Snow day, Grandparents, and Parties!!!

A couple of weeks ago we had a perfect little snow day! Juan got to stay home and the kids had so much fun playing in the snow! I have a picture just like this one with my sister over 20 years ago! It never snowed in San Antonio when I was a kid, so we are pretty lucky to get some snow two years in a row!

Julianna's face was looking pretty bad but she did not want to go inside!

Juan's parents were in San Antonio visiting so the kids got to play with Abuelo and Abuela for the weekend.

This is Annelise making necklaces with her Grammy. Grammy did not want to be photographed first thing in the morning! Annelise makes some pretty cute things at my Moms house.

This was a nice warm day out side where I decided to trim the dead plants in the pots out back. Annelise was awfully busy during the fourty five minutes it took me. I saw her bring stuff from the playhouse into the main house. When I get inside I see this tea party setup, and she said "oh, Mom you are just in time for the party!"

I know this picture looks scary but it has a cute story. I was clearing out winter cloths getting ready for the warmer days ahead. I found this dress my aunt made for my cousin almost 30 years ago. I asked her to try it on to see if if fits and she looked in the mirror and say "I look French." I dont knoe where she got that Idea but I busted out laughing!!!

Confessional: Annelise liked, no LOVED to drink from bottles until recently!!! She would drink two eight once bottles of milk a day, so I figured if is was the only way to get her to drink milk then it was fine with me. I stopped buying her toys when ever we went to a store and let her know that if she wanted to say "bye bye bottle" that we would return to that store and buy the toy. It never worked!!! She would drop that toys and say, "ok I will come back when I'm ready!" So when she woke up one morning two weeks ago and tells me she is ready to give up the bottle I offer her a party to celebrate!!! We had her two best friends and our neighbor Mason over for a "bye, bye bottle" party. It was lots of fun.

No party is complete without favors!

She wanted to be dressed beautiful for the Valentines day party at her school. She even slept in foam rollers!!!

Julianna got in on the party action, getting to sit with Everett.

Annelise was cookie decorating and Julianna was the quality control!

Even Everett got to get some of Annelise's creations! He mainly just ate the icing... actually, most of it was on his face!!! -so he probably didn't get that much icing, Erika!

It's a . . .

I am nineteen weeks pregnant.

A look back at some things I did the last 19 weeks:

This at the pumpkin patch... I have no idea I am pregnant!

This is at a birthday party and I was feeling queasy, but I just thought it was the girls night out I had the night before.

The test below is one I purchased while at the dollar store buying stuff for our annual Halloween party. I was pretty sure I did not need it! I was running a lot those days and I figured that was why I was three days late.

The news was too shocking to hold on to, so pretty much everyone at our Halloween party knew. Annelise's birthday party was pretty much when I started to feel terrible.

Ahh... the holidays + first trimester = fast weight gain!!!

The Inteligender test reveals that we are having a BOY!!! We are happy with the news but we know that it is not 100 percent accurate so we are optimistic for the time.

Oh yes the Train ride! I am smiling in this picture before the ride but I wish someone had taken an after picture ... Ugh, I was sick!

Took Annelise to see the Nutcracker. My pants were extra tight!

The Holidays were such a Blah because I felt pretty sick.

And lastly the 18 week sonogram. We were pretty confident we were having a boy so when the nice tech passes her wand through the legs and finds nothing, we pretty much knew! It's a girl!!!

Juan just sat back and says "oh, well I make beautiful girls". I am over the shock of being pregnant and now I am getting used to the idea of a third girl!

Dear Baby,

Let me just start by saying that you are soooo lucky! You have two of the best sisters and a Dad who loves them so much! You also have me as your Mom, who can't wait to have the three of you girls dressed up like princesses!!! I really think you will love it in our family. We have every toy a girl could want, and it's almost all pink around here! We can't wait to meet you and we hope you come on the 4th of July so that we can have some awesome parties for your birthday!

Love,

Mom

Fun Times

We have been recovering from the hectic holidays and it couldn't have come at a better time! I am just ready for extra boring!!! But our little life is anything but... so here are some fun pictures from my phone.

We have been having some cold days here lately and Annelise can't wait for the warm days to come back. We recently had a nice day when my answer to the "can I go outside " was finally "yes" . She must think high fifties is "warm" because she ran upstairs and put on all the summer things she could find!!! She then takes this lawn chair out and sunbathes!!!

This is a at Cabella's outdoor store. We stop almost every time we go to San Antonio. The girls love it! Juan Loves it too!

We took the Borden boys in our van to do a lunch play date... or was is so we Moms could enjoy some time together before the busy school schedule... hmm. Notice the purse hanging on the Armadillo's ear!

So now can we get back to "plain vanilla" life?

I have a feeling we are more "Rocky Road" kinda people!

Christmas Day!

Annelise has been counting down the days, and finally it was here! Christmas morning she ran into our room and yells "Santa came!" She wanted three things

1.) A sewing machine

2) Beauty and The Beast Movie

3) a camera

She got all three, but sadly her sewing machine did not work :(

Baba her rabbit and his friends also got gifts. She had very spesific gift requested for them too but this is what Michels craft store had in the doll section. I told her that Baba told me that he wanted ice skates instead of pink boots and since I wrote the letter to Santa that is what he got. She bought it.

Julianna got a train set that she loves!!!

She also got a baby that talks.

Overall it was a great day. We had a house full of family over for lunch and they stayed until night... it was the perfect ending to the perfect day!

This is a funny picture of the day after Christmas. Annelise gets the chair and moves it to the candy, and Julianna took advantage.

The Nutcracker

I always knew that if I had a daughter that I would make it a Christmas tradition to go to the Nutcracker. My Mom did this with us, and I loved it!

We were able to share a ride with our neighbors Molly and sweet little Gwendolyn! I don't know if we will be going again next year since I think she was a little too young, but I am sure we will attempt this tradition again in a few years.

Her favorite part was "the scary mouses". My favorite part was getting to go out to eat with Molly afterwards!

Good Times!

This weekend was super fun and filled with good times! Saturday morning Annelise had a princess tea birthday party to go to. She loved getting all dolled up, and had a blast! Later on that night we went to a Christmas party were Annelise got to stay up very late and play with her friends! The kids even put on a show and I have a feeling it was her idea.

This is her the next morning!!! Need I say more?

After parting all night we went for a much anticipated train ride with the Borden's!

Julianna was not into the Santa.

The kids got train whistles from Santa and cookies from Mrs. Claus. Julianna loved the train ride, but she spent most of her time in the Borden side enjoying their snacks and affection!

Overall a great weekend!!! We are so lucky to have such great friends to create wonderful memories with!

Christmas Stroll

Annelise had a supper cute show in the downtown last weekend. She sang a Christmas song that is stuck in my head permanently!!!

This is her with some of her classmates getting ready to go on stage. They were all so excited I could not get her to stay still for a decent picture.

Annelise and Maddox loved the Bethlehem Village.

It was a great weekend with good friends! I love Christmas time with kids, it gets so much better every year!