Happy New Years !!

Wishing you a Happy 2007!!!






We are spending New Year's Eve and New Years Day with friends... lots of food, booze, music, and poker.

My Life Style Changes for the New Year:

1) lose some weight
2) be debit free, don't over shop for stuff you don't need.
3) scrap, scrap, and scrap!! (use all the stuff you've collected & haven't used)
4) spend allot more time with my side of the family :)

Will see if any of these happens.....I will make it happen!! :)

Thank you for visiting my pad, I love seeing you here. HUGS!!

Christmas just a Blur

Well,Christmas has passed here in the Heredia household. Briana got many, many new toys to keep her very busy (so we hope). We had lots of food, lots of family time, and lots of fun and now we are getting back into the swing of things until the New year.

Here are few of my favorite photos.


Heredia Family: George, Yvette and Briana--Christmas Eve



Briana-Christmas Eve at Grandma's House



Christmas Morning! Santa was here!!!



Hope everyone had a Wonderful Christmas!

Merry Christmas

I can't believe Christmas is only 3 days away, it just all seems to have gone by so fast this year. I have been a busy little elf these past few days. Since I'm not sure I will have a chance to blog this week-end, I thought I would go ahead and wish everyone a Very Merry Christmas!!, I hope you enjoy your day with your family and friends.

What's your elf name?

Your Elf Name Is...

Spicy Sticky Fingers

What's Your Elf Name?

Hmmm..........Not sure about this name.

My Birthday Present

This is what George got me for my Birthday. The new QuicKutz Revolution Tabletop Die Cutting tool along with 3 die cuts (Frames, Tag, and Libary Card) . I was so suprised. I was not expecting anything like this from him.

I just love this tool, and the case is so cool looking.
I can't wait to play with it. The best part of this new die cutting tool, is that is is compatible with all other QuicKutz dies, not that I have any.



These are the die cuts he bought.

Happy Birthday.....

to me!!!

I can not beleive I am 37 today. George says he has made plans for us, but he would not tell me what they are. All, I know is that his parents are coming this afternoon to babysit Briana. This will be the first time we leave her with someone, so I am nervous. Nervous, cause his mom and dad are up there in age and Briana is a little hurricane. So, I hope we can enjoy whatever plans he has made.

Your Birthdate: December 16

You're incredibly introverted and introspective. You live inside your head. You spend a lot of alone time meditating and thinking. People see you as withdrawn, and at times they are right. You are caring and deep, but it may be difficult for you to show this side of yourself. Your strength: Your original approach to thinking Your weakness: You tend to shy away from others Your power color: Pale blue Your power symbol: Wavy line Your power month: July

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

11 Days til .......

Christmas! I can't beleive how busy I've been, christmas shopping, decorating, house cleaning and trying to teach an almost 17 month old, not to grab, run and throw the ornaments from the tree. Just that alone is tiring. I still need to wrap the presents and ship some of them to my brother to Las Vegas. He said he wasn't coming this year to celebrate, as my Sister-in-law has to work the next morning, what a bummer. George and I were actually, thinking of being Mr and Mrs Claus and deliver their presents, will see.


Here are some pcitures of our tree. Trying to get good pictures, playing with my camera and trying different settings so my Christmas pictures come out good this year. I need to take out our tripod and try again.








Lots of ornaments,
garlands, and blinking
lights.













Our Angel tree topper.
We've got her 10 years ago. I just love her.

......Light A Candle

The Compassionate Friends Worldwide Candle Lighting will be uniting family and friends around the globe as they light candles for one hour to honor and remember children who have died at any age from any cause. Tonight, candles will be lit at 7pm (your local time). Please join me in remembering those children and my little boy, Adrian, so their light may always shine.

Happy Birthday, Anthony!!

Anthony my oldest nephew turns 22 years old today. It seems like yesterday, he was this cute little boy I used to take care of. I wish him the very best and hope to see him in January, when he comes to visit from Germany.


Picture taken in Iraq on September 20, 2006

***HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ANTHONY***

KC

I received an e-mail from my next door neighbor with some sad news. They were getting ready to take a walk around the block yesterday evening around 5pm. While they were inside the garage to grab the 2 dog (KC and Baiely) leashes, the doggies were in the front lawn playing, when they were suprised by a coyote. Only one was able to get away, KC was taken away. My neighbor (Claudine) , my friend is so devastated. KC was a big part of her life and her families. I just couldn't, can't believe all this happened in front of our yards and we were not home to try and help or try to do something. I feel so sad and mad.

KC was the cutest little Maltese. Briana and I would play with her all time in the front yard, while Claudine and I would talk and work on our garden. She will be missed. :(

2 Nights in a Row

Update:

Yeah! It's been two nights in a row, that little Miss Briana, has not had any Nightmares/Night Terrors. Hopefully, they will not be anymore for a while.

Thank you everyone for the advice and your stories, I didn't think how common these Nightmares/Night Terrors were.

I Am A Canna

I am a Canna What Flower Are You?

"You stand up for what you believe in, even if it gets in the way of what other people think. You are proud of yourself and your accomplishments and you enjoy letting people know that."

A Christmas Questionaire

I got this from Shannon's Blog, who got it from Holly's Blog...(He hee hee)

A little Christmas questionaire, that could also be used as a scrapbook page!

My answers......

1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Sits them under the tree
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white? colored
4. Do you hang mistletoe? Yes
5. When do you put your decorations up? December 1st
6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Roasted Pig
7. Favorite Holiday memory as a child: spending the holidays with my family and friends
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I don't remember
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? We do Christmas Eve with my In-Laws so we open some presents there and we open our special gifts from each other on Christmas morning.
10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? lights, ornaments & strings of beads.
11. Snow! Love it or Dread it? Don't have any here in So. Cal.
12. Can you Ice Skate? No, Tried a few times, always fall flat on my butt
13. Do you remember your favorite gift? My barbie dream house.
14. What's the most important thing about the Holidays for you? Being able to spend time with my family.
15. What is your favorite Holiday Dessert? Flan
16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Decorating the tree and our house.
17. What tops your tree? An Angel
18. What's your WORST holiday memory? 2002-When we lost & buried our baby boy and MIL tricked us to having a full bloom Christmas. I was real mad and just sat in the Den away with everyone.
19. What do you usually serve/eat for dinner Xmas day - a 'traditional' meal or something else??? Christmas Eve left overs.
20. What is your favorite holiday movie? It's a Wonderful Life.
21. Do you dress up on Christmas for dinner, or do you have special holiday PJs? Dress up.
22. Do you exchange gifts with all your family? Just some? pick names? How do you do it in your family? We buys gifts for the kids and our parents and each other. Our family, the adults don't want anything, we always say Christmas is for the kids. Which is good, cause we have alot of kiddos in our family.

Tired and Frustraded

Well, it's been almost a full week of Briana's early morning screams. Never fails between 2:30 and 3:00 it when it starts. But, today for some reason was different. She woke up crying at 2:30am, we both got up one prepares the bottle, the other goes to change her diaper. That's our routine, she falls back to sleep while drinking her bottle, not tonight. Tonight, she decided to stay up until 4:10am!! I am so tired and frustrated, that I just want to cry my eyes out. I don't know what else to do.

I wish my Mom were here to help and guide me through this. She had the magic grandma touch, she would so easily calm and ease her grandkids back to sleep. She always knew what to do.

Nightmares or Night Terrors? or What?

Briana has been waking up screaming in hysterics several times at night. It has happened 3 times this last 4 nights. I can't figure out what is going on. I have searched for some answers, and all I can come up with is these two possibilities.


Nightmares or Night Terrors.

Nightmares, we all now this is when you dream something scary. But, I've never heard of Night Terrors, this is a partial waking from sleep with behaviors such as screaming, kicking, panic, sleep walking, or mumbling. They usually occur within 2 hours of the time baby goes to sleep. They say these are harmless and each episode will end in deep sleep and it is considered normal until age 6.

These are some of the symptoms of the Night Terrors

* Your child is frightened but cannot be awakened or comforted.
* Child's eyes are wide open but she does not know that you are there.
* Episodes last from 10 to 30 minutes

Although, I think what she is having are nightmares, she does have some of the symptoms indicated for Night Terrors. They say to prevent the Night Terrors is to make sure the baby is not overly-tire, make sure they go to bed at a regular time and early enough to give them enough sleep and make sure they get their daily nap. I do think she does all this already, I'm going to monitor it more carefully and it occures more, I will call her doctor.

Hopefully, we will get a good night's sleep tonight.

Thanksgiving

I can not believe it's Thanksgiving tomorrow. We are having Thanksgiving dinner at my Mother-in-Law's house this year. She's pretty much doing everything. All she wants us to bring is the wine. That's not a problem with us as we have lots of it here at home.

We belong to Wilson Creek Wine Club. The winery is located in Temecula, CA. I just love it there, the winery is about 45 mins to an hour from where we live. I love their Merlots and the Estate Zinfandel. But my #1 choice from them is their Almond Champagne, OMG it is the best and this is from someone who's not a real Champagne drinker.

Well, it's been sunny and gorgeous here in So. California. We really haven't gone outside to enjoy the weather, except to go grocery shopping and run some errands. We've just been busy these past few days with work.

I wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!

Fun & relaxing Weekend

Saturday Fun:

Went to Memory Creators Holiday Open House. I had a great time, it was nice to see Carolyn, Jen, Amy, Stacye and Sally again. They had an entire day of make-n-takes, refreshments, and had some fun giveaways.

Here is a picture of the make-n-takes I was able to do.

I still need to add 2 pictures to the blue one. I'm going to put a picture of Briana and Santa from last year and then on the other one, I'm going to put this year of her and Santa.




Here is a picture of the goodies I won in one of the raffles. They came in a great tote bag.


Sunday Relaxing

We didn't do much on Sunday. We rented the movie The Da Vinci Code, it was a good movie. I liked how it takes you to a long journey through history, religions, family secrets and complex puzzles. There were at times, I did feel the movie was to long. But overall I think it's a great movie to see. The rest of the day we just hanged out and enjoyed the day.

My Sweet Little Angel

Today is a sad day for us. Today, 4 years ago, we lost of our little boy Adrian Michael Heredia. My little angel was in my womb for 7 1/2 months. Today, I opened my little treasure box and saw his picture. All my feelings of anger, shock, and indescribable sorrow came back. There were no tears in my eyes, but a pain in my heart and an emptiness in my soul.

We now have our precious little girl, Briana Raquel. She's a big joy in our lives, She fills our lives with lots of love and happiness. There are still days, when I see her and wonder how great it would of been for her to have her big brother to play with.

I Love you both my My Little Angel and My precious Girl.

My New Photo Printer

Yeah! I finally got a new photo printer. We got the HP Photosmart D7360 at a real good deal. We got it on sale and then I had a $30.00 coupon for the purchase being over $150.00. So I got a $199.00 printer for about $129.00.

I printed a few test pictures and the colors are awesome! I need to go buy photo paper tomorrow, so I can print my pictures and start scrapping.

Can't beat them.....Join them

I decided to go ahead and jump on the bandwagon and create a family blog. This way our family can see what's been going on with us.

Not much happening today. Just went ahead and started the blog. Let's see if I can keep it current and figure this thing out.