5 years

Danny and I recently celebrated our 5 year anniversary in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. We were there for 5 sunrises and six sunsets and we watch all of them. The weather was beautiful and where we stayed was perfect. The picture above is from our balcony. 

We spent our days snorkeling, swimming, walking and driving a lot, eating, visiting tourist traps, and surfing. Yes, I surfed. I cant believe it either. I'm sure I looked hilarious.

I am so grateful for our families who took care of the little ones for us. They loved spending time with their families. We can never be grateful enough.

Grandma Great to Jack but Grandma to me

My abuelita passed away this month and we will miss her. We are so lucky to know that she is in a better place now. Her funeral was beautiful my family did a really great job. It was nice to see everyone together and celebrating her life. It surprises me how Jack remembers her. When he sees a picture of her he will say "Grandma Great". What surprises me most is, he will randomly ask where Grandma Great is. When she passed we would just say that she is in heaven but the last couple of days he has been talking about her a lot. It is very cute and makes me smile. We love her and will miss her.

Update on Jack

It has been almost two months since I blogged last and it has been driving me crazy. I never like to do two months of updates in one blog so I am going to try to space it out. Jack is getting big of course and so much fun to be with and to talk to. He is talking a lot. He will attempt and pretty much succeed at whatever you ask him to say. The only thing he doesn't repeat is "I love you" or "I love you too". He is stubborn.

My favorite things he says

1. Hug? (and reaches out for a hug) 2. Good morning Momma, how are you? 3. Poppa Pat and Gam Gam (Grandparents)

Jack also has been sleeping in a twin bed now for almost 3 three weeks and he calls it his "cool bed". For the last two nights he has slept the entire night through with out coming to our room. Yahoo! I love having him in our bed some nights but I am getting so big that my belly gets pushed and kicked too much. He loves going to nursery, playing in water, wrestling with Dad, and hanging out with cousins and his grandparents. I love this little boy so much, he makes me smile and laugh out loud every day. He is almost two and isn't so terrible:)

We Love Dadda

My Fathers Day post is late but we can still tell our Dad that we love him very much and appreciate all he does for our family. We love, love, love you.

We love it when he reads books

We love to wear his shoes

and socks. Happy Late Fathers Day!

Date night

It takes me a while to post anything since we don't have a computer yet, so my posts are going to be a little behind.

Over a week ago Danny took me out for my birthday. We have not gone on a date with just the two of us for over a year now. Yeah, it's about time! For dinner we went to all you can eat wings at Wingers. It was good. I love a good Wingers! Except Danny keeps telling me he can't go back there again because he had too many wings. That is too bad for me. After dinner we went and saw Couple's Retreat at the movie theater. I really liked it and Danny did too. After watching the movie I felt like taking my own couple's retreat down to Bora Bora. One of these days I will have a post from Bora Bora and more date nights.

Jack's Birth Story

8 months pregnant

It has been almost one year since I have given birth to my first baby boy and I have always wanted to write down his birth story for my own journaling purpose. Feel free to read or go ahead and skip.

My due day was October 15th but of course I went over a couple days, I knew I would. In the middle of the night about 1:00am I was woken up by some pain I was having. I really didn't think much of it so I tried to go back to sleep. The pain started to become more frequent, still didn't think much of it, I had no idea I was having contractions. I can be oblivious to things like that. Around 2 am it was painful and they were coming about every five minute. So I finally woke Danny up and told him. We kind of just laid there for a minute not sure what do to. Then we thought we should go to the hospital so we did and luckily the hospital is less then 5 min away because I was in a lot of pain. So we got there, they checked me and I wasn't dilating fast enough so they made me walk around the hospital like a fool for over an hour. I wanted to kill them because it hurt so bad. Finally they checked me in and gave me my epidural, thank heaven. After they set me up and given me all my drugs and broke my water I quickly dilated up to an 8 and was starting to feel my contractions again and they wanted me to start to push. At this point I wanted to die but the baby was still doing fine so that was good. My metabolism is so fast that they had to keep giving me extra drugs to stay numb and surprisingly I could still lift my legs and move around. I pushed for over an hour and Jack came out at 11:23am. He was 7lbs even and a loud screamer. It was a simple birth and somewhat fast, that's the way I like it.

At that moment I couldn't believe he was here and that I actually gave birth. I honestly thought I couldn't do it. But he was here and healthy and beautiful. Danny and I were so happy and are amazed everyday that we have such a beautiful, funny, smart little boy.

Wedding

Finally I am posting from our crazy busy week last week. I think I sat down at the computer several times to update my blog and never had a minute to finish. We had family in town which is always fun and we have been working really hard on our home so we can move in this week! Yay!

Sam and Heidi are married and here are some pictures. It was a beautiful wedding and we had a lovely time.

Secrets to a Happy Marriage and a Small Update

There are a few articles on this blog, that gives great advice for matrimony.

We are still working really hard on our home. We have been painting the past week and it seems like it will never end. It will probably take a few more weeks to finish painting and all the last minute touches. Refurbishing a house is not easy and Danny has been doing a lot of work. I really appreciate all his work and all our family members who have helped. Thank You.

3 Years

We celebrated our 3rd year anniversary and we are still two fools in love.

This is us sitting on our front porch just finishing our dinner from Carl's Jr. It's a little tradition we have.

We have been working on our house everyday - even the day of our anniversary - but it's worth it. We still have some work to do but it's coming along. We just finished staining our floors. We will have to put three more coats of finish on it before they are complete. We are so excited that our home ended up having hard wood floors through out. We decided to finish them and it is looking great. After we finish with the floors then it's time to paint and put in all new base boards. It is going to look amazing.

Playlist

Danny and I have been married 3 years this month. So for a little tribute to the 3 years we have been married and for the 2 years we dated, I decided to put together a playlist of some of our favorite songs. Enjoy. And to explain the name of my playlist (if you noticed) there were no other names available so that is what I ended up with.

Dads

Jack and his Dad. A bedtime routine they both Love. Happy Fathers Day to all Dads especially the ones we love. And Happy Fathers Day to my husband and Jacks dad: You are the funniest and smartest person I know and I am grateful to you and all you do for our family. We love you.

Mother's Day Came Early

Danny bought me this beauty for Mother's Day...

he also bought himself one and...

Jack this. Wow, he is cool. We are a family of cruisers now. "I wouldn't sell my bike for all the money in the world. Not for a hundred million, trillion, billion dollars!" - Pee-Wee

April

Monthly goals:

First goal is to be the best mom to Jack. Second find a home for our family. Third try to loose 4 more pounds by eating a lot of cookies and not going on walks cause it is so damn cold out side. Fourth try not to be so negative towards people ( I can be negative about the weather). Last, and it's not a hard one, tell Danny and Jack I love them everyday.