HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Hello friends, hope you all had a blessed 2007…

Let me just tell you how our Christmas went … as you can see in the picture – my dad was not with us. He had to go to California (last minute) due to family emergency. His younger brother was in the hospital (fighting colon cancer). We told him that he should go and be with his brother because he needed him most. Please include my Uncle Noel in your prayers.

24th - was crazy, stressing, sad but at the end --- It was all fun…. My mom, des, kai and myself were on our way to drive my dad to the airport and our plan was to drop off my dad then go last minute shopping. But guess what happened… my truck broke down on me on our way to the airport (and I can see the airport from the place where my car broke down)………….waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa =(Thank God! My brother’s work is not far from where we at… So, we called him and he picked up my dad, took him to the airport, and came back for us. We thought it was the gas but Nope! Still didn’t start… So, I called my friend Martin and he checked the truck to see what was wrong but still didn’t start…. The city towing truck came and took my truck to the O’Hare Impound… My truck had to stay there for half day because when I called our towing company …there was no driver available. Martin took us to my brother’s house and I had to call Hector (WFG) to pick us up and take us back home. Thanks to my dad and he offered for me to use his truck while his away. Got home around 5pm. I didn’t get to get ready anymore instead I did last minute errands. Came back home – pick up William, the kids, my nephew and my mom then we went to Chicago. Spent our Christmas Eve at my in-laws. Then we stopped by at my Aunt’s house. I had so much plan for that day but It didn’t happened but that’s okay because what important is I got to be with my loved ones. My hubby, my kids, my mom, my siblings, my in-laws and we did a lot of singing, dancing, laughing and joking around the whole time.

25th – we just went to my mom’s house. Ate lunch, watched movies, open gifts and we slept the whole day… We went back at night time already and ate again and watched movies again….ha ha ha

26th - back to work! --- My nephew stayed with us the whole time…

30th -- WELCOME HOME DAD! WE MISS YOU.......

NEW YEARS EVE!!!! ---- SNOWING -----------

31st – had to work for half day. Thank God! They let us go home early… I rented Filipino movies. Packed our clothes and went to Chicago. This year we stayed at my in-laws house…We were going to go to my Auntie Cely’s house but the weather was just really bad and I didn’t want to take Kalea out. So, we just stayed at my in-laws…. The kids played WII the whole time. Man! That game is crazy – destiny’s arm was sore the next day and William was sweating like crazy, and we watched one of the Tagalog movie…
Countdown --- we all came downstairs and waited for the countdown… and as soon 12 midnights hit. We pulled the string for the balloon dropped mixed with coins and ching! Ching! Lolz…it was so fun – sooo cute! Kalea woke up when we were doing the countdown and she went back to sleep right after…you could see that she just woke up from the picture…. After the countdown – everyone was doing his or her own little dance downstairs… My in-laws were doing their dance too.ha ha ha. Sooo cute…. Finally! We watched this scary Filipino movie around 2 AM and didn’t finished till 5… I couldn’t sleep because I wanted to finish the movie.ha ha ha. Everyone was up and watching too…. You can tell that we were too scared to go to sleep. Lolzz.

1st - woke up around 9am – my in-law brought Kalea to our bed and woke us up…coz we ended up sleeping in the living room with Mj, Des and Mikey … I just love sleeping there (only once in a blue moon. ok – lol). Breakfast was ready – again! They played WII for 5 hours… goodness! Finally -- -went home and ended our night with??????????????????????????????????????? Warm blanket and hot coffee……….thank you Lord for a wonderful time you have given us…. =)

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Ciao!