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Sunday, October 28, 2007
thankful...
i am thankful:
...that even though my mom and her cousin got into a traumatic car accident, they are both safe and home. no major injuries, which is really good considering what happened.
...for my friends and family who respond to my texts with prayers for my family.
...even though i’m hurting inside because i know that it can only get better.
...for my friends who’ll sit in a room with me not saying anything, not only cuz they know that i need company right now, but because they like to spend time with me too.
...to God for taking care of my family, and to my family for getting together for a “thanksgiving” worship -after- an accident. my mom’s family really has a great support group.
...just because.
tomorrow will be a better day. it just has to be.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
congratulations, taylor!
so taylor graduated from san gabriel academy about 2 weeks ago but they had the family party last night in glendale, and that was a lot of fun seeing family out there =)
she had the chocolate dipped fortune cookies from panda inn, where she works. and my mom is just very silly and used her foil as a grill…
jordan and d’mitri don’t really know who i am, so they were suspect of me taking this picture of them. i like it cuz mom’s in the background and great-grandma is also watching over them!
andrew stayed outside with the younger kids and connor was climbing all over him (while jordan -still- wouldn’t smile for me)
my brother and josh, our first (therefore oldest) nephew.
me and taylor. congratulations to you!! you are going to have SO MUCH FUN at puc =)
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
some pics of the family mini reunion
83 relatives showed up to the “mini” banaag reunion at uncle benny’s house in yucaipa a few sundays ago… i finally was able to take the pics off my camera, so here are a few:
perry holding jared (ate kris’s kid)
generation 2 - lola emilia’s kids - granda enchong is the oldest one alive (i think he’s the 3rd son or so...) and he’s about 93 or 94. then comes gma luisa, gma pacing, and gpa osing (and his wife)
i don’t have a good all-inclusive pic of my mom’s generation… so moving on…
generation 4 - at least those of us who were early enough to take this pic! a whole bunch showed up later
generation 5 - not too many of the next generation showed up but they ran around with a ton of energy!
ahhh… the shoes… can you tell this is a filipino gathering? =)
Monday, May 15, 2006
happy mother's day
our family had a wedding to go to for mother’s day… so that meant i got to see my mom and all my cousins’ moms too =)
me & my mommy
carlo and his mommy and his mommy’s mommy
omar, ryan, and dayday with their mommy
i’ll post more about the wedding later, when it’s not so late…
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Friday, May 05, 2006
uncle beny & auntie luz
they celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary this past sunday
here they are with their children behind them: ate noreen, kuya dennis, ate shirley, kuya glenn, and kuya chester
as you can see, it was hawaiian-themed. i had a dress to wear, but then when i went shopping with my students, i found this vintage hawaiian dress and ended up buying it for $7. it was so nifty cool! this is what it ended up looking like…
the rest of the family turned out in hawaiian shirts and dresses and it was really neat-o to see ‘em all colorful =)
click on the pic to see a larger version
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006
more family in fresno
hanging outta the backside of the suv
run, connor, run!
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006
mahalia & cole
these two are too cute together…
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Monday, April 03, 2006
fishing in fresno
one of the things we did on Sabbath afternoon was take a walk around my cousins’ house… there’s a lake there and a park, and i learned how to cast =)
here’s james showing griffin how to fish
and another shot, right before their “catch” hahaha…
Sunday, April 02, 2006
another cousins get-together
marc, krystal, andrew, james, frederick
me, jaylene
mahalia, flo
jackie
on the way up, i said to flo, “wow… this brings back memories, taking road trips with you… next thing you know they’ll be asking us to sing special music!”
she just laughed and said, “we ARE doing special music, silly!”
so here are the “children of the king” reunited =) i don’t have any of the pictures of us when we were little, but we were dragged all over to all these churches and made to perform… we practiced on friday night and had fun trying to think of any old songs that we used to sing =)
mahalia sat in her little inflatable care bears bed and listened to us perform… she’s such a cutie!
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Monday, February 27, 2006
ate kris' & kuya sean's baby shower
ate kris & kuya sean are gonna have a baby in a couple of weeks… so the family got together and had a lotta fun hanging out and having weird games where kuya glenn was cheating and everyone was laughing their heads off. it was fun… good times with family =)
kuya glenn went a little bit overboard with the baby decorations… and he was sweaty enough to have it stick on his face!!! ewww!!!!
auntie esther’s family - jenny and kedian, with their son d’mitri and daughter jordan, and judy and nathan
kami & josh, who was cool enough to go up to ed cabanatan and ask him what his name was. and kami and ate shirley (in that other picture with my cousins) were mistaken for sisters! ate’s like, um… 25 years older than her? or something like that. apparently people think that kuya garry and taylor are siblings as well… weirdness…
afterwards we went to ate nadine’s house and hung out and played cranium and stuff… here’s auntie zeny, cole, taylor, joshua, ate becky, ate donna, connor, kuya (my brother), griffin, and andy.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
cousins
a couple’a weekends ago my uncle had this big church service here in loma linda and afterwards some family stopped by kuya garry’s house just to hang out and chill with each other. here’s just a few of us: jackie, james, and jaylene in the front left, kuya garry behind them, me, and ate shirley next to me.
y’know, growing up everyone thought i was a younger version of ate shirley, and that she looked like my older sister. so, sometimes i think that’s what i’ll look like ‘when i grow up’ =)
Tuesday, November 15, 2005
the last samurai
ryan’s hair is getting pretty long...and when he ties it back like that he reminds me of the last samurai =) ok… trying to be tom cruise! hahahhah… anyways, i took this pic of him posing with knife in hand (i know, you can barely see it) at “potluck” at elephant bar this weekend.
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005
i knocked out his tooth!
this past Sabbath at church, griffin, cole, & connor were running around following each other, and just having a lotta fun. i went over to the corner they were zooming thru and knelt down and said, “hey, come kiss me!” griffin ran to me first and kissed my cheek, then cole followed, and then connor ran up and kissed my shoulder =) it was so adorable!
then i heard griffin talking to ate becky and she was saying, ‘that happened when you kissed auntie kimi?’ and i wondered what was going on. turns out… his tooth was so loose, when he came up to kiss me it knocked his tooth outta his head =) hahahahha… he was so proud o’ himself he showed all of his aunties/uncles and we all took pictures (you can see ate becky’s relatives in the background - they were visiting from oregon)
griffin’s the only one who calls me auntie kimi, by the way. cole has started calling me “kimi”, thinking it’s hilarious and telling everyone i’m no longer his auntie. i’ve started calling him “uncle cole” to get him back =) hahahaha… we’ll see how long that lasts.
connor, on the other hand, started calling me “auntie donna” and wouldn’t stop laughing!
(click on the picture to download the video of him giggling and saying ‘auntie donna’ over and over again)
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
naruto
just pullin’ this pic from way in the archives (try 9 months ago!)... we were at bob’s big boys with my 50 cousins waiting to be seated… and ryan had this naruto headband thingie that i tried on. you shoulda seen the craziness with all of us waiting in the front - all the guys pinching each other’s nipples, everyone being all loud, and just plain filipino crazy loudness, y’know? fun times…
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Tuesday, June 28, 2005
monday: in-n-out
every monday, for the past 3 months or so, i’ve eaten at in-n-out… ‘cept for last week, of course, since i was outta town. but of course, i resumed my ritual upon returning and had me a double double with extra lettuce, extra sauce, and some fries. my cousins are good people to join me so late at night… but of course, i’m “ate”, so it was my treat =)
‘s okay, of course, cause they bring the entertainment… we were taking stupid pictures and just crackin’ up all night long =)
in-n-out is a nice welcome back treat…
double double!