Shamu kitty

This is Shamu one of our cats and we just found out he is diabetic. Now we have one cat with hyperthyroidism and one who has diabetes. Let the vet bills roll in! Don't get me wrong, I love both of my cats very much but the cost to take care of them when they are sick is huge! I'm praying right now that we can control the diabetes soon without running a lot of blood tests like we had to with Gwen. The insulin alone is costly and even the special food he needs to be on is costly. Please pray that Shamu gets well soon. The vet says it's possible that he could get better and I wouldn't have to give him insulin shots everyday. But I don't see that happening, I have a feeling I'll be giving insulin shots for the rest of Shamu's life. Poor Shamu.

Merry Christmas!!!

We just want to say Merry Christmas to all! Hope you had a wonderful day and enjoyed your time with family and friends. Jaycee enjoyed her second Christmas and got lots of great things from her family and friends. Thanks everyone! We love you!

May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace....

Jaycee excited, pointing to her new toys....
Jaycee playing with her new toy phone.


Jaycee with her friends Kayla and Christian.

Merry Christmas Eve!

It's late and I need to get to bed. But I just wanted to post really quick! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas Eve, we did! We spent the evening with my sister and her family. It was a nice evening, I'm so blessed to have my sister and her family living close again. It's nice to spend the holidays with her. Check out how cute the little cousins are....

Our family night out

Tonight we spent a nice family evening out looking at Christmas lights. Boy was it a chilly night...we had Jaycee all bundled up in her stroller with lots of blankets. I'm sure she would have enjoyed walking around, but we wanted to keep her warm. She still loved all the lights from her stroller. She was too cute, she would point and make noises when she saw something she liked! Some of the houses were selling hot chocolate and apple cider so we stopped and got some in hopes it would make us warm. It didn't work! San Diego is nothing like Colorado. My friend Michelle is probably freezing her butt off right now in Colorado. Try and stay warm Michelle! We miss you! Oh Maria, you are the best. The wonderful beanies you made for us came in handy once again tonight and kept us warm. We struggled at first with keeping Jaycee's on, but she finally did after seeing mommy and daddy in theirs. Yeah! Check out some pictures...

Happy 1st Birthday Jaycee Renee

Wow, it's been a year already! I can't believe at this time last year I was in the hospital and just had her. She was born at 8:47pm. Jaycee is at such a fun stage in her little life right now, we are enjoying every second of it. She is always laughing and smiling even with her two little fingers in her month. She is doing and saying so many things. We love you princess!

This Sunday we baptized our little princess and held a birthday party for her. It was great fun and had a lot of family and friends join in on the fun! Even Grandma, Grandpa, Great Grandma and Great Grandpa came from AZ to join in on the fun! Thanks everyone for coming to celebrate! Auntie Shelly is the best and made a wonderful cake, actually she made a couple wonderful cakes! They were all very tasty. She even made Jaycee her own little cupcake. Thanks so much Auntie Shelly.

The day was super busy and I didn't really get good pictures, which makes me very sad. We got one family picture and it didn't turn out that well. We didn't really get a good picture of Jaycee all dressed up in her sweet little dress either. My mom did share some of the pictures she got, but I'm hoping others have good pictures to share also. Here are some of the good pictures I did get.

Happy Birthday Princess...mommy and daddy love you very much!

Busy...busy...busy

Just wanted to say "hello" and let you all know we are still around. Life has been really busy for us. Busy with work and planning for Jaycee's birthday party and baptism. Here are some recent pictures below.

I know I said I would have pictures of our decorated house last time, but those are still to come.

Happy long weekend

First of all, I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We did, ours was spent with Tavo's family. It's was Jaycee's 1st Thanksgiving :-) We are truly blessed with good health and all our family and friends in our life! We love you all!

It's been a wonderful weekend so far, it's nice having the long weekend with my family and not having to go to work. We are working on getting the house ready for Christmas and went and bought a tree yesterday. Pictures to come.

Just wanted to check in and say "hi" and wish everyone a late "Happy Thanksgiving"!

Jaycee loves Shamu!

Prayers for Victoria

Many of us have been anxiously awaiting the arrival of one of my best girlfriends, Maria's, baby. Friday night I heard the news that she was in labor...yeah! On Saturday, the moment we have all been waiting for....it's a girl! Maria had a beautiful 7 pound 10 ounce baby girl named Victoria, a beautiful and strong name choice. Maria is doing well, and Victoria is stable but will need to remain in the hospital NICU awaiting more testing on her precious heart. I ask that everyone please keep my friend Maria, her family and baby Victoria in your hearts and prayers. We love you guys!

Loving on Estella...

Saturday night we had some friends over and Jaycee and Estella were too cute playing with each other......check out some pictures.

Happy 11 months princess

Wow...another month has past and our little princess is 11 months today! Time is truly flying by. It's the month of planning Jaycee's 1st birthday party and baptism. Jaycee is doing so much these days. She has mastered walking and is all over the place. She knows what a cow and sheep say. It's too cute to hear her "moo" and "baa". Her favorite thing right now is saying "no, no, no". She says this right before she is going to do something she isn't suppose to. She knows where our eyes, nose, elbow and teeth are when you ask her. Everything is in Spanish though, Tavo is teaching her well and of course mommy is learning more too :-)

She has started to try new things with food and is eating a little better. Her new favorite is olives and turkey meat. Still work in progress though, we keep pushing the vegetables! She is still drinking mommy's milk.
A day at the park with mommy and daddy!

Helping mommy with the laundry...drying sheets are so much fun!

Hi!

Pushing her baby in the stroller.

What a sweet face!

The best toy ever...tupperware!

Happy 3rd Birthday Davis

Today Davis is turning three! My sister had a nice birthday dinner for him on Thursday and made another amazing cake. See pictures below...




Big smiles as we sing "Happy Birthday"! What a sweet boy!

Present time!


The cousins!

Visiting with Grandpa

Grandpa came out for a short visit this Wednesday and left today. He drove down to help Davis celebrate his 3rd birthday. Davis' birthday is actually this coming Sunday, but we had an early birthday dinner celebration last night. A post with pictures soon to come....

Thanks for coming to visit Grandpa, Jaycee enjoyed her visit with you. We are glad you got to come out and stay a couple days. We love you and will see you next month :-)

A play date....

Sunday afternoon Jaycee had her first offical play date. Don't get me wrong Jaycee has played with her cousins and other kids that are older than her plenty. But we have never offically had a so called "play date" before. Is that sad, her being 10 months almost 11? Nah...I don't think so, like I said she has been around plenty of other children. Zerah and Ariana are really close to Jaycee in age. Jaycee loves her cousins, she is always trying to give them a hug and kiss!

Hunter and Misty came over and we all had a great time! Misty is a mom we know from softball, we have played ball with her for years. She's had to stop playing for now. Her husband is in the military and is out to sea right now :-( It would be hard for her to take care of Hunter and play ball. Something I understand, that's why Jaycee and I sit on the bench and keep score while Daddy plays. Hunter is a totally cutie and a sweet boy! Jaycee and Hunter are only a month and 9 days apart. I think they played well together. Misty and Hunter thanks for coming over and visiting. You're welcome anytime. Can't wait to do it again :-) Check out some picture below....

She's a PRO now......

A week later and Jaycee is walking all over the place no problem. She doesn't even crawl anymore. Are you tired of walking videos of Jaycee? Sorry........just one more. Enjoy :-)

Happy Halloween part 2

The night was fun! My sis and the kids came over and we went down the street to the Hallopalooza free family event. The kids got to play some games and jump in the jumper. I believe they had a fun time! Both my sis and I dressed up for the kids, which they enjoyed :-) I missed the picture my sister took of all 5 of the kids together. I'll have to get that copy from her, but her are some picture I have throughout the night.

Hope everyone had a fun, safe Halloween!

Jaycee and her first Pumpkin.

The cowboy!

The Fairy Princess!

The Doggy and sweet Zerah!

The Kitten and Cat in the Hat!

Even Aidan wanted to be Cat in the Hat!

Sweet little Zerah!

Tavo too wanted to be Cat in the Hat!