Halloween is just around the corner

I have been overly excited for the holidays this year for many reasons. These are our first real holidays with nothing else distracting from the happiness. Also, Chy is more involved now at two years old.

Chy's first Christmas she was just two months old and we spent it at the Childrens hospital so there was no celebration.
Last year she was an adorable giraffe and this year I found two adorable in almost new condition costumes for just $12.

Just a couple of days ago I was contacted by a good friend Allison. Alli asked to use Chy for a photo shoot to show others about her "fall shoot special". I agreed to meet her and some other mamas and babies of course. We had such a fun time and she captured some amazing pictures.

Here is a few

Still no job

It has been over two weeks since I was let go from that job. I have had some interviews but no luck getting the jobs.

Meanwhile

I am making everyday count with my little ball of energy and it's pretty nice to have a clean house and dinner ready every day.

Maybe soon the perfect job will be awaiting me.

Happy tears over pictures

Remember my crazy birth?
Well the pictures from that day were stored in my sisters laptop that crashed over a year ago, I believed my pictures were gone. I cried for the loss of those pictures for a while but all of that changed two nights ago when I received this text in the middle of the night. I read the text and cried because she somehow got the pictures and printed them for me. I love these pictures of special moments that I missed and the wonderful person that took them, my sister.

Sorry that the pictures are NOT in order.

Ps I was extremely swollen

Hidden blessing

As some of you know I have been on the hunt for the perfect job, something that I have never been through before although I have been working since I graduated high school.
I have always helped my parents with their small business because they are mostly spanish speaking and I do most of the secretarial work. Right after graduating high school a friend of mine helped me get hired at a restaurant where I was a hostess, waitress and a cashier for a little over two years.
One day while working at said restaurant two very nice business men came in and after learning that I was bilingual they asked me to quit the restaurant to be their receptionist and that is what I did. I was there for five years until I recently left to try something different. I was without a job for around three weeks when I found what I thought was a perfect job for me but it wasn't, it just was not what I was looking for as a long term position. I was there for around 6/7 weeks and completely hated it. It was affecting my mood at home and I would stress about it. My bosses were amazing and super sweet it was just the job that I wasn't happy with.

Well I think my bosses noticed because yesterday morning they talked to me and "let me go".
I was not upset or disappointed because I did not like it and strongly believe that I will find something better very soon.
I believe it's a hidden blessing because I was immediately contacted by a friend offering to guide me in the right direction to find a with her company. Today I took the test for that job and I passed it, now i just have to go through the process of finding the perfect spot for me.

He is 26 now

It's hard to believe that the little 16 (almost 17) year old that asked me out nine years is now 26 years old.

I received his gift Friday morning and it was the wrong one. I was so bummed out and upset about it but figured that if he didn't like it I would exchange it.
Chy and I gave it to him Friday evening because I could not wait and I suck at waiting. He loved it and was very excited about it.
On his actual birthday Saturday we woke up and just lounged around the house until we headed to dinner with friends later In the day. The birthday boy wanted to go to the Elephant bar and I am glad he did because dinner was great. We also wanted to go watch a new movie (End of Watch) but when we went to drop of Chy at his dads we ended up staying. We had a great time and Chy and my husband got to meet Mckenzie who is the newest member of the family and now three weeks old. It was so sweet to watch Chy around her.

He overall had a great birthday.

Chyanne's doctor visit

We decided to take to her pediatrician on Tuesday because of a what seems to be a bad mosquito bite that will not go away.

It was noticed three weeks ago and its on the right side of her belly button. It looked just like a mosquito bite so I kept her from scratching and put a cream on it to help with the itching. It started to go away then started getting irritated and bigger, this time I decided to put cream on it and keep a band aid over it because maybe she was itching the area when we weren't looking. A couple of days ago I checked it only to find that it had formed a little knot under the skin and was red once again.

I did some research and MRSA, Staph, infected mosquito bite, sebaceous cyst or boil were the things that seemed to be what was going on. I immediately called her pediatrician and scheduled an appointment for the next day and applied ointment and put a band aid over it until the time of the appointment.

The doctor came in and after talking to Chy for a little bit about her birthday party she finally had a look and this is what she said:

"Well it doesn't not look like MRSA, staph or a boil because it is not draining and there is no point to it (meaning a red pointy dot)"
"It looks to me like an infected mosquito bite"
"it can also be a sebaceous cyst the size of a dime"

With that we were headed back home with an antibiotic prescription and an antibacterial bar of soap.

A followup appointment has been scheduled to go back in 10 days and see if its smaller or better yet gone.

putting medicine on her boo boo

Look at what my husband is getting from us for his birthday

My husbands birthday is this Saturday and after not being able to come up with anything different to give him I bought him this. It's a another watch and I cant wait to see his reaction when we give it to him.

I also wanted to put a nice dinner together at our house for him or maybe a dinner at a restaurant with some friends and family but he didn't like the idea. He said that he wanted a low key birthday. I am okay with that, just a nice dinner and going over to his grandparents having a cake, opening presents and going back home.

I told him last night "babe are you sure you don't want a nice dinner with family and friends? I mean your birthday falls on a Saturday and next time that will happen again it will be 2018" he looked at me as if I just said something crazy and laughed.

This is the watch

I guess I took the snap shot late at night

before my battery died lol

PS I say another watch because this will be the third one I have given him in nine years.