Driving & Filter Fun

Ed and I had to zip up to Newport Beach for a dinner, mixer kinda social event. During the drive up I had some fun with some filters. In between Ed tapping the brakes and messing up my selfies!!! 😂😂😂











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Pancit & Lumpia

Ed has been craving Philippino food for awhile. He finally decided to just look up our choices by our house. We figured there would have to be atleast one good one. We went to the closest one. It was set up like Panda where you walk down the line and tell the person what you want. The pancit looked good and that is what Ed had been craving so we ordered pancit and lumpur. The Mission Asian Market did not disappoint us! It was delicious!!! We shared an entree and found out that $6.35 feeds the two of us! We will definitely be visiting this place again or I just need to learn how to make pancit!!! 😂



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Filter Fun Wednesday

Whenever I babysit little Gabriella we always take some fun pictures! After some photos and tummy time Gabriella hung out in the kitchen with me. I made pumpkin chocolate chip bread, muffins and cookies while Gabriella bounced in her excersaucer playing with measuring cups, measuring spoons and a giant wooden spoon. We jammed out to The Go Go's Beauty & The Beat. Gotta teach her early to love the best of the 80's! 😊






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American Legion Mixer

Ed had an event to go to tonight that he insisted I go to with him. I wasn't sure, nor was he, of exactly what we were going to. I zipped home from work real quick to walk dogs and change clothes. Than I drove up to Sonic to meet Ed for the rest of the drive to Newport Beach. Traffic wasn't too bad so I had a little fun taking some pictures....


He rarely smiles.....


Meow 🐱


Silly rabbit tricks are for kids! 🐰


The American Legion building was right on the Harbor. It turned out it was a Mixer for Veterans to network with business members for employment opportunities and such. Ed even ran into a Marine he worked with. It was a nice evening with some fun people and we are now officially feeling OLD!!! 😂😂😂


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Matching Nose Rings

Whenever I watch little Gabriella her mamma will text pretty often to see how her daughter is doing. I took a picture real quick after she left using this filter so I would have a photo ready to send when she asked how she was doing. 😂


Her mamma thought it was really funny. I thought I should do a matching one with my little granddaughter because don't all Grandmas have nose rings to match their granddaughters? 😂😂😂


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Tummy Time With Grams

Gabriella and I worked on her tummy time and hips up for crawling practice. She wasn't a fan of it but loved laying on her tummy and crossing her hands together. She was sooo busy it was hard to get clear pictures but these are the least blurry of her tummy poses for Grandma! She was being so very serious!!!








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A Surprise Visit!

I came home from work to find this cute little girl had stopped in for a quick sleep over! Her daddy was going to be sleeping on the beach with his DI buddies so mamma and baby decided to stay with us! Gabriella was all full of grins and showing me how good of a kicker she is! Quite the talker as well!!! Gabriella had sooo much to say!!! I just love her giant gummy smiles!!! She and her mamma went up to San O with me for my FRT meeting. By the time we got home Baby G was sound asleep!!! I just love this cute little girl!!!









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Seaport Village Today

Seaport Village is one of our favorite walk around and people watch kinda places. It's also right by the water, so just beautiful! Nobody wanted to rent bikes and go bike riding down by Midway and Star of India so we just walked. Love this in the 80's weather in January!!!


Sometimes it takes more than one click to get a smile!





Ryan even came with us! 😃


It was a perfect day for milkshakes!!!


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Tongue and Grins

We are off and running! Well, not literally! We are driving to our destination! It is sooo gorgeous outside we know we don't want to be inside today! We decided to head down to San Diego. More than likely Seaport Village will be our destination today 😃


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The Fog Is Gone

The Pier was the complete opposite this morning!!! Ed and I thought we would have a nice walk on the beach and pier this morning while we waited for Ryan to finish Drill. Blue skies, LOTS of sun and we could see the water!!! It is going to be a perfect flip flop kinda day!!! And we are wearing flip flops! 😃



We even had a visit from a cute little lady bug! It originally flew down Ed's shirt! 😂




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Ed and I decided to walk the pier tonight before picking up Ty. The fog had rolled in. It was really pretty the way the life gets were. And quite cold!!! But still one of our favorite places to go.


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Baby Giraffe At Zoo

The baby giraffe at the zoo was just adorable and sooo fun to watch!!!












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Great G& G Came By

Gabriella had some fun visitors! Great Grandma & Grandpa Mikolajcik came by!


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Shoulder Time With Gramps!

Someone REALLY likes being up high!!! Gabriella was loving sitting on Grandpas shoulders!!! She was all grins and happy shrieks!!! 😃












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Mermaid Saturday Fun

Lucky us! We get to spend time with this cute lil mermaid today! She was all smiles, had LOTS to say and really enjoyed chewing on her lollipop tether!!!





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The Last of Christmas

I'm pretty sure this is the last time we will see anything Christmasy in Old Town until November. We've really enjoyed their Christmas decor this holiday season!


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Faces In Old Town

Gabriella was making the funniest faces today....here are just a few. With her faces come crazy shrieks now! I think she likes to hear herself! 😂


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Coyote Cafe Yummies

After walking all over Old Town we decided to grab some lunch at one of our favorite places, Coyote Cafe. Gabriella really enjoyed looking over the menu! 😃



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Delivering Gifts

A few Christmas presents arrived at our house for Victoria's family so we zipped to Miramar to drop them off. Gabriella was just sitting like a boss playing with her toys and full of smiles!


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Office Cleaning

Ed needed to zip into work to get some stuff done. Unfortunately the power was out for the day so he couldn't get anything done on his computer. Sooo, instead he got his whole office cleaned except to vacuum the floors. Ryan was the duster😂






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The Secret Window

I showed Vicki the secret window I discovered a little while back. I've walked by this window atleast a 100 times and had no idea you could just go up and buy a fresh hand made tortilla! Vicki is very happy to know about this window! 😃






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Tears & Cookies

Cassidy passed away this morning....she wasn't ever able to get stable enough to be flown from Greece to Germany. My heart hurts for her family.....I had only scheduled myself to work Monday next week so I could get some projects done before my long term started. I had told my coworker, Cassidy's mom, that I would work for her during the transplant surgery that was coming up. Cassidy had liver cancer and her mom was going to give her her liver. But now I will start the long term on Tuesday until my sweet friend is ready to come back to work. My heart hurts....she had just turned 18.....so I pretty much just baked all day....I don't even know how many dozen cookies I made....just a LOT of Noel & PB Kiss cookies today....



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Cardio By and In the Water Today

I split my cardio into 4 phases today. The weather was gorgeous and I couldn't decide where I wanted to get my cardio done today, so just went to each place I was deciding between


First I hit the pier and all along that beach area.


Next it was the Harbor and a quick hello to the Sea Lions that have begun to return! The little pup was too cute!!!


And than it was time to take off my shoes and socks and walk the beach on base. I went home and worked on some projects and than headed to the pool to swim laps! Afternoon temps on Mainside was 75* 😃Haven't done a pool bath in awhile! Really saves time on getting ready!!! 😂


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