Thats right it was our youngest daughter her 1st birthday! I have taken pictures and even a little video but knowing me it probably will take years for them to come on to this page so dont wait up for it lol. Let me tell you more about her day. Ofcourse it was not a too bussy day for her and we still had our daily chores to do and some others as well that are less daily. What did Anarosa get for her Birthday? Let me show u! The first thing we bought her was a new washing machine~! O.o No, ofcourse I am kidding but yeah we did buy a new washing machine because my old one broke down. The stabilizestone got loose  the last time I used the washing machine and some big screws got off too. So since i kinda dont like this old washing machine anyway, I had a great excuse to spend that little bit of extra money I had for this summer. Here’s my new washing machine that will be delivered this saturday!

Now on to the gifts that my daughter DID got for real lol. (I found pictures of the excact same toys she got online, dont get worried that i hurt my self getting too active uploading pictures LOL) Well the first gift she wanted to open was the gift from her sister, the oh-so-well-known playphone from fisherprice.

Isnt that the cutest toy phone ever? I know it looks about the same as 30 or even 40 years ago an the kid has most likely not a clue that shes playing with a piece of history that even her mom played with as a baby. she probably wont understand  how this is a toy replica to our at that time daily used  communication device, looking at what our phones look like now.  Thinking back at that  time I do miss the old rotary phone sometimes..  or is it just the thoughts of it that brings back so many memories about calling my best friend when I was a teenager lol. I know that there was also a version with pushbuttons instead of the rotary phone. Ofcourse I found you a picture of one of those rotary phones. Just the one we had at home was light grey and not bright orange lmao.

YES! people this is what we used to call eachother with instead of wireless cellphones, you cant walk arround much with it but it was a lot easier to hook it between your shoulder and ear so you had your hands free to do your nails or go through your mail, yes the paper envelopes where the bills come out( and Yes thats what we called a handsfree call at those days lmao!) Now lets go back to my Daughters birthday. My husband had chosen to buy her a toy train with building blocks from Megabloks. 

Its the cutest thing with the songs that come out of the train as it rides arround. Thought for the time being it  will be lucky if it even gets to ride a full round before the little babyzilla grabs it and puts it upside down trying to take the cow and sheep off the little cars that folow the train. My oldest daughter (Nearly 12 now) used to have ” mr piano” That was also a musical play toy by Megabloks. I tried to find it to buy it for her too, but I dont think they even have it in production anymore since she got hers. But that  toy made me fall in love with Megabloks, I’m sure that our youngest sprout will receive more Megabloks toys as she  explores  the world :). Here is the  megabloks mr piano that my oldest had and I couldnt find for Anarosa.  The piano could really play tunes and the blocks woould being keept under the red hood.

Now as for what I think is at he moment her most favourite toy, as simple as it is and something that actualy a LOT of kids always liked and will like, simply a lot of colorfull woodenblocks in a box to keep them cleaned up when not played with. I saw it and knew that she would like it, since we have this little wooden train for her where u can stack little blocks on, and she just loves the lil blocks :). I found a picture of a simulair train just hers is  even cuter 🙂 and altho it wasna  Birthday gift but a gift for  Christmas last year, I still wanna show the picture lol. 

Now ofcourse I have also found a picture with the blocks on that she DID got on her birthday yesterday. Just imagine the hours she will have fun playing with those blocks, wheter it be tossing them arround, chewing on them (lol) or stacking them and pushing the tower over to make them fall down with a lot of noise, she will enjoy every second of it!

And with that the list of gifts shes gotten yesterday ended. Ofcourse there would have been more gifts if the rest of our family lived closer,  Antonios  parents live in Venezuela allong with his two younger brothers, My mom and brother lives at the other side of the country. My mom will be comming here next week when its my oldest daughter her birthday since its a long trip and she wont have to come two times then. Ofcourse she does miss the awesome cake we had to celebrate the happy day with and she wont taste the awesome champagne we drink to toast on Anarosa’s first birthday. ofcourse Anarosa didnt got to taste that either. Anyways her Birthdaycake had to be a little bit special one cause it was after all her first birthday. Since we didnt had a lot of family comming we couldnt have a too big cake  either so that was a little difficult to find but we came to a decision and ordered a photocake at Hema. We used one of our favorite pictures thats almost 1 year old and had  it put on cake. What? You wanna see a picture???  Haha ok let me get off my lazy butt and upload that picture for you guys :).

Happy Birthday Anarosa! We love you lots and lots and lots and that first year that we had to treasure you, hug you, kiss you, love you, play with you, laugh with you, watch you and all what more will be dear to us as much as every other day in the future! love you lots little one! kisses mommy and daddy!

Its so cute how she drinks her cup that we had to make a lil video of it and ofcourse I wont keep it from my visitors. So go watch the below video starring our little baby girl Anarosa.

It has been a while that I checked where my visitors came from and today I decided to bring Redmond, Washington into the spotlights. Again please let me repeat from a former post, I’m by no means a stalker, I just take the opportunity to virtualy visit some places and learn more about them. Lets see what Wikipedia has to say about Redmond, Washington.

Redmond is a city in King County, Washington, in the United States. Redmond is best known as the home of Microsoft (for which Redmond has become a metonym) and Nintendo of America. Redmond is also known as “the bicycle capital of the Northwest”. Due to its large population of highly paid technology workers, especially those of Microsoft, Redmond is an affluent community. Based on per capita income, Redmond ranks 20th of the 522 areas in the state of Washington to be ranked.

Native Americans had settled in the Redmond area 400 years ago, and the first European settlers arrived in the 1870s. Luke McRedmond filed a Homestead Act claim for land next to the Sammamish Slough on September 9, 1870, and the following year Warren Perrigo took up land adjacent to him. The rivers and streams had so many salmon that the settlement was initially named Salmonberg. More settlers came, and with the establishment of the first post office in 1881, the name of the community was changed to Melrose. The new name was taken from the Perrigos’ successful inn, Melrose House, which upset McRedmond. After becoming postmaster, he successfully petitioned to have the name changed to Redmond in 1883.

Ofcourse a City like Redmond has its own website too: http://www.redmond.gov/ . You will find information there about the population, recreation, plans and projects and anythign else related to Redmond. All together it looks  like a cute city worth paying a visit when you are in the neighbourhood. 🙂

Yes, I know I have been slacking, but I don’t have photoshop on my new laptop and  I am so used to  the speed of my new laptop that I really dont like sitting at my old destop anymore. My old desktop is now in use by my oldest daughter who is going to need one when she goes to her new school next year.

I am so proud of her! shes such a smart girl, very intelligent and creative. Ofcourse like every teenager she has her off-days but, dont we all? even when not teenager anymore? Excactly we cant be awesome all of the time :). And being her mom, i be the first one to know when somethign is up with her. Usualy ofcourse its me to blame for her mood because i had asked her to do somethign for me, or to clean up her  mess in her bedroom or I talked to her because she was late at school or forgot somethign or whatever.. So yeah its usualy me to blame  XD. And thats ok, thats what I’m mommy for :).

Now back to the topic, pictures well I will see to it that I get Photoshop installed this week and with some luck and loss of my lazyness I might start uploading and posting new pictures again. What I Can do right now is post a little video of our sweet  princess Anarosa, the youngest of the family :).

She makes me laugh all the time even when she  has been keeping me awake last few nights, every day she brings a smile to my face. I’m pretty sure she will be walking free soon, without  me holding her. We are learning her little things that are fun to do and she picks up on them really fast, like clapping her hands :).  She is sooooooo cute :).

Its so cute how she drinks her cup that we had to make a lil video of it and ofcourse I wont keep it from my visitors. So go watch the below video starring our little baby girl Anarosa.