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| JJ during Christmas |
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| JJ at a restaurant, sitting like a boss, waiting for her meal |
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| She must be teething, she had the rings in her mouth the entire doctor visit and she would control her laugh so that the rings won't fall out |
February 5, 2012
JJ - 6 to 9 months old
JJ turned 9 months over the weekend. She is one mischievous girl and knows how to be silly. She has 4 teeth now, 2 on the bottom and 2 on top, which means she is so over rice cereal. Even though she is eating well, she is still small - only barely over 17 lbs. She is crawling well and loves to
October 26, 2011
Latest on JJ
JJ is almost 6 months and has been all through the night for 3 weeks now (woohoo!!!). She loves to play and talk to herself. Here's a clip of her.
May 16, 2009
Tay Family
So my whole family was in town and I had the most wonderful time with them. The house was lively and noisy and it's all quiet again. I got my brothers and my parents addicted to Wii. My mum loved playing golf and my dad loved tennis. My dad did the best BBQ on Friday, amazing rib eyes. Daniel took family pictures for all of us. It will be a while before the 6 of us get together again. Joel's going into military and Julian's going on his mission soon. I miss you all!!! See you soon in Switzerland!
April 11, 2009
MIA... now we're back!
We're lazy bloggers... that's also because we've been busy with work. So we finally took a nice long vacation to Cancun!
We stayed at Sun Palace, it's a couples-only resort, so no kids or college spring breakers. All the rooms had ocean view and a jacuzzi tub inside. "Life is good" was our favorite phrase. We did ziplines, ATV, wave runners and kayak. Didn't know we still had those energy in us. Of course we visited Chichen Itza. One dollar, one dollar.... mayan vendors everywhere. Cool Mayan ruin and it was interesting learning about the Mayan culture, but once is enough. We cancelled all the other Mayan ruin tours we had planned. I'm sure the buildings looked vibrant at one period of time years ago, but they now just look.... ruined. We spent a day walking around Cancun (the city bus is so convenient), laying by the pool and going to the beach. Oh, we also did a full body scrub and massage. It was good.... relaxing. We visited Isla Mujeres, an island not far away from Cancun. That's where we got the chance to swim with the dolphins. Of cos they didnt allow us to bring our cameras and then tried to charge us outrageously high prices for the pictures they took. Strawberry daiquiris and pina colata every day. Having steak on the beach. Like it said "Life is good".
Check out our pictures on Facebook.
We stayed at Sun Palace, it's a couples-only resort, so no kids or college spring breakers. All the rooms had ocean view and a jacuzzi tub inside. "Life is good" was our favorite phrase. We did ziplines, ATV, wave runners and kayak. Didn't know we still had those energy in us. Of course we visited Chichen Itza. One dollar, one dollar.... mayan vendors everywhere. Cool Mayan ruin and it was interesting learning about the Mayan culture, but once is enough. We cancelled all the other Mayan ruin tours we had planned. I'm sure the buildings looked vibrant at one period of time years ago, but they now just look.... ruined. We spent a day walking around Cancun (the city bus is so convenient), laying by the pool and going to the beach. Oh, we also did a full body scrub and massage. It was good.... relaxing. We visited Isla Mujeres, an island not far away from Cancun. That's where we got the chance to swim with the dolphins. Of cos they didnt allow us to bring our cameras and then tried to charge us outrageously high prices for the pictures they took. Strawberry daiquiris and pina colata every day. Having steak on the beach. Like it said "Life is good".
Check out our pictures on Facebook.
September 21, 2008
Hurricane Ike Update
Sep 11, 2008
I was released early from work to start preparing for Hurricane Ike. I was glad that most of the preparation was done when Gustav came. Daniel came back from Calgary that night (I'm sure he would have rather stayed in that nice weather).
Sep 12, 2008
We waited at home all day for the storm to come. I've been telling the rest of the family that the hurricane is really coming this time. No drop of rain till 6pm. I think they were starting to doubt. The wind picked up speed in the afternoon, and tropical storm wind was felt in the late evenings. It rained all night. Daniel and I stayed up to watch the house. By 1am, we were tired and decided to go to bed. At 1:20am, the power went out. It was warm and humid inside the house. We did not get much sleep.
Sep 13, 2008
Got up as soon as it was daylight to check on the house. Everything is ok. Our neighbor has a really tall tree that bent in the wind and touched the roof and a street lamp 2 houses down the road. Luckily it didnt break or cause any damage. Everyone on the street was ok. Weather was unbearable inside the house with no power. Luckily for us we had water and a gas stove to cook. No phones working and cellphones couldn't get receptions. Stayed home and read all day.
Sep 14, 2008
We checked out the other neighborhoods. They had more trees, therefore more damages. Street lights and traffic lights not working. Most stores were not opened. Saw a few trucks selling generators on the street. Stood in line for 5 hours to get a generator for Sarah and Ezra. Got the generator but no gas. Luckily our neighbor has 50 gals of gas and spared us some. The weather was unusually cool after a hurricane. Can't complain.
Sep 15, 2008
Gathered at church to see who needed help. We visited one home where the tree destroyed the entire bedroom. A group of us helped removed parts of the tree. It needed crane. Visited a widow whose tree fell into the bedroom that she was in. Luckily she moved away fast. We are really counting our blessings.
Sep 16, 2008
Nice cool weather but starting to run out of gas in the generator. Looked for gas and found people staying in line for 4 hours for gas. Tried our luck at one location. Stood (not really standing, but in the car) in line for about 1 hour for gas. Filled the car and more importantly, filled the gas cans. We only had 2 gals gas cans (it was for our lawn mower) but that should last us another day of power.
Sep 17, 2008
Daniel's back to work. I was told to return to work only on Monday cos work does not have power or water. I spent most of the day cleaning the storage, which was filled since the day we moved in.
Sep 18, 2008
My birthday but still no power. My only wish this birthday is to have power in the house. The weather is starting to warm up and it's hard to sleep at night when all we hear are our neighbors' generators rumbling all night long. The 2 next to us, the one behind us and the one in front of us had generators. Daniel's at work while I spent the day at Target (the few stores that were open). I went looking for bigger gas cans. Home Depot didn't have any. Lowe's just sold the last one (they had 12 pallets) when I got there. But a kind employee gave me his so that I could have one and I found another one that was abandoned. Each car can only fill up 2 gas cans at the gas station, so there's no point buying too many. After 5 days of eating "hurricane" food, all I wanted was Chinese buffet, which was what I had for my birthday dinner. We have a nice dinner another day when things are back to normal. Slept early again but woke up in the middle of the night, noticing that none of the generators were running. Power has been restored!!! at 11:30pm... my birthday wish is actually fulfilled.
Life is back to normal, at least for us. I am actually really grateful for this experience. It makes me appreciate the things that I have in life - a home, electricity, water, very nice neighbors who we got to know better, friends. We are counting our blessings.
I was released early from work to start preparing for Hurricane Ike. I was glad that most of the preparation was done when Gustav came. Daniel came back from Calgary that night (I'm sure he would have rather stayed in that nice weather).
Sep 12, 2008
We waited at home all day for the storm to come. I've been telling the rest of the family that the hurricane is really coming this time. No drop of rain till 6pm. I think they were starting to doubt. The wind picked up speed in the afternoon, and tropical storm wind was felt in the late evenings. It rained all night. Daniel and I stayed up to watch the house. By 1am, we were tired and decided to go to bed. At 1:20am, the power went out. It was warm and humid inside the house. We did not get much sleep.
Sep 13, 2008
Got up as soon as it was daylight to check on the house. Everything is ok. Our neighbor has a really tall tree that bent in the wind and touched the roof and a street lamp 2 houses down the road. Luckily it didnt break or cause any damage. Everyone on the street was ok. Weather was unbearable inside the house with no power. Luckily for us we had water and a gas stove to cook. No phones working and cellphones couldn't get receptions. Stayed home and read all day.
Sep 14, 2008
We checked out the other neighborhoods. They had more trees, therefore more damages. Street lights and traffic lights not working. Most stores were not opened. Saw a few trucks selling generators on the street. Stood in line for 5 hours to get a generator for Sarah and Ezra. Got the generator but no gas. Luckily our neighbor has 50 gals of gas and spared us some. The weather was unusually cool after a hurricane. Can't complain.
Sep 15, 2008
Gathered at church to see who needed help. We visited one home where the tree destroyed the entire bedroom. A group of us helped removed parts of the tree. It needed crane. Visited a widow whose tree fell into the bedroom that she was in. Luckily she moved away fast. We are really counting our blessings.
Sep 16, 2008
Nice cool weather but starting to run out of gas in the generator. Looked for gas and found people staying in line for 4 hours for gas. Tried our luck at one location. Stood (not really standing, but in the car) in line for about 1 hour for gas. Filled the car and more importantly, filled the gas cans. We only had 2 gals gas cans (it was for our lawn mower) but that should last us another day of power.
Sep 17, 2008
Daniel's back to work. I was told to return to work only on Monday cos work does not have power or water. I spent most of the day cleaning the storage, which was filled since the day we moved in.
Sep 18, 2008
My birthday but still no power. My only wish this birthday is to have power in the house. The weather is starting to warm up and it's hard to sleep at night when all we hear are our neighbors' generators rumbling all night long. The 2 next to us, the one behind us and the one in front of us had generators. Daniel's at work while I spent the day at Target (the few stores that were open). I went looking for bigger gas cans. Home Depot didn't have any. Lowe's just sold the last one (they had 12 pallets) when I got there. But a kind employee gave me his so that I could have one and I found another one that was abandoned. Each car can only fill up 2 gas cans at the gas station, so there's no point buying too many. After 5 days of eating "hurricane" food, all I wanted was Chinese buffet, which was what I had for my birthday dinner. We have a nice dinner another day when things are back to normal. Slept early again but woke up in the middle of the night, noticing that none of the generators were running. Power has been restored!!! at 11:30pm... my birthday wish is actually fulfilled.
Life is back to normal, at least for us. I am actually really grateful for this experience. It makes me appreciate the things that I have in life - a home, electricity, water, very nice neighbors who we got to know better, friends. We are counting our blessings.
September 1, 2008
Mini-mini Vacation
We decided last minute to take a short vacation to San Antonio during this Labor Day long weekend. We couldn't help but stopped by the outlet mall and had to shop in Pottery Barn and Crate and Barrel outlets. By the time we checked into the hotel at the Riverwalk, it was 7+. The streets were filled with people, smelly sticky people. We were looking for a place to eat while trying not to brush against anyone. All the restaurants had at least half hour wait. The French restaurant that we wanted to go to had 1.5 hour wait (it was already 8pm). So we settled for Saltgrass Steakhouse instead... still had good steak. So far so good... until we were woken up at 2am by the next door kids who had the TV blasting and were talking very loudly. At one point of time, they were singing "Sweet Caroline" at the top of their lungs (mostly girls). They could have picked a better song. We had to call front desk to make a complain. They had security and the cops knock on their door to get to be quiet. I think the next door kids weren't happy that the cops showed up. After that, our hotel room phone rang and no one spoke when we picked up. The door bell also rang and no one was there.
June 2, 2008
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