update on us...

Well, so far it has been a packed couple of days! I am off till Monday so we have used these past three days to the fullest!
Thursday we went shopping, went to work/church to meet people and also went and looked at a basement suite, which we did rent, effective immediately! So then Friday was spent cleaning the new suite (with the wonderful help of my mom & sister), going downtown to apply for Ronel's SIN card -- which was successfully completed!, and then home for dinner and then back to the suite to clean some more (and on each trip we moved some boxes of stuff I had packed waiting for our own place). Today we went and visited friends and saw their new home and Ronel got to meet some more new people -(I've been trying to do introductions in small groups so that Sunday won't be so overwhelming with introductions at church, especially of people who are close to me) after that we came home, packed the van with boxes (had my mom's van) ate lunch and then headed to the house to unpack. My mom met us there to switch vehicles and we got permission to paint from the landlords. We unpacked some of the rubbermaids into the kitchen which was a lot of fun cause quite a bit of it was gifts from my bridal shower and other gifts I gotten over the years which have never been unpacked before! Now we are off to a friend's 30th birthday and more new people for Ronel to meet!

look!!

This is what the Citizenship & Immigration Canada website says today about our application!

 

Permanent Residence Application Status : Complete

RONEL CLEDOMIN entered Canada at P.E. Trudeau International Airport on September 8, 2009 and became a Permanent Resident.

Yeah!!!!!!

We arrived in Vancouver yesterday at 5pm to see the wonderful smiling faces of my family -- my mom was there, my brother and his FIANCE (it happened while they were on vacation and then I was in Haiti so it was a surprise for me yesterday! but I'm so happy for them), my youngest sister & her husband and my younger sister and her two boys (her husband was unfortunately at work - he works evenings)

We had an uneventful trip and were glad to be finished with flying! We all went over to my brother's house to eat and hang out. It was fun to sit with my family and have my husband with me.

Ronel says that it has been a big change but he's glad he's here.

I will try to write more about the trip and everything soon but for right now, I'm going to go settle in with my hubby, unpack and run some errands (we need to apply for things like Ronel's SIN, medical, etc...., plus pick up some needed items like a sweater, etc.) and then we'll stop in at work and church so he can meet some more people and then meet my mom later on....


so have a great day! I know we will!!!!