Planning for Henry's 1st Birthday!!!!

Believe it or not the time will fly by!!! Im wanting to do alot of DIY's for the party along with some help of a friend of mine. Thanks to Pinterest I have found some pretty cute things. I thought I would share!

I just love this little mister theme for out little man!!

Cute decor!!!

Got this image on google. Its from etsy.com and i just love these for cupcake toppers. I also want to get scrapbook paper and make birthday hats! We are also going to do cupcakes instead of 1 big cake. =) anyway i may post more on this later. But you get the idea!! =)

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So I have a really great friend in Maryland,about 15 min away from me. We used to be at the same church untill I moved. :( Anyway I am still in contact with her. I tell her everything..like when i am having a bad day...or just dumb things that people say here. Funniest thing ever was she told me I could probably make a blog about all the funny things people say and do here. It would be a hit. HA. But im sure someone would eventually see it and not be a fan of me talking about them. But come on!!! Some of the comments I recieve are awful. And you are a sister from my church? No wonder people look down on us! I have a really hard time fitting in. Being a young parent of 2 children, my husband has worked some pretty wierd hours the past few years.He is currently on a good one now, but has to commute 1 hour each day. The hardest thing for me I think is that I always feel judged. Maybe I blow it up in my own mind and people dont really think alot of me. But you know that feeling where you look over and someone is looking at you while the other one wispers. HA thats me.!! So most of the ladies I do go to church with all have big homes...I know for some people its not important..because a big home is alot of work..something I could never keep up with. I do always have it in my mind that my life sucks because I dont have alot of space to work with and decorate the way I want. Like I would LOVE to have a fireplace. ughhh so envious :( But I do know deep down that wont bring me smiles everyday. I will probably complain about how things keep getting piled on it and it never gets used. lol. BUT somtimes it is nice to wish there were things you had in life.And no matter how upsetting it is that I could never afford anything larger than my small 2 level 3 bedroom townhouse. I have to be ok with that. Because I know that even though people may judge me or not want to be my friend because we arnt the same financially. I know that my heavenly father loves me! I know that I am a great mother! I have a great husband who loves us, and works so hard for all that we have! I have the gospel of jesus christ in my life, and I know that he will always watch over me and protect me. I know that even if I dont get all the "things" I want in life, But that the things I do have like family will last FOREVER! That having a huge home isnt as important as having a HAPPY home. I far more want love, peace and joy in my home rather than any item money can buy. Because without our families the kingdom of god could not be created. This is why we are here, and I know that i have a purpose! I know that I have weaknesses(like cleaning..yuck) But I also know I have talents, that almost overcome those weaknesses and remind me that we ALL have work to do. And I am just happy to say that I know our savior looks out for each and everyone one of us and I know that one day my life will make complete sense and I will have all the riches I could even imagine as long as I continue to be a loving sister to ladies from my church even if they may not be great because hey we dont all have to be best friends and try to One up the other. In gods eyes we are all equal and thats the way it will be in the next life, so why not practice now right?....

Looking back on Henry!

So as I said before my son will be 1 in October!! I can't even believe it!! It seems like yesterday I was having him. It all started October 14th I was finishing up some painting in his nursery in the evening. My husband came home from work about 9pm and I was telling him how tired I was. I was in bed, and about 10pm I thought I would take a bath. Around 12am I told my hubby (Alex) that I was so hungry all of a sudden and that I wanted some burger king. After I ate, I fell asleep for a few hours. I woke up really uncomfortable and knew I was having minor contractions. I called my doctor on call at the hospital. He told me to wait a few more hours for them to get closer together. But I waited about 5 minutes and started bleeding so I called back and he told me to come in. (even though I had done this before- I was induced with mari- it didnt make it any easier) I was so nervous. I went into the room (about 4am) and they hooked up monitors and such. They ended up making me stay, I got the epidural(6-7am) but it slowed down the labor process so they gave me a bag of meds to start the labor pains again. They told me it would take a few hours. About (8am) the nurse came in and I told her I was feeling alot of pressure. It wasnt going away. I told her I wanted the midwife right away (And that I wasnt joking) Alex next to me told me to calm myself it was all fine, and that I might still feel pain even with the medication. I told him this was the baby and I know it. Non the less the midwife came in to check my dialation and told me she could see henrys head and that he was comming. "I told you so" I yelled. My body was automatically trying to push. The nurse told me "I think we can get him out in a few pushes". I could feel the pain worse and worse but I pushed hard knowing I wanted to see my precious baby. (After all 9 months is quite some time!!) 5 minutes and 4 pushes later,,, came my baby boy! My sweet boy, the first thing I did was look at alex and told him how much henry looked like him!!! .........HERE ARE SOME IMAGES OF MY BOY!............

I just love this one of our shoes!! I couldnt wait for him to wear these!!!

Awwww..Me and my big belly...I couldnt wait. Happy smiles!

Our family was so happy and excited! Marisol is such a great big sister!

This was him before he turned a week old...awwww...

His First Halloween!!! 16 days Old!!!!!

Henry!!!

Newborn pics at jcpenny!

1 month old!! Getting ready for his Doctor appointment. =)

1 month old in missouri on our thanksgiving trip back home. Taken my elegant reflections photography. Found here. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.330580506957186.103171.100000157180503&type=3#!/ElegantReflectionsPhoto

2 months old. A day at church. I just love dressing him in big boy stuff.

3 months old!

3-4 months old.

5 months old. At granmdas house.

March 11 2012 sitting up alone!!!

April 6 months old

Ready for a walk around the neighborhood!

May 2012 Cocoa Beach Florida. 7 months!!

8 months!!!

June 2012!!

July 2012 Almost 9 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I just can't believe how fast this precious time has went by. But I am so very grateful for the opportunity to have the wonderful blessing of kids in my life. Henry is such an amazing little boy, and me and daddy are very happy he is here!! We love you "little man!"

Independence day.

This year was our son Henry's 1st 4th of july. He loved it!! I dont think he missed 1 firework. ha! The last 2 years since we have been here we have went to our local fairgrounds park to watch the works. (Amazing might I add) Our daughter mari who is 5 was freaked out by the show. Sometimes she is our odd ball. It happend to be stormy that night and we could see lightning in the distnance. We took my husbands truck to sit in the back. Well she wouldnt come out. She ended up falling asleep before it wa over!

Here is Henry before the firework show in his first 4th of july shirt!

Marisol posing in her outfit. I got a close on of her bow i made!

Overall we had a great time!!! We love independence day! Happy Birthday to the U.S.A.