well its been a while since a post something in here!!I know it been a while coz now im getting closer to see & meet my baby.This coming dec. 14th they gonna start induce me,im excited at the same time nervous about the new things that im gonna experience.Hope everythings goes well!!

Rediculous!!

3,900 stimulus checks went to prison inmates
Government sent 3,900 economic stimulus checks to prison inmates -- 2,200 got to keep them
By Stephen Ohlemacher, Associated Press Writer
On Wednesday August 26, 2009, 9:28 pm EDT
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal government sent about 3,900 economic stimulus payments of $250 each this spring to people who were in no position to use the money to help stimulate the economy: prison inmates.

The checks were part of the massive economic recovery package approved by Congress and President Barack Obama in February. About 52 million Social Security recipients, railroad retirees and those receiving Supplemental Security Income were eligible for the one-time checks.

Prison inmates are generally ineligible for federal benefits. However, 2,200 of the inmates who received checks got to keep them because, under the law, they were eligible, said Mark Lassiter, a spokesman for the Social Security Administration. They were eligible because they weren't incarcerated in any one of the three months before the recovery package was enacted.

"The law specified that any beneficiary eligible for a Social Security benefit during one of those months was eligible for the recovery payment," Lassiter said.

The other 1,700 checks? That was a mistake.

Checks were sent to those inmates because government records didn't accurately show they were in prison, Lassiter said. He said most of those checks were returned by the prisons.

"We are currently reviewing each of those cases to determine whether or not the recovery payment was due," Social Security Commissioner Michael J. Astrue said in a statement issued Wednesday evening. "Where we determine payment was not due, we will take aggressive action to recover each of these erroneous payments."

The Boston Herald first reported that the checks were sent to inmates.

The inspector general for the Social Security Administration is performing an audit to make sure no checks went to ineligible recipients, spokesman George E. Penn said.

The audit, which had already been planned, will examine whether checks incorrectly went to inmates, dead people, fugitive felons or people living outside the U.S., Penn said.

The $787 billion economic recovery package included $2 million for the inspector general to oversee the provisions handled by the Social Security Administration. The audit is part of those efforts, Penn said. There is no timetable for its conclusion.

The federal government processed $13 billion in stimulus payments. About $425,000 was incorrectly sent to inmates.

Fishing!!

Adam & I went to mantua lake earlier to go fishing at first I kinda hesitate to go with him coz Im tired & I need a lot of things to do since I havent done anything yesterday coz i have work eventhought on Saturday,I usually dont work on Saturday but one of my coworkers need a day off so manager ask me If I can cover that,which is kinda nice coz we need the extra money if I can get an overtime.So today I do my laundry & clean the bedroom & bathroom upstairs after that me & adam decided to go fishin.It was fun coz me & adam caught a lot of fish but we threw it back we just kept 4 fish & we didnt noticed the time so finally we got home 9 pm,I kinda sad though coz the bigest one I caught broke my line 10 feet from shore!!

We are definitely having a boy!!

Couple of picture our family camping last weekend!!We are all sitting together chattin after were done playing Alisha's game it was fun.

Adam with his amazing smile that he fulled when Trista's trying to take a picture of him

Slade & Ty



This picture was taken when were playing the newly wed game Trista brought it was a fun a game I enjoyed it eventhough me & Adam got the lowest score lol.
This picture was taken by Trista,its my belly 18 weeks & 5 days & Trista made that picture I love its so cute the ways she did it!!Thanks!!

How children become bilingual so easily!!!

WASHINGTON – The best time to learn a foreign language: Between birth and age 7. Missed that window?

New research is showing just how children's brains can become bilingual so easily, findings that scientists hope eventually could help the rest of us learn a new language a bit easier.

"We think the magic that kids apply to this learning situation, some of the principles, can be imported into learning programs for adults," says Dr. Patricia Kuhl of the University of Washington, who is part of an international team now trying to turn those lessons into more teachable technology.

Each language uses a unique set of sounds. Scientists now know babies are born with the ability to distinguish all of them, but that ability starts weakening even before they start talking, by the first birthday.

Kuhl offers an example: Japanese doesn't distinguish between the "L" and "R" sounds of English — "rake" and "lake" would sound the same. Her team proved that a 7-month-old in Tokyo and a 7-month-old in Seattle respond equally well to those different sounds. But by 11 months, the Japanese infant had lost a lot of that ability.

Time out — how do you test a baby? By tracking eye gaze. Make a fun toy appear on one side or the other whenever there's a particular sound. The baby quickly learns to look on that side whenever he or she hears a brand-new but similar sound. Noninvasive brain scans document how the brain is processing and imprinting language.

Mastering your dominant language gets in the way of learning a second, less familiar one, Kuhl's research suggests. The brain tunes out sounds that don't fit.

"You're building a brain architecture that's a perfect fit for Japanese or English or French," whatever is native, Kuhl explains — or, if you're a lucky baby, a brain with two sets of neural circuits dedicated to two languages.

It's remarkable that babies being raised bilingual — by simply speaking to them in two languages — can learn both in the time it takes most babies to learn one. On average, monolingual and bilingual babies start talking around age 1 and can say about 50 words by 18 months.

Italian researchers wondered why there wasn't a delay, and reported this month in the journal Science that being bilingual seems to make the brain more flexible.

The researchers tested 44 12-month-olds to see how they recognized three-syllable patterns — nonsense words, just to test sound learning. Sure enough, gaze-tracking showed the bilingual babies learned two kinds of patterns at the same time — like lo-ba-lo or lo-lo-ba — while the one-language babies learned only one, concluded Agnes Melinda Kovacs of Italy's International School for Advanced Studies.

While new language learning is easiest by age 7, the ability markedly declines after puberty.

"We're seeing the brain as more plastic and ready to create new circuits before than after puberty," Kuhl says. As an adult, "it's a totally different process. You won't learn it in the same way. You won't become (as good as) a native speaker."

Yet a soon-to-be-released survey from the Center for Applied Linguistics, a nonprofit organization that researches language issues, shows U.S. elementary schools cut back on foreign language instruction over the last decade. About a quarter of public elementary schools were teaching foreign languages in 1997, but just 15 percent last year, say preliminary results posted on the center's Web site.

What might help people who missed their childhood window? Baby brains need personal interaction to soak in a new language — TV or CDs alone don't work. So researchers are improving the technology that adults tend to use for language learning, to make it more social and possibly tap brain circuitry that tots would use.

Recall that Japanese "L" and "R" difficulty? Kuhl and scientists at Tokyo Denki University and the University of Minnesota helped develop a computer language program that pictures people speaking in "motherese," the slow exaggeration of sounds that parents use with babies.

Japanese college students who'd had little exposure to spoken English underwent 12 sessions listening to exaggerated "Ls" and "Rs" while watching the computerized instructor's face pronounce English words. Brain scans — a hair dryer-looking device called MEG, for magnetoencephalography — that measure millisecond-by-millisecond activity showed the students could better distinguish between those alien English sounds. And they pronounced them better, too, the team reported in the journal NeuroImage.

"It's our very first, preliminary crude attempt but the gains were phenomenal," says Kuhl.

But she'd rather see parents follow biology and expose youngsters early. If you speak a second language, speak it at home. Or find a play group or caregiver where your child can hear another language regularly.

"You'll be surprised," Kuhl says. "They do seem to pick it up like sponges."

Aegis

Earlier my hubby asking me why I dont do my blog anymore & I told him I dont know Im not into blogging anymore maybe once in a while yeah I wrote something but im not gonna obligate myself to do it...But anyway me & adam have some fun today indispite of our situation & problem that we struggle right now,we went to a concert tonight with our friends Siena & Carson,the Aegis concert one of the popular band in the philippines they have a nice voice & they're so funny Adam enjoyed watching & listening to them too,we bought that ticket a month ago,after that we went to Denny's & ate dinner/breakfast coz the two guys order breakfast,our friend pay that for us eventhough we told them not to!!So its was fun & Im so glad that my friend Siena goes to that concert eventhough she's struggling with her all day sickness of being pregnant.
Adam took the video & he didnt finish the song,but its all good!!

Baby Bump

This is my Baby Bump

Happy 4th of July!!

I dont know why I felt like I dont have interest in blogging anymore,If you notice that I havent updated my blog for a week or so..but once in a while I wrote something on it...all i know that I feel like earlier at my job that other people think that I am a living GPS you know why I said that coz a lot people think that once your working at a gas station or convinience store that you should know all the direction that they're asking to you thats why i think they're thought that I am a living GPS.Now its upset me that is 10:00 at night its time to take a rest and the kids outside in our townhomes screaming so loud that even the window on our bedroom close I can still heared their screamin.I just Im gonna blame their parents about this coz didnt even teach their kids a good manner about it....

I havent updated my blog for a couple of days so Im apologizing for that lol.I finally saw a picture of my baby..last friday we went to my doctor appointment & do the early ultra sound,kinda funny coz when the lady who do the ultra sound want my baby to stay still he/she keeps moving & when the lady wants him/her to move he/she stay & doesnt wanted to move so the lady keeps wiggling my tummy so the baby moves,we kinda laugh coz hes/shes a hard headed baby lol.then after the ultra sound we went to see my doctor,& when my doctor is trying to hear my baby's heartbeat she cant hear anything but we heard my baby's heart beat when we are at the ultra sound room,my doctor shook her head & saying that my baby is kinda stingy & bad coz he/she wont let my doctor heared the heart beat.so hears the picture of my baby that I would like to share.

hay its monday again back to work & my hubby back to cedar city again after working bout a week in Salt Lake,make me upset that he's back to Cedar City.I heard a good news today about my very good friend Siena who lived in Salt Lake that she's pregnant too,so were having a kids that gonna grow up together...im happy for them...I was watching Here's comes the newly wed on ABC 4 & its so funny,I was planning to go to bed early but its not gonna happen coz i cant help my self not watching it....
me & my friend Siena with our matching cabelas clothes

It made me miss the Philippines!!

Today is monday memorial day,but I have work today so its not fun....well Adam & I is watching tv. & were watching a movie titled Black mama,white mama its was an american old movie,was film in 1972,& the thing that is kind a funny is the film was made in the philippines & some of the actor in that movie is filipino like eddie garcia,subas(ricardo) herrero & some of its that I cant even remember their name,it make me homesick when i saw the banana tree,coconut tree,jeepney & a lot of things that reminded me the place where I grew up.

Im upset!!

Naiinis ako sa manager ko wala manlang kakonsiderakonsiderasiyon sa kalagayan ko.Eto kasi yung nangyari yung kasamahan ko sa trabaho nag offer siya na gagawin niya yung pag aayos ng cooler sa trabaho ko para hindi nako magbuhat ng mabigat dahil nga buntis ako,kaso itong manager ko ayaw pumayag bakit hindi ko daw ba kayang mag buhat ng isang drink at ilagay sa cooler,hindi naman yun yung ipinopoint ko oo nga kaya ko ngang gawin yun kaso ang problema madalas im so pagod at mahihirapan na nga sa paglilihi ko,minsan nga parang hindi ko na kayang tapusin yung buong shift ko kaya ibinigay ko nalang yung paggawa sa cooler sa ka trabaho ko.Konting pag unawa lang ang hinihiling ko sa manager ko habang sa makalagpas lang ako sa stage ng paglilihi hindi pa maibigay,,,kung hindi ko lang kailangan ang health Insurance ko sa trabaho ko nag quit na ko....buwisit talaga!!

Hay Its Sunday again weekend gonna be over soon.Im glad that were done doing our chores today...yesterday while Im doing the laundry my hubby help me to clean the house to bad that im the one who always cleaning the bathroom lol.So today all I do is fold our clothes,so I have a time to get relax sat down & play nintendo wii with my hubby,& now laying in bed while updating my blog.Last night we went to movie here in Kaysville I like it coz its cheaper $3.00 a peron.Well thats it for now Im glad that I have a nice weekend too bad that I need to go back to work...

Updated!!

well I finally loaded some of my picture to my computer so Im updated my blog...to see whats happen lol.....

Im so slow about it so this updated is what happen last saturday.We went to Megan's baby shower with my friend Janice.Megan is my hubby's friends wife.So went there & visit them for 2 hours. She's due on June 26th.


Me & my friend Janice



After were done on the baby shower,me & my husband with my friend Janice & her husband went to Rocky Mountain Race.We enjoyed watching it eventhough its so loud but its fun.


I like this little car they are so fast they started racin 13 cars & they ended up to five cars,coz a lot wrecked accident happen...this is the longest race too because they stop a lot...
This one is kinda funny for me coz its so small so its easy to upload.

Thats the kid who won at the dancing contest.


Well This it for now tomorrow im gonna upload other picture.I need to go to bed coz Im gonna go to work at 8:00 in a morning so gudnight!!

Mother's Day!!

To all the mothers out hope you enjoy your special day!!

Pregnant!!

Its friday so its fun Im ready for weekend.I woke up early today coz I have my doctor appointment at Obgyne so make it sure if im pregnant,so went there & they let me fill out some paper,a bunch of question & gave them a sample of my urine & the doctor do my physical exam,most mother probably knows about it coz they goes thru on this situation but I kinda want to share it its just because its a new experience to me.They took me a lot of blood lol kinda scared earlier I thought Im gonna fast out I seems like forever to me before they stop taking blood sample to me.....after a bunch of test & question we went to walmart to get the prenatal vitamins that I need & went to home.I felt like uncomportable coz the doctor didnt told me If I was pregnant eventhought the pregnancy test that I used said positive & my hubby told me that why the doctor sent another appointment if Im not pregnant I still wanted the confirmation from the doctor that this is true so I called the doctor & ask again,she said that my urine & blood sample turns back positive.Anyway I have had another appointment on June 5th & then Ultra sound at the same date.

I found out that the best & first gift that I got from mothers day is me being a pregnant.Isnt that wonderful???

Wednesday!!

I havent updated my blog for a week I dont know why maybe I havent say anything.Today is wednesday so another day again of being pain & sickness especially when Im at work it always kick in.Last monday I felt dizzy at work good thing I grabbed the counter real fast & hold on to it till my nausea's gonna.If I didnt grab the counter Im probably fall down on the floor & It wouldnt be fun....so happy wednesday to all.

Lazy!!!

Im so lazy to transfer my picture from my card to my computer,im just wanted to collect them all and uploaded once instead of loading it every time I took a picture & post it to my blog....so when Im done uploding MAYBE i put some of it here but as of now I feel LAZYYYY....

International Bloggers Community:Be a member

Hi Fe Thanks for sharing this sorry for the late post.We spend weekend to my parent's in laws house so I didnt got a chance to do my blog.Thanks!!




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Friday!!!

Its friday & Im here now spending weekend at my parent's in laws house.We came down here last night after im done working.When on our way we got snowed for probably 20 minutes long and then after that the sky is clear, so we got there at 11:00 we left at the house by 6:30.After that we sat & talk for an hour & half & me & my mother in law finally decided to go in bed coz she has a work tomorrow which is today....me I ask my manager if I can friday off so I got 3 days off so its nice...& its nice that once in while you can get out in city & get relax....im still tired now I want to take a nap coz for the past few days I always went to bed late coz I found me website that I can watch Filipino movies online so thats what im doing everynight after work....kakamiss kasi ang pinas....I Miss the Philippines.....

This tag is from my good friend grace,thanks for including me eventhougt im not deserve this hehehe coz im not good in blogging but anyway I really appreciate this!!thanks!!





to all my friends & sister!!Feel free to grab this!!

Happy Easter!!

What is Easter?
“Easter is a word of Saxon origin; and imports a goddess of the Saxons, or rather, of the East, Estera, in honor of whom sacrifices being annually offered about the passover time of the year (spring), the name became attached by association of ideas to the Christian festival of the resurrection which happened at the time of passover; hence we say Easter-Day or Easter Sunday, but very improperly; as we by no means refer to the festival then kept to the goddess of the ancient Saxons.


What about the Easter eggs?
It is a well-known fact that in the ancient pagan cosmogonies, or theories about the origin of the universe, the egg looms up prominently. One tells of the “Egg of Light,” another of the “World-Egg.” From one or another of these eggs was supposed to have issued the first god, the Maker and Ruler of the World. Eros, the god of “love,” is also said to have issued forth from an egg.




BY MANY Easter is considered to be Christendom’s chief religious festival. Early on Easter morning large numbers throughout the world meet together for the Easter sunrise service. Everywhere the churches are filled with worshipers, some even several times, and thousands crowd into the square of St.　Peter’s Basilica on that day to hear the pope give his Easter blessing. Great throngs of pilgrims also flow into the old walled city of Jerusalem to make their Easter pilgrimage.
But Easter also has another side to it. During the Easter season bakeries display hot cross buns, and candy counters feature butter-cream eggs and chocolate rabbits. There are also Easter music, Easter perfume, Easter jewelry, Easter clothing for men and women and Easter dinners. And not to be overlooked is the Easter parade, in which hundreds of thousands parade on New York City’s Fifth Avenue alone, to be seen or just to see. In the United States the Easter festival may be said to come to an end on Monday with the egg-rolling contest on the presidential White House lawn, which in times past was a decorous affair but of late appears to have deteriorated into a boisterous egg-throwing affair.




The ostensible purpose of Easter is to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. This being so, it may well be asked, What do hot cross buns, eggs, rabbits, new clothes, and so forth, have to do with Easter? Little, except that both for long have been associated with the spring of the year. As An Encyclopedia of Religion, by Ferm, says: “Pagan practices were introduced into the Christian observance of Easter at an early age on account of the fact that the feast coincided with the beginning of spring. .　.　. At that season of the year, the New Year and the creation of the world were celebrated in ancient times by an exchange of gifts (Easter eggs) and by generous hospitality to friends, to the poor, and so forth.
The more pertinent explanation for eating eggs on Easter is that found in The Catholic Encyclopedia: “The custom may have its origin in paganism, for a great many pagan customs, celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the emblem of the germinating life of early spring.

Hope everybody has a nice easter!!Happy easter everyone!!

Shame on me!!!

hehehe I was so ashamed earlier coz the owner of the company that Im working is caught me while I was reading the book & the worse part is he asked me what kind of book i was reading,when I said twightlight he kinda laught & said that her daugther read the book too!!

I didnt post anything for few days,i get busy & spend time with my hubby as possibly I can,but I work for a couple of hours last Saturday 7 pm-11:30 pm.My hubby stay with me when I was working coz he doesnt want me to work by my self especially atnight.Then Sunday we went to my brother in laws house in toole,eat with them & visit them for a couple of hours.I borrowed Holly's book twightlight coz my friend & co-workerrs Cindy telling me that the book is better than the movie & Ive seen the movie so it makes me curious.After that we left to my brother in laws house we went to salt lake & visit my friend Siena,thanks Siena for the goodies that you gave me.....thats my sunday event hehehe.so back to normal again going to work!!!

Well its friday again & its fun for me,no work tomorrow so i can relax in a couple of minutes,spend time with hubby when do my home chores.I got the package that my friend send me from hawaii & I like it soo much!!Thanks Aleth for sending it to me!!Adam go to basketball tonight thats why I take my chance to do my blog & check a couple of things in Internet!!!

Smart Blogger!!

hello everybody another tag again from my friend grace of My world & My family Inspiration I would like to thanks for always including me everytime you got a tag, & I know your a good mom & good friend too!!







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Now Im gonna share this to,mommy glesie,ate weng,ate cecille,Trista,Alisha,honey & Gladys!!

Captured Tag!!

Thanks Grace for always sharing me & including my name everytime you got a tag from your friends!!
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" A good Snapshot stops a moment from running away."


When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! ~Ted Grant
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Replace the Photograph with your own or your loves ones' Black and White captured moments that you want to cherish for the rest of your life.


This picture was taken February 9th 2007 valentines party of Filipino-American Association in Orem Utah!!That's our first Valentines Day together & we won at that time as a King & Queen of Hearts!!

Now I can share this to all:
Glesie
Ate Weng
Ate Cecille
Honey
Trista
Alisha
Gladys

Absent!!

Hello everybody Happy Tuesday!!I woke up again with swollen eyelids so I decided to call a clinic & see if they have available appointments,the only available they had is 2:15 & 3:00 so I decided to get one,so I called my manager said that I have a doctor appointment & I cant go to work...hay I lose almost 120.00 dollar for missing 2 day of work but not much I can do about it...I dont know what happen to my eyes & I dont want to get it worse so I decided to see a doctor.Anyway the doctor said why my eyeslid is swollen is because I have a colds & cough & it gets infected,it is infection that they called stye,so the doctor gave me prescription & put warm towel on my eyes 7 times a week....so hopefully it goes away.....

Napeleon dynamite has a twin

Jon Heder and his brother Daniel
When identical twins Jon and Daniel Heder were kids, they would shoot home movies about books like "White Fang" rather than turn in traditional written book reports. Not surprisingly, they both decided to go into the film business when they grew up. After Jon became famous for his role in the 2004 film "Napoleon Dynamite," he and Daniel became partners in their own production company, "Greasy Entertainment." And while Jon was off shooting "Just Like Heaven" and "The Sasquatch Dumpling Gang," Dan worked as an animator on the movie "Monster House."

Everyone its monday again,most of people go back to work again,I woke up this morning with swolled eyelids I dont know why,my eyes is hurtin since yesterday.Im not that lucky in a past few days,last week I suffer with colds & cough,I missed my work last friday coz i need some rest & didnt felt good at that time I have a fever too...but now that I got over it my eyes now is swollen hayyyy.I can't afford to missed another work I had a lots of bills to pay hehehehe!!I dont what to do,my eyes is embarrasing!!!

I woke up today because of the wind blowing into our bedroom,that was so strong enough to wake me up!!when we look outside its snowing so bad you kinda think that the winter is just barely started because the way it look like earlier but now the sun is coming out!!Im visiting my blog early today coz Im gonna spend my time with my hubby coz he's going back to cedar city tomorrow & we gonna see each other again on thursday night!!have a nice day!!

Saturday Fun!!

Well today is weekend so its always fun for me no matter what!!We get up today & went to Ogden & meet the guy who wants to trade a bow for hunting to my husband sound system so this is some of our picture while we were waiting to that guy!!


His kinda bored for waiting so he started biting my face & makes me annoyed!!But he didn't know that I was taking a picture!!


Still has a snow in a mountain,we got snowed last thursday & I've heared the news that is gonna snow again!!Im tired of snow & Im ready for spring & summer!!


I like this picture coz i told my hubby act like a serious so he did kinda funny coz he doesnt like me taking a picture by himself!!

okey that's it for today sooooo