Why Are Men So Stupid?

It's one of those nights again that I can't seem to get myself to close my eyes and go to sleep. Oh yea, I forgot...I took a small nap around 7 pm until 8:30 pm! I told myself not to do this but I was so dead tired that I really needed that small nap. I did wake up refreshed though...and now of course, I'm paying the price for that small nap...arghhh!

So I just wanted to stay up and talk, watch movies with my husband. Gosh, Lord and behold....someone was freaking snoring away!!! What a moron! To think we would/could spend some little intimate moment together! Right!! And you wonder why I'm always so lonely? This is why!!!! He's suppose to be my freaking friend/lover/husband...No.....he's fast asleep and snoring loudly away! I hope he's dreaming of me running after him with a freaking big ass dildo trying to stick it up his freaking ass!!!! Oh no wait...let's go for a knife instead! Idiot!! Gosh, I need to find myself a boyfriend on the side...to keep me occupied, to talk to me sweetly, to hold me, hug me, warm me....wait....that's my freaking dream guy only!

Why are men so stupid? Any stupid men want to answer to that? Okay, don't get me wrong...I truly do love my husband but gosh darn it.......he's soo dam unromantic!!! No wonder couples freaking cheat on another!!!!!! It's to fill their dam loneliness that's why!!! Because the other significant other is being a dumb ass and has no freaking clue as to how their other significant other is feeling...no feelings at all..idiot!!

Husband and I have been married for 13 1/2 years now...out of this 13 1/2 years...once...and I mean once....that he's only bought me flowers. Not a single time he's bought me anything nice...NOT ONCE! Yes, maybe it's time for that boyfriend on the side!!! Makes me so pissed off!!!

Husband and I..when we first met. It was good then..now...he's and old and unromantic fart!!

 
After 13 1/2 years later....and 5 kids later...we should still keep our love/romance alive...NO!!!! Patience my dear..is what everyone says...yea freaking right!!! I'm not getting any younger idiots!!

Most recent picture of us together....

How do those old...very old couples do it? Gosh...I give them credit..I really do. Sometimes I hate my husband to death (tonight is one of them sometimes). It's 3:11 am and he's snoring away...lols!!! Hate him, hate him, hate him.

" The quarrels of lovers are like summer storms. Everything is more beautiful when they have passed."

~ Suzanne Necker

Weekend Recap

WOW....what a weekend!! My sister in law Ka got married. So many people, so many food. We wish her and Joe all the best in their future together!!! Pictures below of the wedding:

I wish I had taken more pictures but time permitted as I was helping out cleaning/prepping, etc during and after the wedding. There are more pictures than this but I won't bore you all to death...lols!!

 The happy wedding couple: Ka and Joe Yang

Sunday: We went bowling but right before bowling...My husband and I got side tracked and decided to do a quick road trip to the waterfall. I wanted to see the waterfall in full blown action before it withers away........The waterfall was only about a 15 minute drive from the bowling alley/Green Bay.
 Pictures below of the waterfall!!

Picture below: The top/side view of the waterfall. Water is gross looking...yucky brown color. Yikes! But it was a raging beauty after all....I just absolutely LOVE waterfalls!!!

Picture below: The front view of the waterfall. They built a overlook deck right in front of the waterfall for people to view.

Picture below: The stone steps leading down to the overlook deck. The blue shirt boy is my son Brandon.

 Picture below: My  husband and my daughter Paris on the bridge on top the waterfall.

 Picture below: My brother in law Arnold...Always time for a pose!!!

 Picture below: The waterfall. A view from the top/bridge.

After the waterfall...we quickly got back on our car and headed to the bowling alley to meet up with the rest of the families. We all had such a blast!

After bowling....we headed back to my in law's place. Packed some yummy food from the wedding home.

Last picture for this blog: Priceless........baby Kana Vang. She's too cute!!
I wish I had more time to take more pictures of her but I didn't. They are leaving Monday morning back to North Carolina. Who knows when the next time we'll see baby Kana again.......awwwww....Hopefully soon!

I hope you all had a wonderful and safe weekend...Hope everyone relaxed and enjoyed time with your loved ones. Until the next blog....take care!!!

Being Thrifty!

Call me cheap...well, sorta anyways. I love going to thrift stores and finding outfits, furniture and antiques. It's been a while since I've gone to the thrift store so I decided that since today was such a beautiful day, I wanted to go thrift store shopping!! Besides, I wanted to see if there was any nice vintage outfits or dresses that I could buy to use towards future photo shoots!! I went to 2 different thrift stores. Check out the outfits below!

Sorry, pictures were taken with my hand held point & shoot Sony camera only so the quality is not all that good. 

 The two pictures below are from the 1st thrift store. Can't remember what the store was called. It's a church owned/operated store.

Picture below: Sleeping gown. Looks vintage. LOVE it!! It was only $3.00!! I'll add some laces/sash to it to brighten it up a bit more since it's all white!

 Picture below: Red dress. $7.00!! I'll add some sequins to it to make it sparkle!!

My 2nd store was St. Vincent De Paul store.

Picture below: Red dress w/ sequins in the front. $30.00 but all gowns were 50% off so I got it for only $15.00!!

 Picture below: Soft blue dress. $7.00 w/ 50% off so it was only $3.50!! I'll add some laces/sequins/sash to the dress to sparkle it up a bit more!

So I didn't do too bad at the thrift stores today. Total spent on these were only $28.50!! Wow!!

I wanted to head out to the mall afterwards to see if I can find something for my brother in law's baby. So I stopped at the Fox River Mall in Grand Chute and decided to go into the kids clothing store Crazy 8. Their prices are pretty reasonable and I usually like their "clearance" racks as it was usually pretty cheap. This is what I found from the store:

(BEFORE)

It was cute. Original price was $32.99 on sale for $11.99 w/ an additional 30% off which was like $8.99. What a steal!! Soooooo, I had to buy it of course because it was absolutely gorgeous! Well, before I bought it, I thought it was a little plain but hey, for this price? What the heck! I decided that it needed some sequins/sparkle to the dress so after I made a purchase of this dress and another cutie dress (which I didn't take a picture of) I headed out to Jo Anne's fabric store by the mall. Bought some cute sparkly beads, flowers and ribbon and headed home to add them on to the little princess dress.

Here's the dress after I added the flowers, sequins and ribbon to it. It's absolutely even more beautiful now!!! I actually want to keep it for myself...hahahaha!!! Okay, I have to give it!!

Do you see the difference? What I added? Scroll up to check the "before" dress and then scroll down for the after dress. Let me know what you think!

(AFTER)

I think that if I was to buy this dress like this now...it would probably be about $40.00!! I spent a total of about $10.00 for the ribbon/flowers/sequins and thread. It's still an awesome buy! LOVE it!!

The dresses that I bought from the thrift stores I am planning to use it for future photo shoots so stay tuned for the photos!!


"Second hand store merchandise sometimes is junk,
there are other times where we have found some great bargains."
Catherine Pulsifer

Upcomming Weddings

It's almost the weekend!!! Got a lot of things happening this weekend. My sister in law Ka is getting married....a hmong wedding. I want to say first and foremost.... Congratulations Ka and Joe!!!. Su and I are so happy for the both of you! We wish you guys the best! I will definitely be taking loads of pictures!! Of course, if there's a hmong wedding, there's bound to be alcohol! Hopefully my husband does not get super drunk. This family tends to like to drink A-LOT! Lols!! Stay tuned everyone for photos!! Should have it up by Sunday night! Can't wait!

Here is a picture of my sister in law Ka and Joe:

Coming back to Ka's wedding is my brother in law Tong and his wife Nancy along with their cute, adorable brand new baby Kana!! They just got married last year and had to go and live in North Carolina because of school. Can't wait to take pictures of the cutie pie!! It will be a good family gathering this weekend at my in laws in Green Bay. All this excitement is making me sleepless!! Ahhhh!!! You know what I just want to do? Of course, none other than take pictures!!! Hehehehe.

My sister Choua is also getting married this year but in August. It's still a couple of months away yet but before you know it, it will be here like a blink of an eye. She had her hmong wedding already back in August 2010 so now they are doing an american/white wedding. I can't wait for it!! My daughter Paris who's 7 years old will be the flower girl. Awwwww! More pictures...yeah!!! Love taking pictures...especially wedding ones! So romantic and pretty! Can't wait to see my little sis walking down the aisle...awwww...It will be so beautiful! I'm so proud of her!

Here's my pretty sister Choua. She is actually a twin...the younger twin.

                                                                 

*****Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.*****  ~James C. Dobson

Summer 2011

Summer is approaching and I'm starting to put together ideas of places that I would love to take the kids. One thing for sure that we really like to do is go to the park and do lots of walking..so that means I really want to take the kids to as many botanical garden in Wisconsin as I can and as many hiking trails that there is. The kids also enjoy swimming too so for sure we'll have to hit the beaches as much as possible too. So far, in the past we've gone to several botanical gardens such as the gardens in Janesville (WI), Madison (WI), Rockford (IL) and Milwaukee (WI). They were all so mesmerizing! 

Every summer, we try to hit the beaches in Manitowac and Sheboygan. So, we definitely have to do this again this summer. It sucks that Appleton/fox cities does not have a nice beach...obviously there is no big lake/ocean to even have a nice beach. We've also gone up to Door County by the Penninsula and swam there at their beaches too. I have to say, Door County is absolutely breathtaking! If you haven't gone there yet, you should definitely try to go there this summer. We try to just drive there at least once per year and enjoy the beautiful scenery. We've also gone to Devil's Lake as well as Milwaukee's beaches too. Fun times, fun times. Can't wait to explore new beaches this summer! I want to try to hit the upper beaches by Michigan. I hear Michigan's beach lines are also very gorgeous!

Besides local areas, we've also taken the kids to Minnesota, Ohio and Florida. We as a family absolutely love road trips!!  I would love to go out of state this summer...but will have to see if it's in our budget.

These are some other things/places that I want to try to visit or do this summer: 

*Light houses (as many as possible)
*Waterfalls....MY FAVORITES!!!
*Devils Lake/Wisconsin Dells
*Strawberry picking/cherry picking
*Milwaukee Zoo
*Mall of America in MN
*Oklahoma
*Picnic by a stream/river and fish.
*North Dakota
*North Carolina

These are just a few...gosh...so many that I can't think of at the moment. Guess they aren't as important as the ones I listed....lols!

Here's a couple of pictures from our past trips/activities.

Picture below: My son Brandon...fishing. We love to fish!!

 Picture below: My daughter Paris...fooling around at the waterfall near Green Bay, WI

 Picture below: Sister in law and all our kids taking a rest at Milwaukee Zoo. A long hard's day of walking and finally.....ICE CREAM!!

 Picture below: We love going to the beach!!

 Picture below: We traveled to Old Man's Cave in Ohio. This place is absolutely astonishing!! We want to revisit this place again!!

 Picture below: We love going to the park and just play, goof around and relax!
From left to right: Selina Pa Chia, Chyna Kashia, Brandon Chonlin, Paris Sanyia, Princeton Koobmoov. They've all grown up since this picture...gosh, they grow up too fast!!

I just hope one day they will want to do the same things with their kids. I know sometimes they drive me nuts..okay, most of the time like 80% they drive me nuts but I do absolutely love them with all my heart and I just wish and pray that they grow up to be good kids. So far so good!

“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.”

 M. Grundler quotes

Portfolio

Warmer weather is approaching and now I've got to really start focusing and working hard. I didn't just quit my job for NOTHING!! I'm putting together my outfits and ideas for tons of photo shoots this spring/summer as I need to build up my portfolio of all my photos to show case. I'm absolutely inspired and motivated. I have so many ideas that I need to put it together or my mind is going to go insane! I have outfits, locations and poses that I want to have it show case soon. I'm super eager and ecstatic about everything!

My beaded outfit is not quite done yet. I had to seriously drive around town and even the next town over to look for more beads to finish it. Thank god, I found tons more and will try to have it done hopefully soon. Can't wait to have it show cased! My beaded outfit is not even done yet and I have tons more outfits that I have in mind that I want to do/put together right now...gosh! If only there were more of me! LOLs!! I also have some accessories and jewelry projects in mind too so stay tuned for updates on those projects!!

Sometimes I wonder if I did the right thing or if I'm doing the right thing but I guess I won't know until I at least try it out. Life is too short to ponder about things and not do it. I know it's a long road but I just have to keep pushing myself through it and not give up.

Some people have been such an inspiration to me...keeping me on my toes so I thank my sister in law Kay (PrettyGeeky.com) who inspires me so much to keep doing what I do and love to do. I thank my sisters for always rooting me on, my friends for talking me through when I'm down and last but foremost my husband for understanding me and encouraging me.

I will do it, I will succeed and I will go on......

Orange tree

Do you have a certain plant that you absolutely love? Well, I do. I've always wanted to grow an orange tree in my house. I mean a real orange tree growing from a seed! My older brother had planted this orange seed back in November/December 2010. I saw the little sprout of this plant and I had to have it! He must've planted like 10 of them. I really, really wanted it so I took 2 of the little plant home. Why not just get one from the store? Well, I want it when it's little and raise it as it was just my own. Usually the ones at the store is expensive and not only that, it has fruits on it already. I really wanted one that I can call it...my own. Just like having a baby!

When I took the little plant home, it had only two small little leaves. Now the plant is growing to my surprise and added another leaf! Yes! My brother has a huge lemon tree growing in his house and last year, it fruited tons of lemons! I was soo envious!! I'm hoping that I can grow this into something big and have lots of orange growing from it!

I will take pictures of my plant once per month to show how much it is growing. Every day, I would sit next to my plant and just stare at it...yes, my husband calls me crazy...lols! Hey, I once read where it says that if you talk to your plants, they hear you. Hmm...I wonder if it's true.

Anyways, here's a few snapshots of my orange plant.

Picture below: As you can see, the plant is starting to sprout out another leaf! The tall plant next to the two orange plants is actually corn that I happened to just plant a couple of days ago just for fun.

Picture below: This is how I want my plant to grow into! 


Again, I'll update once per month of my orange plant to see where it's at with growing!!!! Can't wait until it's big to start having fruits like the one above!! Check back for updates on the growth of my orange tree!


“We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.” John Lennon quotes