totis 8th birthday

@La Edley, Washington Drive, Legazpi City

Red ribbon and chocolate spells yumminess!

Lovely cake from rounds and square

Vince is a big boy now...

Binky's turn to blow the cake

More than the food, the kids look forward to the swimming time. And it's endless when you got these kids around

Bens enjoying the water

Tapetzoo

Happy,happy dylan

Keanu

Dywne

Ate Kyle

Ate Jed

Jewel
Hehe...walang picture si ate Pau

At siyempre enjoy ang aming ...man!!

and the girls enjoyed it too!

Chilling....

Hany' s HS friends

Awesome party bens! Til next year...
Saan naman kaya tayo mapadpad bens?

Panumbagan sandbar @ Pilar, Sorsogon

When I read about Gov. Salceda's posts about Panumbagan Sandbar, I was already dying to see it for myself. Luckily, my sister in-law works for Pilar LGU so she arranged for our trip.

and we are ready to go...

After travelling from Pilar port for thirty minutes, we finally had a glimpse of the floating cottages that the guide was telling us about. They were actually dropping us by at their marine sanctuary. And to enjoy it, we have to snorkel. Sounds exciting!  The guide was kind enough to teach us the basics. And after learning to breath with the goggles on, he guided us one by one through the waters.

...and it isn't scary after all being on deep sea waters. Or am I just being confident with the lifevest and my lifeguard?

We were all so excited about snorkeling...

We didn' t have underwater cameras but I can assure that the view underwater was amazing. Besides it is much better to see it for yourselves than looking at pictures.

The whole gang in the midst of the sea

the floating cottages
If I got it right, rental is 800 pesos.

Our first view of the sandbar

This is the underwater near the sand bar

We were so eager to walk the sandbar leading to the beach. Good thing we wore our slippers since it is so hot and there were small pebbles that hurts. And thankful that I am wearing longsleeves because the heat of the sun was unforgiving.

Starfish everywhere

Jelly fish on a crystal clear water

And this is the sandbar up close

Crissy and the girls...
Mayon Volcano is suppose to be our background, if not for the clouds

Mga dyesebel daw...we can' t help but submerged ourselves after walking in a freakingly hot weather

Dylan loves the goggles on

The wonderful views while on the boat ride will make you forget about the travel time.

Sea urchin...we tried tasting it. It was like oysters but the thought that it looks like that makes eating scary


Boat rental plus tour guide costs Php2500. You have to register with the tourism office though. They will provide the guide who would accompany you to the marine sanctuary.

Just a reminder though, there is no comfort room available yet. And of course, you should bring your own food and drinking water.

visiting Albay Churches 2014

St. Stephen Church
Ligao City, Albay

St. Michael the Archangel
Oas, Albay

St. Peter & Paul Parish Church
Polangui, Albay

our 2013 visita iglesia...

Our Lady of the Gate Parish Church
Daraga, Albay

Sto. Domingo, Albay

St. Rose of Lima Church
Bacacay, Albay

St. John the Baptist Church
Tabaco City, Albay

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
Malilipot, Albay

La Hacienda

entrance fee is PHP100 each

our Sunday @ the farm

moment ng mga boys...
siyempre si sir brent di makainom ng walang cheers!!! muna

sino ang mas guwapo???

swimming time
kawawa si Lolo na taga-saway sa kanilang madalas na away-away

the farm

We finally decided to start with the farm we were thinking about.

We purchased about 400 meters of barbed wire after he roughly measure the size we could utilize. We don't know exactly how big it is by now, just enough to be able to see everything from where you will stand.

The clearing didn't took much time. It was just around three days since the place was already covered with carabao grass and only few trees and unwanted grass need to be cut.

We are building a pig pen made of native materials.

The delivery of anahaw leaves took three days to be completed.

Drying of the leaves took an entire week as it was raining for a number of days.

my request for "kawayan" bridge since the lot is bounded by a creek on the front.
(para may konting thrill sa pagtawid)

our water source

The whole idea of the farm has been on my mindset especially last year when the yearning intensified. I don't know, maybe because I have always been the laid back type or maybe I became so hook with gardening and there isn't much space left for me in our yard.

And it was only last night, when we are about a month since we started when I realized why he wanted farm living too. While we were star gazing at the farm, he casually talk how he would spend his summer at his grandparents house, working with the carabao and doing some gardening.

We are dreaming of a farm house by now but there's still a lot of work to do. In a few years more, we both hope it could come true.