The Ellis 3

Journey's and Adventure's

2009-03-08T13:10:00.001-07:00

Those of you in our lives know the all we can think about is house house house.. What to do ? What needs to be done? How? When? Who? This has been such an exciting journey though- waiting to jump at the phone call to hear a new bit of good news. It has indeed been something I never really imagined happening and couldn't be happier it has.Wednesday all the paper work was signed,(after we had had a celebration lunch with the Cash -fam) So yes tomorrow is the day we get our keys.. The journey has come to a end in one aspect and has barely begin to start in another! We were very fortunate enough to get some time in the house already to prepare (even though it was very illegal) but still have so much to do..What has been done: the much much needed vacuuming.. which still can be done a couple thousand times, The accent walls were painted in a DARK burgundy color, the other wall we has done in a light gray but still need another coat. The pink room as well as the blue room have been painted white but still need the trim done, the hall bathroom is almost done just need the touch ups and half the kitchen floor has been tore out. As for what needs to still be done. The kitchen floor-tear the rest out and lay down tile - The new sliding glass door. Paint in the kitchen, dining room, master room and closets. The kitchen cabinets need to be sanded primered painted and new hardware put on. And as

much as I would like to do a minor re-model in our bedroom bathroom. I don't see that happening quite yet.. that ok though I think we'll be there for a while = ) Let see whatelse to report.. We all cut off our hair yesterday. Starting with taking Tristen to get it professionally done.

Then Rich and I did out

beautiful at home hack jobs. Its a good thing hair grows back. oh and we wen to the park yesterday and fed the ducks and played on the playground. It was alot of fun. Refreshing really. hmmm.O Tristen and I had a library day which was too cute.. I told him to pick out a book- Which he looked through them grabbed one,showed it too me and started walking to the counter like he had done this ten time. It was soo cute.. Book of choice was Chicka Chicka ABC's..

LOL.

We also went to on an outing to Tahoe. We surprised Daddy at work then went to lunch and visited Gpa Gomez at Applebee's.

Then we did a lil shopping and went to G'ma Gomez's..Tristen had a few meltdowns when we got there but all in all it was a good day. I wish he knew all his family good enough not to have meltdowns. Its sucks and he's recently

been freakin out if anyone hugs me .. Total mama's boy. I know.. Oh well.. Whatelse.. Oh Grant has brought over his- maybe kinda sorta girlfriend... I'm very proud and happy for him She seems pretty freakin cool. I hope to hell it works out cause she seems like she may have broke some hearts in her day and he deserve more than most people I know to find some love and happiness.. and I don't want to brake her neck.. lol..Jason and johnny are supposed to come this weekend I'm super excited. I miss them both alot.. O yeah we had lots of birthdays!!!!HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO NAOMI!! SAMMY!! KRYSTAL AND JASON!!! AND LISA and MY MOM IS COMING UP!!! SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND WE LOVE YOU ALL!!!! XOXOXOX

TRISTEN AND THE SLIDE~ LOL

In other Randomness...

2009-02-19T14:16:00.000-08:00

I forgot to mention that my fabulous friends Lauren and Greg came in to town in Jan and pulled us out of the hose for a adult night!! It was a lot of fun with some good tunes !!

Prince even ..Mercy Keenen and J-Bird were there as well. The boys spin a place a few blocks from here and we finally got out to hang for a while!! While GREAT G'ma did the babysitting! It was awesome to see her light up at the fact she was asked and feeling good enough to do it! It was the cutest thing to come home and see him passed out on the couch spread Eagle like he just ran a marathon. So thank you G'ma and thank you Friends!! Oh yeah and the day before that the Kingston Klan came for a visit! He is so cute and is growing up super fast!They we're alot of fun to hang with and actually came down again last Thursday.We hope to make it a re-occurring thing! So since that.. I think we've just been busy with the house.. Then came my birthday which was pretty un-eventful. We stopped at the Chocolate nugget -on the way to Reno.You know that Candy store on the way in the middle of nowhere? Well it was cool and you should go there too! So anyways we putz around Reno before the highlight of the day.. Which was meeting the Cash-Fam for SUSHI!!THANK YOU CASH FAM!! .And Tristen rather enjoyed the sushi himself.Giving him lil pieces of thing at a time - He held his lil chopstick then all the sudden reached over and stabbed his own sushi roll!! It was SOOOOOOOOOOOOo funny.The picture is kinda blurry but still Funny.

It was a great time and the boys did good till the end Tristen was actually really Fussy all day though.. To find out he popped out like 5 teeth in a matter of 2 days. So cant really blame him.I DID however get a Gift card to THE HOME DEPOT from the Gomez's which was pretty f-in fabulous!! Speaking of LORI J GOMEZ had a birthday !! WOOT !! You young-yin you!! Then came Valentines Day which was also pretty uneventful.Except for Tristen and I made a cake and boy what and event that turned into.We also went into the future new house and painted the bathroom the other day.. that was fun. It looks so much better. We just need to finish it now..lol .. So anywho. So from there that brings me to today.. Where hold your mean comments if you please... WE got a dog yesterday!! WTF?!?!?! Your thinking I know.. We've been talking about it - telling ourselves yes then no ..A million reason on both hands.. All the sudden a amazingly cute dog with all the goodies pops up on craigslist for 100 bucks - the crap alone is worth more so we are on it like flies on sh*t . Genius idea let me tell you - He is of course the cutest ugly pug ever and we were sold! Half was home - when we had to stop to get milk - and stop for a potty stop and Tristen freakin cause Oz is my lap- I knew.. WE DUN FUCKED UP! So I tried to contacted the lady today - Got ahold of someone else who wants to by him and now I wait for the mistake to be picked up.. I was hard for only 24 hours Tristen eating dog food -Oz eating al his toys- Them fighting over the toys. Then his momentary spurts of Crack attacks.. yeah Im cool.Whatever Lesson learned.. So I think that all the new news.. We are just waiting to hear back from underwriting.. Hopefully the next post wil be WE ARE MOVING!

OH YEAH I also want to say CONGRATS TO LIL KIM !! She is Preggo!!XOXOX LOVE TO ALL!!!

OTHER PICTURES TO ENJOY:

Cute Jail outfit from G'ma

Hugs for cousin Gage...

CAUGHT!!!

The Mission-the House - The LOVE

2009-02-05T11:22:00.000-08:00

So since about September Rich and I started looking casually at house ans prices and did the occasional drive by.. Well nothing totally got us worked up but we little by little started learning the lingo and the world of real estate... Then I hear not one but 2 friends of mine are looking to buy.. So to be honest this put a fire on my ass to learn EVERYTHING I could.. And in the midst of this I found a loan that is a 100% financing! Then talking to Krystal (always in this world of real estate) tell me the things they have learned as well as her step mom's BF is a realtor, Her step mom sells home owners insurence and her dad can do a house inspection.. So now I know people in the BIZ woot woot!! Still no house had rocked my boat.. AND THEN.. not even a couple days after I find out all this information THEE HOUSE pops up.. Rich and I knew within 5 minutes of peekin in windows we were going to "play the game"!!So I called up the realtor who I'd only spoken to once to just kinda tell her who we were and get some info- her name is Weenie!!! And told her would we love to see the inside..She says how about 15 minutes ..Whoa already she is ON IT! It was soo nice but def beat to shit by the prior people .. So sad really. It looked like it kinda ended on a bad note.. which it being a foreclosure and bank owned.. It kinda confirms that a little. Anyhow it needs a little work but I think it will be a great place to call home.. We saw it on the 18th put a offer in on the 23rd.. And are now in Escrow as of the 2nd!! We have a estimated closing date on or before March 10th!!! So as always things dont always go perfectly smooth and we have got caught in a couple binds and I want to thank those from the bottom of my heart for being there for us !! Knowing how much this means to us!! Mom you've been amazingly supportive thank you for ALL that you did, Dad thanks for the advice and cant wait to see you! Daddy Z you know we couldn't have done it without you!!G'ma for the stove!!! Your endless selflessness will never be forgotten!

Lisa and Scott thank you for the offer that gave up the backbone to proceed!!Krystal and Jason for the hook-ups and knowledge and for putting the fire under my ass! AND LASTLY I want to thank my husband for making my dreams come true by not buying me a house but making it a HOME!! I love you all SOSOS SOOSOSOSOSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!

Merry Happy Christmas New Years Birthday !!

2009-01-09T17:22:00.000-08:00

Starting way back, Last year already, lol, on Christmas. Christmas Eve day started with a package from Aimees mom . Its a new school bus that sings and boy does he LOVE that thing!! ALOT . I know have the words Stop n Go Stop n Go in my head daily.. Thanks G'ma Brenda.Then we got a lil visit from The Caires'.We lub them..After a while we headed to G'ma's a.k.a. Santa land and really enjoyed ourselves. Its hard not to be in the spirit when you have Elvis music and 90 billion Santa's around you.. It was kinda sad that we were lackin in family (Jason Alena Johnny The Zerby's) but we know you were there in heart.. We got lots of great presents but I have to say the highlight for was towards the end of the night, Tristen and Gauge both were getting super tired and kept laying on the floor resting there heads on each both delirious and happy. Gauge is my Uncle's Mike new step son hes about 2 or so. So this is where I left off before and so now

I must finish this blog with thing not so fresh in my mind. So yes of course

Christmas was great..Christmas morning was just the 3 of us.. Very quite and peaceful.. Daddy had to go to work but we m

ade sure to get up nice and early.

The day after Christmas Daddy Z,Andrea,DeAnna and Erica came up! they all stayed at our house and we had alot of fun. We did t

he usual reno trip where Daddy Z got his long

anticipated PS3

... Had a Poker night.. Where Andrea AND Erica got a lil to tipsy LOL... I love when they come up we have alot of fun just doing nothing.. After they left a few hours later Aimee and Chris arrived. He had been planning for to surprise her for her birthday by coming up since Tristen's birthday!So Chris and I had done some secret planning since then.. Aimee was hoping to go to Disneyland so instead we planned a

Princess party!They got to stay for a week and once again we had a blast doing nothing.. We tried to be grown ups and go out for a nice but it didnt work out.= ( oh well .. Whatelse oh we went to Cash mans first birthday!! I love that little family! Then Aimee and Chris left the next day.. After 10 days of company it was so weird to just be the 3 of us again! It was a amazing month!!! So amazing i sucked at even having 5 minutes to write a blog!! So there is it is!! Happy birthday- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Tristen is a whole year old!!!

2008-12-19T21:00:00.000-08:00

The day started with the whole"What we're we doing right now at this time last year"?!?! It's been the most amazing - special- indescribable year of my life and I wouldn't trade it for the world!! On Friday everyone started to filter in early morning starting with Nino and Jason. Then later on in the evening Chris and Aimee came. So already a mini party was happening..We are fortunate to happy family drive a billion miles just to see our lil man turn 1 !!Saturday started on full speed .. And people started to show up starting at 11 and the party was AWESOME!! Lots of people, presents and LOVE!!He loved his cake and dove in face first- He had a mini baby party in his ball pit(from The Gomez's)(Get better Allie) He, however was more interested in the balloons more than anything!!!I would love to go on and on about all his great gifts and all the lil details but I don't think that I could even begin with that. It was just plain perfect and THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! for all the great gifts and coming to celebrate.. It wasn't just a celebration of him being a year but its been a honor to be a mother for the last year.. He was such a good boy the whole day -We had to be the proudest parent on earth that day- Well everyday really!!! !! He had a lil meltdown before everything but that was all .. I felt like he was showing off and felt like he knew that the days way about him.. and he HAD to be "Big"LOL... Sadly everyone had to go home = ( We will miss you all = (

On Wednesday We met up with the Cash Fam and took Santa pictures.. We went back to the same Santa we took Tristen to last year when he was only 2 days old..He IS the real Santa- I Believe! It was so cute! So special.. As for what I talked about last week, His heart appointment went great.. He's no better but not worse..Surgery could still be in the future but not showing signs now so that's good. And he truly has THEE best cardiologist a parent could hope for.. As for G'ma's Santa land it was in the paper last friday,it was a beautiful article and I couldn't be more grateful to see the joy in G'ma's eyes to share her collection with the world..She is soooo cute -I love you Santa Lady!! So Happy Holidays to all!! Next POST - CHRISTMAS!! ..P.s. Dad I love you and Miss you a ton- Don't be hard on yourself for not being able to be here or get us the best gifts Having you IN my life is gift enough!!! K!!! And Mom I'm proud of you for pulling through your surgery HAng in there feel better and know we love you !!!

Tristen with Santa this year and last year

More Fall Family Fun

2008-12-09T20:41:00.000-08:00

It makes me sad that my blogs get further and further apart.. But what can I say, even if we do nothing at all EVERYDAY is a busy day!! So starting with Daddy's birthday.. It was awesome the whole Gomez family came!! Making it extra special for Daddy.. And the day before The Zembiks (my sisters and Daddys Z and Andrea) came for the weekend. And my mom came and g'ma came by!! Daddy got lots of presents for his pool table! It was so cute... he strutted a beaming smile of pride all the day!!! The next day we went for with Daddy Z and Andrea to Reno. It was alot of fun but the real fun started when we came home.Auntie DeAnna watched Tristen while we played some Texes hold em and drank some whickey(I know right?!?!).. I won one round and then Andrea won the next!!! So as always it was wonderful to see everyone and thanks to everyone for coming out!! And Dhen there was Thanksgiving .. Which we decided to do at our house this year.. I woke up that morning nice and early, looked in the fridge.. and not till then- I realized what the F I got myself into.. But after to some phone calls and some Internet help.. I have to say I did pretty damn good in that kitchen. Everything turned out really good.. but I officially HATE peeling hardboiled eggs.. F- those eggs!!! Daddy got off early -and My mom and Alena got there shortly and of course G'ma cookin her lil heart out across the street so.. I definitely had help!!

I was really excited that the Caries came for a visit I got to see a cousin I haven't seen in like 10 years!

The Mullens came by .. Uncle Grant was there too! It really was Perfect..

I even got a lil tipsy... Actually I think I have to admit I was closer to drunk than tipsy..he he ! Lets see oh the Longs came by for a short visit on Sunday.. Noah is sitting almost all by

himself and he smiles all the day!! I lub him!! From there and in between has just been Christmasprojects and whatnot.. Yesterday we wenprojects and whatnot.. Yesterday we went and got a Christmas Tree and its beautiful!!! Tristen says Preeay(pretty). It was great decorating it we got SO many beautiful ornaments last year!!

Today was a fabulous day,we were told by Mrs.Lori J Gomez to come to her house today at 3:00 no questions!!

And so we did cause you tend to do

what she says no matter who you are..lol And it was pretty flippin cool I have to say. Tristen was extremly excited to see the doggy and and I think I can speak for us all when we LOVE to watch Tristen and Masen play!

Anyways she bust out 2 boxes one for Stephanie and one for us.. She, whale and Gpa Gomez got us a new Video Camera!!!It going to be so cool to see the videos 5 years from now and then 10 years when he is like WHOA thats me!! So Thank you thank you thank you !!! It means alot to be able to capture something so precious!! WE love you guys!!

From there we made a visit to The Pauls!! And we got to meet baby Kingston!!! Who is a doll and his hair is just too cool!! We talked baby talk and really had a good time!! Hanging with other parents is always so nice cause when you have a kid it becomes your world and sometimes when you talk to those's that have not yet experienced it, I feel as though maybe I talk too much about it.. It's another world you know what i mean..

So anywho Big day tomorrow Tristen has a heart appointment, he hasn't had one in 6 months. Its huge because he is more active and running and stuff so they

really want to see how that is effecting his heart now. I pray everything is ok.. and in my heart I think it is. ALSO the newspaper is coming to G'ma's house tomorrow. I called them up and they decided to come right away!! SO Ill have a update soon and picture of Santa land.. I feel like Im forgetting a bunch of stuff but its ok I call it mommy brain.. lol.. Love to you all!!

Grown up's

2008-11-20T11:00:00.000-08:00

Busy busy busy ..and I love love love it... Alright let's go back..Think... think.....hmm It's been like 2 weeks already GAEE WHIZ.. Time flies..Ok I got it.. We had a fabulous dinner with the Brito family at the oh so yummy San Marco's Grill (They own it)!! We met up with Nina Jess to finally met Em and baby Hollace!!The proud papa Marco and proud G'pa were also there.. It was really awesome to see everyone.. and Mr.Tristen fell in love with the baby.. He kept saying baby! And was VERY concerned when she cried even the smallest sound(..She was soooo beautiful too...) Aside from paying much attention to her he was quite the ham that night.. Doing all this tricks and walking everywhere.. He also got a taste for REAL Mexican food..lol Nina let him taste her like Habano chicken and he bout turned 80 shades of red! Mean Nina!! Mean!! Lol But he took it like a champ- I don't know how, but he did. Aside from that -The next and SO fabulous day that comes to mind is OUR ANNIVERSARY!!! 11-11 We've been married 2 years.. The day started our great and lasted all day.. Firstoff Tristen slept in and Rich and I woke up and enjoyed a peaceful morning and exchanges cards.He got me lilys the night before and I woke up to roses. So funny, I ended up deciding to make his card but the card he got me was the one I had in the cart!! Isn't that crazy! After that we had some breakfast and then headed out while Nina watched Tristen.. Rich had no idea what we were doing cause I said I would plan this year.. Well fate stepped in and they just opened a Massage Envy in town.. After weeks of trying to find a massage place that wouldn't charge a arm and a leg.. It was great it cost about what it was for one somewhere else! AND we were able to get done in the same room at the same time.. No Where else I called could do this.. So yeah it was glorious yellow! After we went for a quick lunch and cocktail.. Then came home had a Delicious dinner and a yummy cake I made ! Whatelse.. We've been doing alot of X-mas shopping and Birthday planning. I am so excited for the lil projects I got going on!! . I took Tristen to feed the ducks last week. Then we all went as a family a few days later because he really really loved it and daddy had to see how cute it was.. Another reason aside from getting out and getting some fresh air, was he just seemed to be ULTRA fussy this week. . Waking up more than usual and we all know he already wakes up a ton, He was crying at the drop of a hat and just anything would set him off. So not knowing what the heck else to do I ran out of options and took him to the Dr. finally. I mean when a kid cries at the park you know somethings wrong RIGHT?!?! So the Dr. checked him all out . I thought teething maybe or ears.. But nothing .. Not even teeth = ( She said if he kept up to bring him back for a pee test. But since we left he has been better all around.. Isn't that weird?!?!!? Other odds and ends news.. We ran into Auntie Kathy at Wal-mart! She is going to be 70 soon!! Wow that's a big one and i think she still looks great! So you go girl!! We love you and it was awesome seeing you!! We also got to see mom and Pure Country for a brief visit and got a couple cute pictures! We became grown ups this week and got a dining table! Daddy worked his spray paint magic and it looks GaRATE! And lastly, Yesterday Tristen got a bug boy haircut and took some 1st birthday pictures!He did pretty good I have to say but we did cheat and gave him a sucker.. but I thought for a minute she was cut his ear off if he didn't chill so. give and take.. I'll give a sucker for a ear..lol And just one more picture cause mom had fun playing with the camera!

Now and Later

2008-11-05T09:59:00.000-08:00

For as long as I can remember Halloween has been one of my favorite Holidays EVER! I used to think all year long about what I was going to be or random ideas that just make me laugh.. Whale...These last 2 years have been far different from those years before!! And it's quite alright! I just cant wait for next year.. and the year after and year after that and so on....because my goal is to one day have that house! The one you tell people "O man you got to drive by so and so, It's SOOO cool"! I want to be able to come up with costumes for Tristen where he will be the ONLY one to wear it! And well if he just wants to be Spiderman.. Then he will be the BEST Spiderman EVER!!! O yes.. It will happen.. Anywho...On to our Halloween adventures! On Tuesday we did a family pumpkin carving night with the Gomez' family.(That would be my fabulous In-laws) and it was awesome time! Everyone was super excited and doing their best to have the coooooooooooolest pumpkin.. O course Rich had the coolest cause he so good at that kind of crap! lol. Aside from pumpkin carving we had the joy of watching Masen and Tristen chasing each other.. First time then were REALLY able to interact to the fullest!!Pretty much the cutest thing ever!!!Good family fun!!Doesn't Tristen look horrified!!LOL

O and I wanted to also mention earlier that day i got to visit with my good friend Amber Zo! It was great to see her and we spent some time catchin up at the beach! I'm Proud of you Amber and how far you've come!

You Go girl!! Tristen has a blast playing in the sand and checkin out the birds.. Who in my opinion kept getting way too close!

Our Teddy Bear!

Yes another costume!

I had to add the teddy bear picture cause I LOVE it.. His girlfriend Lily Let him borrow this for the cold days and well I had fun running around town the day before Halloween Just hearing the giggles and laughs from others!

On Halloween itself Tristen and Cash were Yoda and Darth Vader! They pretty much wore there costumes for a hour as us parents struggled to get some good pictures! But the kids played and played .. and did NOT want to go to sleep! I think Tristen loves having the Cash-Fam visit as much as I do!

They are so the bestest buddies and I love it!!!

I had a great Halloween and i think everyone else did! We also got to hang out with my side of the family and then Aunite Alena hung out for few days.. YEAY! I want to Thank G'ma Reesa again for all the goodies you got for Tristen!! Thank you Thank you We love ya!! Whatelse... Ummm we Obama WON !! I think its great!!! I could go on and on but to sum it up.. It was NOT that long ago there was the black white segregation.. And if you said 40 years ago one day we will have a black president no one would have believed it and BAM here we are!! I think it's pretty exciting!You know whatelse is exciting my Anniversary to marrying the most wonderful husband ever is in 6 days!!! Then his birthday is 12 days later THEN 32 days is Tristens 1 Birthday!!!

Whale I cant think of much else.. So love you all and Thanks for reading!! I love that I know few people read all the time, then all the sudden i run into someone (Jen E.) and they tell me oh yeah I read your blog!! ITS AWESOME !! So thank you!!

Short and Sweet

2008-10-27T10:00:00.000-07:00

First I want to start with a extra special heart filled

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NINA JESSICA!!!

We have been been able to spend the last couple days with her.Well she is the JeeeenNAY to my Forest.. The Janet to

my Paula, the Supreme to my Nacho..lol. Anyways We love her! We had a fabulous lunch for 2 days in a row.. And let me just say the first day I thought I'd get al crazy and drink a cocktail.. A Perfect Strawberry Margarita from Applebee's and Oh My God!! It was SOOO Good! But I tend to forget WHY I don't drink..And about a hour later.... I had a pounding headache forever and went to bed at 7:30.. What a loser huh!!! Anyways That was the extent of my party-ing!! So on her actually birthday we did something a little more mommy-style.Jessica Tristen and I made Cookies!!

He had a blast.. Then we had some laughs and put him in Daddy's old cowboy boots..lol..

Anyways I usually go in order but oh well.. Going back to Wednesday The Cash Family came!

It was too cute cause although it hasn't been a long time since the last visit Tristen couldn't walk and Cash couldn't stand.. So they were all over the place.. Really interacting or should I say fighting over balloons..It was too cute and I cant wait for Halloween!!

Whatelse.. Tristen Has finally learn to clap...lol.. he can touch his head! and he has found his bellybutton! He's so smart = )

That's all..

PRIDE.....

2008-10-19T17:00:00.000-07:00

On the last post I wrote about Little Man Walking and since then he's been on a ROLL!!! Its insane but the cutest thing ever!! I wanted to also go back to that because I didn't get a chance to talk about Tio Jason coming. It was SOOOOO nice to see him and spend some time. I'am so proud of him and the man he's become.. aww.. He spent the night and got to be a part of Tristen's big walking night and the next morning took Tristen shopping! Tio got him some Fubu Kicks, a Mecca Shirt and a Pelle Pelle shirt.LOL. Those not familiar with the brands... um Thug baby! LOL.. But I think its cute and love to watch the pride Jason takes in his nephew.

So that was October 10 & 11. On the 12th Mom came for a little visit and got to spend time with her little Yoda.. I miss her lots and hate hate hate STILL, that she lives so far!! Monday we did nothing with daddy (and Nina came by) and Tuesday the 3 of us ventured to the library. Not much to say on Wednesday or Thursday.. Friday my mommy friend Ashley came by with Tyler and her husband Matt.It was awesome to see Tristen interact with baby Tyler. However Tristen was quite the show off. Where he had taken steps here and there since his big night, he decide to act as though he'd been walking his whole life that day. But the highlight of our month had to been Saturday.

AWW FAMERY and Donkey!

Look baby,Its a Wilbur!!

Momma & Tigger

Wheee.. Gma & Tristen's big ride!

Daddy got off super early so we- along with G'ma- went to the Harvest Festival! There was a petting zoo, Corn field maze, of course a pumpkin patch.

(lots of other stuff too ) It was indescribable to see the excitement in Tristen's face as it lit up at all the newness of everything around him. Not just that watching G'ma live through it with a child's eyes. AND Not only THAT but to think she was watching her baby's, baby, watch her baby take in the world. WOW. It really is an amazing world we live in.. huh?!?!?

So we started with the Petting Zoo and it was super cute Tristen's lil brain looked to be churning 10 miles a second!! I got a lil nervous though cause the donkey took a little TOO much interest in Tristen.The first part of the day we had him wearing the lil Tigger costume. And I personally think the donkey thought Tristen was a giant carrot!! . (The costume was given to us by Auntie Cathy,Cousin Jennifer and cousin Timmy,THANK YOU!!!) From there we walked around to all the lil exhibits and then the 3 of walked through the corn field maze, while gma took a rest. After that we finally went to pick out our pumpkins!

Poor lil Tristen wanted nothing more than to walk walk walk.. and somehow he grew out of his shoes this week that I brought.. lol. So we left him get a lil dirty and walk in his socks..lol..We all had a blast! From there we took G'ma to a couple Thrift stores and we of course found something for Tristen.. It was a Elmo of some soft and after the battery battle it came to all our surprise.. ELMO did the HOKEY POKEY!!! Tristen had no idea what to think !! It was sooooooo funny a lil laugh- a lil whine and death grip hug on mommy.. but today a day later he dances to it and its sooooo cute!! Well worth the 2 bucks!!

WTF!?!??!

Our Lil Pumpkin

Last but not least I gave lil man yet another hair cut..lol.. He has soooooooooooo much hair. I tried to make it look like daddy's !It will never really stick up like that it was cute for the picture!!

SO COOOL!!

I also want to add Tristen has not only added more words to his vocabulary

he can now READ 4 words!!Yes I said read!Its been like 2 days straight of it so I think it safe to say..He can read CAT DOG HI and EYES!!

I hope you enjoy reading as much as I enjoyed this week! I really do love my lil life..

WALKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2008-10-10T20:19:00.000-07:00

So I usually wait a few days between post but today was a BIG day!!! Tristen just started WALKING!! I mean we've got a step here and there and our max. was 4.. They all the sudden it was 12 STEPS!!! He walked to his Tio (who was holding Teddy) !!! And he did it over and over again!! The funny part was once I took the Yoda ears off .. He wasn't balancing as good!!! LOL Its like his Dumbo feather of something!!!

Aside from that... Like I mentioned earlier Jason came today!! WE missed him a lot!! And I'm glad he got to witness such a event!!!

O and Tristen and Daddy had a light saber fight!!!

And lastly ,IT SNOWED TODAY!!! Tristen got to feel and see snow for his first time!!

WOW!! WHAT A DAY!! *Yes Im obsessed with the Yoda ears!*

Buddies Babies and Projects!

2008-10-08T19:34:00.000-07:00

Sunday, for the most part was mellow.. Grant came and graced us with his presence.. He took some time away from his hardcore studying..He was only here for a little while but in that time he, Tristen and Daddy did some motorcycle riding and Pool playing. I think Tristen felt like one of the guys lol... Grant is really good with him= ) I must say...

Later Dad and I made a tombstone !!! Muahahahaha !! I taught Tristen to laugh like that when he see's a skeleton!! lol.It was fun and It was great to have Rich encourage me to do som

e creative stuff .. I'm always afraid I'll mess it up.. And it would just be better (whatever it is) If I let him to it!! But I got to help and I had a great time doing it..

Thanks Daddy <3

While Sunday wasn't very eventful for us it was for others!

Congratulations to Stephen and Marie who had baby

KINGSTON PAUL!

Born October 5..At 8lbs 3 oz at 5:20 p.m. He is quite the handsome man!!You guys are going to be great parents!! And if you ever you need anything !! Holla! It's crazy how many people are having babies!! I absolutely love it!! There is nothing

better than a baby to complete your life ..! My Cousin Megan also had her lil one on October 4th Her name is Abby!! She is beautiful! and you guys couldnt look happier!

O and I just found out a long time friend of mine who

has been trying to get pregnant for 2 1/2 years is finally Pregnant!!

She is going to be a wonderful mommy!!

All my love and Congrats to you Kaleen and Michael!!

Monday we gallivanted around town with Nina Jessica looking for a special Halloween

decoration to complete our tombstone.. Our hunt was complete, and the adventure quite fun.

We went all other the flippin place- Just because.. We even stopped at the puppy store to show Tristen all the puppies!! Tristen entertained us by showing the Latin in him. With his cool hat and maraca's!!LOL.. I swear he is too much fun!!

On Tuesday we woke up way too early and decided to head to Reno! Tristen told us he missed his buddy Cash!

So we met up with the Cash man family at their house and chilled for a while.They had a cable crisis.. But as always while we were there we had many photo opt's !!

After we took a million picture's we headed to Chevy's.While the food was great.. It was really bad service..But oh well at least we were in good company! O and CAsh had his first lemon- I tried to load the video ... IT wasnt diggin it!! damnit!!

BEST BUDDIES!

Anywhooo from there we went to walk off the goodness and strolled around meadow wood mall. Always fun to do,never shit to buy.. But Auntie Lisa got the boys matching hats !!!

AWWWW..They were the main attraction everywhere!!They are just too cute for words!! And I know they will be best buds !! Its always so much fun seeing them! I love it!

Today, Wednesday Tristen and I headed up to Tahoe. We had to take care of some Bank crap and took advantage of being up there and had luch with Dad and G'ma.. It was cute to see Rich show us off all over his work.. He's such a proudDad and hubby. As am I mom and Wife.. yeah life is good!!

O and our Halloween project got put out tonight!! whooo hoo!

New New New

2008-10-04T20:25:00.000-07:00

This week was all about being the new girl again.. I can't even begin to tell you how many schools I went to growing up.For the most part there was always someone ready and willing to be your friend(usually the girl who had no friends) but this soooooooooo brought me back to those days. On Tuesday Tristen got up SUPER early and after going through our morning routine I finally pushed myself to make a change. I had heard of this Toddler Time thing this place does 6 days a week from 9:30-11:30. So I packed us in the car and gave myself no time to think about it or find a reason not to go. Tristen fell asleep on the way there of course, so when I pulled into the parking lot I sat there for about 5 minutes fighting my reservations. Screw it, I'am here, If I dont go now I'll never go. We go inside and there is 1 mom and one 2 year old girl. There was sooo much stuff for him to play with so I let Tristen go for it.Meanwhile the other mom made light conversation,"How old is he"?"He's so cute"," Don't worry others will be here soon" .. bla bla bla.. Soon more mommy's and babies began to pile in. I want to say about 5 mom's total and 7 kids ranging in age .. mostly all older.. Long story short- It was like high school. Very Clicky. The 3 moms stuck together talking loudly about how much money they had just spent.(GROSS). The one mom I thought would be the snob ended up being the nice one... That the other girls didn't talk to and the one I thought looked close to my age and on the cool side was TOO COOL for anyone.. I only stayed a hour but made the excuse that I planned leave in a hour.. Not that I think anyone cared!But I think Tristen had fun with the toys and watching the other children but I on the other hand.. DON'T think I'll be making friends there.. But with winter coming and us not being able to go for walks, Im sure I'll make the effort to try again.. For his sake not mine!Wednesday started with me randomly going through Tristens clothes and hardly finding anything that fits.. He has like, jeans and oneies but NO Jammies..He has 2 pairs that are warm and fit.. He refuses to sleep with blankets too, So he has to have the super warm ones with feet ones.. So off to find Jammies! and this is how we spend our Wednesday.. lol. He now has 2 new jammies that are 3 sizes too big! but at least hes warm!

Thursday Miss Mercy and Keenan came to visit.Rich had some extra tires for her car and, as always saved the day..Thanks hunny!! We once again shared some laughs and foods.. They got to watch the many wonders of Tristen..

He found one of those musical birthday cards.. and dance like no other when he opens it's and the song SO the best.... "She's a Brick House.."! Funniest shit ever.. But he was really up and down with his mood. He would cry every time Mercy put her hat on.lol.. Then he was more than ecstatic to see her dog but freaked out when the dog "talked"lol.. I think he's going through major teeth stuff right now.. but who knows.

Speaking of dogs our friend Kevin ( He was Rich's best man) got a pup of his our since he moved out to Florida and has been on the lonely side.. He took his new lil pup to the vet only to find his hips were all inverted and needed thousands of dollars in surgery = (

or the dog wouldn't be able to walk once he reached a certain weight. The vet said he would do it Pro-bono but he wanted to

keep the dog.. So sad.. I feel so bad for Kevin talk about High - Lo.

Anyhow a couple weeks back a girl contacted me on myspace saying she just moved to Tahoe and had no mommy friends.She has a son 3 weeks younger than Tristen.I told her I don't live there anymore but if your ever this way!? Not expecting

anything after than conversation she said she was coming to Carson in 2 days if I wanted to meet up.. Sure. Right? Couldnt be bad. We were meeting at wal-mart all else fails.. Im at wal-mart. So Friday comes and....We ended up walking around forever! Eating lunch at Chilli's and venturing off the the Halloween store!! All and all I MADE A MOMMY FRIEND!! And Tristen has a new buddy named Tyler..

TWO LITTLE PIMPS!

I am really happy about that considering my first attempt at making mommy friends!

Today I spent the day pulling out Halloween stuff and playing alot with Tristen he was in a wonderful mood.Thee absoulte best part of today was I'am pretty sush he finally relized HE can make his momma laugh. I had put a wig on him and of course it made me crack up but then he pulls it off, looks at me and tries to put it on again.. and again.. Totally cracking me up.. Then later out of nowhere he learns this I can drink my juice with no hands trick!

SO funny you have to watch!

MY HANDSOME DEVIL!!!

Birthdays..Meddlers & Ponies!

2008-09-28T17:30:00.000-07:00

Lots of stuffs .. At least every couple days it accumulates to a lot ..

Friday was my dear brown friends Birthday!!

Happy Birthday Mrs. Shani Zerby!! I miss you a ton! Since I'm talking birthday's I would like to mention my other September baby's Mr.Zerby, Miss Christina and

Miss Lauren Banks!!!

I love you all and hope, as with every year all your dreams come true!!

Miss Quackalacapan (Christina) came by with her madre.. It was a short and sweet visit but quite enlightening.. Maria (The mom) has quit her job and is looking to relocate to Puerto Vallarta or

somewhere exotic to work.. She is in her mid-60's and I think it is awesome she is still chasing dreams.... You GO Girl!!

(Johnny's mom- Christina's mom and my mom)

Whatelse, The John left with Christina to start a new chapter of his life ..

I wish him the best, I mean I always do, cause whale through it all the IS my best friend.. We may not know each other the way we used to but it doesn't mean I care any less.. In fact you cant help but care more with every year.(Its been 11 years!).I just wish with all my heart he find the end of

this rainbow hes been chasing..

Find love.. and Peace of mind.. Cause seriously it seems this life really is about finding a partner to validate you and all you see together.. But whatever I'm not trying to sound like the freakin Dahlia Lama or anything..

Saturday was

nothing special.. Without getting in to detail cause the details SUCK.. But F people who meddle in your life.. Who clearly aren't welcome or liked - yet can't get a fucking clue.. But yeah, we wont talk about that..

Sunday was is a HAPPY day..Rich's momma picked me up with Allie and Mantha and we went to the Genoa Candy Dance.. It was a lot of fun and HUGE!!!! There was only one booth out of like 300 that had candy and

they were out of almost everything!!!WTF!!!! huh??

Tristen rode a pony and saw clowns.

And every couple steps he was adored..

. He at one point had 3 lil girls all playing peek-a-boo with him at once.. It was so cute I had to have them take a picture with him to show daddy what a lil pimp he was..

In other news.. He is sleeping in his pack and play through the night now

- Of course not all night but he seems to be getting a little better.. The wake up's have gone down to around 7 instead of a dozen.. and We are DONE breastfeeding!!!

Lastly, Congrats to Marco's and Emily! Hollace Brito was born yesterday!!!

What have I done?!?!?!

2008-09-25T15:27:00.000-07:00

No matter how many books you read or how many people tell you ... It's not your fault. When something is so to speak wrong with your baby you tend to blame yourself,Thinking of what your could have I done different. So the PROBLEM is Tristen has been waking up increasing more and more and more.. I wrote it down last night and the night before - Tuesday night- went down at 7:40 .. Up at 8:20-9:00-9:45-10:00-10:45-12:40-1:12-3:13-4:28-5-6-7-8 I was too deliourios to write exact times.. Last night was a little better I put him in his pack n play in our room and it seemed to help. He just seems so uncomfortable and when I try to burp him he just keep throwin himself back to lay down.. So then next thing you know he wakes up and farts a whole bunch.. and sometimes it seems like he wakes up just to make sure I didnt go anywhere.And lastly he is poppin his 2 top teeth sooooo who knows. I think this book I got is helping me a little but I think some good ol sleep would do us both good. Its just there is some things I feel I should have done sooner like having him sleep in his bed or stopping beast feeding earlier.. But then again if I were to do it all over I probably wouldnt change a thing.. I love feeling him next to me when I sleep .. and as cliche as it may sound breast feeding really is a bonding thing.. Its somethign you can do for him that no one else in the world can do.. (unless your single white female crazy) Anyways thats my rant..

Cat,Dog, Friends and Poison!

2008-09-24T10:00:00.000-07:00

Funny how a things totally come in spurts.. I have no life then all the sudden I'm running around like a chicken with my head cut off!! Friday Nino came down to spend some time with us. It seems his time in Tahoe may be coming to a end so he is spending time with Tristen and us to before he goes.. On Friday Nina came by baring gifts.. Tristen's Favorite kind of gift BOOKS!! More and more he loves books and has recently learned 2 new words!! GOG and CAAAAAAAAAAT! I think its amazing being only 9 months old but I think as a mother we all think our kids are special..lo lOn Saturday Tristen was invited to Cailynn Dollars 1st birthday! We didn't take any picture but and I'm waiting from Brianna (my favorite lil hippie) to send some .. Of course we weren't informed that the party had changed locations so we took a pit stop goign through Lampe Park and there was a HUGE festival going on.. As Im cussing up a storm cause I cant find 'em I slowly come to the realization.. Im at like a Church festival..So anyways that was a ball.lol.

Happy 1st Birthday Miss Dollar!!!

We found them had a short visit,watched Cailynn GO crazy over her cake then ventured home to meet up more visitors!!

Jason L made a appearance, Which was awesome he was in our wedding and well we haven't seen him since.Even though he lives in RENO.It was also his first time meeting Tristen. My favorite words out of his mouth..

"Wow..I mean it like both of you.. Like you boned and that's what happen"LOL... Whale yea J!!!And to think he's one of our SMART friends LOL.. You got to love him!! Shortly after his arrival came J-Bird,Mercy and Keenan. Keenan has a new BEAUTIFUL tattoo.. Mercy is going through some hardcore crap and it truly breaks my heart for her. How a person can take vows and really dismiss them as nothing more than words on paper.. So sad. Anyways we still made best of the visit and had some laughs,Beers and BOMB Tacos !! Sunday was mellow and Come Monday Tristen had his Well Baby Check up.. He is 24.11 oz. 29 1/2 inches Happy and Healthy but with a CHRONIC wake up problem. I feel like I have tried everything and even went to the library to get more info.Last night I finally wrote it down and basically he wakes up every 40-6o mins. I guess its common around 9 months but its bad.. REALLY bad..

Other than that I tried to Poison Tristen Tuesday night... I attempted to give him some Tylenol for his teeth.. and instead grabbed his fluoride. Where he is only supposed to have a drop of that.. I gave him 2 Dropper fulls thinking it was Tylenol!!! This is at 3:30 in the morning.. So I have a semi-freak out ...Look online to see if its really bad.. and come to find Fluoride is a poison!! So next thing I know I am on the phone with poison control at 3:30 in the morning!!! Luckily he said no to worry and because hes a big boy he probably wont even get a tummy ache.. wheeeeeeeeeeew!!!

So that all good fun I tell ya!!! And this is just a picture of Tristen and daddy that I love.. Lots of Love ME

Day to Day

2008-09-18T10:22:00.000-07:00

The last couple have days have been quite busy..Thank Goodness.. I have been doing a lot of complaining about neeeeeeeeeeeeding something to do.. A class - A project- A Group something.. And Although I have been looking I haven't found anything yet that has sparked my interest.. But in the meantime I have found some ways to keep my days busy..Sunday Tristen started his 4th disc of Your Baby Can Read. Its crazy how absorbed he gets into.. but he's learning .. That's how he learned his "Arm's Up"!!!.

On Monday and Tuesday we spent sometime with Nina Jessica.

Did what we love the most and Sunday walked around Target and Ross.. Got Tristen a 2 pack of Jammie's for $3.50 Whooo Hoo!!

Tuesday I went to my WIC appointment and met up with Jess to do Breakfast - This turned out to be a semi-nightmare.. Tristen decided he want to test his vocal cords to the FULLEST. Mind you we went to a Lil diner that was full of old time locals I'm sure..And where normally you get the smiles of "I remember those days" Those friendly smiles started to turn into the look of "MY god Lady control your kid!!"..Not only was his yellling and singing he decided to play Throw everything thing on the floor game.. AND lastly .. This adorable lil 2 year old girl walks in(we were in the booth right next to the front door) and she goes straight to give Tristen a kiss.. AWW tooo cute right?!?!?!.. He straight up slapped her full force across the face!!!

So horrible- At this point I wont even look at the people in the

restaurant.. Not only That my food was like .. "Sure Ill take some slop with my heap of onions.. I get it you hate me..So anyways after that CRAP... We went roaming around some thrift shops and scored a See n Say for .50 cents!!!

SO on to Wednesday Rich had the day off..

SO we made plans to go see my mom and take G'ma..

IT was GREAT to see G'ma sooo happy and spend time with her...

Little did we all know how far Fallon really is....

So after miles and miles of feilds..We made it!!!Mom was super happy to see us and made some good Puerto Rican foods.. We went for a drive to see there new place they are moving into and for the most part just hung out and watched Tristen torment the cat.and waited for him to keep

doing his funny face!!

LOL.. Alena and her boyfriend Alex were there too..They are cute.. AWW young love.. I think watching Tristen a mile a minute was a quick form of birth control..

It was a good time..It was an exciting day for G'ma ...

I just hate that they are sooooooo Freakin far. I love my famery.. and thats it for now.. Thanks for all the comments!!

To Remember..

2008-09-13T10:17:00.000-07:00

SO I always find myself reading Krystals blog and saying I need to do that -

I need to do SOMETHING- A diary a Journal anything.. I have a hard time remembering what I did last week and WHALE.. These are the times I want to remember Forever! And other than his baby book - I have nothing to look back and on and say awww thats when.. bla bla bla..

So Here we go..

He's 9 MONTHS OLD TODAY!!!

I just got Tristen to sleep after 20 mins of crying by far one of the worse things about parenting. It breaks my heart to be the reason he is crying- When he looks at me with the tear stained face and the look of "Why are you doing this to me?!?!?" and then you remember all those times growing up youd hear..."Its for your own good" ... lol .. Anyways, As for his milestones

He can stand by himself- Has taken a step -walks with his truck, Has 2 teeth - Crawls faster than a speeding bullet - Growls at me!! and says Dada allllll the time.. funny since Im the one who is with him ALL the time!

I hope I can keep up on this and I'am excited to have a new lil hobby - Thanks Krystal!