Utah Surprise Trip aka Best Birthday Gift Ever

Last month we surprised mark's parents by just showing up at their house for a weekend. It wasn't really planned. we just put some clothes in a bag and took off. it was one of those trips. we drove from california to utah since we were in california that week. It took us 11 hours to get there instead of the 8 hours we thought it would take us.

Eko did a lot of this, he is the best traveler. we just slept, ate, watched movies, ate some more and once in a while he had to go pee. overall, the perfect traveling kid

we got bored and started making music videos. i gotta post some of them. it was fun.

we got to utah at 2AM and went to go stay at our friends Joe and Shalom and it was a blast spending the next morning with them. We have missed them the most, they are our best friends. And Tio Joe loved spending time with Eko
Kamaya is huge, last time i saw her she was but a few days old.
We were with the smilies till about noon and then drove to SLC to have lunch with one of my best friends Angie Diaz while we waited for mark's parents to get out of work. She almost kidnap Eko. she missed him so much.
Then...We went and surprised mark's family. All the girls were home and they screamed so loud the neighbors came to check on them to make sure everything was ok. but later found out it was our surprise. For our luck that afternoon there was a picnic so we got to see ALL our church member friends from when we lived in utah, it was great. There was so much good food, I'm still paying for the price of the extra pounds I put up.
Eko got to play with all his old friends from church and they all got to see how big he got.
We also got to see our old Dog Buddy, we miss him so much. It's ok buddy, in a few more months you will also be a Floridian resident and will be rolling in the sand instead of in the snow.
After the picnic Eko went to the part with his aunts. Don't you just love those mountains in the background.
While Eko was at the park we got to hang out with some old friends and Enjoy the Gorgeous View we had miss so much, Gosh do I miss those mountains. Here in miami, everything is FLAT. And at night we went to see the movie, SALT. such a good movie.
The next day was.....MY BIRTHDAY and pioneers day. So we enjoyed it with a nice breakfast thanks to mark's awesome mom. Then we went out for a movie to see INCEPTION, also an amazing movie. And then we went out for ice cream instead of a cake. Cold stone is SO much better than a cake and it's free on your birthday.
After Ice cream we went to our friends the fredwells who made me my favorite "Mango smoothy with Boba" mmmmm, so good. Eko had such a great time hanging out with his 3 favorite Tias and Getting 110% attention, it was ALL about him. Just look at his face.
And my FAVORITE part of a Utah Birthday is I GET FIREWORKS ON MY BIRTHDAY. There is one thing I LOVE about utah and that is that my birthday is a holiday and I get fireworks for my birthday, isn't that the best.
After Fireworks we went home and cuddled with our old buddy and with each other ofcourse while eko played with all his tias upstairs.
Then on sunday we said our goodbyes and head back to california. It was the best 48 hours ever and the best birthday gift mark could have ever given me. I LOVE YOU GORDO. No other husband would drive a total of 22 hours to give his wife 48 hours to celebrate her birthday with her best friends and family. HE IS THE BEST.
But this trip wouldn't have been complete without at least one thing going wrong. seconds before we left the house i sent eko and mark to go potty and so did I. Well as i was in the bathroom before i even went potty, i turned kindda fast and my phone flew off my pocket and RIGHT INTO THE TOILET. We had to dry the phone on the front of the car for 2 days before it started working again. luckely it still works, it has his moments of slowness but it works.
Eko eating cheetos out of a redbull box.
Our last view of the mountains as we left Utah.

Airplanes/ Airports

This last few months Eko and I have gotten the chance to travel a lot. Most mothers hate to travel with small children but Eko and I have a blast during our 12 hour trips. (12 hours between flights, checking in and layovers)

This is Eko playing with his superhero toys while waiting to board. He was half way asleep here cause it was 1am.
We were at an airport in which they had these cool old looking planes hanging on the ceiling and eko had a blast running throughout the airport finding them. Good thing it was a 3 hour layover and it kept him entertain for a good amount of time.
and this was our plane.
It took us an hour to find food during this layover and we were so hungry that even that crappy sandwich tasted delicious. Eko was such a tropper.
This is eko playing with his puzzle during one of the layovers.
I love this kid, He is the perfect traveler. it doesn't matter if we are traveling in a car or in an airplane, he is still so good.

So I've been thinking..... which is never good

OKAY,

So i've been thinking.... Which by the way is never good when I over analyze a situation and this is not my usual blog But i have a lot of my mind.

So Here are my thoughts. I WANNA GET PREGNANT... NO I DONT'S...WAIT I THINK I DO... NO ITS JUST ME BEING BABY HUNGRY AGAIN.......OKAY, OKAY I WANT A BAB......NO I CAN'T. Those has been my thoughts in the last few months and it's driving me crazy. Part of me want a baby since eko is already 3.5. I don't want him and his sibling to be 5 years apart either but it's going to happen if I don't hurry up. But then I think of the 30 extra pounds I'll have to lose ALL OVER AGAIN. I think of all the sushi I won't be able to do ( which I should go to SA cause I NEED to eat sushi at least once a month or I go crazy.) I think how I won't be able to travel as much as I love to do and the other 10 thousand excuses I can come up with. But then I think of the feeling of knowing there is a little person inside of you, I think of the Love a new baby brings to a family, how eko will have someone to play with and teach (Even tho i think he enjoys being an only child a little bit tooooo much, He is 110% a mama's boy) We have been saying we are going to get pregnant since LAST spring, as in spring of 2009. And we keep moving it but mark is soooo ready now. So it's official that as of november we'll be trying 100%. Right now we are just trying 60% cause I want to go get some medical check ups before i get pregnant again, like my back and a bad tooth i have. I think God should just take over and get me pregnant right away in November so I can have no more excuses not to get pregnant. So, Which me luck and lets hope for the best.

P.s. I think the reason why i'm freaking out so much to have #2 is because I had such a bad experience with Eko's pregnancy. the bad back pains (after having those, labor was a piece of cake.) My uterus erupting with eko still inside, eko coming out without breathing, being alone after delivery. but I need to realize this time its going to be different.

Birthday part 1

On july 24th I turned 24th years old. But since I was going to utah i had a small get together, a pool party with my friends, it rained and poured like crazy but we still had fun. Here are some pictures.

p.s. I know i'm not a pink girl but my friends picked the cake, they thought it was funny. It was really cute.

Living in miami

Ok so living in miami has made me lazy about blogging but i'll try to update it as least once a week since i have a lot of family everywhere now. So this is my first blog in a while. But there is a lot to come.

By the way this is where we live in miami. these townhomes are pretty cool, not too fancy but nice and big inside but sure look amazing outside

California, Here we come

Eko and I are meeting up with mark in california for a week. we are celebrating our 4 year anniversary and father's day. We can't wait. Mark has been working away from home for 3 weeks so this will be our reunion. Eko is super excited to get in an airplane, be at the airport and go see daddy. I in the other hand i'm nervous for the 10 hour airplane/ airport trip which include a 3 hour layover. we are going to go crazy so which us luck. we will be posting pictures when we get back.

Eko is a swimmer

About a month ago we started teaching eko how to swim and within 2 days he was swimming for at least 10 seconds all alone. but now he has learned to swim from one side of the pool to the other side. Here is a video we got of him, It wasn't his best but he still did great.

Everything FREE is GREAT

A few days ago I signed up for some free samples from wal-mart and today I got them. I just wanted to say "I love free samples" I use to do this a lot back in the day but had stopped. Now I decided to do it again and if I get something I don't use I can always add it to my donation pile since I'm always doing donations for people in need. So in about 2-3 weeks I will have a mail box full of samples, I'm so excited. I'll be getting things like shampoo, toothpaste, pads, and even dog food. you guys should do it too.

Besides that, we are all good. we have been spending a lot time at home. but as of next week, eko is starting classes on monday, wed, fri and swimming lessons on tue and thu. so we getting more in a routine.

The summer has began.

Okay so this has been a fell month, between birthday parties, hellos and good byes. here are just a few things that i was able to watch on picture since i don't always have my camera with me.

One of my father figures growing up was paul pitts, he is a Lt. at the coral gables police dep. he has served for almost 30 years but is finally retiring. this friday was just retiring party. Here is him and mama pitts.

At the party we did mug shots, it was too funny to see what people came up with. Here was mine. Back in the day people would call me nun so now that i'm married i'm nun-less. lol
Here is mark in front of these amazing graffiti walls he found. Aren't they cool.
Eko had an allergic reaction to a bite he got and his eye got huge. this was the first day, but the second day it actually got worse. His eye was about 80% close by the second day but it was back to normal by the 3rd day.
MOTHER'S DAY!!!

For mother's day i got a haircut, my mom and i went to get it together. my hair is really short now.
My boys took me for dinner. we had so much fun.
Mark got me a cool sun conure. these birds are orange and green till they turn one then they change colors to orange, yellow and blue. and they can learn to talk and sing. mine can only give kisses on command and get on your finger on command.
eko and I have been spending a lot of time together and doing lots of fun things together. He is really into taking pictures together now, its funny.
at the pool with eko and my niece emy.
after working out. we had a little mac camera fun.
eko has made some new friends, these are the acosta twins. nathan and nicole.
at the mall.

Ok so I have been glued to the computer the last two days trying to update my photography blog and creating a web page for my photographer. I am not 100% done but I still wanted to show off what I have done so far. Hope you all like it.

DeLeonissStudios.blogspot.com

http://www.wix.com/DeLeonissStudios/DeLeonissStudios

Iron Man Night

The other day, Mark, eko and I went to see the new iron man movie. We dressed up Eko like Iron Man and he loved the attention.

A little late but all well.

Ok so this was over a month ago but I need to catch up a little bit. Jr and Dani came for a 3 day visit to miami. We didn't do much, but we did get a chance to go eat sushi and go to south beach and bayside while they were here. Here are just a few pictures, I would post more but I'm a little short on time. It was great having them here visiting us.