Year 2003:  The adventures of the Berreth’s family in USA

 

 

 

 

Gigi graduated from University of Washington. She received her Bachelor Degree in Business Administration and the focus of her studies was finance. 3 weeks after her last final, she changed her OB doctor and  gave birth to Daniela.

 

 

 

 

March 31^st Gigi delivered Daniela at Overlake Hospital at 6:20 am. Gigi was proud to have a natural birth without any drugs. After delivering the baby she was feeling really well and very happy.  It was a joyful experience. Mother, Father and baby were fine. Frank was very helpful: he stayed with Gigi all the time. He drove her to the hospital, called Ruth to come over and went for walks while Gigi was having contractions. He also made sure nobody would harm the baby or the mother.

 

Ruth, Gigi’s sister, provided all the emotional support we needed. She was our Dula, sister, friend and advocate during all the time  and her help was inestimable. Ruth is also a great mother and her experience raising children is very valuable so anytime we have a question, just guess: who do we call?

 

 

 

 

 

April 25^th, Rachel, Gigi’s sister, got married. We were able to attend the wedding ceremony and part of the reception. Daniela behaved really well.

 

 

 

During the summer we met Amber, Wess and Jacob; great family.  They are very uplifting people  and we enjoyed doing some activities with them.  They came from Arizona for an internship at Microsoft and we hope they come back next year.

 

 

 

4^th of July we went to Oregon Coast. We basically had to stop driving every 2 hours to feed Daniela, to change her diaper or whatever. When she finally slept we were able to drive much more.  Once we got there, the beach was really nice. We also liked the little shopping area with all those stores for tourists. Daniela got very scared with the fire works used to celebrate 4^th of July. We stayed in the bedroom all the time and all that she wanted was to feel secure in arms of her mothers, so Gigi was holding her all the time.

 

 

August 13^th we went to Germany.  Daniela met for the first time her German family: great grandmother, grand parents, uncles, aunts and great uncle and aunt.   Yah! Yah! She did really well in the airplane sleeping most of the time. In Germany, Daniela stayed awake most of the time during the night and she slept from 7:00 am to 2:00 or 4:00 pm but we managed to visit everyone and it worked just fine.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September  18^th Frank’s father passed away. Our sincere feelings to everyone.

 

 

 

October 31^st we bought our home sweet home. Yes, this is true! It is a light 2-story house in a quiet cul de sac close to Microsoft, highway 520 and shopping area, with walking distance to Grass Lawn Park and in a good school district. Location! Location! Location! No, this is not an advertisement selling the house but after all hunting we finally found a house that we both really like and we are very happy about it.

 

 

November: We are organizing our new home and learning to become handy.

 

December: It is already December and we wish all of you a Merry Christmas  and a  Happy New Year.