Happy New Years!!!

Happy New Year Peeps! I usually do a recap of my year in pics, but I failed to keep my pics organized! Anywho...I am posting on a few things I have done while off work for a mini vacation, bringing 2012 to a close and open new doors to a new year!

I ran across this prayer that I simply loved...and wanted to share with you. This prayer is awesome...if you need to print it out and read it daily until you memorize it...then do so. Post it at work, near your monitor, in your locker, in your purse, in your glove compartment...anywhere where its in close reach..I aim to be a better prayer warrior this year...

 Well on to some fun stuff...I did some 1st bringing in the New Year...it wasn't as bad as I thought...being that my baby girl was gone for 9 days come tomorrow. However, she will be back! She's been gone since Christmas and I can't wait to see her play with all of her new goods she got from Santa! *wink wink*

I LOVE LOVE LOVE my friends for trying to keep me busy and keep my mind occupied while Bre was gone. My sista from another mista declared that we were going Ice Skating at the Mission Inn in Riverside on New Years...ok! Sure why not! So her BFF came and I invited my sister Kiesha and my nephew Jalen to come along. We really had a blast...NO ONE fell..no one! I was scuuurd though, I am not even gonna lie! I might have spent most the time in the rail...but its all good! Here are a few photos that captured my day.. 

Me & Keisha...

Me tryna pose on the ice, simultaneously trying to hold my balance! LOL!

Me and my sista from anotha mista...Miss Alondra Ladison...havin a great time!

Me and my nephew Jalen...he was all smiles!

IT's ONLY A POSE...lol..I promise I was not fallin for real...I said no one fell...trust me...!

Okay...now back tracking a bit...my sister usually asks us what we want for Christmas and I really couldn't figure out what I wanted and then it came to me! Go ahead and get me that Hip Hop Dance Experience! So I decided to play it today...played that thing solo for about 1 1/2 hours...got down with Snoop, Ciara, Chris Brown, Drake, Lil Wayne, Amerie, and so many more...it was fun but I bet funner with more people! So yeah I have had a nice work out today! Thanks SIS!

Okay...another 1st I accomplished...was going to the movies on Christmas Day. Since Bre left, my friends were quick to get me out of the house...so we went to see DJango Unchained. I liked the movie...there has been many different opinions. I am not too much Tarentino, I know he has crazy movies, but hey...I enjoyed it...it was hard to watch of course, and also this movie has no true representation of what slavery was truly like. I am thankful for the funny parts in the movie...cuz man oh man, otherwise I am not sure I would have lasted the entire 3 hours of the movie!

A message to my crafty friends & blogger friends...my online scrapbook group has been hopping the past 2 days. I challenged the group...to "Get that old thang back!!" In 2012 it seemed that we lost our mojo in getting crafty. Even some of my blogger friends kinda fell off! I miss yall, come back! Lets enjoy what we use to! There's a reason why we use to do what we did...why not continue what made us happy! Lets roll and do this! Lets get that old thang back!

Last but not least...the last 1st I did was I brought in the New Year in church. It was cool glad I went. There was fellowshipping, playing games, and finally ended with the message. I will be working on the message daily. Basically Pastor Woods, was speaking about letting the past be the past! Move forward! Can you imagine if God did not let the past be the past? What would that do for us??
So my message to you...LEAVE 2012 in the past...even 2003, 1999, the past is the past! LET IT GO! Lets move forward!

Holla!!!
Happy New Years!

Tricia

Year in Review....So LONG 2010!!!!

Below photos highlight some of my memorable moments from 2010.

Couldn't find pics that pertained to Jan & Feb...not sure what happened, so we will start with March!

March:

Bre getting the hang of her bike!

April

Bre hated to sit on her potty...lol...she only used her training potty until June, then she was on the big girl potty!

May

Bre was in her first wedding on a yacht...she wasn't too cooperative...

My lovely sister-girlfriend Janice, got married on a yacht. It was beautiful!

Spring Retreat in French Valley, Temecula

The girls that attended the retreat...was great! Wonderful memories!

Started doing the $1 skating at Stardust in the Hood....it was a great workout! Doin the "Stanky Leg" was pretty hard on wheels!

My girlfriend got this busted ass pair of skates...LOL!

June

Bre turned 3 years old, Petals the Clown was a guest of honor...

Lovin this pic..

Bre truly started lovin the beach this year...that Princess Tiana bathing suit...she was only able to wear it maybe 3 times...she grew sooo much this year!

July (the bestest' month!)

The best bday dude...wow...so memorable! All my closest friends and family was there to share it with me. (The lines on my face are from the mirrors in the limo..makes me look sickly...not a good look!).

Well...my fault for taking my glasses off my face. Yup...my glasses somehow jumped off the table...and someone stepped on them...I now have a supply of contacts on back up for party nights! It was a good thing I was on vacation that week! LOL! Good times!

Gettin ready to hop in our chariot!

A pic from one of our few pics to Disneyland...

August

Bre's 1st trip to Barnum Bailey's Circus, Ontario, Ca

L.A. County Fair....expensive as hell...ruh-dik-uh-luss!

Bre on the carousel at Castle Park, Riverside, Ca.

October

Me & My Cuzzo in attendance at the Laker Game...Go LAKERS!

Bre in attendance at the Nick Jr Live Show

Wonder Pets, Ni Hao Kai Lan, Backyardigans & Dora

We joined Keisha & Jalen to watch Disney on Ice

November

Bre helping me make our first Friendship bread...that I kept making over and over and OVER again!

Made my first Stateline Turnaround trip with Janice & Mama Berthas Red Hatters. My Bestie Rasheedah came with me on the trip, very nice trip!

December

Bre was getting her certificate at her Tumbling Teddies, for her 3rd quarterly enrollment...

Discovered a new technique! Made this mini album out of a paper towel roll! (Empty of course!)

Bre met snoopy for the first time at Knotts. We got in for free using our "county" employee status.

All smiles!!! LOVE HER!!!

Bre meeting Santa for the first time! She was SOOOO excited!!!

The reason I am THANKFUL for everything I have today!

Thank you Jesus for seeing and believing in me. Carrying me Lord when you know I was about to fall and ball up in fetal position...

Thank you for instilling FAITH within me and reminding me that you are a faithful God! You created me, Lord and you have created my blue print. Everything that has happened was not by mistake or chance. It was all apart of your masterplan.

I know we are not to question why certain things happen, but I already have my faith in you so there is no need to ask "why?"

This year I will increase my faith greatly.

Sometimes I question myself, how am I in the position I am in now? How have I been able to survive over the last year and a half? How have I made it!?

Nothin but you God...I know it is you!

You will continue to guide me, bless me, carry me...

Thank you Lord for EVERYTHING you have blessed me with! My beautiful daughter, family, home, job, car, finances, health, the list can go on.

Thank you

Love you unconditionally as you love me!

Make 2011 better than my 2010!

A Glance of Christmas Morning....

It was a blessed Christmas...here are a VERY few pics to give you a sample of what Christmas morning was like at mom and dads house!


Here is a before picture: Before all the chaos...before folks woke up...
This was only one shot of the room...the aftermath..all that pink foo-foo stuff you see...that was a tu-tu Bre got that was in her Treasure Chest of dress up clothes...

She was a little overwhelmed...

Everyone lookin in their stockings...

Folks gettin all funny...my sister tryna fool somebody...puttin my Eric Benet & Jazmin Sullivan CD's in this used box...she has jokes!

Bre got a new robe for Christmas...her Grandma taught her how to pose...taught her how to "Look over your shoulder and put your hand on your hip" I think she has it down!

Simply gorgeous!
He He! That game was the bomb! If youhaven't tried it..."The Micheal Jackson Experience" ya betta ask somebody...my aunt and cousins got it for their Wii...
Still unwrapping...she was in a weird mood...thats what happens when a diva gets woke up out of her sleep. Lol!
Rams Biggest Fan! Dad got some Rams stuff...a reversible Rams Jacket, Rams Toothbrush and cool ass card table from his girls..he also got some Laker gear and a super nice Laker Book that highlighted the last 50 years.

Hope your Christmas was blessed!