Sam's 1st Birthday

It's hard to believe that I had my baby a year ago.  Time sure does fly.  It's crazy to think that our babies can go from being soo small to sooo big in a blink of an eye.

Samuel Josiah Medrano 11/16/2010

Here he is again just a few weeks old.

Samuel Josiah Medrano11/16/2011

Tia Sannie and Sam share the same birthday!

Happy Birthday Sam and Sannie, we all love you very much!!



Front Porch Decor

I've been wanting to do something with what little of a front porch I have for this fall season.  After having pumpkins out for Halloween I had to give it more of a Thanksgivingish feel.  So I got my hot glue gun and cricut out and went to town!

Before:

After:

I think it needs something more, but it'll do for now.



Fish French Braid

I finally tried the fish french braid which I've been wanting to try for a while! Here's the results...

Then, we just went to go get Arieanna's hair cut.  I got it chopped off and she's loving it.  I think it looks really cute on her!

Now Alayna wants to get hers cut, but I really want to see what hers looks like grown out.  We'll see, maybe I'll give in?



Halloween 2011

This year for Halloween we all decided to be "Super Hero's"! Well, except for Manuel who didn't dress up, and Samuel who was a little spider.  We first got to sport our costumes at the ward trunk or treat. They had a chile feed and of course the trunk or treat.  I didn't get a group pic of us there, but here's a few others that I thought were cute!

Then for Halloween today, I signed up to take cupcakes to Alayna's class Halloween party. When I was down to the last minute of taking them, I wanted to come up with a way of taking them "in style" so I threw this cupcake stand together.

I used my glass cake stand and the to make it tiered I used a candle holder and hot glued cardboard pizza boxes that I cut into circles and decorated with paper. 

 Alayna helped me bake the cupcakes and picked out the colors, sprinkles and cupcake thingy mi bobbers. 

We even delivered them "in style" as Cat Women and Spider Man!

For Arieanna's we just took some "Witches Brew".

I wanted to do an actual cauldron and serve it out of it with dry ice as the smoke coming out, but I wasn't sure how the teacher would react to that.  So this was the next best thing. 

And, the whole family right before going trick or treating.  I'm Cat Woman, Arieanna is Wonder Woman, Alayna is daughter of Captain America, Isaiah is Spider Man, Noah is Batman and Samuel is my little spider.  Maybe just maybe I can get Manuel to dress up next year. 

We had a fun Halloween this year and I hope you guys did too!

Happy Halloween!

 

Happy Birthday to Me

Yep, on October 30, I celebrated another year of life! I'm 27.  Can you believe that?! It was actually a really nice one cause my b-day fell on a Sunday and I got to see the kids do their program.  That was their present to me, to sing nice and loud and memorize their parts.  They delivered and along with it made me some cards.

The day before my B-day, the girls (Ashleigh and Steph) and I decided that we were gonna go to golds gym and do body pump and body combat.  Let me tell you, it was awesome! Then afterward we went to get our feet done.  The girls paid for mine for my birthday! You girls are so sweet, thank you!

Meanwhile back at home my Hubby surprised me! The story is actually funny cause I was on the potty talking to him (yep, I like to chit chat while I'm on the pot) and was telling him how long it's been since he's surprised me with something on my birthday.  Don't know why but as I was telling him that I was reminded of the sink in the bathroom.  It was plugging up cause Noah stuck a penny down it, so I asked him if he could fix it.  He gladly said yes and went to get some needle nose pliers to get it out.  As he was attempting to get it out he kindly asked me if I could go down to the basement to turn off the main water valve cause it was gonna be harder than he thought.  I didn't really want to but I went anyways cause I was sooo tired of the darn sink being plugged.  When I turned on the light to go to the valve all I saw was this...

...He is so clever! You know the sink....the water valve...what a smart little cookie! This really made my day even better! He's always full of good surprises for me and is so sneaky about it!  I love this man of mine! 

I also got a chocolate bar from Kim H. and gift card for target from my sis-in-law.  Thank you chica's!

Well, here's to another year of life!!

R.I.P

Manuel and I were sitting in the living room enjoying ourselves before we heard this big bang on the window.  Both of us startled, didn't know what to think.  "What the heck was that?" I replied, "I have no idea" Manuel said.  I thought maybe some kids were messing around and threw something at our window or something to that nature.  Then as I looked outside, I saw this poor little thing laying on the bark right below the window...

evidently this poor bird thought that it could fly through our window.  It kind of reminded me of that Windex commercial with the birds in it and how the window looks soo clean that they can fly right through it.  You know what commercial I'm talking about right? Anyhow, I hope this bird can "Rest In Peace" now that it killed itself :-(

Later that night my poor little Samuel fell and got his first huge bump on his forehead, due to the rest of the kids horsing around :-(

We were so lucky that it didn't split open cause that would have been our third kid with stitches. Don't ask me why he's smiling, I guess whenever he sees the flash of the camera he knows it's picture time lol.  Doesn't it look nasty? My poor baby :-(

 

Birthday Gifts

I couldn't think of anything that I could get for birthday gifts without spending money.  Then it dawned on me the other day when I was looking at my "Blessings" blocks.  Manuel had some 2x4 scraps along with some that I got from my dad and I had scrap paper galore.  With a little mod podge and my cricut expression I was able to try some blocks on my own.  What a perfect gift eh? Especially when I had everything already.

These are the "Blessings" blocks that I tried to replicate. I got them as a Christmas gift from my sis.

And here are the ones that I did.

I wish I would have did a few things different, but not too shabby huh?

This is what I came up for Manuel's cousin's gift.

After seeing the finished product on this one I wanted to keep it for myself lol. Well, my tools, paper and cricut ain't going nowhere so I'll be making myself one too!!