We're having a Baby!

I woke up this morning as Nunie was leaving to work and decided to test since my period was overdue and I had been feeling a little weird. So I tested and went off to the living room, mind you it's 5:30 in the morning. Three minutes later I went back to the bathroom and there it was, TWO lines starring back at me.....and I didn't know what to do! I could not believe it, I started dancing around with Logan telling him "we're having a baby" he just tilted his head as dogs do when they seem confused. He was probably wondering why the heck I was so excited!

I didn't want to tell Nunie over the phone, so I decide to wait until he came home from work to tell him the great news (by the way it was hardest thing I've ever had to do)! In the meantime, I went to Target to buy a digital to confirm it with the actual word "PREGNANT", a bib that says "I love daddy", and a onesie to tell my mom. I wrapped up the bib along with a Marine Corps Baby onesie that I've had in the closet and included the digital test.

It was so hard not to call anybody to tell them the news. I got ready and headed to my mom's. She was still in bed when I arrived. I went upstairs and jumped on the bed with her and gave her the bag. She had no clue. As she opened it and saw the digital test she started screaming then crying then laughing-it was awesome. I've honestly never in my life seen my mom this overjoyed:) She's been wanting to be a grandma, but I had selfishly put it off. While we're in the middle of crying and hugging each other, Nunie calls and says he's heading home from work early-crap he's ruining the plan. I told him to come over my mom's for breakfast...little did he know he was getting a bun in the oven.

As soon as he showed up I opened the door, and just showed him the digital pregnancy test. I didn't have my original surprise so just handed over what I had. He looked at it and said you're pregnant???, he had a look of disbelief and excitement and a huge smile he could not wipe off his face. We decided to take our boat out to celebrate and enjoy some quiet time on the lake. It's still so surreal to us, but yet we are so excited. We're not telling the rest of the family until his b-day Jan. 25th. That should definitely be fun!
Our first doctor's appointment is on Jan. 14th. Until then I will keep updating the blog~
Thanks for reading......

Christmas decor

We are about more then halfway through with the Christmas decor. So far Nunie has put up the lights on the house and the bushes. He usually puts the lights around the front of the house, but this year I also want him to put some up all around the roof. I hope that make sense. I started decorating the inside last weekend, and did the mantle, the wreaths, the kitchen, and the dinning room first. I left the tree for last and we put it up last Sunday. As you will notice I still need a nice tree topper.

I'm thinking about buying another smaller tree that I saw at Target to put in our dinning room. It's about 3-4 feet but it's adorable and so full. That is still on the maybe list, we'll see. We are hosting Christmas for my family this year on Christmas Eve so I'm trying to make it special.

I still need to buy a couple more gifts and wrap everything! That I haven't started. Anyways well here are some pics of what I've put up so far.
Enjoy~

Thanksgiving 2008

In honor of Thanksgiving it has made me reflect on all the things that I am grateful for in my life.
My loving husband
My wonderful family
My health and my family's
My beautiful and loving furbabies
My job despite the crummy economy
Our awesome vacations that we took this year
And for all the things we've accomplished in 2008!

We had a very good Thanksgiving, especially since Karen was home with us. She wasn't able to come home last year, so it's never the same without her. Early Thanksgiving day my sisters and I went to go see 4 Christmases since we weren't having dinner until 6pm. I loved the movie by the way, very funny and cute and even better that it was filmed in San Francisco since we had just vacationed there!

Later that evening we went to my MIL's house where we've been having Thanksgiving for the past three years. My parents and sisters always join so it makes things easier, rather than visiting a million houses in one day and eating at each one. We had our traditional Thanksgiving dishes which included turkey,honey baked ham, broccoli and cheese casserole, my mom's cream of mushroom pasta, stuffing, mashed potatoes, homemade macaroni, green beans casserole, and rolls. For dessert there was pecan, pumpkin, and chocolate pie, empanadas, and Mexican wedding cookies-yumm! And believe me I had a little bit of everything well a lot rather.

After our Thanksgiving dinner we came home and watched movies. Karen and Karina spent the night since we were going to go shopping at 3:30am on Black Friday, aah yeah we joined the craze!
Here are some pics, enjoy-yes this is all for you Karina!

I Left My Heart in San Francisco

This year we decided to go to San Francisco for our annual fall trip. It's great to go this time of year because I like to see how different cities are adorned with Christmas decor. We had a great time in San Fran. It's definitely a city full of charm and personality. You've got the bay, mountains, bridges, hilly streets, and a diversity of people and cultures that are visiting from all over the world. I will write a review of what we did each day!

We flew in to SFO on Saturday at around 1pm, and were picked up by one of Nunie's old Marine buddies. The total drive is about 30 minutes from SFO to Union Square. We checked in to our hotel-the Parc 55 which I highly recommend. It's a beautiful hotel, nice staff, great location, and very very nice rooms with a great view of the city. We dropped off our bags and headed straight to Fisherman's Wharf to grab a bite to eat (at this point we were starving)! We ate the famous and delicious clam chowder in sourdough bread from Boudin's Sourdough which is another must do if you're in San Fran! We also stopped to see the entertaining sea lions.

On Sunday we started off the day by having breakfast at the hotel then headed to explore Union Square. Be ready to shop even if you weren't planning on it. Our hotel was right across the street from Westfield San Francisco- a mall that is over 5 stories-go figure! Among those there is Tiffany & Co., Bloomingdale's, Macy's, 5th Avenue Saks, Gap.....etc. etc. Practically every store you can think of. Oh and not to mention the huge Old Navy-it was awesome. We bought a 4 day pass from the MUNI transportation for $18 which allows you to use the buses, electric trolleys, and our favorite and most used the cable cars. It's really not necessary and more PIA to get a rental. We got one for only one day to go to Napa. That evening we went to Alcatraz and really enjoyed the tour. They give you a self guided audio tour with very detailed explanation and allow you to see everything in the cell house. After Alcatraz we had dinner at Fisherman's Grotto. The food was delicious and the restaurant is right in the middle of everything in Fisherman's Wharf. This was another restaurant that was recommened while I did my research, and I second that choice!

Monday we woke up and headed straight to pick up our bikes after breakfast to do our tour of the city and bike ride the Golden Gate Bridge. We picked up our bikes and headed off. We had to stop and get us a sweatshirt as it was very windy and cool. The bike ride was 8 miles from pick up to Saucalito and then you ride the ferry back. We explored the charming neighborhoods that all look like Full House and rode around the bay. You take a bike trail all the way through the bridge. The view is amazing from the bridge and I'm so glad we did this, it was quite fun! Once we arrived in Saucalito we had lunch al fresco in a very cute and yummy restaurant where we ate salmon over rice and salad and Nunie had fish tacos.

On Tuesday we headed straight to pick up our rental. We got a super cute convertible bug.

We headed top down to Napa Valley. The drive was very enjoyable and not long at all from Union Square. I had done some research and discovered that Domain Chandon was highly recommended by many people, so that is where I had my heart set on. We really did not have directions, but we figured once we got to Napa we would ask around. Sure enough we asked and they guided us to the right direction. I knew it was going to be beautiful and it was. We bought the tour and 3 tastings for $25 each and called it a deal! Domain Chandon specialized mostly in sparkling wine, yumm. In the tour they taught us how the blends are made and took us through the factory showing us the fermentation process. It was really neat to see all what happens behind the scene.Once we were done with the tour, the best part was to come. We headed to the tasting room and tasted away. We were supposed to get 3 tastings each but Joe hooked it up. My favorite was Pinot Nior Brut and good thing we brought some bottles home.




Wednesday we were heading back to Houston so we just had breakfast and shopped a little at the Ghirardelli Chocolate store to bring some home. We took a cab to SFO and departed at 2pm.
Over all we had an amazing time in San Francisco and would recommend it to anyone wanting to visit a city with a lots charm and a little romance!
Hope you enjoyed.

Spending QT with Family

So this past weekend was full of spending quality time with our family. It started out on Saturday when Karen came in. We met my parents and Karina at the airport to pick Karen up. I love going to the airport by the way. It just brings back so many memories of going to pick Nunie up at the airport with his family-so exciting.
Anyways, after we picked her up we headed to "Los Cucos" in Kingwood. Karen would have wanted to go hit up her favorite Mexican restaurant when in Houston, but it was a pretty long drive from Bush Intercontinental. Nevertheless, Los Cucos was delish and so was their Margaritas. We all chatted and laughed and ate and chatted some more....it was fun!

On Sunday we woke up early and I finished a few loads of laundry and baked a red velvet cake to take to the gathering. We headed out to Corrine's at noon where we had an early Thanksgiving to celebrate with my FIL. We arrived at around 1pm and even though we had left our house on time, we were still the last ones there. Nobody ever said that being fashionably late was wrong, right? So we had the usual Thanksgiving menu, and I say usual because my MIL helped prepare her yummy stuffing. We had turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, broccoli and cheese casserole, rolls, red velvet cake, and cheesecake for desert......and we will have the same next week!
We decided on a gift giving arrangement for Christmas and agreed that this will be the last year we buy everyone a gift. Starting next year we will only buy for the kiddos....that means we better have ours by then to make it worth it, ha!
After leaving Splendora we headed to my mom's and hung out with my family and ate some more. Mom made "pozole", she usually makes it this time of year. We lounged around and tried to recooperate from the large meals. Needless to say it was a weekend full of family time, but also consumed more calories than I would have liked. Then again, that usually takes place around the holidays, bummer!

If you're wondering...

This is probably an irrelevant post, but if you're wondering why the dates don't match up (not that you will probably notice), but it makes me feel better to clear this out. There was a technical difficulty with my previous blog and I had to transfer everything over here. You can't say that I did not warn you on my novice blogging skills, so there. Ok I have to go complete my million things to do for the day. By the way this will be an exciting weekend as Karen comes home today for a month. I will update you on that and post some pics soon.
Goodbye for now,
Mrs. C

Happy Veterans Day

I wasn't thinking about writing a post today since I don't want to get addicted to "blogging", but I have to acknowledge this special day, November 11-Veteran's Day. So this blog is dedicated to all the courageous men and women like my husband and sister who have served our country and have given us the greatest gift-our freedom.
To my #1 hero my husband-I thank you for your service. And yes we're going out to dinner since it's "your" day!

My First Time

So this is the beginning of my blogging experience....and be patient as I am a virgin to this. I have been contemplating on starting a blog for a while now as it serves as a very accessible way to keep in touch with friends and family-so here it goes!
Nunie is loving his new job and I'm enjoying my new batch of kindergarteners! Dora and Logan are only getting bigger and more spoiled with every day that passes but whose to blame, right? We took them to my MIL's house this weekend to have them run around their huge yard, shhh....Logan left a big surprise for Oscar, if you know what I mean. Anyways they had a blast! Now we know what's a must on the list of our forever home-a huge yard!