Summer

SUMMER

The best time of the year
Perfect for everything, is summer!
School is out, fun is in
play with friends and kin

summer fun in the beach,
nothing can beat as you eat sandwich,
cold lemonade, to cool down thirst
plus watermelon that is so sweet!

water so clear, bright and blue
swimsuit, sun lotion, and you'll have a clue
the next time to do is dive
enjoy and feel the suumer blue!

ruth insigne

After 6 years in elementaryof doing hardwork and labor, Esther graduated 1st honorable mention!

After 4 years of hard work and labor in school, Ephraim graduated Valedictorian in Special Science Graduating Class.

Ephraim graduated from a four year seminary last March 28, 2010. Congratulations Ephraim for doing a good job and being a good son!

Showing his Seminary Diploma!

Christmas Activities

Christmas Time in Church

My daughter ewemiz and me in chapel ground after the sunday service.

Precious Moments with babe Jesus Christ

The Nutcracker Ballet Show! Awesome!

Christmas Service to the elderly in Asilo de Molo

The children had their christmas parties in school and in church. Ephraim , Esther and me watched the Nutcracker Ballet show of Ms Liza Macuja Ilizalde in SM cinema 6. She is prima ballerina indeed! Beautiful , beautiful, encore ! Ephraim and Esther love it. It's their first time to see a ballet live show. My two youth had a christmas service in asilo de molo, where they clean, fed, talk and took care for 2 hours the eldery. They sang Christmas songs, too. We will be going to Boracay this Christmas .

Christmas box

Ate Gie, sent this christmas box.

My Family!

We do a lot of things as a family. I'm so involved with my kids activities in school and in church. I would send my kids to school, bring their baons, tutor them with homeworks, encourage them with school work and be there during school competitions and performances. My eldest, Ephraim is doing good in school. He recently returned from a 3 day regional science camp. He enjoyed and learned so much . Esther is still in her 5 day girls scout camp. She just called up and pretty enjoying as well. She turned 12 last Nov 12. She is a young woman now. I hope she will do her personal progress diligently. We are excited that she is in the young women organization and looking forward for her to learn skills that she can use someday. My youngest, ewemiz was 2nd in her 1st grade class during the 2nd grading. Ephraim and Esther were both 2nd as well. We encourage them to do a little more so they be 1st in 3rd grading and in the 4th. We just recently watch the New Moon movie. Me, Esther and Ephraim enjoyed it. By the way ephraim finished the 4 books (twilight, new moon, breaking, dwan and eclipse) already 3 months ago . Manny and Ewemiz about half way in the movie just snored. When we went out Ewemiz said," oh where's the vampire, i did'nt see i?" We laughed so hard. This coming week we will watch christmas carol together and Manny and I will have a date on the movie 2012! We just love movies!!! I'm grateful and feel so blessed for the love Manny has for me and my kids. He make sure he is always ther for us despite his busy and demanding schedule in the Seminaries and Institute. I love his help especially that he washes the dishes at night if he is home and no travels. It gives me more time to do other stuff inside the home and still have time to open computer. Church time and activities are always awesome. We let the missionaries assigned in our ward come to our house and dine with us every Sunday night. It is fun having them around and seeing them so happy that they get to eat for free. We want our kids to see and feel the spirit of missionary work so that they too will have the desire to serve.

Iloilo City Ward Reunion

Had a wonderful reunion of Iloilo City ward in Jalandoni Chapel. Bishop and Sister magbanua are now in New Zealand.

sick with flu for 4 days now. i'm hating it . good the lakers won the championship.

Ewemiz is scared to death!

Relax and unwind from all the household actvities

The 3 kids in the block!

so cool!

summer summer summer so fun!

Baguio Seminaries and Instutute Convention

Baguio Mountain Province Museum

A social night was held after the days training.
I sewed my outfit.

Manny and Rogelio Montemayor are in CES.
They were companions in during mission days in Philippines Naga Mision.

Me and my honey in the baguio museum.

We had a dance night in the CES convention.

Aim High!

Ephraim is top 1 in junior high special science class.

Esther is 3rd honor in her fifth grade class

Ewemiz giving her farewell address.

Ewemiz graduated valedictorian in prep class

It's recognition week for my kids in school. The school year is finished.It's rewarding time for all the efforts they put forth in school. Ephraim is a junior high student. He is top 1 in the class. the population in their school is around 900. He belongs to the special science class. His average grade is 92.53%. Esther Ruth is a fifth grader. She is 3rd honor in the class. She belongs to section 1. She loves to read and math. Ewemiz is a prep grad. She graduated from kinder school valedictorian. She is best in math, science, reading, writing and diligent . It was amazing because when she started the school year she was not that good yet. Now she just love to read and do math's. When she learned how to read during the school year, she keeps on reading her Book of Mormon Stories. We always tell her to read it everyday and she really loves to read it. At night, i don't need to read bedtime stories to her because she reads it already on her own. She is ready for first grade. Well i hope that she reads and reads just like his brother. Ephraim loves to read too. Manny and I felt blessed to have great kids!

help ! i can't anymore post pics in here... i have no idea what's wrong. the add image button doesn't work....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Manny and i would go out for a date once a week. This week we went to eat at Emillion (i don't know if i spelled it correctly). Its a fine dining restaurant. The ambiance of the place is so cozy and clean. We ate shrimps and kangkong sort of. The calamansi shake was so good! I'll try to make one this week end. So tangy. Before Feb ends, we attended a dance and dinner party at Hotel Del Rio, Iloilo City. The food was ok , not exceptional. The games and piano recital ate so much of the time. We danced till 11 30 pm. That day also was Ephraim's Junior's And Senoir's Prom Night. He attended the prom at Sarabia Manor Hotel, Iloilo City. Manny fetched him at about 11pm. We all went home at about 11:30pm. What a night that was! I wanted to sleep a little longer the following day, but needed to wake up early (gosh i was very sleepy still),for 2 reason : ephraim's ym actvty, and ces fireside. Our attendance was needed. Anyways, i think i was drowsy and sleepy in the fireside.

Memories of 2008 is encarved in our hearts. My family just love everything we made in the year that had passed. All the blesssings and challenges we had were part of thoise memories written in our hearts. Early this jan. 2009 we moved to a new house. I'ts a two story house with 4bedrooms and huge carport. The place is near beach resorts so you can guess that we are near beaches and pools. The sea is just overlooking. We love it here so much. I'll post pics later as our nternet is not connected yet. we have the globe visibilty broadband wireless but not so fast. Not so good. We hope that we will be making more memories here in Iloilo City.

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Have a wonderful Christmas !!!

Happy Holidays!!!

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"A Prom (ise) Night" for couples was held last night. The Iloilo Stake had it in Sarabia Manor Hotel. Manny and I attended the event. The sad story , i forgot my digicam, silly me...we dressed up so well like a prom night but 4got my digicam. Pres Torres took pictures though so i'll just ask him if i can have it in usb. the emcee last night was no other than me and manny. The hotel is the biggest in Iloilo located just in the city area. Nice one. There were about 160 couples attended. we had a sumptous dinner. The Molo 1st and 2nd had dance presentation. They danced so well. There were games and dancing. the dance floor were so busy with 160 couples enjoying the night. the music were awesome from ballroom to sweet . all of us renewed our promise as husband and wife by wearing bracelets given by the stake. it was fun putting the bracelets to our husband and vice versa. looking at the older ones maybe at their 70's still together, enjoying and dancing to their hearts delight was so inspiring!!!The night ended with a renewed commitment to each other , love, love , love, till the end.