Hello and Happy Monday friends! Have you caught up on life after CHA? With all the scrappy FUN back in Anaheim, my time to play has been put on hold…since I’ve been home!

After catching up on household stuff…we took advantage of the gorgeous Winter we have been having here in the BAY!

Our weekend had playdates, bday parties, reading class, golf, church, and of course a Superbowl party:) Oh, and we started prep for Valentine’s fun for the girls’ classrooms, but that is a work in progress:)

Here’s some of our highlights:

Oh, thank you to our family, dear friends and our church family…this weekend was exactly what this Mommy needed after being away!

God bless your week ahead!

XOXO

Happy Saturday friends! Since being home from CHA, life has been FULL to say the least…

And am ever so grateful for this amazing hobby we all cherish:)

Becky asked me to contribute for February…I love her sketches, who doesn’t?

Here’s my conribution:

Please check out all of the eye candy the ladies pulled together for this month!

Thanks Becky and have a blessed weekend all!

XOXO

Amidst the CHA prep…we took some sweet time to just PLAY!

Thank you to my DH for working so very hard for our family, and letting me have some creative time just for me this weekend too!

Hope you all have a fabulous Tuesday!

XOXO

we got together with some very sweet friends:)

and after dinner, it was GAME on! so, we took on the guys!

while the photos are no where near good quality…they are by FAR emotionally perfect! [a phrase I learned from my friend Krista Lund!]

KINNECT…skiing was it?

Loaded questions…who is the ARTIST freak?!!

us cheering during the darts round?

we were there to help our dear friends feel better…LOL!

doesn’t this say it all?

Thanks friends for such a fun night in:)

Hope you all have a fabulous Monday! I’m up to my eyeballs in projects…and YES they all will get done!

XOXO

We have been enjoying the second half of our school year routine + after school activities + playdates + golf + bday parties…

We have been extra patient with Mommy, since she has been working on CHA assignments since before Xmas…

We have been so grateful for this glorious weather, and would like to share some sweet photos with you [since Mommy can't share anything quite yet]…

We hope you are all having a beautiful day, rain or shine!

XOXO

Emi and Mari

Oh my goodness, I just can’t be more in love with all that miss M’s school/community does for these children and their families!

We are so very blessed to have her here, and have God’s love poured into her daily through these wonderful and amazing teachers!

So…let me just allow the photos to say the rest…

Hope you are all having a warm and cozy filled with LOVE all day long kinda day!

Happy Tuesday friends!

XOXO

Before I share with you our fun few days in photos [WARNING: PHOTO HEAVY!!!]

I wanted to share this with you:

While we typically have a relax at home, play with new toys, and stay in pjs all day while we clean type of NYE…

This year was a BIT different, and boy were our girls ready!

Miss E and I enjoyed Tea Time with some dear friends …

Celebrated my Mom’s birthday…

[mind you this is her third celebration- we were soaking in the moments the first two, somehow this is the only photo OOPS!]

Here’s some good and not so good photos from the NYE party we are still recuperating from…

[this was a good one?!! LOL]

[miss M and miss K videoing it out!]

[love this one!]

[the not so good variety…]

[the BFFS took some time to listen to JB…

]

[everyone watching the Ball DROP]

Getting together at my Aunt’s for a traditional Japanese New Years…

[photo credit: James Yong]

photo credit: James Yong

and my FAVE…totally captures the JOY on this day!

photo credit: James Yong

And then the girls and I sat and created our hearts out…what a blessing to make these thank you cards for all of our goodies!

[miss E made over half of the cards, so proud of her!]

[miss M had fun using the MLS mini alphas here!]

a master of the squeeze punches!

love this shot…LOVE it! who doesn’t need a little help from their beloved friend and some juice!

If you’ve made it this far, what a trooper you are!

God Bless!

XOXO

In photos [heavy on the PHOTOS!]

AMEN!

Hoping you are holding on tight to your sweet memories of this holiday season! I sure am!

SO much to be grateful for!

Happy happy day friends!

XOXO

Happy New Year! We just cannot believe how this year has flown by!

2011 was a year charged full of emotions on all levels, and through the challenges of it all, discovering sweet blessings along the way is what it is all about!

Here’s a photo of our extended family enjoying a traditional Ozoni Japanese brunch…[somehow DH and miss E escaped the photo!]

I will be back with more once we have recuperated from the NYE celebrations we had with some dear friends…

Hope you have a happy and healthy New Year!

God Bless!

XOXO