Three more months and I have achieved my goal of having a family picture every month for the whole year. It’s harder to take a picture of us when we only are a complete family thee times a week. We were able to get this picture on the last day of September. Not the best picture but you do not need a binocular to see that everybody is happy!

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I seriously need more than a driveway alarm to remind me of some of the regular things I need to post in this blog.

I have been quite amiss posting our monthly family pictures on this blog. I knew that this year scrapbooking would take a backseat in my life so I just had two goals – 1. To be able to summarize what has happened with our family every month and 2. To have a decent enough family picture each month. So far, I have been successful.

Here are our family pictures from April to August.

APRIL – I had curly hair and we had a new addition to the family, our dog Scamp.

MAY – I could not be anymore happier – so many nice family pictures of the four of us – yay!

(from L-R: Santacruzan. Martha’s Birthday/Mother’s Day. Acuatico Trip)

JUNE – We celebrated our anniversary by going to the Church we got married so we had lots of nice pictures there too

JULY – Despite all of us looking healthy in this picture, it was a time of sickies for all of us, especially the kids (they got confined that month)

AUGUST – I love how we were able to capture a bird flying above our heads, it feels like the Holy Spirit was there blessing us

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I am going to do some serious catching up with what is happening in our lives here in the mountains soon. I just looked over my March entries and I think I only have one entry that can fill in my relatives on what is happening with us. (No, we haven’t had the luk of purchasing the dream HDTV we are wanting for ages) Let’s hope this post makes up for it.

History:
I have been so inspired upon reading this post that I thought I should do one myself every month.

I haven’t been able to write a post for February but I was able to make a page – I just put the journaling directly over there.

You can click on the link for a bigger picture:

Now, onwards to March:

*This was actually an April (3rd) photo but it was close to March so I’m counting towards March

What have we been doing?
It was the beginning and ending for my kids. We were able to experience our first swim for the summer (hence the swimming picture). It was also the start of new interests for us. We also welcomed a new addition to our family – Scamp, our dog (a half Pekinese Shitzhu breed). Never ever thought I’d permit a dog to roam around our house freely – that goes to show how much I love my kids!

Edil has been committed in going to the gym since the start of the year but I have never really thought he was after being healthy not until he decided to try (I say that word loosely) and stop smoking. I noticed he was smoking a pack a day at times he was at home and I am sure that he smokes more at work. I don’t nag him about it (It doesn’t work at everything so why bother trying?) but I was surprised that one day he told me he was going to buy an e-cigarette to help him quit. I am writing this a week into April and he was able to survive three weeks on  a stick of cigarette a day. I pray that this is it – smoking be gone from our family!

I, on the other hand, have been trying to live healthily – nope, not losing weight (yet) but I haven’t gained at all. I have been feeding my mind new information all month – I have read three books and even surprised myself when I looked up the latest news on nursing. Maybe I am ready to work once the kids are in school! I also received great news that a page I scrapped is going to be published in a book! Work has been fruitful and I am extremely thankful for the Big Guy for providing for us. My kids eat well and we are slowly able to buy things that we still need for the house.

Matthew finished third grade with flying colors! He was 5th overall among their batch and was awarded Best in English and Math during their Recognition Day. He is completely enamored with Scamp. And to be honest, I think Scamp loves him more than Martha He feeds, takes care after his poo and gives him a bath (complete with blowdry) everyday.

Martha on the other hand has passed her entrance examination for Nursery and I cannot help but feel nervous for my princess. Is she ready? (She better be – she is four already) Will she cope? Will I experience tears (She made a scene during her examination so you cannot expect me not to worry). She loves playing with Play-Doh and watches Land Before Time season episodes all day (We went back to dinosaurs, yes). She is completely a chatterbox at home but still clams up whenever we are out with people, even if it’s family. (Even with her Dad for crying out loud) I don’t know why she completely turned into Mommy’s girl all of a sudden. She wouldn’t hold hands with her Daed, she wants me to lie beside her at night not her Daed – when all of these things she wants Edil all the time. I don’t know if I am flattered, it is hard for me to concentrate on work when she comes out and hugs me and tells me, “Mooooom, gusto ko ikaw tabi me eh, hold my hand, lab mo ko.” And then I just have to lie beside her, and in no time, I’m sleeping as well!

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I have been so inspired upon reading this post that I thought I should do one myself every month. Luckily, even if I read this in February, I was able to take a picture of us last month.

• Edil has been going to the gym five times a week lately. It has been slowly beefing him up, which is good. I am noticing he doesn’t need to play Mafia Wars every time he goes home (or maybe because he can’t squeeze any playtime because I am always working). Give me three hours to play and he is done. He now finished one David Baldacci book a week, and I am really happy that he has discovered reading.
• Matthew has been a little tween in the house, always being the one to make sure to answer back and reason out, politely or impolitely. You cannot see it very well in the picture but his PSP is hanging around his neck – if he can sleep with it everyday, he certainly would.
• Martha has been drawing a lot lately, and has been keeping such odd hours sleeping. Her record breaking sleep time was recorded yesterday, at 9AM to 10PM! I had to keep her from napping today so she can sleep at a regular time. She loves Disney Princesses to a passion and often can be seen playing Sleeping Beauty with her Ate Caren.
• I now have my hair at its longest, and I am itching to cut it off almost everyday. I need to schedule an appointment to have it curled – so I can be done with my curiosity if it looks good on me. If it doesn’t, I can always cut it naman, diba? I’m trying to be introspective lately and really try to know myself, after all, it’s my birthday month I also want to make sure I achieve things this year – momentous ones – before I turn 30. That may include silly things like getting an led tv, learn to drive or bike, or finally lose pounds since 2000.

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