Graduation

I am such a slacker! It has taken me way too long to post about Erin's graduation!!!
With that out of the way;




Erin graduated last month from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Health Education. To be precise, she graduated the 14-15 Aug. It was great! We were all very happy and very excited for her. Erin's family and mine were able to attend and celebrated with us.



I am very impressed with Erin. Especially at how hard working she is. She was able to go to school, work, do an internship and be pregnant all at the same time! I don't care who you are, but that is impressive.



Little Gabriel was also present, I can say that my son has gone through a BYU graduation!!!




After graduation we over indulged with insane amounts of meat at Tucanos Brazilian grill. Even though our bodies were screaming afterward, it was a great experience.




Erin, you are amazing and we are so very proud of you!!! Congrats!!!Felicidadez!!!

Happy Birthday Jack!!

Today is my sweet and adorable little nephew's 1st birthday! Little Jack, you're so very cute and even though we don't see you much we love you! Hope you have a great birthday and eat a yummy cupcake for Uncle Gabe and me!

We're Back in the Game!

So after a long hiatus, we're back. We apologize for the absence. Things have been busy! I am running around with my head chopped off (so I feel). I am back in school for summer term, my final semester of college! I am taking a history class from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. and then I go to English from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Class is Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Then I go to work 1:30 to 6:30 Monday through Thursday. By then I am exhausted, but it's homework time. Thursday mornings I have internship work I do. I only have about 3 full weeks left and then I am actually graduating! I can't believe the end is so near. August 14th and 15th is graduation. Little Gabriel will have done some pretty cool stuff in utero by the time he's born - flown to New Orleans, Disneyland, graduating college! Gabe has been very supportive - he takes me to school every morning and gets me breakfast and snacks ready on most days. What would I do without him?
I have been a serious slacker at taking pics of my progressing belly. But I will post one very soon. I have already had someone ask me if I'm sure I'm not having twins. I think she might have been trying to be nice, but it doesn't really come across that way, especially when I still have a lot of time to grow! I am so grateful for every minute of being able to carry this little guy. Who cares that my back hurts constantly, my right rib seems to ache often, and I find myself having difficulty sleeping many nights? It's so worth it and no matter how uncomfortable things get I will never stop loving and embracing this miracle that has and will change my life forever.

Baby Fingers

Here is the missing picture. When I scanned Little Gabriel's pictures I accidentally forgot to add this one. You can see his little hand really close to his face. We really wanted him to look at us, but he didn't. I guess he is already trying to rebel against his authority figures ;0)

Its a BOY!!!

Little Gabriel's bootty, the rest you can guess ;0)

Same here!(This pictures is how
we knew that he was a boy)

Oh Boy!

It is a boy! A 14 oz. little boy! We had our ultrasound done June 2nd and we were surprised to find out it wasn't a girl. I thought mothers were supposed to have intuition or something... I was so sure it was a girl-I hadn't even looked at boy clothes! But I am so excited to have a boy. And Gabe is ecstatic; he couldn't be happier. We are going to name him Gabriel (middle name still to be decided). I think it feels a little more real for both of us, though it's still very surreal.
I love these ultrasound pictures. I love the first one - he has such a cute little bum! And his arm and leg pictures are so cool. We are so happy he seems to be healthy and strong!

20 Weeks and Kicking!

I am halfway through and it has flown by! I have felt the baby kick a little over the last few weeks! Multiple times I have felt the baby kick and then Gabe has tried to feel it kick and nothing! But today I sat down for a little bit, had a peanut butter sandwich, and pretty soon I felt a couple kicks. I grabbed Gabe's hand to feel and he pushed in my uterus a little bit. After about 10 seconds there was a really big kick and he felt it! We were so excited! He thought maybe I had faked it somehow for him, but little Baby Warrior was kicking for his dad! And it's only going to get better!

18 weeks

I have reached the point where I now look pregnant, not just like I've suddenly gained 10 pounds. It seems like all of a sudden it happened; I went from having a pooch in my stomach one day to having a round, full tummy. I have dreamed of this point all of my life. Sort of... for some reason I have been enthralled with pregnancy since I was little. When my sister and I were little our favorite dress-up was shoving pillows under our shirts and pretending we were pregnant. We have both dressed up as pregnant women for Halloweens and I was looking at some pictures today and for the circus my class put on in kindergarten I was not just any clown, but I was a pregnant clown! We loved the jean maternity jumper my mom had from the eighties and always looked forward to the day when we got to wear it. And now the time is come! I am loving the adventure so far and can't wait to be able to hold our little "IT" as Gabe calls 'it'.

( Sorry for not posting a picture with the blog entry, we forgot our camera's battery at Lindsay's. But thanks to Cyndi for letting us use hers)

Guerreros

After our visit to Disneyland a couple of weeks ago ( You know, where I distracted Minnie and ruined someone's "Make-a-Wish" moment) we also took the opportunity to get together with some of my extended family from my Dad's side, the Guerrero family. Since we moved to Utah I have only seen my grandma and one of my aunts. As far as the rest of my family goes, it has been almost eleven years. During our visit I also met some of my cousins that have been born since we moved from Mexico.


This is my grandma Anna and my sister Melisa. My grandma has been sick for the last year or so and we really wanted to see her again. She is really cool and not like your conventional grandma. There are just too many stories and I guess it would be hard to explain, but she is great!


My uncle Gerardo (on the right) was kind enough to let us stay at his house during our visit. He also made "pozole" and it was delicious. I think I gained a few pounds, but they were totally worth it.


Only four of my uncles and one of my aunts , with their families, were able to make it. My dad comes from a family of 13 siblings, so this visit would have been really interesting if all of them and their families would have made it. On the picture above my dad is the one wearing the BYU t-shirt with my grandma and my uncle Edgardo.


Since my dad's family is really numerous, and my dad is one of the older siblings, I am close in age with one of my uncles. My uncle Roberto (above) is about 6 years older then me. He is one of the uncles that I was able to spend more time with when I was younger. Also my aunt Maribel, who was not there, happened to be close to our age and spent a lot of time with my sisters and I in Mexico. She now lives in Washington DC.


We were only there for a couple of days, but it was great seeing my family. It was a whole other experience for Erin also, since most of the conversations were in Spanish. But my family loved her. They kept telling me how pretty she was and that she could've done better for herself. I do agree that she could have, but I am glad she didn't ;0) My cousins and Roberto spoke English, but for the most part, it was a Spanish speaking visit. Good job Erin!



We are planning on going back next year, and hopefully will be able to have the whole family there. That will be very so great and we are so looking forward to it.


PS: No family gathering is complete without an ice cream truck. This guy had such variety that it was chaotic trying to choose just the right delicious treat.

Mimi's assumption

This is a random picture that I took at Disney while getting ready to take one for my sister Mely and her husband Jeremy. I have no idea who those people are, but I just wanted to take a test shot. The funny thing is that everyone is looking at the real camera, but not MIMI. She totally assumed that I was their camera man. I guess I might look like I am part of their family! Ha! :0)

(Mimi is Minnie's name in Spanish, I bet the worker inside the suit spoke Spanish)