Mask Mandates for Covid

Along with the stay at home orders, are mask mandates for when you need to visit the grocery store to pick-up food and other necessities.

Jeric is the only one heading out for all that right now. Which means me and the kiddos stay home. No masks required! But, thought we'd try them on, sort of.

Lunch w/ Kaitlin and Her Baby

Had lunch plans with Kaitlin and her baby boy Klay today. We planned to meet at Anaheim Packing House, which may have not been the best choice.

Zoë was supposed to go, but Dustin asked if she wanted to go with them to eat. She wanted to actually go to both, but with conflicting times, we had her choose and in the end she chose to go with Daddy and the fam.

I got there well before Kaitlin was on the way since she had a bit of a setback with Klay. Our slightly delayed lunch plans actually worked in Zoë's favor since the fam bam finished up their lunch a while ago and Jeric was on his way to drop Zoë off at Anaheim Packing House. Yey! She gets to make it to both lunches just like she wanted.

When I got there, parking was a bitch as always. I'm pretty sure I circled the parking lot 10+ times. It was fine though, Zoë hadn't arrived yet and neither has Kaitlin and Klay. Once I found parking, I went inside and scoped out the food and ordered me a smoothie while I waited for everyone to get there.

The smoothie was alright, but at least I found several foodie spots I'd want to eat at.

Finally got the call that Jeric was just right around the corner. I met them outside so he didn't have to look for parking. And after saying bye, I got a call from Kaitlin as she had just parked and was walking up and she wanted to know where I was.

We were actually walking up to the same entrance but from different sides so we saw each other immediately when we got to the front! Talk about perfect timing.

For lunch, we ended up grabbing food at the Indian spot, ADYA. Got myself the Tikka Misala w/ Garlic Naan.

While waiting for our food, Zoë warmed up to Klay as they both checked out the Halloween deco nearby our table.


We got to chat a bit, but with Klay and Zoë we did have some of our convo's cut off and couldn't focus 100%.

It was nice to finally see them again though!

Momma Outing w/ the Girls and Kiddos

The boys have their bball game today and then their NBA draft right after. Us girls didn't really wanna sit around and watch them play ball and then sit around again while they went through their draft. Since the Amurao's had a room the night before over at the Sheraton in Anaheim after their trip to Legoland, us girlies headed on over to enjoy the pool with the kiddos.

Meanwhile, the boys had their bball game. It was the Samoza boys versus Ray, Phil and Geoffrey. There was so much shit talking going on with this game too and the winner would get HUUUGE bragging rights. And I am seriously surprised. The Samoza boys lost by 8. Yeeks. Hopefully no arguments/fights broke out between these boys. Hahahaha.

Back to the girls and kiddos. After we were all swimmed out, we headed over to Din Tai Fung in Costa Mesa for some good eats! The wait time was 45 min to an hour, so we packed the kiddos into the wagon and went a bit of shopping.

Once we finished up eating, we dropped the kiddos off with the boys. We figured since they're just drafting, they'll be able to handle the two kiddos.

And where did we go? Off to a massage! We went to our old spot, Lotus Health Spa, out in Westminster. Since me and An are preggo, we had to obvi get a modified massage. Still, it felt so good and relaxing!

Celebrating Wren & Cara's Birthday

Happy Birthday Wren (5) and Cara (1)!!

We all had a fun time celebrating with you two cuties and really enjoyed the super cute singing and dancing entertainment from them and their cousins!

Zoë especially loved her balloon animal. She did request to have a guinea pig though. Lol, the guy couldn't do it and made her a bunny instead. She knew it was a bunny, but called it her guinea pig. Hahaha. At least she was happy with it!

Disneyland with Cousins

Since Quin and his son, Forest, were in town they wanted to hitup Disneyland. So, on Sunday, after brunch at Uncle Bob's house with the whole family, me and Zoë headed over to Disneyland.

Here are all the little cousins at Disneyland's entrance

The littles waiting in line for It's a Small World

All of us on the boat

The kiddos then wanted to ride Snow White. But when we got into the line, Zoë was already iffy. Then, when we got to the front, she straight up didn't want to ride. But, we were near the front already, so we couldn't back track through the whole line behind us. So, I was going to just walk straight through to the exit. Zoë freaked out because she thought I wasn't listening to her and that we were going to get on the ride. She held the rail and screamed. Yikes! I calmed her down though and explained we were just exiting. Thank goodness that worked.

While waiting for them to get off the ride, Zoë asked for cotton candy. So I bought her one to share with Leia, one for the twins and one for Forest. Here's Zoë with hers!

The kiddos all tried taking the Sword out of the Stone too, but nope, no luck.

So, they ended up riding King Arthur's Carousel


Next up was Buzz Lightyear. The ride kept stopping, so I totally took advantage and hit 999,999!!!

I kinda stopped there, but didn't know I could've kept going. The digits on the ride were limited to 6, but the actual score still tallied! My real score was over a mil!
Anyhow, while in outer space, the kiddos ran into a Storm Trooper! He took a quick pic and then went off to continue is patrol

The boys then went to ride Star Tours. The girls weren't tall enough, so we headed on our own adventure.

First, a cute pic of the girls holding the balloons!

Then they sat down to have snacks and water. With silly faces of course and a cute hug!

Once everyone joined up again, we all headed to have the kiddos visit Darth Vader, Rey and Chewbacca.




And lastly, we all headed to Mickey's house!


Good night Disneyland!

Cutie Cousins

Look at these cutie little cousins!


Zoë, Leia and Lucas were tumbling around giggling and laughing together and then had a group hug. Liam was off doing his own thing.

Homies for the Holidays

Time for our annual Homies Christmas get-together. It's great that we can get to spend the holidays with everyone.

This year, we spent it at the Mejia's.

Here's the whole gang!

Just the kiddos. Poor Cara was not having it.

And here's just the girlies.

We all spent the night catching up, eating, chatting and eating some more. We all brought filipino dishes and desserts. I had to say, the espasol was thee best, hands down! Although, the Ginataang Bilo-Bilo was pretty much all gone too.

Meanwhile, all the kiddos played together in Weston's room and the living room. And Zoë was good on her own! She hardly looked for me. Only every now and then did she call out for me. I just showed face and she was back off to playing again. She even got comfy enough to belt out "Let it goooooo, let it goooooo!" in the living room. Hahaha.

The kiddos also had their own gift exchange and it was so cute because they were all so shy in handing over and receiving their gifts. Lol!

Happy Holidays!!

Rock & Brews Homie Get Together

All the homies got together today with hubby's and kiddos. When we had our girly homie get together, we thought we should have another one to include the hubby's and kiddos. So here we are, at Rock & Brews in Buena Park.

While eating, I took a quick pick of the majority of the homies.

Pretty much just Mark and some of the kiddos in the pic.

Here's all the kiddos outside! Despite the hot hot heat, they all wanted to play out there!

We're also missing Wes in this pic. Not sure where he was actually.

But here's everyone all together!

Easter with Homies

We're having another Easter Egg Hunt party today! This one's with the homies.

We had it over at Heritage Park again. Pretty much like how we had it a few years ago, when Zoë couldn't even walk yet. We couldn't get the same spot though, but the early birds were able to snag us a spot with shade and a picnic bench!

When we got there, Wren, Zoë and Penny had fun playing tag. At least it was supposed to be tag, but it ended up being more of Penny and Zoë chasing Wren everywhere. Hahaha. Some of the boys joined in too!


Eventually the girls got tired and decided to chill out on the grass.

Now time for us to "hide" the eggs! Haha.. We pretty much just tossed our eggs out on the grass.

Someone even had these cute eggs!

Meanwhile.. Alyssa thought she could sneak in ahead. Hahaha. Zoë and Wren stayed behind, probably wondering how she got VIP access.

Now time for a pic of all the kiddos... always chaos. Hahaha.

Eventually, we got them all to sit down in a straight line!

And the egg hunt begins!!





Look at all the eggs!

How many eggs did you get? Look at my candy!

After all the hunting.. baby girl and dada went chill on one of the benches.

That's when Zoë gave dada a humungoid smoochies! Melts my heart!

And the day ended with some of the kiddos chillin and enjoying CHEETOS!!