Monday Daybook for January 18, 2010

I am going to start following The Simple Woman's Daybook. I just love this idea. I've seen it before on a few blogs that I follow and thought I would join in.

Outside my window...it's dark and pouring rain, temperature of 57 degrees.

I am thinking...that I'm really tired from being up at 5am today and will soon be heading to bed. I hope.

I am thankful...for my two little ones. Love them to pieces.

I am wearing...the usual; jeans, t-shirt,my fuzzy slippers.

I am remembering...how much I hate packing and moving.

I am going...to scrapbook this weekend if not before, at least before I pack all my scrap stuff. I mean it!

I am currently reading... Nothing, no time with the baby, toddler, and packing. I do have some magazines (People, Scrapbook Etc., and Redbook) that I glance over, before falling asleep.

I am hoping...that we move to Texas soon. I hate not having George around all week.

On my mind...excited and nervous about our move out to Texas and the home purchase.

Noticing that...I've been skipping way to many meals. Really need to at least eat one good meal a day.

Pondering...what I want to do with my scrap room that I will have in Texas. Need to search for a desk and shelves for all my stuff.

From the kitchen...Picadillo with white rice. Brianas favorite meal.

Around the house... Lots of toys on the family room floor and table.

One of my favorite things...my fuzzy slippers. They're so warm!

From my picture journal...is at the top because I think pictures look better at the beginning of the blog. ....this is how my living room looks like right now. Toys....Toys...Toys.

Thanks for stopping by. {{HUGS}}

Our Happenings

Wow, been so busy with the Holidays, the baby and Briana, my days and nights just go flying. So far everything is good. We had a great and fun Christmas with Briana, so love the innocence. She was so excited when she saw all of her presents, but more excited to see the one thing she had asked Santa for, a pink video game. When I heard this, I freaked out, cause she never mentioned a video game before and it was 4 days before Christmas. I had George and my nephew go looking for her pink video game, my nephew the game console geek knew what she was asking, it was the DS Lite. George had to go to like 3 different stores to find the pink DS.

Now that the holidays are over, we are going into the next stage of our lives. The packing officially starts in the beginning of the year. I already started purging lots of things and still need more. The less we take the better, some things are just not worth dragging all over. We are waiting for an answer on the counter offer we did on a house in Texas. I hope it goes through, cause I am getting antsy and its getting down to the wire for us to find a place and close escrow. So wish us luck that they accept the offer and we can close before the end of January.

Update of my little man, he is doing awesome he has gain a lot of weight and keeps me busy, he is very alert for only a few weeks old. There are times he will eat 4-5 ounces of milk and will not go back to sleep, not a big deal during the day, but when its 2am, you need to go back to sleep my little boy. LOL!!

I think that is all for now, just a quick update on our happenings. Hope all is well with everyone.

Thanks for stopping by. {{HUGS}}

Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween!!

It was a hot day here in So. California for Halloween, we had temperatures between 80-85 degrees in the daytime and went down to 50 degrees, a little chilly late at night, but bad at all. We had an awesome time this Halloween. My brother surprised us and came down from Vegas. So we all went to my Older brothers house to go to the haunted house 2 doors down and have Briana trick or treat with her cousins. What blast we had. George had rented a Bunny suit and was a hit with all the neighborhood kids and teens too! They all wanted to take pictures with him. My brother told him to stay on his property, so he can charge all these people a fee to take a picture with the bunny....LOL! He started chasing kids, dancing, shaking his pink fuzzy tail....it was hilarious, no one thought about grabbing the camcorder to get all this in film. It would be so funny to watch over and over. Then a few family friends showed up and we ordered pizza, played guitar hero, and just talked all night, I mean all night, we got home after midnight. Awesome night!!!

Here are some pictures of our night. Briana picked out her costume, Meet Miss Bat Girl!

Here is the gang ready to go get lots of candies! There is Mr. Rabbit (George) to protect them.

OK, this picture is embarrassing, but wanted to share it, cause it just cracks me up. My brothers were laughing at my big belly and my wobbling walk. I was giving them a hard time, telling them at least my belly is going to go away in a few months and they need to work on getting rid of their bellies. The rest of the family and our friends were trying to see who had the biggest belly, between us siblings. Glad to know I did not win....LOL!!

I so love my crazy family.

That's about it. Hope you have a great time tonight. {{HUGS}}

Sunday Seven 10/25/2009

1-It's still October and I can not believe the weather we are having, can you believe its still Summer here. The week-end and last week we were in the 90's and at night would go down to the mid 50's. I hope it gets a little bit cooler, just to enjoy the fall everyone is having right now.

2- Well, I did not pass the 3 hour glucose test and now I am on a strict diet and they gave me a glucose meter to check my blood sugar levels 4 times a day. So far the diet is working and my numbers are low, thank goodness. I've been real nervous and upset about this and not having George around all day, like before is not helping. He is my rock and my support. The Dr. said as long as my numbers are low, there is nothing to be worried about. I am praying everyday, that the baby is okay.

3-I can't believe Saturday will be Halloween. With the weather we are having it just does not feel like its that time. We got Brianas costume yesterday. She picked this costume and she wants to wear it with her black boots. Sounds good to me.

She is all excited to go out Trick or Treating.

4- I started to purge some more stuff that we will not need to take with us to Texas. I have bags full of Brianas clothes and toys she no longer needs, some other household items I am giving away to a friend who moved and needs a few things. I can't wait to leave to Texas and start our new adventure.

5-George got a new laptop. Yay! The one we had was old and not working good and the screen was pretty small. He got one with a 17" monitor on it, its so cool looking. I can't remember what model it is, I do remember its an HP and got it on sale. I loved it. He said it will be mine once we move to Texas and he will only need it when he goes on his business trips. Sounds good to me.

6-Speaking of Texas, we still have not found the right house. The houses over there are so different then here in California. We just looking for now, but will have to choose one in December so we can close sometime in January. I really want a single story, which are not that many out there. It will have to be at least 4 bedrooms and we are hoping to have a 3 car garage, which most homes over there do not have.

7- We are getting close to picking out our Baby Boys name. Yay! Almost, we need to agree on the middle name. Briana so far loves his first name, does not like any of the middle names we have shouted out...she is so picky. I love that she is excited to have a baby brother, hopefully she will feel the same once he is here.

That's it for now. Hope everyone is enjoying the week-end. {{HUGS}}

Emotional Friday

This morning, George left for his/our new adventure in life. He drove off to Texas. It's a 2 day trip by road. I am very worried about him driving down. I know he will be okay, but there are some crazy drivers out there. He will be checking in every so often to keep me from worrying. I know he was nervous this morning. He kept procrastinating on leaving. He was suppose to leave at 8am and left way later then that...LOL! He said, kissed us, and hugged us good-bye a million times. Love him. He will be back soon, I just hope the days goes by fast.

So far, Briana is doing good. I don't think she quite understood that Daddy was not coming home from work tonight. So, hopefully tonight and rest of the week will go smoothly. George is usually the one that tucks her into bed, gives her her warm glass of milk, and reads her a bedtime story. It's their moment, George was saying he was going to miss this every night. I feel so sad, he is such a good daddy.

Me, I am doing okay, I woke up nervous and once in awhile I get teary eyed and I try not let Briana see my tears. I think my hormones are taking over. So much going on, so many changes in our lives this year, its scary. I just got to remember that God has a plan and he will not lead us the wrong path. Trying to keep the faith going.

Also, today is 9/11. Its been 8 years since the attack. My heart goes out to the families that lost their love ones on this day, and thanking those who fight for our freedom everyday. God Bless.

Sunday Seven

Good Sunday Morning/Afternoon everyone. Lots going on in the Heredia Family.


1. On Friday, we found out we are having a little boy. Here's the ultrasound picture they gave us. We have a few more, but these are the most important one. The last one shows his little wee wee....he he he. It was funny when the Ultrasound Technician showed us the Pe*is....Briana was with us and she thought the the lady said Peanuts......she told us that was silly that the baby was eating peanuts....LOL!!! Love my little girl!.

2. I am now 24 weeks, per the Technician. So the due date is more closer to my Birthday, then Christmas. Will have to wait and see what my doctor says on my next appointment. Since I will be having a c-section, they up the delivery to about 7-10 days of your due date.

3. George was offered an Executive position. He thought about really hard and we went over some things and thought it was a great opportunity. The way the economy is and the Real Estate business here is slow we figure we need to get back on track and have a more steady income, instead of a Self-employed income that is barely anything. So last week, he accepted the offer. The catch to all of this is that the company and position is in Texas. So we will be moving to Texas real soon.

4. My nephew Brandon is excited we are moving to Texas, he is in Arlington right now. Just moved there a few months ago. He will not be alone anymore, he will have us and we will have him to help out whenever we need something. He is the best.

5. We had a surprise visit this afternoon by Muso and Regina. They are such great people. They bought lunch for all of us and lots of goodies for Briana. We've been trying to get together for a while and they just decided to show up and surprise us. Good thing we were home.

6. I actually scrapped a little today. It felt good. I really needed to do something else to distract and relax me a little from all the big changes happening around us. So much has happened this year that its just over whelming sometimes and with these pregnancy hormones, well very emotional too.

7. Speaking of Scrapbooking, Scrapfreak will be hosting a a private crop to benefit the Susan G. Komen for the Cure®. Your crop donation is only $10, and all proceeds will be donated to Susan G. Komen. You can reserve your spot or simply make a donation here. be sure to mark your calendars for September 26th for our ScrapPink crop!

Happy Birthday Briana!!!

Today my big girl is turning 4. That is what she says she is, a big girl.

Here she is on the day she was born. Look at how tiny she was.

Here she is today. Where did my baby girl go.

Happy Birthday my beautiful sweet baby girl. Love you.

Sunday Seven

1. What a week. We had a unexpected visit from Cousin Betty (George side of the family) from Florida. She is a big Michael Jackson fan since she was like 11 years old. So she just had to fly out to California for his memorial. George took her to all of Michael Jackson tourist places. They went to Hollywood to see the star, the Holmby Hills home where he lived, his parents Encino home, and they drove all the way to the Neverland Ranch. We have tons of photos, like well over 600. We did not get picked to go the memorial, but we watched it at home and it was heartbreaking.

2. Besides doing all the Micheal Jackson stuff, we did all sort of things and went all over. We spent the 4Th of July driving the coast and stopping at the pier to watch all the fireworks. So much fun.

3. Here I am at 15 weeks pregnant. George loves taking candid pictures.....Ugh! I look terrible. I need him to take some good belly pictures, now that I have a lot more energy and feeling a lot better, no more nausea and thank goodness, I have not had any migraine headaches for a week now.

4. Went to my OB/GYN last week. Love hearing the babys heart beat. Hate getting blood out. The poor nurse could not get any blood out of me for the life of her. She tried and tried, nothing. Told her I must be dead, if I have no blood coming out at all. This made her laugh and she was more relaxed with me, said glad I have a sense of humor. She was new there and was so embarrassed. So now I have a few bruises and I have to make an appointment with the lab so they can see if they can get some blood out of me. Wish me and them luck...... LOL!

5. Love this picture of Cousin Betty and Briana. It was there first time meeting each other. We were so shocked with Briana. She is really shy when she meets someone and it takes her about an hour to warm up to you. Not, with cousin Betty! She would not leave her side for anything, she kept telling her how much she loved her and she would only let her put her in her car seat and do her hair. Briana was so attached to her that she kept telling George and Me that she was going home with her on the plane.....What!!!! She cried when Cousin Betty left and keeps telling me how she wished Cousin Betty would stay with us forever and ever. Poor girl.



6. On Saturday, we went to our friends little girls 5Th Birthday Pool Party at her friends private community clubhouse and pool. It was so much fun. I ended up being the photographer/photo taker, as the parents were so busy with the family and guest, they totally for got to take pictures. I am so glad I always take my camera. Briana and George had so much fun in the pool, at first she did not want to go in, but then changed her mind. I wished I would of gotten in with them, but I did not feel like spending over $50 for a maternity bathing suit to wear only once or twice, since we don't know anyone with a pool and we don't go very often to the beach.


7. Here is a Briana and Mommy conversation we had the other day.

Briana: Mommy I want a sister, not a brother.

Mommy: Well, Briana its not really up to us if you will have a sister or a brother. We will have to wait and see.

Briana: But, Mommy! I want a sister!!!

Mommy: Briana, its okay to have a brother, I have 2 brothers. What will you do if the baby will be a brother?

Briana: Well, Mommy! (with a sassy voice and her hands on her hips) you can always go change it for a sister!!!

Mommy: Laughing her arse off!!!

Got to love how their little minds work.

Have a great week everyone! Thanks for visiting my pad. {{HUGS}}

What a Beautiful Sunday

Love lazy Sundays. Not much happening with us, just lots of work has come in so we've been pretty busy. I did manage to get a layout done today for a challenge at SD4U. Briana and I had a pedicure this afternoon and then we are off to my brothers house for some BBQ and family fun time. Its going to be fun, its beautiful outside, 95 and very windy. You really do not feel the heat that much with this wind....LOL! George is already complaining that its going to be murder in the summer here. We shall see. He is such a baby. He hates the heat and I love it. :D





Here is the layout I did today. The colors are so off, scanner hates pink for some reason. I will need to re-do it tomorrow.

This is our Briana, the dancing queen. She loves it when I put music on, she especially loves Rhianna's Disturbia song.

Thanks for visiting.

A Conversation with Briana......

Scene: Briana playing with some plastic Easter eggs and putting some little plastic baby chick inside.

Briana comes running into the office, where I am working.

Briana: Mommy we need to go find Baltimore (our big fat male cat) right away!!!

Mommy: Why?

Briana: because Balty does not have a baby and I need to give him this egg so he can hatch his little baby and he won't be alone anymore.

Mommy: Laughing her ass off trying to explain to her 3 yr old that our fat male cat or any cat does not hatch eggs.

Briana: But, Mommy he needs to have a baby!

Happy Birthday, George!!!

Today, he turned 45, so he decided this morning, that he wanted to have a Hugh Hefner day. He lounged around in his pj's all day and did nothing, but watch the news and played a little computer war games online with his friends. He ignored the pile of work he had to do and did not answer his clients when he called. I took care of them. :D

Briana and I got him a chocolate cake and a balloon for tonight. She gave him a bag of M&M's (I kept asking her what she wanted to buy him for his present and this is what she wanted to give him.....its his favorite....actually any chocolate is his favorite....LOL!) I cooked a nice dinner and had some wine with him. Tried to have a little bit of a romantic dinner, as romantic you can get with a 3 year old...LOL! I think he still had a great time.

Love you Honey.

Finally!!!!

It's been official for several weeks now... She's potty trained!

Argh! She was really hard to potty train, I have tried for several months and nothing. She just refused to go. I did everything, from reading books, seeing videos, open door policy, searched for advice and ideas on the net, sat with her and had heart to heart talks about the potty. I was so frustrated! I cried! I was mad at myself, thinking I have failed. I finally, just let it be and waited for her and several weeks ago, I do not know how it happened she just asked and went on her little potty we have.......she went and was so happy......LOL!! Success!!!

She has had few accidents, she would forget she had no diapers on....LOL! But just 2 or 3 of them, not bad at all. Thank goodness.

No more diapers.
No more wipes.
No more diaper pail.

Thanks for stopping by {HUGS}

Happy Halloween!!!

Hope everyone had a great fun Halloween with the kids. Here are some pictures of me and Briana. I have not dressed up in a very long time, and decided to dress up for Briana. She kept asking me to put on a costume with her all week > Since I had the costume from last year and never wore it, I told her I would wear a costume and go Trick or Treating with her. We had so much fun. We had gone to the Kidz Block Party that the city and a church put on for a little bit and then we went door to door. At first she was not sure, but after a couple of houses, she was a pro and the owners of the houses were laughing, cause after they gave her a candy, she would say Thank You, everyone thought she was so polite and at one house, the new owners ran out of candy, as they did not know how busy it got on their block.....so, what does Briana do.....she gave them a couple of her candies.......George and me were laughing and the owners were not sure what to do.....LOL!

Enjoy the pictures.

Thanks for stopping. {HUGS}

Sleeping Angel Photo Contest

5 Minutes of Mom is holding a Sleeping Angel Photo Contest, the winner wins a new bedroom set for their little angel. I just need to post a picture of my beautiful sleeping angel and I will be entered to win a bedroom set from Home and Bedroom Furniture . I’m hoping to win the Lily Rose set for Briana......wouldn’t that be awesome!!! I can just see her and her BFF puppy sleeping there instead of on our bed.


Here is a picture of the bedroom set I would love to win for her.

Wish me luck!!!

Thanks for visiting my pad. {HUGS}

Beautiful Saturday

Our day started like any other day, George had an inspection to do today and Briana did not wake up until 9:54am (EEK!) This was a big shocker to me as she has never slept that long. I so enjoyed my Mommy Time, I so needed it. I had a quite breakfast, read a magazine, and saw some Olympic events (Equestrian, Beach Volleyball, Skulls, and some Indoor Volleyball).


When George came home, he wanted to go to the beach, we've been wanting to go for a while, and things just kept getting in the way. So, this time, we just grabbed some stuff and left to the beach. Love that we only live about 30+/- minutes away. I was so surprised that we found parking right away and the beach was not crowded at all. It was perfect. The weather at the there was very windy and warm about 73 degrees, a perfect day.


Briana at first did not want to get wet, just wanted to play in the sand, eventually, in her own time she wanted to go in and she loved it. I am now a little sunburned, Briana got a little tanned.

Here are some pictures from our day a the beach.

We are God Parents

What a week-end. We've had family over on Friday evening, then some friends came by for a small visit and for some cafecito. Had a great time.

Saturday morning, George and I became God-Parents to this beautiful baby girl-Annabell. Who at the same day turned 1 years old.

I am so disappointed that we did not get any good pictures of the baptism. The priest announced we could not take pictures......WTH!! is what I asked my self. The church has its own photographers and they will take the pictures, and after the ceremony you can see them and purchase them....again.......WTH!! What has happened, since when did this church become so commercial. My uncles friend try to take some, but he was not sure how he would be able without them saying anything. He did sneak a few....LOL!

Now, I was raised Catholic and I admit I have not gone to every single Sunday mass, as they would like for us to go. Its hard to go with a toddler that does not stay still. But, we try. The church where we had the Baptism was where my brothers, cousins, friends and I did either our Holy Communion, Confirmations, Graduations, and Weddings. Its the only church we found that the God Parents did not have to been married in a Catholic Church and does the baptisms every week-end. My heart was so broken, when I saw so much difference in this church, the church in the city where my family has lived for over 30 years and still counting, where I had my childhood.

For as long as I can remember, my parents and the church has had a dress code, the proper way to dress to go to mass. My goodness, the outfits we saw on these women!!! They looked as they were going clubbing and some looked as if they were, and I am serious when I say this and sorry if I offend anyone, they looked like they were hooking the streets. George and I were so surprised, shocked, and ashamed.

I just hope Briana and Annabell listens to me, when I tell them the proper way to dress to go to any mass, any place and teach her the old ways of the church, as my parents have teached me.

I will get off my soapbox and show you my little one at my Uncles house, riding one of the horses. She did not want to come home after this little ride and all the birthday party fun we had for my god-daughter. In all it was a great tiring week-end.

Thanks for stopping by my little pad and reading my little tantrum.....LOL!!

3 Years Ago

3 Years ago today, George and I held a beautiful tiny red-faced screaming baby girl. Today, this tiny red-faced baby girl turns 3 years old.

Happy Birthday, Briana!!!



July 17, 2005


July 17, 2006


July 17, 2007


July 17, 2008
Sigh! Where did my baby go? Love you baby girl!!!

My Splash Layout

I made this layout last week for a Freaky Friday Challenge over at Scrapfreak. Jessica, asked me if I wanted to come up with a challenge for this month. I agreed, and came up with this challenge.

My challenge for the members was...

1. Create a summer fun layout

2. Use a minimum of 2 photos

3. For the title - use a minimum of 4 different fonts (you may use rub-ons, stickers, chipboard, etc).

I got to tell you, I came up with this challenge, not knowing how hard it was going to be for me to come up with my different fonts...My challenge was a challenge for me......LOL! But over all, I loved the way my layout came out, it's one of my favorites. I just can not believe this is my little girl last summer. She just loved her pool!

Thanks Jess, for letting me come up with a challenge for this month. It was fun!

Also, I also wanted to let you know, that this layout was picked today as "Layout of the Week" over at Scrapbook Deals 4 U by Amy Birch, she is one of the very talented Design Members there. You should head on over at SD4U and check them out, they are a pretty new website and they have lots of talented and fun ladies over there.

Thank you Amy for making my day.

That is it for now. Thanks for stopping by {HUGS}

Our Fathers Day

Well, I was a good wife and let George sleep in til 10am. Tell you, it was hard to do, Briana kept wanting to go wake him up, she usually does when she wakes up at 7am. We had a special breakfast, his favorite-Pancakes. I was coaching Briana to say "Happy Fathers Day, Daddy" all morning. That went real good, I was surprised, she kept telling me that she was going to tell him "Happy Birthday, Daddy!", but when he woke up, she told him Happy Fathers Day, Daddy! and gave him a big hug, kiss, and his card. Yup, she sure is a daddy's girl!. I did this card for him, but had Briana sign her name (with my help) and I put in a daughter to father poem inside. He loved it.

We went to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA for Fathers Day. We had such a great time. Briana was so in awe with everything she saw and she loved watching the Seals, she kept wanting to go see them. So most of the time we were watching the seals, they were so playful. After the Aquarium closed, we walked around the Harbor and headed home, that was not easy, Briana started to cry and scream all the way to the car, she wanted to go back and see the fishes and the seals, trying to explain to a 2 year old that the aquarium closed and we are not able to go back was not easy. She finally calmed down and as soon as we left the parking structure she was fast asleep. Poor girl was wiped out! LOL!

Here are some pictures from our day.

a) George and Briana looking at some fishes.

b) Brianas favorite exhibit-the seals

c) Briana petting a baby shark-was surprised she was not afraid.

d) George & Briana watching the two divers feed all those fishes.

***I took these pictures with the Sony A200, I need to get used to it.

Happy Easter!!

Hope everyone has a great Easter with the family. We did not really do anything special, as George is sick with the flu. We did have the Easter bunny visit Briana this morning and he left her a basket full of goodies.

This year was fun to watch her face when she saw her basket. I had George keep her occupied upstairs in our room, while I went downstairs to get her basket out of the closet and leave a trail of eggs for her to follow when she came downstairs for breakfast. It was so funny to hear her yell, Daddy! Mommy! the Easter Bunny came, look at all the eggs all for me!! LOL! I am glad George got up and got the video camera. It was priceless.

Here are a few pictures. She would not let me take any, so these are the best shots I got.

Trail of eggs the Easter bunny left her.
Look Mommy, Daddy!!! The Easter Bunny was here!!

Wow!! Lets see what is inside......Yummy, Chocolate!!


Looking for more chocolate and toys. I love my bunny ears!!

Hope you enjoyed the pictures and thanks for visiting me {HUGS}.