Tyler's 7th Birthday; July 19, 2008

Oh boy! I'm so glad I only have two kids, man it's a lot of work satisfying what they wish for; but then it makes me happy that they're enjoying themselves and the support from they're family, close family and friends.

I hope everyone enjoyed the hot weather heat, burned part of my neck while I was cooking the BBQ. I always forget to put suntan lotion on my neck when I'm out in the sun, a little irratating the next day, but I'll get over it.

Who attended: Roger Jr., Naomi, Rog III, and Nina (again the first to get there even after being an hour late); Efren and Jeremy; Virg, Eric and Austin; Roy, Nida, T-Aida, Roy Jr. and Ryan; Marivic and Christian; Tyler and Sam's friends from the complex. It was pretty cool. Kids had fun!

There was plenty of food, man I think I cooked enough Korean BBQ for two days, as a matter of fact we still have leftovers and it's Monday now. Sung always says that it better to have more food than no food. Woman knows what she's saying.

Tyler was happy with all the gifts he received, especially the Nintendo DS, the games and cover that came from T-Virg, Christine and his friends. He's only played with some of the toys but has been hooked to his DS, but limited time only per Mom and Dad. More reading we say, Tyler is a good boy and listens to Mom and Dad, he tries hard to focus on school first before he plays. Thanks again everyone for the gifts!

Kids had fun playing games, Tyler is such a punk, he tells us that he doesn't want to play any of the games, just wants to be in the pool. Finally convinced him to play with his guest. Anyway, it was a little laim so I ended up giving Nina and Jeremy the last two gifts. Oh well, at least they were happy.

Anyway, if you guys want to see more pictures of any of the posting from each event, I created a new blog with photos only, so if you want you can just click "here" or type in the web address http://www.triasphotogallery.blogspot.com/. It's only Tyler's birthday so far but soon I'll get the rest of the pictures in.

Knott's Berry Farm

June 28th, 2008 - It was a nice and clear day to be out at the park, Trece's company that he works for (ACS, Inc.) with it's annual company picnic at Knott's Berry Farm.

I invited some of the family to join me and my family at Knott's for some fun at the amusement park.

Who attended: Trece, Sung, Sammy, Tyler, Virg, Eric, Austin, Marivic, Christian, Christine, Mel and Jacob.

The company provided free food and plenty of entertainment for the kids. During each event ACS gives out prize giveaways, raffled to the employees, grand prize was a laptop; but this year Christine nor I had no luck at all. Oh well!

After the picnic we headed off to the theme park. Kids were excited and I really wanted to go on that tower roller coaster, I think it's called "The Screamer". Most of the time we stayed at the Camp Snoopy area just for the kids. Marivic, Christine and I were able to ride one adult ride, "Montezuma's Revenge". It was an old ride but still worth it.

T-Virg, Eric, Autin, Christine, Mel and Jacob had to go for the day, I think it was around 3:30 or so. The rest of us decided to go on the Rapid water ride, I think it was a 1-1/2 hour wait but I did promise the kids that we'd go on it. So we waited and waited for almost 45 minutes, we get half way to the end of the line and what do you know, the ride breaks down. We gave it 10 to 15 minutes to see if the ride will reopen. No luck at all, this is the second time this happened to me on the same ride. So we get out of the line and Marivic and the kids went off to Camp Snoopy again while Sung and I went for refreshments.

I really wanted to ride that Screamer but by the looks of it, I don't think it was running anymore. It was running earlier during the day, but for some reason it stopped. I told Marivic that it's a sign and I shouldn't take that ride, it never works when I'm here. That ride is the death of me, you'll hear it in our newsletter that Trece died of a heart attack while riding the Screamer. Ahh, I'm not superstitious.

Well, it was almost 6:00 and we wanted to head over to Roy's and Nida's to watch the Pacquiao vs. Diaz fight. Like Diaz said after the fight, that mother f***** is fast, Sh**!! That was too funny.

Anyway, hope all who joined us had fun. Maybe someday we can do an adult theme park day only. Woo-hoo!!

Sammantha's 9th Birthday Party

The picture you see was for Sammantha's birthday, we had a blast having most of the family at our apartment complex along with Sammy's friends from the complex. We played some fun games, plenty of food to eat and had a blast in the swimming pool.

Sammy loved all of the gifts she received from family and friends especially the gift she's been waiting for from Mom and Dad, Nintendo DS.

I'm glad everyone had fun and surprisingly everyone was on time, only a couple of Filipino time. hehe! Anyway, thank you all for coming to Sammy's birthday party; hope to see you all again next year when she turns 10.

Trece

INTRODUCTORY

So when was the last time we had a family get together like this? 1996? Over ten years already. Wow, what happened? Are we just too busy to be involved with family gatherings or reunions? Lets try to keep up people, seems the only time we're actually all together is when there's a death in the family. Pretty sad!

I'm trying to make something happen here, so why don't you? I work, I spend time with the family, keeping the family healthy, help out with cooking, clean the house, etc. etc. and still have time to put a little time to make this website. Make some time people, if I can do it so can you.

I think it'll be good for us so we can get updates on our family activities. We're not getting younger, we're getting older, eventually the number of siblings will start to depreciate and someday you'll regret it.

So, let's start gathering information on this website for everyone to share, I'll be the head Coordinator and a couple of assistants would help. Send me your events and what you want to say along with pictures. Hope you enjoy this website, I think it will be something we can all share in memory.

Trece