father's day

celebrating father's day at thai kitchen.

happy happy father's day again to the best dad! :)

(next year we're celebrating with two boys already! can't wait!)

thanks for the love and thoughfulness.

i want to tell you that- i am the proudest and happiest wife!

breaktifasty!!!

I don't normally get excited about breakfast. My mom would know. In my grade school days, she would normally feed me for long hours! I would let the food stay in my mouth and end up throwing it out. Yucky! I would end up crying because she'd get mad. That's our everyday drama even until when I entered highschool already. In college, I would end up leaving the house with my stomach empty(bec my mom is not there to check on me anymore). I don't know, I just don't like being forced to eat in the morning - when I actually just woke up. Ironically, I love breakfast food like tapa, longganisa, tocino, spanish sardines and so many others. But I would want to eat them at a later time in the morning.


Now that I am working, I normally eat my breakfast in the office instead. I wake up, take a shower, dress up and leave for work right away. Eating breakfast is not part of my routine at home. I normally eat my breakfast or drink my coffee an hour or more after I get to work, after i've settled myself and answered a number of my emails and phone calls. I recently found breakfast love in these stalls that recently opened in our 7th floor cafeteria: cerealicious ( i love their blockbuster cereal trails!) and panini (love their bacon lettuce and tomato!). There's another stall that offers organic brewed coffee and I am excited to try this after I give birth. Yes, when the baby's out! :P



On weekends, I look forward to breakfast only because then I know that i'll be with my family. Saturdays- is "breakfast day" in our house. My mother in law would normally hosts breakfast for the whole clan. It's been like that traditionally even before I met my husband. It may be tiring at some point (esp if you were out late on a Friday hehe) but nonetheless these Saturdays are very meaningful and important to everyone in the family esp my mother in law and her sisters :)


I love quiet breakfasts with my husband. We would normally do this on Sundays before mass. We are lucky to have a few personalized and quaint cafes in our area that's good enough for a perfect breakfast. Our favorites: Banapple and Kopi Roti (both located outside our village).I believe we will never grow old doing this together :)

(with husband taken at kopi roti. some two years ago :) kyle took this photo!)

on walks, talks & everything else :)

We are becoming big on long weekends! I get to do my wifey duties at home like declutter, cook and most of all, spend enough time just talking and acting lazy with my husband and my kyle :) We didn't plan any out of town trip during the long weekend because we have planned something special for the family & Kyle's birthday on October. We stayed home the whole time and made the most out of our quality time together. Husband and I watched dvds while Kyle played psp with my brothers, who spend most of their weekends with us. Last Monday, Kyle and I rearranged his room. I asked him to decide where to put his bed, study table and all his stuffs particularly his toys :) I'm happy he did a good job! The room has bigger space now for other activities and his toys are arranged properly. I can see the whole look of the room is better :) Galing talaga my little boy! little chef & interior designer at the same time! teehee! :D


WALKs with my husband is one activity that I look forward to every weekend. This is better than any other gimmick that we have. Actually we figured, we're enjoying food a lot much so might as well burn some fats too!hehe! Walking around the village is fun :) More than the calories that we intend lose, it's good that we get talk about everything under the sun (or under the moon, at times). We get to talk about future plans, little problems that we need to sort out, how both our weeks in our offices went and a recap about events in our wonderful life together. This is a real "alone time" and "quiet time" for us :) We usually wake up early as 6am on weekends to walk and enjoy the morning sun and we've been trying to squeeze in an hour on weekdays to walk before dinner time.


I look forward to more walks (&jog maybe) with my husband even when our hairs are all grey :D Try it with your loved ones! You gotta love it! It's fun! =)

Happy happy birthday our dear papa. We miss you so much! It's definitely hard to be away from you. We hope that you feel in your heart how much we love you. We are so lucky for having a papa as responsible and understanding as you. Thank you so much for your unconditional love. We pray for your good health and safety always.


hugs & kisses,
Jc,Mico, Kevin & Mama / Jp, Tin & Kyle


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Weekend Cooking at home. Orange Grilled Chicken Breast paired with Pesto Rice. Ranch Salad on the side & a decadent chocolate cake that husband bought from Cake-to-Go. :)


We're having dinner with cousins next Saturday. Ria and ate Ina is in charge of the steak and i'll be preparing the seafood. Nina of course, is in charge of her dad's signature home made ceasar salad and drinks. Tito Mai's son, Martin and gf Laureen will join us for the first time. The family tree is getting bigger!!! Happier :)

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My husband's very good friend L. Martinez is part of this much-awaited play in Manila! We are so excited to see him. This is my first time to see him perform but i've heard so much from husband about how good he acts. He's a proud friend! :D Lea Salonga is playing princess in Rodger’s and Hammerstein’s Cinderella and i'm excited to watch her live for the first time too. :) My husband saw Miss Saigon few years back and he said Leah is indeed excellent!

I never learned about my husband's interest in theater/broadway earlier. I just had this false impression that he'd rather watch basketball games or play ps at home than watch musical shows. In fact, I did not even bothered to ask him to go with me when I saw Avenue Q with my highshool friends September last year. He could've enjoyed that awesome show too! Anyway, that was just one play that I missed to see with him. Now, we're both excited to see two fantastic plays this year. :)

weekend dates

My husband and I both love and enjoy trying out new restaurants. This is basically the only "luho" that we spend for almost every weekend. We consider this our "alone time". We get to talk about our life together, problems and how to solve them and oh future plans of course. I am always inspired and excited to look for restaurants that are new, cozy and of course serves good food. We've tried INYO Cuisine in Katipunan and it was a unique experience for us. We adore Galileo Enoteca , it offers variety of cheese & cold cuts. Perfect with our favorite Lambrusco wine. went to Bellini's with my highschool friends February this year & I hope experience it with Jp sometime soon.

Me and Jp still go out on dates and it sure feels so good to be "kilig" over and over again even when you're married :D I have a list of few gourmet restaurants that i've been meaning to try with him.

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