My Little Dare Devil

This is my baby who is not quite a baby anymore. ): He's always loved the water, but this summer is different because he doesn't need to float around in a dinky little baby raft, he actually gets to swim like a big boy (with floaties that is). We went to Chris' Aunt Gina's house the other day and the kid doesn't even hesitate... he just runs right up to the diving board like he knows what it is and does this "Superman" dive. Not gunna lie, I almost had a heart attack but once he came up from the water and was rearin' to go at it again, I could breath a little easier. He has absolutely no fear of water which is good and bad. I tried letting him jump in the water at my Mom's the other day without his floaties so he knows he will drown without them, but it lasts all of one second before I grab him. Drowning has been one of my biggest fears I think ever since my little sister was born. Freaks me out. Oh, and he is already tanner than I think I have ever been my entire life. He's got the most beautiful golden brown skin and I just love showing off his booty tan-line. Pretty sure it's because I've never had a real tan line. HA.

Our Fourth Anniversary

So I said I would post a picture of how my fruit bouquet really turned out so here it is.
It didn't turn out as full as I would have liked for two reasons. 1. Trader Joes didn't have any of the fluffy kale to put on top of the iceberg lettuce and 2. I suffer from a moderate case of "sticky-phobia" and the sticky juices from the pineapple and grapes combined with marshmallows and chocolate really weren't helping my condition much. Had a few panic attacks actually. But I thought it turned out pretty good afterall and the chocolate covered strawberries were amazing. Here's my proof that it was delicious.

So we enjoyed that, and later that night we made a homemade pizza which was another adventure. Lets just say I'm glad I had my old camera on me to document it. I joked with Chris before we started that we should make a heart-shaped pizza. We both laughed because that would have been very "cheesy" (perfect adjective for a heart-shaped pizza if I do say so myself). So after Chris added flour and stretched and pulled and added more flour and tried to throw the dough in the air... our dough was pretty much a disaster. It wouldn't stretch anymore without tearing holes in it. We both were getting super annoyed because we were so hungry. The only form our dough would cooperate with was a heart. Go figure. So we got our heart-shaped pizza after all. "It was meant to be" were Chris' exact words.

So we started layering the topping UNDER the cheese. My favorite way (Fillipi's style). LOTS of pepperonis, pineapple on half, and jalapenos and bell peppers on the other half. Chris did the finishing touches on our Heart shaped pizza and I think it ended up looking more like Mickey Mouse. But dang, was it delicious!!!


Throw in a little sparkling apple cider, and you have one righteous evening.



We had a pretty fun anniversary after all. Here's to many many more!!!

FOUR YEARS!!!

So tomorrow is our fourth anniversary! Don't ask me how it's been four years already because I have no clue. We don't really have any plans especially because this week is going to be a rather busy one. My last day of school is today which means two finals, and Cruz's baby shower is on Saturday... I googled "fourth anniversary symbol" to find out what it is for this year and it said fruit/flowers or linen. Wierd. My mom had the brilliant idea to make an edible arrangement type thing with fruit that looks like flowers. Brilliant, eh? Lets just see how it turns out first. I'm praying it turns out relatively close to this... I make no guarantees.

Hello Again.

So it's been a while (again) since my last post. This is due in part to the fact that I'm in the middle of finals week and can't wait to have a little time off before the next bambino arrives... AND I keep forgetting my stinkin' password. That's a prego brain for ya, because it's the same as pretty much every password I have set up for everything else! Anywho... Let me see what we've been up to.

Still house-hunting.. with no luck. It's pretty difficult to find a standard sale house since there are tons and tons of short sale and foreclosures. Frustrating! I am 34 weeks pregnant now as of yesterday, and this past week we made the move of putting Jed back in his own room after nearly 9 months of sleeping with us!! I kept putting it off because I was convinced it would be such a pain in the butt having to wake up with him in the middle of the night and get him back to sleep, etc. But it has really been alot easier than I was anticipating. Thank You Jesus! I'm still hoping the process of him falling asleep without me laying with him will become easier and easier... but once he's asleep he's out and doesn't make a peep til 7:30-8 in the morning so that's sweet. This is the little man taking his first nap in his big boy bed. :)

Next weekend is my baby shower... and I have been counting down the days to it. Why you ask? For the best cake in the world. DUH. It's going to be amazing. It's from Sweet Layers, a red velvet cake with cookies and cream filling. So amazing. The downside of this is that my camera decided to stop working a couple days ago, so I took it into Best Buy yesterday because my smart husband somehow knew it would be a good idea to purchase the extended warranty on it... So my camera is now chillin' with the Geek Squad. Those geeks told me it would take 2-3 weeks to fix it and if they can't I can get a new one. Such Geeks! Don't they know my baby could be here in 2-3 weeks and my baby shower is next weekend! I'm having camera withdrawls for sure.

Moving onto the weather... Those of you who know me well know that I'm not a huge fan of the sun and heat (hence the pasty-whiteness my friend Tash loves to point out as much as possible)... With the weather warming up quite a bit last week we started getting use out of our Heritage lake passes Chris bought mainly for fishing, but they do have a sweet little water park for little ones and a huge pool. So we've been trying to take advantage of that, and I've been trying to take advantage of Jed's 3hr naps after a day at the water park. :) I had to add a quick pic of Jed in his new glasses Aunt Gina gave him. He's not too crazy about them, if you can't tell. "Uncle Monkey" lives at Heritage Lake, so he stopped by to play with the dude. He was even starting to swim on his own and loved jumping in the water over and over again and eventually started jumping in without anyone there to catch him. He is crazy.




I already mentioned that I'm 34 weeks pregnant now. I was 38 weeks when Jed was born, and that's sort of starting to freak me out that we will have another little boy in a few short weeks! The time is really starting to fly by! Cruz is starting to feel really large in my belly and even woke Chris up in the middle of the night the other day because I'm pretty sure he was practicing his Kung Fu... We can't wait to finally meet this little guy and see what he looks like after so many months of using our imagination. Chris has a pretty crazy imagination too... kinda freaks me out. Hopefully he doesn't come out the way Chris imagines sometimes. Lord, help us.
Here's a couple pics of me, Cruz, and Jed at 33 weeks.

That's pretty much all for now... Gunna go enjoy pretend "dragon time" with my boys. Makes for a perfect Saturday morning. :) Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

Little Guy With A Big Situation

So Jed and I went to the ultrasound doctor this morning for the last ultrasound to check and make sure his heart and all that good stuff have developed normally. He is looking great weighing in at 1lb. 5oz. The technician asked me if I wanted her to confirm that he is still in fact a boy, so I said sure... She freezes this picture up on the big tv screen and says, "You tell me".
I have never seen such a big willie on an ultrasound picture before. Maybe it's just the perfect view he gave us or I'm beginning to think he was pretty "excited" for us to see him again. I have no idea, but all I know is Chris is one proud Daddy right about now. :)

24 weeks!

Many of my friends have been NAGGING me about putting up more belly pictures lately. So I thought I'd take advantage of today, being Chris' Great Grandma's birthday party, to take a pic of me and Baby Cruz-in-utero.

Every other day I look like a grouchy pregnant lady, even though this woman came up to me yesterday in Payless while I was DRIPPING sweat trying on a gazillion different shoes that don't fit my ever-growing Duff-feet (apparently, my belly isn't the only thing growing these days).... and she tells me, "Honey, you're so beautiful. You are just glowing!" I smiled and said, "Aww thanks", but what I really felt like saying was, "See this shoe that my fat foot is squeezed into right now??? Huh, see it? It's going up your rear in two seconds 'cause I'm NOT glowing, I'm sweating like a fat disgusting pig. Have a nice day." But she was a sweet lady, which is what I realized once I got into my air conditioned car.


This is my pregnant rant of the day. Hope you enjoyed.

Little Big Man, Jedidiah

Jed is sooo full of energy everyday. He is quite hard to keep up with especially when you have to pee every 5 minutes and can't run and chase after him like you used to...

Some new things he is doing these days:

* He is 2 years and 3 months old now, and has been potty trained for almost 7 months now.
*He loves being outside "working" with Daddy on his machines
*He loves brushing his teeth
*Favorite movie is Lion King and The Chronicles of Narnia (a.k.a. The Lion Movie)
*He roars like "Simba" and when he gets carried away bites and scratches like a real lion. We're trying to teach him that he really isn't a lion, and can only pretend to bite and scratch. :)
*He has perfected counting to ten, and is working on counting to fifteen.
*He loves sleeping in bed with us! He's been in there with us for like 6 months now, and I am not looking forward to the transition back into his own room. Which may be happening very soon.
*He loves to kiss his mommy and pretend like he is Daddy. He says, "Gimme a kiss, gotta go to work".
*He's so funny.
* He tries to feed his baby brother cheerios through my belly button. Wish I got it on video.

Just a few updates on him... Enjoy the video.