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Sunday, October 28, 2007

thankful...

i am thankful:

...that even though my mom and her cousin got into a traumatic car accident, they are both safe and home. no major injuries, which is really good considering what happened.

...for my friends and family who respond to my texts with prayers for my family.

...even though i’m hurting inside because i know that it can only get better.

...for my friends who’ll sit in a room with me not saying anything, not only cuz they know that i need company right now, but because they like to spend time with me too.

...to God for taking care of my family, and to my family for getting together for a “thanksgiving” worship -after- an accident. my mom’s family really has a great support group.

...just because.

tomorrow will be a better day. it just has to be.

Posted by kgrp on 10/28 at 10:01 PM
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Sunday, June 17, 2007

congratulations, taylor!

so taylor graduated from san gabriel academy about 2 weeks ago but they had the family party last night in glendale, and that was a lot of fun seeing family out there =)

she had the chocolate dipped fortune cookies from panda inn, where she works. and my mom is just very silly and used her foil as a grill…

jordan and d’mitri don’t really know who i am, so they were suspect of me taking this picture of them. i like it cuz mom’s in the background and great-grandma is also watching over them!

andrew stayed outside with the younger kids and connor was climbing all over him (while jordan -still- wouldn’t smile for me)

my brother and josh, our first (therefore oldest) nephew.

me and taylor. congratulations to you!! you are going to have SO MUCH FUN at puc =)

Posted by kgrp on 06/17 at 01:34 PM
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Monday, February 26, 2007

hot air ballooning for my mommy's 60th birthday

the one request my mom had for her 60th birthday was that she wanted to go hot air ballooning. so our family went to temecula and had alotta fun shooting up in the air in the balloon and skimming the terrain when we were flying low.

right after we landed my brother hopped out with my cell phone and took this picture of us =)

and while i was standing in the basket this is the view of the balloon i had right above me! btw, cell phone cameras rock!

Posted by kgrp on 02/26 at 12:57 PM
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Thursday, December 28, 2006

christmas in maui

i did say that my family went to maui for Christmas, right?

well, yesterday, my brother, andy, and i took kealani and kainoa up to kapalua bay to frolick in the waves…

we stopped by the side of the road and saw whales in the water. you can’t see em in this picture but this was our view of the beach that we ended up at. it’s the beach for the ritz-carlton, the one that will host the mercedes benz golf tourney on jan 1

walking thru the jungle trying to find a beach

and arriving at kapalua bay

you can’t really tell in this pic but the waves were huge!

see… they were huge! and yes… that IS what i looked like… and kainoa too! hahah…

my brother trying to be superman:

grabbing dinner at the bj’s pizzeria in lahaina

so plum tuckered out by the ride home!

Posted by kgrp on 12/28 at 07:43 AM
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

the puen family Christmas

for Christmas this year my uncle roy decided to come to his vacation house here in maui, and he brought my grandma with him. my cousin mark (uncle herbert’s son) already lives here about 10 minutes away, and their family came out too. my dad and mom couldn’t make it but my brother, andy, and i came to join the puen family Christmas here in maui. =)

so here are my cousins and nieces and nephews surrounding my grandma outside cafe o’lei in kihei, maui

my brother and i just met our aunt jenny and her daughter carla

but the real star of this Christmas is my 93-year-old grandma jessie

here she is with most of her great grandchildren (kealani is missing from this picture, but you can see ryan, kainoa (who’s hugging her), kaili, and megan)

Posted by kgrp on 12/27 at 01:35 AM
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006

some pics of the family mini reunion

83 relatives showed up to the “mini” banaag reunion at uncle benny’s house in yucaipa a few sundays ago… i finally was able to take the pics off my camera, so here are a few:

perry holding jared (ate kris’s kid)

generation 2 - lola emilia’s kids - granda enchong is the oldest one alive (i think he’s the 3rd son or so...) and he’s about 93 or 94. then comes gma luisa, gma pacing, and gpa osing (and his wife)

i don’t have a good all-inclusive pic of my mom’s generation… so moving on…

generation 4 - at least those of us who were early enough to take this pic! a whole bunch showed up later

generation 5 - not too many of the next generation showed up but they ran around with a ton of energy!

ahhh… the shoes… can you tell this is a filipino gathering? =)

Posted by kgrp on 11/15 at 12:06 AM
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Monday, October 02, 2006

and some more family pictures

some more pictures we took on our sunday “hike” - it really was more of a photo shoot than any type of hike.... anyways, you can click on the pics for larger versions…

the whole family