I am TARDY...

Ok- so I have been receiving a little hate-mail ...can't a girl catch a break?

You had better hold on to your hats ladies and gents because here comes some SUPER blogging!

Ok- so no pics to go with this one - as our life has been relatively uneventful lately. However we will be posting mega blogs in about 3 weeks as we are going to be getting very busy very quickly. See if you can keep up...

Thursday 10/18 - Jon & Keele fly to Phoenix to see some friends
Saturday 10/20 - Jon flies back to San Jose
Saturday 10/20 - Keele flies to Berlin Germany for work
Friday 10/26 (am) - Keele returns to San Jose
Friday 10/26 (pm) - Jon and Keele Fly to Cancun Mexico (their newly purchased villa) to spend a week with good friends Scanlons (less avery - boo hoo)
Sunday 11/03 - Jon and Keele fly back to San Jose
Friday 11/09 - Jon and Keele fly to Vegas to attend an air show with the whole WHITE clan.
Sunday 11/11 - Jon and Keele fly back to San Jose
Thursday 11/15 - Jon and Keele Fly to Phoenix again ..
Sunday 11/18 - Jon and Keele Fly back to San Jose
Monday 11/19 - we BREATHE - life is somewhat back to normal!...and we blog!!! :)

So as you can see, we will have a ton of blogging to do and lots of great pics! So hold on - the adventure is about to begin.

Manila

It has been almost a year since I was in Manila. Last December I spent almost a month in the Philipines helping to ramp up our site in Manila. I came across a few photos that I had taken.

I did not get to travel much since our hours were 7pm to 6am and I slept through most of the day. BUT - for the first week I could not sleep during the day because my restless spirit wanted to travel around and discover the city and country. Here are a few fun photo's of people more than the country.

This is a picture of some of the crew at the site. I think this was a pizza treat I paid for at 1am in the morning. Whew... those were some long nights. Pizza was not so good!

This is a picture (left to right) Kimberlee, me and Michele - we were all there together training the team. We would cram into the back of the cabs - these cabs were the size of a 1980's focus - teenie...and no air conditioning. To the left which you cannot see - is ROB crammed with all of us ladies. It was hilarious to see us peel ourselves out of our contorted positions.

This is a really cool pic I took of the US Military Cemetary that is in the middle of the city. There is a HUGE American flag that is behind where I was taking this photo. It was such a humbling experience being here - so peaceful. I really felt overwhelmed with a sense of pride for my country and all that we have done to aide others in need.

This is a tasty filipino treat that the folks brought in for me. It is basically an almost hatched chick that you are supposed to just munch down (feathers and all). This is the equivalent of cavier to the filipino people. I was talking a big game when they said that they would bring it in for me to try. This is as close as I could get. I think the smell that I experienced during this picture made me gag - I have such a weak stomach.

This is Sue Villaflor who was one of the supervisors in the management team that I trained. She and I really connected and we still keep in touch today. She was the best shopper and tour guide. She took us all over - we would leave the office at 6am or so, go back to our hotel, change and hit the town. This is a picture of us at the Polo Club for the Christmas party.

These are the guys at the sushi bar in our hotel. After 3 dinners there (very expensive) they let me bust my moves behind the grill. As you can see I was really tearing it up. The chef to the right loaned me his awesome hat - right on! Fried rice anyone?

Last but not least her is a picture of me finding the perfect "hot" ROLEX for Jonathan in the market. We spent many days here - I think I must have spent 500$ on fresh water pearls - they knew me by name in this market. Needless to say every girl I knew got pearls for Christmas. Jonathan got a Rolex and a hard Rock T-shirt from my trip.

The experience was amazing - if I can find more pics I can add them - but I had to share these since I had found them. Sue and Erik - bakla loves you...MUAH MUAH!

Ready...OKAY!

Another donation from "PACE"...I could not help myself - these girls are just too cute and with Lisa Allred who now has 3 kids (I think)! Wow...not little girls anymore!

Little Girls

Ok - so now I am really gonna hear it. I am already getting pleadings for "better" pictures to be posted - but that is the beauty of this being OUR blog! Anything can go! :) I am sure there will be redemption once the girls are blogging and we all know that there are some nice skeletons in my closet - especially when it comes to fashion.

So this pic was donated by a dear friend (thanks PACE!) who pulled it out of her "Best of the White's" archive. I think I was on my mission during this time period-my guess would be that this is Easter 1993.

Anyway - if you look close you will see that they have not changed at all!

Take note - the pizza shag carpet was most excellent!

keeping up with the WHITE girls

Here are a few pics that we found from this year and thought we would post them just so you can see how much the girls have grown up. (Sorry sisters - we had to do it!) We have had many peeps out there asking to see some extra pics of them - so here you are! Man this makes me feel sooooo OLD!

Here is Alicia a.k.a "Capish" (now Moeller) with her hubby Brett. They live in Tucson Arizona. Alicia is an RN and works in the NICU - and Brett is in his last year at the UofA and has recently applied all over the U.S. for Dental School. We hope they end up in Cali! Hopefully UCLA! :)

A cute pic of Angela a.k.a. "Angus" (funny since she does not eat meat!) and her main man Joe-y! Joey is a TRUE blue Jersey boy that has since been converted to the WEST and will probably NEVER go back (we hope)!! Angela and Joey moved to Tucson from Philly about 6 months ago and we are all so happy they are back HOME! (check out the ring....shhhhhhh!)

and ... the SMASHLEY a.k.a. "Goose" (actually does she even have a real name?) with her main SQUEEZE Troy! Goose is a junior @ ASU (a shout out from JON!!) and is hilarious. (she is going to kill us for this). Between her and dad we can't stop laughing - they should have a stand-up routine together.

Anyway - just a few recent pics for you to take a gander at! It is strange to see them all grown up - it seems just yesterday they were running around in pig tails! We love them all so much!

Revenge is coming...

Just trying to have a friendly chat via SKYPE with the family...Sweet brother Brett do you think you can get away with this?