Getting Ready For Christmas!

Don't you just love this little angel ornament, I sure tho. Tis is the season to Give, And I'm not talking about gifts under the tree but to give love, hugs, to care for those who are alone and give back a little of the many blessing we get all year long.

Introducing Our christmas tree 2010. its a bad picture but I just love it.
This is eko introducing and very proud of his tree.
He loves posing in front of HIS tree. haha
Silly Kid
This is our 2010 christmas Ornament to celebrate our first christmas in Miami. By the way as of yesterday we were still wearing shorts and short sleeve shirts so it fits.
I love this season to celebrate the birth of christ and all he has done for us.
As a latin I just had to put my nativity under my tree as our tradition where it will stay till christmas eve when it will be replaced by the gifts for christmas morning. I also think it will be so much more fun for eko to see just a few gifts to seeing A LOT of gifts from one day to the next.
Hope you guys are all having fun decorating your houses too.

What I'm Thankful For this year.....

This year has been a year of blessing but also a year of great trials. But over all we have been blessed. Our family is standing stronger than Ever

I'm thankful for a husband that supports me and loves me in my good days and even on the days that I don't even love myself.
My boys, When these two are together, my life is nothing but perfect. They are so silly together and make me laugh so hard.
I'm thankful for my mother. I'm the cute little girl in the middle of this picture. She lives with me now and she has been one of my greatest blessings this year. she reminds me every single day of the Love of the Lord towards me and of my purpose.
And ofcourse I'm thankful for my families. My two families, Mark's parents and siblings and my two sets of parents and my siblings. This year I have learned to appreciate them more than ever
Hope you all had an amazing thanksgiving and you remembered to be thankful for all your blessing this year.

Family Beach Day

The day after mark got here we went to the beach and we had A BLAST. It was cloudy and raining but we did not care because we had a great time.

Mark showed Eko how to ride the waves and he was amazing at it.
I love this picture.
If anyone up north lost their snowman, we found it here in miami getting a tan.
Trying to pass the rain under our tiny umbrella.

Halloween weekend 2010

Best week we have had in months. Mark came to visit us and surprise eko for halloween after not seeing each other for 3 months. He got here on halloween early morning.

So our costumes didn't work out but I was suppose to be Alice from twillight and mark was suppose to be jacob but we ran out of time and just put something on quick. but eko looked so cute.
Our little Iron man.
the night before halloween we had a trunk or treat and that was a blast.
Our monster car.
Hope you all had an awesome halloween.

Mother Son Date

Eko and I had our first mother / son Date in a while. We use to do it once a month but life has been crazy lately so we haven't done it since July. So the other night we went to chili's for lunch. It was fun to have a day just for the two of us.

My son is a Meat Monster, He loves it and its not ashame to show it.
Who said one was enough, not for eko.
These are just some fun pictures of eko modeling. The necklace he is wearing was mark from the filipines from when he served a mission. Eko loves it and tells everyone about it.

Family

I have always been the type of person that has loved her family but friends have also been a great part of my life. But since most of my really good friends are in utah and I have had some separation with my florida friends. I have come to appreciate my family even more. And not only my family as in Mark and Eko but my extended family too. My mom lives with me now while mark is working in california, this is the first time my mom and I have lived together 100% since I was 9 years old. And I wouldn't have it any other way, she is such a spiritual person that she makes me want to be a better person. I get to spend time with my brothers and their families as well as my aunt and uncles. I have never felt the need to be close to my family as I do now. And I just wanted to say thank you to all of them for their love and their support. Specially now with the holidays coming, I'm really looking forward to spending time with family. Mark will be here for halloween to surprise eko and he'll be here for a week. I am really looking forward to that time together.

MotherHood

MOTHERHOOD

Motherhood is a great thing. It comes natural to most of us and most of us have been blessed to bear children. However, I don't believe you must give birth to a child to be a mother. I know many adoptive mothers that are AMAZING and sometimes even better than those who gave birth to their own children. But anywho...

Motherhood is a great blessing. Even during those times when we think we are going to lose it and want to break something against a wall. It's still great for it teaches us patience, endurance, and faith that it will all be ok. Because when the anger is gone and we look into the eyes of our little babies, all our bad feelings disappear.

My mom lives with me as many of you know and she helps me with eko sometimes like when I'm in the shower and eko is knocking on my bathroom door telling me he wants milk. Well today she left on a two week vacation to Honduras so I'll be on my own with Eko and his cousin Emy, they are both 3. And on monday I'll have the two 3 year olds and my mother's 1 month old all day. This will be my practice to see how I can do it with a newborn and preschoolers running around. Wish me luck.

So why am I thinking about being a mother. Because Eko makes me feel like the greatest mother, even after I just finished punishing him he still tells me he loves me and that i'm just best friend. I wish I was that forgiving and as great of a mother and he thinks I am. But I am truly blessed to have him by my side. Hope you all have moments like this when you just HAVE TO say thank you to the Lord for the little angels in your arms.

What have we been up to...

So this is just some of the things that we have been up to in the last few months.

Going to church, I'm working on the activities of the ward for the next year so busy, busy.

My sister and her family moved to saint marteen for her husband to go to Med school. so we can only talk to them online.
Eko is still doing home schooling. I'm horrible at doing it 5 days a week but we do it a few times a week still. Him and his cousin love it.
Eko is getting bigger and stronger. He is 38 inches tall and 39.3 pounds. He makes it so hard for me to carry him at times when he wants to play with me. But we do our best.
Eko REALLY likes Girls and he is always wanting to hang out with the girls and give them hugs and kisses. Kindda scary how they start so young.
I've been doing Some family history, mostly trying to fix all the mistakes that were made and getting the missing info.
And I have been doing some photoshoots ofcourse. I wish I had more but people here in Miami are just NOT into picture. Kindda sad. I miss my utah picture crazy people.
And this is a cute picture my friend took of me the other day which I really liked.