The Family....Part 1

Now that i have featured each member of my immediate family, it's time to meet the Family....in pictures.....(Note: persons not recognizable in the following photos were our household helper or the boys' nanny at that time.)

at Luneta Park, 1957

at the beach, 1959 (big tummies, eh?)

at home in Quezon City, Rizal Day (Dec. 30) 1960....these were the first colored photos of the family....a professional photographer had to go to our home to take these pictures.

(Note how Kuya took this photo shoot very, very seriously!!! hehehehehe)

at Luneta Park, 1969 (Note the way we posed in the upper photo....Mommy taught us well how to pose, especially the placement of the feet....a la Miss Universe! hehehehe)

at Tagaytay (with the Taal Volcano in the background), 1986

I have just realized....we have very few photos in which the family was whole....even before Mabelle was born and even after the advent of instamatic and digital cameras.....and even then, they were very far apart! I guess part of the reason was when we had our own camera, one of us was the photographer and invariably, Diko was always the one taking our pictures.