moving

have moved to www.savynoun.blogspot.com

o for orange

looking through pictures and found this...taken last year...of the orange tree in front of momma's house....makes me want some oranges. can't wait for the one in my backyard to get ripe.

some homemade halloween cards will be posted soon in the next few days!!

goals

goals for the rest of this month

• keep work/office area organized


• visit apple hill again


• go to a halloween costume party/event


• eat another caramel apple!


• send out halloween cards


• do billing at least every 1-3 days


• take the dogs out for a walk at least twice


• start thinking of x-mas presents (get creative - low budget)


• finish my current read - "change of heart" by jodi picoult
  
• get a big bookshelf for office room
• create a to-do list for the next day before i go to sleep each night

edit: i need to add another goal. to blog atleast two more times before november! HAHA

a thrifty project

i want to find a beat up chair...and reupholster it...just like this chair...

thrift shopping

last night, as i was looking through other's blog, i came across these cute vintage matchboxes that ali edwards found at second hand places that inspired me to go thrift shopping! i love how she used it to decorate in her home..so cute...

so today, i went thrift shopping by myself at the goodwill while d stayed home to watch football and hopefully the puppies. HAHA. i went to two of them. these are the things i found at the first goodwill i stopped by.

five letter trays for $5! they're pretty much brand new! perfect for work to seperate all my papers.

this blue bucket to put our mail in. it was 3.99. i wish it was cheaper but since i always wanted to find some type of mail holder for the hallway at the front entrance of our house, i just took it anyways. and now we have something for our mail. yes! i love the size and color of it... like how the goodwill flyer is in front? HAHA. totally incidental.

and at the second goodwill, i was able to find these books!! all three for $4! i was so excited because i always wanted to read marley and me and my friend loved the movie the sisterhood of the traveling pants, so i wanted to read that book. lastly, i got the other book, house of sand and fog, just because its a book from oprah's book club.

okay, now off to clean and rearrange the house!!

sweet baby girl

this little girl. 9 weeks today. so very sweet. so very gentle. loves to be held. knows how to sit. knows how to lay. loves soft blankets. sometimes loves kisses and other times don't. like to play with our underwear and drag it across the house if we don't catch her. has terrified us at least 3 times. we thought we had to take her to emergency vet once. is weary of coming out of her cage and sometimes wants help since the incident where she got her claws stuck between the holes of the cage when trying to come out. needs to go potty around 4-5 am each night. when taking her out of her cage to go potty in the middle of the night, she will immediately push her butt up against my legs to have me pick her up to go outside. loves following us around the house, including snoopy, when she is not busy playing with toys. is very scared of our garage and we're not sure why yet. she will shake tremendously and then flop her body to the ground without moving anywhere. likes to eat snoopy's food instead of hers. will get excited and jump up and down when we ask her if she needs to go potty. and of course, she likes to take naps like her older brother.

edit: one thing i forgot to add - she yawns and makes a yawning noise every single time she wakes up from a nap. sooo cute!

so ready for fall

i'm sooooooooo glad the fall weather is coming around. it has been good this weekend and i hope it carries on tomorrow and for the rest of the week. love the nice breeze. it was the perfect day to make one of my favorite soup!...potato and broccoli soup! delish!

remembering 9/11/01

exactly eight years ago around this time of day, i started to secretly cry to myself after seeing people jump off the windows of the twin towers to death, some holding hands or hugging each other. it was only a few days later that i cried even more as i watched the news and heard the voice messages victims left for their family members to confess their love for them during the last few minutes and seconds of their lives.

i remember telling everybody the sadness i felt to watch what was going on on the other side of the country. i told them i cried and and it got passed around it seemed, as one day, somebody came up to me and said, "i heard you cried watching the 9/11 attack?" and smiled at me mockingly. i thought to myself, "of course, who wouldn't after seeing such a tragedy." that person was just a year or two younger than me and maybe, less emotional. yes, nobody i knew personally was in the attack zone but how could i not show emotion from hearing that thousands of innocent civilians lost their lives so suddenly and so tragically. it's hard not to think of the family and friends who did have to experience the lost of somebody they held close to their hearts.

a tragic day it was. and it was only during that period of time in my life in which i ever felt an ounce of patriotism. i remember feeling angry and hurt that there are people out there who are so evil to have caused such destruction. i wanted so badly for somebody to find these people and punish them for their wrongdoings.

however, i felt even more angry at the americans who attacked other based on their race. i started to think that these people maybe should have been the ones who died in the attack instead as they are ignorant and stupid. RIP all the victims who died as a result of the 9/11 and I will cont. to be thankful and grateful for mine.

puppies!!!!!!

picture heavy post.... but look at all the cute puppies. they are much cuter in person.

snoopy and milly sleeping

misty trying to fight with snoopy for the ball and who knows what milly is doing

misty doing her creepy crawly move

misty

misty loves david's shoulder

what are you looking at milly

eli looking up.

eli sleeping. he loves being on the sofa. that's when he's calm and not getting buck wild.

eli resting on david's arm. he fell asleep shortly after.

all three sleeping. milly is sleeping all funky. left to right: milly, eli, and misty

they are much cuter in person...so too bad for you guys. hehe.

i have not been feeling my best the last few days. i hope i feel better soon because i feel like an unorganized mess with work. i hate not being organized and it stresses me out. but today, i had one of these...and it made me happy for a little bit. i love raley's poppy seed muffins. so yummy.

five more days until we can bring baby milly home...so excited...

sushi day 2

we went to costco this evening and found some sushi grade tuna (by accident) so for dinner tonight was sushi...again. yummie.

sushi dinner

tonight we made sushi for the first time by ourselves. a lot of time was spent out buying the supplies but the actual sushi making process was fun for us. we took lots of pictures. also, we couldn't believe how easy it was to make. too bad we couldn't get any sushi grade raw fish at the stores. it would have been great.

ingredients: sushi rice (japanese rice, sugar, salt, and rice vinegar) nori, smoked salmon, imitation crab, steamed asparagus, carrots, cucumber, avocado, cream cheese, black seseme seed, wasabi, and soy sauce.



sushi rice:
1 cup of japanese/sushi rice. rinse rice 2-4 times until water is clear. put rice in pot with 1 1/4 cup water on high heat until boil, uncovered. once boiled, put lid on pot and let simmer for 20 minutes. after 20 minutes, remove from heat and let rice sit for 10 additonal minutes with lid on.
mix together 1 TBSP rice vinegar, 1 TBSP sugar, and 1/2 TBSP salt. put in microwave for 30secs-1min.
put rice in wooden or glass mixing bowl. mix in rice vinegar mixture. continue to mix and fan rice. rice is ready to make sushi with once it is at room temperature.

we made one roll each.

ready to eat. yummmieeeeee. another 3 rolls were made a few hours later =)

kiddie drawings

i love kiddie drawings. when i have my own kids, my office + their rooms will be flooded with their drawings. this one is a picture of me created by one of my current kiddies. she is super cute. i was trying to get her to cut the circle out. she insisted that she needed to color it first.

savy: "okay, lets cut the circle."
kiddie: "wait. color it." (she grabs a crayon and made eyes, nose, and mouth)
savy: "who is that?"
kiddie: "you." (continues to draw)
savy: "i don't have pony tails!" (after she drew two long lines coming out of my head)
kiddie: "that's your hands."
savy: "my hands don't stick out of my head!"
kiddie: said nothing and continued to draw............

don't you love the dress i have on?

the choices we make

Whatever comes our way…
Whatever battle we have raging inside us…
We always have a choice.
It’s the choice that makes us who we are…
And we can always choose to do what’s right.
-Spiderman

eggs

i love eggs.
fried eggs.
eggs salad.
eggs on my salad.
scrambled eggs.
hard boiled eggs with lime and salt.
egg omelet.
i love it all.
after trying eggland's best,
i love eggs even more.
they truly are the best tasting eggs.
and now i don't want to eat any other.

Apologies to Mr. Blog

Dear Blog,

i am so sorry that i abandoned you for what seems like a long while. i've been either very busy or very lazy. i don't know if those reasonings are good enough for you, but i apologize. i never wanted to let you down. afterall, i did make a promise to you at the beginning of this year. so here I am. i am back. and i will try to not dissapoint you from this day on. unfortunately, there's a good chance i will, so i am just going to apologize to you in advance. just know that i mean well. and that i won't just leave you forever without saying goodbye.

for now, here are two random pictures that i am loving right now.

1. snoopy waiting for his daddy to come home.

2. pretty fresh flowers sitting on the pub table at joylyn's parents home. these little things just makes me happy.





more randomness and ramblings later...

p90x update

i think we only did it for 3 or 4 days and stopped! man oh man. what losers we are. we need to get back on that routine...maybe we'll start june 1st. =)

next blog entry will probably be next week.

10 things I'm loving (today)

1. having a nice breeze come through the house in the evening
2. pretty flowers
3. getting homemade birthday cards in the mail
4. three hour power naps like the one tonight
5. mac 'wedge' eyeshadow
6. sitting at my kitchen table working during the day and looking out the window
7. rite-aid thrifty icecream. especially mint chip.
8. being girly. wanting to shop for clothes/shoes/makeup/nails/hair items or products
9. thinking about the 2 upcoming weddings we're attending
10. honey nut chex cereal

Mothers Day

"There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one”

my mom. sadly, she's not the perfect mom. i won't lie. if she was perfect, i would want to be just like her. but i don't. and that makes me sad but it's true. we have many differences. we don't always see things eye to eye. sometimes talking to her frustrates me. i hate it when she makes me yell. i feel that she doesn't truly understand me. i don't know if i fully understand her. she sometimes breaks my heart. i hope i never broke her heart. but despite all that has been said, i love my mom a lot. even though she makes me angry, i love her enough that i will personally go after the person who ever tries to hurt her in any way. my mom has been good to me. she means well. i want to thank her for all that she's done for me.

i love you mom.