Happy Father's Day!

Officially we are able to celebrate this day! yay!!  Joel and I wanted to make something special for daddy, and because this was his day we wanted to give him a surprise but also make what he wanted.
To start our first Father's Day Joel and I sang "The Dearest Names" (It wasn't the best voice because of the cold we got but with lots of meaning and love).
 We were ready to make a delicious breakfast for daddy but he said that he will eat what he always does: cereal and orange juice.
At Church there was a beautiful song the choir sang which is called: "The Most Important Work a Father Does" by Jorgensen and Allen.  We have been trying to get the lyrics from the internet to share but without success, we will order it and we'll let you know.

We have a present for Dad, Joel gave him a card with a snickers bar, actually he helped me to make that little card, and he signed it (in the only way he can right now), and I helped write some words.

 Present from Joel and me

I know Joel has big feet (but they are cute and chubby)  Dr. says he will be a big guy.

Then our next opportunity at home, was lunch and as requested we made:  pizza and brownies with ice cream! yummy!

 Mmmm! two different homemade pizzas!!

 Homemade brownies

Wish to our dear grandpa, dad, and uncles the best Happy Father's day ever, you are so special and dear to us, we are grateful for your example, leadership, hard work, service, love and faith, in everything you do! 

San Diego trip

After postponing our little trip to SD, we finally made the excuse to 'celebrate my Birthday', so Monday morning we started our adventure.  Joel wasn't as excited as we were because he didn't like the idea of spending three hours in his car seat not able to be free and take his nap laying down on his crib (which he loves because he feels comfortable and free to move).  Anyway, he had a hard time taking a nap so it was a long day for him. The weather was really nice all day long, they had 70 degrees while back in Yuma the weather was over 100.  Now we know why people like to live there even though it's expensive.

First thing we did was finding an IKEA store (which is really close to the freeway), and did some shopping,  then before we went to the beach we stopped by La Jolla.  We wanted to spend some time on the Temple grounds and take some pictures, until we got there, we realized it was Monday and the temple was closed.  But at least we enjoyed the beauty of that place (probably next time). Then we headed to the beach in Oceanside (just north of San Diego) meanwhile Joel was taking a nap when we were driving up there, and because he was asleep, we decided to get something to eat, but when I came inside the car with the food, I hit my head going inside and (surprise!) Joel woke up.  Dang!  I was upset to myself not because I hurt myself but because I knew how tired he was and I woke him up, so we ate as fast as we could and went to the beach. There were lots of people there, we were excited to take Joel for the first time into the ocean.  The water was cold, so he didn't like it at all and he was scared after that.  We just took some pictures and sat on the sand so he could be happier and could play with the sand for a little bit, which he loves. We tried to rinse off the sand all over him but the water was soo cold that we just took him to the car and rinsed him there with some water I brought from home.  He was cold, poor little thing.

Before we went to Tom's Mission President's house to spend the night there, we went to visit a family that I met in Escondido during my mission field experience (which I never thought I would see them again!)  We spent some time with them talking, bringing out those good memories, but it was almost bed time, so we ran to the former mission president's place. We gave Joel a bath and tried to put him down on the pack and play, it was hard for him but he finally made it. We spent some time talking with the president's wife until we realized it was really late, and by then Joel started crying and ended up on our bed.

On Tuesday we planned to go to the Zoo (Wild Animal Park) in Escondido, which is cheaper than the one in San Diego, and it's part of it anyway!  But finally a friend from Tampico, Mx got in touch with me and we wanted to see her and her husband, so we changed plans again and didn't go to the zoo, because we had to be coming home around three so tom could be on time for mutual. We drove down to SD and spent some time with them.  They really wanted to meet little Joel and we had lunch with them before we headed back to Yuma.

We had a great time, and Joel did great on our way back.  He fell asleep more easily, he was a good boy all the time even though he was really tired, because he's not used to be out for long periods of time.

Just to mention we brought two things from our trip :
1) Great memories
2) A baby who started getting sick with a cold on Tuesday and now two parents who started two days later!

Playing with the mirror

San Diego Temple -beautiful!!!!!!!!!!

Excited???????

Trying the cold water, which he didn't like it at all.

Joel got really scared of the ocean

He was more happy playing and eating sand

with Claudia and Angel Lopez

Joel loves to pose for a picture when he is not too distracted looking around

Singing HBD to me

Wanted to show Joel how to blow out a candle but he rather wanted to touch it, what a brave baby - he will soon learn that we don't do that.

Happy family!!!

With little Joel and my friend Claudia

Before our friends let us get back, they wanted to give a present to Joel, they got him an outfit and talking to them that we wanted to get some sunglasses and see if that will help Joel to sleep on our way back (because it's really bright so I thought that could be one reason) so they got him some sunglasses and he's modeling them

Our last picture of  LOVE!

This is what happened to the sunglasses 

First babysitter

Finally we decided to get some time for a date, so  we asked one of the YW from Church to babysit Joel while we went out to do something fun. Since Joel is so used to us, we want him to get exposed to somebody else, and see how that goes...it went ok, we put him down and fled but he just took a short nap, by the time we came back he was awake crying =( well, hopefully next time he will do better. On the other hand, we had a good time, we went bowling (we just have a few options in Yuma - bowling, movies, park or eat) and we played two games and tied 1-1....

Blood drive

On Saturday morning there was a blood drive at church.  Since Tom hasn't been able to donate blood for a while, he decided that was the day, because it was in the morning.  I wanted to take Joel for a little ride before his nap, but it took a long time, they were supposed to start at 8am and they started by 9.30am.  So Tom got out around 10.30am, so Joel had took a late nap, which was good because he was super tired. So here is our hero =D We love you, thank you for your service!

 This was my first time going to a blood drive, and I was impressed by all the equipment they had there ready

Mission accomplished!!!

Thomas was hoping to get out of all his chores because he gave blood, but it turns out I burned my finger making a choco-flan.  So I had to make him do all the house work for a few days.  Ouch!

Pool time

Finally we got the chance to take Joel to the pool, the water was a little bit chilly so we took him little by little so he could get use to it, but when he was in there he was happy and having a great time that he didn't want to get out of there. We want to take him again.  Joel loves water, he might become a very good swimmer one day!

2nd Anniversary

Two years have passed, and it seemed like yesterday when we were getting things ready for our BIG DAY, invitations, guess list, dress, receptions, etc,etc...but the most important being the day set apart for our sealing! What a special moment that we will always treasure in our hearts! The beginning of everything in our lives. We have enjoyed our time together as much as we can and feel really HAPPY! Now we have the opportunity to celebrate with our little one.  He makes us realized that the time has passed and he keeps growing and being cute to hug, kiss and cuddle all the time, he has definitely brought more happiness to our home and we are grateful for this little blessing.

For our anniversary we wanted to do something fun, we planned a quick trip to LA or SD, but because the weather wasn't that nice, we postponed (didn't want to take the chance to bring Joel sick for some reason like last time we went to LA) so we decided that on Tom's vacation week, the plan was to take two days to do our trip and maybe the weather would be nicer. 

So very thoughtful that day, Tom asked me what do I wanted for our anniversary (I was surprised he asked me) so I answered : 'flowers and chocolates' .

He went to the store to get some groceries, while I was putting the baby down, he really surprised me with my flowers and chocolate in a cake, so we celebrate with cake and milk that night!

Next day we took Joel to the park and spent some time there while weather was really nice, we all enjoyed it!

Joel really likes the swing

Well....the vacation week it's almost over and we couldn't go to SD as we planned, Tom was called to be the YM President in our ward last week, and there lots of things going on with mutual, interviews because the youth had a Temple trip on Saturday so Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we were busy, and Friday we had a Dr appointment so we forgot about our plan and decided to celebrate going out for lunch to our favorite restaurant, where it happened to have a great deal -good price and lots of food for us (Soup, Salad, Entre, Rolls, Dessert), that we even brought a to go box home and had lunch the next day.

 Joel always always trying to be a good boy (some times if he is tired doesn't last that much, but usually he's happy)

 Here it's our little family celebrating!!!! 

Pears

Besides eating corn, bananas, berries and lots of other fruit and vegetables, Joel likes pears, and this is what little Joel can do to one, he just love them! Hopefully we can keep him eating healthy as much as we can.