Visit to the Monument Garden

The lesson at last week's Rose Garden class was about the Holy Family. The children had a special trip afterwards to the Monument Garden...here's what happened that morning.

singing songs before heading to the trip





















Selvi, the teacher of the day talking about the Holy Family & where their resting places are located.

getting the kids ready for the short tour

saying some prayers together at the resting place of the Greatest Holy Leaf

holding hands

saying prayers at the resting place of Abdul-Baha's wife, Munirih

visit to Navvab & Mirza Mehdis' resting places

everyone

Latest videos of Enna-Marie

Enna-Marie loves singing and dancing, and since it has been a while since we last posted a video of her on our blog, here are two of her recent "performances":). In the first video she dances to a song called "A place in the choir" by Red Grammer; in the second video she sings a Hebrew song that she learned in Gan on the occasion of "Rosh Hashana", the Israeli New Year; and in the third video she sings the "ABC song" both in English and Tagalog.

Arnel's visit

Arnel Lejano from the Philippines is currently visiting as a consultant, he used to serve at the World Centre & left in 2002.

a gathering with the Filipino friends held at Remegia's place. Arnel shared with us about the status of the Bahá’í activities back home, he is one of the Auxiliary Board members there.

Our dear Counsellor Mrs. Zenaida Ramirez updating us on the upcoming Regional Bahá’í Conferences that will take place around the world. We are fortunate that our National Assembly will host one of these historical Conferences to be held in Manila...yey, so exciting!

us at home with Arnel and Laroya family

Moms night out...

A group of mothers are meeting every week for sometime now discussing and sharing various concepts such as creative goal setting, decluttering, law of attraction, parenting, raising children, motherhood, etc...For several Thursday evenings now, it has been a mom's gathering without children (what a good break for us moms ha!)...But just yesterday, the group decided to meet in Arcaffe for a relaxing evening...check out our group photo.

Visit to Kat-Katim

Here are some photos of Enna-Marie and her friends when we visited Kat-Katim (an indoor play center) one afternoon...

go-go-go-car...

so much laughter

catching her breath

Run Rodrigo, run...

Layla: I'm up here!

Jasmin: are you talking to me?

EM hiding

digging something?

come and get me mommy...

Farah's visit

Our friend Farah Moshirian from Australia visited the Holy Land recently and we were happy to get a chance to see her again when we invited her to visit us at home (Edinah also joined us, as well as the Laroyas and Aquinos). She came and served here at the World Centre in the Department of Statistics until the year 2000. Her visit was short but nice and we will certainly see her again when she comes back next year for pilgrimage, this time she will be with her husband Bruce.

All girls photo

and the group one...

the little girls with tita Rhea

Maarten with the three ladies who used to serve in Stats department.

Welcome to Oisín, Nevyn & Alexei

Oisin Salim Padilla McLoughlin was born on 24 September in Drogheda, Ireland

such a sweet photo of mommy Corinne & baby Oisin!

Moms' Visit to May & Kayla

Recently a group of moms visited May and her new baby Kayla Carmel at their home. It was the first time to see Kayla for most of us. May shared her experiences in the hospital with us, as well as her first month with Kayla. It seems to be going well and she is enjoying every moment with her. Of course before everyone left, we had a group photo together.

the little ones sitting altogether

Menchie, Katharine & Jasmine, Negeen, Sieni & Tara

two of the newest babies in town Clara & Kayla, & baby G coming soon :-)

& here's everyone!

Visit of Nadimi family...

Our friends Ramin and Cathelijne and their daughter Norah stayed with us during their three-day visit to Haifa and Akko. They have just relocated from the Philippines back to the Netherlands after having lived for a few years in Makati City. We hope you enjoyed your stay, and that you will have a smooth transition back to life in the Netherlands...Below are a few pictures of our days together.

The Kersten's and the Thorne's came for pancake breakfast Saturday morning...

Don't underestimate how difficult it is to get two young children to pose for a simple family picture... This was the best we could do :)

Beautiful family :)

At the Bahji Visitor's Centre

Norah taking a break on her way to the Shrine...

Big sister Enna-Marie taking Norah by the hand...

Playing on the grass...

Recent photos of EM...

reading a book to her baby Sophie

making a craft out of leaves & petal flowers

with Elfida at Melissa's baby shower

playing with Lillian at the baby shower

posing outside our building

wearing blue fingernails

our little fairy with her magic wand..."bibbidi bobbidi boe!"

visit to the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh

playing with Carmel at home

Emily came over too to play with EM (her parents Carmel & Yoni were in the same childbirth preparation class we attended; Emily is just a day older than EM :-))

two happy faces...so nice to get together!

and here she is playing inside her imaginary toy house