we are having a baby, we are so excited!

After long 6 years of trying, it finally happened for us, we are so excited, we couldnt believe it when we did a home pregnancy test and came back positive, we said this is impossible, we've never gotten pregnant naturally before, only through IVF and both miscarried. So we're like, this is not possible, we're not even trying anymore, we actually stop trying, we decided to forget all about trying for awhile and started going on holidays and stuff and then one morning i woke up and the first thing that came up to my mind is to do a pregnancy test (totally out of the blue!!) and i was about to chuck it out to bin because i am so used to seeing negative result, anyway as i'm about to do so, and then i saw from the corner of my eye; 2 lines, so i thought i must still be really sleepy as it was really early in the morning, so i looked at it again and it was indeed 2 lines, i immediately slap my face and splash it with a cold water (it's winter by the way:) so it was cold.. brrr...just to make sure i'm not dreaming or something, and then when the 2 lines didnt disappear, i bolted to our bedroom and jumped on Chad on the bed and i said: wake up, i think i am pregnant" and he said, what?? what are you talking about, how's that possible?? and then i dragged him to the bathroom and showed him the test and he later said, good!! at least we dont need to spend $10k for an IVF again and gave me a big hug and i started bawling my eyes out:) (tears of joy indeed) it's a miracle!! I know Heavenly knows the desires of our hearts, He knows each of us very well and He will give us what we want in His own time! and i know that this is a perfect time for us because, Chad's finishing school at the end this year and I'm due last week of January so it works out perfect:) So yeah this is our little story about our little miracle, we hope you enjoyed reading it! Below are our latest scan of the baby, everythingi s good and normal..

Excited and Counting down

It's 22 days exactly till we fly to America, we're so excited! especially me, this will be my first time to visit the US, well it's not the whole US but parts of it:) we can't wait, we're also very excited to catch up with some mission friends after 7 years, including our mission president and his wife if they have time to meet us of course..We hope to have a pleasant trip with no troubles....signing out for now!

Updates

i know, i know, it's been awhile..it's been almost a month i think since my last post so forgive me people for being slack :) Okay let me think what we did since then.. hmmm.. oh i know, my brother proposed to his Arizonian girlfriend and majority of the family decided to go to the wedding which will be held in AZ in July (i heard it's gonna be so hot!!!) hmm that would be interesting for me since i'm not used to dry heat:( i hope i wont die lol!, so Chad and I decided that since we're going to the wedding we might as well take 3 weeks holiday to see a little bit of US and catch up with our friends (mission friends etc..) we're so excited! what's even exciting is that we got our tickets cheap.. it's basically 1 ticket for 2 people awesome right?? hehehe.. so i guess that's the most exciting bit that we're looking forward to:) And oh the last couple weeks we have been sitting kids for 2 days and 2 nights.. two weeks ago we looked after Chad's sisters kids, consists of an 8 yr old, 6 yr old, 3 yr old and a 5 month old:) the 3 older girls stayed over for the night, it's interesting, fun and tiring!! absolutely:)but what's good about it is that we can return them to their parents after 2 days hehehe:) and last week end, we had 2 little girls stayed over all day Saturday/ Sat night and took them to church with us, they're 4 yr old and 3 yr old, they're not siblings, they are our friends kids:) they love staying at aunty Irene's place lol! but oh my they can be handfuls!:) but really it's a great learning experience for me and Chad:) we love it.. i think i've taken some photos of my sister inlaws kids..so i'll try to upload them here:)

Family camping - North Stradbroke Island

Last week, we went on a family camp for 3 days, the weather was fantastic, we we're a bit worried because the forecast was it was going to be rainy for 2 days out of 3 days we're at the camp. We enjoyed the beach, the walk, games etc! so here are few photos that i took!

Irene - Full pledged Australian citizen "I am, you are, we are Australian"

March 20, the same day we got back from Japan, I had to go pledge at Brisbane city hall to become an Aussie citizen along with 500 others, the ceremony was nice, lot's of family members and friends shared it with us! I really enjoyed it. Now that's all out of the way, I will now need to re-acquire my Filipino citizenship to become a dual citizen. Australia is a beautiful country/continent and i am so proud to be a part of it, not just saying this because i am now a citizen.. It really is a privilege to be a citizen of a free and a very multicultural country!!

Japan trip - March 2009

In November last year Chad and I bought plane tickets to Japan, as our 6 year anniversary treat, anyway it was cheap tickets:) and that's one reason why we bought those tickets, Japan's beautiful and expensive:) but we had heaps of fun! luckily we brought our own tourist guide:) (Heath - Chad's brother) who served his mission there, otherwise it would have been a little tough for me and Chad to figure things out. We went to Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, we caught up with our Japanese friends, sight see around Tokyo and went to Disneyland Tokyo, saw a few ancient temples in Kyoto and went to our friends sealing in the Tokyo temple.. and ate heaps of yummy Japanese food:)

a lot has happened since Chad's last blog

Well, we had our 6yrs anniversary in February, Chad and I went on a little getaway to the Sunshine Coast, where he took me Jet skiing for the very first time and i loved it a lot, in fact i nearly knock Chad off at the back seat, that's how much i love jet skiing hehehe, i went so fast (faster than chad yeah baby!!) that i forgot about him clinging behind me:) anyway here are some of the photos we took.

The Match That Almost Stopped Irene's Heart

well if you don't already know by now Irene is obsessed with Roger Federer or Fedex as she likes to call him by his nickname. anyways as you might know, he is currently playing in the Australian open in Melbourne and was playing his fourth round match today against Tomas Berdych from Czech just after church. because of Irene's obsession we decided to watch this match expecting Federer to blast past his opponent easily and get through to the next round. well that didn't happen at all, he started the game poorly and made alot or errors and lost the first 2 sets and looked like he would lose and get kicked out of the tournament. usually on sundays irene is reverent and quiet as a mouse, mellow and relaxed but today however she was so tense and uptight from watching her fave player get beat that she was screaming out loud through nearly every point and sreaming "C'MON!!". I threatened her at one point that if she didnt quiet down i would have to give her a time out and put her in the naughty corner :) to which she gave me a (ARE YOU KIDDING ME BUDDY LOOK). anyways after i explained to her that sunday wasnt over yet:) she settled down a little, but i think it was mainly due to the fact that roger Federer won the 3rd set and looked like he could come back. well as a true champion does, the Fedex came back to win the match in 5 sets which made irene one happy tennis loving filipino:) so in conclusion to my story while i am grateful that i have a wife that shares a love of sports as i do, i sometimes pretend that im not with her when we go to live events as she get right into it like those crazy people that paint themselves and shout out when nobody else does :) (embarrassing at times but also funny to watch)

Follow up on my annoying passport renewal

Twenty20 Cricket match Australia vs. South Africa

The Australian team (Wearing Yellow)

South Africans are in Green

The Picture on the left was Matthew Hayden, he just retired, he's one of my favourite batsman, he's one of the best of all time! The picture on the right is taken while the match is in progress.


Last night was awesome! we went to see the match (cricket) Australia VS South Africa, We won by 6 wickets and an over to spare (for those of you that doesn't know cricket, you might not be able to understand the Lingo) but basically, there's 10 wickets in a team ( a wicket represents a player) so when a batsman is out then that's a wicket lost for the team and in cricket there's 6 balls in an over, 1 bowler bowls 6 balls and then change the bowler and he will bowl 6 balls for his turn they keep doing this until they get someone out and a batsman can be out in different ways, I guess its much easier to understand when youre actually watching the game, anyway i don't really want to bore you with cricket stuff..so here are some pictures we took from the match!