It's nice to be home.

It such a blessing being home and seeing so many familiar faces that I love. Washington was great and I miss the "city" life, but West side is great.

One great thing that I want to post about was PJ surprising me by coming home early on our anniversary day. I expected him to be home the day after but he tricked me and arrived Wednesday at 7pm. I cried and was so so happy. We missed him so.

I still have pictures I want to post but I will as soon as I get more organized :)

New York

On June 6th, the family headed up to upstate New York (near Albany) to visit PJ's old seminary friend and where PJ had an opportunity to preach on Sunday morning.

Our 7 hour road trip ended up being a 11 and a half hour road trip! The Lord was kind to show me sin and allow me to fight to be happy in him. A toddler and a newborn baby is no way to travel via the road for 11-12 hours. A lesson learned :)

But despite all that, we had a wonderful time, and Elijah came to love Mr. Gary, and Mrs. Denise (as he came to call them) and the love was definitely reciprocated. The church was loving and Gary and Denise are just a blessing.

Too hot, so Elijah headed to the kiddie pool.

Happy 1 month Key!

My baby girl just turned 1 month! God is so good.

A day with an intern...

We had a lovely opportunity to hang out with Justin one last time 3 weeks ago (PJ's internship friend). Justin wanted to take us to see two cathedrals, the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception (Catholic) and the Washington National Cathedral (Episcopal). The Washington National Cathedral was gorgeous and had a rose garden where Key had a photo shoot. It was a grand'ol time. We will miss Justin dearly!

At the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
At the Washington National Cathedral (aka Episcopalian cathedral). It has stunning Gothic architecture.

Elijah absolutely loves Justin!

Mom always helps...

There's been tons of stuff going on in the Tibayan household, but I have failed to update our blog. Considering I have a newborn who's "primetime" is during the night, I would say I can't be too hard on myself :)

So a quick update:

My mom was here right before I delivered and left May 28th, just enough time to enjoy her new grand-daughter, (I think this is her 11th). We were fortunate to be blessed with her help and had a chance to show her around. We headed to the Museum of Holocaust, up the Washington Monument, and to the White House.