C & K's Wedding Photos

Krystal and my brother got their wedding photos back!!! I think it was after the father daughter dance we had to leave due to a sleepy baby boy! Somehow we did not get a picture of Adam and I together! The wedding was in Corpus Christi at the Saloman Ortiz Center on the water and under the bridge. It was a beautiful wedding!

Getting ready and making a toast to the bride!

Putting on her final touches - her "something blue" is her amazing blue heals!

Our "Bridesmaids" picture from the move. Turned out amazing! You can't tell it was 30 degrees and windy!

Love!

My dear Unlce Mike and second cousin Jonah - the ring bearer

The men

Robert, Krystal's dad seeing her for the first time on the big day.

Debbie, Krystal and my mom

The men getting ready

All lined up - Rueben and I were the first one's to walk. (Because we are sadly the shortest)

Giving her away

The hubby walking down with Julie (the tallest ones)

You may kiss the bride!

One of my favorites of them

Our "prom" pic

The reception

B with his Aunt Krys and Uncle Chris

First dance

Father daughter dance started like this..

and flipped to this! It was so cute and funny! They did about 7 different dances!

Cool Sculpting Review

On Friday I had my cool sculpting done!! My hips were first. I had to do each hip for 1 hour. It was uncomfortable, especially when they first put the suction on, but after a few minutes it goes numb. The post uncomfortable part was laying completely still on each side for 1 hour. Thank the lord for an Ipad and Netflix!

When they take the suction off, your fat is literally a frozen roll. They have to immediately massage it out - this so far was the most painful part yet.

Finally it was onto my stomach - the last part. She replaced the suction with a much larger one.. yikes. When she turned it on I thought it was sucking the life out of me! It hurt way worse than child birth. I about fainted, I remember the nurse just saying "breath, breath, breath... just 7 minutes until it is numb". That was the longest 7 minutes of my life. The massage after was so painful. I am so glad I decided to take the day off and have my sister in law pick up the baby. Afterwards I was so so so sore and extremely numb at the same time.

I am on day 5 of the procedure now and still numb, but now the sharp stabbing pains have started. (common)

I was up all night long. As soon as I moved in my sleep, these pains started again. The nurse is calling in Neurotonin which should help these pains. The good news, she said usually the women who hurt the worst, have the best results.. we will see! I am still swollen, bruising has gone down and still numb. The numbness can lost anywhere from 2-4 weeks. I am not sure if it was worth it yet. I also go back Feb 22nd for my second stomach procedure. The hubby will be going with me.

Today's the day!

I'm so excited for today!! Hopefully will be saying bye bye to my mama pooch for good!

In other news - Bennett is doing great. Not crawling yet, and doesn't seem remotely interested in crawling. He loves when you hold his hands and let him stand. He is starting to take steps as well!

He is a chatty kathy! He said Dada about 3 times. His newest jabber is...

"BABABABABAAAAA" (I think this is because we say "bye bye" to Leo and Sasha every morning

"OWWWAAA OWWWAAA OWWWAA"

and my favorite is "WEEEEEE" WEEEE" WEEEE" - he does this for car rides!

He is sitting up all by himself and is sitting up for his whole bath now too! I bought a bath boppy to help support him, and he would just lay down in it instead so that was a no go.

In other news - Bennett has been teething horribly for about the last month and a half. He got his bottom two a few months ago. As of last week, we can finally see his top two teeth! Thank the lord!

Big boy sitting up in the bath!

Bennett's best friend is Leo and Benentt is his best friend

Every morning... we watch Martha speaks and Benentt gets a belly rub from Bennett

Ready to go to day care mama!

Daddy's curly hair? This is Bennett's hair after the bath if I don't brush it straight

Daddy's boy

Last weekend was Miles' first birthday! Miles is Ted and Cindi's son. Ted is ben's brother. They have all been friends since Adam moved to Katy in the 5th grade. It was at their neighborhood club house and there was a park next door we played at! Bennett went down the baby slide on my lap!

Ted and Bennett

He loved his balloon!

With Unlce Ben Bob

This expression shows what Miles thought about his cake. It was so cute! He was so disgusted when he got icing on his hands!

I could not get a good picture of the boys. Bennett would look and Miles would turn away, then Miles would look and Bennett would turn away.

We don't have much in store for this weekend. Hubby and I have an eye appointment! I have not been in 4 years... yikes! So excited to get a new pair of glasses and hopefully try out contacts! Last time I got them done, my eyes stayed dialated for over 9 hours!! IT WAS AWFUL! Hope this time is much better!

Cool Sculpting

So I have been struggling to lose those last 5lbs of baby weight and want that "pooch" gone for good!

Now that I am working again, I have ZERO time to work out. By the time I get home from daycare, Bennett takes a quick nap, I wash the bottles, start laundry, dinner, clean, then feed Bennett, play with him, give him a bath, get him down for the night, shower and then it's bed time for me. Then it's back at it again the next day at 5:30am!

I heard about this fairly new procedure called Cool Sclupting on the news and doctor oz. It is 100% non invasive and for fairly skinny people, especially recent mom's who want their tummy back to being flat.

It's over half the price of Lipo, non invasive and no down time. You will see your full results in no more than 8 weeks. I go next Friday and am getting 3 treatments, both of my hips and my stomach. It was buy two get a free session so I will go back and get my stomach done again in late February.

It is approved by FDA and Harvard actually created the technology. A machine sucks your fat in and holds it for an hour. It then freezes your far.Your skin is completely safe from the cold machine. They take it off after an hour, massage the area and you are good to go. The machine freezes your fat cells and they turn into crystals. Your body will then flush out the crystals (which is why it takes up to 8 weeks). It is like Liposuction in the aspect that those fat cells will be gone forever! Woohoo! This means, if and when we have another baby, I will not gain that much fat in my abdomen. I am so excited to get this done and can't wait to feel great about my body again! :)

Roller Coaster Ride

Life has been insane this past week. Friday my dad had his broncoscopy and we are almost positive he does not have cancer! The mass was scar tissue! I believe the stress from his procedure weighed hard on his body and Friday night he could not breathe. After 45 minutes of him not being able to breathe, I left Bennett with daddy and headed to my moms. As soon as I saw how bad of shape my dad was in, I called 911 immediately. The paramedics were there within 2 minutes. He was having a really bad panic attack (since he couldn't breathe) and was terrified if the paramedics moved him to the gurny (sp?) he would die. After 30 minutes of reassuring him he would be okay, he finally let them carry him to the gurny. It was off to the ER we went. They put him in ICU around 3:00am Friday night. He was finally moved down to a regular room Saturday around 9:00pm.

Then, we discovered he tested positive for a really bad illness. They immediately put him in isolation. Bennett, myself and my mother had to get tested and meet with Harris County Health and Human Services (the hospital had to report the positive test to the county) We met with the health official again yesterday and we were all 3 negative! I was not allowed to go to work and Bennett was not allowed to go to daycare until we received our results. I have been working from home with a 7 month old. A lot harder than I thought it would be!

They did 2 mucus tests on my dad (another way to test for this illness) and the first one was negative!! We are still waiting on the second one and they are also doing a culture which will be the true test to determine if he really does have it. Until then, he is on a handful of antibiotics and harris county has to come my moms house every day to administer the medicine for 14 days. Usually 2 weeks on antibiotics this illness is not contagious anymore.

Needless to say, Bennett and I will be staying away from Nana and Papa's until we figure out what is wrong with him. If all these tests are negative, then he still will have to back to the infectious disease doctor to determine what he has.

Since Bennett has been in contact with my dad he will have to get a chest x-ray which is required from Harris County for any children who have been exposed under the age of four (yes, even if his test was negative)

Could use some prayers that my dad does not have this illness and Bennett can go back to seeing Nana and Papa soon :( It has been a LONG week!

R.I.P. Jared

This morning I got a call from my mother in law telling me my husband's cousin Jared was in a horrible accident in Katy last night. He was life flighted to Houston, where he lost his life this morning. :(

I am sending my love and prayers to his mom Ethel, his sister Stacy, Stacys children Skyler, Raegan and Lindy, and the rest of my husband's family. Jared was only 28 years old.

Matthew 5:4
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted"

C & K's wedding

Bennett stayed with Granma the Wednesday and Thursday after Christmas because we both had to work :( Wednesday his cough was horrible again. So off to the doctor he went...for the 3rd time!! My mom took him and I said you do not leave until they give him something! He started waking up in the middle of the night gasping for air... It TERRIFIED me! They finally put him on a stronger dosage of amoxicilin. (We still have the cough but we are working on getting better)

The wedding was beautiful, but it was just a bad bad bad trip for us. Bennett cried 2 of the 4 hours to Corpus. He started screaming at the rehearsal dinner so we had to leave before eating dinner. He woke up crying 10+ times Friday night. Saturday morning we went to Cracker Barrell because we were starving. Bennett started screaming in the restaurant so we left without eating - but oh yes we paid for our food. He stayed with dad after the cracker barrell incident so I could go get my hair done for the wedding. It took him two hours of Bennett crying to finally get him down for a nap. He slept on and off up until the wedding. He needed it that's for sure!

Adam and I both were in the wedding so Bennett hung out with my Aunt Carol. After about 2 minutes of the ceremony Bennett started talking away. Carol made a dash to the back with him and he was okay after that! He was good for the reception. He was up WAY passed his bedtime. He LOVED watchin everyone on the dance floor and they had this discoball with different colored lights that he was completely amazed by. We got back to the hotel around 10:00pm, put him in his pj's and he was asleep within 10 seconds! lol

I haven't had time to go through my pictures from the wedding but these are the ones I got from my phone...

On our way - watching Monsters Inc before his meltdown

Whew - we made it! View from our hotel balcony. Below the bridge is where their venue was!

Rehearsal

Rehearsal

Sunrise from our hotel Saturday morning - wedding day!

On our way to breakfast

All glammed up!

Looking pretty spiffy ;)

Nana feeding Bennett at the wedding

Their venue was beow the bridge - it was awesome!

Amazing.

Time to go home!

Me, Candice, Narissa, Sara, Lori, Julie and Krystal's sister Brittany!

Krystal's something blue! - Outside their venue

The ring bearer (my second cousin) Jonah! He did such a great job!

The wedding party!

Last but not least, I am so happy to be gaining such an amazing sister in law! We love you both of guys so much and wish you a lifetime of happiness!!! Hope you two have an amazing time in Jamaica!

Baby's first Christmas 2012

Well now that it is officially 2013, I think it's time I post about Christmas!  Bennett made out like a bandit!

Christmas Eve (after making one separate trip just for Bennett's presents) we headed to Granma Debbie's house! We had yummy tamales and snack foods an opened up presents (except Santa of course) Bennett only opened two that night. Poor baby was soo tired. He hates his pack and play and would not go to sleep so we made him a pallet on the floor. He was still up most of the night because of his yucky upper respiratory virus :( He had a blast opening up presents Christmas morning! He was a pro at eating tissue and ripping the ribbon and bows off presents.

With his Granma on Christmas Eve

My mother in law's WHOLE living room was filled with presents. You couldn't even walk in there!

His one present he opened Christmas Eve from Aunt Mechel

Santa came for Bennett! I guess he was a good boy ;)

He LOVES books! This one is How the Grinch stole Christmas. He also got "My first night before Christmas look and feel book", Santa came to Texas and the brown bear set!

He loves Elmo!

Not as much as he loves his Caillou doll thoug

Bye mom!

After presents at Granma Debbie's house we went and opened up presents at Nana and Papas house!

This little piano is by far your favorite gift of all!

After that, we ran home and got some warmer clothes because a cold front was coming! We went back to Granma Debbie's for Christmas dinner! By the time we home, there were 30-40mph winds and it was SOOO COLD! And of course - our power went out. We started the fireplace (thank the lord for a gas fireplace) and cuddled around the fire for a few hours and finally it came back on!

With your Nanny on Christmas day