{Monday...Meh!}

Good evening beauties! :)

Well it is Monday again, and can you believe that 2015 is literally just around the corner? :/
Where has this year gone? LOL

A lot has happened this year, and a lot of lessons have been learnt especially for me. I did go through a break up about a few weeks ago with someone I was madly in love with and we were together for a year and 5 months. We had these plans and he was going to come here for me and and and....but I guess I should have known from the beginning that it was far too good to be true, so its just to show fairy tales don't exist hehe, but lesson learned and now I can really focus on my life here in the US and just move forward and focus on what really matters like school, my family, and now that I am nearly done with school its time to look for a job, maybe study further in fitness or beauty...who knows what the future holds for me?

This year has been tough, not only for me, but for my family too. Just everything has been piling up, problem on top of another problem and its just been one crazy ride LOL, I bet some of you can agree with me :)

I do have some resolutions for 2015, and no it's not that whole "New Year...New Me" thing LOL, I just have a few new things I want to try that will help me in my health and just me as a person and I will share all of those with you just before we enter the New Year :D

Right, it's getting late now..I just also wanted to thank all of you that take time to read and comment on my posts, I'm so glad my blog is taking off and I hope to hear a lot more from you in the future :)

Hope you all have a fantastic Monday night, sleep tight and have sweet dreams <3

God Bless

xxx

 

{What a week...!}

Good afternoon amazings! :)

I hope you all had a Blessed and wonderful Christmas with your loved ones <3 I definitely did! May have gotten a little bit tipsy, but you know, haha it was an important celebration :)

So on Christmas Eve while we were all together and playing Pictionary, the electricity went out throughout the whole town. It looked so scary and dark like we were in a horror movie LOL, but I think it went out because of the major snow storm we had going on here. The wind blew really hard and it was just chaos! The best part about it though was sitting together and opening presents in candle light....talk about romantic huh ;) LOL

We all got Blessed with amazing gifts and we are truly grateful for it all :)

I truly wish my family from back in South Africa could be here with us for Christmas, but hopefully next year my wish will come true. I don't know what is going with me lately but I am really missing all my friends and family back home :(

This is what I was doing earlier, just going through some old letters and cards from friends and family back home, also found a few trinkets that were given to me and some I have kept since I was a baby <3

So that is what I have been doing today, also I am going to catch up on my studying for my drivers test which I want to pass before entering the New Year....so am going to need lots of luck and prayers with that one LOL

Hope you are all having a fabulous Sunday :)
Will be back tomorrow!

Love you all! <3

Merry Christmas Eve!

Well good evening everyone :)

Merry Christmas Eve to you all :D I hope you all have a Blessed Christmas and a fantastic new Year :) <3

I'm sorry to say, but I don't see the point in completing the Blogmas, I have been so busy trying to get my lessons for school up to date and I tell you, it is killing me!

Someone please send help??? LOL

Tonight is the kind of night to sit down with family and have some yummy goods to eat, a few drinks here and there and then when the clock strikes 12, it is time to open presents. Most of you have already opened presents, I know my family back in South Africa opened their prezzies hours ago since we are 9 hours behind them. I hope you all got spoilt rotten and got everything you have ever wished for and more, but lets not forget what today is really about.....Happy Birthday Jesus Christ<3 we love you always! <3

Have a Blessed night and day everyone :)
God Bless you all
xxx

Blogmas 2014 - Day 21: Share Your Favorite Christmas Poem or Picture

Good evening everyone :)

So this is another late post x_x I apologize, but today was actually my brother's 13th Birthday, and we have all just been sitting around and had some family over for some coffee/tea and some yummy cake. So today was pretty constructive.

Okay so I don't have many favorite Christmas poems, actually I don't even think I know any LOL, but I do have a lot of favorite Christmas pictures that I would love to share with you...<3

That was me last year around about this time, doing my very first ballet performance up at the military base here. I was nerve wrecking, but I absolutely loved it! And with the tree and lights in the background, it just has to be one of my favorites.

Now i am pretty sure by now you all know that I am in love with horses LOL and these are some of my favorite Christmas pictures, and look....they all horses :D hahaha

What are your favorite pictures or poems? :)

Late.....Again! (Whoopsie!)

Hi everyone :)

I am so sorry I haven't updated these past few days, I have been so overdue in my lessons at school and have been busting my booty to get all of them done and dusted before the end of the semester...talk about hard work LOL, but on the bright side I am on the 2015 graduate list which is great news for me...just have to keep up to it :)

Right, so let's get back to Blogmas :D what's next??...

Blogmas 2014 - Day 15: Christmas Decorations

So since we moved here, we haven't really have a lot of decorations...especially ones for outside the house and on the house, even in the house...so far we only have the tree and our Christmas village, but that's more than enough for now. As the time goes we will be able to get a whole bunch of decorations to fill the inside and outside of the house :D

Next we have...

Blogmas 2014 - Day 16: Christmas Tree Reveal

Well I have already posted pictures of my tree and village hahaha, I didn't know I was going to be doing the Blogmas, so I just shared it anyway, but I am going to share it again just for the sake of Blogmas :D 

There you have it :D not big, but definitely beautiful! <3 

Blogmas 2014 - Day 17: Christmas In My Home Country, Traditions, Pictures

Christmas in my home country, South Africa, was alw3ays the best time of the year (obviously LOL). The decorations went up and the malls and shops were always filled with last minutes shoppers and Christmas lovers! 

The best part for me were all the beautiful lights outside all the houses and another favorite of mine was the Garden of Lights outside a casino called Emperors Palace...

 Every year it just gets more beautiful...I actually miss it <3 

Blogmas 2014 - Day 18: Stocking Stuffers For The Family,Ideas

Well this doesn't apply to me LOL, my uncle stuffed our stockings last year. We never did that back home, so that was an amazing surprise for us too.

Blogmas 2014 - Day 19: Preparing For Christmas

As the big day comes closer, we are all set and ready for Christmas!! :D 

All presents are wrapped and put under the tree just waiting to be opened ;)...puddings are planned and some of them are already made and ready to scoff down! 

Super excited, but sad thing is...before we know it, Christmas is already done and past and 2015 begins! 

Scary isn't it? 

Blogmas 2014 - Day 20: Last Minute Gift Ideas

All presents are done and wrapped, but still need to get a gift for my daddy. My dad is the man of my life and I honestly don't know where we would be without him, I just wish I could get a gift that will show him just how much I appreciate him as a father <3 

Would love to get my mommy a gift too, I hate not being able to get my parents anything, but once I start working next year that is all going to change :) 

So that is my Blogmas and blog up to date :) *few!* feeling much better now! haha

How are you all doing on your Blogmas? ;)

Blogmas 2014 - Day 14: Favorite Childhood Cristmas Memory.

Good afternoon amazing people! :)

How are we all doing today? Hope well and cheerful LOL, I'm cold but you know, winter will do that ;) haha

Right...my favorite childhood Christmas memory would have to be when we all went to my Grandfather's house on Christmas Eve and the whole family would be there. Portuguese families aren't exactly the smallest so the house was filled with laughter and chattering, it was just amazing. The kids would all play outside while the adults would cook up some prawns and yummy goods.

The one Christmas Eve, we made a video for my Tia here in the States, I was about 7 or 8 maybe even younger. My uncle decided to record all of us saying hello and telling her stories and that for me was like a big thing. We would play outside in the yard and then at night come inside and still play video games or my favorite...hide and seek! :D

Every year was like this, so I can't really say there was a favorite, but then we get to spend a Christmas with family we haven't seen in many years and in the United States with snow and all...now that would also have to be considered as a favorite :) hehe

What was your favorite childhood Christmas memory?

Blogmas 2014 - Day 13: How Are You Counting Down to Chrismas

Hello everyone :)

Hope you are all having a good, but warm Saturday hehe I know I am still trying to keep warm and get some sort of feeling in my fingers again LOL

Okay, so I have been enjoying doing this Blogmas trend, it has been very entertaining and I just love reading everybody's traditions and routines during this time of year.

So ever since we were little, my gran would always buy us advent calendars for Christmas, the ones that have a piece of chocolate behind each window for everyday that passes by. My brother would be a little cheat and not eat his candy for the day, instead he would wait for a few days days to go by and then one day he would eat all the candy's in the calendar LOL

That is basically all we had to countdown to Christmas, of course we had us running around everyday each day more excited than the next hehe <3

Blogmas 2014 - Day 12: Winter Wonderland, Pics of where you live

For years I have been wanting to live in the country, with wide open spaces, animals and just the fresh air and the scenery and etc. After living in the big city all my life and that being the place I grew up, when moving to a place like Idaho, it felt amazing and felt like I could breathe and just be myself and move around without having to look over my shoulders every 5 minutes everywhere I went.

Living so close to the open country is already almost like a dream come true for me, I am hoping one day I will be able to live on a ranch with my own horses, and hopefully raise my children on a ranch. That is my dream and I am going to try and make it come true!

It never snowed in South Africa, it snowed once in my whole life that I have been there, but it wasn't as thick and beautiful as this. Coming to a place that snows every winter even if its just for one day, is like paradise.....well for me LOL!

Definitely a dream come true for a teenage girl! <3

Blogmas 2014 - Day 11: Christmas Food, What is on the Menu?

One of the best and favorite parts about Christmas is all the yummy goodness that is left on the table and snacked on throughout the night and day. Some people have different traditions and routines during Christmas time, you might have huge plates of amazing home cooked food and yummy pudding, or some of us make small little goodies just to snack on during the time leading up to the 00:00 mark on the clock, then the next day we make a huge home cooked meal and sit down as a family and enjoy it all. Either way...yummy food is still involved LOL

Back home, the tradition was a few cooked snacks and cakes and sweets and a lot more on Christmas Eve. The menu for Christmas Eve consisted of the following:

Rissois

Prawns (sometimes)

Fruit Cake

Pudding

Chourico Assado

Pasteis de Peixe

And a lot of sweets!!

Then we get Christmas Day, which is where we had a big lunch cooked up for the family. The Menu for Christmas Day consisted of the following: 

Gamon

Potatoes

Sweet Potatoes

Salad

Rice

Turkey

What is on your menu for Christmas?? :)

Blogmas 2014 - Day 10: Show Us Your Cookies, or Recipes

I am not the type to cook or bake, but I am the type to learn new things whether they come out terrible or not! Haha I grew up in a family that loves to cook and bake, from both my mom's and dad's side of the family. Me on the other hand....I am still learning.

Now I don't have any pictures of my own creations, as I haven't attempted them yet haha, but I would like to try and make a Christmas Fruit Cake, and some sort of other yummy Christmas puddings.

If you have any ideas, I would like some suggestions :) I know my Tia has a few that I can try, but if anybody has anything different, please may I have a few recipes?? <3

Hope you all have a great night!

xxx

Blogmas 2014 - Day 9: Winter Items You Can't Live Without

Right...good afternoon amazing people, it's time for Day 9 of the famous Blogmas trend.

There is nothing more relaxing and toasty than sitting in front of the fire with a warm, loose sweater on. I don't have a fire place, but I wish we did. My Tia has a fire place in her home and that is how I know that it is so relaxing just listening to the soothing crackle of the wood.

I just love that sweater, I might just put that on my wishlist :D it is really cute LOL

One of the other things I love and can't live without during winter is my big, thick horse blanket that my Tia and Uncle got for me when we first got here. It is this HUGE, thick blanket and on one side it has a horse and her foal and on the other side it has a floral design. I know that I would probably freeze if it weren't for that blanky :D hehe

Another thing is my Jax <3 He is very heavy and every time you try and move him away he just doesn't budge, because if he is tired and lazy then he just wants to be left alone LOL but he is so warm and cuddly and he is definitely what I need when I'm cold and when times are hard for me.

He's naughty, but he's cute...I think I'll keep him ;)

So those are the things I can't live without this winter.

What can't you live without this winter?? ;)

Blogmas 2014 - Day 8: What Is On Your Wishlist This Year

Being a big girly girl I guess you can say I have A LOT on my wishlist that is not exactly easy to get haha. I am a huge fan of different clothing styles and jewelry, especially belly rings, earrings, and a couple of these...

Aren't they stunning??

I am also a big fan of anything to do with horses! In one of my very first blog posts, or could have been my very first one, I mentioned that horses are like everything to me and have been since I could even walk LOL I think I started walking on all fours like a horse before actually walking on my own two feet....I even sounded like a horse, I would whinny and grunt and everything haha, my family believed I was an actual horse in my previous life LOL.

There are a few ideas of what I want horse related for Christmas :D LOL

There are so many more things I want to mention and show you, but this post does have to end sometime this year LOL. I am trying my luck with getting a Samsung Galaxy S4 or S5, but that is not happening at all *bummer*

I hope you all get what you want for Christmas, but most importantly I hope you spend the special day with loved ones and celebrate the true meaning of Christmas! <3

Have a good evening everybody! :)

God Bless

xxx

Just a Quick Run Through...

Blogmas 2014 - Day 1: Favorite Christmas Tradition

Hi everyone :)

So sorry I haven't been blogging, been going through some hard times but you know what, got to pick yourself up and move on sometime right :) haha

Anyway I just wanted to come in and catch up on my Tia's Blogmas, I am quite far behind lol and I was excited to do it, but circumstances.....yeah let's just not go down that road.


Right...my favorite Christmas tradition would have to be the wrapping of the presents and placing them under the tree nearly everyday of December until Christmas Eve, just the excitement of seeing my parents walk out of their room with all these presents is unexplainable. I remember as a little girl I would always go to the presents under the tree and find my presents and if they were big and felt like a box then I was ready for Christmas Eve to just arrive LOL

Another tradition that I love is all the Christmas movies and songs that you don't only see and hear in your own home. When you walk into the malls and stores the Christmas music will be playing and all the decorations will be up and it just brings on that excitement and all that Christmas cheer. Every year after Christmas, or sometimes even before, my mom would read us the story of the birth of Jesus Christ and the true meaning of Christmas.

Every year on the first few days of December from like the 1st to let's say...the 5t

h, we would put up the tree and start decorating the house. Back in South Africa we had an artificial Christmas tree because they never used to sell real ones, that's why when we first got here and my Tia was like "let's go buy a real Christmas tree", we were all so excited and fascinated by the idea of a real pine tree in the house :D kind of like in the movies LOL

This was our first "real" Christmas tree (meaning the first real tree for the four of us from South Africa)...isn't it pretty??

Blogmas 2014 - Day 2: What Christmas Means to You

As a child Christmas to me was all about the excitement of staying up late, the stories of Santa Clause coming to visit and leave presents behind, and of course...The Presents!

As I grew older and became more mature, my mom made it a tradition to read the story of the birth of our savior Jesus Christ <3 and only then did I realize that Christmas wasn't only about the presents but about the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior. 

Christmas to me is also about family and loved ones, and about giving and receiving love whether it is through presents or food or even just laughs and conversations. The bottom line is, Christmas is celebrated for the birth of our Lord and to share that moment with our families.

Blogmas 2014 - Day 3: Favorite Christmas Movies

I never used to be the type to watch Christmas movies during the month of December, but now all of a sudden I want to watch nothing but Christmas movies. I think now that I'm older, it just comes naturally ;) haha

I would have to say my favorite Christmas movies are: 

The Polar Express

Santa Clause 1,2 & 3

Christmas with the Kranks

The Grinch

Home Alone (The first one)

Elf

Mickey's Once and Twice Upon a Christmas

Santa Paws

National Lampoons: Christmas Vacation 1&2

Deck the Halls

Blogmas 2014 - Day 4: Favorite Christmas Music

 I grew up listening to my grandfather sing different times of Christmas songs on the night of Christmas Eve before opening presents LOL, I just love Christmas music, it gives you that cheerful kind of feeling and to me that is the best feeling ever.

My favorite Christmas music is: 

Michael Buble'

Jingle Bells

Santa Clause is coming to town

All I want for Christmas is you

Santa Baby

Blogmas 2014 - Day 5: Favorite Christmas Food

In South Africa we would spend Christmas Christmas Eve with my dads side of the family and Christmas Day with my moms side of the family. When we went to my dads side of the family, because the family is Portuguese, you can just imagine all the yumminess going on in the house :D 

The food that was made on Christmas Eve was, as my Tia mentioned in her blog: 

Bacalhau Cozido com Grao  (Boiled Cod with Chickpeas)

Bacalhau a Gomes de Sa (Cod Fish with Potatoes and Eggs)

Basically everything else is mentioned on my Tia's blog LOL

Now my mom's side of the family is a little bit different compared to my dad's, when we go there on Christmas Day, the house is filled with the smell of Gamon (ham) and Turkey, roast potatoes and my Gran's amazing sweet potatoes. We have a huge lunch at the table, but first we always pray to God and His beloved son Jesus Christ before enjoying all the yummy goodies.

Blogmas 2014 - Day 6: When Do You Open Presents

The tradition we did for many, many years was, like I said before, Christmas Eve at my dad's side of the family and Christmas Day at my mom's side of the family. We would open presents on the night of Christmas Eve at 12:00 PM, well I guess that would count as Christmas Day kind of, but you get what I'm saying LOL. We would all wait for the countdown and once the clock struck 12:00, we all wished each other a Merry Christmas with lots of hugs and kisses all around the house then we would find our own little spot in the room and have someone hand out the presents. It was all exciting and and the energy was wonderful and being in a Portuguese family...let's just say there were a lot of gifts and love to go around LOL just ask my Tia :)

Now after opening presents on the night of Christmas Eve, we would all thank each other and head home for some well deserved rest, but the most exciting part for my brother and myself was going to my Gran's house the next day....and we all know what that meant :D 

MORE PREZZIES!!

And of course the food LOL, the family wasn't as big, but there was still a lot of gifts and love to go around <3 

After we sat down and had an amazing lunch we would all clean up and head into the living room where we would find a spot once again and wait for my dad to hand out all the gifts. 

I miss those amazing times with my family back home, but now we get to spend Christmas with our family here and I can tell you, it is amazing for us considering we haven't spent Christmas with them in a very, very long time.....well my Tia, last year was our very first Christmas spent with Uncle Curt and the kids :)

Blogmas 2014 - Day 7: Handmade Christmas, Your Favorites to Give or Get

To be honest, I have never gotten anything handmade for Christmas as a gift before, the first time I ever got something handmade was from my Uncles aunt who made me a scarf for Christmas last year and of course, knowing my Tia, probably made me a scarf or hat too, but if not for Christmas then that has already been done just out of the kindness of her heart....why?.....because she loves me and because I am her favorite niece!! :D LOL

Nah just kidding haha

I have never made anything for anybody before either and now that I am still learning how to arm knit, I might just use that as an idea for next Christmas or even just as a gift for my family back home or here...if I'm feeling generous that is LOL

So that is the Blogmas up to date and on track, hope you enjoy reading my traditions and stories I will peek in to read some of yours :)

Have a good night everybody

God Bless 

xxx

 

We Have Entered December

Well we have finally entered December, what a year it has been!! LOL I'm sure most of you would agree :) this year went by really fast, seems like just yesterday we were popping the champagne bottle screaming out "Happy New Year!"

Today was a cold, but one of those "I-don't-care-what-I-look-like" kind of days. I just slipped on some leggings, a tank top and a throw over with a scarf. I really did not care what I looked like haha. I got to Tia's house and tackled school straight away. I am so sick of school already it is not even funny! I just want it done and out of the way so I won't have to deal with any of it anymore...I have a feeling I'm going to regret saying that one day LOL.

These past few nights I have been watching all the Step Up movies from the first to the last, well the last one I am actually going to watch again tonight, just to complete the process ;) haha. I am even thinking about watching all of them all over again...that is how much I love them. You probably thinking I'm crazy, but that's okay, life wouldn't be fun without crazy people ;)

Last night I watched Step Up Revolution and it just got me on a high and I didn't feel like going to sleep after, I just wanted to watch it all over again but it was 2:00am and I figured it would be a good idea to just get some sleep. As I was watching the movie, I remembered some friends back home telling me I look exactly like the main girl in there....

What do you guys think??....

I don't see how we look the same, but you know, I suppose everyone has their own opinion about certain things :) maybe I should go and audition for the next Step Up movie ;) see how far I get LOL

Well anyway I am sitting on the couch waiting for my Sons of Anarchy to come on, there are only 2 more episodes left until the series is done for good :( I am heartbroken, but I guess everything has to come to an end right? So let's see what happens on tonight's episode :)

Have a warm Tuesday night everyone :)
God Bless

xxx