Time to Celebrate!

This morning, I got a call from the caretaker of apartment Le 7300, guess what? We got the apartment!!! :D I'm just so excited about moving because of decorating thing, right now, i want to rush to Ikea and buy everything we need. According to the caretaker, we can start moving this friday so, that would be a great start for June! At last, after 2 weeks of waiting! Our relatives here said that we're so lucky that we've got the apartment of our choice since the moving month is July and seldom are available this June. Though we tried to check some other apartments but we love the location and community around Le 7300. I can't wait to move!

For my little girl who will celebrate her 2nd birthday tomorrow... Happy Birthday cutie cute! I love you and more birthdays to come. Daddy and Mommy just want the best for you.. Muah!!! Be good and God bless you always! :)

Our new home!

Hi there! It's been a while! I still have problems with my connections so i seldom go through the internet, i can still go online with yahoo messenger but it is simply giving me a headache.

Anyway, we've chosen Brossard as our home here in Quebec, 10 minutes away from our relatives living in Latouche and 20 minutes away from downtown Montreal. It's a very quiet and safe community, accessible in terms of public transportation like bus and metro. It's also a few blocks away from Zellers, Maxi, Wall-Mart, Pharmaprix and even Champlain mall. It's a plus that there's a recreation center in the area which I guess Elyse will enjoy this summer.

We are hoping to get the apartment this June so we can start living in our own. Our relatives here are very helpful and supportive in every way and we are so thankful for knowing them and choosing to stay with them. We initially planned to stay in a rented apartment than staying with relatives, but i believe we made the right choice. I really don't know what will happen to us without their help and advices.

As of now, I'm planning to take a part-time French class but only after finding a good daycare center for Elyse. Good luck to me! I'm not eager to learn the language even if i stayed in a french speaking country before. I'm just fascinated and hopefully be inspired to speak the language.

So that's it for now and i will try to visit your blogs as soon as possible. Thanks again and bonne journee! :)

credits: coralie paper, ljd frame, ssa frame, kskd doodles, tking alpha, misty cato date bits and krystalh cluster

Staying for good!

Hi! guys!!! how's everybody? I hope you all are doing great! Thanks for your comments and tags!!! I still have lots of homeworks to do! :) Anyway, we had a wonderful vacation in Paris and Rome, with some showers in Rome, we still managed to visit the Vatican and Fontana de Trevi. I will post some photos soon, for now here's one, I'm just connecting to a free wifi so i really don't know how long it will work out. ;)

Another good news, the day after we arrived here my husband had his first interview and guess what? he got the job!!!! It was unexpected, we didn't even have SSN number yet.. isn't that great? :D He was first interviewed by HR then the Director and Vice President, after an hour or two, he got the job offer signed right away. That was such a lucky day! :)

So my husband finally decided to stay here for good.. we're now scouting for the best place to stay here in Quebec, currently we're staying in Brossard with relatives and we really love the place.
This is just an update and will post more once we're settled here. Thanks for visiting my site and have a wonderful weekend!

Leaving for a while...

I'm so sorry dear friends and fellow bloggers for not visiting your blogs as often as i used to, I'm just super duper busy.. i hope y'all understand. Thank you for your comments and tags, I'll get back to you as soon as i can. :)

We're all set and just trying to patch up few things right now. Our itineraries for Paris and Rome trip are finally done and just hoping the weather will cooperate with us. Recently, it's cloudy for most part of Europe so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it wouldn't rain. See you all and have a great weekend!

FuRuKuTaTaKu!

Thank you dear Sheng for this funny tag!

For the instructions: add your name on the list and simply spell out your name using the given Japanese letter- translations below. Tag six of your friends and inform them of the tag. Have fun!

TRANSLATION:

A ---> ka N ---> to
B ---> tu O ---> mo
C ---> mi P ---> no
D ---> te Q ---> ke
E ---> ku R ---> shi
F ---> lu S ---> ari
G ---> ji T ---> chi
H ---> ri U ---> do
I ---> ki V ---> ru
J ---> zu W ---> mei
K ---> me X ---> na
L ---> ta Y ---> fu
M ---> rin Z ---> zi


1. OSWALD - moarimeikatate (sounds like american and states har....har...har...)

2. JUNELLE - zudotokutataku (Thank God I’m a Filipino! sounds like sadako. nyay! hehehe)

3. JACQUELINE - zukamikedokutakitoku (Ayay!! Unsaman ni perti mang taasa..wa ko kasabot nyahahaha)

4. LERMA - takushirinka (I’ll use this name if I’m in Japan!)

5. BREGIE -tushikujikiku (Wah....ang sagwa hehehehe)

6. SHENG - AriRiKuToJi (forget it! LOL!!!)

7. YVELLE - FuRuKuTaTaKu (hahahaha.. sounds purorot!)

Want to know your name in Japanese? feel free to grab! Let see what funny names will come out! :)

Jardin Marjorelle on Weekend Snapshot

The breathtaking Jardin Marjorelle is the most beautiful garden in Marrakech, combining lush vegetation with traditional Moroccan architectural elements. The French painter and plant collector Jacques Majorelle (1888-1962) settled in Marrakech in 1923 and laid out a subtropical garden, which opened to the public in 1947.

After a car accident he returned to France and the garden became overgrown. The French designer Yves-Saint Laurent bought it in 1980, restored it with Pierre Bergé and founded a small museum of Islamic art. Bamboo, towering palms and huge cacti flourish next to a goldfish pond sustaining aquatic plants. Ultramarine walls and tiles are set against the cool green foliage.

I'm still here...

Yesterday, i had courage to finally start my long delayed plan of decluttering our things from those things we cannot live without.. and of course that would be our clothes. As you know, it's not that easy! i have to segregate the pile of our clothes from "let-it-go" to "love-to-wear".. "let-it-go" must go to the black luggage that we can left behind.. "love-to-wear" will go to the blue luggage that we will definitely wear in Canada including our winter clothes... it seems like we're staying for good huh? hmm... we'll see... ohh and there still one more, our "travel" clothes that should be in our hand carry luggage. I'm not yet done with Elyse's clothes and electronic materials, feeding bottles and sterilizer. Whew!!! I'm just hoping that we will not exceed our baggage limit of 64kg per person / 2 luggages per person except Elyse who is allowed for 10kg only? I'm not sure though, i need to verify this again.

It is also "a must" to keep the house tidy and return the furnitures into it's original places so if ever we decided not to come back, the house owner will not charge us extra for cleaning and fixing. My husband is eager to visit "Ifrane", another city here in Morocco but I'm having second thoughts since we're not yet done with the packing. I want to finish everything so we can enjoy our holiday.

So there you go, that is the main reason why I'm not visible in the blogoshere for the past couple of days and i believe it will continue until we're finally settled in our place. I'll just hop around if i have enough time. Thanks again for visiting and see you around! Have a wonderful week everyone! :)

LP # 5 Malungkot

Nahirapan ako maghanap ng lahok sa linggong ito. Ito ang "view" ng Atlantic ocean dito sa Casablanca, Morocco. Tuwing "summer" ito ang nagsisilbing pasyalan dito, marami ding turista ang "nag-susurf at nag-s-swim" dito.

Maaaring hindi ito malungkot na larawan para sa lahat pero para sa akin, nalulungkot ako sa tuwing makakita ako ng ganitong tanawin.

Travel Update and Award

I just learned that the Raptors didn't made it to the semis, the LA Lakers defeated them four times in a row. It only means we will not be able to watch NBA in Toronto. Sad news for my husband.. anyway his ultimate favorite Dallas Mavericks is also out of the game, the only good thing is we can still watch the F1 race in Montreal on June 8.
Everything seems fine right now, our tickets and hotels we're already booked except for our still cluttered things that may take forever before i finally sit down and take time to relax.

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Jody and Abie gave me this rose award, thank you sisters! I would like to share this to all mothers out there. Happy mothers day!

"A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path."

-- Agatha Christie

Weekend Snapshot

Some pictures i got from our visit to Marrakech, Morocco. Their traditional food and religious place. It was such a nice weekend! Have a great week everyone!

Birthday preparation

One month away before my daughter's 2nd birthday and this time we're thinking of celebrating it with the orphanage or give something to C.R.I.B.S foundation. We prefer to celebrate it that way so we can help those infants in need.

As early as now, my birthday girl seems excited to celebrate her birthday. Whenever we're discussing our itineraries, she would sing the "Happy birthday" song for herself. We just booked our flights to Paris and Montreal and as our birthday gift to her, we will bring her to Disneyland in Paris. We're still checking which hotel to stay in Paris, so it's gonna be a busy week for me... not to mention i need to ready our things.
Here are some photos of Elyse having fun with his daddy:

Happy weekend everyone! :)

credits:
fmarini yellow paper, flowers and frame, natalie bird paper and bracket,jeann jeannG wordart, sds flower, coralie flower

Arte y pico Award

LorieM, a very creative designer gave me this Arteypico Award. Thanks so much again Lorie, I'm so flattered.

Now there are some rules, I need to pick five other blogs to get this award..

For those of you receiving the Award, here are the rules:

1) You have to pick 5 blogs that you consider deserve this award for their creativity, design, interesting material, and also for contributing to the blogging community, no matter what language.

2) Each award has to have the name of the author and also a link to his or her blog to be visited by everyone.

3) Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given her or him the award itself.

4) Award-winner and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of "Arte y Pico" blog, so everyone will know the origin of this award.

http://arteypico.blogspot.com/ Make sure you visit the link above. There are crafts of all kinds shown; you are bound to come away inspired!

5) Show these rules.

I believe everybody should receive this award but I need to pick only five. It's tough! Anyway, here are my five favorites:

1. Abie
2. Liza
3. Sheng
4. Jacqui
5. Eds

LP # 4 Hugis ay Pahaba

Salamat sa mga laruan ni Elyse at meron akong entry sa litratong pinoy. :) Ang mga blocks na kung tawagin nya ay "castle", kasi nga naman nakakabuo sya ng castle kapag nilalaro nya ito. Si "catalalar" or caterpillar naman ang isa sa mga "friends" nya na parati nya katabi sa pagtulog.

What's up with her?

This morning, Elyse just bite the teat of her feeding bottle and tear it. Lately, biting is back in her routine and i guess because of those teeny-weeny-teeth coming out again. But this one must be her worst bite ever, take a look!

I'm sorry for big bird because she's always been her favorite friend to bite. Sorry for the word, but nose picking is another bad habit she's been doing lately. I caught her but still kept on doing that while i was taking pictures. From time to time she would say "yuck" and smile on the camera like she's doing it only for fun and picture purposes. My super kulit bulilit is growing up fast and will soon turn 2. Whenever asked how old was she, she would respond "I'm one year old", i reminded her that next month she will be "2 years old". Surprisingly, she said "Oh no!."

As I've mentioned in my previous blog, Elyse had her first haircut in Manila and here's the storyboard.