She has a Daddy who...

Yesterday was Father's Day and I have to say  Brooklynn has thee best daddy in the world!

Mike's first Father's Day picture with Brooklynn.

She has a daddy who will change poppy diapers. {more than me}

She has a daddy who will get up early just so I can sleep an hour longer.

She has a daddy who will take her on errands so I can get things done!

She has a daddy who wipes her boogies,

gives her baths,

dresses her,

naps with her,
takes her to the park,

lets her sleep in our bed,

dances with her,

brushes her hair,
let's her eat cake,

tell her she's beautiful everyday,

wants nothing but the best for her,

kisses her endlessly,

makes time for her mommy,

and loves the Lord.

We {LOVE} you Daddy.

Father's Day 2011.

Dear Baby B

Dear  19-month–old Brooklynn,

My sweet girl. You are 19 months today. Oh how I love you.

I wanted to capture you on one of our regular, normal days. Yes, I could of dolled you up, but I wanted to remember you; 

you with no pants on, 

you with oatmeal and marker on your shirt,

you with chipped nail polish on your toesies, 

you playing,

and you with the sweetest face that melts my heart every day.

You won’t be able to know the love I have for you until you become a mother yourself and that’s ok. My heart bursts at the seams of love for you.

You have the heart of your daddy: sweet, gentle, passive and loving.

And the mind of your momma: silly, bratty, attitude-ish, and a talker!

The Lord has blessed me tremendously as a momma who can stay home and raise you according to His Will. I’m home with you every day and couldn’t ask for it to be any other way.

You are growing soo fast. I still look at your baby pictures and *smile*. But then I look at you now and I smile even more. 

You bring so much joy to your daddy and I.

You still sleep in our bed. But I love it. I love when you wake up and crawl over to fall back to sleep on me.

You ask to get your teeth brushed more than 3 times a day. Of course, we only brush your teeth twice a day. You can’t swallow that stuff all day long! Even though I know you’d probably like too.

You want your fingers and toes painted whenever you see momma doing the same.

You eat way too many Goldfish, but that would be my fault.

You have a sweet tooth. Just like momma!

You make messes everywhere! Again, my fault.

You growl for lion, gorilla, tiger and bear.

You say the sounds to dog, duck, elephant, monkey and cat.

If I leave the utensil drawer a tad bit open, there you are, right behind me to close it shut. Funny.

You are a fantastic eater! I make, you eat. And our world keeps going.

This is your “cheese” face. Yes, we’re working on that.

You have the hair of a 3 yr old.

You’d spend your whole day outside if I let you.

You hug and kiss me when I ask for it.

You can say: mommy, dada, wo-wo (Lolo), maaaaama(grandma), nana (nina), paaapa (grandpa), hi,

You can sign: water, bath, sleep, apple, banana, sleep, milk but understand a lot more.

You know your: hair, ear, eyes, tongue, nose, belly, hands, feet, belly button, underarm, and “nice buns”.

You dance and sing.

You know where “Jesus” is. And one day, I pray He will be in your heart.

I love you baby girl. Oh do I ever.

-Momma

Goodbye Rancho Cucamonga, Hello Chino!

We are leaving our sweet and humble little place in Rancho Cucamonga and moving to Chino! Whoot whoot!

Doin’ big thangs ova here! Juuuust kidding! We’re only upgrading one more bedroom, a front and back yard and a garage. But that is certainly the things we needed!

It’s a good move for us and we believe it is where God wants us to be.

14 more days and we’ll be in our new place. It’s a small little house but perfect for my little family. (Prayfully, “growing” little family) ---All in God’s timing----

I am one day going to turn this blog into a book for my sweet youngin’s to read; so I have to document nearly everything.

This apartment is the place where we brought sweet Brooklynn home for the first time. Where she crawled, walked and made messes EVERYWHERE.

Where she had her fist bath, her first smile and first word.

It’s only been 2 years but, oh the memories that were created here in this little place.

I took some snapshots of different things in the home and how things were placed and how we lived.

You WON’T see our bedroom, partly because it’s really not an “awe” and “ohh” look, and partly because my bed is not made. That’s just life.

You WON’T see our “office area” because I’m too embarrassed of the never-ending pile of bills, letters, statements, coupns and who knows what else! **please note, I do have an organizer on the wall for all of these things, but for some reason, they just spill out everywhere else on the desk.

You WON’T see our bathroom because there are some V-Day pics (post: Valentine's Gifts ) for my hubby’s eyes only. Oh ya oh yaaaa!

I’m going to add in a couple of things that I made.

I changed out my “year around” (post: Wreath Make-over ) wreath with this burlap wreath. Love. Here is the link where I got the tutorial. Burlap Ruffle Wreath

My awesome pillow covers! 

Here is the tutorial for the petal cover: petal pillow 

Our little gallery of a family. I do have plans on changing this up in our new home.

 Our book shelves, with hardly any books.

 Some up close pics in the book shelf.

My favorite part... mmm

 Sweet girl on her birthday

 My loves

My "used to be black now spray painted green" purse holder. I love seeing that when I walk into my home.

 Faith - Let go and let God --- as we leave the house.

 I "believe" sign I made. And yes, some pasta on the stove.

 Love my clock. Even though I can't tell time.

 My gallery of sweet Baby B in the hallway that leads to her room.

Our Guest bathroom

I had to take this from the outside so you are looking through the mirror's reflection.

 $2 thrift store wall shelf (spray painted white)

$1 picture frame (spray painted whtie)

$1 hollow picture frame (spray painted white)

I love thrift stores!

 And that is where I'm going to end. I really wanted to take some pics of Baby B's room but I'm already starting to tear that room down so it's not really nice for picture taking. So I'm off---- off to pack up our belongings.

Easter Celebrations

This past week was filled with Eater festivities!

This year was Brooklynn’s 1^st Easter where she was able to enjoy all the “fun” that comes along with this celebration. Last year she was just a wee little thing, but as cute as ever! 

Our family picture last year. 

 She has changed soo much!

Our first Easter festivity was on Tuesday with my MOPS group. We had an Easter egg hunt at Shady Grove Park in Chino. 

This was her very first egg hunt. It was darling to see her reach down and pick up an egg real slowly while all the other kids rushed past her grabbing every egg in sight!

My mom joined us, we are always happy to have Grandma around! 

My hunni couldn’t come so I had my mom record the whole thing for him. He was soo appreciative when he watched it. (As any daddy would if he missed his baby’s first egg hunt)

It was great morning, watching Baby B, and seeing all my MOPS girlfriends and their sweet kids!

The following day, I had another Easter celebration with my Mommy and Me group. It’s a bunch of us mom’s from my church (Calvary Chapel Chino Valley) that get together and celebrate every holiday. I love these ladies!! 

We met at Cypress Trails Park in Chino and had a blast! My sweet girl painted a white cross (with 90% of my help) and we were able to drap it with a purple cloth.

 

It was soo creative and a great way to remind us of the real reason of Easter. Jesus resurrection and how we serve a RISEN LORD.

Of course, there was an egg hunt and she was only fast enough to grab about 7 but one of the mom’s grabbed some of her daughters eggs and threw them on the grass just so baby girl could pick them up. Thank you! 

 She was having a conversation...haha

On Friday, our church had a Good Friday service and it was aweeessoommee!! We had cardboard testimonies, which is when a person comes out and without saying anything, holds up a cardboard with a few words stating what they were before they came to Christ, then flips it around and it’ll say a praise to God and how He changed their life. It was so moving and amazing to see how God changes people. Here is the link, if you would like to see the cardboard testimonies: Cardboard Testimonies CCCV

Sunday, the day we celebrated our Risen Lord, was soo great! My in-laws (who are not saved) came to church and my husband couldn’t have been happier! They attended the Spanish ministry and they were able to hear the Word of God! A seed was planted and we’ll just keep praying!

We took a couple of pictures outside on the church grounds.

 Our Family Easter picture 2011.

My twin sissy and I with sweet Baby Girl.

My dad (Lolo) and Baby

My sweet girl wearing the skirt I made for her (the night before to be exact!)

Isn’t it darling? I used this tutorial: market Skirt It took me about 2 hours but it was so worth it. She looked too cute for words. I added an apron so it was more like her Apron Skirt from Persnickety. 

More skirts to come!

Later that day, we went to my Grandma and Grandpa’s house all the way in East L.A.! Whew! I took a nap on the way. Hehe

Here are some pics of sweet angel. This was her 3^rd egg hunt! Lucky little girl. Or should I say lucky momma, I get to have all the candy. *smile*

 Hope you all had a Happy Resurrection Day! 

He is Risen... Luke 24:6