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Saturday, April 28, 2007

Hubert's Arrival

Hubert is here for our 7th wedding anniversary tomorrow and we'll have our new house blessed on the same day too. It's going to be a long day today for us --- running errands, buying things needed in the house, going to the grocery, taking the kids at the mall, visiting our parents, etc. So I'll just leave you with these pictures taken last night at the airport...

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Daddy, Jeremy, and Frances


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We're complete!!!

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Bonding moment...

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Spending quality time in the family room...


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Frances' quiet time with her new pink gameboy a.k.a. gamegirl, hehehe



P.S.

I just learned something new tonight... that bats also prefer to land at the airport, hehehe... Ciao!

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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Busy Hands

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This surely perked me up after a tiring day...

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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Gingered Pork in Oyster Sauce

This morning was one of those Sundays when everyone in the household would wake up very, very, very late. We didn't even wake to our usual wake up call from the Julie's mobile bakeshop. Which meant that we simply missed our daily supply of Jeremy's favorite "elorde" bread and Fran's most requested "plain ensaimada." Well, anyway, the kids still enjoyed beating their hotcake mix on their own while their Auntie Joyce cooked the batter in the pan for them. We all enjoyed our pancake breakfast a la McDo :)

As I engrossed myself chatting with cousin Elaine and Hubert, I was alarmed looking at the clock and that it was almost time for lunch. I have 3 mouths to feed and I haven't even thawed the meat! Tsk...tsk...tsk... Most of all, I don't have an idea what to cook, hahaha, I thought I have my day off on Sundays. Well, I guess not! Poor me...

Anyway, after 30 minutes of deliberating and the meat has softened, I finally made up my mind and came up with this delectable dish...

Gingered Pork in Oyster Sauce

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P.S. I'm so glad it passed the most critical standards of my daughter Frances' palate, who mostly chooses to eat only fried chicken, fried pork, hotdogs, and scrambled eggs. She hates anything with sauce except for spaghetti, so I'm so happy she has tried to explore eating this one with oyster sauce:)

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Rain, Rain, Rain...

Summer is at it's peak, and all I could wish is for rain to come at this time of the year just to hydrate our cracked lands and not to mention our minds too, hehehe. Anyway, I had my first attempt at digital scrapbooking last year, getting my inspiration from my ever artistic sister-in-law, Jolana, who's so good at generating layouts from the pictures she and my brother, Rene take so often. I feel the urge to post some of my digital scrapbook pages.

Here's the very first one I made, during the rainy days of June...


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Another one I made for the pictures I took during the kids' Halloween Party in 2006...

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And another one from the Moving Up Day in KFI-LEC...


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Sunday, April 15, 2007

The March that was...

The month of March flew by so fast yet it left me with sweet memories. I was just so overwhelmed with so much activities to go to. I always caught myself always running against time--- the kids final exams; school practices for two weeks; Moving Up Day; Graduation Day; Echie and Mira's wedding; and lastly, Lola Pat's 83rd birthday celebration. The last two activites were two occassions when some family members flew in from the U.S. like Aunt Margarette Helen, cousin Echie, and Ate Catchy with her family.


Frances Clare's Moving out Day March 26, 2007

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Jeremy's Graduation ---March 27, 2007

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The Graduate


During Echie and Mira's Wedding ( March 28, 2007)

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Lola Pat's 83rd Birthday @ Eastland Estate Clubhouse and Pool
March 31, 2007

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Lola Pat, the Birthday celebrant

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Saturday, April 14, 2007

What can be more fulfilling than seeing your kids up the stage with all confidence? As what Father Ivan told me during the program, these kids don't even have the faintest idea of what stage fright is, hehehe. " What's that?"

Here are some clippings of Jeremy and Frances Clare's showdown of talents during the Graduation Day and Moving Up Day of KFI-Life Education Center.







I'm back!!!

It's been a two year break I had without tinkering on my blog. Now that I have moved in to our new house with my newly installed internet connection, you can expect more posts coming in :)

Yet for now, I'll leave you with a promise that I will compose a new post as soon as I'm done with my house cleaning since hubby is coming soon in time for our 7th year wedding anniversary and house blessing :)

Ciao :)