Friday, May 23, 2008

Oh boy!

Finally, here's an updated ultrasound photo of our boy. Yes, it's a boy! During the ultrasound it was so amazing to see him yawn, suck on his thumb, give a "thumbs up" and wipe his face. A new life is so wonderful and miraculous. They said that the bottom of the feet itself is measuring over 1 inch long already. I would have been happy with a boy or a girl. Although I was always convinced it was a boy all along, there's a sense of peace to get it confirmed. I was so convinced that we didn't really think of baby girl names and only concentrated on boy names. Also, took in two bags of baby boy clothes for our baby. Now, it will all go to good use.

I'm really happy that's it is a boy too because I want him to have all the qualities of his daddy. "Daddy, " aka "Hubby" is the most loving, passionate, generous, and selfless person I know who loves God, life and thinks and puts me before anything in this world. Eversince he became a Christian 9 months ago, he's so serious about his faith. He goes to church up to 3X a week including prayer meetings at 6:00AM on a weekday when he doesn't even wake up that early for work. He evangelizes endlessly to his friends and family about God, brings/invites them to church and can read the bible for hours at night before bed trying to soak up everything. Besides one couple I've known forever, I never experienced this kind of dedication first hand. We hope our baby will grow up to know God and passionately serve Him with conviction.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Our one year anniversary

We celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary this weekend by camping out at the beach in our truck bed. We are not strangers to this as we've camped out in a station wagon-type car for 2 weeks in New Zealand and have slept in the bed of the truck by the beach before. It's soothing to hear the ocean all throughout the night, but also a bit annoying to hear surfers walk by at 4AM to get an early start on the waves! This year has been the happiest year in both of our lives and the amazing thing is that it gets better each day.

This month in itself is full of celebrations. We had Mother's Day, our anniversary, birthday, and finding out the sex of our baby. We are so excited for the months to come!

Friday, May 9, 2008

Where I want to be

I love being in bed with everyone. I just need to breathe.
That's me (in the short hair) running with my brothers and sisters. It sure was fun when I got to spend the night there last week!

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Exhausting trip to Channel Islands

We had to be at the ferry at 7:15am. It was chilly! The ferry ride was about 1 hour long and it was not pleasant.

We are on land!


Overall the Channel Islands wasn't that spectacular. Hawaii was much more beautiful and lush. We went on two hikes (9 miles total) and half of it was straight uphill at a pretty tough grade. We all got a pretty good workout and felt a sore the next day. The ferry ride back was pretty cool. We saw humpback whales fluking so the ferry circled around for 20 minutes while we observed.