Some pics from our trip.

Because my "friend" Leelee threatened me with my life. I am compelled to post some pics from our trip Pre-Leelee's arrival. After she got there my camera went into a deep deep sleep. LOL Thanks Leelee. I love you too Super Cute Big Sister.


Here's Sophia and I with Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty for those Disney Neophytes, lol)



Sophia and Belle (from Beauty and the Beast)



Sophia and Cinderella



Sophia, Mami and Minnie



Sophia and Mami at Mickey's Toontown fair



Sophia and daddy outside daddy's favorite ride: Pirates of the Caribbean.



Sophia riding in one of the teacups at the Mad Tea Party ride.



Sophia at the Dumbo ride. She loved it.



Sophia and mami at Fun Spot, where mami and tia Leelee had a blast, while titi Ive, daddy and the Calle sisters and their dad rode on Go-karts.



All the ones with the Disney Princesses are especially dedicated to my friend Liz who loves Sophia and calls her "my princess". Liz te adoro roomie bella!

TFL.

Tag, I'm IT!!!!!

My friend Sheila from sb.com tagged me to say 7 things about me that people might not know. Here I go:

1. I'm an only child (on my mother's side). I have a younger brother and sister on my father's side.

2. I have a VERY big family. Over 40 cousins at last count.

3. My dream is to be an Occupational Therapist.

4. Since having my daughter I'm in love with anything PINK and GIRLIE.

5. I'm a lazy butt. LOL

6. I have a Bachelors in Hospitality Administration, but never worked in the field.

7. I was a Foster Care CaseWorker for over 5 years.

Link to 7 other girls and tag them...

1. Leelee

2. Ive

3. Mire

4. Aroa

5. Zazil

6. Naida

7. Tahi

Disney Vacation

Sooo, we just got back from Orlando were we had been since Easter Sunday. We had a blast. I was going to meet my scrapbooking friends fro a couple of days, but since I was taking Sophia with me, John decided to tag along and I'm so glad he did.

We got there on Easter Sunday. We visited Magic Kingdom two days and then the rest were spent in the company of my wonderful friends. They spoiled Sophia rotten and her schedule got so out of whack that I was dreading coming back home. But she has surprised me and seems to be getting back into the swing of things already. I can't help but thank God for such a wonderful, easy, perfect baby. (I'll come back to this post once she gets to the terrible 2s. lol)

My friends and I shopped like mad women at the scrapbook expo and at Joanns, AC Moore and Michaels. I got to meet my friend Wandy in person and most of them, except Emmaly, met Sophia for the first time.

Sophia loved all the attention and got to meet her new love: Cinderella. Yes, you read that right- Cinderella and Sophia had the most wonderful time when they met. Which was great considering we had to carry her 20+ lbs. for about 45 minutes. She loved everyone else including her titis: Leelee, Ive, Wandy, Emmaly, Ine, Brenda, Tahi and Karla. She also played with Leelee's husband Ignacio who is about to legally adopt her. hahahahaha and Leelee's daughters Ashley and Lauren are her 2 BFFs. She also met Karla's daughter Kamilla and they alternated between wanting to hug each other and poking each other's eyes out.

I met 2 other ladies from sb.com: Dolores and Lisi. So sorry I didn't take pics with you guys. I was about to faint from hunger when we ran into each other. So glad to have met you and of course, that you met Sophia. Lisi, I hope you can recognize me if you see me without Sophia- hahahahaha

I will be posting pics sometime in the next century so stay tuned. To my divas I love you all and I'm so glad we got to spend time together.

Leelee- Everything was Super-Cute. LOL

GET OFF MY PAGE!!!!!!

Sorry, I don't mean to be rude to my true friends who read this blog to find out how my life is going or leave me uplifting comments re: my scrapbooking or just life in general.

The deal is that I have a trio of cyberstalkers- Yes, I know who you are and you really need to get a life you pathetic maniacs!!!!

This trio of psycho-stalkers have been monitoring all of my websites/blogs/my page on sb.com. I mean don't you people get tired of spreading your hatred around? Seriously, I have a great life- My suggestion to you is: GET YOURSELVES A LIFE!!!!!! One that has nothing to do with us. I don't want this to get ugly, but I think it might and I'm sure I will not be on the losing end. This is a warning!!!!!

STOP checking my blog, my website, Sophia's website, anything that has to do with me, or Sophia is off-limits to you sickos... GET A LIFE!!!!!!!

I'm sorry if I sound crazy, but trust me I'm not. They have been checking my whole life for the last 6 years and they still haven't had enough. Well, I HAVE, so I want you to stop. Leave us alone.

Now, let's continue with the show.......

A Good Laugh

So, going thru my friend Liz's blog I noticed she has this translator on her page and "stole" it to use it on mine. I haven't laughed so hard in ages (well, maybe since yesterday, LOL) but using this translator is the funniest thing ever. It uses words literally and if it doesn't know the word it actually makes it up.

It literally translated "scrap" (as in scrapbooking) into "desecho" or garbage. And for a person like me, that's not too confident in her scrapbooking skills that's a joy-killer. LOL

So, if you read/understand Spanish click on the translator and get ready to laugh.

Getting off to a good start

(Note: So, when I started this blogging thing I didn't want to get too personal, but this layout did me in and I must share personal information with you. Hopefully this will help any woman out there longing for a child. Keep the faith up)

If you know me, you know how lazy I am especially when it comes to scrapbooking.


Well, I surprised myself not to mention almost caused a couple of my scrapbooking divas to have heart attacks (are you reading this, Leelee and Ive?) I have completed 3 LOs already. Well, one was for a Christmas challenge- double, BUT that still counts, right? and the other one is the first LO for my pregnancy album. yipeee!! It was very emotional for me to complete it. Is not the greatest LO, but it meant so much to me to finally get started on my PG album. And most importantly I have the most beautiful proof that the test was right. Sophia is almost 9 months. And this is not something I share every day, but I had two emotionally painful miscarriages before Sophia, so when I took these pictures of the tests, all I could tell myself was: Don't get your hopes up, but then again how could I not hope and pray for a healthy, full-term baby? and guess what? John and I got our prayers answered. Thank you Lord, each and every day for giving us this tiny piece of heaven to raise for your honor.


Without further do, here's my Layout. Is titled What???
















I also wanted to reming everyone in the USA to get your butt off the couch and GO VOTE!!! Every vote counts, people. I'm not telling you who I'm voting for, but maybe we'll cancel each other's votes off, wouldn't that be fun?? LOL

Fear

I think FEAR is one of the things that's keeping me from scrapbooking more.

Fear of:
Messing up
Not being perfect
Using the "cute" papers (you all know what I'm talking about here)
Cutting up the pictures by mistake

BUT I've been thinking (yeah, I do it on occasion) that perfection is overrated and that the main purpose of scrapbooking is so that my daughter can look back and know more about me, about herself, her roots, her family. And I seriously hope she won't look at the layouts of me at 39 weeks pregnant and think: Wow! mami was FAT!, instead of: Wow! my mami looks HOT! or even Mami looks happy and I can't believe she made the sacrifice of waiting for me for 41 (yeah! 41!) weeks for me to come out of her belly only to find out her belly stayed the same size. But I digress.

I don't like New Year's resolutions- must be the fact that by January 2nd I have already broken them, but this year I made a few resolutions and darn it I'll try my best to keep them.

Scrapbook more
Worry less
Go to the gym
Eat better
Not get discouraged if I don't lose weight
Laugh more
Argue/fight less (John's dream come true)
Enjoy each and every moment I spend with Sophia and John
Not give a rat's-you-know-what about what other people think about me (I'm doing really good on this one)
Be a better person
Get more in touch with my spiritual side

I dedicate this post to new and old resolutions.