Busy Bear

I noticed that I only had 1 blog post in February, that's how busy I was on that month. This time,  I have the leisure of spending some ME time on the web and I would want blogging to get a piece of it. While my 2 boys are snoring their lungs out in different styles and pitch, and I, watching a thriller movie "I Still know what you did last summer", I thought why not document the reason why I was so busy the past days. 

My whole family is going to spend their vacation here in March, April and May. That's how long they're gonna enjoy their stay in our HOME . It's going to be so dramatic and exciting, because the last time we were complete was during my wedding in 2006. And after 4 years, we will be united again in one roof added with 3 new members of the family.  

Since the time I learned the plans, I did not waste a single day to prepare their homecoming especially the preparation for my niece's birthday in April. My brother wants it to be so special because it's his princess' 1st birthday. I did researches and coordination with the chosen suppliers, this is why I had no time with my stuff on the web, I don't even had the chance to do Facebooking specifically playing my Cafe world. The plan for my niece's birthday is a swimming party with tinkerbell foreground theme, so girly. I'm not yet over with the preparations but at least I'm proud of myself that I have accomplished more than half of what should be done for the party. Aside from party planning, my hubby and I had to rearrange and do reforms in the house for there are 8 people that will share our little abode. We call it a challenge. We had to transfer our things to our relative's house just to vacate some spaces in the house. I'm imagining the riot and how the house will look like when they get here, it's going to be  loads of fun and that's for sure. I just hope that I could share our bonding moments and outings by then, well, that is -- If I have the time. 

Every time I think of my family's homecoming, I smile like a teen having a glimpse of his high school crush. I just can't hide how excited and happy I am to see them once again. I just missed them soooo much! I've been praying for this to happen. And now, it's definitely going to happen.  I always believe that prayer is a very powerful  communication with God. And wishes will come to pass in God's time, only in His time. 

Enchanted trip

Last January 30th, we were able to push through our plan to celebrate my hubby's birthday at the Enchanted Kingdom. It's was a post celebration, indeed,  but that did not matter. It was also so timely that my son kept on asking us to go to the Disneyland in the past few days. We always tell him that it might happen in time but not too soon. Of course, we have to consider the expenditures. Aside from that, since he's only about 3 years old, he might not remember the good times he may experience in Disneyland. Maybe at least when he's 5 years old already, he'll truly enjoy, remember and do "show and tell" the fun that he'll go through by then. 

Before we head to Enchanted Kingdom, we heard mass to say our thanksgiving prayers. Then we visited our soon to be new abode in Carmona, Cavite. We checked the house construction and it's not even 5% constructed yet. But , at any rate, we saw progress from the equity we are paying since last year. After the house visitation,we had our lunch in Mcdonald's.

At about 3pm, we've finally arrived on the Wizard's castle (as what my son called it). Expectedly, mass visitors during weekends.But we were able to get in after 15 minutes of lining up for the tickets. 

We had no chance to take our family picture with the Wizard's Statue, aside from there were so many people waiting for their turns, we had no one to do it for us.

Here are some of the highlights in the park:

After the Fireworks presentation, we decided to go home. Then when we were about to take the last picture inside the park, someone approached us and asked: " Do you want me to take a picture of your family?", and of course I answered her without hesitation, and said : " I was actually looking for someone to take a picture of us". She was so kind and God-sent, we thought that we wouldn't had the luck to have our family picture inside, and here it is:

And as always, long trips are very tiring but you tend to overcome it when you spend it with your loved ones and seeing them happy paved away all the  pain and stress of long trips. 

New member

April 04, 2010 was not just an easter celebration for the family. We also took advantage of that day to give feast to Kyle's pre-birthday celebration with some of our relatives and friends. As I have mentioned in my previous blog entitled "Holy week",  Easter is bigger than Christmas in the church calendar because on this holiday, Jesus died to save the mankind from all earthly sins and rose from the death to proclaim that love is powerful over hatred. 

After hearing the mass at Christ the King Parish in Quezon City, we went straight to Eastwood city to have a simple lunch in Blu Fish restaurant. Here are some of the glimpses of the mini gathering: 

  

Their paella was so good for it's price.

and here's our group picture

After getting a bulging stomach from that lunch, we planned to continue the celebration at Mama Bels' place in Pasig city. 

After that long day, my family was surprised because there's more to celebrate. I received a call from my brother, who is living in Hawaii, asking about the "waterbag broken" thing. He told me that his wife continuously giving off water with a little blood from her "womanity". I gave advices and little description based on what I've experienced before when I gave birth to Kyle. And so, they immediately went to the hospital to have it checked and that was it! their baby was about to be delivered. 

Baby Nadine was welcomed on earth on Easter sunday. It was surely a very precious gift of God to our family.  A new member of the family was born.  Although Christmas has always been traditionally celebrated by the family than Easter , this year's easter was a very memorable and worth celebrating to us.