This is our first time to visit Tagaytay and stay overnight. Things have been different if the kids were bigger. We went out at around 6 pm already Saturday night. Before eating dinner, we went first at Sky Ranch. This is owned by SM and it has the biggest ferries wheel in the Philippines. Aside from this, there are also several other rides that visitors can check like the Carousel, small roller coaster, vikings, and other more.

Since we were with kids, we chose the Carousel ride. It was faster that the usual speed that we were used to. When we got off, we adults were more dizzy than the kiddos. There were also several souvenir shops within the area. They were selling personalzed mugs (using pictures taken by their photogs around the area), puzzle pictures and tumblers. I was hoping that they too have something similar to yogitoes towel from everythingyoga

After the visit, we went to Leslie's. Only to find out that we were the 12th group online. Since MIL needs to take her medicine already, we had to look for another place to eat. We ended up in the nearby Carlo's Pizza instead. We were supposed to have coffee from Starbucks but the younger kids were already sleeping, we decided to just end the day... plus the fact that the boys still need to go the airport to fetch FIL.

It has been sometime since we were in Tagaytay. If I remember it right, this was when we visited the place to attend mass at Our Lady of Lourdes. It was an impromptu visit that we were there for only a few hours. Despite the limited time, we still enjoyed the cold breeze of the place.

Last weekend, we were again able to visit the place. Unlike the last one, we were here for 2 days. This is to celebrate my MIL and BIL's birthday. It was a surprise for MIL and she loved it.

What made the visit more fun was the pool. We brought our inflatable swimming pools and we ready had so much fun. It was not only the kids who enjoyed the water but we adults also got the chance to immerse on it even for limited time. Plus the food. We were not able to eat at Leslie's but Carlos Pizza and JT Manukan made up for it. We even met the partner at JT's Manukan. He made chika with us and showed his dog Vicky (which is a cross breed of German and Belgian Malinois and something else - which he keeps under a  sport dog fence or something). And what I loved most is that he kept saying that Miguel is so pogi :p

The place where we stayed was ideal for our short stay. We had the convenience of a home at a price that we cannot resist. Thank God for people who allow transients on their rest houses. It was a great deal for big families like ours.

Lastly, the bonding of the family was the best. It was a great reunion on G's side. It has been sometime since all 4 siblings were together on one event. If I am not mistaken. the last time that they had their family picture was when we got married way back 2005.

Oh well, thank God for the gift of family. It is indeed a great blessing to be with people you love best.

My MIL is celebrating her birthday on Sunday and she is in for surprise I don't know the details yet but it will be really FUN for the family. 

The Cebuana Pera Padala never fails to make me smile. It is so touching that the first time I saw it, I was teary-eyed. I loved how the production made the 'money' really worthy to its recipient. Additional factor is Coco Martin the attention was first diverted to him but when the sender comes out, then that's the time that it makes the commercial close to the heart. 

It has been 4 months since our househelp left us for our neighbor. Since then, it was just me, the kids and tatay. There were times when the children were uncooperative but everything ended well (except for the other day's accident). Since then, we have stabilized our savings and expenses. We are saving more than what we expected. Because of this, we are thinking of another investment that we wanted to venture into. But before getting into IT, I wanted to have something beautiful for the house. I am thinking of something with interior water features that can serve as a design or a lucky charm for the house. This is my year and it will be a lot more better in the coming days. 

Few more days before Election 2013 and I haven't completed my list yet. I am still contemplating on who should get my vote. The kids on the other hand, love this election fever. They enjoy the jingles and they sing along with it. Among their favorites are Jack Enrile and Manny Alipon (a local candidate here in Sta. Rosa). It is striking for them to the point that they even sing it to themselves whenever they 'just think' about them. Aside from this, they also learn about the candidate through their posters and tarpaulin posted all over the place. While the kids are thinking of who the candidates look like, I am thinking how lucky the business owners of the local printing are during this season.

The kids are very 'makulit' lately, especially Achi. Almost everyday I reprimand her for her behavior. Today something happened that she really can't forget. She fell from the sofa and she hit the floor. I had to rush her to the hospital and she had stitches on her nape. 

I started to moved out my entries from my babygwenks blog. I started to manually copy my entries from the blog and it was so overwhelming. I am happy that I made it before and I was able to document my motherhood on my early years. I wish I had more time to document the growth of all my children on that blog. I wish that I wrote more about their development and at the same time shared more pictures of them. They are young only once and I want them to see how they were when they were smaller. 

One part of my achi's performance during her graduation is a song number for their parents exciting tascam.