Weekend Update...Wonderful Cali Weather!

The weather this weekend in Southern Cali was fantastic! Even though we stayed close to home, the weather made everything perfect. Saturday I decided to do some gardening, so I headed over to the dollar store and bought some terracotta pots then over to the garden center over at Walmart and bought some succulents.  I love succulents because they're really low maintenance plus they're so pretty.

On Sunday after church me and my kids did a terrarium project. I used those cute terrariums that I got from the Target dollar bins for $3 each. We filled them with moss, aquarium pebbles, some potting soil, a mini succulent and some plastic figures.

Cristian added plastic jungle animals, a cowboy and a mini soldier. Sofia added plastic ocean animals to hers. In case you were wondering that big pink thing is an octopus :-)

Because the weather was so beautiful I thought I can finally make sun tea! #FAIL! My tea was weak flavored water! I bombed my first attempt at making sun tea, but I will not give up! I frantically combed through online recipes and trying to figure out what I did wrong, I soon realized I have to use a glass container and not plastic (remember that cute plastic container I got at Target for $1...oh well). But I will try again!

The folks over at Serious Eats gives some easy basic directions on how to make the ultimate sun tea. They also give their review on two different teas they used in their test kitchen - Lipton vs. a fancy tea. Check them out to see which tea they preferred.



Photo Courtesy of Serious Eats

Hope you all had a great weekend like I did! xoxox 

Manicure Monday! And Weekend Update...

Hello Monday!! I'm going to start a new series called Manicure Mondays. I've been obsessing with DIY home manicures and nail designs and have been pinning pics on Pinterest and watching how-to videos on YouTube. For me the easier the technique the better! So every other Monday or so, I'm going to try to share some DIY nail designs that I either did myself or cool and easy techniques that I find online.

Last night I painted my nails red using Sally Hansen's Extreme Wear Polish in Cherry Red. After my nails were dry I placed those round white reinforcement labels at the tip of my nails, so that the tip of my nail is halfway showing through the inner hole of the label. I then painted the tip that's showing in the inner hole of the tab a gold color using Sally Hansen's Extreme Wear in Golden-I. Voila! A cute but simple design....

See! The easier technique the better!

My husband and I had a great time on our impromptu Friday night date, but one thing we always tend to forget...it's no bueno to be a little hungover when you have kids! There is no rest for the weary! Other then that we had a great weekend...just wish it lasted longer :-).

If you live in the Orange County, CA area check out The Crosby located in downtown Santa Ana, near The Artist Village on Broadway in between 4th and 5th Street. It's a neat little hipster restaurant that has a cool vibe and the food is pretty delicious. I started out with the house sangria, but that didn't really do it for me so I went with the big guns and ordered  my usual a very dirty vodka martini with 3 olives. My husband laughs whenever I order my signature drink, but I just know what I want and how I like it! :-)

We got two appetizers, the Thai Chili Hot Wings and the Spinach Stuffed Mushrooms. The hot wings were crispy and they sat on top of a green chili mint sauce. The sauce for the hot wings was divine! It had heat but you can taste the mint inside.  I was so tempted to lick the bowl clean! So good! The mushrooms were good to. They were topped with shaved Parmesan cheese and drizzled with a thick balsamic vinegar. I highly recommend this place. If you want to go there for dinner try to make a reservation first because it is small and fills up pretty fast.

(NOTE: The brown stuff on the plate with the mushrooms is the balsamic vinegar. Just in case you were thinking "Eww! Whats that"!)

On our way home we drove through the Krispy Kreme Donuts drive-thru. Hey! When we go out, we go ALL OUT! Plus you gotta have dessert right! We had a real fun night. I think it's good for all couples to get out once in awhile with no kids.

On Saturday my son and I pretty much spent the first part of the day in our pjs and watched Ice Age 4 Continental Drift for like the 100th time and then I gave my daughter a pedicure.

On Sunday it got super cold and overcast, so I made homemade chicken soup with swirly noodles (that's how my son describes egg noodles) and then we rented The Life of Pi. Omg it was so good! I can't stop thinking about it. I cried...it was so good. If you haven't seen it you should! The movie was so beautifully made. Ang Lee definitely deserved the Oscar for this movie.

Hope you all had a great weekend like I did!

Weekend Fun...

This weekend the weather was rainy and cold. My son's t-ball game was cancelled on Saturday due to the heavy rains. I talked my husband into organizing the garage. I was happy to get rid of alot of stuff I was holding onto and donated it to the Goodwill. Now my garage has alot more space and I feel alot more better.

On Sunday the rains had subsided but it was still very cold outside, but the kids were in desperate need of getting out. We decided to take a walk to the neighborhood park. So we bundled up our two little kiddos and put Sofia on her tricycle and Cristian decided to practice his skateboard skills.

Headed out for our walk!