Sandoogans' Log

I am grateful for my family. I am grateful for my friends. I am grateful for my health. I am grateful for all the blessings in my life. Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving week. I am blessed to say I did.

I can't believe its going to be almost a month since I last blogged. Kind of bums me out considering I enjoy doing it so much. True, sometimes I have no idea what to talk about so I just blog gibberish but at least I'm blogging. I guess since I started going to school I find myself busier than when I was at work. I guess due to homework and what not. I also tend to hang out at my mom's quite a bit. Either way I should attempt to at least enter one entry per week. I have talked about wanting to do makeup  in the past and well, I am finally doing it! I am currently going to school to become a certified makeup artist. I almost didn't go due to financial reasons. The master course I originally wanted to take was out of my budget. I looked around and everywhere else seemed to be more expensive. I almost gave up hope but decided to give it one more look. Voila! There it was, the professional course. It was within my budget and included almost everything the master cours...

  I can't believe that its been almost a month since my trip to Guadalajara. It had been 9 years since my last visit. I can't believe I let so much time go by without taking a trip out there. My visit was super short this time around. Five days to be exact. I've never gone to Mexico for anything less than a month, but being this was a last minute trip, I was more than happy with whatever days I could get. Most of my family decided pretty much last minute (as it is accustomed in my family for some reason) that they were going to go Mexico. I literally mean last minute. The reason everyone wanted to go in October is because that's when the fiestas happen in my dad's pueblo, and the city. My parents decided they were leaving Thursday to Mexico and flew out Saturday. They would have left sooner but the was the next available flight. My uncles, aunts and cousins all did the same. I was no different. Mr.Andrade had been trying to convince me to go on th...

A couple of weeks ago Mr. Andrade and I  ran the Long Beach Run Forrest Run 5k. We did great! I felt a little bad for him though. I knew he’d be tired since he hadn’t trained and had been working mad hours. All of that didn’t seem to stop him at all. Shortly after we started the race he passed me. We both had mini goals set for this 5k. We had decided this would be our last one. We plan on moving up as far as our racing goes. My goal for this race was simple. Run the entire 5k. I hadn’t trained as much as I would have liked this time around. I couldn’t seem to get a set routine going. Excuses I suppose. Sometimes they were, sometimes the reason were legit. Either way my goal would not and did not change. I was to run the entire 5k. My cousin Will and friend Sylvia also ran. Sylvia did the 5k with her son and my cousin ran the half marathon solo. He truly inspires me and never ceases to stop motivating me. He keeps pushing me to move forward with my running no matter how...

I've been trying to decide what to do for my birthday well, since my last birthday. I personally love my birthday. I think of it as my own personal holiday. I think I've mentioned this before. When I was younger I was way worse when it came to my birthday. My answering machine would have birthday songs, I would leave messages reminding people my birthday was coming up and I was never shy of telling people what I wanted for my birthday. Actually I'm still not shy about that. I'm more than happy to tell you what I want when asked and sometimes even when I'm not. For my upcoming birthday (my birthday is in February) I've decided I want to go to New Orleans. I've never been and have always wanted to go. I feel there is so much history to see and I just imagine it as an awesome place to party. I'm not sure if this is going to happen but I'm hoping it will. After all it is my birthday. I just have one question, who's coming with me?

The cowboy and my mommy dearest. My mommy dearest cracks me up sometimes. I'm not sure if I've mentioned this but, she can be very dramatic at times. My sister and I often refer to her as "Albert" a character from one of my favorite movies "The Birdcage". If you haven't seen it you must! For Sam's birthday we decided to make it a family day and take her to Disneyland. My mom was totally stoked being that she hadn't been in quite sometime and she was finally getting her Disney pass. We all have one except my dad, he's not big on the whole amusement park thing. Since Sam's actual birthday landed on a Thursday our Disneyland trip turned out to be perfect! No lines, no crowds and not too hot. For some reason that day most of the characters were out. Not that we were complaining. One of our faves is Woody. We all love Toy Story so it was very exciting to see the cowboy. I think he was on his way to a show because he seemed to be in a rush. ...

Newborn 1 year old 2 years old Wow! You are officially 2 years old. Time sure has gone by fast. Everyone warned me about it so I kind of expected it, what they didn't warn me about were the memories seeming like a distant dream. I still try to remember my thoughts and feelings of being a new mother and I can remember bits and pieces of it. I can remember how excited I was bringing you home. I couldn't wait to see you in your crib. You looked so tiny and cute. I just loved staring at you. I remember the little things but I wish I could remember every single moment I've had with you so far. I know you're going to grow up and obviously I expect it. I just don't want to forget my thoughts and feelings of each day and episode of your life. Your little quirks, funny faces and tantrums. I want to remember it all! Obviously that will be difficult but I will do my best to keep it in the memory banks. Happy birthday Samantha. You are my world. My everything. I l...