8yrs Together - 4yrs Married Anniversary

On Thursday 11/12 was our anniversary. Every year we really don't celebrate it much because we always have other things planned but this year I told Carlos that we needed to celebrate it no matter what. It's time we start making some time for ourselves and I have to tell you... it was SO MUCH FUN!!!!

Dear Carlos,

These years together have been tough, happy ones, sometimes sad, but most of all AMAZING! Who would have thought that when we started dating it would grow into this unconditional love... we have faced a lot of bumps down the road but we ALWAYS fought them together which is the most important thing. You've never left me and I will never leave you.

I thought the day we said "I do" was the most fantastic day but I was wrong.... that was only the start of "fantastic days" that we would share. Together we have made the most beautiful babies in the world. I can not even begin to show you how grateful I am for them. We have such a perfect family.

Thank you for all the amazing ways you LOVE me. Thank you for the wonderful babies you have given me. Thank you for still knowing how to make me laugh when I'm down. Thank you for loving me the way you do.

All I can tell you is... I LOVE YOU! I hope that with saying those three words you know exactly how much and what I mean by it.

You are my soul mate.... my lobster.... what people long for.... you are my EVERYTHING!

Love,

Your Wife




29wks with Sophia Arelis

Video's of My Main Man

Here are some video's of BC... I swear I was cracking up watching them as I was downloading them.

Here is BC dancing... he hears music and he's all over it! Sorry... this one came out so dark... I forgot to put some lights on... but you can still see him break it down. :)

Here he is throwing besos (kisses)

Here he is riding his bike

Trick-Or-Treat!!!!

We had a FABULOUS time on Halloween. I invited my sister's over with the kids and we made it a taco night. They all got here and we ate a TON of food... then it was on to carving the pumpkins and trick- or- treating!

I refused to go out during the day time because it was just WAY TO HOT outside. So we waited till around 7pm and it was great because we had a nice cool breeze. We went around my neighborhood which turned out pretty well. We only got to do half the neighborhood because all of us were tired but the kids got a TON of candy!!!

BC had SO MUCH fun trick- or-treating. At first he was like "What are we doing out so late and why are all these strange people looking at me"... LOL!!! But he warmed up and gave smiles to everyone.


Check out the CUTEST little monkey you've EVER seen!!!!





the kids ready to go





My sister and her family expect for Angeliz who was at Sea World





My family... BC was looking at his cousins and saying "HEY... wait for me!!!" See even Baby Girl joined in! ;)






Time to crave the pumpkin!!!! BC wasn't sure about that stuff!!!

Our FIRST pumpkin!!!! Carlos did a GREAT job with it!

Can you find baby girl????

Happy Halloween!!!!! Baby Girl at 27wks

Pumpkin Patch Time!

On Wednesday we finally got a chance to take BC to the pumpkin patch and he LOVED it. He was amazed to see so many pumpkins in one place! LOL!!!


We just let him walk around and play with all of them. It was so nice. Last year I wanted to take him but with him being so tiny I knew he wouldn't enjoy it as much as he did this time.


Here is my little guy enjoying the pumpkin patch...





Daddy I think I like this one






Let me smell this one




with Mommy







and Daddy






maybe this one will taste good







yeah no that didn't work

think this will help my headache?? ;)

which one should I pick???? Decisions decisions

peek-a-boo!

the pumpkin we picked and bought!

and just because I'm cute!

26wks... 7mths.... 3rd Trimester!!!!!

HOLY MOLY.... when did this happen?!?!?!?!?! Honestly this pregnancy is going by toooooooo fast! I was asked yesterday if I was "ready" for her to come and I have to say... NO!!!! Not even if she was all "done" and finished baking. I'm just enjoying every moment I have with her alone in my belly. See... I'm a "little" selfish when it comes to my babies and I know that the minute she's out... I'd have to share her. Plus I'm just having fun with her inside of me and I'm in no rush to have her out yet. Don't get me wrong... I just turned 7mths so we'll see how I feel when I'm 9mths... but for now. No thanks! ;)

Things overall have been going really good with her. It's weird how different this pregnancy feels from BC but I guess what they say is right... "every pregnancy is different".

Lets see...

The pains (BH cx)... OMG... I have been getting them since early on in this pregnancy but I tell you... they are nothing like I had them with BC... they are a LOT stronger... not stronger in the sense of "OMG I have to go to the hospital"... but "OMG... these things HURT and are STRONG". With BC I would get them and it was just my belly getting tight so I knew I was having a contraction... this time... I'm saying "okay getting a contraction here... OUCH!".

RLP (round ligament pain)... stretching... you can really feel things expanding in there! I still remember this one time I was running some errands with BC and when I got home... holy crap... the pain just kicked in!!! I was just saying "OUCH OUCH OUCH".... and I had to sit down the rest of the day and put my feet up because it hurt to even move!

OMG... the PIMPLES... okay so you know your random pimple here and there... yeah well I'm NOT talking about THOSE. These are like an extra LIMB!!!!! and the places they show up!!!! Okay so for like a week I would sit down and feel this pain on my butt cheek but didn't know what the heck it was. That night I went on "discovery mission" and guess what I found... a HUGE PIMPLE on my BUTT CHEEK!!!! Who the heck gets a pimple on their butt check?!?!? Leave it up to me!

I think that about covers it for now. ;) But like I said... besides these small things that happen every once in a while... she's been good to her mama.

My appt went well too. Really not much to say about it. I've gained a total of 12lbs so far (most of that is probably the homemade chocolate chip cookies I eat every night) :)

I also had an u/s to see if we could get pictures of my little princess but she's just like her brother and wouldn't show us much. After an hour and a half of trying to get her to let us see and me wiggling my belly, jumping up and down, turning on my side.... she showed us a quick glimpse of her face and guess what she was doing... she was LAUGHING at us!!!! LOL!!!! I swear she totally knew what she was doing and when she looked at us she decided it would be funny to laugh at Mommy and Daddy. LOL!!! The u/s tech was quick enough to snap the picture since she only stood in that position for a few seconds... then she went back to not letting us see. My little one wants to remain a mystery... which is fine with mama.

I go back in 2wks... I'm already going every 2wks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where is the PAUSE button!?!?!?!?!

I have my glucose test... :( Hopefully I pass it and don't have to go in for the 3hr one! Anyway.. that's about it for now. I'll update you guys in 2wks!

Here are some belly shots...



26wks





I just LOVE my big 'o' belly!!!!





and here is the shot of my little girl laughing at us... I had to take a picture of the picture (I know... horrible) but hey I got it on here right! ;)

Birthday Week - PARTY TIME!!!!!!!!!

Planning BC's birthday party was SO MUCH FUN. I enjoyed every bit of it. We had so much fun picking things out and planning all the games. Like every Mommy will tell you... it was a little sad because your running around trying to be "such a good host" for your guest that you don't get to spend as much time as you would like with the birthday boy. So I'm glad I had plan the whole week with him so it wasn't that bad.

Anyway... on to the fun stuff... here are some pictures of the party...



Cake table with favors





The AWESOME cake... it was more then I expected. Heather did a FABULOUS job with it! Oh and it tasted good too! :)





food table... if you look closely we put fake insects on the food.... heehee





Drinks and chips table





Decorations





MY MONKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






BC and Sydnie.... come on... say the truth... you know these are the cutest monkey and piggy you've EVER saw!!!!!! Freaking ADORABLE!!!!!

Mommy and BC playing hot "pumpkin"... I know it's a little blurry

Here is another one of us... blurry again... but it's the only ones I got with my camera... I have no idea what happened with the setting.

Ready to sing Happy Birthday

Family picture singing Happy Birthday...

my monkey standing by his cake

Daddy and the birthday boy

the presents!

all the toys!

BC looking/playing with his smash cake the next morning

Since it was late the night before we didn't get to open and play with any of his toys so the next morning was like Christmas... he was SO EXCITED to see all his toys! We opened up a few of them that morning and still have a some to open!

By the way don't mind my pj's... it was COLD!

BC looking through all his gifts

I just want to take a moment to say THANK YOU to all of those who made it out to BC's birthday party. I really appreciate you guys wanting to spend this special day with my son. It was so nice to see you all!!!!! Thank you again!!!!!

Birthday Week - 1yr old pictures

We took BC to get his 1yr old pictures at Portrait Innovations. It was the first time we had ever took BC to a "studio" to take pictures. At first he wasn't quite sure what they wanted him to do and was wondering why these "strangers" were trying to get him to laugh but then he warmed up and was a total HAM just like usual.






Look at my adorable MONKEY!!!! The monkey he's handing is the monkey we made him before he was born at Build - A- Bear. If you press his hand you'll hear BC's heartbeat!




playing with the pumpkins

LOL.... this face reminds me of the line "what you talking about Willis"

after all the cracking up... he was bound to get it... the drool mark! LOL!