Off to Cebu We Go and a TOOT!

Finally, we are off to Cebu. We have been planning this trip since a few months back, but somehow, it's always been delayed for some reason or the other. Since Boydee, Bang and Bric will be going to Cebu this week (Bang and Bric have their flight at 1 pm later, ours is at 540 pm), we figured we might as well be a complete family there, too :)

And so, over a couple of days planning and feverishly hunting down good deals on airfare, we are set. For some strange reason, the travel agents could not get us a confirmation for the Shangri La Hotel; so just for the heck of it, I tried their website....and got 3 rooms! Weird, but at least we got the hotel that Mom and Dad wanted. We will also be staying at Bang's beach house at Mactan, where we've stayed before.

A trip with our family wouldn't be complete without some last minute things. Classic one was today....I HAD to make a fast trip to the mall to The Body Shop. I had to get some sugaring/waxing solution for my legs and underarms! Hehehe. Couldn't go to the beach being unshaven now, could we?!?

{TOOT!}

I forgot to upload this layout on the 14th, but it did get chosen as a Layout Pick of the Day at 3Scrapateers! :)

DIVA
Raegan playing dress up with a gown, wig, and tiara.

Credits: kit - Color Me Funky by Kate Hadfield and Gina Miller; buttons - Twinks by Gina Miller; paint smears - by Amy Cheeseman; tiara - Le Chapeau Rouge by Rina Kroes and Kimmi Stewart; alpha - Love Is Stamped Alpha by Kara Fredricks; folded template - by Karah Fredricks; font - KGD Brandi; For the Hodge Podge Challenge.

{RAKS Newsletter LOs}

Here are a couple of layouts that were in the RAKScraps Newsletter:

ISLAND KIDS
Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson reads:
How do you like to go up in a swing? Up in the air so blue? Oh, I think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!

Credits: kit - Doo Wop by Cindy Simon at ndisb; sun - by Bethany; font - DB Pastor Dave, SBC Noodle; layered sketch - A Little Eclectic 6 by Janet Phillips

MACAU: JORGE ALVARES
Statue of the European explorer who "found" Macau.

Journaling reads: The name "Macau" is thought to be derived from the Templo de A-Má, a still-existing landmark built in 1448 dedicated to the goddess Matsu. When Jorge Alvares and the Portuguese arrived, they landed on the peninsula opposite the temple; locals told them that they were in the bay of the goddess A-Ma (ah-mah gaw in Chinese), and the Portuguese effort to say those Chinese words became the name of the city: Ma Cau.

Credits: kit - Peace Love and Happiness by Erika Teney at Timeless Memories; fonts - Chowmein, Arial Narrow, LD Slender; layered sketch - by Johanna Berry

{DST Newsletter LO}

This layout was in the DST Newsletter this month. Since Eve Recinella was the featured designer and Gold Members and diamond Members got an exclusive kit from her, and since I am a CT member of Eve, we got to play with her cool kit a month before it was released! :)

CLOWN FACE
This picture of Raegan clowing around (sorry for the pun, hehehe) always cracks me up!

Journaling reads: You put on this CLOWN FACE, struck a pose, and called, “Hi Mama!”.

Credits: kit - Frolicsome, an April DST exlusive kit by Eve Recinella; folded corner action - by Jen Caputo; bend it photo template - by Debbie Knorr; fonts - KGD Angela, Rusted Plastic

Ok. Off to pack. Really! :)

TTFN!