Thanksgiving 2011

We celebrated Thanksgiving the day before "November 23rd" with my sister and her family, my mom, my nana, and Lily and Angelina so that we could have Angelina and Lily here with us.

Angelina with her Thanksgiving Outfit.

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My baby and I.

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My baby boy with his Thanksgiving Hat he made at School. PK4

I love this smile.

The Garza's

The Garza's with our mom.

The Cortinas Family with Angelina

Auntie Arlene with Angelina

Nana with her grand-daughter

My beautiful baby who was not in the mood to smile.

I will miss these little hands

Taking steps for Auntie.

Lily, Lola, Nana and Angelina.

Happy Thanksgiving from my family to yours.

APRIL

Project Life: Week 33 (Aug.14th-Sun thru Aug.20-Sat)

Project Life

Week 33: Aug 14th thru Aug 20th

August 14th 

Micah you are so funny. Every time I pull out the camera and you hear the click you turn and smile. I try to get pictures of what you are doing but now you turn around and smile. You are so silly. love ya. 

 

August 15th

Micah you had a birthday this past weekend and you received cash and lots of gift cards. As I was leaving to take your sister to get tennis shoes for school, you insisted that you go with me. So i decided why not? I would surprise you and take you to Game Stop, boy were you excited.  You got 1 DS game and 1 Wii game. 

 

August 16th

Boy was this the scariest night for me. I know you will probably laugh but to me it was a big deal. As i came home from ballroom dancing lessons i was going to take a picture of Micah and my recently new lens started making a weird noise. My heart about dropped. If anyone knows me then you know that my camera is always attached to me. So i decided to change to my 300mm lens and my camera worked. So I felt a little better that it was not the camera but only the lens. Well I looked for my reciept and the date i bought my lens was 8/2/11 from Best Buy and the receipt said you can only return within 14 days. Well guess what! That night was the 14th day and it was 9:36 p.m. and Best Buy was closed. Boy was my stomaching hurting. I immediately got on Amazon and bought another lens 18-55mm but of course that would not get to me on time for my kids starting school Thursday. I asked my AWESOME HUBBY if he could go during lunch to see if they would return it or exchange for another lens. I knew if i went that i would probably go postal on them if they wouldn't return it. My hubby goes and like nothing they return it and check to see if they have another one and they only had 1 left. WOW! I was super excited when he called to tell me the news. So as you can see, my camera is very special to me. I love to take pictures of my kids every day. I love it. 

August 17th 

The night before the first day of school. I go by the rooms to take a picture of the kids asleep and i find Hannah and Dylan asleep but little MICAH was not. I got him playing his DS. He is something else. 

August 18th

First Day of School for the Cortinas family. 

August 19th

Another picture of my kids before school and since the 1st day did not go good for Micah, i got a picture of him and his teacher today. He actually ran up to her and gave her a hug. awww.

 August 20th

My beautiful daughter Hannah. Every since her cousin Lexi curled her hair she has been requesting that her hair be curled. So Saturday was a girls day. i curled her hair, painted her toe nails and hands. She was super excited. You look beautiful Hannie. 

This was our week. 

Enjoy

 

The Big Day!

Tonight is the night before school.

Tomorrow is the big day for my kids. 

Micah will be in Pre-k.

Hannah will be in 1st grade.

Dylan will be in 5th grade.

(tear....tear....tear...)

I remember when they were first born and now my last child will begin school with his siblings. 

I went in tonight to check on them and Hannah was still awake. I told her go to sleep. So this is her faking it.

I went in to find Dylan asleep. Boy is he getting big. I miss him small.

Now I turned around to find my little one "Micah" playing his Nintendo DS under the covers. He did not want to give up his DS. He told us he did not want to go to school and that tomorrow he was not going to stay. So we shall see tomorrow.

I cant believe how big they are growing up. I count my blessings every day. I love my kids and Pray that they have a great day tomorrow. 

Here are my little ones clothes, all ready for the 1st day of school. Dylan ironed his own clothes tonight and put them in his room. 

Have a great day tomorrow my babies.

Love, Mom

This Is The Day The Lord Has Made!

Thank You My God!

Thank you that you placed Devin into my sister's family life.

Thank you that now there family is complete.

Thank you that you are a merciful God and even though we are not worthy you give us the desires of our hearts. 

Thank You!

Happy 81st Birthday Momo!

Today is my Grandma Thompson's 81st Birthday!

This woman is my world and I love her very much. She raised me and I am so THANKFUL for that. 

I took this picture of her this morning when I went to drop off Micah to her. Yes at 81 she still loves to take care of Micah. They bond during the day!  He lights up her day!

My hubby made her this cake so Micah got to take it to her this morning. 

After work my family went over to sing, "Happy Birthday" to her.

Happy Birthday Momo!

I Love You!

I'm a big Kid now!

Siblings Forever!

Priceless Photo!

Sometimes they fight but Sometimes they LOVE!

I pray that you two never become distance from each other. 

I pray that you two can always count on one another.

Stay connected!

Much love, 

Mom

Can I Do It or NOT!

 

Well as some of you may know I started kickboxing on March 2nd. I had been procrastinating but finally went and I can say that I really enjoy it. It is so much fun even though I sweat and get my butt kicked. It is a great workout. I also started walking/running during lunch or after work on the days I do not go to kickboxing. I have cut down from 6 sodas a day to about 1-2 a day and try my hardest to consume 6-8 glasses of water a day. I also now take my lunch to work instead of eating out every day. My habits have changed tremendously BUT....I don't see the weight coming off. I'm getting kind of bummed about it. I know that I have a lot more energy and also my endurance has gone up. My first week of kickboxing I could not even do 1 push up or do jump roping or a lot of other things. I can say after 10 kickboxing classes I can do a lot more push ups then 1, I can do about a lot more jump roping without stopping, about 85 jumps. I can do lungs and so much more. I feel the difference in my body, I feel so much better but I do not see the weight dropping off.  I know I should be patient. 

 

But when. Do not worry I will not be giving up. I have a contract with Kickboxing so I am stuck for a year so I guess that is a good thing.

On another note I am so proud of myself because last Thursday I ran 2 miles straight without stopping. I am so thrilled. Check out my status from my Nike

Wow! Can you believe that! So I decided I would try it again. So on Saturday I went for it again and I did it without stopping....Whooo Hooo!

and guess what I did it again today. I came home from kickboxing and went straight to run. 

I am so excited and proud of myself.....I am going to start to do more cardio also. 

I will continue to drink my water and go to my kickboxing classes on M/W/F and continue to run. I will not give up. 

Queen April

Week 13: Project Life (March 13th thru March 19th)

    Week 13 Already! Enjoy 

 I love my niece to come over. She is a great baby and is so happy. Always smiling.

 Happy 10 year Anniversary Patrick and Angie.

 My cousin Amy and her family came down from Houston and we had a BBQ. Her daughter Amanda adored Angelina.

 I was putting something away in the refrigerator and look what I found in there. Yes, Micah's DS on the top shelf. I could not help but run and get my camera. When I asked him if he did this, of course his answer was "NO".

 I have two pictures for Thursday. I came out of the shower this morning to find my niece just loving on my pillow. Isn't this adorable. 

The bottom picture are my kids and niece Angelina posing for "St. Patrick's Day".

 Look who my kids bumped into right at 5 o'clock, yes...Mr. Webster. They did not even give him a chance to change out of his work clothes.

 And finally my husband did an awesome job on the garden he and the kids put together. This is mine and his box, the kids have their own. We have 2 types of lettuce, asparagus, and tomatoes in ours. Great Job Hunny. 
Enjoy!Queen April

Happy 10th Anniversary

We got invited to a get together to share a special day with a special couple, "The Reinfords". 

It was casino night at their house and Velinda and Vince walked away with the prizes. 

Happy Anniversary Patrick and Angie!