My Kristiana

She is so sweet and such a girly girl! After her bath today she wanted to put on her robe Uncle Pepe and Aunt Michelle got her for Christmas. So I dried her off wrapped her up in it and she got up on her bed to watch Shrek. After about 30 min she comes walking up to me in the kitchen and says, "Mommy! Feel my feet!" I replied, "Why are they cold?" "No mom just feel them!" Again I say, "They’re just cold you don't have socks on them, let’s go get socks on". "No mom really feel them, bend over and feel my feet." So I did and I replied, "What’s wrong they feel fine?" "I think they are going to fall off they are tingling and I don't know why! They feel WEIRD!" I just started laughing! She has never had her feet or any other body part fall asleep before. I told her "Nana, your foot fell asleep it's ok!" She didn't ask why or anything else she just said "Oh, OK!" Then about 20 min later she says, "Mom! My foot woke up!!! It's not tired anymore!" I love listening to her stories and trying to figure out the world! ;0)

A Blessed Life

So I decided I want to take my kiddos to Disney World next year. My husband is not too fond of it but I know when he sees their face at Disney World and Universal Studios he will have as just as much fun as them. ;0) I know it's going to be a pricy trip but I'm going to try to save us a little money. I'm just not sure if I should book it through a travel agent or try to get all the items on my own by using Priceline or any other company. We will be driving; I couldn't imagine flying with crazy monkey #4 - Antonio!! OMG the people on that flight would probably want to do really mean and bad things to us. ;0) Allen is really into Harry Potter and Nana the princess theme so I really think this would be a great trip to take at their age. Now down to figuring out all the details. Kristiana turns 4 next Tues March 6th. I can't believe she is 4. I know, I know I say this every year and so does all the other parents in this world. I feel really blessed to have the kids that I do. They are good fun loving kids. Even my crazy Tonio whose nick name is ToniNO! These last couple weeks I have really realized how lucky and blessed I am to have found the love of my life. I mean I knew it all along that Tony and I are true soul mates and we have an amazing family but just recently it has really hit me how lucky we are to have found each other. It's a hard world out there to "date" in. Some of the girls seem to be blowing off good guys and are now the ones "playing the fields". At least that’s what I see with our guy friends. And some guys just seem to have lost the "open the door, treat a lady like a lady" attitude. I took a picture frame and took a piece of cute scrap book paper and I wrote on it "I love you because....." then put it in the frame. Every few days we write a cute reason of why we love each other. Yes another project I found from pinterest. I really like it because it really shows him all the reasons I love him and I love waking up and seeing what he thinks of me at that exact moment.

My projects ;0)

This last week I have done 5 projects that I found on Pinterest and in my Family Fun Magazine! They have been so fun but they have also been a learning experience. First one I did was Kristiana's Valentines. This project I did not find on Pinterest, I found it in my Family Fun Magazine! The 2nd one I did was the Strawberry / chocolate cupcakes. Oh my goodie gosh! They were sooo good! One tip tho do not put the chocolate words on until right before you want to show everyone. My chocolate melted into a big mess! ;0( The 3rd one I did was a Valentine to my husband from my kids! The 4th one I also found in my magazine! Cruz's valentines! These are Mad Libs pages rolled up!! ;0) The 5th one I just finished today.... I am so super excited about this one! I turned a diaper box into a designer box. Lol I have never had a nice box to put my Avon Catalogs in so I made this one! I LOVE IT! Pinterest is so amazing! I have completed 9 projects from this website and made 4 recipes and it has all been so much fun and everything turned out great!!!

Busy busy busy these last few days

Antonio turned 2 on Sat, we had their party Sat with family, Super Bowl was Sunday and Cruz's birthday was Monday! Whew! I'm beat! I have so much house work to catch up on however it can wait. ;0) Not to mention 2 weeks before my house was hit by the flu that lasted 2 full weeks. Then Kristiana ended up coming down with Strep so I used a whole can of Lysol in our house on Thurs and Friday l

ast week. The boys missed their first Basketball game due to already have planned a small party for Cruz and Tonio. I can't wait to watch both of them play! Allen has never played before I think he is on a pretty good team. We got to hang out with some close friends for Super Bowl. We haven't or should I say I haven't been able to hang out with them a lot lately! I'm glad we went over there we all had a lot of fun and good food! The best part they don't mind that we bring our Zoo with us! ;0) I'm going to post pictures of their birthday and New Year’s. I was just looking through my pictures and I have some pretty funny ones of New Years. My sister and TJ came over and spent the evening with us. It was really hard to stay awake until Midnight though! ;0/ Just shows we are getting old.. J/K I have 2 projects in the works from Pineterst. If you are not signed up for this site I WARN YOU! If you value your time and already a very busy person I would not join. This site is crazy! I have already completed 3 projects I found from here and 2 more in the works. But the best part I probably have only spend a total of $20 for these 5 projects. One of them is a family organizer. I'm not 100% done yet but when I am I will post pics.

Happy Birthday Antonio

Today my baby monkey turned 2! I no longer have a baby in the house. :0( It makes me sad. I've been telling Tonio all night, tell your daddy you want a baby sister. :0) Maybe sometime in the next 2 year. My baby boy got his geiko! HE LOVES IT AND LOVED SEEING ALL HIS FAMILY TODAY! xoxoxo. Happy birthday baby boy! I will post pics tomo

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Listen to your mother.

I'm sure everyone has thought this sometime in their life, "I will not be like my parents when I get older!" Then we have children and find ourselves doing and saying what they did.  ;0)
I'm glad I do.  My mom always knew when we were sick and what we had.  I never understood how she knew just about everything we were doing or feeling until I had my own. 
2 days ago I noticed Kristiana started sounding a little strange.  Then yesterday I woke her up and she was not acting like herself, she didn't want to eat breakfast and was just real slow.  Then when I picked her up from preschool her teachers said she was not acting like herself.  I noticed when she talked she didn't sound like herself either.  So I looked down her throat and sure enough it was red, swollen and a little white.  Her temp was normal though 98.2.  1 hour later in the Dr office she had 101.2 fever and was really not feeling good at all.  Sure enough she had strep!  I just knew it. I caught it so early that I didn't have to deal with the high fever and her being in so much pain because of what my mom taught me.  My mom always said, if you cough up yucky stuff or sound funny (like you have an egg in your throat) you usually have strep.  I'm so glad I had a mom to teach me everything she did.  She may not realized she was getting me ready to be a good mom when I was 10 but she really was.   I also knew as soon as my youngest son had the stomach flu and couldn't shake it after 5 days to put him on a B.R.A.T. diet because of her, and it worked!!!   Bananas, Rice, Apple Sauce and Toast she would say.  lol   There are so many other things she taught me that I don't think she realized she was teaching me I could go on and on.  I can only hope I pass this all on to my kids, especially daughter so she can be a good mommy too.