Lucky Number 7

Hello Mama,

Your family is at it again for the 7th year in a row!  We are ready to continue the fight against Alzheimer's!  The Memory Walk in Los Angeles will be on Sunday, November 2nd.   Details can be found by clicking on this link:   Team Mama 2014.

				Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's The Alzheimer's Association Walk to End Alzheimer's is the world's largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer's care, support and research.
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We have less than 2 weeks so we will encourage our family and friends to sign up, donate and spread the word!

Missing you dearly,

The Dizon Family

Missing You Always

We know you are watching over us, but please know that knowing this... only makes us miss you more.

Love you with all that we have in us to love,

Your Family

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Nudging Forward

Today is my Papa's 24th year of rest.  I was only 10 when he passed and his was the first funeral I ever attended. Although I was young and recall running around after much younger kids to keep them busy on this sad day...I still remember my titas, my mom and dad, and especially my belated Mama's reaction. 

 

I was guiding Mama into the room. She was dressed all in black (a color she wore for one full year that it became her color of choice). While walking her up to the entrance, she stopped, looked over to her husband lying in what seemed like his sleep and placed both of her hands over her face. Then she whispered in Tagalog, "What am I going to do now?" (This sentence resonates with me since it was also the same line my sissy said when my brother passed away a year ago). 

 

I held Mama's arm, nudged her forward, very slowly and said nothing (just like I did with my sissy). To me, this question never needs a response. All I knew was I had to be there for them to say goodbye and so that I can say goodbye too.

In Remembrance,

Myrnelle

 

NAFCON Sends Help to Philippines!

Hello Mama and Papa,

Just sharing important information with you and all who follow our posts on our continuous efforts to help the Philippines.

The National Alliance for Filipino Concerns (NAFCON) will assist in the direct transfer of monetary donations for people interested in making a financial contribution to help the victims of Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda ...in the Philippines. Donations will be sent directly to the Bayanihan Alay sa Sambayanan or BALSA (People's Cooperation for the People).

• Online donations can be made through http://www.nafconusa.org/.
• For qualifying tax-deductible donations, make checks payable to "St. George Fontana," and on the memo line write: "NAFCON Bayanihan Relief." Mail to 17895 San Bernardino Ave. Fontana, CA 92335-6155 c/o Naida Castro. Please include your return address with your donation and email trea@nafconusa.org for necessary documentation.

Please share! 

 

Thank you.

 

The Dizon Family

Image courtesy of:  http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/typhoon-haiyan-spurs-filipino-canadians-to-action-1.2421724

Thank You Team Mama & Sponsors of 2013!

 

Dearest Mama,

 

This year marks our 6th year in a row supporting the Alzheimer's Association for Memory Walk 2013!  We wore our purple with pride, raising $870, recruiting 35 members and reaching 73% of our team goal!  We will keep at it for as long as we can in hopes to find a cure and help others cherish their memories forever!

 

With Strength & Love,

 

The Dizon Fam Bam

 

http://act.alz.org/site/TR?team_id=173943&fr_id=3262&pg=team

 

TEAM MAMA 2013: Maribelle "Bea" Dizon Wigginton (Team Captain) Joseph "Joe Bean" Wigginton Froy & Maria Dizon Leonard, Michelle & Amaya Ayau Richard Gomez & Myrnelle Dizon
Kelli Bindernagel*
Connie, Jon, & Nina Aves Thelma Mangahas Fred & Bott Santiago Anthony & Marc Dizon
Neil Aves & Aurora Dominguez* Krys & Alyssa Strong Alan & Jordan Strong* Teresita Tabora Florence Lopez Aurora Almario Ernie Morales Maria Querido Joy Roque Fernin Rosatllo Bert & Rose Yambot Matthew & Mitchell Maliglig * = Virtual Members       SPONSORS: Mrs. Maribelle Dizon Wigginton Froy & Maria Dizon Leonard & Michelle Ayau   Richard Gomez & Myrnelle Dizon Anthony Dizon   Chica Connie Dizon   Florence Lopez Fugi Rok   Thelma Mangahas Neil & Aurora   Ting Araneta Aurora Almario   Cash Donations Los Angeles & to those who chose to donate anonymously

We Are The World for Philippines.

 

Dearest Mama and Papa,

 

It has been a rough year for the people back in our homeland of the Philippines.   

 

Typhoon Haiyan (known in the Philippines as Typhoon Yolanda) is the second-deadliest Philippine Typhoon on record, killing at least 3,976 people in that country alone.  The thirtieth named storm of the 2013 Pacific Typhoon season, Haiyan originated from an area of low pressure several hundred kilometers east-southeast of Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia on November 2. Tracking generally westward, environmental conditions favored tropical cyclogenesis and the system developed into a tropical depression the following day. After becoming a tropical storm and attaining the name Haiyan at 0000 UTC on November 4, the system began a period of rapid intensification that brought it to typhoon intensity by 1800 UTC on November 5. By November 6, the Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) assessed the system as a Category 5-equivalent super typhoon on the Saffir-Simpson hurricane wind scale; the storm passed over the island of Kayangel in Palau shortly after attaining this strength.

Thereafter, it continued to intensify; at 1200 UTC on November 7, the Japan Meteorological Agency(JMA) upgraded the storm's maximum ten-minute sustained winds to 235 km/h (145 mph), the highest in relation to the cyclone. At 1800 UTC, the JTWC estimated the system's one-minute sustained winds to 315 km/h (195 mph), unofficially making Haiyan the fourth most intense tropical cyclone ever observed. Several hours later, the eye of the cyclone made its first landfall in the Philippines at Guiuan, Eastern Samar, without any change in intensity; if verified, this would make Haiyan the strongest tropical cyclone to make a landfall on record, surpassing the old record of 305 km/h (190 mph) set by Atlantic Hurricane Camille in 1969.  Gradually weakening, the storm made five additional landfalls in the country before emerging over the South China Sea. Turning northwestward, the typhoon eventually struck northern Vietnam as a severe tropical storm on November 10. Haiyan was last noted as a tropical depression by the JMA the following day.
The cyclone caused catastrophic destruction in the central Philippines, particularly on Samar Island and Leyte. According to UN officials, about 11 million people have been affected and many have been left homeless. 

For more info, please click on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon Haiyan.

As a result of this natural disaster, people all over the world are coming together to send packages (Balikbayan boxes) and aid to the Philippines.  Your family has been donating as well, collecting items like clothes/shoes (especially for children), blankets, towels, and canned goods.  We are asking everyone and anyone who can help to do their part and people are responding with extreme generosity. 

Some of us are working with LBC Express Inc. (http://www.lbcexpress.com/) since they are shipping items to the Philippine Red Cross(http://www.redcross.org.ph/) for FREE from now until Nov. 23rd.  This information has been posted everywhere and sent via email to several contacts so people know where to go to send help.  More information will follow and we will utilize your blog to help spread the word.

"We help because we can...because it's what we do when someone needs help." Mabuhay!

 

We love and miss you both!

The Dizon Family
 

Adorn Your Story

So I can't believe we're already into October! Fall is here and today just happens to be amazing boots/sweater/scarf weather and I'm SO ready! But you know what it means when October rolls around... the holidays are just around the corner... and so the madness begins :).

Most of you know that I've been a full-time stay-at-home-mama for a while now. But what you may not know is that I've got a little side business to help support my wonderful family :) {you do what you gotta do when you have 25 kids & counting lol} I recently started as an Independent Designer with a custom jewelry company called Origami Owl... it's custom because you create a personalized locket by choosing all the charms and other pizazz items to represent you or the person you're creating it for.

So, with the holidays around the corner, here's an FYI about my website in case you were interested in making a custom creation to take care of some of the ladies on your gift lists. {By the way, in case you were wondering - I don't make the products, I just sell them. :)} We just rolled out our new Fall line this week so we've got a bunch of new, very lovely items available :) I've included some pics of ideas for the lockets, but i think the beauty and fun is in creating one that is unique, personalized and from the heart.

here's my site :) adornyourstory.origamiowl.com

and if you have any questions or you want to see some of the jewelry in person, feel free to email me :)

love&blessings,

erin

{email} adornyourstory@gmail.com