Some photos from our new camera

Moms' gathering & farewell

moms' gathering on children's dental hygiene with Dr. Ajang Farid from Hungary

farewell brunch for Barbara and baby Ethan

Some visitors to the Holy Land...

Uncle Philip Eugenio came for nine day pilgrimage recently to the Holy Land. He is originally from the Philippines, but now he resides and works in New York. We got a chance to invite him over for dinner one evening, uncle Willi Remollo also joined us. Here's a group photo of us:















Also came to visit their son Jonathan are his parents Ruth and Wilco Broekhuizen from Holland. Auntie Canan & uncle Arnold kindly invited all of us for dinner at their place. Elfida and I entertained the whole group.

Serving the Divine Plan group photo

We got a chance to take a photo of our Serving the Divine Plan group which we are organizing each month for the May-June 2008 orientation. Our guest speaker that evening was Counsellor Zenaida Ramirez in which she talked about the spiritual education of junior youth.

More three yr. old cuteness...

Happy Birthday Papa!

Drumming activity in Gan

three year old cuteness

coloring her book

EM being picked up by mommy from Gan

painting is her favorite activity too

say Chi---nese :-)

reciting her favorite prayer at bedtime

dressing up as an Arab girl



















waiting for daddy at the cashier in IKEA

got excited to see a visitor in the balcony...

at the playground with Rodrigo

Farewell Nazarathy family!

We spent one last evening together with the Nazarathy family before they leave for Holland. We will miss them so much and wish them a smooth transition and an enjoyable stay in this land of cheese. Here are few photos for everyone to see how the evening went and also a group photo of our birth preparation class taken in October 2005 where Menchie and Carmel were still pregnant with Enna-Marie and Emily respectively.

girls just having fun

one last photo together of these cuties

beautiful family: Carmel, Yoni & their girls Kayley & Emily

Schoots and Nazarathys

standing L-R: Amir & Ania, Maarten & Menchie, Amir & Ilana and Mrs. Wendy Blumfield. sitting: Yoni & Carmel

Moms gathering with Nancy Barnes

We organized a mother's gathering with Mrs. Nancy Barnes on baby massage last week, here's a photo of the group with the newest babies in town.
















(from L-R: Barbara & baby Ethan, Liudmila with Ilya & baby Alexei, Theresa & baby Delcran, Nancy, Menchie, Melissa & baby Nevyn)

Happy Birthday Lola Ping!

Today is my Lola Ping's 69th birthday...Happy Birthday Lola Ping! We were able to talk and greet her today for this special day, I even sung "happy birthday to you" and said "I love you" to my dear Lola (lola means grandmother in Tagalog). Here are two photos of her younger days and a picture with my mommy taken six years ago...

beautiful shot at a friend's wedding in the Philippines

taken at the International Baha'i Convention in 1983 in Haifa, Israel where Lola Ping was one of the delegates. She was wearing a traditional Filipino dress/costume.

Lola Ping with my mommy and Lolo Max taken in Cebu, one of the islands in the Philippines (my daddy took this photo, two months before he married mommy in Haifa)

Visiting Emily

My mommy & I visited my friend Emily, her baby sister Kayley & their mom auntie Carmel recently. I am trying to spend more time with her these days as she & her family are moving to Holland soon. Yep this means she will learn Dutch & the next time we see each other we will probably be speaking in Dutch and/or...Hebrew. I love playing her bags she has variety of them. We watched a short Cinderella & Arielle movie as well. At the end we did some paintings together...It was really fun playing with her.