THANK YOU LORD

Thank you Lord for Thy loving kindness
For Thy guidance and light
For Thy intercession and direction
Of which without YOU
I wouldn't be what I am now...

Thank you Lord for loving me
For taking care of me every second
With or without difficulties
You are there ...
With or without questions
You give me answers
Of which without YOU
I wouldn't be what I am now...

Thank you Lord for all the good times,
as well as the bad times
For without knowing them
I wouldn't be the way I am now ....

Thank you Lord for everything
that happened to me
For my family and friends
For the people around me
who have touched my life
and who have made the difference ....

Thank you Lord for everything
I praise Thee and continuously pray
for happiness and success
to always come my way.

I also pray for everyone
That their lives be filled
with so much love and care
learn to give and forgive
For loving, giving, forgiving
the peaks of love in action.

Minnette, Sept. 13, 2008

13th of September 2008

PRIYA & BUNNY

Priya is the youngest child of Ohmar & Portia. They flew to the U.S. last August 12 to visit us and attend Marju's wedding in Minnesota. It has been one month and this morning ( 1:15 AM ) as I am composing this, the family is on a jetplane flying back to the Philippines. It will be a 15 hour trip. By afternoon at around 2:00PM ( Las Vegas time ) the family would be home in Makati City where they reside.

I called them last night in Sta. Monica, CA ( Ohskar lives there )and Portia was telling me that Priya would be hand carrying her doll, Bunny. Bunny sings when you press her hand. Priya had learned the song, a love song, from the time Roger, my boyfriend gave it to her. That doll was special because Roger gave that to me last Easter, and consented to give it to Priya. She is a cutie and a very smart kid. I know deep in my heart that she had enjoyed her trip to the US with her Mom and Dad. What a lucky girl!! I LOVE YOU ALL! THANK GOD FOR ALL OUR BLESSINGS AND LOVE. PEACE!

The Family in Action

Family Wedding Picture

Wedding Pictures of Marie & Ryan

The Wedding of Ryan & Marie

A new life begins as my only daughter, Marie weds Ryan Anderson of Proctor, MN.
They had been classmates since Ninth Grade at Proctor High School and had been the sweetest best friends ever.

Presently, Ryan is a Manager of McDonald's in Cloquet, MN while Marie works for United Health Care in Duluth, MN as its Membership Recruitment Specialist.

The couple has bought Ryan parent's house where he grew up. That house would be their permanent residence. The wedding took place last August 15, 2008 at the Enger Tower Park in Duluth, MN attended by family and friends.

We wish Ryan & Marie success and happiness as they embark this new chapter of their lives together. God bless!

A New Chapter

A NEW CHAPTER

The book is getting full
Halfway to the sky
The memories that last
Good, bad, ugly and best.

The masterpiece haven't been drawn
Not sketched, neither been designed
It will take almost a lifetime
For the best is yet to come.

Life is a constant struggle
A game I have enjoyed to play
Winning is always a yearning
Losing is learning after all.

A new chapter is soon approaching
Another door is on the way
Knowledge, wisdom and all life's treasures
Are soon to color the world and mine.

Loving is a Game

LIVING IS A GAME

Loving, giving, living, sharing
Is all but a game to everyone
Developing, improving, enhancing
Methods and means people get by.

Does everybody really care changing
For the better or for the best
Does everybody need to enrich
The lives they know is the finest.

The game of life is such a passion
To anyone who works for perfection
Loving life, living life's a mission
To all alive who put other things aside.

Loving, living, giving, sharing
Breathing in and out around life
Hugging, kissing, mooching, caring
Life is good, a game to boot.

First Morning

The First Morning

The wind's blowing, the leaves swaying
My head's turning, my hair's flipping
The wind beneath me like wings supporting
Love conquered all the nature's bounty
Love did but not me!

Open wide spaces along the trail I took
Birch trees with silver linings
I knew had been an open book
Century old pines along the lake they took
The treasures embedded,"Oh my,what a spook!"

Graceful antelopes on the meadows
Roamed around with dusky shadows
Beautiful, wonderful sight I saw
It brought so much hope in me.

First morning seemed like yesterday
Thoughts of life once more remembered
Loving him was stalking my morrow
I realized I loved him so.

As I laid my eyes the first morning
And thought about the life we've shared
Loving him was what I've wanted
End of time: bit to dust!