'block watch'

we are officially part of a block watch community...our next door neighbour had decided to form a block watch section...when we first moved into this neighbourhood, we got familiar with ALL of the faces and who lives where so pretty much we ALL know eachother, if they have kids, what pet they own and what car they drive...in our block watch section, it consists of about 10 houses, young to middle age group and we all get along very well with one another...when we go away on short trips or long vacations, our neighbours look after our home...

having being here for 2 years, we have experienced a couple of incidents that happened to our neighbours as well as ourselves.

Example:

1) neighbour has placed hanging baskets on her porch.  she left to go to the store and upon her return, it was gone.  in broad daylight.

2) neighbour was installing NEW carpet in her home.  one of the installers was in the house and the other was outside watching the NEW carpet.  the guy outside decided to grab something in his car (5 mins away) and BOOM, the NEW carpet was gone.

3) we had some guests over and instead of having the beer in the fridge, we decided to leave it outside our front basement door (winter time) mind you, we have a gate, the light was turned on and the guys were in the basement playing poker.  Well, a case or 2 was GONE.

This is the reason, we as a community, formed a block watch.

glad to be 'home'

so today was the day the 'sumalings' come back home to Canada.  for some of you that didin't know, my uncle rick and aunt went back home as usual for their yearly vacation and as well for golf.  the unexpexted happened and uncle rick had a stroke, in the philippines.  2 make a long story short, he is back home, safe, doing very well.  after his arrival back, he did not have to be admitted to the hospital, thank gawd.  with everyone's prayers, he fought hard to become better so that he can return home...thanks to everyone for your prayers...

so annoyed

i've been working for my company for about 2 years now. great job and love the people i work with. i basically help bid on jobs (small ones) as well as service calls, as well as service billings and so on. the list just keeps building.

well, to keep the story short, there is this new receptionists and sometimes i wonder about her. when i tell her to do something, she looks at me as if she does not want to do it. example: when i have a package that i need to be sent out (morning) and i hand it over to her to call the courier company and fill out the slip she waits until late afternoon to call them. but when the others ask her, she does it right away. also, when i get phone calls at work and she passes them to me she has this attitude voice. what's up with that...i think maybe because she is young (26) she's still growing and learning or maybe she wants my position, which won't happen... NOT!

WND

i was very jealous of my sister and her friends cause they always do this WND "Wednesday Night Dinner" at each others place. It seemed very competitive. When one has it one week, the other tries to top the last weeks meal and so on until i think someone had said to drop it down a notch...When visiting Toronto we attended one of there dinners and it was great...plenty of wine, tons of food with all the fixin' and dessert. Sooooo, i've talked to one of friends down here and she had agreed with me to have one. I totally can't wait. i think there is 4 or 5 of us...its our 'ladies night wine & dine' in the comforts of our own home....lovin' it!

But because my sister and her friends call it the 'WND' we can't steal their name so i've got to think of our dinner name and what day of the week we should have it on. i guess it all depends of everyone's schedule.

Woo hoo, come on down T.O...Its wine & dine time but BC style!

alone again

so the time has come that Al returns back to work and to tell you the truth, I am so glad.  I can finally have the whole house to myself with nothing to do but just lounge...its been about 3 weeks since he has not worked.  And to top that off, he is on night shift when he returns which means he is gone from evening and does not return until next morning...12 hours to 'ME'.

when we first moved to our house, i kinda was scared being by myself.  i would not walk around the house once it turned dark.  i would lay in bed by 7-8pm, right after dinner and i would watch tv until i fell asleep...hahaha! but its all good.  i've totally adjusted being home alone.

good bye Al and have fun at work!

  

ELMO day

1st Birthday Party for Gabriel...what a cutie he is...

Celebrated with all his friends, family, Auntie's and Uncles @


Newlands Golf and Country Club


It was also Gabe's moms birthday, Darleen.
Happy Birthday Darleen!!!
We hope you like your gift Gabe
'GO CANUCKS GO'
and enjoy your 'SPA' Darleen. You deserve it!
Call me when you go cause I have a SPA gift certificate as well...

Oh before I forget, the cupcakes were Delish, Mel...
yummy in my tummy!

4 me

Da Boss' 2nd Valentines gift to me...delivered to my work...how sweat!

Pray w/ me

I ask for ALL your prayers for my uncle rick...

Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done of earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation

but deliver us from evil.
AMEN

Valentines

its Valentines Day and I wish you all a Happy Valentines Day!
Birthday celebrations are also in effect...

Happy Birthday to 2 of our Godchildren...Ashley Ann Manalo (19) and Gabriel Alexander Mangalindan (1)

We love you both and wishing you both many more birthdays to come!!

XOXO...Ninong & Ninang

my MAC

yes, yes, yes...i have my MAC...its sooo much fun...lots of things to do but don't quite know where to start...i'm so excited. still learning and as well teaching Al at the same time...love it! Yes, sista, I will blog more often...i'm trying all these funky designs on iphoto...very interesting!

oh yeah, did i tell you its snowing again? oh well, life goes on.

my hubby's b-day

so if some of you don't know, Al has been on IV treatment because of an infection on his leg. Yesterday, February 4th, his birthday, we went to the hospital to get his morning IV treatment. After all the tests were completed it was time for his 2nd IV treatment. So basically, we spent 12 hours at the hospital celebrating his birthday. He was upset but I told him that there will be more birthdays to come just as long as he gets better.
This coming Saturday February 9th would have been his SURPRISE dinner party with his friends that I had planned weeks ago but because of the IV treatments twice daily, I had to cancel the event.

To my husband,
happy birthday to you and you getting better. Many more birthdays to come in the coming years! Love you...

30 sumtin'

today is da boss birthday...but can't really do much cause he is sick...i'm staying home to take care of him...poor Al...happy birthday MR and plenty more birthdays to come...XOXO..

iMAC

it was an early Valentines gift to me...my new iMAC from my
hubby...love it! Oh yeah, love you to my boo...thank you!