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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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.

Old Pictures!!!

Just wanted to share some pictures that was taken during our last visit a couple of years ago. Here's Chris and my father riding the carabao. Chris likes that a lot then...

With the 3 of them, DH, DD & DS was taken by my siter and that's our parents place, i mean the house on the background!

The last couple of pictures were from Hongkong during our saty there for a few days and we are going back again.

I am not sure if i can get to a computer while we are in the Philippines, might not have the time to go to the city, i'd rather stay in the farm but if i can i will try to drop a line here, otherwise i will surely do it when we are in Honkong the third week of March.

Still haven't done with packing, tomorrow morning will have to go to the football field for Chris, afterwards to drop a tart i made early this evening for one of my colleagues, for his birthday. And maybe to go and say farewell to MIL, that is if we are welcome as DH has said something over the phone this week which wasn't really good.....

Till then.....

Small x'mas ornaments & might be the LAST POST!!!

These were stitched a while back and had managed to finished it into ornaments. Patterns were from a couple of the U.K magazines from previous years. At first, i thought to finished it into cards but finally it was into an ornaments.




Anyway, i am afraid this might be my last message,just heard that DH wants to close down the main server(computer) either tomorrow evening or friday. I might not have time to get online before then as there's a lot to do, need to do a bit of shopping, packed the luggage and going to a couple of birthdays before sunday.

We are taking the first ferry (at eight) on sunday to the airport. A family will drive us to there. Our flightis around one in the afternoon and it will take us nearly two hours to reach there.
WHEW!! It wil be a very long trip....! First, nearly 12 hours to Hongkong and then will have to transfer to another or smaller plane and will take about two hours flight to Manila. And then about 8 to 9 hours drive from the airport to the province where my family live. Atleast they are coming to pick us up at the airport.

We will be staying there for more than three weeks. Before coming back to Holland, we will drop by in HONGKONG for a few days. We would like to go to take the children to 'Disneyland'as it's already opened since last year.

Bye for now and till the end of March.

Patchwork update!

Here's the last update for my patchwork blocks at the moment. We've had a meet up earlier tonight with the group and wow! i can everyone say did there homework well. I should have taken my camera with me, perhaps i won't forget it next time so i can the difference of the fabric colour that was chosen. I am the only one who had completed a block with square pattern and i am the second who had finished some blocks which was totalled seven while the first eight. They should have another meet up after three weeks but they'd rather wait for me till i come back end of march which i am really happy with but i am afraid i won't have anything to show off.
I am not taking any for our trip, maybe a couple of small stitching items but thats all..!!

Thank you all so much for dropping and leaving comments on my blog.

Chris football & Prairie schooler freebie

Quite a busy day for all of us yesterday. It was saturday and i would really like to sleep in but can't. Had to get up after 7AM as Grace was being picked up at 8AM for her swimming club. At 9AM we went to the football field for Chris and as being his first game match we stayed to watch. They had really fan those kids at the field while it was very cold, the temperature wasn't that low, about 7 degrees celcius but it was quite windy which makes it very cold.
My toes was frozen after an hour standing there, my own fault i think...., had used the wrong shoes, being small i ussually wear shoes with heels!!!!!!!!!
Oh well, there game match went well..., first match was 0-0, the second one 1-1 and the third one 2-1, Chris group being the winner!!!

After football, they went to a workshop for baking cookies, They were invited by their friends for it. After that around 3PM, Chris and his friend were dropped here at home. After an hour DH went to picked up Grace and her friend as they have cakes with them to carry. All tasted good!!! And absolutely not good for my weight!!! Ha Ha!!. After 5PM i went to work, so DH had to prepare dinner for all of them and then at 7PM DH brought them to the village hall for the "bingo" evening for the children. These was truly unexpected that it has to be all in one day.
I came home late last night as it was really busy at the restaurant!



Here's a small finished lately. A freebie of Prairie Schooler design, and completed it into a scissor fob.

SFE from Michelle!

Received this beautiful piece from Michelle for the 'small finished exchange'. Beautiful stitching and neatly completed! Thank you so much Michelle.

Not much stitching done today, been to a few friends for a visit prior to our leave on sunday for a month for vacation as well as well visiting my family in Asia.