I'm A Silly Mami: Happy Birthday   
Showing posts with label Happy Birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happy Birthday. Show all posts

Thursday, March 27, 2014

A Very Furry Birthday At #SesamePlace

IMG_9576 December was quite the busy month for us. We have Christmas and Buggy’s birthday in the same week and coming off the Thanksgiving train, well you can say December was just pretty crazy. 

For Christmas and Buggy’s birthday we took a trip down  to Sesame Place in Langhorne, PA. If you haven’t taken a vacation there, I definitely recommend it. If you’re not ready for Disney yet and your child(ren) love Sesame Street, that is the place to go.  The first time we drove down there – only five hours from where we are in New Hampshire was in September. If you think you will go again definitely buy the seasonal pass – totally worth it and it pays for itself after just the first visit. 

collage_20131216143306601_20131216143339145We had such an amazing time. The first day was freezing and they had predicted a snow storm and it felt like we had the park to our selves and it was just super awesome. Our second day there we had lunch with the characters and we got to take pictures with all the ones that were there.  Buggy was super excited when our awesome waitress brought out a cupcake and Bert and Ernie sang happy birthday to her. It was such an awesome meet and greet lunch with the characters and an extra birthday for my little one.  What great memories we have.

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If you’re interested in checking out the park, they open in May and opening this Spring is Cookie’s Monster Land - featuring five exciting rides, a three-story net climb, and a soft play area for the park’s youngest visitors. We love, love Sesame place and can’t wait until it open’s in May.  If you’re following me on Instagram you probably saw all my pics but if you’re not, I’d love to connect with you.

Have you been to Sesame Place yet?

Irene

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Happy Birthday Abuela

IMG_4486Today I want to wish my Mami a wonderful birthday. Today, September 12, I am celebrating another birthday for my mother without my mother. Today Mami would have been 67. Twenty years of celebrating her birthday without her in the physical world but I know that she is having an amazing time in Heaven with her parents and my day and many other family members.

Buggy and I had a wonderful little celebration for Abuela. We sang happy birthday, I told her stories about her Abuela and we looked at her picture and gave her lots of kisses.  My heart broke when Buggy asked if we could go to Abuela’s house to see her. I told her that I wished with all my heart that we could do that but Abuela’s house was very far away.

Happy birthday Mami! We love you and miss you so much. Without a doubt I know today you had an amazing day. Besos y abrazos to my Abuela’s and to daddy and everyone else up there.

I will look for my pennies from Heaven.

 

We love you to the moon and back!

Friday, August 2, 2013

A First Birthday Party At 93

93rd bday On Thursday I had the honor of attending a first birthday gathering of one of our residents. Olga just turned 93. We met a few months ago when I was chasing down the residents to get them to do a survey. I’ve seen Olga around but didn’t really converse with her. She didn’t look approachable and I’d heard whispers of how “difficult and mean” she could be because she will yell at you if she’s in a mood.

Those people were completely wrong. Olga is just an amazing person. I absolutely love her. I spend hours in her apartment with her talking about everything. She’s funny, loving and I’m proud to call her my friend. Yesterday she had a wonderful lunch with a few residents she considers her friends and I was so honored to be included. She told us that was her first birthday party. Olga was always a loner in her younger and never really had any real friends except for one-Pauline who made a surprise appearance.

Olga doesn’t have any family and she never married. She cried when I gave her a gift and was surprised when she received her flowers. She tells me what a blessing I am to be in her life but honestly, I am the one who feels blessed to have her in mine. Today Olga tried to give me a gift. I wouldn’t accept it and kept arguing with her. She told me I was insulting her, told me to shut up and take it (it was a smoothie maker). I told her she could yell at me all she wanted, I wasn’t afraid of her and I would still love her.

Olga has heart problems and has trouble breathing but she gets around quite well and she’s still pretty sharp as a tack. I worry about her when I’m not at work and I miss her even more. I pray she continues to do well. We just found each other so I hope God doesn’t have any plans on calling her home any time soon.

I’m so happy you had a wonderful birthday Olga. I love you!

Monday, April 15, 2013

Happy Birthday To My Fur Babies

Allie birthdayToday was a double celebration. Allie my Westie turned 15. It is amazing and we are truly blessed to still have her with us.  See, Allie is blind, practically deaf and diabetic.  As long as she is getting her two shots of insulin a day she is great. I wish I could have let Allie eat her yummy treat for her birthday but she did get to eat a few small bites which for her was just a tease but if she had eaten it she would have been up quite a few times during the night to drink and want to go out.  With her being delicate these days I’ve also started grooming her myself but I can only do it a little at a time hence my shaggy looking girl.

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Today is also Pebbles birthday. Pebby would have been 12 today. I hope my Pebby had an amazing birthday at Rainbow Bridge with her brother, sister and many wonderful furry friends there. I know she would have loved her birthday cupcake that I made for her every year.  I love you and miss you so much Pebbles!

Happy birthday girls. I hope you both had a wonderful day. We love you both so much!

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Happy Third Birthday Buggy!

Buggy's Bday Cake

Three years ago today I gave birth to an amazing 8 lb 11oz little girl. Never did I imagine how much my life would change.I feel so blessed to have this little girl in my life.  I can’t believe it’s been three years already. I think of the Kenny Chesney song “Don’t Blink” . It’s a great song.

"Best start putting first things first"
'Cause when your hourglass runs out of sand
You can't flip it over and start again
Take every breathe God gives you for what it's worth
Don't blink
Life goes faster than you think
So don't blink

Sunday we celebrated her birthday and had a wonderful time. Today we had an all out Buggy day. We had lunch at her favorite ice cream place-Friendly’s then we took her ice skating for the first time and she absolutely loved it. She did great and seemed like a natural. We are going to try skiing next. After that we went back to where we had her party for more bouncy house play. She was so tired that she fell asleep way too early.

We all had an awesome day today. Cherishing every single moment together. Life is precious, make the most of every minute together, make some memories and don’t blink!

Happy Birthday my precious baby girl. You are amazing, beautiful, smart, silly and very funny and ready to tackle the world. We love you so much!

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Monday, November 26, 2012

Happy Birthday To Me

80483d5c373711e2859c22000a9f0a20_7Today is my birthday. It feels just like any other day. I don’t really keep track of how old I am and most of the time I really have to think hard when I’m asked my age. I am in my early forty’s but I don’t like to be defined by a number because I feel like I’m in my early 30’s. Although this past month has been tough and exhausting. Lately I’ve been zonked out by 9:30P and my blog has taken quite a hit. I’m a night owl and generally go to bed around midnight or 1AM. Hopefully I can get back to my regular schedule once the holiday crazies are over. With Thanksgiving and my birthday done, I still have Buggy’s birthday and Christmas in the same week.

Back to my birthday. Yesterday after I came in from walking Chantal I hade this beautiful cake waiting for me. The girls –Buggy and “Baby” our 6 year old neighbor and the husband sang happy birthday when I walked in the door. It was so cute. Buggy presented me with a nice gift – a brand new laptop. I was so happy especially since mine has been totally crappy out on me.

My husband flew out this morning so it was really a quite and special day with my girls –Buggy and my fur babies.

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Irene

Saturday, October 20, 2012

Happy Birthday Papi

happy  BDay papiBirthday’s are supposed to be happy events with family and friends, balloons, music and everyone laughing and having a great time. A time for cake and ice cream – not that you need a special event to have cake and ice cream.

Yesterday was Papi’s birthday. He would have turned 71. When I woke up yesterday morning my first thought was of my father and wished him a wonderful birthday.  For breakfast Buggy and I had pumpkin muffins so we lit a candle, placed it in the muffin and sang happy birthday to Abuelo (grandpa) and Buggy blew out the candle. She had so much fun we actually did it few times. Papi would have appreciated that – he was just a funny guy with a silly personality and loved to have a good time. We believe in celebrating life and death. It’s ok to cry and miss someone you love so much that your heart aches but it’s also truly wonderful to celebrate them in death as well. We think of all the happy times, tell silly stories and just laugh. I tell Buggy all about her Abuelo all the time, we talk to his pictures and kiss him a lot! It’s been eight years since I lost Papi and for Buggy it’s almost like he’s been here with her all along.

We were going to release a balloon too but it was pouring outside so Papi, we owe you a balloon.

Papi, I know you had a wonderful birthday up in Heaven with Mami and so many of our family. I miss you so much Daddy.

Te amo mucho mi Angel, besos y un abrazo bien grande y para Mami tambien.

Tu querida hija,

Irene

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Happy Birthday Chantal - It’s A Doggy Birthday Party

IMG_8685Chantal has been with our family for about six years now. She came from a rescue in Puerto Rico- All Sato Rescue. She was the foster that never left. I became a Foster Flunkie yet again. She is a typical Boxer with abundance energy and is incredible with Buggy. They are truly best friends.

We think Chantal is 9 although you would never guess that from the way she still loves to play so much. The dog has amazing energy even at her age. It is sad that I am now down to two dogs. Chantal seems to have aged a lot since she lost her two sisters. It really is amazing how stress affects dogs too.

So because Chantal does not have an actual birthday it always slipped my mind to have a birthday party for her when I have always done it with my other girls. Honestly, I feel ter.ri.ble! Seriously – I feel like I’ve been playing favorites and because she was a foster it’s like she really didn’t matter and that is the farthest from the truth! I’ve always spoiled all my dogs and every single year for their birthday I have always made them cupcakes or cakes – real ones from Pillsbury and ice cream or Frosty Paws and when possible had some doggie or human friends over to celebrate together. Even has an awesome time and the kids really love to see the dogs in birthday hats and have any excuse to have cake and ice cream.

I do remember picking her up in November I believe. I may have the day somewhere in her paperwork but after waiting years I just couldn’t wait another few months so last week we celebrated her birthday for the first time and we will have a birthday party a month to make up for lost time. Yup, next month we are going to have another one. Everyone is already looking forward to it. Even Allie my diabetic westie had a tiny little piece of cake – very little, I couldn’t leave her out. She is blind so she could smell all the delicious cupcakes, that would have been torture for her.

Check out the collage I made and take a close look at the little baby in the picture. That is Chantal 2.5 years ago with Buggy! Can you believe she is the same dog and look how big Buggy has gotten. She was two days old in that picture and look at her now. They really do grow fast.

FELIZ CUMPLEANOS CHANTAL. Mami and Buggy love you soooooooo much!

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Do you have doggie birthday parties for your fur babies? Do the kids get super excited when you do?

Irene

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Happy Birthday To Me

On this 26th day of November, 42 years ago at 9:11AM my Mami gave birth to an 8lb baby girl. Being the second child, my mother had quite the easy delivery – I think within an hour of arriving at the hospital and there I was – Thank You Mami. When I had my daughter, I was in labor for 12 hours and pushed 3 times and out came my little precious Buggy. One of the nurses told me that the girl in the next room pushed for about 20 minutes so I was trying to beat her –LOL! 

Buggy has been sick all week and I’m still nursing this miserable head cold but since it is my birthday we decided to take Buggy bowling. This was her first time bowling and she had an amazing time. She absolutely loved it. She would just grab ball after ball and throw them down the lane. It was the best day for her. It was glow bowling and she was totally into it. Needed to grab the balls herself, no help from us.  I think this may be a possible venue for her birthday party next month. We went to Bertucci’s for an early dinner since it was right near the bowling alley but she was close to a melt down so we made it to go and headed home.

Here are some bowling pictures.

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Birthday Pictures: Buggy is into blowing out candles so we were very excited when she blew out the birthday candles. I was a bit sad because Tasha isn’t in the pictures. I miss her very much. I’m happy all my babies were around on my special day. It was a great birthday with my family.

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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Felíz Cumpleaños Papi

English version Below
SCN_0005Su nombre era Ángel, y realmente era una. Querido papá, ¡Feliz cumpleaños. Hoy es su cumpleaños número 70. Me gustaría que estuvieras aquí para que pudiéramos celebrar. Han pasado siete largos años desde que nos dejaste y no pasa un día que no pienso en ti, hablo con tigo y darlte mucho abrazos. Echo de menos tu risa, tus besos, tus sonrisas, tus chistes, haci fue tu personalidad. Que eras un bromista. A veces cojo el teléfono para hablar con tigo.

Este ha sido un puesto difícil para escribir. Yo quería que fuera perfecto - al igual que papá. Mi papá era una persona increíble. Él era divertido, siempre riendo y haciendo reír a los demás queridos. Él era tranquilo y le gustaba pasar un buen rato con nosotros. Mi mamá tenía una  familia grande y todos los niños nos criamos juntos. Creo que estandos con antos niños mantenia Papi jóven. Aunque mi padre había estado en el hospital por un tiempo, lo perdimos de forma inesperada. Yo estaba de viaje por la noche y no tenía cobertura de celular. Yo no sabía hasta el día siguiente. Nunca tuve la oportunidad a decir adiós a mi papá.

Papi llegó a los Estados Unidos de Puerto Rico cuando él estaba en sus veinte. Él era un hombre muy trabajador para que él pudiera dar a sus hijas lo que necesitaban. Mi padre tenía muchos amigos. Creciendo, recuerdo que no podíamos ir a ningún lado sin conocer unos amigos y ellos siempre nos decian que era una persona maravillosa. Me sentí mucho orgullo. Yo era la nena de papá. Él me ha enseñado mucho - me encantó estar con mi padre. Estoy tan feliz a tener su personalidad, sentido del humor y de la tontería. Veo mucho de él en mi hija.

Tengo recuerdos increíbles cuando chiquita de mi papá. Muchas risas, tantos abrazos y besos. Gracias Papi por hacernos sentir tan queridos. Siempre me hizo sentir segura. Gracias por ser el mejor papá del mundo. Usted siempre será mi ángel.

Missing You
No hay palabras que escribo cada vez que puedo decir
¿Cuánto te echo de menos cada día.
Conforme pasa el tiempo, la soledad crece;
¿Cómo te echo de menos, nadie lo sabe!
Yo pienso en ti en silencio,
Me hablan a menudo su nombre,
Pero todo lo que tengo son recuerdos
Y las fotos en un marco.
Nadie sabe mi dolor,
Nadie me ve llorar,
Pero el amor que siento por ti
Está en mi corazón para continuar.
Nunca he dejado de amarte
Estoy seguro de que nunca;
Más profundo de mi corazón,
Usted está conmigo todavía.
Penas en este mundo son muchos
Pero la mía es peor que cualquier otro.
Mi corazón todavía duele como me susurro,
"Te necesito y te extraño."
Las cosas que se sienten tan profundamente
Son los más difíciles de decir,
Pero no puedo callar más,
Así que te diré de todos modos.
Hay un lugar en mi corazón
Que nadie más puede llenar;
Te quiero tanto, papá,
Y siempre lo haré.

Autor desconocido


Happy Birthday Daddy

SCN_0005His name was Angel, and he truly was one.  Dear Daddy, Happy Birthday. Today is your 70th birthday.  I wish you were here so we could celebrate.  It’s been seven long years since you left us and not a day goes by that I don’t think about you, talk to you and miss hugging you. I miss your laugh, your kisses, your smiles, your silly, goofy personality. You were such a prankster. Sometimes I still pick up the phone to call you.

This has been a hard post for me to write.  I wanted it to be perfect – just like daddy.  My daddy was an amazing person.  He was funny, always laughing and loved making others laugh. He was laid back and loved to have a great time with us. My mom had a big family and all us kids grew up together. I guess being surrounded by so many kids kept Papi young.  Although my dad had been in the hospital for a while, we lost him unexpectedly. I was away for the night and had no cell coverage. I didn’t know until the next day. I never got to say goodbye to my daddy.

Papi came to the U.S. from Puerto Rico when he was in his twenty’s. He was a hard working man so that he could give his daughters what they needed. My father had so many friends. Growing up, I remember that we couldn’t go anywhere without daddy bumping into at least a few friends and they would always tell us what an amazing person he was.  I felt so much pride. I was daddy’s girl.  He taught me so much - I loved being with my father.  I am so happy that I have his personality, sense of humor and silliness. I see so much of him in my daughter.

I have some amazing memories from my childhood because of my daddy. So much laughter, so many hugs and kisses. Thank you Papi for making us feel so loved. You always made me feel safe. Thank you for being the best daddy in the world. You will always be my Angel.

Missing You
No words I write can ever say
How much I miss you every day.
As time goes by, the loneliness grows;
How I miss you, nobody knows!
I think of you in silence,
I often speak your name,
But all I have are memories
And photos in a frame.
No one knows my sorrow,
No one sees me weep,
But the love I have for you
Is in my heart to keep.
I've never stopped loving you
I'm sure I never will;
Deep inside my heart,
You are with me still.
Heartaches in this world are many
But mine is worse than any.
My heart still aches as I whisper low,
"I need you and I miss you so."
The things we feel so deeply
Are often the hardest to say,
But I just can't keep quiet any more,
So I'll tell you anyway.
There is a place in my heart
That no one else can fill;
I love you so, Dad,
And I always will.

Author Unknown

Monday, September 12, 2011

Happy Birthday Mami

65th bdayToday Mami would have turned 65.  My Mother was young when we lost her to C – still don’t like saying that word. She was only 46, such a young age. It is never easy loosing your mother no matter how old you are. I lost her two week before my 24th birthday. 

Not having my mother around at that age had been difficult. It is when you start asking questions about your parents – how they met, how did daddy propose, how was I as a baby. Some of those questions came up when I was younger but you really didn’t pay attention to the conversation. You always think – oh I’ll have time to ask Mami later. For my sisters and I later never came.
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