Road Trip to Vigan, Paoay, Pagudpud

We had a fun 4 day road trip to the provinces up north. We stayed in Batac for our first night, Pagudpud for our 2nd night and Candon for the 3rd night. We had a lot of enjoyable if not laugh out loud memories of these days. We must have amassed over 700 pictures. Unbelievable! I now need a new hard drive to store these pictures in. Will be doing a picture story book of this trip and would probably need another 3 day vacation to do it :)

Hello Again!

Wow! I really need to update this blog. I so want to record my children's growing up years.I can't believe it's been five years. How could I have lost five years???? Grrrr! I will try to catch up on those five years, will do it over the weekend. I pray that I will find the time for this very important work. Stay tuned!

Growing Super Kids

This evening, we had a great time revisiting the posts in this blog. I realized that this blog can really bring many hours of happiness to all of us, so I decided to continue with writing on this blog. Jam is 12 now and will turn 13 in less than 3 months. Jeremy will turn 12 in just over a month's time. They have surely grown and matured since the last time I posted.

Many things have happened in our lives and although I wasn't able to document all of them, I can still recall some heart stopping moments that the kids have done that will surely be great additions to this blog. Hopefully I can organize them in an orderly fashion so that I can present them chronologically. Here's hoping I can continue with this, despite holding two jobs, having no house help, very heavy calling in the stake, two more kids in the house and more difficult school assignments.

More Details

For purposes of posterity, here are the details of the painful accident:

Date and Time of Accident:13 June 2008, 5pm
Date and Time of Operation: 17 June 2008, 8:45am to 10:50am
Hospital: DLSUMC, Room No. 1427
Procedure: ORIF - cross pinning with 0.075mm k-wires, general anesthesia

Doctors: Dr. Bervano, Ortho Surgeon
Dr. Garcia, Ortho Surgeon Assistant
Dr. Austria, Ortho Surgeon Assistant
Dr. Acdal, Anesthesiologist

Visitors: Family - Lola, Justin, Chin, Tita Meanne, Mommy F., Ate Pao, Carlo, Uncle Joey, Uncle Noel, Uncle Emao, Tita Eden, Gabby, Uncle Alan, Tita Mags, Tito Daniel

Friends - Bishop Moralita, Toto Jose and Family, Romy Estrella and Family, Dina and Buboy Cecilia, Fred and Edith Majaba, Pres. Cortez, Pres. Dela Torre, Ronald Famindalan, Joyce Jardinaso, Gemma and Bishop Detal, Nick and Michael Sindayen, Sis. Naty, Marvin Prado, Mary Jane Jose, Bishop Madriaga and Family, Abel and Jinky De Guzman, Elvin Conjelado and Tintin Gutierrez, Mary and Angelica Paulo, Nichie Gutierrez

Blood Donors: Gemma Detal, Erik Orpia, Michael Sindayen, Abel de Guzman

Jeremy's question to Dr. Garcia: Ilan ang testes mo?

Date cast was removed: 7 July 2008

Date contractubex was started: 23 July 2008

Date steel pin was removed: 28 July 2008

Jam's Accident

This is Jam after her operation on Tuesday, the 17th of June 2008. Jam had a fall from a cow. Yes...a cow! Jam, Jeremy and Justin asked daddy Elmer to bring them to the Legacy Park for the last time this summer break. First day of class was supposed to be Monday, so daddy conceded and they all rode their bikes there. Unfortunately, the two boys spotted a cow and decided they would try to ride it. Jam got pulled along to join them. Jeremy was able to jump from the cow when it bucked, but Jam was not so lucky. She broke her elbow on the fall and had to be operated on. She now has 2 steel pins inserted in her elbow. This is has got to be the most painful experience of our lives...


Friday, June 13, 2008 Jam was thrown off the cow, broke her right elbow and was rushed to the ER of UMC. Her right hand had to be bandaged and hanged to reduce the swelling before she can be operated on. She spent 4 nights and 3 days in this position. As a result, she acquired numerous blisters in the bandaged area. More blisters were added to those after the operation. Very painful!

Jam is 10!

I can't quite believe that my baby Jam is 10 today! And my baby Jeremy turned 9 last month!!!!!! Where did the time go?

Jeremy and Torty

Well, they met at last! The best ever friends to walk the face of the earth. Jeremy prematurely opened Tita Jing's Christmas gift to him and instantly fell in love with his new stuffed toy - Torty (short for squirtle)! They have been best friends eversince.