Accomplishment

In  our seven years of marriage, we spent almost two years apart from each other, me in the Philippines and he was in Guam then.  He used to send me a monthly allowance and being the saver that I am, I managed to save enough to purchase a 120 sq meter lot for us.  We asked my mother if she would like her home to be built on the said lot but she chose  our place in Donsol which she regretted later on.  John financed the building of my Mom's house before I left.  

When I finally came here, we lived at my FIL's house for a year before  we bought our own.  We have been paying our mortgage for  more than four years but a couple of month's ago, we decided to refinance  because we were offered a lower interest rate by USAA.  Our former loan had 6.25% interest  but now we have  a 4.62% mortgage.  Now we are back to a 30-year loan wahhhh.  It's okay though because it saved us a lot from paying the interest.

We also paid off our car loan last year and eliminated some of the old credit card debts.  Sad to say we accumulated  new ones  lol..  


We send two of my siblings to school and also  send aid to my Mom once in a while.  And above all, we have  two adorable children. We only rayed for one but God is so  great that He gave us a bonus, having a son!  That's about what we have accomplished so far.  This is the topic that couples are taking about at..

Deejay's Tonight... Not!

Jen invited us at Deejays tonight for Shelby's birthday celebration but unfortunately we d chose not to go. Me and EJ are both coughing and we don't want them to have this cold.  It's a shame because I have never been to  that place yet and has been wanting to see what's inside and  taste their  food but this  due to this dang cold, we can't wahhh.. Maybe next time.  Happy happy birthday to you Shelby.  Shelby is a straight As student, very sweet, and a model.  Keep up the good work Shelby!

Picture of Shelby and EJ above was taken last Christmas.  Below was taken last weekend at Dad's house.  Our little Gracie decided to sit inside the plastic jar hehehe.  Gracie is Shelby's sister.

This little Gracie can walk everywhere now, she grew up so fast.

This little man is just very happy to have his favorite snack, black olives.

Have a good evening everyone.  We just came back from my father-in-law's house.  Thank you so much for  dropping by and leaving your trails.

A Joy to Teach

My heart was full of joy with what  the teacher say about her "Rylie us a Joy to teach."

The official report card was distributed to the students last week.  We were very satisfied of what Rylie has accomplished so far.  S are for satisfactory and X is not applicable - meaning they did not tackle it yet.  Although Rylie knows how to do some of the factors with X, they can't put any  evaluation yet as they didn't do it in classroom yet.  

Below is a video I took last week when she  tried to read  a book without my help.

Goodwill or God's Will?

When our daughter had to dressed like a saint, we chose St. Agnes for her.  Part of her costume is carrying a lamb on her arm so we tried every store in the area and we couldn't find one.  Two days before the event, I fell asleep at my FIL's couch and  hubby said "Are you ready to go?"  I replied "Okay, let's go to Goodwill."  My husband was puzzled with my reply but we went anyway.  And there we found a stuffed toy lamb, thanks God!

That was the first time we went to Goodwill.  As I walked around  and explore the store, I found this pretty blue vase.  I inspected it for any chips or damage but I found none, I looked at the price and it says $3, I said "Sweet."

I kept thinking, maybe it's God's will that we did not find any lamb in the store except in Goodwill because not only we found the lamb but also found the vase.  Sorry Lord, I didn't mean to associate You with material things.  I am just happy that we  find some good stuff for cheap unexpectedly lol. 

Elephant Ears

I am not really sure of the name of this plant here in the US but in the Philippines, we call this Gabi or Taro.  I heard somebody call this elephant ears plant over here. Over  in my country, we ate this as vegetable but over here, they plant is as ornamental.  The shape of it's leaves looks like a heart.  I bought this at the oriental store for me to cook but then I forgot and it grew so I planted it.  I brought it inside the house so it won't die from cold outside.