Baby Shower #1

Juan's family through me a baby shower back in the beginning of April. It was a lot of fun! Lots of funny games and great food. Mexicans always have to bbq for any event, I diffidently am not complaining, I love the food! Juan's sisters put so much work into it, and it turned out great! Thank you guys!
Here's some pics...

Don't you love the thing around my neck. They made me wear it. It's some mexican tradition, I forget what it's call, but it was fun to have something different. =)

Most of the gang. Some people had to leave early.




It's so funny watching grown women drink out of bottles, and let me tell you, they chugged those bottles pretty fast.



Everyone had to guess how big my belly was with toilet paper. I think it was 10 squares.

We're both due almost the same day...she actually is due 2 days after me.

My wonderful hubby helping take all our wonderful, cute gifts to the car.

Mommy's Day

HAPPY MOMMY'S DAY!!!

To all you wonderful moms out there! You are all examples to me! I don't know how you all do it, but I guess I'm gonna be figuring that out here pretty soon... =)

Hope you all have a great day! Love you guys!


I Love You Mom!


Just wanted to let my mom know how much I really love her and appreciate her! I truely think I have the best mom. I am so grateful to her for every sacrifice she has made for us and for the example she has set. As I've gotten older and am getting close to being a mom myself, I have realized and understand why she did the things she did.

Like not letting me stay out all hours of the night...because she loves me.


Or making me go to school when I didn't want to...because she loves me.


Grounding me when I did something wrong...because she loves me.


Waking me up for church every Sunday...because she loves me.

I have come to realize more that a mom truely wants what is best for their kids (they are not just trying to make our lives miserable). I am who I am today because of my wonderful mom. Thank you, mom, for the unconditional love, staying strong and putting your foot down when something didn't feel right, and for being an example in leading me in the right way. You're a great mom and I hope I can follow in your footsteps. You are the best! I love you!!!

Where does time go?

Sorry this is kinda a long post...

I can't believe how fast time has gone by. I remember when we first found out we were pregnant and it felt like it was so far away for her to be born...well it's almost time and I can't believe it. I remember being so anxious to finally get that pregnant belly and not just look like I like to eat, and that belly is all here now! I wanted to get everything done in the nursery months before she would be born so I wouldn't have to worry about it when time got close, but here I am 3 weeks before she's due and it still isn't finished. I thought I had plenty of time, but that time has just flown by!

I went to the doctor's yesterday and got my first "fun" internal exam and I was shocked to hear that she has dropped and I'm dilated to about a 1. I was shocked, but its good because things are going as they are supposed to be. At the same time it put me into way crazy freak out mode. I still have so much to do and it made me realize that she really could be here any day. I was planning on getting so much done this past week, but things always seem to get in the way. Monday I was able to do some stuff, but I just can't move as fast as I used to before I had this big belly. Then on Tuesday I was out with my mom getting our hair cut and doing her nails, and then we celebrated Eric's birthday that night, so there went that day. That night when I got home I was feeling really sick and I kept waking up like every hour feeling really sick. Then I woke up and found out that almost everyone in my family was sick too. Great! We didn't know if we got food poisoning or if it was a flu. It hit all of us at the same time, so it seemed like food poisoning because we all ate at Brooke and Eric's that night. Brooke and Eric weren't sick though (I think they poisoned us) ;-) jk. Brooke was so worried that she got everyone sick, but it seemed like more of a stomach bug as time went on. Well all day Wednesday I was stuck in bed feeling like crap. I ended up throwing up twice. Only the babies, Caiden and Alaura, were the other ones that threw up. I got to be one of the lucky ones to get hit hard with it. When night came I still felt really sick and then I started contracting a lot(every few minutes from like 8pm-2am). It was not fun. I took a bath hoping that would calm it down and it helped. After 2 am I finally slept a lot better. Thursday I still didn't feel 100%. I still felt exhausted and had no appetite. I didn't get much done but some laundry and make dinner. It was so frustrating! Friday I went to the doctor's and then when I got home I started tearing apart all my cupboards and stuff. For some reason I feel like I have to have everything completely organized in my whole apartment, plus I'm trying to make more space for all her stuff, cus we are very limited on space here. So I'm probably making more work for my self than I should, but I'm just a nut like that... =)



Last night Juan and I picked up some food and went to the park and had a picnic. It was nice to get out. Then we went walking around. I always thought it was funny when I heard that women would say that they felt like the baby was gonna drop out. It's a funny way to put it, but the pressure of the baby's head really causes that feeling and I felt that the whole time we were walking. Pregnancy is such a crazy thing. The things us women have to go through to bring a baby into this world. =) Over all though I am feeling pretty good. Not feeling real uncomfortable. The main thing is that I am still feeling real exhausted and feel like I have to take a break every 15-30 minutes of doing stuff. I thought the end would be the worst part, but I felt way worse in the beginning. Hopefully things will continue to go so smooth. My doctor's says he thinks it seems like I could have an easy labor. I sure hope so! I guess we'll see soon, hopefully not too soon though, I'm not ready. =) Hopefully I don't put myself into early labor...



Here's a picture of me at the park last night. Juan said I look bigger in the pic than I really am, but maybe he was just trying to be nice. =)

I lied! Sorry!

I guess I lied! I didn't mean to. Sorry! I really had all intent to get everything caught up, but I didn't realize how busy I was gonna be. This whole baby thing is coming so quick! I feel like there is so much to do, but I don't even know what it is that I really need to do. I feel so lost with everything right now. How do first time moms get through this? I feel like I don't know anything about what I need or what I need to do to prepare for her. Is this normal or am I just stupid?

So I have a lot of posts to catch up on like two baby shower pics(one of which was last night, and Brooke did an awesome job putting it together. Can't wait to show off those pics. She's amazing), my b-day, maternity pics (which Brooke did those as well. They are so good! You would think she has been doing photography for years! Thanks Brooke!) and hopefully soon now, Leyna's nursery pics. I got a post done for Juan's b-day so I will post that now to keep you guys busy. I'll get everything else done hopefully Sunday. Today is filled with things to do as well so I don't have time to do all that yet. Posting is so time consuming... I have lots of fun pics and can't wait to share them with you guys, until then hope you enjoy these pics of Juan's many birthday days. =)

Major Catch Up!!

I know I haven't been keeping everyone up to date lately and I'm sorry. Life has gotten busy and I've just been procrastinating. I really have no excuse except I didn't feel like blogging when I had the chance, and I didn't always have a computer to use. I'm working on getting all my posts caught up. So they should be up tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Juan again and again and again...

We ended up celebrating Juan's Birthday like 10 times it seems like. We went out the day before his Birthday and then on his birthday. Then we went to Tony Roma's (his favorite) on our way home from one of his jobs up north. We don't have a Tony Roma's here in town so we don't get to go very often. It was a lot of fun! We both love their baby back ribs. =) Here's some pictures of Juan chowing down...

Two weeks after his birthday we were finally back in town so we celebrated with his family...

Then we celebrated with my family...

Here's a couple belly pictures too...

The kid in my husband

Juan is such a lil kid sometimes, but that's what makes being married to him so much fun! The other day we were leaving to go out to dinner and he thought it would be fun to slide down the stair rail. Little did he know what was gonna happen. After he slid down I caught sight of his back side and he had a huge streak of white paint on his black pants.

Since I said something we had to go back to the hotel room and I had to clean his tooshy. =) It didn't all come out so he still had to change his pants. Just one of the simple joys of being married to my husband...