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For Thanksgiving this year we decided to have 15 of our friends and 8 of their children over for dinner.  The day before I was questioning my sanity but it ended up being such a great Holiday. And I’m pretty lucky to have a husband who likes to cook Thanksgiving dinner and loves to hostContinue reading “Thankful”

We wanted to show Carrie and Simone some of the Philippines so we picked them up from the hotel and headed to Tagatay.  Tagatay is a city up in the mountains Taal Volcano which sits in the middle of a lake.  It’s about an hour and a half each way but we were lucky ourContinue reading “Road trip”

Just last week we found out that our friends Carrie, Frederick and Simone were coming to the Philippines! This is Adam’s first visit from a friend of his and he’s having the best time with her. The last time they were together was the day before we left DC, and they looked like this. Now,Continue reading “Simone is here!”

This Saturday Randy and I got all dressed up and headed to the Marine Ball. It’s was the 238 birthday of the Marines and every year on their birthday there’s a big black tie ball.  Everyone in the embassy cleans up and heads over.  It’s sort of like a wedding without a bride and groom. Continue reading “Happy 238th Marines”

We had a wonderful lazy three day weekend full of long walks and naps.  Come Sunday we decided to make some treats for a picnic and head to Ayala Triangle.  I made some spinach pies (as delicious as ever) and we made a yummy cobb salad and we got some cheeses and crackers. Once AdamContinue reading “Manila Style Picnic”

We’ve already been to the Aquarium a bunch, but when some friends invited us we couldn’t resist another trip. We went on election day in Manila which means it was a holiday here and the roads were amazingly free of traffic.  What took us two hours the other night in traffic took me 15 minutes.Continue reading “Aquarium – take three”

The Embassy threw a Halloween party this past Saturday and Adam once again donned his pumpkin costume and we headed over.  It was at Seafront which was nice because it was a totally contained and safe place to trick or treat.  This time Adam was even more into Halloween and the games.  Adam loved trickContinue reading “More Happy Halloween!”

My friend Kate is going to have a baby boy in just a couple weeks.  I decided to take a trip over there to see her and to talk all things baby and to celebrate Kate before we both have little newborns. Kate is 14 weeks more pregnant than me and still has more energyContinue reading “Hong Kong with Kate and babies to be”

Adam had two Halloween parties to go to and since he’s been obsessed with pumpkins we decided the best costume for him is a pumpkin! His first party was at school and the theme was hats so he made a special hat just for the party to wear with his costume. I’ve never seen aContinue reading “Happy Halloween!”