Blue Heron Beach Resort

Last July 25 to July 31, we went to Orlando, Florida for a much needed family vacation. We stayed at Blue Heron Beach Resort by Lake Bryan. In all the years that we've been into vacations, this is one of the best accomodations we have had. I liked the fact that I could cook in the kitchen, have mine and hubby's privacy at the master bedroom and also have a living room big enough for my toddler to run around at. It is a very nice place to stay at and the view at the porch is priceless. One big bonus for me was the washer and dryer in the unit. It is so good to come home after a long vacation with freshly laundered clothes.

The living room

the weel-equipped kitchen

the master bedroom

the swimming pool

the porch

Sending Some Goodies to my Family

I barely send some goodies to my family in the Philippines these days since times are tough. Good thing my family understands the situation here and they don't bother me or try to nag me to send them some stuff. I am currently buying stuff one at a time so I could slowly fill-up the box I got to send to them. The kids' requests are mainly shoes and I think I have everybody covered. My sister though, as a nurse in one of the hospitals there asked if I could send her nursing scrubs. Ofcourse, it's a simple thing she's asking but I want to get her the best I could get and at the same time not breaking my bank. I found a lot of choices at http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/ .

I hope I would be able to fill-up all three of these boxes before September comes. i want to send them to my family as soon as possible so they would get it on time for Christmas. The logistics part of it takes almost two months and sometimes it takes longer, so it's imperative that I send it around September to October.

I know that these are just simple things, but the happiness in their faces when they receive these is priceless. Just looking at my neices' and nephews' face when they wear their new shoes fills my heart with gladness.

Riding the Roller Coaster

We visited Universal Studios again this summer and we all had a blast! Andrea has more fun than all of us put together because she was able to ride more rides now than she did the last time we were at Universal. She was also able to ride some rides twice because hubby and I had to switch in babysitting Fifi. She would ride with me and when it's daddy's turn to ride, she would ride with him as well. The picture on top is taken while they were on the new roller coaster at Universal called Rip Ride Rock-it. It's the longest roller coaster in the park and it is also the tallest when it comes to drop. I admire my daughter for riding it and not getting scared, I didn;t have the guts to do it myself. We can't wait to go back and have fun again.

Enjoying The Addams Family on Broadway

Guest post written by James Stewart

I knew that we would only have about a weekend to enjoy New York City right before we sent off our youngest to college. I thought that this would be a fun little extra vacation for us to spend some more time together and boy was I right! We had so much fun together and now that the kids are old enough to appreciate a lot of historical things, we were able to go to some museums and things like that.

I did a lot of research for the trip and while I was doing that I ran across the website Hearingaidsbymiracleear.com. After I looked at it, I scheduled a hearing aid test and actually got some after I went through with it.

We made a decision as a family to go and see the Addams Family cast on Broadway. I mean, Brooke Shields is in it! I thought that it would be really neat to be able to say that I went and saw her in a play. Plus, this is a play that we can relate to and we had a lot of fun and laughs watching it.

PokerStars Bonus Codes

We just came home from our anniversary get-away and I am feeling better than ever. After two years of being with my little Fifi everyday and every night, I hesitantly left her to the care of my mother-in-law so hubby and I could go away for two days. It was a fun two days and I am grateful for the time alone and the break, but while we're gone, I could not wait to see my babies again.

We stayed in a casino for two days and hubby tried playing poker while we're there. I didn't try any table games because I don't know how to play at all. We didn't win anything big but it made me want to learn how to play poker. As soon as I had the free time, I looked online on how to play poker and I found some PokerStars Bonus Code for those who are playing already. These PokerStars Bonus Code could be use to play poker online eventually. Hmm.. Perhaps I could use them someday.

There are also PokerStars Marketing Code available to those who are hard-core poker players and newbies like me to use while playing online. Yay! I can't wait to learn how to play poker and start using all these codes.

Wearing in my Motorcycle Boots

Guest post written by Cassie Pratt

I think that one thing that's important about wearing motorcycle boots is that they look a little rugged. There's really no good use in wearing a pair of them that look pristine. Then you just kind of look like you're wearing a costume. Now, it's also important to make sure that you don't look like you're joining a biker gang anytime soon.

It took me for what it seemed like forever just to track down the perfect pair of motorcycle boots to wear. Then I eventually did find a pair that I absolutely could not live without on a discount shoe site online. That same night that I found those boots, I also stumbled across the website SatelliteStarInternet.com. I read through it a little bit and after that I decided to sign up for one of the internet packages I found on there.

I took my boots stomping around in the dirt and stuff once I got them to give them that nice and worn in look. But I didn't go too crazy so that they still look good enough to wear in public.

Concert Tickets

There are a lot of concerts that I would love to watch one day. I have watched several concerts in the past and I love the atmosphere in each one of them. I feel like I am one with the crowd as we listen to our favorite artist perform on stage. There's something amazing about being there with the rest of the fans as the sway to the music that the artist play or sing.

The top five tickets I would love to have one day are the following:

George Strait Tickets

Backstreet Boys Tickets

Celine Dion Tickets

Linkin Park Ticket

Rascal Flatts Tickets

The list is long but I am doing it one concert at a time. I know it would cost me some money but the feeling and the experience I would get from it would be priceless.

Spring Cleaning

Spring is almost here and so spring cleaning is part of my to-do list. It is in fact on top of my list since winter basically kept us mostly inside the house, thus making it dirtier than it is the rest of the year. Spring cleaning also is a good way of teaching my kids how to clean the right way, especially since I have two girls.

The first thing we clean is the carpet. Carpet is nice especially if you keep them clean and nice but if it is not well-kept, it holds bacteria and diseases. The kids' room in our house if fully carpeted and I make sure that I get the steam carpet cleaner rental austin. It helps me keep their carpet immaculate and also helps me easily remove the constant dirt that my girls bring to their bedrooms. The rest of the house is tiled so we use the saltillo tile cleaning austin to clean it up. My husband cleans up the bricks outside with pressure power washing austin and it is very effective in removing caked-up dirt and grime.

It would require a lot of work but I know that it will all be worth it when the house smells clean, feels clean and looks clean afterwards. Good thing it is only once a year that we do spring cleaning.

Gold Price is Going Up

It is not a secret that the price of gold have sky-rocketed these past few years and is continuously going up as I am writing this article. It has become so high that a lot of advertisements in the television are to entice people to sell their broken gold jewelry for probably way less than market value. Gold price is so high that gold jewelry in the jewelry shops cost way higher than before.

If there's anything that people should invest in nowadays, it should be in gold. While the rest of the stock market is going down, the gold stock is not going anywhere but up. The rise of gold prices is a good indication that there is still something of worth in the market. As I figure this out, I made sure that I keep all the gold jewelry that I have and I will hold on to them.

I hope I won't need to use them someday to trade for something but with the US dollar dwindling down in value, there is a possibility that we would be back to those days when trading is done with the use of gold.

Diet Pills

After the holidays, most of us have gained a pound or two from all the parties we attended. I, myself have gained a couple of pounds and is still trying to lose it all by cutting down on the food intake and doing a 30-minute exercise everyday. My husband on the other hand needs to lose more than just a couple of vanity pounds, so aside from counting calories, he also uses diet pills to speed-up the weight loss. So far, he has already lost more than 10 pounds and has a lot more to shed.

I am a little skeptical about the diet pills regimen, but after seeing the results, I believe that it works miracles if used in the right way. It is not for skinny people to get skinnier, it is really for obese people who need help in losing the excess pounds. There are a lot of diet pills in the market nowadays though, so we must be careful which ones to use and not to use. Do your research first before getting any kind of diet or pill. It is always better to be well-informed of the things that we put in our body than to just follow the "in thing" in the market.

Hopefully hubby and I would be closer to our goal weight by summer time. If not, then at least we are on our way to getting healthier than we are now.

Cricket

Two years ago, we went on a Caribbean cruise for my birthday. I believe that that vacation is the best vacation I have ever been to. I would like to do it all over again, it just depends on our finances when it would be. One of the islands we docked at is the country of Dominica. It is a beautiful little island in the Caribbean with the most friendly people and beautiful natural spots. Our tour guide there is a local and he is very adamant that we know that most of them play cricket there.

I haven't seen any cricket game in my life so it aroused my curiosity about the sport. He brought us to a local cricket game just to show us how they play the game. I think it very similar to baseball since they use a bat and a ball. There are several players in each team and they play in an oval-shaped arena with a rectangular field in the middle. It is a fun game to watch for the little time we spent observing them play.

When I got home, I looked up online and saw all kinds of online cricket stores. There's even one based in the USA and still services clients all over the world including Canada and Australia. Cricket is actually a national sport in England as is the second most famous popular sport in the world.

Manila Ocean Park

Our Family Pictures at Manila Ocean Park

My Beautiful Sister

Thanks to Joaquin Hester

This Sunday is my sisters wedding and I am going to be her brides maid! I have the whole day planned out from the moment I wake up. I am going to hop out of bed and eat breakfast around 7:00 A.M., after that I will shower and do my makeup. Around 8:30 I have a hair appointment at Special Cuts, so I need to be there 15 minutes before. After my hair I will head straight home to get into my beautiful pink dress that was bought for me by my mother. She bought all the tuxedos and dresses. I plan on heading out the door at 11:00 and setting my home security alarm( Adt home alarm information Chicago) before I go. Our neighborhood can be a little on the fritz at times. Once I am at the church, I will let my mother take it from there because she put together mostly everything. I am so excited for my sister and words cannot explain the way I will feel watching her walk down the isle with the new love of her love. She is by the far the most beautiful girl in the world. Next to me of course.

A Visit to the Emergency Room

A couple of weeks ago, we have to rush our little angel to the emergency room because she got a very high fever and she started to get delirious. You can't imagine the fear I felt when she won't respond to me when I talk to her and just look at me like she don't know me. I did give her some medicines but it is not working fast enough to lower down her body temperature. It was almost ten at night so we have no choice but to bring her to the emergency room.

They administered a fever reducer suppository to quickly lower down her temperature. She got better in a matter of minutes and we all went home feeling relieved with a big medical bill in hand. But it don't matter, as long as our little angel is safe and better.

She's so sick

Feeling wayyy better

The Fastest Movie Ever Made

Authored by Leandro Delgado

It was one of the best action movies ever made and I pretty much forgot it even existed. You probably forgot it existed, too. It's possible you have it stored in the back of your memory somewhere, but even when this title is revealed, the details aren't going to come rushing back to you. I'll give you a hint. A bad guy has placed a bomb on a city bus. If that bus goes slower than a certain speed at any point in time, the bomb will detonate. Brilliant concept, isn't it? Dennis Hopper plays a great villain. Keanu Reaves plays the hero. And Sandra Bullock is the frightened replacement bus driver. There are many twists and turns in this one - no pun intended. If you haven't figured it out, the movie is Speed. This movie came out back in 1994. It's hard to believe it was that long ago. It's also hard to believe this movie doesn't get more recognition than it does. There aren't many movies that move faster than this one. I was reminded of this last night when I watched it on my satellite tv from http://www.tvbydirect.com/. There is one aspect to this movie that I overlooked the last time I saw it, which was over a decade ago. The passengers on the bus are superb actors. They are really the key to selling this movie, and they do it extremely well.