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GIRL!!!!! I had my appt with the peri today and everything looks good! I haven't had any bleeding this time around, so I'm starting to feel better. I knew it was another girl! We are pretty sure we already have a first name picked out, but I'm trying to decide on a middle name. What do you think?

Ava Marie
or
Ava Elizabeth

I love Ava Marie, but would that be weird because it's both mine and Isabella's middle name? All the women on my mom's side have the middle name Marie after my great great grandmother (who also raised my mother). Elizabeth is my grandmother's middle name. When we named Isabella, it was after Desmond's grandmother plus it is the Spanish version of Elizabeth so it was after my grandmother too.

Clearly, I'm excited because I'm babbling on and on...I babble when I'm excited!

The Big 3-0

Well, this day has finally come. My birthday. Not just any birthday, but my 30th birthday. There is just something about the word thirty that just doesn't flow to me...especially when you attach my name to it! It's ok, at least I'm healthy and have a beautiful child and a wonderful husband. Speaking of husband, he did good! He got me two pairs of awesome boots! Thank you, baby!

Here are a couple of pictures from Sunday. My mom made me a birthday dinner. My dad and my brother came over and we had cake afterwards.


















































Tonight I will go out to dinner with some of my girlfriends. I will try to post pictures.

Snow in Houston?!

Desmond called last night and said it was snowing in Houston! It never snows in Houston. Desi has been very sick, so at first I thought he was just delusional. But of course he had to do what he likes to do best...PROVE ME WRONG! He sent me a couple of pictures, so I would know that it wasn't all in his head. ;)

Bacon, Egg and Cheese, Please! =)

Let me introduce you to my new breakfast buddy! The bacon, egg and cheese biscuit from McDonald's. It's not like I haven't had one before. I've just always been more of a sausage biscuit girl...with an occasional egg mcmuffin. Never a big fan of the bacon, egg and cheese biscuit. Desmond on the other hand however has always been a fan. Clearly this child is already proving to be like her/his daddy, because it has made me crave the bacon, egg and cheese like no other!

Eye of the Storm

I'm tired. I was in a dead sleep last night until my mom came busting into my room telling me the sirens were going off from the storm. Sleep is very precious to a pregnant woman...don't mess with it. It was barely even raining at this point. I'm telling her to calm down, and I turned to the news channel and they told Allen to seek shelter.

So then I had to drag my child out of bed, with my crazed mother running around to get downstairs into the closet...which I had cleaned out since the last tornado threat, where I was scrambling like a mad woman to get the junk out of the closet...this time it was nice and tidy. Meanwhile, just as I got my mother to calm down, my dad calls her and gets her all nervous again. I'm sitting in the closet thinking that the whole thing was ridiculous. If there was a tornado coming would be sitting in a house full of power and electricity? Clearly the storms weren't that bad, because neither dog (who both hate storms) moved. They actually looked annoyed at all the commotion we were making. But then in the back of my mind I wondered if we were possibly in the eye of the storm and the second we got up we would all be wisked away.

So we are in there for less then 5 minutes and I tell my mom I thought we looked liked idiots. The sirens weren't even going off anymore. So she said that she would go check the news to see if we were in the clear. You should of seen her...the way she darted out of the closet, you would of thought she was going into combat. And of course, we were fine.

I went back up to my room and now had Isabella in my bed since she was too scared to go back to her room and turned on the news. Stupid Pete Delkus of Channel 8 news said there was a wall cloud at Bethany and 75...basically my hood. I decided to take my chances and fall back asleep.

What Santa does NOT do...

According to my daughter, Santa does not bring live animals. How did I luck out on that?! Over the last month she has talked about how she wants this kitten we saw at the pound or a goldfish. I told her to ask Santa for them, and she said Santa doesn't bring animals. I've gotta tell you, I felt relief when she said that. Although I told her she might get a goldfish for her birthday (we had gotten goldfish for her twin cousins). That's when I realized that she is really confused...she looked at me and said "I said Santa doesn't bring animals!" Her birthday is December 23rd...so apparently, so thought Santa brought both her birthday gift and her Christmas gifts. Poor kid. I straightened it out for her. No wonder she was a little confused though...she has 3 days of opening gifts. She starts on her birthday, then we end up opening at couple on Christmas eve at the in-laws house, then there is Christmas day. I would of been confused too! I guess I lucked out with my birthday being 9 days before Christmas...I was able to separate the two.

Fall Festival

Ok, rewind back to Friday, October 17th...Better late and out of order than never! ;)

Isabella had her Fall Festival, aka "Fall Fiesta" as Isabella calls it, on October 17th. Each class came out and in a parade, and then sang their little fall song. Afterwards, there was food and activities for the kids. Isabella won a cake in her first cake walk! That was exciting! She also did a potato sack race, made a cupcake (the best she's ever had!), jumped in the bounce house, and fed baby pigs in the petting zoo. It was a great day!

Happy Anniversary to Us!!!

Today is our 2 year anniversary!!! It seems like just yesterday we were on the beaches of Hawaii...I wish we were there now! It's been a wonderful journey, and I can't wait for the many years to come!

The Pumpkin Patch

Isabella and I went with my dad to the pumpkin patch on Tuesday....which was also my dad's birthday! We had a really good time looking at all the different pumpkins. At one point I caught Isabella climbing on to a big pumpkin and I wondered what she was doing. She was creating a photo opp. Yes, she was actually posing for a picture! She was putting great thought into it too...she was wiggling around trying to find the best position, picking up another pumpkin to put on her lap...it was too funny.

Getting Started

Don't you know I have to have a blog like everyone else?! ;) It really is a good idea though...a good way to give those relatives that don't live locally an idea of what's going on in our lives. So, I will begin...soon...I promise.