With the Lord

My grandma passed away early this morning in her home with my mom and aunt and grandpa by her side. There is deep sorrow in losing this precious person, but there is great joy in knowing that because Jesus died on the cross for our sins and imperfections we can have eternal life and I know my grandma is with Jesus.

Sadly, not everyone has that peace when someone dies and not everyone goes to Heaven..so I constantly give thanks to the Lord that my grandma proclaimed Jesus as her Lord and Savior.

Thank you Jesus for eternal life and thank you for my sweet grandma and friend.

Please pray for coping...but most of all for my grandpa, aunt and my mom who cared for their mother until the end and watched her as she took her last breath. It is not easy and they have a long road ahead.

We covet your prayers

My grandma was admitted to the hospital 4 weeks ago for what we thought was the flu. Since then she has been through 3 surgeries in 3 weeks and on Friday it was decided that she cannot eat and that her options are either to stay in the hospital or go home. She was given only a few days to live. This was hard for her to hear, hard for all of us to hear. My grandma has been a part of my life, she has been a close friend and seriously someone I would call to hang out with on the weekends or when I had a chance.

My grandma has been a great example of someone who loves, someone who forgives, someone who serves and thinks of others before herself. She has been faithful to her husband, her family and her friends. She is beautiful inside and out.

It is hard to wait. It is hard to see her and think we have only days left with her.
She has battled cancer and cancer has won the battle of the physical life, but it has not won her joy, her drive to live, her spunk, her beauty, nor has it won her spiritual life. She will forever be worshipping with Jesus and that I am so thankful for.

If you desire to pray we would so much appreciate it. Please pray for her comfort. For no pain, for no fear for the unknown and for peace. And also for quality of days. She is glad to be going to home to look out the windows and see the cattle over the hill, the pond by her house and the mean jay birds fighting against her favorite cardinals. She is glad to be going home to be with family and the appreciate and enjoy the Lord's creation.

Please pray for my mom, my aunt and my grandpa who are going to be by her side 24-7 until the Lord takes her home. Please pray for their hearts to be comforted, for them to find the peace of the Lord and for them to have no fear as well.




FYI:For those of you do not know and read this, my grandma was diagnosed 2 years ago with end stage ovarian cancer. They did surgery on her and gave her only months to live. After some chemo, she fought the cancer and here she is two years later. There is a lot more that goes into that...but the point is she has outlasted way longer than they thought she was and the doctors have been amazed by her. She not only had quantity, but the 2 years have been quality. She was mobile and able to go places and enjoy life. My favorite part of it all is that she had a year with my baby. We spent lots of time with her and in fact when we go to visit her, he knows exactly who she is and he gets excited. We love grandma, forever.

Mr.Wilson

Last week we went to Wilson's apple orchard with the girls I take care of after school. There is something fun about a tractor ride through the orchard even though there are no apples and then eating an apple turnover and some apple chips afterwards. I loved it! Plus, I could just stare at Mr. Wilson all day long! I know, I'm a little freakish, but he is so darn cute!

The trip to the orchard isn't complete without a picture of Mr.Wilson with Guillermo.

Does he look like he is having fun? He loves tractors and he loves being outside, so he was so happy to he there.

Happy 1st Birthday!

So this past Saturday (Oct.6th) was Guillermo's first birthday! He is officially one year old....YIKES! The time we started eating when we were celebrating is the time I started to push a year ago to deliver this guy. The sad thing is I think we were all done eating (after having seconds and thirds plus dessert) and he had already eaten his cake and opened some gifts and maybe even bathed and went to bed before the time of his arrival one year ago. There are a lot of things you can do in 2 hours and pushing is not one I had ever thought of! Of course it was the best spent 2 hours:)

The stats on my little man:
He weighs in at 21 pounds and 5 ounces.
He is 30 inches long.
He has 3 teeth (2 on the top and 1 on the bottom).
He loves trucks, cars, and steering wheels.
Some of his favorite foods are: bananas, almost any kind of fruit, meats, graham crackers and of course milk! He loves water in a cup and refuses to drink milk out of any other thing than a bottle.
He loves stroller rides and adores other people.
He likes to growl like a lion (I think he is showing his manly side).
He gets excited to see dogs.
He can play for hours with or without other people.
He says, "hola".
He is fiesty.
He smiles and laughs a lot.
He throws fits when I change his diaper and clothes.
He has no separation anxiety (which makes me wonder about his feelings for me:)
He's a lot of fun!

Here are some photos of the birthday prince:)

And now for the cake (tres leches)....

The next Burley

So this is the poor man's version of a Burley:) We have wanted a Burley ever since summer started, but just have not had the opportunity to buy one...soooo...this is what Francisco racked up! I love it! I was able to go for a bike ride with my husband and son for the first time! We went to the ice cream store in Tiffin and then to the Post Office.
I know some of you may think we are crazy and that it doesn't look totally safe...but we felt like it was sturdy and Guillermo loved it!

The Sky is the Limit

Okay here is proof that he has mastered climbing into his highchair. FYI: I was outside real quick to turn the meat on the grill and I looked inside to see where my son was, he was no where to be found. I panicked...looked to my left and there he was sitting in his highchair! He had also just finished eating, so there was no way he was hungary...he just likes to crawl up in there. Even with the tray on, he tries to still attempt it...although it is a little more impossible. I think I have my work cut out for me!
**You got to love the little smile and naughty laugh at the end:)

Did I mention...

Guillermo climbs EVERYTHING!

Rock climber in training?

So Guillermo climbs everything! This started a while back, but now he just can't seem to get his fix throughout the day. He is starting to climb things that weren't meant for climbing.

He also climbed into his highchair by himself. This is a reenactment because by the time I saw him and got my camera he was already sat down eating his left over food from dinner.

My Guy

My guy is now 11 months old. He is a blast. He laughs, smiles, yells with joy, climbs on everything, crawls everywhere, and keeps us entertained. I love each day I spend with him.

Career day care folks

So, I saw an add that a family recently moving from Florida needs someone to watch their two girls from 9-1pm. I thought it would be nice to have some extra cash while I stay home with Guillermo until I actually start working as a nurse. So anyway, I emailed the family to ask them if they were set on having a University student and this is the response I got....

Thank you for responding. No, I'm not set on a university student- I mentioned being a student because we really want to find educated people... not career day care folks... to help out. You are a nurse and would be great for us, I'm sure.

Now, I don't know if anyone else feels this way, but I was actually offended. I think they were bashing career day care folks and also people who don't go to college. I think I took it personally because I always tell Francisco if I would have met him sooner, I wouldn't have gone to college and racked up school loans...I would have been a stay-at-home mom. My deep passion is kids and caring for them. I just felt like they were degrading. What defines up anyway? Education? What makes us smart? I believe the Lord's plan was for me to go to college and I feel blessed by that, but I don't believe that that is what defines me and makes me who I am. I guess all I am saying is there are a lot of people that can go to a University and graduated uneducated and then there are a lot of people who don't go to college and they are some of the most educated people. I just felt like they were very closed minded. Sorry if this sounds harsh...I was just offended.
That's it:)

Happy Anniversary

So August 12th, Francisco and I celebrated our second anniversary! Time flys by. I know we are still sort of considered newly weds, but after you have a baby you no longer feel like a newly wed:) It has been a fast two years and I feel like it's a good reminder of how life is so short. We are only passing through.




We are far from normal:)

Bat woman

Okay ladies and gents,

I was working the night shift and at 5 am I decided to go down to the cafeteria to get something to eat. I was the only one in the hallway and this is what I saw FLYING at my head!...

I had the creeby jeebies! I can't not tell you how freaked out I was the rest of the night. Not to mention I made eye contact with this beast (although, I know they don't see...I still looked right at it). Just to remind you all...this was in the hospital! Can you imagine? These things carry rabies and rabies kills people! GROSS!

Here she is

I promised a picture so here she is...

Abrie Kaylynn Wren
Born July 22nd 2007 (not sure the time)
She weighed 7 something and was 19 1/2 inches long:)

So precious...we can't wait to meet her!

An active boy

Days are busy here:) Our little baby is now a little man:) He loves to explore grandma and grandpa's home.

A good help with the dishwasher

Likes to inspect the chair

Likes to see what is in the bread drawer

Likes to look at himself in the t.v. screen

Loves to climb the stairs

And now loves to try and go down the stairs

Enjoys looking out the window at the plants (I think he's waiting for those tomatoes to ripen)

There is never a dull moment in this house! I love the stage Guillermo is at. He is so much fun.

Garage sales

Okay I think I am officially obsessed with garage sales after yesterday. I was inspired because we stayed the night at Wayne and Marla's (friends of ours) and Guillermo loved the toys they had there for their grandchildren. So, I had some ideas of stuff I wanted to get for him. This was amazingly fun and even more fun to see him enjoy them. Below are some of my fun deals:)

So my first great buy was an alligator teeter tater ($5)

Then this awesome car ($7)

Then the walker ($3) You can see in the background I wore Francisco out with all my purchases:)
Can't quite figure out how to walk with it yet.

**So the previous stuff plus a fun push lawn mower and a few toys including a guitar were all purchased on my first time out without the boys. So I had to go home and get them before I went to other homes.

So this one is way too much fun. On my second time out we went to a neighborhood sale and the first home we went to they were selling this ride for $10, but they gave it to us for $5! Sweet deal, Guillermo loves it and he rode around to the rest of the sales in this thing. It was cute. I am not sure if you can see the purple handle behind but that is what we control it with. It's pretty cool.

So again in the afternoon I couldn't help but go out again for the third time! I found this activity table for $5. Guillermo has been playing with it non-stop.

Plus he loves the box it came in:)
**Okay so I can't fail to mention we went out for a fourth time in the evening and I found a lady who randomly decided to have a garage sale...she sold me a pack-n-play for $10!! I was so excited! It was a FUN day...otherwise non productive, but SUPER fun.

We love you Caedmon

Okay, first of all I am way behind on keeping all you peeps up to date....so the posts will come, probably in a BIG load.

Anyway, I have to blog about my sweet boy Guillermo and what happened today.

My sister and I made this picture frame of our three boys for our mom and dad. They placed it at the bottom of the stairs as you go to the basement (sounds like such a hidden place for it, but it really does look good:)
Today I was going to the basement with Guillermo to play and he started squealing and going crazy with excitement. I thought, he has never been this excited to go to the basement before. Then I looked at him and he was making eye contact with his buddy Caedmon (the one on the far right). So I stopped and we chatted with him for a little bit...Guillermo was talking and smiling the whole time, totally filled with excitement.

So what do you know, on our way back up the stairs he looks right at Caedmon and starts talking again.

This is amazing to me for a few reasons. First of all, he is only 10 months and the fact that he looks at a picture for seriously a quick second and realizes who it is, is not only amazing to me, but the point that on the way back up (after some time has passed) he can recall exactly where he saw is cousin and look for him once again.

Maybe, I am unfamiliar with at what age they start recognizing and doing things, but he just seems so smart to me.

It was a sweet moment and although he can't tell me I could see the love he has for his cousin.

I love being a mom. It's amazing.

Homeless

Oh boy! So we are back from Colorado. We came back on Thursday night (July 26th) and on Friday we found out that we had to be out of our apartment on Saturday (July 28th) by 10:50 a.m. We were originally under the understanding we were to be out by the 30th. Yikes! Anyway, after awesome help from our friend Wayne and my parents we were able to be out by 3pm. Needless to say we are extremely exhausted! The place we are moving to won't be ready for about 3-4 weeks...so we are homeless:)
We are living with my parents in Dubuque (an hour and a half away). SO.....we can't wait to have a place to call our home.

A niece!

My brother Travis and his wife Tiffany had their baby on..
July 22nd (not sure the exact time).
Her name is Abrie Kaylynn and she was 19 inches long and weighed 7 pounds 13 ounces.

We are anxious to see photos! And very excited for a girl to be in the family:)

**We are wrapping up our time in Colorado. Tomorrow is our last day and then we are headed home on Thursday. We are sad to be done here.

Colorado!

So today we are headed to the mountains. Francisco, Guillermo, my mother and I. Us three will be babysitting Brighton and Caedmon (Tom and Nichole's children) as they attend training...something they do every two years for Athletes in Action. We are excited and know that there are many adventures awaiting us!
**I just pray it is a refreshing time for Francisco and I as well.
Hope to keep you all updated. We will be there until July 26th.
Adios!

Sweet family time

Uncle Frisco with the two babies

Grandma and Grandpa with their 3 grandchildren

Great Uncle Ricky Ricardo. We love him:)
Great grandma with just three of her 5 soon to be 7 great grand kids