Hon + Daddy = Sherwin Lim :)

Not only am I blessed with a loving family with my mom, sisters (Len & Cai) and balong (little brother Adrian). I am also blessed with a loving husband.

I think after almost 3 years of being together, we've finally found our balance. We understand each other more & we're more secure with our marriage.

I never imagined how Sherwin would be as a father. I never thought he would have the patience to change nappies, to feed, to bathe, to run around chasing Trisha. He exceeds my expectations :). He is a very good father.

Thanks hon. Here's to the New Year coming our way! ;*

Trisha's Night Prayers

"Papa Jesus, thank you for everything. Thank you for the gifts. For Mommy's gifts. For Daddy's gifts. For Lola's gifts. {she would mention everybody she'd remember}. Please help me be a good girl. I love you Papa Jesus. Goodnight. Amen."

Trisha's Tito Adrian

I am blessed with a loving family. All of them are so in love with my daughter.

Especially Tito Adrian :). He's been baby sitting non stop since we arrived Dec 24 and has been at the beck & call of his niece.









I love you balong! Thanks for looking after your niece :).

Christmas 2008

Happy :). This is one of my happiest Christmas. Everything's just so relaxed.

Merry Christmas everyone!


Too bad Trisha was not in the mood for picture taking. This should have been a nice shot :).

random thoughts today

I have been too lazy to blog lately. Whenever I am online, I spend most of my time surfing the net, reading through my favorite blogs and chatting with family & friends.

I have been busy lately, both at work and at home. I am so looking forward to my Christmas break where I would get to spend time with my family in Baguio. I need the rest. I need the stress free environment. And I would ENSURE that it's really stress free. I just want to stay home - eat & sleep. I have a project going live first working day of January and so I expect work during the break. But at least I will be doing it from home.

Our weekends have been crazy lately, we have been out & about almost everywhere. We make sure we bring Trisha out on weekends since she's stuck at home the whole week when we're at work. There was no weekend that we spent the whole day at home. To think, we haven't even done our Christmas shopping yet. We plan to buy our gifts this weekend. I have several pieces for Cai & Mom already and I have crossed out some people from our list, but bulk of it, we have to finish off this weekend and the weekend after before we go home to Baguio for the holidays.

I have so much to do in my life. I am excited to end this year and begin the new one. New start. Fresh one. Can't wait. There are so many things to look forward to as I end this year.

Next year - I hope to blog more, lose weight, find a physical activity to help me lose that weight (dancing maybe?), eat healthier, drink more water, be more organized - both at home and at work, make use of my time more efficiently, reconnect with my truest friends. I hope to be a better person next year.

Sadness

Strange. I am sad today. I miss my true friends. I realized I only have a few of them. Don't get me wrong, I have tons of friends, but very few with THE deep roots. I have learned to let go of people that just drain the life out of me. There are tons of them. I have learned to filter the people I invest time and emotions on. I am sad.

I love her eyes

The Printed Dress

Here's another dress of Trisha I got from Marissa of Katricewear. This was originally longer, I just had it cut to this length. With her height, I prefer Trisha wearing this length (doesn't go below the knee) so she doesn't look too short.

She wore this today, during the christening of her bestfriend's baby sister. A lot of people noticed her dress and asked where we got it from. Us, "big girls", liked it a lot *grins*.

Trisha's 2nd Birthday

We celebrated Trisha's 2nd birthday at Jollibee McKinley with a Jollitown theme.

Here's her invitation which I did myself.

Maybe you're wondering why the invite said "Snow White visits Jollitown"... and here's why :) ...

Got her snow white gown from Prim of http://babyfashionistas.multiply.com/.

In the middle of the party, I changed her back to her boyfriend shirt which I got from Marissa of http://katricewear.multiply.com/

You can view all our pictures at http://tetdelapaz.multiply.com/photos. Her birthday albums are open for everyone to view for a limited time only. If you can't see the albums anymore, do drop me a note so I can open it up for you :).

Fun Pictures of Trisha

Thanks to photofunia for these fun pictures of Trisha :).

Bagay talaga for billboard ang beauty ng baby ko ;).

Trisha's Bday Wish List

Finally, I was able to find time to update this post.

Just to briefly explain why we decided to put up a list for Trisha's 2nd bday. She received too many toys during her 1st birthday. A lot of them she only played with briefly. Some of them she didn't even open at all. So now, we want her to receive toys that she's interested in. Or we can buy her the toys she wants with the GCs you will be giving us in case you prefer that ;D.

I had to post the pics at Multiply, it was easier for me to upload the pics there. Please click the link below to redirect you to the pictures.

See Trisha's Wish List.

More Scrap Pages

Here are more experimental pages. I only did this in scrapblog as I have yet to install my adobe photoshop.

This first one I created from a template in scrapblog, I just moved the elements around, added and deleted some that were defaulted in the template.

This second page was created from scratch :). I am happy with this. Yey, I think I am improving!

More pages to come!

my first digi "scrap" page

This is my first attempt in digital scrapbooking. Very simple (maybe even boring), but yey! It's my first creation.



I really want to start on a scrapbook for Trisha to "capture the moments". Been meaning to for the longest time but I always put it off.

Well, maybe now is the right time to start :).

Now and Back Then

y little girl is really growing up so fast. She's already wearing Large diapers and we have moved to a new section in our favorite shops - from Infant to Toddler section and even her vitamins and meds have transition from Drops to Syrup ... How time flies!

NOW...



and BACK THEN...


She's really no longer my baby ... She's now my little girl .

My Toblerone :)

Falling in love

Got this in my email today. Very nice. So true. Well said.

"No one falls in love by choice,
it is by CHANCE.
No one stays in love by chance,
it is by WORK.
And no one falls out of love by chance,
it is by CHOICE. "

Still here.

I am still here. I have just been too busy and too lazy to update my blog. I have not even blog- hopped for a while.

I hope all is well with everyone. :)

Online Tools I use for my Photos

I have decided to retire my Shutterfly account as my online album. I have used Shutterfly for over 2 years to post albums online and share them with family and friends. But I have discovered a new online tool which is faster and offers better features for an online album. I am now using Picasa Web Albums. I will now only use my Shutterfly account to create scrapbook pages. I have also recently signed up for a Photobucket account and I use this to edit my photos online, it has features similar to Photoshop.

Explore explore explore :).

Pinoy Dream Academy

I just have to say this quickly. Nakaka-irita ang Pinoy Dream Academy. We did not intentionally watch tonight's show, but since we came home for dinner, we were able to watch it. I was so surprised to see that those who have the "voice" were the ones waitlisted. Susme, nde magagaling ang nakapasok! Yung may kwento, yun ang mga nakapasok. Ganyan ba ang show na yan talaga? Kainis!

I hope Jet Singh makes it. He has a nice voice. Similar to the voice of Ogie Alcasid. I hope people would vote for him to join the "Scholars".

Kythe Charity Run Update

- Updated the list of our friends who pledged for MS's run in my previous entry.
- MS finished 4 laps this morning. ;)

I will be sending out the bank details of MS for the pledges within today.

A Father's Day Post :)

I have 999 reasons to brag about MS as a father, let me share with you the top 5 so as not to bore you with the long list :).

1. He really really finds time to play with Trisha. He has his uber busy moments at the office, but when I remind him about not spending enough time with his daughter, he would immediately do something about it. The house gets crazy when father and daughter run around the house chasing each other or playing hide & seek. The laughter and shrieks of happiness from Trisha are the sweetest sounding "noise" I have ever heard.

2. He spends time watching Barney with Trisha. We both hated Barney before Trisha came. We promised we wouldn't let Trisha watch Barney stuff as we couldn't really understand why kids love Barney. But today, all 3 of us (MS, Trisha and myself) LOVES Barney! We watch Barney DVDs all the time and we only listen to Barney songs on the car stereo whenever Trisha's with us in the car. Thanks to Barney - Trisha now knows how to count to 10, she knows her ABCs, and she knows all the dialogues from her Barney DVDs. Talk about a change of heart.

3. He wakes up to feed Trisha or change her nappies when I am too sleepy to do so. He has been a hands-on dad eversince I gave birth to his darling daughter. And I appreciate it when he volunteers to get up when he knows I am too tired or sleepy.

4. He makes an effort to come home early and be with Trisha when I go on business trips (has only been once so far, with another one coming this July) or when I have dinner with friends (which is very rare as well). MS has to work late because he goes to work late ;). So it really means a lot to me when he comes home early during these rare times that I need him to.

5. He patiently carries Trisha around when we go to the mall. It's so difficult to shop with a baby! I think all mommies will agree with me on that. Especially at Trisha's age when she just loves to run around and touches everything that gets her curious. I appreciate it so much when MS would distract her from me so I can fit shoes or clothes or just to make my purchase.

Hon, thanks :). Trisha is really blessed to have you as a Dad.

Happy Happy Father's day to you.