Sunday, May 20, 2007

Flowers Bloom in May Challenge!!!

Scrapbytes have another challenge this mommy's month...The Flowers Bloom in May.
The challenge this month, is to include flowers in your layouts. Use die-cuts, felt, fabrics, metal or paper flowers. Anything that tickles your flower fancy!But remember, you must USE AT LEAST 10 pieces of flower items in your layouts. The more the merrier.(rules)
For this challenge, Imade a layout for my baby Arryanne photo while she's still in the nursery room of St Dominic Medical Center, Bacoor, Cavite...She was born May 26, 2003. Next day after birth, her pedia talk to us about her condition. She didn't make POO within 24 hours, her stomach bloated already. As we see the x-ray, it seems that her anus was closed. Her pedia consulted to a pediatric surgeon right away & they talk to us after the surgeon examined my baby. He give us another 24 hour observation after he check the baby. And if, it doesn't work, in her 2nd day she will undergo to an operation. As a mother, i can't help but cry..thinking what might happen during the operation. The whole family are worried not only for the baby but for the fee coz the surgeon give us the figure of about 1 to 2 hundred thousand. What else I am worried is, how can I see my baby with many tube connected to her???
Von & I are lifting up to God & praying that she will not undergo an operation. My mother pray over her in the nursery room. We seek prayers from our family's & friends mostly to the Marriage Encounter Community where my parents are engaged already. By the power of prayers, the next day she poo already, even little by little, still she will not undergo for an operation. Becuse of not having Poo for almost 48 hours, she had an infection already. & the peadia decided to left her in the hosp nursery room for a few days to an observation.
Going home after giving birth without a baby was not that easy. I thought that it only happened to my eldest but it was also to my new baby.
Here's my Miracle Layout:

Materials used: Bazzil cardstock, UrbanLily-babylily collection(Denim), ChatterBox-Olive Orchard Blossom ( for handcuts flowers), Colorbox Ink.
Journalling: Having you was already a Miracle given by God to us. And bringing you home after a few days left at the hospital's nursery room without having the operation you might undergo while your're just two days old, was another Miracle, and this time power of prayers works in our family.

Saturday, May 19, 2007

Side Trip....


Aside of having a vacation in Ormoc, Von made a schedule of having a customer visit at Coca Cola Tacloban Plant, May 10, 2007. Since I haven't gone to Coke, Tacloban & haven't visit some tourist spot there, I decided to go with him for a plan of having a side trip also LOL. Then, after his short meeting with the Quality Assurance Manager. We went to the plan site.....the Mac Arthur Shrine / Leyte Landing Park, Palo Leyte. It was too hot that day. But it didn't matter as long as we can took some pictures....LOL. In short...we really felt we're tourist.








Mother's Day Month!!!

Belated happy mother's day to all!!!


I just came from a vacation at Ormoc, Leyte & celebrated mother's day entertaining visitors coz its our Barrio Fiesta, Feast of Fatima... The whole family are excited in this trip, for me personally, after 12 years I was able to attend the said fiesta once again. & the kids are more excited than I am coz they're going to the beach & swim.
For mother's day...I have made a layout for me & my hubby (Von) did the journalling:

RAQUEL

Journalling from hubby says:

A warm wife to me ( Von Ryan V. Cortez)...

A full time mommy to Jayvee & Arryanne...

A Sweet & Lovable Person...

A Caring Mother...

A Scrapper...