryn (who is 9 months preggo).  We ate at Shin Sen Gumi Yakitori and ShabuShabu Restaurant in Monterey Park.  It was a perfect place for my loud kiddos and the food was delicious!!!  My favorite is the bacon wrapped aparagus :)  The kiddos had a blast with Aunty Lisa and Aunty Wendy.  It’s always weird dragging the kids out, but at least our friends love them.

Saturday was very uneventful.  We just hung out all day and ended up at South Coast Mall.  We didn’t have our stroller so we decided to rent one at the mall only to find out that South Coast rents for FREE.  That’s pretty awesome!!!  All you have to do is leave a deposit/cc and they don’t charge you once you return it.  Great service I tell ya!!!

This Sunday was a very special one for my hubby.  Happy Father Day Bub!!!  We love you very much!  Lucas made Jan this very cool cup.  See below for pics.  Jan is such a good daddy to the boys!  He’s smart, teaches the boys everything and loves to play with them.  Jan does a lot for the boys and I and we love him for that.  He just doesn’t do bottles or washes pots and pans, but I think I can live with that..hahaha!  We didn’t do much, but we did take the boys to the beach for a bit.  It was a beautiful day and everyone seems to be out enjoying the sun.  We wanted to head to Disneyland, but last second Lucas said he wanted to go to the beach..so we ended up in Corona del Mar.   

Jan, Thanks for being such a wonderful Dad!!!   Happy Father’s Day to all the father’s out there

This is Lucas and Natey on Saturday.  Lucas is only 4 years old, but he’s better at the computer than me.

Natey chillin!

LOL!!!  It’s so funny what Lucas knows about Daddy.  *Note: I guess his preschool reuses the paper…cause it’s definitely not 2007..hahah!

Lucas’s card to Daddy…so cute!!! 

Lucas’s gift to Daddy!  They made it at his preschool…so thoughtful!!!  It was better than my gift.  Every day they had a little something to give to their dad and the last day they made this big gift.  It was better than Mother’s day.  I got a cookbook..lol!!!  It was still cute, but not as cute!

Daddy and his boys.

Me and my two cuties!!

Making sandcastle’s and enjoying the beautiful day.

Hope you all had a wonderful weekend too!!! 

Oh, check out the video of the two boy’s on Jan’s facebook.  So funny and cute!!  Lucas knows the lyrics to “I’m yours” from Jason Mraz.  That’s it!  Sorry for the long post.  Glad you made it this far tho

Well, it’s that time of the year!  The Lakers are in the FINALS and they are ahead 3 games to 1.  I’m not much for dressing up for the games, but my kids are..hahah!  Grandma & Danny went to the second game at Staples Center and bought the kiddos the cute gear.  So now, they wear it everytime there’s a game.. so cute if you love the Lakers :)  Check them out:

I had a crazy, but fun weekend.  I call it crazy whenever it deals with the whole family.  It was quite the adventure when it comes to the kiddos.  Jan flew up to San Francisco on Wednesday for an engagement shoot.  Since we didn’t have a wedding this past weekend, I thought it would be nice to have a mini vacation with the whole family up north.  I drove up with the kiddos and Normi (our Nanny) on Thursday.  It wasn’t too bad.  We headed out around 1:30pm from Orange County and arrived in San Francisco at 10:30pm.  Of course, we had to make a few stops for the kiddos.  They were actually pretty good.  Natey was a bit fussy, but after he cried himself to sleep…we were all good.  We all stayed at my aunt Chloe’s place in the city.  She lives pretty close to everything so that was nice.

Friday, Rob (my uncle-in-law) took us to the newly remodeled Academy of Science.  It was an awesome place.  Click on the link to read more.  Lucas had a blast.  He knew a lot of the sea animals and different kinds of frogs.  I guess Go Go Diego teaches you a lot.  Later on, we stopped by the park and let Lucas play for a bit.  We were all pretty exhausted by 5pm.  We went back and rested til dinner time.  When my aunt Chloe got home from work, Lucas and Chloe made us oatmeal, cranberry and chocolate chip cookies.  They were delicious!!!  Later that evening, we had dinner at this place called Park Chow.  This place was packed and very kid friendly.  The food was awesome especially Jan’s pork chop dish.

Saturday was a chill day with for us.  We headed to the farmer’s market at Embarcadero.  It was fun trying all the yummy fruits, eating oysters and trying the smoke salmon sandwich.  Lucas was going crazy.  He loves trying out the fruit sample.  We bought a few things, but his most favorite were the plums.  He ate 3 plums while hanging out.  After the farmer’s market, we headed to union square.  It was crowded, but nice to check out since I’ve never been.  It was getting late so we headed home to rest a bit before dinner with Lily, Ian, Karen and Paul.  We met up with them at a restaurant called Le Cheval in Oakland.  It was a French Vietnamese place.  The food was good.  We had fun catching up with them and they got to see the kiddos.  Karen’s 7 months pregnant now.  Wow, how time flies..  I can’t believe she’s never seen Lucas and he’s almost 4.  Lily is getting married in August..so will be back up :).  It was nice seeing everyone since I don’t get to see or talk to them that often.

Sunday was bye bye time for SF..  We headed out by 10am and got home at 6:30pm.  It was nice having Jan there driving home with us.  We had a nice drive home…  made a few stops.  Got to rest a bit…  hope you’re ready for lots of pics.

Hope you all had a nice weekend too!!! 

Academy of Science Time:

Went to the playground near Uncle Rob’s place:

Aunt Chloe and Lucas are making cookies..  They were so yummy..we took them home on Sunday.

Walking to dinner.

It’s Farmers Market Day …and the boys had a great time!

Checked out Union Square since I’ve never been.

Dinner with Lily and Karen in Oakland.

It’s bye bye time… one last picture before we leave.  Thanks Aunt Chloe and Uncle Rob for everything!!  The kiddos will miss you guys

Jan just posted some other pics on his blog..check it out.

Well, I guess it’s about time. The boys just recently got a hair cut. The weather here has been pretty weird lately. It’ll be sunny and hot one day and then gloomy/ raining the next. I guess that’s why they call it June Gloom!

On monday, Jan went to pick up the boys from grandma and found Natey with a new do. His hair was all gone.. He had the most beautiful reddish brown hair. It wasn’t his first hair cut so we didn’t mind it at all. He looks very different though. We wanted to leave his hair long, but he does sweat a lot so I guess it’s okay. I miss my Natey’s hair, but it will grow back

Lucas got his hair cut yesterday. He’s really good and loves getting his hair cut. He looks so adorable..I just want to eat him up. Check out the new do!!

Nathan looks like a big boy now!

Loves to ride on Grandma’s back.

Me and Natey!!

Daddy and Natey.

My biggest boy ever!  Lucas is getting soooooooooo big.  He’s pretty funny these days!

Didn’t want to look at the camera..oh well, at least you can see his hair cut.

Lucas’s model stare!  Hahahah…just keeding.  He just woke up from his nap.

This is going to be short and sweet…I think.  I’ve been super busy lately on the weekends, so this weekend was a nice change.  I didn’t do much on Friday, but relax with the kiddos because I knew Saturday was going to be a long day.  Jan and I had a wedding in Santa Barbara the next day.   

Saturday was Heather and Jerry’s wedding.  Jan and I headed out to Santa Barbara by 10 am so that we would get there early, have lunch and start by 2pm.  It was a pretty smooth drive and no traffic..yay!!!  It was a gloomy morning/ afternoon, but by the time the wedding started it was perfect.  They picked a beautiful location for the ceremony and reception.  I’ll have more when I blog about the wedding.  Jan dropped me off at Jerry’s location and he headed over to the girls.  It was nice hanging out with the guys.  They were a fun group to chill with.  We worked all day and got off about 10:15pm.  Since Jan drove there, I ended up driving us home.  We got to Cameo around 12:45am.  Tita Peggy and Tita Ad were still awake.  We ended up chatting for a bit and then, I don’t know what happened next.  I must of just knocked out in the middle of our conversation..hahahha!

I woke up Sunday morning still in my working clothes on the couch.  Jan and I just slept at Cameo.  We had breakfast there and then went home.  I was pretty pooped from the wedding so I fell asleep again when we got home.  Later, we decided to take the kiddos to watch the movie “UP”.  It was a cute and funny movie.  I highly recommend it…  I do think that it might be a bit long for kids under 5.  Lucas started to get bored a bit.  Natey was good for the first half so we ended up having to walk about with Natey.  At least we all got to finish the movie

Overall, it was a good weekend.  I was able to rest a bit.  I haven’t done any quilting lately though.  I finished a top quilt about a week ago, but need to seriously finish the rest.  I think I’ll do some quilting tonight.

Sorry, no pics this weekend.  Hope you all had a nice one!!    

Friday was a pretty chill day. In the afternoon, I just had to do a bunch of stuff for Natey. He’s sick again and it’s all from his big brother Lucas. He’s getting better though….slowly, but surely. Later that evening, we went to California Adventure with Lille, Tita Peggy and Tita Ad.  It was just Jan, Lucas and I.  We left Natey with Normi.  They’ve never been and Lille had to use her 2fer ticket before Saturday.  Lille ended up converting it to a season pass….yay! Now, Lille can go with us anytime

I did a lot of stuff on Saturday.  My day was full of to do stuff.  I ended up cleaning and prepping the house for my aunt Chloe and her husband Rob and for my Memorial Day BBQ.  Chloe and Rob stayed with us a few days while visiting from SF.  My aunts flight was delayed a few hours so I really didn’t get to hang out with them on Saturday.  After I picked them up we had to get ready for a party at Cameo.  Later that evening we attended Mutya and Mark’s small wedding reception. We had a great time hanging out with family. Tita Din was here from NY, Di came down too and the usual peeps were here. A few of Mark’s relatives came as well. We had lots of good food and drinks…my tummy was full all night!! I’ve been eating like a maniac lately. Check out some pics from the party:

Sunday was a beautiful day. We shot Lisa and Kirk’s wedding in San Clemente. They looked awesome!! They got married at Casa Romantica and had the reception at Talega Golf Club. I was pretty much on my own half the day. Jan and I had to split …he was with the girls and I was hanging out with the guys. I’ll be posting more about their wedding in a few weeks.

I had a nice, but exhausting weekend. Hope you had a nice weekend too!

I had an awesome weekend. I didn’t work this weekend, but it was still a busy one. On Friday, Jan and I decided to have date night. We rarely have date nights. My sister Mary wasn’t going out so we asked her to baby sit the crazy ones. We waited till they were asleep so she wouldn’t have to handle both kiddos at once. See how nice we are?? I wanted to watch “Wolverine”, but Jan wanted to watch “Star Trek”.  I didn’t mind and just wanted to spend time with my hubby so we ended up watching Star Trek. I thought it was pretty good and funny. I liked it because it was the prequel so you didn’t need to know much about the show. I really enjoyed it and didn’t fall asleep like the guy next to Jan… Hahahha! Jan said he was snoring pretty loud. Poor Jan. I would highly recommend going to watch this movie in the theatre. Just being there with the surround sound going …it’s just awesome. Trust me…we watch a lot of movies at home and it’s not the same.

Saturday was a chill day with the family. We had a birthday party to go to. We went to Loma Linda to celebrate Lola Pat’s 83rd birthday. She looks great for 83 and her sister Lola Azon will be celebrating her 95th birthday this year. We got there around 1pm and hung out all day. We had some yummy food and ate all day long. I think I gain 2 lbs. that day :(. It was nice to see the cousins too. Lille, Mutya, Mark (Mutya’s fiancé), Sara, Ethan and Eddie were there. Check out some pics from the day:

Happy Mother’s day!!! Sunday was a beautiful day for Mother’s Day! We didn’t do much, but it was nice to chill. We had lunch with my mom, grandparents, Mark, Brian, Mary and Jan’s mom. We ate at this Vietnamese restaurant that served 7 course of beef and we had crispy catfish too.. it was delicious!!! After lunch, we took the kiddos home for a nap. But of course, Lucas doesn’t like to nap anymore so it was just Natey and I. Jan had to stay awake and play with Lucas..Hhahah! I took advantage of the day :) Jan had a portrait shoot in Orange later on, so we went to hang out at Cameo (Jan’s mom’s house) and had dinner there. Hope you all had a nice Mother’s day too!!

Friday night was pretty chill for us. I picked up the kiddos from Grandma’s and went home to hang out with Daddy. We haven’t been hanging out at home that much since Tristan arrived from the Philippines so it was nice. Plus, I think it was time to give Grandma a break from the Duke. He’s been sleeping over there a lot lately. We had a nice dinner with Mary at home. We never know when Mary will be joining us so it was nice for all of us to sit down and chit chat. Jan made yummy carne asada tacos with all the fixings! After dinner, the kiddos just ran around and tore up the house, but it was fun.

We worked on Saturday at Arroyo Trabuco. We shot Julianne and David’s wedding. It was a beautiful day!!! She looked stunning and David wasn’t so bad either! They were so easy going and up for anything that we were able to get some killer portraits of them Can’t wait to show you the pictures. I love her colors too. It was green, black and cream… awesome!!! It was a pretty easy day for us, but I was still exhausted. Jan and I got home around 11:45pm. I tried to stay up to watch the Pacquiao vs. Hatton fight and couldn’t do it. I must have been pooped cause the fight only lasted 6 mins.. hahahah!! I still can’t believe it only lasted 2 rounds.

We had planned to go to Legoland with the family on Sunday so we slept over at Grandma’s. We all took our time on Sunday and didn’t leave the house til 11am (Legoland closes at 5pm on Sundays). We got to Carlsbad at 12pm and wanted to eat lunch before we went to Legoland. So we stopped by the outlet and ate. While eating lunch we were debating if we should still go to Legoland or stay at the outlet, so we ended up staying and shopping. We’re so bad because the kids wanted to go to Legoland still and we told them… this is it. So they totally think the outlet was Legoland..hahahah! I didn’t end up buying anything, but the kiddos got some toys and clothes from Grandma

Here’s a picture of the boys at Grandma’s before we left to Legoland. Jan did a mini photo shoot with them and they’re so cute!!