Happy New Year!!!

Bye Bye 2009!!!

Welcome 2010!!!

Happy New Year everyone!!!

May the New Year brings you happiness, peace and love!

Christmas 2009

One of the things that I like the most about Christmas is that you get to spend it with your family, we traveled 13 hrs to Colorado to spent time with them and we absolutely had a blast!

We got there on Thursday 24th just to get ready to go to church, Grace did great at the service!!! Santa brought her this dress to wear it at church and dinner!

After church we went back to the house to have a yummy dinner! Lasagna, spaguetti, salad, bread and of course pie!  Then everyone went to bed to wait for Santa!!!

Gracie wore her Christmas pj's, aren't they the cutest?

She was so excited about her presents, she got tons of toys and clothes from Santa and the family!

Gracie got to open her presents first and then we have so much fun with our secret santa exchange. Santa a.k.a Marsha brought me my so much wished crock pot. Yay! I will finally be able to make dinner without excuses!

This is like my new present looks like.

Santa a.k.a Jenni brought David 2 gift cards, a cologne and a beautiful door stop in a shape of an old iron. I don't have pictures but it's really cute!

We made a pause since Jenny and Dom had to go to see Dom's family and while we wait for dinner to be ready and for them we got to play some Wii. I had to say I never play wii before and I loved it!!!!!

Dinner was as always just perfect, Marsha and Mike have been married for 30 years so they have a lot of practice and experience when it comes about making dinner for their family, it's amazing how well coordinate they are, they know who makes what, how and at what time!!!

Of course the rest of the family help them too, Eleesa always make deviled eggs and Jenny make a fruit salad.

The menu included turkey, ham, green beans, mashed potatoes, gravy, yams, cranberries, etc...

After played bowling on Wii we decided to go to play the real thing, oh we had so much fun!!! My arm hurted horrible the next day but I was just having the time of my life!

Here another family picture

I love to spend the holidays in Colorado!!!

We had a wonderful time!!!

Peace & Joy

Merry Christmas!!!

From our family to yours.

Card design by: Hissyfits Photography

Sick day

Gracie is sick! My poor baby!!!

This is the very first time in almost 13 months that she gets really sick. We had to take her to the pediatrician because she had fever and vomit.

I was scared as hell and didn't know what to do, it's not fun to see your baby feeling bad and crying. The worst part is that she can't tell me where it hurted so I was just especulating. I thought it was the flu or cold but it turned to be stomach flu. Stupid bugs!!!

She is still not feeling good and doesn't want to eat, I'm trying to give her liquids as much as I can since she is not interested, Dr. said she needs to rest for at least 48 hrs but she is optimistic that she will be fine in a couple of days.

I love you Gracie cookie and I would give everything I have to take the pain away! 

Win a Dyson D25

I have always wanted to have a GOOD vacuum and now I would probably have one for FREE!!!


Yes! You can win a Dyson D25 too!

Just go to Baby Rabies and enter your info.

Good luck to me and good luck to you too. :)

10 on 10 :: December 09

10 pictures on the 10th day of the month!

(Document a snapshot of your life and find beauty among the ordinary things in your day!)

Gracie trying to escape!

We don't have a Christmas tree this year but we DO have an ornament!

Gracie & Daddy on the line to see Santa

I just love this picture!

Just resting for a minute!

At the Tempe Festival of the Arts

Gracie loves water!

All bundle up watching the Light Christmas Parade

Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs

Giant Hello Kitty ballon for Gracie's party! The ballon is bigger than her!

Cookie recipe exchange

I love cookies recipes exchanges! It's a fun way to share your favorite and get other yummy recipes as well! Let's the fun begin! You can share your recipe here Hershey Kisses Cookies 1/2 c. butter1/2 c. sugar1/2 c. brown sugar1/2 c. peanut butter1 egg1 tsp. vanilla

1 3/4 c. flour

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. salt

Hershey Kisses, 1 for each cookie

Pre heat oven to 375 F.

Cream together butter, both sugars and peanut butter.

Add 1 egg and vanilla

Add flour, baking soda and salt

Form in walnut side balls

Roll in white sugar and place them on a cookie sheet

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes

Press Hershey Kiss into each cookie when fresh out of the oven

Makes about 2 1/2 dozen

Enjoy!!!

 
 

A new family project

As if I don't have nothing to do, I just started this new project today!

The Vader Family Project 365

In another subject, I have been super busy chasing Grace everywhere, it seems like as soon as she turned 1 she decided to get CRAZY! Seriously I can't even blink without her getting in trouble. Doors, cabinets, windows, drawers, toilets, TV, DVD player, the dog ... It's like that comercial where all the objetcs of the house run away from the baby.

So the question is what I am doing on internet right now if I'm so busy? Easy, she is taking a nap!

Last monday I had my oral surgery and I slept for 20 hrs straight, while for one part was really nice to get some rest for the other part I feel like I missed one day of my life, on tuesday I was like "what day is today?". I'm still very sore of my teeth but getting better everyday.

I have to say Thank you to my wonderful husband who takes good care of me and my awesome friends. :)

Christmas is almost here ...

Today we took Gracie to take the picture with Santa!!!

I was very excited because this was her first time with him!!!

I was afraid that she wasn't going to do okay since the last time she saw him she freaked out but she did great! At least she didn't cry, we tried to get her to smile but she was like hypnotized!!!

After the picture we went to the Christmas Parade at Downtown Chandler, we had so much fun watching the cars with all those lights and the music. That was Grace's favorite part, the high school band, she was clapping and dancing and saying bye bye to everyone. At the end of the parade they turned on the lights on the Tumbleweed tree.

I loved it!!!

We are going to make this a family tradition!

Add SNOW to your blog

If you want to add some snow to your blog click here to get the code.

It's super easy and super cute!!!

Giveaway

I follow this super cute blog and her owner is having a giveaway on her new blog.

You can win an adorable pair of baby shoes so don't wait anymore and go check it out! :)

Give a gift = Give water

This morning I was able to brush my teeth, take a shower and drink a cup of coffee before I read this post.

Then I started thinking how lucky I am to have clean water to ease my baby's thirst and what could I do to help?

This year I don't want Christmas presents for me or Grace, this year I just want to give a gift = Give WATER!!!

Just click here if you want to donate or here if you want to donate on Julie's project and win something, it really doesn't matter just do it!!!

Tell your family, friends, coworkers, neighbors!!!

Please join me and together we can save lifes!

1 year well check

Today we had Grace's 1 year well check and as I was expecting she is still at the top of the charts.

Weight: 26lbs / 97%

Height: 32 1/2 inches / 100%

Dr. Jones said she is doing great and that she is bigger than most 2 year olds (that made me laugh because I get that quite often)

Overall she is a happy, healthy and BIG baby!

One thing that I got my attention was that he said we can calculated how tall she will be by just duplicating her height when she turns 2. If that is accurate and if she were 2 now that would mean she will be 5' 6" tall!!! I think this is really interesting!

I'm still here

***Warning: This post has tons of pictures and it's longer than my usual posts***

It's been a while.

But I have been so busy organizing Gracie's birthday party, packing, a 13 hrs road trip, unpacking, Gracie's 1st birthday, Thanksgiving, another birthday party, packing, another 13 hrs road trip, unpacking, uff!

I'm also dissapointed that I couldn't achieve to post every day of November, oh well! maybe next year.

We went to Colorado  and we got to be there for Gracie's actual birthday, we went to dinner to a fun place called Gunther Toody's and at the end they sang the Happy Birthday for her and I had to dance! They also gave her a funny hat that all the waitress signed and puted red lips on it. It was so fun!

Thanksgiving day was great. The food was delicious. We loved to spent it with our family. We have so much to be thankful for. Family, friends, health, our beautiful daughter.

She had her first "real" Thanksgiving meal and she loved it, she ate everything, Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, green beans, yams, stuffing, pie ... there is nothing she wouldn't try and for that I'm very thankful too.

She wore a beautiful outfit her Aunt Marsha got for her, isn't she cute?

The weather was COLD but we made sure we have everything to keep her warm.

I just love these pj's!

 

And what can I say about these boots? Adorable

We also were able to help putting the X-mas tree up and we had so much fun! Gracie was mesmerized with all the ornaments and lights! She even has her very own ornament on her aunt and uncle's tree.

I love that we are creating such a cool memories for her!

And at last but not least we celebrated her birthday AGAIN! but this time with the family and some friends. Aunt Marsha made the cake and her cousins Jenni and Michelle brougth her balloons, we love balloons!!!
I can say that without a doubt they love her to death!
She was very happy!!!

We had an amazing time and are looking forward to go back for Christmas.

Thank you Marsha, Mike, Jenni, Dom, Michelle, Cory, Mikey for your hospitality, we love you guys very very much!!!