Getting the Party Planning Started!

Actually, I have been trying to start party planning for the 1st bday of Inigo a couple of months back. And since that it is already October, I begin to realize to make the planning (through my head) in action!

I am busy hunting for a good venue right now. Me and Daddy Ian decided to have it in a private resort preferably in Calamba or in Los Banos since we want the party place to be accessible to his relatives in Laguna and mine in Cavite.

Here are some of the recommendations I got from my ever-reliable n@w friends:

Jonel Spring Resort and JC Manzano Resort c/o Marie
La Luz Beach Resort c/o Lisa
Casa Leonida and Rockpopint c/o Mec
Caleb and Jacob's Private Resort and Splash Mountain c/o Yayeen

I was able to also search via internet the Palm Ridge Resort and I really like the place.

I am giving myself until late next week to finalize the venue so that I can check that out of my list.

Tagged!

I love the blogs of these people and I’m glad to pass this award onto them! All they need to do is to leave the following message on their post when they pass the award on to their chosen eight bloggers.


They all are charmed with the blogs, where in the majority of its aims are to show the marvels and to do friendship; there are persons who are not interested when we give them a prize and then they help to cut these bows; do we want that they are cut or that they propagate? Then let’s try to give more attention to them! So with this prize we must deliver it to 8 bloggers that in turn must make the same thing and put this.Thanks Tin for this tag!

What a nice way of dealing with a rainy holiday.. :)

I'm passing this tag to all my blogger friends!

We're going to be 4!

So much blessings have come to our family and we can only thank God for that.

We are happy to announce that we are adding another angel to our happy and growing (as in fast growing) family! Inigo's little sister or brother will be coming out of my tummy in April 2009. I am thinking of giving birth on April 14th since it will be our 2nd year wedding anniversary. That sounds exciting for the birthday of our angel number 2!

Nothing compares with the excitement and thrill of knowing that there is another little soul inside of me.

More details about our pregnancy in the next posts!

Please pray for us as we patiently wait for the new addition to our family.

What uh-sCRAP!

I am so into this little thingy -- digi-scrapping. I have read and heard a lot of it but this is the only time that I braved trying on making one.

Since I am making and forcing myself to be busy in trying to come up with a concept for Inigo's 1st birthday, (yes, we are having a party! yoohoo!) I thought of making a guestbook through digiscrap. Well, oh-well seems like I have another addiction now.


I must've alloted space for the guests' birthday greetings, nho? hehe.. I really enjoyed lay outing the pictures and those thingies. What do ya think?!

Trying on a part time...

I was able to learn about a part time job opportunity from n@w (newlyweds@work) through Agnes. It is all about abstracting. Clueless as I was, I decided to read the post and asked how to apply and how to get qualified.

(Based from my own understanding, abstracting is synonymous to summarizing :D)

Going back to my story, Agnes was kind enough to email me the Information Sheet and the essay questions to accomplish before I get invited to the abstracting workshop. Yes, the company offers a free abstracting workshop. Then finally, I was able to attend last Saturday. It was a well-attended workshop - mostly are recruits of Agnes, and my co-n@wies (sorry girls if I wasn't able to bond with you that day. :( I was kind of "hiya" to approach you guys, :D)

Workshop was a big help for me since I was oh-so-clueless about abstracting. What I only have in mind is that I may earn extra moohlah on this.. teehee! There were some exams worksheets that day and I have to agree that you will need to have a good English vocabulary - as simple as the subject and verb agreement might be a little bit of a challenge :)

Just tonight, I got an email stating my user id and my password so that I can start with my new-found activity - abstracting!

Oh, I need to review the manual because my memory fails me every now and then since I had my CS! I need to brush up on the abstracting guidelines so that I will be able to produce more work.

abstracting = moohlah

Wish me luck on this!

Uh-oh...

looks like my brain had a short-circuit that I am having a darn hard time thinking what to blog about... geesh!

Fun Day!

We had a fun day visiting Gymboree in Serendra and trying out the Play Class. (We got it for free by just registering beforehand and visiting gymboree's website.) It was the first time that Inigo played with kids almost his age. Though I must say that I enjoyed pretty much than Inigo did. Haha!

The Class - Oliver, Sachi, Inigo, Jak-Jak, and Althea

Inigo was so tired after the class and easily fell asleep on our way to Market! Market! while us - adults, had a quick lunch at KFC.

We were not convinced to end the day with just having fun playing with Gymbo so we therefore headed to The Picture Company at Bonifacio High Streets to have our family portrait taken and Inigo's first formal photoshoot. I am so excited to see the print(s)! haha! Will post another entry when we have the photo prints from TPC.

More pictures of Inigo's first Gymbo experience. :D

What's happening....

We went to visit Lola Lydia and Tita-Ninang Lanie last weekend. Come Sunday, we were able to attend the wedding of daddy ian's cousin. 'twas a garden wedding, too bad it rained. This was Inigo's first trip to tagaytay.
The weekend before the latest weekend, we had the chance to go to Mall of Asia and visited The Picture Company. I had our membership activated and hopefully we will be able to set up a photoshoot. (Still convincing daddy ian to schedule the photoshoot since he doesn't know yet the printing cost.. haha!) I am wanting for us to have a family portrait that is professionally taken... teeeheee!

Inigo's new toy - Little Touch Leap Pad

Inigo got his first tech-ie toy from daddy as pasalubong. He really enjoys playing with his little touch especially when he hears the ABC song.

Kids nowadays are fortunate to have toys like these :)

On Being A Parent

I am a member of an internet yahoogroup called NewlyWedsAtWork and I have been learning a lot from the members of the group in managing our home. I would like to pick up the topic that was posted by a n@wie-mate Jeng Agustin and she posted a question "Why do you want to have children?"

I am so amazed with how the group members were able to share their insights regarding the topic. Yes, being a parent is a choice and it is a lifetime responsibility and I would like to share my insights:

Being a parent is a choice and a privilege.

A choice.

When hubby and I got married, we know that we both want to have a child. And we are blessed that we had a honeymoon baby :D Inigo is 6 months now and nothing compares to the kind of fulfillment that me and hubby feels. Yes, there are endless of sacrifices that we have to do along the way and as long as we live. But the fact that we chose to have Inigo in our lives makes us realize that it's all worth it.

A privilege.

Every child is a gift from GOD. No matter how hard we pray and how a couple wants to have a child, if they are not blessed by GOD, it won't happen. I know a couple who tries and tries to have a child but until now they haven't been pregnant. And all it takes is patience and faith to the Lord. The couple that I know will have theirs in God's perfect time.

I want to quote a n@wie-mate Mylene when she said. "But you know what, you'll never know how much love your heart can hold, until someone calls you a Mommy or Daddy :-)" She's hit the bull's eye!

Another thing, you will have an additional special day (aside from your birthday) every year - Mother's Day or Father's Day! Teeheee!

CHILDREN completes the FAMILY.