Showing posts with label Jasmine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jasmine. Show all posts

Thursday, November 10, 2011

Annabelle and her drawing

Today, Annabelle stayed home from school because she was coughing so badly and spend the night with me in our bed. I knew she would be tired and she needed rest. So all morning, Jonah and Annabelle sat with me on the sofa watching cartoons. Then by early afternoon, they were feeling better. Annabelle was in a drawing mood and she drew this.

I just had to picture her and her drawing because it involves Jasmine. And I wanted Jasmine to see this. (As you know, she is in Australia on a missionary.)

Let's see her drawing.



So the drawing has a story. 

Annabelle was remembering her time with Jasmine when she had that first night out with Jasmine. She remembers it fondly.

So this is her and Jasmine inside her home on the top playing together. Blue is Jasmine's favorite color.

The pink triangle is the store. Her blue car, Jasmine driving and Annabelle sitting in the back. The purple triangle is her house.

The pink girls are "eating ice cream" (blue triangle above the pink girls is ice cream).

The blue girls on blue sofa sitting and talking.

All that hearts are love love love.

~

Annabelle misses Jasmine and loves her dearly.


Saturday, October 1, 2011

Aquatica 2011

In July, we spend the weekend in Orlando with Jasmine and the Pletenets family. We went to Aquatica and we had a lot of fun there. Then the following day we went to Orange Lake resort to swim, again, we had fun!

More pictures....

Searching for dolphins.
Jasmine, Annabelle, Jonah, my senor and me
Jasmine and Jonah looking at the black/white dolphin

Annabelle, Daniel and Jonah
At Orange Lake
All of us together, PAH!
Alex,  (I cannot remember his name, my BAD), Natalia, Isaac, me, Jasmine
Daniel, Annabelle, Jonah


~

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Jasmine's Farewell at airport

As promised, here's the farewell pictures.

Last month on the morning of Saturday, August 13- we all got together at Cracker Barrel for breakfast with friends and family to say farewell to Jasmine before she fly out to Brisbane, Australia. Then just us family to the airport including her mother.

I love this picture. 

At the airport before entering. See how Annabelle is "helping" Jasmine with her suitcase? And Jonah holding Jasmine's hands. Joshua pulling the suitcase and Aaron lugging the backpack.

A close up when I saw how cute they were and snapped it. They know she is leaving.

I had to hurry to the front to take picture.

Family plus Aaron. Her mother hasn't arrived.


Jasmine and her papa

Jasmine and her little sis and bro

It was picture taking time. Lots of em'. I'm not going to show all of them. Just one more.



me, Isaac, Kerry
Justin, Annabelle, Jasmine, Jonah, Joshua

Jasmine has been in Australia all this time now and will be for at least 6 months to a year.

Jasmine, bless your heart and your willingness to help others to know Jesus.


Sunday, September 25, 2011

A prayer for Jasmine

Just tonight at our kids' bedtime. I was tucking them in bed and saying our prayer. Then either Jonah or Annabelle will pipe up and say their own prayers. I always smile when they want to pray. Tonight was a bit unusual, funny and endearing. I just had to share this. Mostly it's about Jasmine.

I haven't posted a blog about Jasmine who is in Australia on her 2nd missionary trip. This time as a staff. She is doing good and you can check her out at facebook or her blog, Jasmine-jewel.blogspot.com. I also haven't shared the awesome pictures of saying farewell at the airport. I promise I'll do that one this week. But first let me share Annabelle's prayer/talk/tease that she said tonight at bedtime.

Annabelle was talking about airplane, Australia, flying. I was amazed she signed Australia and paid a bit more attention to her. She was saying that Jasmine is far far far away. Plane ride longgggg. Jasmine's boyfriend will fly soon. (We had seen Aaron yesterday with Joshua and had mentioned that to her). Then she said Jasmine's boyfriend cute. I will steal him, giggling. Me tease Jasmine. I laughed and said Jasmine's boyfriend too old for you. She laughed. And I said, not nice to steal. She again laughed. She said she love, love, love Jasmine.

I was just surprised and thinking this is so funny. And Annabelle talked like that??? She kept saying boyfriend. I kept saying Aaron. I realized we need to come up a name sign for Aaron. She understood Aaron but she hasn't caught on spelling his name. (Hey Jasmine, have a sign name idea for Aaron?)

This is endearing to know Annabelle does think of Jasmine and knows she is far away and looks forward seeing her on computer (meaning skype) and asks when will she be on?


We're thinking of you, Jasmine. We miss you and love you very very much.

~

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Same Pajamas!

I've always love the idea of waking up on Christmas morning in a new pajamas. Even better if everyone wore the same one to feel a closeness and all.

It is hard to find matching pajamas for a child and an adult! I was told that you could simply get a matching t-shirt and shorts. Like Jaguars or Disney. I didn't want that. I wanted something girly girl.

Our BJ's club had them. Hoo Boy! I was delighted and got them for us. I got them too big. DUH! (but I've since then traded in for smaller size.)

I'd have gotten something for the boys but they didn't have them. It'd have been cool if they had those pajamas in their color. Oh well.

That's us, girls with Jonah refusing to leave us alone.
Me, Annabelle and Jasmine.

We're all smiling for the picture.

Happy belated Christmas!

Friday, January 21, 2011

Annabelle's first sleep out with Jasmine






Last month, Annabelle had her first sleep out with her big sister, Jasmine. She was terribly excited about going out with her and kept saying she will not cry. She is a big girl and that she loves Jasmine.

I told her she need to pack in her pj and clothes for next day. She had no problem packing them in her backpack and waited impatiently all day for Jasmine to come and get her.

When Jasmine came, Annabelle was all ready to go out and have some fun with Jasmine.


Annabelle with Jasmine with her drink and backpack. All ready to go!


Saturday, November 6, 2010

Playing with make-up!

A few days before we left to go on our long wonderful vacation, Jasmine had been staying with us those few days. Annabelle was with Jasmine constantly those days when she was home with us.

So without Jasmine being aware, Annabelle got into her make-up bag and helped herself to it.

So this is the result of her doing.
Annabelle and her big sister, Jasmine.

The girls' papa joined in.

A close-up of her works!

Monday, January 11, 2010

Letter to Jasmine about her dog, Logan

The letter was dated Dec 18, 2009. The event that had happened was on Dec 10. I do not want to retell the story and the letter to Jasmine was a descriptive one and I thought I'd put that here.
Heya Jasmine,

Your papa forwarded me your email and I read it. No I'm not even mad at Logan or anything like that. I was shaken up by the whole thing. I never expected that from Logan. Sure, I've seen him chase the cats time to time and I thought it was cute. And well, he is a dog. What to expect?

Logan and Suzy are buddy buddy. Logan is not afraid of Suzy. I've seen them play chase and it is really endearing when they do that. Logan chasing Suzy or vice versa. If Suzy chase Kola, Kola right away lay down on her back and submit. Not your Logan! He's a MAN! Giggling.

Logan is a good dog but he doesn't seem to warm up to us. The first few weeks, he'd sit on the sofa with us. I always jump at the chance to pet him and comb him. I reckon he have had a enough of that "coddling" and just up and ignored us. It is hard to remove burrs from his paws or his face. He'd snap at us. Sigh! He's a sore sight with all those burrs on his face whenever he had a chance to run out the gate.

He's okay in the shower bathing. I have to hide the scissor and I try to snip off here and there. He's not dumb! He knows! Sometime he'd sigh and let me other time, he simply do not want to deal with this. Snap, Snap at me. Just let me GO!

Annabelle know Logan's name and that he belongs to you! She'd say that's jasmine's Logan!

The day Logan and Suzy had a fit with the cats was an awful day, an emotional one for me and the kids cuz we all saw the whole thing. Really, Annabelle was telling me that the cats were hurt. I was in the hall bathroom cleaning the toilet (yes the toilet, ugh). I was puzzled, cat hurt?? Then I saw Oreo coming toward to kids room and I knew Suzy was there and I just zooom to our bedroom.

First thing I saw was Charmine lying down on the floor with blood everywhere and I thought she was dead. Then I looked to my right, (the shower is gone so it was a big open room) I saw Logan and Suzy attacking Silver at toilet area. I screamed. Suzy backed off fast. Logan kept at it. I screamed some more and failed to get Logan's attention so I pulled Logan off Silver. Silver was able to go around back of toilet. Logan escaped and went back to attacking Silver. I had to grab him firmly at his back neck area. He was barking and barking. I saw Annabelle and Jonah sitting on our bed watching the whole scenery. I dragged Logan to the front door and yelling to get out. Suzy was in the dining room and I told her out. Logan tried to zoom back in the house but I prevented that and slam the front door. Then I zoooooooom to close the doggie door and I closed the laundry door for a good measure.

I was crying hysterically and shaken soo badly and I already was thinking, what if Suzy didn't obeyed?? there was a 2 x 4 lying on the floor. I had to restrain my thinking and to thank our Lord that I didn't have to use it and golly with the kids watching??? Thank you, lord, thank you! Im soo glad Suzy obeyed.

Annabelle right away asked me if charmine was dead. I didnt know if she was or not and my heart was broken when I saw charmine lying down with tongue out. Then I realize she was still alive but barely. She failed to escape to go around behind the bed where she usually go for refugee. She was soo close. I don't know how long I sat with charmine then annabelle asked me again.

Your papa was at work teaching ASL. I paged him right away and my hands shooked and had to use the delete button before i was able to spell the words correctly otherwise it's all gibberish and he'd think im outta my mind.

So about 30 hours later, Charmine passed away. As I had thought she would. She was old, getting thinner and thinner and I knew her time was near. But I never thought she'd go that way. What an awful way to go. She didn't deserved that. She never harmed or sneered at the dogs.. she was a peaceful cat. That's what made me feel soo badddd, soo badd she didn't deserved that. We buried her outside the fence area near where Josh and Justin's cars are.

I don't know who attacked Charmine. Logan or Suzy. For me, it's both of them.

Silver, jumped on the sink and stayed there all afternoon panting and panting. I checked him out, he was fine, just shooked up and exhausted cuz his tongue was out most of the afternoon. He let me pick him up and pet him and checked him out so I knew he was okay. He's young and he had some experience fighting them off. And I was relieved.

Oreo, she seem to know Logan and Suzy are forbidden inside and she s around everywhere in the house. No longer confined to our bedroom area. Sit on Mama Lola, and she's delighted. Im glad for Mama Lola.

Annabelle now keep on saying Logan's bad dog, bite cat, stay outside.

We were watching Lady and the Tramp disney movie. There was a scottie dog there and Annabelle identify that dog as Logan and said bad dog. I laughed and said no. Thats a different dog but yes same as Logan but not bad. She still say he s bad. I was surprised she was able to see that Logan the same kind of dog. But she doesnt understand that there are many same kind of dog but different like twin... but she's still young and will grasp understanding of it.

Mama Lola had forgotten that the black dogs were banished and tried to let them in. I had to run and get your papa to stop her cuz she'd not listen to me and kept saying im being bossy and that this is her home too. She succeeded letting them in and your papa dealt with her. I was shaken up by this and collapse in tears. It was only the following day and trauma was still there. Annabelle was telling Mama Lola, you bad let dogs in. She knows they re not allowed in.

It was probably a good thing it happened cuz we do leave mama Lola home alone for a few hours. Suppose she let them in while we were gone?? So we came up with solution that everytime we go out, we locked the door and cats in so she doesnt have access to open those 2 doors and let cats out and dogs in.. Yikes! I felt better after that.

Logan know that blanket you left for him belong to him. I've washed it countless of time. And I see him looking around for that blanket time to time and Id tell him, its in the washer or in the dryer or hey, let me go get it for him. I fold in in half then tri fold it and leave it in the laundry room for him. He does go there to sleep or rest or hope to be let in the house. He seem to understand, he cant go in. When, we re all alone in that room, he'd let me pet him and coddle. Not for very long. heh.

Annabelle is more communicative and wow.. Jonah s now more of copying and repeating what we say trying to decipher what it means. I'm amazed at them. I am blessed having them and your papa.

Logan is always outside barking and defending the fence perimeter. I've seen him in the backyard barking barking at something and running to and fro. He walk slowly but when he hear something, he's quick and gone. Amazing! he's fun to watch.

Golly gee its 1 am now and I've been blabbling... I just wanted to put your mind at ease about Logan! Just know, as long as you have Logan, don't have a cat. Not worth the emotion and all.

Good night, Jasmine. It's probably morning for you now? Good day to you.

lotsa love always
Teena



I could not believe how emotional I still am about this. I feel so bad for Charmine and I miss her dearly. Rest in peace, dear Charmine. (tears rolling down my cheek)

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Adios Jasmine!

Jasmine and Logan


I've gotten Jasmine a farewell card with the intention of including some moola for her missionary trip to Australia. She'd be gone about 7 months. But that card is still here. And she flew out today! I really like that silly card so I'll say what the card here said.

On the front cover with chihuahua dog with his big Mexican hat on saying
"Adios!"


The inside of the card...
"That's Spanish for SURE, GO AHEAD and leave your friends (your family), the only people who really care about you, FINE, JUST TAKE OFF!"


Again I really like that silly card. Jasmine, may you be blessed and all. We wish you all the best.

Your dog, Logan is doing good here and he'll be happy here.

We all love you.