Monthly Archives: October 2016

There are many perks of living in the Philippines.  But one thing that we definitely don’t get in Manila are things like this right here-a Trader Joe’s Gingerbread house that is super easy to put together and super cute.  But we are lucky that Grandma Gertch finds things like this and sends them to us!Continue reading “Haunted House”

For Halloween this year I decided that it was finally time to let the boys pick their costumes.  Adam at first decided that he wanted to be Batman, but then a few weeks ago decided he wanted to be a construction worker. I have no idea where he got the idea. We don’t watch BobContinue reading “Which pup are you?”

I used to wonder why people would get so crazy about holidays and decorate their whole yard with huge blow up huge decorative dolls. Now that I have kids I totally get it. These two get so excited about holidays. They have been waiting to get a pumpkin for weeks now so this weekend weContinue reading “Jack O'Lantern”

We all know that I love a list and I especially love a birthday list. I’ve already listed the reason I love Randy, so today in honor of Randy turning 36 last week, I thought I would make of list of 10 things I bet you didn’t know about Randy, or maybe you did alreadyContinue reading “Clam Pizza”

We have been in potty training mode over here.  Grandma got Malcolm some Paw ‘Patrols to motivate him. He is so cute, whenever he has an accident he says – “Oh,I peed in my aw atrols” its pretty adorable. Every time he successfully pees on the potty he jumps up and says ‘Yay!’ Potty trainingContinue reading “Pottys and Soccer”

Adam and Malcolm’s school had a field trip last week. And guess what it wasn’t to the Fun Farm 🙂 It was to our other favorite spot in Manila, the aquarium! I love getting to take time off and go with the boys for these special days.  I really am lucky enough to love myContinue reading “School Days”