Learn to cook in style at Branson

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach, so how about some cooking show at Branson, Missouri? Take the whole family for a weekend getaway to Branson and learn to cook Hilton style during the Cooking School Weekend; October 16th and 17th at the Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel. And a great place to stay at Branson is definitely Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel; the most hospitable hotel in town. The hotel is within easy driving distance of Branson’s championship golf courses, lakes, museums and 49 live entertainment theaters. Your whole family will enjoy their vacation and learn to cook Hilton style food from the expert. Upon arrival guests are welcomed to a wine tasting reception. Then, the next morning, the hotel’s very own Chef Nathan Read will do some cooking demonstrations and teach the participants how to prepare the appetizers served at the wine tasting. Saturday evening participants will experience a lavish four-course dinner paired with appropriate wines and learn how to prepare the featured meal the following morning. Be prepared to wow your family and friends this season as the menus will prepare you to be the perfect holiday host or hostess! On Friday's Reception you will see assorted display from Imported and Domestic Cheese, Assorted Individual Pizzettas in Hot Hors’douvre, Smoked Newman Farms Pork Loin to Assorted Individual Dessert which will be cook for Saturday Class and serve on that same day menu such as; Smoked Potato and Ham Soup, Fall Harvest Salad, Midwest Bison Short Ribs, Berkshire Pork Porterhouse, Apple Normandy. Aren't they sounding delicious? This one-of-a-kind package also includes deluxe accommodations at the Hilton Branson Convention Center Hotel for two people Friday and Saturday evening all for just $398.00 plus tax for both nights. Not only will you experience the pampered luxury that only Hilton – the first name in hospitality – has to offer, but you also will have easy access to shops, boutiques, restaurants, a river walk and other attractions when you’re not enjoying the splendors of your wine tasting and four-course meals. So, book your stay now and learn new recipes to cook for your friends and family and become a perfect host and hostess for this season.

Lucky Bamboo

When we went to Lowe's last Friday and I bought a lucky bamboo. I was fascinated with this plant. I wanted to buy one of this before at one of the chinese store here but it was expensive. I saw this at Lowes for 10 bucks and never thought twice of buying one. Lucky bamboo, believed by Chinese Fen Shui, will bring prosperity, fortune and happiness to whoever has them. I heard this from people back home and beside from that it is a nice decorative plant inside the house. Well I hope this will bring goodluck to me and my family.:-)

From Wikipedia Dracaena sanderiana, known as Ribbon Dracaena, Lucky Bamboo, Belgian Evergreen or sometimes Ribbon Plant, is a species of Dracaena, native to Cameroon in tropical west Africa. It is one of a group of small, shrubby species with slender stems and flexible strap-shaped leaves that grow as understory plants in rainforests. It is marketed in the developed world as a Chinese decorative plant "Lucky Bamboo" (although unrelated to Bamboo and not native to Asia), propagated from short cuttings, usually in water.

Asian people buy "Lucky Bamboo" when the Chinese New Year is approaching or to celebrate a business grand opening, the purchase of a new home or just for pure good luck ! "Lucky Bamboo" has the following spiritual meaning:

* Career - Climb up the ladder (advancement)
* Business - success in business venture (prosperity)
* Health - Harmony and peaceful life (longevity)
* Religious - Gracious, honorable and virtuous (Zen)
* Relationship - Energize your love life
* FengShui - Creation of positive energy in your environment (Chi)
How to Grow and Care;
Lucky Bamboo grows in water like cut flowers, but it will last for years. Place the bamboo in shallow water (about 1/2" - 2") in a vase. For best results change the water every other week. It is not necessary to feed the lucky bamboo.

Lucky Bamboo adapts to a new environment easily. Low light to bright indirect sunlight suits them well. It prefers temperatures ranging from 45 - 90 F.

Use Web Directory

Blogging lately become so useful to each individual with different ages who wish to express their ideas or what’s in their mind through writing, and for others earn a little out from it. If you have the talent in creative writing or a freelance writer im sure you will succeed in the world of blogging. But we do not know until when this kind of hobby would last. Well if you have any business and you want to increase your profit and boost your business, make use of the technology we have now a days. Web Directory could help find links for your business online. A web directory or link directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links. Web directory offers free inclusion of quality sites arranged in wide choice of categories. So for your business web directories you just have to look for the links or sites that related to your business. Check out business web directory to find more information about business web directories that you are looking to have a successful business.
Yahoo Directory is the most common directories people used online. It is used by everybody worldwide. We just have to be careful in looking for the right business web directories for there are plenty of web directory online that may lead us to the links not related to what we are looking for. Another web directory which commonly used online is the business.com. Use the right Website Directories which are beneficial to your business and see how efficient and fast people would respond to your online business.

WW - Chilling Out

The buckaroo using Justine's swing which was used to be his. We encourage him not to use the swing anymore otherwise it will break but as you can see he was having a great time at the swing. Every time we pulled Justine out from the swing Jake is soo ready to switch her place. Now the swing has made a squeaky sound because of him being there all the time. The time out thing didn't work on him, and yet he still keep using the swing carrying his stuff toy that Jane gave to him.

Join the Halloween Adventure

Who wants to have some fun, scary, and exciting adventure this coming Halloween? Well, you should join "Jack's Quest" and enter the contest, just simply submit your pictures or picture, video, or story from last Halloween and place the 'VOTE FOR ME' button to your site to promote your entry. You can get the button from Jacks Quest. And then tell everybody, like your friends at facebook, relatives and viewer to cast their votes for your entry to win at Jack's Quest. I joined the contest so vote for me as well. I submitted Jake's photo from his first Halloween last year. He was crying when I put the bumble bee costume on him. I look forward for more fun and exciting Halloween adventure this year. Jake is old enough now to trick and treat and probably the four of us will wear our own costume too. To shop for Halloween costumes for your kids and family Buy Halloween Costumes Online or in a Halloween Store Near You. I am sure you can find there the best Halloween costume for adults, children or even sexy costumes and pet costumes. Halloween costume party is one of the many events of the year that kids and older people look forward to celebrate. So, don't miss out this opportunity to win prizes on Halloween at the same time having some fun.

ELOW!! Jake on the Phone

Who wants to talk to Jake on the phone? Just dial 123dadada hehehe. How are your weekend guys? We had yucky weekend for its raining most of the time from morning till night. Plus it's getting cooler and chilly in our dungeon; I guess my hibernation had already been started even if winter hasn't here yet. Good thing the rain stopped for a little while yesterday so we took a short drive to IKEA to get a new dresser for Jake. Anyhow, I have video of Jake here to keep you entertain today. We had telephone toy for him to used, but I don't know what is it with that foam blocks that he likes using it as his telephone. Thanks for viewing! Have a fun manic Monday.

Beach bicycles

Summer is my favorite seasons of the year because you can do lots of things outside like going for some picnic at the park; go to the beach, riding bicycle and more. Every summer my husband's sisters with their kids always come up in Slippery Rock to visit Mary and bring their own bicycles because for sure the whole family would definitely go for some rides at Franklin. If your family also loves taking bicycle ride on any given day, you should buy some beach cruiser that you can use even if you are at the beach. Click on the link to see different color and styles of beach bikes.

Mommy Moments - That's My Favorite

That's My Favorite
(photo of your kids with any favorite)
This is the theme of this week mommy moments. So with our further ado here are my Rugrats favorite toys, and things to do. Anyway drop by at Mommy Journey to see more of mommy moments favorites.

My little pre-madona who loves to fuss sometimes, smile if her mood is great, and cry out loud if she is hungry and tired. Baby at this age is KKK (kaon, katulog, kalibang) eat, sleep, poop are their favorite things to do. She also started to play with toys now. This is the mobile gym we got for Jake. Good thing Justine like it because the buckaroo Ehmmm not so much.

Jake loves stuff animals; he has quite a few of stuff toys in his bed that gives him comfort. His favorites among them are Winnie the pooh and of course Raggedy Andy which he always take with him every where we go. He also loves music. Every time we play his favorite song on cd he would just run right away to his crib and grab pooh as his dancing partner.


Jake's likes to tear and pretend reading his book. His favorite books are the "Pat the Bunny", "Open the Barn Door" and "Wow City" perhaps because of the colorful illustrations and interactive pages with it. These books right now are all ruined and torn that is why I had to hid it also so that he won't tear all the pages on it. I'll give it back to him when he is two years old, hopefully by that age he won't tear its pages and knows the value of how to take good care of his books.

Jake's favorite old sesame street hanging mobile that he inherited from his cousins. We bought him a new hanging mobile gym but he didn't showed much appreciation and interest on it compared to this one. Even if he was almost a year old up to now he was still playing with it. Now I hid it at Justine's room before he will break it. Every time we opened Justine's room and he spotted this toy inside we couldn't stop him from going there and play with it otherwise its gonna be loud scream and cry.
Happy mommy moments everyone and have a pleasant, fun filled weekend.

The Best in Web Design

If you are starting your own online business, then you know how hard it is to get it going and make money with it. If you are a Canadian company though, there is help for you from the very best of sources. Consider NextTree Inc. They are Canada's fastest growing website design companies. NextTree Website Design offers quality and cost efficient web design for up and coming or well established Canadian companies that want to spruce up their online businesses. Right now, Canadian small businesses can get one of these professionally designed web pages going for as little as $499. This price includes everything! With this offer you get a custom website design, an integrated content management system powered by WordPress, website visitor statistics powered by Google Analytics, and you also get free training and support. NextTree Inc has the very best Canadian web designers, and they will go to great lengths to give you the perfect web page for your company. Ed McMahon, President of Burlington-based Teamworx gave NextTree the job of designing his webpage, and he has nothing but good things to say about the job that they did for him. People are getting tired of the same old website pages. Give NextTree Inc. a try, and you will have something better than the rest.

Hi Sissy Mmmwahhh!

Here is a video of Jake bonding with her baby sissy, giving her a kiss and slap waaa but he didn't actually hit her though, he was just too excited ahhh aint that sweet!!...check more at their Milestones blog. I had to stop the video coz Jake already sat in next to Justine's pillow.

He is a very gentle baby but sometimes he can't control his excitement to play with Justine. He didn't have any kids around here to play with and we seldom go to the playground now since we moved in to this new neighborhood. Hope you enjoyed watching Jake and Justine show.




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Grooming Yourself for a Career

Finding a good job can be difficult these days. For those of us who have a good job, getting promoted is our obstacle. What does it take to climb to the top of your profession? Is it just good old fashioned hard work? You might be surprised to learn that grooming has just as much to do with it. In a recent survey that was commissioned by Gillette and conducted by Harris Interactive, it was found that 84% of the Human Resource professionals interviewed think that employees that are well groomed will climb to the top of their career ladder quicker than others. Many of them also thought that being well groomed was more important than a firm handshake. In order to help guys that are out there looking for a job, Gillette has created the Gillette Career Advantage. At this website you can find valuable grooming tips, and you can also consult the advice of grooming experts Mark Jeffries and GQ style correspondent Brett Fahlgren. You can also take the Gillette Career Quiz and check out the Hire Guide where you will see what Human Resource professionals think of you. You will find everything you need to know to get that extra edge on the competition at work or at an interview. If you want to check out all of the products and resources that Gillette has to offer, then go to the Gillette Resource Center. Now you know. Clean it up guys and you will be much more successful at work.

19.2-pound Baby

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As I check on my mail tonight, I read this news of a 8.7-kilogramme (19.2-pound) new born baby boy of an Indonesian woman named Ani. Doctor said, this baby is the heaviest newborn baby ever recorded in the country. The baby boy is pictured here next to a baby of average size at a hospital in Medan, North Sumatra.

Ani's epic delivery scored a lot of attention in the Search box. After the "Today" show ran a segment and Al Roker and Matt Lauer made some lighthearted jokes, lookups on "19 pound baby," "indonesian baby," and "heaviest baby ever" all spiked immediately. This baby is so popular right now on the news, yahoo and not surprisingly, the baby is said to require "near constant feeding."
Read more here

I was shocked when I read this new, my gosh my baby is three times the size of this baby when I gave birth. I can't imagine the pain of the mother when she was on labor. This baby is like the weight of a 1 year old baby. Congratulations to the mother and good luck and for the baby Welcome to the world!

Wordless Wednesday - Where is Justine?:-)

Wanna play hide and seek?

Where is Justine? where could she be??.....Oh there she is in the rugster (Rugdoll in the dumpster) place hehehe. This is where we put Jake on time out. Justine was not on time out but I had to place her quickly in the playpen when I ehard the buckaroo screaming upstairs just woke up from his nap. Like what Smart Mommy Willa said "watch out baby Justine beccuse mommy is always holding her camera ready to snap a shot in every single move you make". Darn sure I am hehehe, it made me laugh when I read her comment coz its true, and here is the proof. Happy Wordless Wednesday everyone!

AlmostDiamonds.com Review

Jewelry is a way to a woman's heart. Whether it is gold or silver, you absolutely put a smile on your wife or girlfriends face when you show the sparkling surprise. But if you really want to please your woman, remember a diamond is forever will bring the best. AlmostDiamonds.com is the right place to find affordable silver jewelries. It is the site that has huge collections of silver jewelries from engagement ring to wedding rings set and more. Silver jewelries are always in when it comes to fashion. If money is tough for you right now and you want to surprise your girlfriend or wife with a nice gift Cubic Zirconia Jewelry would be perfect. Then when you propose Fake Diamond Engagement Rings would definitely win her heart or you might want to try the Cubic Zirconia Engagement Rings not so fancy but sure brings elegance and grace, it is beautiful and affordable set in sterling silver with three stone rings and solitaire rings. Fake Wedding Ring Sets and Cubic Zirconia Wedding Bands are excellent for couple like me and my husband. For childhood sweetheart out there or long distance relationship a pair of Sterling Silver Promise Rings is entirely without any flaws perhaps be the key to lasting and stronger relationships. Almost Diamonds has everything you look for. They have flawless and lovely jewelry which is affordable alternative to natural diamonds that fits your budget.

Meet Andy and Ann

Hi there peepz! Meet Ruggedy Andy and Ruggedy Ann from Rug world hehehe.

They are Jake and Justine's constant and forever companions and friends who always flash a dummy smile all the time.

My mother in law bought Ruggedy doll to all her grand kids. It's hard to find Rug doll with this size unless you order them, thats what my MIL did with ruggedy Ann. So, we got Justine's Ruggedy Ann when we went to Slipper Rock last weekend.




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Fine Everyone at My Life

Would you like to reconnect with your long lost friends and loved ones? Well then, you should check out MyLife, where you can find everyone all in one place. They provide the most comprehensive people search service to help you easily find and stay connected with friends, family, loved ones and colleagues. With your busy life, there is no need to go anywhere else to find the people important to you. Just type mylife.com into your web browser, and go to the bottom of their homepage. Then type in someone that you know or some one that you are looking to reconnect with. I went there and typed in my sister's name and they gave me what I was looking for quite quickly. Throughout life, friends come and friends go, but sometimes I wish that I could reconnect with some of them. I do not have a lost love, but if I were really going to try to search for somebody from my past, I would like to look up and find my friend Gina from highschool. I would really like to know how she is doing now. MyLife scans thousands of sources on the web including my space, twitter, facebook and more. It is the most advanced search website, and it is easy to use and provides fast results.

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Tons of Tags and Awards

Calling all my blogger friends in my blogroll to grab this tags and awards, join the fun guys, Im sure you will enjoy doing all this tags and awards.
Time for my tons of tags and awards that I need to post today. I don't know if I still have time for the next couple of days, so before I forgot to grab them better to post it now. Let me start with the tags.. gosh... my nose is gonna bleed again answering all this tags :-).
Chuchie of Chuchie's Hideaway so nice to tagged me with this interesting tag and awards, its fun doing it but its kind of long. whew!!
So amazing how powerful the Internet that unites people of different race, colors, culture and languages around the world through blogging and it all begins with great and strong foundation which is friendship. Here is a tag that can generate traffic and at the same time unites us all everywhere in the world.

Here are the rules:
1. Copy this entire post but appropriately acknowledge the tag giver.

2. Link your and your blog's name (that is, put your and your blog's name plus the URL) and add the nationality that you have e. g Filipino, Finnish, American, Canadian, etc.)

3. Tag as many bloggers as you can so we can generate a long list here.

4. Return here and give me a comment or a message to include you in the masterlist.

5. If you have multiple blogs, you may copy this tag in all your sites but please include only one blog of yours in each post.

6. Update your masterlist by coming back here.

7. This tag will not only help us know the bloggers we keep in touch in the blogosphere but will also help build traffic to our sites.

MASTERLIST: (List down your nationality here. The first one has been done for you).

FILIPINO
1. Imelda of My Daily Thoughts and Moods
2. Jane -Life is What you Make It
3. Thoughts of a SAHM
4. My Journey
5. Deeply In Love
6. Celebrate Life
7. Designs and ScrapLO
8. Chuchie Lopez-Wilks of Chuchie's Hideaway
9. Shydub of Simple Happy Life

INDONESIA
1. Ares- Viva Republik

America
1. David Funk of Basic Bloganomics



Chuchie also thinks that I am hot that she included me in her long list of hot chicks and momma as recipient of this "Hottest Female Award"... Ahem!!!lol. I feel like going outside now and scream it to the world that I am HOT lol.
Okiezz let us start the hotty fun game of this award;
1. Give this award to other female blogger you know complete with the reason why.
2. Do not forget to give a link back to the person who gave you this award
3. Try to googling this phrase: “[your name] needs”
4. Choose the top ten of the results and post it on your article
5. Find out the results..

Here are the Result when I google out Sheila Needs...Woooow I didn't know that I have a bunch of needs. But it didn't say here that I need money for shopping and job too and car, helicopter hehehe enough blah blah here are my needs folks.
Sheila needs a LIFE....(this is my fave I do need a life)
1. Sheila needs to get her spouse on board with their new eating plan if she hopes to improve her kids' diets.(I guess I need to learn how to cook american food for my kids huh)
2. For formal papers, Sheila may need extended time requirements and one-on-one teacher assistance with revising and editing her own work.
3. Dr. Yehuda says Sheila needs to get specific and address each of her fears head on, in a therapeutic setting.(How come they know that im crazy and insane waaaa)
4. Sheila needs to relax and recharge - she works at least as hard as I do.( this is absolutely korak)
5. Sheila needs help in getting her dream school up and going somewhere -- anywhere.(yeah right I need money first to go to school and nanny too)
6. Sheila needs a speechwriter, however, don�t let that fool you into believing her not to be competent.(Yup, I needed that too hehehe what a dumb ass)
7. Sheila just needs to crawl back into her pit!!(I just actually told hubby not to bother to bury me when I die coz ill just wrap myself and crawl to my tomb)grin
8. PRINCE NEEDS TO LET JASMINE GUY AND SHEILA E. IN ON HIS BEAUTY SECRETS. standard.(They dont know that I seldom shower, wash my face, comb my hair in other words take care of my appearance)
9. Sheila Sunday needs to do something different in order to get the biscuits on the shelves instead of another brand.( nooooh I need to go to church and shopping after that.)
I only get the top ten answers of my needs, coz im tired. I need to go to bed soon.



Katherine of Mom's Place also tagged me last week with this fun-tastic award. Thanks for this tsang, you gave me a bunch of work here hehe just kidding. I enjoyed doing it as in tsup tsup mmwah!!!wink
~ Do you think you’re hot?
Hubby said I am, and chuchie's award too says Im hot blogger lol

~ Please, upload your favorite picture

~ Why do you love this picture?
Obvious, just look at Jake's picture I am sure you are smiling right now, and look at Justine isn't she adorable, seriously they are my babies and I love all their pictures.

~ When was the last time you eat pizza?
The other day, got tired of making dinner so we order out at Pizza amier.

~ What is the latest song you’ve heard?
Jake's instrumental xmas song that we always play for him when he goes to nap and bed night time.

~ What are you doing while working on this game?
Watching TV while waiting for hubby to finished his game so I could use the computer and finish this long post.
~ What is your favorite nick name?
tsang and shy or sheng.

~ What kind of people are you?
Funny, moody, crazy in a funny way, impulssive, and baklosh.

~ What is your favorite song?
Same with Kat's fave song "Love me for what I am" and YOU by The Carpenters and The Journey by Lea Salonga.

~ What is your favorite food?
Anything yummylicious

~ What is the most stressful thing to you?
If I don't have opps and no Kwarta.

~ Mention the three must have items on your purse.
Diaper, wipes, cream, extra clothes for jake and justine, rags, and my wallet.

~ What is your favorite color/s?
Blue, Red, Green, brown and now im liking pink too.

~ Please tag other five friends of yours.
I would like to tag tsang Dhemz, Cecile, Momgen, Cacai and Chuchie

What is your not-fulfilled-yet dream?
A lot...work here, own a house here, be rich, and more

~ What is your favorite city to stay?
Cebu City, Cagayan City, maybe Manila too, and Vegas.



David Funk of Basic Bloganomics handed me these awesome awards. He is a busy man and yet he always have time to visit his bloggers friends in the blogland and left footprints at CB,SB and comment boxes that is why he received bunches of award all over the blogworld. Thanks so much Mr. D for including me again as recipient of these awards I really do appreciate the thought. You are such a nice person and friend.




I HOPE YOU WILL GRAB THE TAGS AND AWARDS GUYS OKAY?!




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