The Christmas Party

Once again, we celebrated our Christmas Eve at Binosa's Residence, unfortunately, this time, Helen was absent because she has to go home to the Philippines to attend to her sister's wedding... We missed you Helen.. you missed the roast pig (Lecheon). The funny thing was that the Lecheon has to travel a long long way to our Noche Buena table...From Hampton, Georgia (over an hour drive from our place) to Buford Highway and waited for it's drivers to have their haircut then travelled to Alpharetta then finally to it's resting place heheheeh (to our hungry tummies) at Duluth...To have endured such travel, in fairness, it was still cruchy....yum yum yum

After attending the lovely Christmas Eve mass, we all enjoyed the pot luck noche buena...

Merry Christmas to everyone....

My family at Binosa's residence


Josh and Zoe


The Ladies

(from left : Nanette, me, Mavic, Meeya, Shirley, Ellaine, Sheila, Tina & Amie)

The Gentlemen
(from left : si Kuya, Dad, Mike, Anthony w/ Tolitz, Kitz, Alvin, Tata, Noel, Jam, Allan & Andrew)

Another pose for the ladies

Kodak moment at the apartment

My Angles

My Family

Happy Together

Numero Trenta'y Quatro

The Birthday girl

The Food

More food

The Celebrants...Happy birthday to you too Andrew

Make a wish

Always the hosts... "Ang mga butihing may bahay"

(Helen and Andrew)

The original love teams of Atlanta

(Tita Tiririt and Uncle Joe)

The pogi boys of Atlanta

(from left:Kitz, Noel, Tata, Rommel, Tolits, Ron, Dante, Allan & Mike)

The beautiful ladies of Atlanta

(from left: Amie, Mavic, Me, Macky, Ellaine, Helen, Mia, Beth & Nanette)

The cute kids of Atlanta

More beautiful ladies

The beauties and the handsome...

(from left : Jam, Sheila, Joselle and Beth)

Thanks to Helen and Andrew for letting me celebrate my birthday in your beautiful home...it was really a memorable day...Thanks to all our friends who celebrated with us...also thanks for the gifts... i loved it...

The Turkey

This is the artwork of Josh at Kinder Care..... The Turkey....

Ang Pasasalamat

It's Thanksgiving, time to say grace for all the blessings we received...

My son's first thanksgiving celebration at Kinder Care was really a big one for him. Showing me his simple artwork with lots of pride...and i'm so proud of him...I thank God for blessing me with two wonderful kids...



I also went to Zoe's "bring a friend day" at Austin Elementary School...check out some pictures at her own blog...click here

Obamarama... "The History of Change"

Today Barack Obama made a history... a "history of change" not only for United States of America but also for the whole world. He is the first African - American to dominate a country of white race.

Barack Obama was born and grew up in Hawaii. His mother was white American and his father is from Kenya. They met each other when they were in college at the University of Hawaii. However, when his father left for Harvard, he went straight back to Kenya abandoning Barack and his mother in Hawaii. His mother remarried to an Indonesian oil manager and lived in Jakarta wherein Barack was exposed to tropical poverty at a very young age. Then he went back to Hawaii and grew up with his Grandparents.

He attended Harvard Law School and in 1990 became the first African American editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 2004, he was elected to the US Senate as a Democrat represending Illinois. And today, November 4, 2008 he won as the 44th President of the United States (444)... I just hope that he will really bring positive changes not only to the lives of American people but for the whole world. We really need peaceful solution to the world's economic crisis.

Stone Mountain 2008

Originally, we were supposed to attend EJ's birthday(2nd son of Helen Binosa, our friend from Duluth, Atlanta), unfortunately, the three brothers including the father (Andrew) were sick so the party was cancelled. But that didn't stop "US" girls to enjoy the lovely day, so we decided to bring the bayanihan food to a picnic at Stone Mountain...ang saya saya....After filling-up our hungry tummy...off we went to explore the largest exposure of granite in the world. While we were on top of the mountain, the daddies were left enjoying the poker and the food...hahaha coz we were left with 3 (tumataginting) bbq sticks...

Posing at the entrance to the cable car

More posing with my amigas!!!

(from left: Nanette w/ Trez, Meeya, Ellaine, Macky, Tina and me)

This are the kids but only 2 are mine heheheh. Happy together!!!

(from the left: Naj,behind her is Ayel, Bianca, Josh, Trez, Ellys, Emond, Ninna and Zoe)

My two Angels on top of the plateau

Feeling on top of the world

(is it obvious that they are scared to pose???)

Dad missed this spot...

Peace Zoe

Amazing view of Sunset


That is high... whew!!! That is about 850 feet high...

Good thing i did not have a heart attack.

Finally, lazer show after our exploration on top of the plateau.

That completes my list of "places to visit in Atlanta"but hopefully not the last outing with our Friends...

Picnic sa Park

The barkadas decided to go for a bbq picnic at the park since summer is almost over. The potluck gives us the chance to have a break from our own cookings. I prepared lettuce wrap, bbq pork from Pangilinan family, bbq chicken from Vicente family, inihaw na pusit from Paquito Ilagan family, palabok from Romel Ilagan family and baked salmon from Lombres family. It's all yummy. The scenery gave us the appetite to digged-in but most of all the laughters made it perfect. It is always a good idea to do these outing once in awhile to ease us from all the stress and exhaustion especially, to us mommies who are multi-tasking 24/7.

Look at the moon....

The dalagindings are happy together...


Ito pa... from left Ashly, Ellys, Naj, Bianca and my sweet Zoe.


Of course, the binatilyos will not miss a chance too...
from left : Emon, Josh, Trez, Eizen and Ayel



And of course, our the papables...

from left : Kitz, John, Tata, Dante, Romel and Allan

The finale, the ever beautiful mommies...
from left : Macky, Ellaine, Nanette, me, Meeya and Tina

Did you notice that me and Mia are the only one ready for a kodak smile?