The Arrival...

When we arrive in Davao airport, I feel very happy and excited because at last I will going to see my family. Dustin is really happy too, he is running and playing while were waiting for our luggage, everyone out there wants to help us carry our things, they are looking forward to get a big tip from Mike. I can also see my family waiting outside in the airport. It takes long time to get our luggage we need to wait a couple minutes and when we got our luggage we go out right away and be happy to see my family! Mike carry Dustin on his shoulder and everyone is staring on us. Well of course I hug my mama and my sister, hmmm it seems like something change hehe. They look so dark to me, and the weather there are very hot and humid. Im already sweating when we go outside the airport. We decided to get a taxi because some van driver there are asking too much, we don’t have our own car and we don’t any service so we just got taxi that time. It went well, we are all fit to one taxi, Mike is sitting in the front, my mom, my sister, my sister husband and me are fit on the back sit hehe, it was so crowded and I let Dustin sit on my lap. It was funny because Dustin is not moving, he is just moving his eyes and maybe he is wondering who are those person sitting because me. He is so quiet that time and shy but after that his shyness go away and he let my sister carry him.

The Wait is Over!

The wait is over! Because right now we are packing all our things, ready for our 3 weeks vacation in the Philippines. I missed my family and its nice to be back home. I know it’s a long flight but I don’t care as long we will arrive safe in Davao airport. We leave September 2nd and we arrived in Davao airport September 3. It was a long long flight, Dustin feel terrible that time because that is his first time to be on the plane and he is not used to it. I think his ear is hurting when the plane stop in Canada. He is screaming and cry a lot for almost an hour. I never had enough sleep that time because im worried of him and I feel pity to my little one. But I cant do nothing about it because he needs to be on his sit and put the sit belt on. He don’t like sit belt, he try to take it off but he cant that’s why he is crying many times. But after that he fall asleep though, he get tired of crying. We arrive in Manila at 4-5:00am and we transfer to the other plane at 7:00am, Manila to Davao.

What a relief...

Being here in our new house is really great. New place, new friends and new neighborhood. We need to move in other congregation also because instead of going to Appleton Congregation we end up going to Redlands Congregation. We try our best to go to the meeting every Sunday and book study on Thursday. I know its hard from the start because we just moved and I still need to arrange all the things here so it takes about 2-3 weeks before Im done arranging it all. That time we missed a lot of meeting but after that we try our best to be present and keep attending meeting. It helps a lot especially in our relationship. It helps to keep our relationship stronger everyday. Sometimes we have misunderstanding but we never forget to talk each other and ask for forgiveness if someone did mistake. Nobody’s perfect, especially that mike and I have language barrier and sometimes we really ends up of misunderstanding. Im still thankful that Mike has patience on me and I do too for him. I try my best to listen but sometimes.. I don’t know it just happen you know.

We rent a house...

When we move to Grand Junction, we make it sure that someone will rent the house also so that its not too hard for us to pay the mortgage every month. We found a nice couple who are interested in our house in Silverthorne and they are willing to rent the house for 1 year or maybe more. We rented a house too here in Grand Junction. Before we buy a house we need to make it sure that we like the place and maybe after the 1 year rental contract, we will plan to buy a new house. Moving is very hard because you need to arrange everything again. Im glad because the moving company that we rented are very professional. They are really professional in packing all our things and im so glad because nothing get broken especially all those glasses and kitchen wares. It takes me about 1 week before I finished arranging all our things. I like our new house that we rent, its wood floor and its easy to clean. But I need to clean it everyday especially the floor because Dustin starting to crawl now and I want to make it sure that the floor is clean. It makes me mad every time I see dog’s hair on the floor but I can’t do anything because we have 2 dogs in our house. So every time Dustin crawling on the floor I still see dog’s hair on Dustin clothes. I met new friends in the neighbors and the good thing is we are near to the park its one blocked away from the house. it’s a walking distance also from City Market.

We are moving!

Last July 2006 Mike and I decided to move here in Grand Junction. He is sick with the weather there in Silverthorne. Winter time is really bad there, its always snowing all the time. I think Silverthorne have 6 months of winter unlike here in Grand Junction they only have 3 months of winter. What I like there in Silverthorne is that they have nice view, great scenery and very quiet place. But it’s a long drive going to downtown its about 30-35 minutes drive. Im always worried especially if Mike is at work, in case of emergency I think I am not sure what im going to do because I don’t know how to drive that time, our neighbor’s house is not that close and I even don’t see any people there. I only see few especially if we get our mail to the mailbox. Its 1 block away from the house. Every morning when I woke up I always look at the window and see if I can see people there but I don’t. I think they are all busy working and doing their stuff inside their house. Well 2 weeks before we moved to Grand Junction, we drove to Grand Junction and find houses to rent. We find the rental house that we like. Dustin is about 7 months old that time. Mike teach me how to drive before while where in Grand Junction. So im used to drive in highway not in downtown. We have 2 cars, escape and ford truck. I am the one who drive the ford truck because mike don’t want to go back again and get that truck. I am just following Mike while his driving the escape. Bandit is with him and Dustin and Cocao is with me. Im kind a nervous but im glad I did make it. We arrive in Grand Junction safe and mike told me that I did good for my driving.