Painting Party 2

A night off from work and school's out?! Let's have a painting party!! Spaghetti and meatball for dinner and Gossip Girl's season finale. =) Life's good!



Anna's Keroppi!


Linda and Ellis Squirtle


Vinh despicable me Minion


Jaime's tiger/zebra striped Fleur de Lis.

Our Anniversary

Our 2 year anniversary dinner date. We had dinner at The Royal Palms. So romantic... With the dim lighting dinning. Service was great. Food was great. And the companion I had was awesome. =) Alot of Smiling... =) and excitement. I loved the View of the sunset sky into the moonlit sky through the ceiling to floor glass windows... The beautiful fountain and lights on palm trees. Yes, it's amazing as the food. We even saw fireworks on our drive back to his house. So Romantic... Oh I already mentioned that.





Oversized porkchop. Recommended by his friend Muddley. It was so good, as good as his steak. =)




Blackened steak. It's the Royal Steak that they're known for. If you want a perfect night out with your Boyfriend/Husband... this is the place to go and enjoy a nice evening out. We was supposed to go for Valentine's but I was working that night. This totally made up for it. It was as awesome as our first Valentine's Dinner at G.W. Fins. He always pick the right places!


After our dinner, I went out for Linda's graduation. I really enjoy my weekends off from work! =)

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For My Mom

Mother's day flowers: DIY arrangements! I bought 40 bucks worth of flowers, roses and greenery fillers to make two arrangements. One for my mom (left) and one for Vinh's mom (right). Here's a picture of both side by side.


In truth, the first one I did (left) didn't turn out a nice as my second one (right) but I fixed it by recycling the green wrapper the bundle of flowers came with and made it look even better. =) It took about 45 minutes to do both. I also recycled the vases too. Those vases came from Vinh's flowers he gave me for my birthday and Valentine's.
When I was done making the second arrangement, I decided to give that one to Vinh's mom. The other one just would've shown how I suck at floral arranging and I couldn't be having that. Hehe... So this one's for his mom. (It looks so full and pretty from atop.)



And this one is for my mom. Trust me, it looks much worst before I saved it with the green wrap around it. But she liked it anyway even before the wrap.





It looks pretty cool from atop too. Kinda like a triangle form with the flowers and another triangle form with the wrap. Now I can't decide which one I should give his mom because both of it looks pretty good. =) I'm just going to ask my mom which one I should give to Vinh's mom. But I like the green wrapped one better. Haha

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Painting Party at Home

Linda's Fleur de Lis




My Yoshi. Vinh fixed his eyes for me.







Dieu's Pooh Bear




Anna's Piglet




Jaime's Tigger with a 3D butterfly.




Thao-Vi's Specialty. =)




Our First Painting Party! Products.




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FQF 2011

It's that time of the year again! French Quarter Fest 2011
Some pictures of honey! He's so cute!













Well, I must write about dinner with the parents. Everything went well... Whenever Vinh and I are ready to tie the knot, it'll be easier since the parents already met. We got the traditional talk out of the way. It's just so nice of Vinh's parents to want everything to be done properly for me. I mean, out of respect they had to ask my parents if we wanted to do a traditional meet and greet. Like a meeting of the parents to acknowledge that Vinh and I are dating with marriage in mind. Like a courtship. And if and when we decided to get married, it'll be easier and not surprising to the family. My parents said that it wasn't necessary. But the thought of Vinh parents wanting to make sure was nice. Now my parents really knows how much his parents like me. It was also a chance for the parents to get to know each other better. They talk about this and that. Where they're from back in Vietnam. What they do for work now. What they enjoy doing for fun like fishing or going to Missouri. What they like to eat and how their health is and what they do to keep up with their health. About selling the house and winning a car. About Japan earthquakes and new priest and alot of other random things. My parents can see how I interact with them and likewise. Vinh jokes alot with my dad and they was many laughter that night.

We had an awesome meal too! It was at Hoa Hong 9 and we ate the beef, shrimp, squid grilled fresh with the portable grill on our table. So interactive! It was the perfect ice breaker activity I think. Well, it just made things more fun and easy going. And we all ordered a few more dishes to eat with rice like a Vietnamese traditional family. I was so happy and felt really blessed. At the end of the night I told my parents I'm going out with Vinh to a friend's house. My dad's so cool. He said that it's cool and that he'd take mom and Anna home and I can go with Vinh. Vinh took care of the bill and ordered a mango smoothie Togo for Anna. My dad's farewell was cute. He said: we're gonna go now and let the young kids go on their fun in Vietnamese.

I went home with Vinh and his parents. Once they got into the house, Vinh and I went to playa's house to chill. The guys played cards and drink while the girls sing karaoke and drink. And Vinh took me home afterwards like around 1:30ish. He made it back the next morning to go to mass with me. After mass, we ate my mom's Pho and then headed to FQF! Great weekend! Oh, I didn't make it to Minh Tuyet at CL. I did go eat sushi with Vinh though! And afterwards we both just stayed in for the rest of the night. It was hard for me to ditch Vinh for Minh Tuyet. I had a great time with Vinh that night anyways! It was a fantastic weekend!

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