Charlie's Second Interview

More good facial expressions from Charlie.

Charlie's First Interview

This is Charlie Juliana's first interview. He didn't say much, but his facial expressions conveyed everything.

Time to Decorate!!!

As I said previously, most Filipinos don't celebrate thanksgiving so the Christmas decorations go up in the "ber" months starting as early as October! We decided to wait until the day after Thanksgiving to start putting our decorations up. Were midway through, but I thought I'd share some pics with you. Will post more after the decorating is done.

We will definitely miss you all this holiday season.


Happy Thanksgiving!

Many in the Philippines don't celebrate Thanksgiving, but we did. We had a lovely dinner with our cousins Donnie & Anna and family as well as Donnie's parents, Tito Dong and Tita Cristy, and we also celebrated the holiday with Raffy's Grandparents, Lolo Carding & Lola Cheling. The feast was amazing. The turkey and stuffing were just perfect Tita Cristy!!! We sat in a comatose like state for about 30 minutes after the meal. We took lots of pictures, but I regret to inform you that during the transfer of pics from my camera to my laptop, my computer froze and I lost all of them except for one pic - the picture our photographer. Doesn't this look like he has a happy belly?!!

Here's Charlie....

Here he is! This is our new nephew Charlie. Rae and Chuck delivered Charlie on November 19, 2007 at approximately 10:30 p.m. Praise God for a beautiful and healthy baby boy! His stats are 7lbs 9oz and 20" long. Mind you, he's 4 weeks early!

Philippine Inquirer Article

Check us out! :-) This gives you an idea of what we've been up to here in the Philippines. The other couple Corky & Aileen are friends of ours who moved to the Philippines the same time we moved here in 2006.


Tagaytay

We recently had a long weekend here in the Philippines so we took the boys to Tagaytay, a city an hour and a half drive south of Manila. It is beautiful there and the weather is so cool. Its a perfect getaway from the city, the noise and the pollution. The boys enjoyed horseback riding and a visit to the Honeybee Farm.

Look at Zak Go....



Nik the Nature Boy



Oh No! Zak's horsey needed a potty break!


Raffy reminisces of his riding days....



Ilog Maria Honeybee Farm

This morning's lesson....

Today was another day of refereeing.....Raf and I get tired of "Nik's not sharing" and "Zak punched me". So this morning instead of another lecture on being friends and sharing and all those great character traits, Raf decided to make the boys stare their frustrations out of each other. What can we say, we have to get creative from time to time! Well, it worked for the meantime and was a a great photo opportunity!

The Saga.....What Happened?


Nik can't keep a straight face....


Zak growls.....


Let it out boys!!!