Today in the midst of wiping congealed baby cereal off Liam’s cheek and into his mouth, while Vicente danced around with his Iron Man to ‘Big Me’ by the Foo Fighters, a realization hit me so strikingly hard. My dreams have come true. And when I say my dreams have come true, I don’t mean that in the ephemeral sense, I mean utterly, totally, ( Read more... )

For Cindy’s graduation gift I wanted to give her something she’d really enjoy, and something that would tie into the whole graduation theme - so I surprised her with a scrapbook! She’d been asking me to make her a scrapbook since her Quinceañera, so I went on her MySpace and got all the photos I could and created a bunch of layouts for her. Many of ( Read more... )

Today was insane! We had so many visitors! My brother and Melissa came over for lunch and chilled for a few hours, then Madi, Fern and Chris stopped by and had lunch, then Victor's mom, Giovanni and Giovanna came in also. After a few hours his parents left to visit some friends, leaving Giovanna, Chris, Fern, Madi and all of us to chill and play ( Read more... )

Monday, June 2nd I picked up Jessie and headed over to Melissa's house for Ladies Night (errr...Ladies Early Evening???). From there we drove to the Melting Pot and had a nice relaxing couple of hours sans husbands, boyfriends and kids. It's always hilarious being out with the girls, and Jessie is such a trip she always makes me crack up! We had ( Read more... )

After the MadMartigan show we got back to Victor's mom's house around four in the morning and spent the night. The next day we hung out with his family all day, even ran a few errands without the kids. Vicente and Victor played football outside and that night Giovanni and Victor's mom had a barbecue, and we had a nice leisurely dinner with family ( Read more... )

Saturday, May 24th MadMartigan played at PS14. Before the show, Melissa, Johnny, Victor and I ate dinner at Sushi Maki and headed to the show. It was their first show since the New Times article named them 'Best New Rock Band in Miami for 2008.' The first band played and nobody was up watching them, when MadMaritgan got on stage everybody crowded ( Read more... )

So my brother's best friend Joey got us tickets to a pre-release of the new Indiana Jones flick. How excited was I? Very!!!! I grew up watching Indiana Jones (my favorite being Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which I can recite line for line). I love them all!!! Not only are they fantastic but they bring back warm memories of watching the ( Read more... )

Vicente peed in the potty for the first time today! Yayyyyy!!!!!

Monday, May 12th, Melissa and I went to The Melting Pot for Ladies Night! For $20 bucks you get a drink, cheese fondue and chocolate fondue - and of course some much needed girl time! I had such a fantastic time! I am so thrilled my brother is with such an incredible girl!

( Oh What a Night! )

Mother’s Day was insane! We woke up that morning at Victor’s mom’s house after Jessie’s wedding. We then raced to pick up my Grammy and get her to Mom’s house for Mother’s Day brunch with the family. Grandmother, Grammy, Mom, John, Robert, Melissa, the boys, Victor and I all ate a delicious brunch. We then headed back to Victor’s mother’s house to ( Read more... )