This will be the First Annual Diaz Family Vacation!!!!!!!!!!!
i'm so excited :) No matter how simple it may be i know its so important to take the time to do things like family vacations. Its the time you spend and the memories you make :) So far we're looking in to South Carolina possibly Myrtle Beach and Sarasota Florida. so far i've gotten pretty positive feedback and pricing on sarasota since september is their value season!! Exciting stuff :)
I'll of course keep posting through out the course of the year what i come up with but so far so good!! :)
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Thursday: Little Thankfuls
I've decided that i'm going to add on to my little blog lol!!!
i follow many blogs that have something designated for a specific day of the week...therefore i will be adding "little thankfuls" Once a week i will post what i'm thankful for, why i feel blessed, what good things are going on in my life! In life it's sooo easy to get swept up in the mundane, "bad" things that are around you that you forget all that you have!! and that's me right there... so i'm doing this as a reminder that i need to wake up and smell roses i have sooo much to be thankful for that God has placed in my life.
Today's Little Thankfuls:
Of course i wouldn't be me if i didn't say i am so thankful for my family, my beautiful daughter and especially my husband.
I'm thankful that i have a job with so much unemployment out there!
I'm thankful for my daughters smiles!
I'm thankful for the way my husband understands me and the way we say what the other person is thinking at that very moment.
i'm thankful that andrea is surrounded by so much love that it shows from the moment she wakes up in the morning until the second she goes to sleep at night.
i'm thankful that i'm able to plan our "DIAZ FAMILY VACATION" no matter how simple it may be.
and lastly for today:
I'm thankful that i'm able to look to the future with excitement just knowing that i'll be with gustavo and andrea. if life has been this wonderful up til now i can only imagine the great things god has planned for us.
i follow many blogs that have something designated for a specific day of the week...therefore i will be adding "little thankfuls" Once a week i will post what i'm thankful for, why i feel blessed, what good things are going on in my life! In life it's sooo easy to get swept up in the mundane, "bad" things that are around you that you forget all that you have!! and that's me right there... so i'm doing this as a reminder that i need to wake up and smell roses i have sooo much to be thankful for that God has placed in my life.
Today's Little Thankfuls:
Of course i wouldn't be me if i didn't say i am so thankful for my family, my beautiful daughter and especially my husband.
I'm thankful that i have a job with so much unemployment out there!
I'm thankful for my daughters smiles!
I'm thankful for the way my husband understands me and the way we say what the other person is thinking at that very moment.
i'm thankful that andrea is surrounded by so much love that it shows from the moment she wakes up in the morning until the second she goes to sleep at night.
i'm thankful that i'm able to plan our "DIAZ FAMILY VACATION" no matter how simple it may be.
and lastly for today:
I'm thankful that i'm able to look to the future with excitement just knowing that i'll be with gustavo and andrea. if life has been this wonderful up til now i can only imagine the great things god has planned for us.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
My Mommy's Birthday!!
Sunday was my mommy's birthday!!! We went to eat at buca di beppo which was such an unique restaurant!!! the food was great and the atmosphere was definitely different than anywhere i'd ever been!!
andrea had fun trying all the different foods lol and we all had a great time celebrating a great day with the woman who has literally changed and shaped my life in more ways than one. I'm so grateful for my mom because our story is a little different than most mom and daughter stories you'll hear.. there's no tale of how she found out she was pregnant whether i was planned or not... whether i was made out of love or if i was an oopsie... there was no tale of 9 long months that she carried me and then the trip to the hospital or labor or delivery for that matter... none of that but there is a story of of a woman who god created just for me... to be my mother, to love me, to guide me, to teach me, to inturn raise me to be the kind of mother that i've always dreamed of being. the story begins when i was 7 years old she was very young and fell in love with a man who basically had a ready made family waiting for her. She was the missing link to our family she made my dad and i complete and for that i will be forever grateful. I dont have any memories from before the age of 7. i have one baby picture which now belongs to her. it was one that my grandmother saved for me. other than that as far as i know my life started at 7. i may not have stories about when i was a baby or the first word i said or the first steps i took but i do have a life filled with love and happiness filled with memories of parents who fell madly in love with each other and loved me with all that they had every second of every day. they made me the center of their universe and for that i will always be grateful. my mother sacrificed the best years of her life to put me first to give me what she never had to teach me lovingly and love me unconditionally.. you could never tell that she wasn't my biological mother if not for the physical attributes that show her age clearly. She is amazing in more ways than one. i may not have a hospital story of my mother the way most people do but the day i got pregnant the first place we went was to tell my parents, she was there for me 9 long months of my pregnancy, as well as every second of my labor and delivery. she was there when my daughter first opened her eyes, she changed her first diaper. SHE, MY MOTHER was there!! so in a way we did have that pregnancy experience, we had the hospital and we the birth....
i'd just like to say this.. God works in very mysterious ways... just because you dont get the answer to your prayers that YOU are expecting doesn't mean he hasn't ANSWERED. i think that's the moral of this story. She's my mother and i'm her daughter. a mother isn't just the person who brings you into this world no she's the one who quietly guides you through this world, who raises you with love and affection, who sheds tears and spends sleepless nights worrying about you no matter your age no matter where you are married or not adult or child. a mother can never be replaced.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY I LOVE YOU MORE THAN WORDS
THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY LIFE COMPLETE
And then all of a sudden
Oh, it seemed so strange to me
How we went from something's missing
To a family
Lookin' back all I can say
About all the things She did for me
Is I hope I'm at least half the MOM
That She didn't have to be
andrea had fun trying all the different foods lol and we all had a great time celebrating a great day with the woman who has literally changed and shaped my life in more ways than one. I'm so grateful for my mom because our story is a little different than most mom and daughter stories you'll hear.. there's no tale of how she found out she was pregnant whether i was planned or not... whether i was made out of love or if i was an oopsie... there was no tale of 9 long months that she carried me and then the trip to the hospital or labor or delivery for that matter... none of that but there is a story of of a woman who god created just for me... to be my mother, to love me, to guide me, to teach me, to inturn raise me to be the kind of mother that i've always dreamed of being. the story begins when i was 7 years old she was very young and fell in love with a man who basically had a ready made family waiting for her. She was the missing link to our family she made my dad and i complete and for that i will be forever grateful. I dont have any memories from before the age of 7. i have one baby picture which now belongs to her. it was one that my grandmother saved for me. other than that as far as i know my life started at 7. i may not have stories about when i was a baby or the first word i said or the first steps i took but i do have a life filled with love and happiness filled with memories of parents who fell madly in love with each other and loved me with all that they had every second of every day. they made me the center of their universe and for that i will always be grateful. my mother sacrificed the best years of her life to put me first to give me what she never had to teach me lovingly and love me unconditionally.. you could never tell that she wasn't my biological mother if not for the physical attributes that show her age clearly. She is amazing in more ways than one. i may not have a hospital story of my mother the way most people do but the day i got pregnant the first place we went was to tell my parents, she was there for me 9 long months of my pregnancy, as well as every second of my labor and delivery. she was there when my daughter first opened her eyes, she changed her first diaper. SHE, MY MOTHER was there!! so in a way we did have that pregnancy experience, we had the hospital and we the birth....
i'd just like to say this.. God works in very mysterious ways... just because you dont get the answer to your prayers that YOU are expecting doesn't mean he hasn't ANSWERED. i think that's the moral of this story. She's my mother and i'm her daughter. a mother isn't just the person who brings you into this world no she's the one who quietly guides you through this world, who raises you with love and affection, who sheds tears and spends sleepless nights worrying about you no matter your age no matter where you are married or not adult or child. a mother can never be replaced.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMY I LOVE YOU MORE THAN WORDS
THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY LIFE COMPLETE
And then all of a sudden
Oh, it seemed so strange to me
How we went from something's missing
To a family
Lookin' back all I can say
About all the things She did for me
Is I hope I'm at least half the MOM
That She didn't have to be
Monday, March 1, 2010
my 7 month old
Well as of February 22 i am the proud mommy of my very own seven month old!!!!
woooooooohoooooooooo
warning this rare species may come with bouts of separation anxiety, screaming for no reason at all, wanting everything you have at that moment, fits, and boredom after playing with any toy for more than 5 minutes. said species will also come with the inability to lay still while mommy and daddy change her diapers and any food is game especially what you happen to be eating or drinking at the moment. have fun and enjoy!!
you'll have to excuse my sarcasm lol!!! but my sweet bundle of joy has all of those new special quirks and then some lol but she's growing soooo fast!!! i cant believe we're less than six months away from her first birthday :) WOW!!!
andrea has moved on to three month appointments so i dont have any stats to report this month however i do know that she's sitting unsupported extremely well, she's desperately trying to crawl, we've become pretty liberal with her diet as she's now eating her babyfood and baby cookies along with what ever we may be eating at the moment. She's good with playing with her toys but gets bored very easily, she loves to play with other babies and is showing more and more how much she loves her family!!! Shes my big girl!!! and i'm so proud of how well shes doing!!
MOMMY LOVES YOU BABY ANDREA!!!
Sunday, February 14, 2010
love for her.
normally 8 pm rolls around and its bed time in the diaz household lol mostly straight across the board from andrea to mommy and daddy... we feed andrea her last bottle put her in her crib say her prayers give kisses and i love you's. Usually she falls asleep on her own.. tonight however was different.. she had her bottle but didn't want to fall asleep so after some coaxing i picked her up and sat down on the glider and rocked my sweet girl.
as i sat there observing her perfectly long eyelashes, watching as she sucked her little thumb, felt the thump of her heart beat, watched her breathe and smelled her hair. i literally felt her slip into her unconscious baby dream land. as i sat there taking all of lifes miracles in it hit me that we with god made this.. this beautiful tiny human. and we not only made this but we have a front row seat to her life. and it amazed me. i felt one with god. literally. i also realized that life is made up of moments some good some bad some miraculous. but all worth it. all molding us to be better that we were the previous day hour or minute. we dont realize it but these moments come from time.. which is the one thing we can never get back. it's always passing. Andrea is already half a year old. The time i've been able to have with her so far has passed me by in a blink of an eye. as i watched my sweet angel sleep in my arms tonight i thought to myself: WOW i'll never get this moment back... this is really a miraculous moment. the realization that God has both rewarded and blessed me with this person who is as connected to my soul as i am just left me speechless. this moment i will enjoy and love and years later i'll look back and remember just how blessed i was to even be able to feel this kind of love this kind of unity and this kind of amazement. This moment quieted all the rest. it made all the craziness, and unfairness in life worth it because she is whats good in the world not to mention she is what's perfect in my world. that is something that will always be. even when i'm tired or and need to be renewed.. when i need something to believe in... when i need to feel loved all i have to do is look at her.. see her smile and know that my purpose on this earth is her.
as i sat there observing her perfectly long eyelashes, watching as she sucked her little thumb, felt the thump of her heart beat, watched her breathe and smelled her hair. i literally felt her slip into her unconscious baby dream land. as i sat there taking all of lifes miracles in it hit me that we with god made this.. this beautiful tiny human. and we not only made this but we have a front row seat to her life. and it amazed me. i felt one with god. literally. i also realized that life is made up of moments some good some bad some miraculous. but all worth it. all molding us to be better that we were the previous day hour or minute. we dont realize it but these moments come from time.. which is the one thing we can never get back. it's always passing. Andrea is already half a year old. The time i've been able to have with her so far has passed me by in a blink of an eye. as i watched my sweet angel sleep in my arms tonight i thought to myself: WOW i'll never get this moment back... this is really a miraculous moment. the realization that God has both rewarded and blessed me with this person who is as connected to my soul as i am just left me speechless. this moment i will enjoy and love and years later i'll look back and remember just how blessed i was to even be able to feel this kind of love this kind of unity and this kind of amazement. This moment quieted all the rest. it made all the craziness, and unfairness in life worth it because she is whats good in the world not to mention she is what's perfect in my world. that is something that will always be. even when i'm tired or and need to be renewed.. when i need something to believe in... when i need to feel loved all i have to do is look at her.. see her smile and know that my purpose on this earth is her.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
What irritates me: warning.. offensive...
Ok so i dont consider myself to be a judgemental person.. i believe that i have certain standards for my own life and i hold myself and my family members to those standards .. however other people : to each their own..
What seems to irritate me however is the fact that my family and i hold up to those standards .. i met my husband we got married have jobs and now a daughter... we work hard during and post working hours ... we dont have help we care for our daughter and do everything we can to keep her healthy and happy .. my husband and i go above and beyond to make each other and our household work... we fill it with love for one another and our little girl. We dont lie cheat or steal.. we do things the honest way all the time... you may think that this post is all about me or my family but its not... i dont expect a special reward for doing things the right way or what i like to call the right way for our standards.. what this post is really about is the fact that so many around us do things the wrong way sometimes even the dishonest way and get what they want. They get the house by lying.. they get governmental assistance (of whatever kind) by choosing not to be married so they wont have to show a joint income. or they can stay home to raise their children something i only wish i could do to be there for every single beautiful moment. i understand many people run their households differently.. people make choices with their families and childrens best interest in mind... and let me apologize in advance for any hurt feelings because in all actuality i'm only venting because i'm angry ... angry with the system.. angry with society... angry that this has become the normal everyday functionality of many people. but i'm irritated about it... i'm irritated that because i'm married i can't qualify for florida kid care for my daughter instead we have to pay hundreds of dollars a month in insurance premiums all because of our income when in reality we're just making it. I'm irritated that we're saving to buy a house that we could potentially never afford because of the cost of living and since due to the fact that once again we're married and have that lovely little thing called a joint income we do not qualify for any sort of government assistance programs to try to buy that house... i'm irritated that we did things the right way and get penalized for it. That we have to struggle at times just trying to get ahead. but when is that time going to come that by not lying and not cheating that we get rewarded or recognized? i'm not totally sure maybe i'm waiting for something that will never be. but if thats the case how on earth are we supposed to teach our daughter that humility is the right way to go that doing things the honest way will always be the best way to live. i'm at a loss. plain and simple.
What seems to irritate me however is the fact that my family and i hold up to those standards .. i met my husband we got married have jobs and now a daughter... we work hard during and post working hours ... we dont have help we care for our daughter and do everything we can to keep her healthy and happy .. my husband and i go above and beyond to make each other and our household work... we fill it with love for one another and our little girl. We dont lie cheat or steal.. we do things the honest way all the time... you may think that this post is all about me or my family but its not... i dont expect a special reward for doing things the right way or what i like to call the right way for our standards.. what this post is really about is the fact that so many around us do things the wrong way sometimes even the dishonest way and get what they want. They get the house by lying.. they get governmental assistance (of whatever kind) by choosing not to be married so they wont have to show a joint income. or they can stay home to raise their children something i only wish i could do to be there for every single beautiful moment. i understand many people run their households differently.. people make choices with their families and childrens best interest in mind... and let me apologize in advance for any hurt feelings because in all actuality i'm only venting because i'm angry ... angry with the system.. angry with society... angry that this has become the normal everyday functionality of many people. but i'm irritated about it... i'm irritated that because i'm married i can't qualify for florida kid care for my daughter instead we have to pay hundreds of dollars a month in insurance premiums all because of our income when in reality we're just making it. I'm irritated that we're saving to buy a house that we could potentially never afford because of the cost of living and since due to the fact that once again we're married and have that lovely little thing called a joint income we do not qualify for any sort of government assistance programs to try to buy that house... i'm irritated that we did things the right way and get penalized for it. That we have to struggle at times just trying to get ahead. but when is that time going to come that by not lying and not cheating that we get rewarded or recognized? i'm not totally sure maybe i'm waiting for something that will never be. but if thats the case how on earth are we supposed to teach our daughter that humility is the right way to go that doing things the honest way will always be the best way to live. i'm at a loss. plain and simple.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Andrea 6 Mo Check up
Well my beautiful baby girl had her 6 month well visit at the dr. We actually saw a new dr that joined the practice who was extremely informative and thorough.. i loved every second of it!! The dr. said she's in perfect health and from now on she will only have well visits every three months instead of every 2!!
So far at 6 months she's weighing: 13.12
Length: 26 inches
Head Circumference of 16 in.
She's eating 2nd stage baby foods and we're in the process of introducing her to meats.. this week we're on chicken..which she will only eat when its mixed with fruit or veggies which is fine. She's trying desperately to crawl.. rolling has become part of a normal routine for her.. she's also saying mama which I LOVE!!! OF COURSE.
On the negative side of milestones and phases.. andrea is going through separation anxiety.. she will not let us put her down ... she fights her sleep til the bitter end screaming bloody murder..but on the bright side she's still sleeping through the night and i'm thankful for that! So far thats about it i'm enjoying every second of my little angel's development both good and bad its all worth it.. every single moment.
So far at 6 months she's weighing: 13.12
Length: 26 inches
Head Circumference of 16 in.
She's eating 2nd stage baby foods and we're in the process of introducing her to meats.. this week we're on chicken..which she will only eat when its mixed with fruit or veggies which is fine. She's trying desperately to crawl.. rolling has become part of a normal routine for her.. she's also saying mama which I LOVE!!! OF COURSE.
On the negative side of milestones and phases.. andrea is going through separation anxiety.. she will not let us put her down ... she fights her sleep til the bitter end screaming bloody murder..but on the bright side she's still sleeping through the night and i'm thankful for that! So far thats about it i'm enjoying every second of my little angel's development both good and bad its all worth it.. every single moment.
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