Category: Family

We are so blessed that Lola Atis celebrated her 100th birthday last weekend. I decided to travel to my hometown Capiz to seek the secret to living 100 years old and to finally find my Bisayan roots. I’ve never appreciated our family’s heritage until I visited Roxas City for the first time (after 34 years) and our Bukid in Sinabsaban, Cuardero in Capiz. Now, I can truly say that I’m a Bisaya and proud of our family’s heritage.

A Day in the Life of Aidan and Joshua.. Just sharing with OAP readers, our day to day life with our boys…

We love Aidan’s first photoshoot. Raymond Marcelo of Shotwell Studios did a great job with Aidan’s class picture. How I wish I can get the high – res files. My favorite photo is the one where he was seated with his legs up. What’s your favorite?

On the 4th Year Anniversary of Our Awesome Planet, I would like to share with you: The Blogging Secrets of Our Awesome Planet (A Step-by-Step Guide to Launch Yourself From Blogger Wannabe to an Internet Maven)

Like most of Filipino families, we would spend Christmas alternating between the mother-side of the family and the father-side. This Christmas, both of our parents are in the US for the first time so we celebrated Christmas with our siblings and cousins.
…Mrs. and Miss Santa Claus 🙂 Over to our family side, we had a family reunion with my mother-side cousins from Laguna. … Christmas for Aidan meant opening his gifts, play time with Papa and NO computer time 🙂 The Day after Christmas with new toys and happy family memories…

The Christmas Tree in Puerto Princesa is probably one of the tallest we have ever seen in the Phlippines standing at 112 feet with 20,000 lights. It was created by Mayor Hagedorn of Puerto Princesa. Every year, they are committed to add 10 feet to the height of the tree.
…The tallest Christmas tree in Puerto Princesa is located along the Bay Walk.

Welcome to the world, Princess Elania Rayen Diaz! She is my brobo’s daughter and Aidan’s first cousin on the Diaz side 🙂

We attended the 2nd Philippine Homeschool Conference led by The Masters Academy Home School Program last Saturday. My quest for finding the best education for my sons (initiated by this post: Reedley International School), led me to conclude that Homeschooling is the best education that I can give the next generation of Filipino Leaders. Let me share with you some of my learnings and insights about homeschooling:

On your birthday, your mom and I decided to go out-of-town to celebrate your birthday. We wanted to go somewhere that we have not been to and have a chance to explore another city — like Davao. We were fortunate to get the zero fare of Cebu Pacific and to stay for free for four days at Crown Regency in Davao. We met with Tita Anna Vi, Tita Lani Ayala, and Tito Deq while we were in Davao.

Happy Halloween! (A Photo Essay of Our Halloween 2008)