September

It is proving to be another busy month for us specially with school in progress for both Joshua and I and with Pat traveling to India for two weeks.

Despite of Shua's claim of how he hates going to school, he's so far coping well. No pink slips from the school or teachers so far and he's continuously improving his skill sets :) I have incorporated Mommy school again this term due to lack of homeworks during the recent weeks. He finishes his homeworks in 3 mins - that is how easy they have been so far. I had to do it otherwise most of his time is spent in front of the big tube!

My classes started last week, although I am registered and has been attending classes, I am still undecided whether I will continue with the program or not. I am actively looking for a job as well and so that is taking a lot of my time. So far, no success with the job search. I've done multiple revisions on my resume the past few days and will remain to be in constant change - he he he. Shua and I are still struggling with our asthma specially with our cough. Just couldn't shake off the stupid cough, it's causing me a lot of sleepless nights again. I don't see any changes or opening with our schedules for a while. It'll be busy, busy and busy for a while so there won't be much blog updates as well. I'll try to sneak in some photos now and then so "you all" can still remember us :)

The camping buzz

Our camping experience over the weekend has been fun but mostly traumatizing for me and maybe for Pat too. I am glad that I no longer hurt from the bee stings. My neck and ears have been swollen for a while or at least it feels that way and I know Pat felt as miserable too.

It all happened on the afternoon of day 1 during our camping trip with our boy scout pack. One or some of the kids seemed to have disturbed a yellow jackets nests and as expected the wasps came in full defense mode and attacked us. Several adults and 3 kids got stung several times all over our body. Pat got stung about 8 or more and I got 4. Now, I can understand why people are afraid of wasps. Fortunately, Joshua is left unharmed so that is a good thing. Apparently, there are a lot of wasps this year and has been causing a lot of problem. I can certainly agree to that!


The smallest but loudest tent at night :)
The kids having fun fishing, zipline, swinging, and just staying on the hammocks nearby.
by the ravine as we get closer to the "unfortunate" part of the trip.

Smiley P :)
The path to disaster...
View of Mt. Hood in the evening...
wake up sleepy head


Shua and Mt. Hood in the morning