On the second day of Christmas

Surprised to receive a small token from an old friend today, see what Christmas can do? Merry Christmas old friend and thank you for remembering...

Happy Anniversary Hon!

Dec 13 marked our 4th Wedding Anniversary and every year we try to celebrate it as simple as we could. Though we thought of dining at Outback (because of the GCs I won on an online promo), we skipped and settle for Sbarro’s pizza and pasta. That is all I wanted now, so walang kokontra…lol! Good thing Oliver did not insist going to a Chinese resto again.

clockwise: Green Salad, Chicago White, Baked Ziti and Tiramisu --everything taste so good and delectable!

Anyway, thank you to those who dearly remember our wedding date. It was like yesterday when we had our “I do’s” at Our Lady of Lourdes Church Tagaytay City.

I love you Hon and thank you for giving in always to my tantrums :)

My 12 days of Christmas

On the first day of Christmas, I was able to find time wrapping some of the items I bought for inaanaks and relatives. Though my list was still partial, I am glad I shopped wisely and practical this time.

I am excited to hand over my gifts later today…yey!

How about you fellas, have you completed your gift list?

Holiday shopping

A day after our Sta. Rosa trip to Paseo and Nuvali we went to Pavilion Mall in Binan, Laguna. This time we shopped for the kids at Guess outlet. This is what I love during the holidays, more shopping days and what I hate is you end up with unhappy feet and pocket too…lol!

Pavilion Mall is house to several outlet shops, Guess, Levis, and Bayo to name a few. I can only wish I were a mid size so I can haggle for more than a dozen Guess tee…hehehe. We got some items for Sam & Pao.

happy shoppers

Right after we dropped by at SM Dasmarinas before heading home. Che & Arman spent the next two hours at the Supermarket while Sam, Irish and I window shopped and had a little time for photo ops again…just what I needed to improve my shooting skills, subjects like them :)

Samantha

cousin Irish

emotionless water bottle

We arrived home past 8pm and I continued to photo shoot my loot!

Take a sneak peek –

Nanay's new Havaianas, which I bought at Paseo

Charles & Keith, which I bought in Boni High a week ago.

More shopping days to come, expecting more finds that are fab :)

Conti's dinner & pre-shopping...

My sister, Che celebrated her birthday three days late with the whole family except for my Oliver, who made a weekend trip to Ilocos that weekend. Anyway, shortly before our Sta. Rosa trip I took some photos of little Pao who gamely posed for a few shots :)

a bit shy daw

Pao's signature smile :)

Paseo 4

We decided for the newly opened Conti’s branch at Nuvali instead of Bag of Beans. It was because we were tempted to shop at the Outlet stores in Paseo de Sta. Rosa; actually, we did a little shopping...hehehe. I personally love going to Paseo, less crowd and good bargains. Though the outlets does not offer a wide range of selections and stocks as well still every trip is worth our penny. How can you go wrong with a year round 20-30% discount on Havaianas pair? For a flip-flop addict like me this is a big big thing!

expanding to cater more outlet shoppers

Other outlet stores include Levis and Dockers, Adidas, Nike, Crocs and Sisley. In addition, a new building stood as the Paseo 4, which houses the Debenhams and Marks & Spencers outlet. Oh my! Such great stores and I wish they would put up more shops soon.

Sam and Tatay at Debenhams Outlet

Nanay & Ate Eva (our new house helper)

After few rounds and photo ops at Paseo de Sta. Rosa...

we head straight to Nuvali for dinner. Yey!

Che’s treat for everyone was an appetizing dinner at Conti’s.

On our table. Shanghai Bites P110.00+, we had two orders of this as our appetizer. Followed by Apple Potato Salad P150.00+, oh! I forgot if we had an order of soup, normally we have because the kids love it.

Entrees followed, Che & Arman both had Roast Beef with mashed potato P245.00+

Sam and Ate Eva had American Grilled Ribs with garlic rice P225.00+. Tender and yummy! I love how it was marinated and grilled.

I had Baked Prawns with crab salad and japanese rice P295.00

The prawns were a little but overcooked, but the cheese toppings was a sure hit for a cheese lover like me.

This crab salad was perfect! I would definitely do this at home, yum!

Nanay had Chicken Pastel with garlic rice P180.00+ and Tatay had Sinigang sa Miso-Salmon Head P295.00, which I missed to take photos because they started to eat soon as the food were served.

It was a very filling dinner, kita naman di ba? And Oliver missed this family happening...sigh!

Che & Arman with the kids...happy birthday again sis!

and thank you for the wonderful treat, we truly enjoy this day!

Before leaving Nuvali, Sam and I had this photo with those creative Christmas lanterns made of empty Coke bottles. By the way, Nuvali is another Ayala property, which is best described as Evoliving. Evoliving, a way of life that promotes intelligent and systematic care for the environment, enriches the community, and values its people.

And our take home box contained this mouth-watering Mango Tart P680.00, which I bought for dessert. However, I found it unreasonable and kinda odd that Conti’s will charge us another 20% if we will consume this at the resto.

We head our way, dropped by at Alulod and gave my cousin’s, Irish a slice. Nice way to end a day, SHARE!

test shots

Three weeks ago, we got our newest baby, which I shortly named “Kit” and tagged it as a “she” but my husband protest a bit, so, it is now a “he”. More appropriate because “Kit” is a rebel model and is described as high-performance.

See how our “Kit” captured the details; they all perfectly came out as natural and vivid and I'm lovin' it much :)

a close-up shot of Bei

trying to obtain a blurry background

portrait shots

taking a peek on Pao's new shoesee

trying the advanced techniques

And more shots to come fellas :)

blogging at Starbucks MOA

I had or should I say we, Oliver and I had been so occupied the past weeks, which kept me away from blogging. And I had little time to set my hands on our 'Rebel' baby too, oh my! No photos have been uploaded from Kit yet. Anyway, once Christmas rush is over I will start working on my backlogs. For now, happy shopping folks! I'm havin' peppermint mocha at the moment :)