Personalized Planner

Haven't scrapped again for months but gave some personalized stuffs to some friends using some scrapbooking materials. Hope they like it.

1st Day of December: JEL got her 1st Xmas Gift

Such a cute pink xmas sock and clothes! Thanks po Ninang Chu!

Extended Birthday

I had a 2-day birthday celebration. The actual day of my birth was celebrated with my family (I blogged about it here). The next day was celebrated with my in-laws and their kids. We really had a very busy weekend.

By the way, here are the activties we did last Sunday:
- 8:30 am mass in St. Jerome Parish. It ended early so we strolled inside Makati Supermarket while waiting for ATC to open.
- 10am TPC pictorial. We all had a good time posing for pictures and having JEL smile. More pictures here.
- We bought Yo Gabba Gabba Books for JEL in Powerbooks.

- Lunch in Magdaragat with my in-laws.

- At home, Jel played with her cousins while Ariel is helping my in-laws with their laptop problems. We had dinner together. They left at almost 9pm. I'm already tired but I still fixed some things inside our room and prepare the things needed for work the next day.

Btw, I got this gift from my in-laws. Thanks!

Also, I forgot to blog about a call I receive on my actual birthday from Fr. Ginu, our Parish Priest, who is having a vacation in India. Thanks po for remembering!

Overall, we had a tiring yet fun-filled weekend!

More Gifts Coming IN

Last Sunday, our little baby received another batch of gifts. This time, they are from Ariel's sisters. Thanks!

Another Pasalubong

Some people may think that I am poor but I believe that I am rich because my wealth is the relationship I have with my friends and family.

If you would see, I have blogged a lot about gifts from friends. True friends are hard to find these days and we are happy to know that we have a lot. Below is another evidence that we have lots of friends around.

Thanks to Tita Chu for this Pasalubong! We really love the color. It fits our table and we are now using it!

RECAP: HOLIDAY 2008

We started to get busy for Christmas by the end of September. Our little Christmas tree was already standing by that time. However, we started shopping for gifts end of November. This was because of the recession that was happening in the US. And since we are an American company, there are cost cutting measures that our company made. There was a reduction in force. We lost 2 engineers from our department. Ariel's department lost 7. We just hope and pray that they were still able to celebrate the true meaning of Christmas.

Anyway, below are some of our gimiks.

11/29/08
Started our Christmas Shopping in St. James Bazaar.

11/30/08
Divisoria shopping.

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Shopped for add'l xmas gifts in AAVA Bazaar.

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Ebay Shopping for Hubby and my parents.

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It was the NPD PE Party. It was fun. Our theme was Animated Musical Play. Our group was assigned to do the Naruto or Madagascar. We chose to do the later. The other groups do 2 animated movies. It was a stressful preparation because some of the members doesn't want to cooperate. I was just supposed to be the director by I ended up also performing and dancing. Anyway, all our efforts paid off. We are only after the last prize (4th place) but we ended up winning the 2nd place. It was really a good feeling aside from the fact that we also won a cash prize of 7K instead of 2K.

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Shopped in Market2.

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Started wrapping gifts for our direct reports.

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Started giving gifts.
Shopped in ATC after my check-up with the Endoc.

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Hubby's group Christmas Party.

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Shopped in Rockwell Tent.
Meeting with Ariel's Friend from Australia.

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Completed the wrapping of gifts.

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Fetched my family from Pasig. They will spend Christmas in our Home.

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Done giving gifts to friends and inaanaks in the office.

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We're already on leave but hubby is still getting calls from office.We attended Misa de Galo at 8:30pm. My mom and dad are the ones who prepared our Noche Buena. I only prepared the salad (which unfortunately is not good for me).

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Noche Buena Special.

Gift giving with my family. We're all laughing when we saw that my nephew was scared of our Pop-up sun Gift. Hehehe.

We slept at 2am. We all woke up at 8am. We 1st visited my dad's relatives in Antipolo - my grandma and Tita Aida's Family. Then my Mom's relative (Auntie Fe in Taytay and Mama Linda in Pasig). Then we dropped my family in my parents house. We just left our gifts for my inaanaks and other cousins.

Hubby and I then went to SM Hypermart in Pasig to buy Shirts for the Jorge-lypics (His family's yearly xmas reunion) because we both don't have the required colored shirt. I need to wear green while hubby need to wear yellow. We arrived in Filinvest Antipolo at 6:30pm. The party was supposed to start at 6pm but unfortunately, the guests are not yet there. The party started at 8pm instead. The worst part was when it started to rain. The party was outdoor and we only have 2 big tents. We only have a limited space but it still looks like that everybody had fun. After the program and the gift giving, we left the place at passed 1am. We still fetched my dad from their home in Pasig because he will be doing some carpentry in our house. He'll be doing us a double deck bed.

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Woke up late. Opened all the gifts we received. And here are all of them! Thanks!!!

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Hubby and my Dad went to Farmers in Cubao to buy some seafoods that we will be preparing for our Media Noche. They were able to buy Crabs, Shrimps and Lapu-lapu. My dad will be cooking all of them. Yummy! I am now excited for the media noche!

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Blogging while waiting for the New Year. Will blog soon about our Media Noche!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Pasalubong from my Friend Tere

My Friend got back from her Bangkok 1-month assignment last December 15. It was good that she was able to arrive safe even with Bangkok's government issues.

She brought all the clothes below for our little girl. Daddy and Mom also got our pasalubongs.

Thanks for the early xmas gift!

AAVA Bazaar and New Baby Stuffs

We had a busy day today. We're in AAVA Bazaar this morning at 9:30am. We're able to buy some stuffs for the holiday like exhange gift for our PE Group Party, other gift items for our inaanaks and firends, a couple of polo for hubby, some shirts for me and of course another onesies for our little baby. We're done shopping at 11:30am.

Some Stuffs from AAVA Bazaar

We then went to cubao to visit ariel's sisters. Daddy is also fixing some pipe leaking in their place. When dad was done, we went to my parents house. My mom handed me some baby stuffs from my sister, most of them are pink and so cute.

From Ditse & Mom

We finally got home at 8pm. Right now ,I'm taking some time to rest before sleeping.

Got My 1st Xmas Gift

A friend gave me this book this morning. She said that it is her Christmas gift for me and she knows that I can really use all the things written in the book.

Thanks Ate Bona! Mwah!

More RAK from some Friend in the US

Got this from the Dela Cruz Family. Thanks po!!!!

Another Gift for our Baby

An officemate just got back to work after his 3 months OJT in our San Jose Main Office. He handed me a bag from one of our Filipino friends there and it contains these cute onesies and burp pad. Love them!

Thanks to the Suaverdez Family!

Early Baby Shower Gift

We received an early baby shower gift from Tito Ben and Tita Ghie last saturday. They just visited the Philippines for 1month and they'll be returning to Canada on the 25th.

Again, Thanks po and Von Voyage!

PS:
Gifts are coming in and so we can't decide if we need to start buying baby stuffs now or just postponed it until after Christmas. My EDD is still on Feb04'09. What do you think?