A Blessed Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to all of us!

Christmas is truly in the air!

With all the food we have prepared for the holidays and the gifts wrapped and to be given away in a few hours, truly Christmas never fails to give a wonderful feeling to each one of us! Our kids are to eager to get their Christmas presents and was able to make cards for Santa Claus because they said they were good kids this year! Charlize, my 9 year old daughter still believes in Santa Claus.  She believes that Santa is Jesus Christ's alliance.  He will only give gifts to good girls and boys because Jesus would tell him so.

I was taught too that way, that Santa is Christ's little helper.  My mom would let us sleep and wake us up before midnight. And alas, all the gifts are there! Exactly what I have written to Santa.  A note always there in every gift, "Be a good girl always. Jesus loves you."

Santa is truly Christ's little helper. (Well yeah I know he is huge!) He is giving gifts to kids and these gifts are enveloped with an attitude that kids do develop when they received it.  I have developed a positive attitude to be hopeful in everything and that everything will soon pass.  Everything will be alright as long as you do good things to yourself and to others.

I never would want that Santa spirit to be out of the family tradition and I am fearful that in a few years, my daughter Charlize (or maybe after reading this blog since she has a facebook account) will know who is Santa Claus.  But it does not matter who or where is Santa... what matters is what this person brings us... It brings us the spirit that we need to do good all throughout the year to prepare for the coming of a birthday celebrant. We need to do good things to prepare our spirits and spread the good news... the birth of Jesus Christ. 

May we never fail to remember the essence of this season. Forgive those who failed us, continue to hope that we will win in every endeavor that may come along our way and have faith that everything will all be alright.

Christmas is our Father's gift to us. Jesus Christ is our Father's gift,  giving us Faith, Hope and Love.  And I believe these are also the best gifts we are giving our kids and our loved ones this Christmas! May we share these gifts this holiday season and continue to share these all year round!

Again, a Blessed Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to all of us!!!

Christmas 2010

My Sibs

My Family

Our Princesses

A Blessed Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to all of us!

A Blessed Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to all of us!

Christmas is truly in the air!

With all the food we have prepared for the holidays and the gifts wrapped and to be given away in a few hours, truly Christmas never fails to give a wonderful feeling to each one of us! Our kids are to eager to get their Christmas presents and was able to make cards for Santa Claus because they said they were good kids this year! Charlize, my 9 year old daughter still believes in Santa Claus. She believes that Santa is Jesus Christ's alliance. He will only give gifts to good girls and boys because Jesus would tell him so.

I was taught too that way, that Santa is Christ's little helper. My mom would let us sleep and wake us up before midnight. And alas, all the gifts are there! Exactly what I have written to Santa. A note always there in every gift, "Be a good girl always. Jesus loves you."

Santa is truly Christ's little helper. (Well yeah I know he is huge!) He is giving gifts to kids and these gifts are enveloped with an attitude that kids do develop when they received it. I have developed a positive attitude to be hopeful in everything and that everything will soon pass. Everything will be alright as long as you do good things to yourself and to others.

I never would want that Santa spirit to be out of the family tradition and I am fearful that in a few years, my daughter Charlize (or maybe after reading this blog since she has a facebook account) will know who is Santa Claus. But it does not matter who or where is Santa... what matters is what this person brings us... It brings us the spirit that we need to do good all throughout the year to prepare for the coming of a birthday celebrant. We need to do good things to prepare our spirits and spread the good news... the birth of Jesus Christ.

May we never fail to remember the essence of this season. Forgive those who failed us, continue to hope that we will win in every endeavor that may come along our way and have faith that everything will all be alright.

Christmas is our Father's gift to us. Jesus Christ is our Father's gift, giving us Faith, Hope and Love. And I believe these are also the best gifts we are giving our kids and our loved ones this Christmas! May we share these gifts this holiday season and continue to share these all year round!

Again, a Blessed Christmas and a Prosperous New Year to all of us!!!

Christmas 2010

My Sibs

My Family

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BORACAY, PHILIPPINES

 Before leaving for Boracay, we manage to get a few stuff in the mall and this is what we got, Krispy kreme doughnuts! This Boracay trip is much like a pre-birthday celebration of my brother Mark.  This is also our second annual out of town family trip together as a family since our mom died.   So here goes our list before leaving... Yes a new pair of Havaianas, which are identical.  One for me and my husband.  My brothers also manage to get not-so identical styles from Havaianas. we also manage to buy 2 beach towels from Havaianas.  Now we are set to go!

 Flying via Philippine Airlines.  I remember, the plane was about to leave when we arrived.  We were still in Pasay at 4:00 am and our trip is at 5:00 am.  Good thing my brothers were already in the airport before we arrive.  The staff of Philippine Airlines are so accommodating.  We were able to board with no hassles, in no time. Oh, I always use this favorite line whenever I am on my trips... Oh yeah, Run Barbie, RUN!

 Arrived safely at Kalibo International Airport.  If u flew via Philippine Airlines, you need to ride another transport going to Caticlan.  This will be an hour drive from Kalibo.  One of the most memorable flights I had was this trip... Why? Because when we were about to leave Kalibo, (well again, we were hurrying up because we arrived 15 minutes before boarding time, thank God for preselected seats!) I noticed that my hat is missing.  I had to stop the plane, tell the flight attendant that I left my hat and had to call our jockey that I left my hat in the van.  I was running in the runway and everyone was looking at me! Don't care at all... the hat is important for me because hubby gave it to me during this trip. And yes, it was again a RUN BARBIE, RUN scenario!

Our first stop was to drop by and eat the famous sizzling bulalo of Boracay! We manage to take photos of the seafood market and that is reserved for the next day.

So there is partying at Club Paraw too! Boracay has a lot of fun places for partying! Club Paraw is one of Boracay's finest party place.  Yes, people from class A to D.  Better be ready! 

Sneak peak at Club Paraw! 

Going to Crystal Cove

Our tour guides in Crystal Cove

 

We had to ride a motor boat going to this island... Crystal Cove Island. (see our photos of Crystal Cove Island in my link

Jose Cuervo and Patron tequila night!

Boracay Gardens

Station 1: No Sunshine

Clubbing and Chilling

Fire dancers at the Sand bar

Fire dancing

Breakfast at Boracay Gardens

 You can never go to Boracay without your bikini... That's a rule.

Buffet at Alf's Resto

Station 1, Boracay, Philippines

Chilling at Calypso Lounge

Mother Mary, Station 1, Boracay

Beach Shore, Station 1

Low tide

Guilly Island, Boracay
 

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LA UNION, PHILIPPINES

Almost Christmas time and  we are still in La Union.  This is how the Plaza of San Fernando City looks like and how we enjoyed the halo-halo of Halo halo de Iloko.

CEBU, PHILIPPINES 2010

These are selected photos from my Cebu trip.  It's really difficult to travel alone especially if you have a camera on hand. Follow my other adventures!