Daddy Here: A perfect gentlemen, Rolly is the name. Ten months as a ship Technical Electrical Officer(Engineer), two months as an outgoing dad for Amir & Ace. Spending time for my family is difficult but having the most quality time with them is my real goal in life.
Mommy Here: I'm Grace from Philippines, a wife of 1 and mother of 2. I'm actually a teacher but this time I can say that my life now is 99 % cool mother to my twins and and 1 % blogger.
Fun Table For Four
Our blog explain our family's journey - a crest. What ever it is, God will be always the center of our marriage (Rolly+Grace). It shows how life can be simple but great, painful but fruitful. It does not design to display or impress but to be able to let our love ones, specially my kids (Amir_Ace) understand what reality states: "Life is not a bed of roses". Parents like us start from nothing but because of them we do not want to end up nothing. "Start from scratch and to do the rush... Aja!
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Grace , wife to Rolly; mother to Amir & Ace
A realization that everything on my kids are getting so fast...I've started to work again, its been a busy week for me since June...thank's for my family and my husband for helping me to take care of my kids and for the people who understand me that aside from the fact that I am a teacher, I am more of a Mother.
First day : Kinder-Kain nila Kambal July 2010
Things needed for school....
Nutrition Month Celebration
Parade of fruits
Twins transformation: From cutie to hottie!
Eclipse Saga.... We're in!
I could'nt imagine that these would be the face of my angels a few years from now....hope mine doesnt!
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Grace , wife to Rolly; mother to Amir & Ace
"...So many songs to choose but I find this song cute - simple and straight-forward song from the heart. Happy Fourth Year Anniversary....
Mahal kita .... kasi by: Nicole Hyala
Bangin ka ba? Kasi Nahuhulog na ako sa 'yo, naman kasi Unggoy ka ba? Kasi Sumasabit ka sa puso ko, naman kasi..."
"...Pustiso ka ba? Kasi You know I can't smile without you Pagod na pagod na ako Maghapon ka na kasing tumatakbo sa isipan ko Kasi naman kasi..."
"This are just memorabilia's of our past, which my hunkband gave to me before.... ...Through the years..."
kasi: "Almost everyday nagpo-post si daddy nito sa bulletin board ng store. - This was the first letter I received from my hunkband posted at Jollibee DVmall bulletin board."
"...Mahal kita Bagay tayong dalawa Papicture nga Para mapadevelop kita Hindi tayo tao, hindi rin tayo hayop Bagay tayo, bagay talaga..."
Kasi: "Ipag-drowing ka ng ganito ka kaganda! - Eksena ng mga love-songs na ne-reject ko....More than you'll ever know, sabi ko sa ayaw ko ng theme song kasi di naman kami artista at pag nag break for sure i-iyakan ko to pag narinig ko kaya no thanks, siguro after one year yung 'Through the years which is 'theme song ng bayan' pwede na... yong logo ang super na-touch ako!"
"...Papupulis kita, kasi Ninakaw mo ang puso ko, naman kasi Kuto ka ba? Kasi Palagi ka sa ulo ko Naman kasi Apoy ka ba? Kasi Alab-alab I love you.."
Kasi: "Pakainin ka lagi dito! Puresa (poor) talaga ako kaya nga working student eh... but when we started to see each other, hindi pwedeng walang pagkain kahit tuhog-tuhog pwede na. Our first acquaintance inalok nya ko kumain.. balak pa lang nya daw manligaw, inalok nya ko ng pizza sa Greenwich, wala talaga akong kyeme yung pinaka-malaki ung pinabili ko, kala ko nga magrereklamo eh...!"
"....Magsalbabida ka nga Kasi baka malunod ka sa pag-ibig ko Kasi naman kasi..."
kasi: " Pasaway ka! - how many times I've said that I don't like flowers... ganda lang yon, pagkain nalang...(pero syempre kakilig yon diba!) but still he make an effort to give something in surprise... the time he gave this flowers somebody gave us a imported white dog which we named 'bloom'...sad to say -he died after couple of months- buti nalang si dog lang ung na tigok hindi yong relationship! "
Kasi: " at i-SD (Salary Deduction) ng ganito na after mo kainin meron ka pang free- love letter. Fact: I only tasted most of specialty burger when my hunkband now start to court be... he always making an effort na magpa-gawa ng specialty burger kasi siya yung PC (production controller) na alam naman nyang di na mabibili before closing kaya ang ending... SD sa crew at cya ung o-order...."
"...Mahal kita Bagay tayong dalawa Papicture nga Para mapadevelop kita Hindi tayo tao, hindi rin tayo hayop Bagay tayo, bagay talaga..."
Kasi: "Super -effort mag pabibo- Niloko ko siya sa first letter na ginawa nya, I told him na pinadrowing lang nya yon... katulad ng mga nakikita ko sa mga friends ko nung high school kasi super kilig ung mga friend ko ang hindi nila alam pinadrowing lang yon... dahil sa tamang hinala- binigyan nya ko ulit... syempre super lait ulit ako sabi ko next time i-frame naman nya or mas maganda kung me kasamang food na lang ulit."
"...Kamukha mo si Papa P, Papa P (Ding Dong) P Papa P, Papa P P Papa P, Papa P (Dingdong)..."
Kasi: Saang relasyon merong seal?! Kami lang yata until now he's still draw our official kapuso-seal kapag nag kaka time mag bigay ng kahit anong letters..."
"...Exam ka ba, kasi Sasagutin kita agad-agad, naman kasi Drugs ka ba? Kakaadik ka kasi, kasi, naman kasi Kulangot ka ba? You're really really hard to get..."
kasi: "Me intrega agad" - I said 'yes' to him Jan. 11, 2007...Feb of 2007 I was shocked because he gave his full salary to me whenever he borrowed to different Jollibee stores... He told me pag me pera siya most of our crew members inuutang lang ung sahod nya kaya ngayon daw meron na cyang dahilan para tumangi. Bongga! "
kasi: "kind and sweet! -First time we watch movies together w/out 'alalay' and gave this!"
"...Posporo ka ba? E di posporo rin ako Para match Kasi naman kasi Mahal kita Bagay tayong dalawa Papicture nga Para mapadevelop kita..."
kasi: "Naisahan mo na ko! oh..my...my first kiss. Naloka ako kasi he demanded 3 kisses : forhead, cheeks and lips...ah-ah-ah sabi ko manyak cya and gusto ko ung first kiss ko last ko na ayaw ko ng paiba iba ng saliva....period!"
kasi: "Nakuha mo na - and kiss.....at dinaan sa biglaan...well sabi ko nalang... ulit uli di ko na feel!"
kasi: " Loving you is hard... parang " I rather have bad times w/ you than good times with someone else..."
kasi: "na-survived ang five year itch! -
Bakit: " We survived!- heared about the five ( 5 ) year Itch-, kaya bonggang me award ako when we celebrate our 6 years anniversary...me pahaging ulit ng proposal !"
kasi: "Matiyaga ka mag propose! - Part 2 of wedding proposal, bakit second na - Yung first proposal kasama pa magulang-pormalan ang eksena, and ending naman walang pera pampakasal, now I realized pamamanhikan should be done only by rich families whose parents are capable of using their money for their children's wedding. But good thing here we learned how to save for our future !"
kasi: "Mahal kita talaga wala akong choice!" dahil ayoko ng may iba pang choice, this was my fourth proposal card and 2nd engagement ring received from him - oh bakit 2nd na to, the first engagement ring was place inside this card pag open ko nahuulog ung ring... it was happened inside the public utility vehicle, meaning sa dyip! Super hanap to death muna kami habang umaandar ung dyip at super pagmamakaawa to death na ba!"
"...Pustiso ka nga, kasi I really really can't smile without you."
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Grace , wife to Rolly; mother to Amir & Ace
Most Blessed Virgin Mary, Immaculate Queen and Mother, the refuge and consolation of all troubled souls! I kneel here before thee with my family and choose thee for my Lady, Mother and Advocate with God I dedicate myself and all who belong to me to thy service forever, I beg thee, O Mother of God, to receive us into the company of thy servants. Take us under they protection. Help us in life and the hour of our death.
Mother of Mercy, I name thee Lady and Queen of my family and relatives, my interests and all my Undertakings. Take charge of them; dispose everything as it pleases thee.
Bless me and all my family. Never let any of us offend thy Son. In every temptation defend us; protect us in every danger; provide us in the necessities of life; counsel us in doubt; comfort us in every sorrow, in every sickness, and especially in the final sorrow of death.
Never let the powers of hell boast that they have enslaved any of those who are consecrate themselves to thee. Grant that we may all enter into Heaven to thank thee and, in thy company, to praise and love Jesus our Redeemer for all eternity. Amen. Thus, may it be...
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Grace , wife to Rolly; mother to Amir & Ace
Its been a month since our house was being "solely" renovated by my very own father, Mang Carding. It all started when we need to make a much safer place for my twins, their bedroom, since then everything went change... for good.
WELCOME....
To the Mini-Couple's Bedroom...
A PLACE TO REST.
Now, the last room needed to be fix in the house was finished, I see how my father took pride of his major work and that is making our own bedroom. Every time we had a visitor, nothing have to passed out without touring them to the entire house, that is why I always make an effort to make the house as nice as possible even I have two little Jurassic-cute act kids to clutter the house. Who could say that this can only be built by one person, every single details, everything you see here was patiently made and build up by my father, I could hardly imagine his effort aside from the fact that he is old enough to do all this things alone, injury and some bruises was a the least I could expect while he was doing this. I will never forget the time he meet an accident while he was taking the part of removing the old walls of our bathroom, a big piece of rock was fall into his feet the cause him to go the nearest clinic.
When I was a kid, I never passed a sleep without dreaming of a beautiful houses, but not for me. I am thinking some of my friends and cousins asking me to arranged their houses from them selves. I actually imagine what would be the design of each houses based on their personality and the kind of activity they have. That is why, I really took the opportunity to participate in furnishing the rooms, you know some kind of a frustrated interior designer, ha-ha-ha@! I just realized that I could never be an interior designer when I was in high school since I never got a grade of 80 in my mathematics subject. Our simple-small altar was placed in our room since I think this is the most quiet place to pray alone in the whole house, some people say that this should be placed where most people can be seen, on the contrary -I don't like the idea of placing altar as part of display attraction in the house just to let the people know that I am a catholic or religious person.
This picture frame was the front and back pictures used in our wedding album. I decided to display as a surprise to my husband and and the same time since photo album was usually for keepsake I chose some of the best photos to display as memorabilia of our dream day wedding.
FRAMES ALL OVER THE ROOM
I requested my father to make me a small walk-in cabinet, since our room is very small its hard for me to buy huge cabinet that could be difficult to get inside the house and since my husband and I have many stuff to be kept one cabinet is not enough. I asked a "no door cabinet' so that I can see see and find things easily. The only thing I bought here was this small mirror cabinet to the tune of P1,800 in Pajo, I choose this because the mirror was actually a door where things w/ chemicals like lotion and perfume need to be keep away from my children attention can be placed here. On the left side was our clothes needed to be hang and the right is our folded clothes and some stuff, simple as that. To cover the clutter, I hang this wooden beaded curtain I bought in Quiapo which we called by my father "burlas-burlas". One more thing, I am a kind of person who likes to buy good things at "ukay-ukay" and the white-peach curtain was actually bought in baguio ukay-ukay for only P250.00, good buys isnt?!
THE DRESSER
WALK IN CABINET W/ SMALL VERANDA AT NIGHT
I actually asked to my father to make me another space in the house where I could place some of my things which is not accessible to my kids. So he made a somewhat like veranda/mezzanine like on the top of our walk in cabinet. This is where I could put my stuff in school, some of my things like stuff toys that I collected since high school, most of them are from my friends. Well since I had my twins boys around its hard for me to display most of my girl things at sad to say my boys are asthmatic, I need to keep them away from this because of their health condition but, guess what happen....
AMIR GOING UP TO VERANDA..
HE NEVER STOP..
BECAUSE HE PLAN SOMETHING, UPSTAIRS!
BEFORE CONSTRUCTION
AFTER CONSTRUCTION
Welcome to....
The Twins's Bedroom!
The Mini-Living Room...
The Mini-Dining Room...
Woh, its never been finished, its just a beginning of never ending decorating activities in the house, this is the only things I could do aside from taking care of my twins until I finished my one year leave, wish me luck for this new career....In behalf of Abella family, we would like to say thanks for all of this, I am not good in this kind of speech, no words can express how we really appreciated being treated like this and welcoming our family, I know this is a kind of act you also never be expected to do. I always remember when I was young, you always told to us not if one of us will get married, we need to get out of the house and live thousand miles away from you, but now look where we are...
Time will come that we need to separate ways, this is one things that we could only left behind. Thanks for everything...
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Grace , wife to Rolly; mother to Amir & Ace
"To Love Is Not To Look At One Another But To look Together In The Same Direction ."
Abella-Arellano Nuptial, the moment Rolly and I were waiting for nine years, a union that binds us as one. Wedding is one of the most awaited, fascinating but expensive ceremony ofor two lovers, but for us commoners, it was likely just a dream. Love is the condition in which happiness of another person is essential to your own. We learned to work hard and independently to prepare for this special celebration and our future family. For two years, we bought a lot in Bulacan, managed to buy a car and finally, set a wedding plan.
Nobody knew about our plans from the very beginning. We believed that beautiful weddings need not too be costly. We didn't plan that after the celebration, our married life would start with heavy debts or simply flat broke. We limited our guest for financial reasons and at the same time we wanted to be witnessed by people that really became a part of our life. No show-off ika nga! We're not celebrities. We didn't like our wedding to be extravagant that guests would criticize. We wished our guests to be fascinated and inspired in our wedding. And this was how it started.
OUR WEDDING RING was the first thing we decided to order 7 months before the wedding.
Two Years before our wedding, we already come-up w/ this design, unlike the usual wedding ring - we want our wedding vow engraved inside the ring, So that we would not forget it as; we getting older....
Our Wedding Prayer
It took us along time to fulfill this dream. We thank you for giving us all the happiness and trials we had; it is YOU who always give us the guiding spirit, Now we pray for only one thing... make this love of ours the most lasting.
Only Time - Sung by Enya was chosen to be the piece for the bridal walk.... Usually, most churches prepared the Wedding March or instrumental song but since this is another "soon-to be couples" idea we need to get the Church approval and send copy of the lyrics to the Wedding Coordinator.
ONLY TIME Enya
Who can say where the road goes, Where the day flows, only time? And who can say if your love grows, As your hearth chose, only time?
Who can say why your heart sights, As your live flies, only time? And who can say why your heart cries when your love lies, only time?
Who can say when the roads meet, That love might be ,in your heart? and who can say when the day sleeps, and the night keeps all your heart? Night keeps all your heart.....
Who can say if your love groves, As your heart chose, only time? And who can say where the road goes Where the day flows, only time?
Who knows? Only time Who knows? Only time
Two souls with but a single thought
Two hearts that beat as one
GROW OLD WITH YOU Adam Sandler
I wanna make you smile whenever you're sad Carry you around when your arthritis is bad All I wanna do is grow old with you Ill get your medicine when your tummy aches
Build you a fire if the furnace breaks Oh it could be so nice, growing old with you I'll miss you I'll kiss you
Give you my coat when you are cold I'll need you I'll feed you Even let ya hold the remote control
So let me do the dishes in our kitchen sink Put you to bed if you've had too much to drink I could be the man who grows old with you I wanna grow old with you...
INSPIRING AND IMPORTANT PEOPLE THAT MADE OUR LIVES MEANINGFUL AND EXCITING
Our Principal Sponsors
TOP: MR. REYNALDO F. BINUYA, MR. ALEJANDRO BAUTISTA, MR. RONALD SIASON, MR. FRANCISCO TAñA, ENGR. IGNACIO MABBORANG, DR. ALEJANDRO JAUREGUI. ( not included in the picture: Engr. Lyndon Bague and Mr. Jonathan Visperas)
BOTTOM: MRS. LOLITA LACASANDILE, MS. SOCORRO ILAGAN, MS. CORAZON ARCADIO, DRA. NETH CARIñO, MRS. ARLINA BERNAL AND MRS. EDITA RAFAEL ( not included in the picture: Mrs. Elene Guevarra and Elizabeth Verayo)
Our Female Secondary Sponsors
(From left to right)MS. ROSEMARIE CARULLA (lightning candle), MS. MA. CRISTINA CASABUENA ( veil keeper), MS. GINA ABELLA (our bridesmaid), MrS. MA. IRVY RAFAEL-PERITO and MRS. ROSALINA SIASON ( our Matron de Honor), MS. MYRA CASABUENA ( cord keeper), MS. MARISOL CASABUENA (candle setter) AND MS. ANALIZA CAPARAZ ( our maid of honor) Not included in the picture: Engr. Jocelyn Lina ( Veil bearer ) and Ms. Donnabel Abao-an ( Cord bearer)
(Our Male Secondary Sponsors)MR. RICADO ARELLANO JR (Groomsman). ENGR. ALEXIS COMAYA ( Bestman), ENGR. MARLO TAMONDONG, MR. ROY GONZALEZ, ENGR. GEORGE LUTAB, ENGR. JOEL SANTOS, MR. JEHOIAKIM CARO,. Not in the included in the picture: ENGR. DAVE NUNCIO
(From bottom to top) ROSE CAMILLE MANALO, ELMRICA SALAZAR, JAMCIE NAZARENO with KEVIN and TOM JOSHUA MACAHILIG and DANIEL ABELLA.
Camille Manalo and Tom Joshua Macahilig reciting opening prayer
Rev.Fr. Rey O Amante, Officiating Priest
Mr. Amado Macato, Commentator, Facilitator
Ms. Donna Abao-an, Wedding Host
Special thanks to our wedding coordinator, Mr. Ireneo "Rene" Gino of Marie Anne's Garden, Malabon
These people are our special guests,
That made our wedding memorable and special.
TO OUR DEAR PARENTS:
The moment has come for us to start on our own. Though it may seem just the two of us we know that in truth, you are always there, for we will never forget the good things that you’ve shared us and next to the Lord. You will always be there to guide and enlighten us on the path that we are abut to take. Thank you very much for the love and support.
…Today we begin the rest of our life Together forever as husband and wife. Our dreams came true, with love and more Adventures to have and the world to explore.
We’ll share our joys, we’ll share our sorrows; We can already see many bright tomorrows. We’ll share our friends and family, too, And you are part of that special crew.
Thank you for celebrating our wedding day. As we share our vows, we just want to say: These wedding memories will become a treasure, And seeing you here is part of the pleasure.
LIKE THE LEAVES ON THE SUMMER BREEZE, OUR HEARTS ARE UPLIFTED BY LOVE!
I LOVE YOU ALL THE WAY
Janie Fricke
All this time we’ve been together Everyday a new adventure Time’s enough to last forever and a day Our love was sometimes all we had Through good times and through bad I loved you all the way. . .
All our days were’nt bright and sunny There were times we had no money You could always find some funny things to say I’m lookin’ back on where we’ve been I’d do it all again I loved you all the way. . .
Refrain: I loved you all the way, hey Everynight, everynight, everday. . .
Times I thought I could’nt take it Wondrin’ if we’d ever make it You could hold me close and make it go away And though I’ve said it all before I never meant it more I love you all the way. . .
