Life Continues

Oh hey there!

Long time no write aye?

Early this week I had been thinking about a lot and I mean, its one of those points where I start to just look at all things in my life and weigh out where I am and where I need to go. And these thoughts lead me back to my blog. I thought to myself, I HAVENT WRITTEN IN THE LONGEST TIME!

So here I am checking in as I usually do when I've been MIA for forever.

Anyway, here's where I have been and where I currently am at now.

Kids. Family. Work.

Simple enough right?

Kids, are growing and not only have they grown vertically but theyve also grown horizontally too. hahah This summer has been rough. For me as a mom and keeping up with an actual nutritional meal for them. We've been highly committed to take out and that is why I take full responsibility of their weight gain. (insert face palm emoji girl here.)

Family has been REALLY busy...

June got engaged.
Willy got engaged.
Sunshine & Christina play beach volleyball on a national level.
Tita plays baseball and football for Granger High School.
Koko go baptized yesterday.
Juicy is a little dancer.
June go un-engaged.
Mom and Dad are still die hard working.

mmmmm lets stop there. thats everything in a nutshell since the last time I blogged.

But get this... I havent really missed a step.. Heres what Ive been doing to keep these lovely memories and milestones kept on record cause you know, it matters to me to leave a history of my insanity for my kids to keep for later in life.

I've been VLOGGING! lol actually, its private vlogging, so my youtube videos are completely private until some crazy hacker figures out a way to open all the private videos to the public... theeennnn oh well. lol I havent said anything in my vlog videos that isnt true. So I wouldn't care if that happened. In the meantime, we keepin it private.

Its a different feel, blogging versus vlogging.

But, not only does it give what Im wanting to say, but it also gives visuals, like facial expressions, laughter, tears (yes, its gotten real through the vlog), angry and even vulgarity. I know... there will always be pros and cons with anything and everything we do.

It's my favorite time of year, and we all know how I get when the trees turn fall. I get all in my feelings and simply fall in love. Love, has been quite the topic in my life. No, I'm not dating anyone.. not exclusively anyway... lets just say, I LOVE MY TAMARA AND HENELE with everything I got!

Lets get the festivities rolling! I hope I revisit the blog, if I don't Ill try and be brave and just post a vlog on my blog. lol

Till next time.

XOXO Via

Working Hard & Playing Hard

Just about broke my own heart today.

Tamara, Henele and I sat in sacrament today and we always play this game called Paperio. Its a challenging game and we take turns after one dies. Anyway, I sat there and while playing my turn, the game would freeze and we would get kicked out of the app all together or when I would make a move, the app wasn't responding with my move causing me to die.

I would still pass the phone as if I really died. I turned to Tamara while she was laughing at me knowing exactly what just happened and I would say, "this game is rigged." lol Me and Tarmara then had a quite extensive talk about what "being rigged" means.

Anyway, my turn came back around and of course, died not on my part. I then closed the app and decided, I'm gonna delete all these non sense games that we don't even play.

Now, Tamara and Henele both got Ipads for christmas. Most of the games on my phone sit dormant anyway cause all these games are now on their ipads. So I sat there deleting all the games that "I thought" were no longer being played.

Nope, I was wrong.

As they watched me delete game after game, I honestly didn't think it was a big deal. Until I deleted THAT GAME!

I turned to Henele who was in FULL ON TEARS! and I mean, trying to catch his breath type of crying. Completely, uncontrollable. I mean, given that we were in the Chapel, we did our best to keep calm. But as I tried to get things under control, I sat there wondering, "what the heck!" They don't even play on my phone anymore. "What just happened?"

I turn to Tamara while trying to sooth Hene and she says, "Mom! He worked hard on that game you just deleted. He's at a far level then he is on his Ipad."

My heart broke after hearing these words.

With me starting at this new job called SPS - Select Portfolio Servicing, I'm still currently in training and will still be for another 2 weeks or so. I think about all the studying and work I've been putting on myself and am quite proud of how far I have come thus far. I sit in this training this class and my coaches had approached me this week basically talking to me about "moving up" because they are impressed with how fast I am learning the job and performing.

I would hate for my hard work to not go unrecognized.

With that being said, I hate that I took away Henele's hard earned work. Yes, it might be a simple little kid game but that's just it. They are kids and they're current level is games. I don't ever want either Tamara or Henele to work hard FOR NOTHING.

So as soon as we got home today, I dropped everything once I got in the house and redownloaded his game and made sure that the game is left off where he had left off at. THANKFULLY it did. I showed it to him to confirm that his game is as it was and told him that I will never delete it again.

Moral of my post today - working hard also comes from playing hard. It doesn't matter how little the task may seem to you compared to someone else. Either way, give credit where it's due and don't allow someone else to rain on the hard work you've done.

XOXO Via