Our Baby Shower!

What a great event this was! We threw our little man a shower for everyone to enjoy and boy did we have fun! We had great company, fabulous food, funny games, and tons of memories for our little man.

Our theme was "Oh Boy" with blue's, green's and ivory. Simple and perfect :)

Saturday morning my trooper (Gaby) and I woke up super early and attacked all the stops we had for the day. The florist, food, prep the flowers, BJ's, Bakery, Party City, Payless, and finally head back home for some baking and a cooking lesson!

The night before the shower I couldn't sleep thinking of all the things that had to be done that morning. Of course Mario thought we had "PLENTY" of time to decorate and get ready....UM NOT!

The day was a little gray- which scared me but thank god the day turned out just great! The guests started to arrive and I was still a mess ;) I finished just in time to get to my moms house plaster make- up on- get Gaby ready and look fabulous for our family and friends.

I was so touched by all the gifts we received for our little man and loved every moment of our shower...

I leave you with some pictures!

The yummy cake!

Michelle, Me, Elaine and Nina

With my BFF- Kristen

My Fabulous Aunt and cousins- Emi, Tia Sophia and Clau

My coworkers- Joselyn, Me, Michelle, Mady with Mr. Wilson and Sophie

The Candy buffet- used as favors

Cup cakes- Made by Elaine

The food


Play the "not so hard" games! ;)

Playing the Price is Right- but we were shocked how much this 7 inch flat screen monitor cost! $$$

Mouse won "The Price is right"



Opening Gifts

The some of the gang!

Happy Turkey Day!!!

I love love love the begining of the holidays! It all starts with of course Halloween followed by THANKSGIVING! This year we were the happy ones to be hosting. My mother in-law made the fabulous turkey, stuffing, and my special craving this pregnancy arroz con leche!

My sister in-law then made a potato salad with some deviled eggs (I believe they are called). The poor deviled eggs were simply GONE by the time I got to see the "plate", or should I say what was left of them. I made scalloped potatoes, mash potatoes, cranberry applesauce and I bought some cupcakes from Publix. My aunt in-law made sweet potatoes, crab salad and brought the bread rolls. My mom made the rice & salad. Everything was gone!

We also celebrated my newphews 3rd birthday and sang him a little tune....

Everyone had a great time, I stuffed my face and felt horrible after! But I'm pregnant and I need to feed this man! Mr. A was in a food coma for about 24 hours! He didn't move until the following night! Poor little man :)

Friday the 5 (Mr. A and Oreo included) woke up and headed for the Mall. Of course Dolphin Mall! The crowed wasn't too bad as I expected. We had a movie, MORE food and game day! We saw Twilight (oh soo yummy good!) and then walked around searching for some sales and didn't find anything we "needed". Then we went to the movies again (yes, we are movie buffers) and saw the James Bond Movie. Gaby apprently liked Twilight instead she keeps asking why James bit Bella's arm. I also got the 3rd book of the series and I'm so excited! I think Mario is a little instrested in the book- but he won't read it (I think it's a "man" thing). He's too funny!

I leave you of course with some pictures of Thanksgiving!



The eggs that I never saw!

The table set up for dinner!
and now the food!
The crab salad Salad
Sweet Potatoes
Mash Potatoes
Scalloped Potatoes
White Rice with Noodles
The turkey!
Potato Salad
Stuffing (which we still have left over!)
My mom and Mother In-law
Then it was time for a prayer- Thank god no one fainted. My mom officially wins an award for the "Longest Prayer" EVERRRRRR. **note to self- don't allow my mom to say prayer**
After a long prayer we finally got to EAT!

Happy Birthday Jorge!

The Arroz con Leche I salavate over! Daniel and Gaby stuffing their faces with cupcakes. Luckily I'm the official photographer, so you can't see me stuffing my face too with a cuppie ;) There were 6 cupcakes- 4 for the kids and 2 for me! hehe :)

A Family Portrait- I love my Kodak!
Sandra, Albert, Genesis, Gaby, Jorge, Mario, Daniel, Cynthia, Nunu, Tia Esperansa, Dona Rosa, Me- Mr. A, Rossy and my mom. (Oreo was hiding under the table)

Where has the time flown!?

It's been already a year since Mario and I got married.

It's been quite a year- it started off really bumpy, then things cooled down, we planned to have baby #2, got pregnant REALLY fast, Gaby turned 4 and here I am 6 months pregnant with Mr. A (WOW) and more in love with my macho than I was yesterday. I really can't imagine my life without Mario, he really completes me and understands my crazy ways. We support each other and are so blessed with 1 1/2 amazing kids!

We've been together since we were both 14. We were in a Miami Chatroom on AOL, that day I gave him my number and my first thought was "WOW this guy is NOT 14" he had a manly sexy voice. Our relationship was based only on phone calls, until a whole year later when I met him in Tropical Park. His first words to me were "Wow, you have a shinny forehead". I guess that's when I knew he was "the one". Instead of having me at 'hello' he had me at 'shinny forehead'. Mario isn't a romantic kind of guy at all- so the little things he does even doing the dishes or making the bed are just "it" for me.

We got married at Perricone's in Downtown Miami and this is where we had dinner Saturday night. I got all pretty for him putting make-up, doing my hair and looking as hot as I could! We left Gaby with his mom, sister and nephew while we had a quite ride to downtown. We arrived to Perricone's and were sat in the same corner we did at our wedding. We even order the same platter and had Coconut Flan. It was so romantic just being alone and reliving the day- I looked around the room and remembered where all the guests sat and just soaked it all in again.

Here are a couple of pictures of us on Saturday night:

On our way to Perricone's (I love it when he smiles)

In the same corner where we sat at our wedding ;)

On Monday- it was our real Anniversary and to my surprise as I open the door to our house there is Mario waiting for us! It was the best! Gaby doesn't see him during the week- only in the morning when Mario gets her ready for school. She was soo happy and ran to him like a bullet! I walked into our room and literally FROZE! He had bought the most beautiful arrangement of red roses and purple flowers, a balloon and hand written note. It was so special I started balling in a nano second! I read the card and cried more...the card read "1 down...and forever to go" (even now as I type this I get gitty inside and smile :)







Mario is my hot fudge on my vanilla ice cream! <3

Halloween!!!

Happy (belated) Halloween!

This year was a great year to grab some goodies for Mr. A, Gaby and myself ;) The weather was fabulous, the day was great and the company was fantastic! We bought Gaby's costume in the beginning of October. I didn't want to wait too long and buy some stupid costume. So we planned ahead and went to Party City. Gaby, to my surprise, didn't want to be a Disney Princess. We were left with 2 options: 1- Cheerleader or 2- a Pirate (ARRRHHHH) lol. Last year she was a UM Cheerleader, so she picked the Buckaneer! Oh how cute did she look! Here are come pictures of the day:

Getting Ready



ALL READY!! (please check out the pose of DIVA Gaby!)



To school we must go!



At night we went to Grandma's house for some more fun (as if she didn't have enough sugar at school!) Here she is with her cousin Daniel (who is dress as a boxer with a black eye!)



We all decided to go to a local park and enjoy free pizza, cotton candy, and soda! Here is Gaby with some random little boy, he was the male version of the Pirate:



And even after 45 minutes of Trick or Treating and a full day of events she is still SMILING for the camera!



As a bonus- here is a video of Gaby singing a Halloween song she learned in school. The morning of Halloween she sang this song the ENTIRE way from our house to her school. Enjoy!