"Tita Julie, fifty dollars."

Rock's favorite person to see is Tita Julie, he got very attached to her in New York, and even cried when she hopped on the bus, to head home, our last day there. One morning in New York, he kept saying "Tita Julie, fifty dollars" and we wondered if she kindly gave him fifty dollars and perhaps miss placed it, so we called her, and she had no clue why he was repeating that. Until now, he at times says it. When she was around this past week, any time he found money, he made sure to let his tita Julie know.

Lord, we pray that you will make yourself known more, and more to tita Julie, and that she might behold your wonderous beauty.

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.

Boots...

So Yek left Wednesday morning. It was a sad and hard good bye for uncle Yek. But we had fun and were grateful for Yek to enjoy spending lots of time vegging with his nephew. Tuesday night we headed to the Lincoln Memorial and I dropped the guys off while Elijah and I waited in the car. Yek is not into sight seeing but he needed some evidence that he was in DC!



Josh spent 2 nights at our place in order to get his fill of Yek.
Josh came to our place with his Army gear and Elijah decided he wanted to be like his uncle and put on some boots...hence the family name "Boots."

uncle Yek visits

Yek arrived on Saturday. PJ went to the airport to pick him up and Yek called him letting PJ know he landed and is waiting for him. PJ, just to make sure, asks Yek if he is at Regan airport (17 minutes away from our place), Yek perplexed, has no idea what the heck "Regan" is, he says he is at Dulles airport. PJ calls me and says he is the best brother ever, because he has left his brother stranded at Dulles airport which is an hour away. Thank God for Yek's patience and ability to laugh at silly situations.

Rock's birthday present from uncle Yek.


We walked to Eastern Market to eat and hang out, Yek loved the neighborhood and atmosphere here in DC. It was a beautiful day but DC's weather is so weird because at 8:30 pm it started to rain, actually pour. Yek thought it was pretty weird too. So we all got a little wet, except PJ, he got soaked running to the car so it could be closer to us...what a hero!

Elijah has been enjoying his uncle and the silliness he brings into his life...even ours :)

So long Browns

The Brown's left yesterday but not before a scrumptous Five Guys lunch. Their burgers are so good! Even PJ thinks they're better than IN-N-Out burgers, except, we all agreed, that In-N-Out has the better fries. Both the Tibayans and Browns, are forced recovering In-N-Outoholics, Five Guys met our cravings just fine.
Good-bye Browns, perhaps we will see you all again when Key is 2 years old :(

The Browns are in town!

Derek and Amy arrived Friday night from Kentucky! PJ and I were excited to see the two of them. There's been sweet fellowship and have beeen enjoying hanging out with them. On Saturday we did some touring, Derek wanted to see the Air and Space Museum, so we moseyed on over.








PJ and Elijah love making funny faces together, this is one of their signature faces :)

Praise God for fellowship that is rich and points to Christ. It's been a delight hanging out with the Brown's. Elijah has, of course, grown attach to them. On Saturday night he cried for Amy before we went to sleep...my Elijah is too dramatic!

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On Saturday night we were invited for desert to celebrate the engagement of Patrick Schreiner (PJ's intern colleague) and Hannah! Congrats again!!! We are excited to know that Christ, by his grace, will be displayed in your marriage.

Day 4

These crazy guys did their own thing while Elijah napped and kuya RC arrived at our apartment. They have their own story of what they did and adventured to.

We all went to dinner together at our favorite Bistro Italiano, but had to sit separately because they couldn't accommodate such a big party. So the girls sat together with Elijah.

Jenny, Lou and Reinna tried to lure Elijah to them-- to see who'd win, but there was no question, although he grew very fond of all of them, they couldn't match up to his "auntie".

Day 3

Saturday we headed to Union Station for lunch. I just figured out that there was a scene in "The Sentinel" at Union Station. Go Jack Bauer!!!


Elijah distraught over leaving the water fountain.

Then we all went home to take naps. Praise God for rest.

Day 2

After my doctors appointment, I took Jennifer, Reinna, and Elijah out on a short tour. PJ and Louie were occupied with the 9Marks Weekender.

Jenny wanted to be the photographer, so she had lots of opportunity to show off her "eye" for a good shot.

1st stop- Capitol

2nd stop: Botanical Gardens
He had so much fun at the pond--splashing away and flirting with a little girl doing the sameAuntie showing him to hit and destroy flowers! Good thing we didn't get kicked out.

3rd stop: American Indian Museum
We basically walked in and out, our attention span, unfortunately, was very low here but the outside was beautiful. Elijah, in tears, wanted to play with the water.

4th stop: Air & Space Museum
Upon Reinna's excited request, we headed here, but all we did was walk through to sit at the McDonald's for 30 minutes and say how tired we all were and then headed home...go figure.
Key was just vegging it too.

A sweet reunion: Day1

Jennifer, Louie, and Reinna arrived Thursday evening. We had everyone wait outside except Jennifer, so PJ and I could see Elijah's reaction. Oh boy, was he excited! He recognized her immediately and said "Auntie" and jumped into her open arms.

The sweet reunion.

Familiar faces...
Elijah taking pictures
...and of course crazy Rein