Thankful

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!!

Today and everyday I am thankful for:

My husband David, I love his heart and generosity. He is such a hard worker. He is the best dad to Grace, he wakes up with her everyday, change her diaper and give her the bottle so I can sleep a little bit longer. I love him so much and I am so lucky to be married to him.

My beautiful daughter Grace who have brought more joy to my life than I could ever describe.

Our families, all of them are just the best!

Our old and new friends, we are so lucky to have such an amazing people in our lives.

I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

flashback february 09

My Fargo girl

We are ready for winter in Colorado!

flashback Jan 09

Birthday Party # 2

Gracie and I had a wonderful brunch with some of our friends today!

They have known her since I was pregnant and then when she was born all of them were there with me supporting me!

 Grace's birthday was the perfect excuse to get together and talk and have fun together, I love them with all my heart and I'm so thankful I can call them my friends.

Another cake for Gracie! :)

Exploring the restaurant with her failry new walking skills!!!

She was mad because I didn't want to give her more cake and ice cream!

We just have 1 more party to go in Colorado with the family and I just hope she is not going to want 3 parties every year!

Birthday Party # 1

We had Gracie's party yesterday and all I can say is that it was PERFECT!

Our family and friends were here with us to help us celebrate.

The "theme" of the party was Hello Kitty and I loved it! Gracie loved it too, we got tons of ballons ro decorate the house and the backyard.

Even Jr. joined us!!!

Gracie wasn't sure about her cake but she did a good job after all and she didn't get the sugar high too bad!!!

My sister in law, Marsha, made the cakes and I made the cupcakes, I had so much fun making the cupcakes toopers as well. They were so easy to make!!!

What can I say about her outfit? BEAUTIFUL!!! I love the tutu and her piggy tails.

We had a blast celebrating another milestone!

I can't believe she will be ONE in 3 days.

We love you baby!

Thank you to all the people that made her first birthday party a success! We are so glad you are in our lives!

Lack of posts

I know I'm behind my posting but I have been really busy with Grace's party. Man! I never thought that organize a kids party was such a big deal and is not like I'm throwing a HUGE party but still required a lot of time and logistic. Good thing is that my sister in law is here to help us.

I will post an entire post about the party but for now I think I need to go to bed because tomorrow is the big day!

I'm very excited!!!

flashback dec 08

Grandma and Tia Marsha were still here helping us a lot, I don't know what I would've done without them but they had to go back home, so we were here just daddy, you and me, scared and excited.

Our first Christmas together, we didn't go to Colorado because you were so tiny and I was afraid of traveling with a 1 month old baby. Colorado was very cold and had a lot of snow.

We spent Christmas at home, just the 4 of us!

You were growing up so fast!

Height: 23.5inches

Weight: 11lbs 1 oz

Flashback Nov 08

Gracie was born on November 25, 2008 at 9:52am

Height: 20 inches

Weight: 8lbs 2 oz

It was a rainy day!

David, my mom and Marsha (SIL) were at the hospital with me.

We came home the next day and the sky welcomed her with a double rainbow.

We spent our 1st Thanksgiving together getting to know each other, cuddling,changing diapers, making bottles,  just having lots of fun!

She was such a great baby from the beggining, eating good, sleeping good!

It was AWESOME to finally have her on my arms, I waited for her my whole life!

almost ONE

just 11 days until she is ONE and I'm starting to freak out!

 

Where did my baby go!?!?!?!

"bird" baby

Have you seen this basketball player Chris Andersen a.k.a "birdman"?

We have our own version,

Gracie Vader a.k.a "birdbaby" ...

Which one you like better?

Water for Christmas

I saw this post in other blog and it really made me think about all the good things we have and sometimes we don't realized how lucky we are!

Water for Christmas is a grass roots movement bringing both awareness and real "on the ground" change to Africa's water crisis.

Unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation cause 80%

of all sickness and disease, and kill more people every

year than all forms of violence, including war.

For only $10 you can provide one person

in Africa with clean water for ten years.

Let's help those who need it the most giving them a gift and bringing a smile to their faces!

Today is about water.

Today is about saving lives.

Today is about something bigger than ourselves.

Donate here

Challenge

I would love to say that I'm creative and crafty and it's hard to say but the truth is that I'm not.

I have always struggle with crafts and projects and I would always buy things instead of make them but this time I have challenge myself and even if I'm not sure what am I into I will make sure I will success.

Grace's 1st birthday party is around the corner and I have tons of ideas but not idea how to do them. Anyway this is what I want to do ... (something similar)

I will post my creations as soon as I have them.

Wish me luck!!!

Grandma / Mi abuelita

Let me introduce you to one of the most amazing women I had the honor to be related to,

my grandma!!!

She went to heaven almost 9 years ago on Christmas day.

Te amo abuelita.

The days go quickly

Now that you’re gone

The weather is always, cold and dull

Since you left

It doesn’t seem I’m me

The smallest things bring back memories

The songs I hear

The shows I see,

All bring back Saturday nights

You spent with me

And now all I have to say

Is that I’m happy you not suffering

You’re up in heaven growing your wings gracefully

I love you with all my heart

Now I won’t shed a tear, I hope you heard this

From way down here.

 I miss you every single day and I wish you could be here to share the happiness my daughter bring to my live.

 

morning at the park

babies + outdoors = F U N !!!

Lazy sunday

we really had a lazy weekend!

I love when you can just stay at home in your pajamas, watching TV, cleaning a little bit, playing with you baby or your dog, eating whatever you find on the fridge, juts relaxing and spending time with the ones you love the most.

our house is not the same since Grace started walking, we spent a lot of time chasing her and getting her away from trouble but it's awesome to see this litte person walking all around the house

she is truly the light of my life

truth is I'm getting anxious about her turning ONE. it's like I'm very happy to see how much she has grown in the last year, how smart and big and beautiful she is but in the other hand I'm sad to think that she is not anymore that tiny baby we brought from the hospital and that every single day she is getting more and more independent

we can call her "baby" for 2 more weeks

even though she will be MY baby forever

Did you noticed ...

something different?

Yes! I changed the whole appearance of our blog and I LOVE IT!!!

I'm always changing things here and there but I wasn't very happy with the result but this time I'm very happy.

I "stole" the idea from other blog and I really hope that the owner of that blog don't mind but I couldn't help it, her blog is really cute!

I have been posting mostly about Grace my almost 1 year old baby girl but I think I'm going to change that too and now I'm going to post about everything. Sometimes I get shy because I think my English is not very good and sometimes I think that what I say doesn't have any sense but I hope you will understand and forgive my bad use of your language. Also I'm going to post sometimes on Spanish, like kind of a Spanish lesson every week. I don't know, I'm getting ambitious huh?

Well I have to admit that here and then I need to use a translator to be sure I'm not writing something wrong and if you ever need a good translator I would recommend Babel Fish, it's very easy to use and FREE!!!

Anyway I hope my 2 or at least 3 readers enjoy my new blog!!!

See ya!

Girls Night Out

There's nothing better than a good slice of pizza and a great company!

Tonight I had both!

Some of my mommy friends and I went out to have some "me" time.

We had a great time!!!

Cutest picture ever!

Last Thursday I took Grace & AugustFinley to a Halloween party at my friend Cortney's house.
It was so cute to see all the babies on their costumes, they looked so adorable playing together!!!

Aren't they the cutest babies ever?

Here is the group posing for the camera!!! Thank you Cortney for the picture! :)

Top: Noah as Noah - Gracie D. as Pink Elephant - Aaron as Nemo - Patrick as Monkey - Emma as Witch - Evie as Bumblebee

Bottom: AugustFinley as AugustFinley - Gracie V. as Butterfly - Easton as Dragon - Charlotte as Baby Bear - William as Car Racing driver - Beau as Beau

Music Time

We had a musical playdate today! One of the moms of my group brought some instruments for the kids so they had an open jam after we sang songs.

It's crazy how most of them are walking and interacting with each other sometimes playing other times fighting but it's really cool that they are growing up together and I really hope this friendships we have made will last forever!

:)

Photo shot

On sunday we meet up with this AMAZING photographer to get some family pictures and Grace's 1st year pictures.

Grace slept in so it was really hard for her to take a nap, we tried everything, feeding, bath, singing, cuddling nope! she just wasn't tired. I honestly was really frustrated because she always takes naps no matter what and because I didn't want her to be fussy during the photos.

At the end she didn't sleep at all but she was just awesome, talking about a supermodel? OMG she acted like if she has been doing this forever, smiling to the camera, just being the happy baby that she is ... we even changed her clothes and she never complain.

I'm just going to say that I'm in love with the final product, every single one is just perfect to my eyes!!!. I love that we didn't just "take pictures" but instead we created memories that will last forever.

I want to Thank Bethany again for such a great job!

Oh! here is her website www.hissyfitsphotography.com/blog

If you go there be sure to leave her a comment to let her know how adorable these pictures are.

Grace's month!

I should have started yesterday but I found out until today that November is the National Blog Month or something like that and that works perfect with my idea of write a post everyday this month since is Gracie's birthday month!

NOVEMBER

Wow! Last year I was HUGE, exhausted, anxious, excited, scared but mostly I was very HAPPY that I was going to meet my baby shortly.

We already had everything ready for her, my mom and my sister in law were coming, name was already picked as well.

Patricia after David's mom, she passed away 5 years ago and everyday I wish she was here with us to be able to meet and play with Gracie. She would have loved her with all her heart! Although I think she does and I really think they already met in Heaven.

Grace after David's grandmother, I just love her name! Is short and sweet.

Today is my dad's birthday and even if he doesn't read my blog I want to wish him a Happy Happy Birthday!!! Te quiero papi!

NaBloPoMo

No, is not a weird spanish word.

NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Post Month, which is in November. The task is simple: write one blog post per day the whole month of November, including weekends.

I've taken the challenge - why don't you?