The Murphys are Here!!!

On Wednesday, the Murphys drove over from Cebu in order to join in all the craziness!! We met around lunchtime at a local water park/resort and all spent the afternoon together.

The Grill Master!

Ben "surfing" on the bench

BFFs!

Mr. Universe Contest

Aunt Jen bought matching shorts for these guys. Cool!!

Jesse, once again showing his true self! LOL

Captain Jamin

Taking it easy

This resort has two huge water slides - several stories high! The kids had a blast making a train and coming down together. (Can we say ER waiting to happen??)

Maybe Zach has a future as a lifeguard?

Somehow in all the chaos, Jen found a quiet moment.

The sunken pirate ship

The kids loved swimming around in the sunken ship.

Hey...who's that big kid in there??

The kids and dads played a rousing game of "freeze tag" in the kiddie pool.



Ben opted for another cupcake!

***A special thanks to my 2 dear friends, Jen and Connie. Most of these pictures were taken by them. They both are very talented photographers with awesome cameras, so I am basically bumming off them! Thanks you two!

Bowling with the Hagens

Make a Smilebox scrap pages

The Hagens are Here!!!

One of the most difficult things our family has ever had to do was to say goodbye to the Hagen family last April when we left Legazpi to move to Bacolod. Steve, Jen, Mikayla, Zach and Ben have become some of our closest friends and we were thrilled when plans worked out for them to spend the week of Thanksgiving with us in our new home. The Hagen crew arrived in Bacolod Monday afternoon, and, with the exception of the arrival of grandparents, I have never seen Carly and Caleb more excited and anxious for a plane to get on the ground!!

Carly and Mikayla show off their finished product!

Since this was the Hagens' first time in Bacolod, we HAD to introduce them to Bacolod Chicken!!

Waiting on the chicken


After lunch, we all went bowling. We all made quite the fashion statement with our bowling shoes!!

A few more bowling pics....

Smile Ben!

I think this was some sort of victory dance??!!

When all was said and done, Mom and Caleb tied for first place with a score of 117! Woohoo. (Yes, it was a bumper lane.)