February 24, 2008

The very first weekend after my Mom arrived in Austin for a vacation with us, we drove off to Dallas for some R & R. On 29 December, Saturday, we spent a few hours at the Dallas Arboretum. There’s no better way to relax than to be one with nature (and maybe learn a thing or two about ecology at the same time?). Plus, I kinda had a hidden agenda…I wanted to play with my new toy, and take pictures of flowers. Hee hee!

As luck would have it, there weren’t too many flowers to take pictures of because it’s, er, winter. My bad. You can’t really blame me for not knowing these things because I was born and raised in the Philippines, a tropical country (Excuses, excuses!). All was not last though. In the absence of more gorgeous flora, I was able to focus more on my loved ones and some of my favorite pics, were those I took of my Mom and Abby. So, without further I ado, I present to you a series of photos of the two women in my life having a conversation in the park and which I am aptly calling: Madonna and Granchild.

I have many more photos of Abby and her Mimi, which will surely find their way to this site soon.

Note: This is my first entry to Weekend Snapshot. You can check-out other entries here.

I only had to accompany my daughter, Abby, to her class’ Valentine’s Day party and the hunt was over. I was suddenly transported to a very “hearty” environment.  Hee hee!  Hearts were everywhere!

hearts on a loot bag, which Abby decorated herself – How many do you see?

hearts on a party plate

hearts on the door – (Sorry for the pixelated image!)

hearts on a heart-shaped box (One of the many treats that Abby got.)

This is one of my three entries to Toni’s “A Show of Heart Blog Carnival”. Be my guest and check out my other entries here and here.