My Dad

My Dad was a great man, he will be missed. He succumbed to his battle with cancer on Thursday Nov 12th at 6:15 pm with his wife of 44 years, and 4 of his 8 living children around him.

She's still doing great...

I am counting my lucky stars (and blessings) for such a wonderful little girl - bedtime is soooo much better with her out of the pack-n-play, she mustof really hated that thing!!

She now goes to bed without any problems at all, before she would scream for about 10-15 min. Wow I can't believe it!!

She did great!

Alana did really great last night - she didn't wake me up till 8:30 this morning. Now to get her to take a nap... :)

Trying something new...

Alana has decided that she doesn't want to sleep in her bed (the pack-n-play) anymore, and who can blame her, it's a small little space.

So we gave up tonight and let her sleep on the crib mattress on the floor. (yes she ended up on the floor)

She did great!! She didn't come out once! Or even cry.

Every once in a while she would yell "mommy", I think just to make sure I was still around.

I was so proud of my baby, who isn't so babyish anymore :( how sad.



I wonder how she will do in the morning...

Impromtu photo shoot

What a cutie!! (need I say more!?)

Little girls and bedtime...

Well I knew it would happen sooner or later but I was so hoping it wouldn't.

Alana has figured out how to climb out of her pack n' play (which we use as her bed, cause we were to lazy to put her crib up after we moved).

This is not awful news but alas good things do come to an end sometimes.

Car accident

First off I want to say that everyone is okay!


And secondly that I am TRULY GRATEFUL to a very loving Heavenly Father who saw that the first statement is true.


What happened:

David was driving along with Javiar (my brother-in-law), Alana, Charlene (my niece), and Salvador (my nephew) when a lady pulled out in front of him and he slammed into her. She came from the left and he didn't see her cause there were some other cars in the left turn lane waiting to turn left onto the road she was coming from. She thought she was at a four-way stop so she just decided to floor it to try and get across traffic (even though the cars turning left where waiting for oncoming traffic to pass). Yeah, not really sure WHAT was going through the girls head. Anyways she ended up getting no where fast and totalling our car in the process.

Most everyone just had a little seat belt burn except David who ended up going to the ER today so they could check out his wrist which they said has a hairline fracture in it (from holding the steering wheel so hard) and he also has a bit of a welt going down his arm from the airbag deploying. David and Javiar both have a little whiplash and Charlene got a little welt above her eye from hitting the back of David's seat. Just a couple of bruises. Alana and Salvador where both fine (thankgoodness!!)




I am sad to have to say goodbye to our Neon that was soooo good to us! We loved our car and are sad to see it be totaled as I am sure the insurance will say that it is.


So RIP wonderful car!! We will miss you!

And the other car: