A busy 2013!

January 2013 – Juliana’s first march along the church aisle as a flower girl! It was the church wedding of our good friends Odi and Meng and abay ang mga chikiting... They look so pretty. In the picture she is joined here by my inaanak, Jazmynrose and Meng’s niece – Nadia.  Hair and make-up of Juliana is c/o Aiza at Binangonan. She walked down the aisle by herself and both July and I are so proud of her. The church is at Baras, Rizal while reception is at Pililla naman.

 

 

March 2013 – Juliana’s Moving-Up day at Faith Academy. We are proud parents and even Mama Lola and Papa Lolo trooped to Cainta to watch the graduation. Nakakatuwa talaga ang mga bata and you will see the effort they have exerted on practicing their performance.

 

 

April – Baguio trip

It has been a while since we visited Baguio and I find it fitting that we go there during the summer of 2013. I initially wanted to book a hotel but when Mama opened up the idea of going to Baguio with the rest of the family, a lot of people joined in. We are now 18 – Mama Lola, Miren, Nanay, Ate Lerie, Ate Beb, Ponggay, kambal, Justin, Ate Sally, Jerome, Sarah, Ate Cel, Ate Ester, Isabel, Juliana, July and me! We rented more than half of the special bus of Victory Liner that goes to Baguio which has a reclining seat and CR on board plus tablets that are free to use while on the bus with matching free wifi pa and snacks. The super OC me prepared the itinerary and menu plan for that trip and everybody’s happy naman.

 

 

 

 

 

June 2013 – Isabel is going to school! We enrolled her at Seedlings Early Childhood Development Centre at Jenny’s Avenue. At the beginning I just pay monthly dues but sometime August, I decided to enroll her already. The time of the class is 9am to 11:30am, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. There were only 6 of them at the school and as expected she is the youngest of them all. Nga lang, she cries if Tita leaves the room as she wants Ate Cel to just stay inside the classroom. The picture below is taken when I was the one who accompanied her at class during her birthday.

 

July 2013 – Birthday celebration at Viking’s SM Marikina. We have 3 celebrants na libre lang ang kain ng buffet  lunch that day – si Mama, July and Ate Ester. Miren was able to reserve a private room so there were 13 of us including the kids who celebrated that day. Busog lusog grabe!

 

 

 

August 2013

The quest for the elusive house and lot, vacant lot, townhouse begins. We went to Angono, Taytay, Tayuman, Pasig, etc. asking around townhouses to be built, vacant lots and sa Pasig the price is about 12,000/sqm. Pagdating sa Angono/Binangonan, nasa Php 4,500 – Php 6,000/sqm.

 

September 17, 2013

Our first site visit at our soon-to-be townhouse. Needless to say, both July and I fell in love at our first sight. It was way above our budget but we both felt it was time already to own a house and it was just meant for us. How we came across that house needs to have a separate entry.

 

October 5, 2013 – The house blessing for our townhouse is scheduled at 11am. I picked-up Father Darwin at San Antonio Abad parish with Miren while July and the rest of the gang waited for us at the house. We bought take-out first from Chowking before going to the church. I had Miren research for the pamahiin on moving to a new house and ayun, we ensured that we will bring in first are the religious articles and we showered coins once the blessing of the whole house is done.

 

October 6, 2013 – Isabel’s 2nd birthday party at Jollibee Greenmeadows. This time it was a Hello Kitty themed party!

 

 

 

October 19

A big milestone for our family. After more than 5 years of renting our previous apartment – UNIT B, #555 Pacencia Cruz Compound, we finally moved to our new home. And we started moving furnitures, sangkatutak na gamit, etc. for almost 2 weeks. Ang mga regalo nung kasal na nasa binangonan, dinala na sa Pasig. We had Kuya Ding ang Tom clean first, paint and do minor repairs while we have not yet moved in. During the actual move-in, we left the apartment before the sunrise kasi ganon daw dapat. Well, excited kami lahat kaya maaga pa lang nasa PMG na kami.

               

December 15

Since we had a party for Isabel, syempre hindi pahuhuli – kelangan may party din for Juliana. You guessed it right – Jollibee Greenmeadows again and its another Hello Kitty themed party for us.

 

December 23

Papa Lolo called me that afternoon and informed me that he is not feeling well. He felt like merong nakadag-an na mabigat sa dibdib nya. He asked me to call Mama and ask kung pauwi na sya. He was having a heart attack na pala that time. Yung patrol ni Doki Dick ang nagdala sa kanya sa Medical Center sa Taytay and he was asked to stay at the ICU that night until the next day.

 

December 25

It is a Christmas dinner at the hospital for all of us. After listening to mass at the EDSA Shrine, we trooped to Taytay to visit Papa Lolo. Since its Christmas Day, hindi naman mahigpit ang security guards on letting children in. Andun din si Kuya George

 

December 31 – Our first new year at our new house. I attempted to cook Baked Macaroni, the results turned out well except for the kulang na toppings but hey its the first time so bawi na lang ulit. July cooked barbecue outside and I got to finally talk to my celebrity neighbour. I would have love to have a picture with him pero hindi aligned ang universe because the kids are so afraid of the fireworks and I need to appease them muna. Bonggacious pala ang isa namin kapitbahay dahil sobrang walang sinabi ang fountains and lusis namin ni July sa kanilang splendid fireworks display, hehe.