WE LOVE THIS FAMILY.

Like, we wish we’re part of it, literally.

My husband, Erick, went to church at Faith Alliance Bible Church (FABC) with both Jason and Pola. Erick and Jason had so much history together. Jason’s parents are actually our Ninong and Ninang (Sponsors) at our wedding. Although they both went separate ways, they managed to reconnect throughout the years. Their family moved to Arizona a few years back. We’ve been talking about visiting them for quite some time now. We were due to go to Las Vegas for one of our bestfriend’s wedding and we thought, why not stop by Arizona and visit for a couple of days beforehand? What an awesome decision it was to do so!

First of all, what a beautiful house they built there. Their house is like a Homegoods model house or something. LOL! I can write an entirely separate blog post but that would be like me acting as a realtor trying to sell their house. Haha! We stayed with them for a couple of nights. Jason cooked my favorite Filipino chicken stew, Tinolang Manok. They took us to model houses around the area, pretty much convincing us to move there sooner rather than later. They took us hiking. We got ramen on a hot day but finished up with a huge bowl of bingsu! We met their super fun neighbors on our last night when they turned their house into a mini-dance club. There was so much to do in a span of 2 days! I’m so glad we were able to squeeze in this family session!

As you can already tell from the photo, we had SO MUCH FUN during this photoshoot. We went to San Tan Regional Park and it was gorgeous! The kids, Caitlyn, Caleb and Cailey, were all so easy to work with too. This family followed all my prompts without hesitation. It helps that Jason has amazing sense of humor so it was easy to get genuine laughter from everyone. I’m pretty sure I was laughing so hard too.

Thank you again Manguba family for hosting us and posing for us! We cannot wait to visit again! And this time, instead of a baby bump, it will be with our little one that’s most likely going to be running around your house and jumping into your pool! Let’s also take another trip to “Cobalt” (inside joke). Erick really likes that place A LOT!