Friday, March 30, 2007

A very short preview of our stay in the Philippines

Thought i'd better try and post pictures and a short note about our visit/vacation in Asia before the weekend. IT will be a busy weekend with the activities of the children, swimming for Grace and football for Chris. And we will have visitors for dinner saturday too.
Oh, i said short as there's not much to share as we spent mostly chatting and visiting family and friends. Our main reason was for my parents to see and have time with Grace and Chris.


We went straight to my parents place at the farm, were we stayed for most of our stay in the Philippines. My youngest brother with his wife and daughter are living with my parents.
Here's a picture of Chris and grandpa feeding the chickens and Grace carrying Heleen, my brother's daughter. These was taken early in the morning which was usually cool as you can with baby's cap. But when the sun shows up it's and at midday, it's pretty warm, sometimes too much. I think about 35 degrees celcius!!












Heleen were baptized when we were there and we've invited some family and friends, sort of a reunion for us.







After a week, we travel to another place( 6 hours drive from our place), to the beach actually. We had booked to a hotel for a couple of days and luckily it wasn't that busy as it was midweek and no special holidays. So we have the beach to ourselves! It was just great! The water temperature is about 25 degrees. That was warm!! Grace took a short diving lesson and off she went with her father...for diving. Kees had really enjoyed and went four times before we left for home!!








Again, another baptism of one of my brothers but then on a different church.
These are our two youngest who got married last year!


Next update will be of Hongkong!!!



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Monday, March 26, 2007

We're back...

...from our visit/vacation in the Philippines and Hongkong. Four weeks went by so quickly but we had a great time. Only, it was really warm, very warm..about 30-35 degrees. Now back to reality and oh it is still very cold here especially as it's windy. Got a few commitments (for exchanges & Quilting) to finish so i won't be online much and might be called to work extra days too these coming days.
I will try to upload a few pictures sometime these week.

February ornament..

...finished just right on time. This is my very first into a round ornament. I am so glad it turned out well, though honestly it was quite d...