We celebrated two things this past weekend – Rafael’s birthday and his first Fourth of July as a citizen. We started on Saturday morning with a big birthday breakfast, topped off by a kidney-friendly fruit cream pie I made for all of us to eat. Rafael took some fancy pictures that I think he’ll post later. These are from the cheap camera 🙂 He got some presents, like this lovely.. Read More
Summer is here and it is getting hot, but don’t worry! Head over to your nearest Target store and pick up this cute little guy – Is it an adorable squirt gun? Or is it the most awesome Giftcard ever? It’s both! It’s so fun to walk through the store and see things my talented hubby designed! Since the temperature is going to feel like 100+ tomorrow, I’m thinking I.. Read More
We’re still on a high after seeing our baby and getting to know her a little better. Rafael captured some cool shots of this moment… Happy father’s day, daddy-to-be!
I had the most amazing salad the other day. Where was it from, you may ask? My deck! I’ve got a potters full of lettuce and spinach growing right on my deck. All I have to do is walk out, snip some off, rinse it off and enjoy. Yum! The other planters are holding tomato, jalapeno, cilantro, basil and parsley. Soon we’ll be having delicious pico de gallo…
Girl! A baby girl. I can hardly believe it! Rafa was right 🙂 Even better than knowing the gender is that the ultrasound showed all good things – she’s growing great. She is breech right now, but there is plenty of time for her to flip around before delivery. She weighs about one pound and her heart was beating at 153 beats per minute. All the measurements are on schedule for our original Oct… Read More
20 Weeks! It’s really hard to believe we are at the halfway point. In 20 more weeks, it will be time to meet our little chimuelo. Here’s a new belly picture: Ever since the exciting miracle kicks, there has been daily activity going on in there. Last night, the baby started getting active once I laid down in bed. I told Rafa about it, and he put his arm around.. Read More
I haven’t had very many cravings during my pregnancy, but I have had a lot of new aversions to foods and smells. My sudden dislike of cilantro has put a severe damper on my former love of Chipotle. Rafa is counting down the days until I agree to set foot in there again! Even though there are a lot of things I now dislike, I have been lucky enough to.. Read More
It’s easy to get sucked into the plethora of pregnancy information that’s on the internet. By reading a few message boards, I can find out about every disease, pain, pitfall and potential problem that has ever happened to any pregnant woman, anywhere in the world. While some of this information is useful (how to alleviate cankles, for instance), there is definitely some information overload going on here. Case in point:.. Read More
It took awhile, but I am finally okay with feeling pregnant. I “popped” almost two weeks ago, but I wasn’t quite ready. I just kind of felt fat(ter). I tried on a maternity tent-like shirt and did not like what I saw. But now, I’m there. I wore a maternity shirt to work today that showed off my baby bump. And I liked it. And no one told me I.. Read More
Happy non-post-apocolyptic Monday. Or just happy regular Monday, I guess. I wasn’t expecting to meet Jesus this weekend, but that didn’t stop me from hoping it would happen anyway. I always have a prayer in my heart of Maranatha (Lord, come quickly) because I’m really looking forward to that day, whenever it comes. Just because  I didn’t meet Jesus in person this weekend doesn’t mean I didn’t talk to him a lot. Grandma C. was airlifted.. Read More
