The Coil

Phillip and I invited both our family for our wedding in Bahrain. My family lives in Indonesia and that was the first time for my family except for my aunt to travel outside Indonesia, on the other hand Phillip’s parents  had to fly from US all the way to Middle East, we were really glad that they arrived safe. It was so exhausting to arrange the visas for my whole family since they never visit Bahrain before.
I was on duty when they arrived so Phillip had to clean the house and shopped for the guests. When I came back from flight, just to see that the whole family were there waiting  made me  nervous. I couldn’t stop my self giggling until Bibi said "Whoaa…you don’t want to scare your future in law because all you can do is giggling in front of them on the first meeting" Oopss!!
Then we were busy going around Bahrain (Saudi’s bridge, The Souq, Bahrain Museum, Tree of Life, shopping), doing wedding preparation,etc. Although there was a language barrier -since my mom and grandma both can’t speak English-, this East and West family were easily getting along.
I only hope that we will have another family holiday in Indonesia or US or somewhere else soon, except the next one without my grandma since she passed away in February 2005

Finally, we met our long time friends from Bahrain. Mr. and Mrs. England from Florida came visit us on 4th of July weekend 2005. I thrilled to see Tesa because she always a good friend of mine since we -once- lived in Bahrain.The couple stayed for 4 days and we were having a good time, exchange stories some new some old ones….It always nice to have conversation about old fun memories. Kaela was happy to have her Om and Tante visited her, she got a cute Monkey doll from Om and Tante.
We tookTesa and Mike around to Union Station, River Market, The Plaza, Parkville, had a picnic but we decided that wasn’t enough, so they have to come back to see us again. Right Tes??

Kaela’s first birthday held at our first apartment in Liberty in 2003. We were having a good time and a lot of Phillip’s parent’s friends came because we haven’t make a lot of acquitances at that time except Wilson’s family,Saptojoga’s couple, Scott, Suzie and Nicolette. Kaela had a blast as you can see on pictures! We love you baby!!

Halloween is a big day in US, both for adult and children:) and it’s happens every October 31st.
People start plans for a big Halloween party and decorate the house with big pumpkins, fly witches get stuck on the tree, big ghost baloon, etc weeks before the big day. This year, we got invitation from Nicolette and Scot King for the Halloween  party at their house. Too bad, I didn’t catch a lot of pictures because I was too busy  admired some people in their custom -this was my first Halloween party anyway:)- there was a Geisha,Miss Pigy and Mr. Kermit, a Matrix Man, a Bad Witch, an Omani Sheikh (Phillip), a Bride from the 60’s (myself), etc…..It was a nice gathering.
This year  was a first time that we dressed Kaela in Halloween costum and took her "treat or tricked" around. I almost bought her an Angel costum but then I saw too many girl dress in angel costum…hah……After a quite thinking at K-MArt store, I bought a Clown Wig and a Make Up tray. Kaela was upset because she already had her eyes on the angel wings, but I told her it would be so much fun to become a clown, finally she gave up…Mom always right…:) I was thinking I will have couple more years until she will have her own voice..so I better have fun with my MOM POWER…hehehe.
Kaela was succesfully brought home a full pumpkin basket with candies..tons of them. We have a deal that she only can have one candy everyday until  her basket is empty with a "big" help from Mama and Dada..
Ooo….I looove Halloween…..!!

When I was pregnant with Kaela, it was so much fun. I wasn’t gain so much weight and Thanked God that I didn’t experience morning sickness. The labour it self was a bit of pain (daaa???……) that I decided to have an epidural. Kaela Athena Coil was born at Awali hospital in Bahrain on April 26th 2002 at 3 PM.

We are the Coil from Liberty, Missori. Not much to say for the first post, but we will put some neat stories to share with family and friends.