Sleepless in Virginia

So, It has been three nights that I have gotten 4 to zero hours of sleep since we got to Virginia. The reason is because Charles and Danielle have been sick coughing all night lone. In addition, Danielle wake me up at least 3 time every night to go to potty and help her to go back to sleep since she still getting accustom to her new room, new house etc.
I would like to think that I am going to get to sleep tonight, but now I am the one who is sick ...go figure. I think is allergy although my husband think is the flu. It might be because my whole entire body hurts and my throat hurts etc. What do you think Doctor?
Good night

A picture at the Temple

This the picture Danielle took of the two of us at the Temple last Saturday. I still have not received the cable to downlowad the pictures from my camara. This one we took with Charles fancy Iphone.

A wonderful treat!

Danielle hat to enjoy and ice cream cone in the car in other circumstances this would have never happen; since, we were a good 3 hours away from grandma's house I thought it was just a great idea!

On the Road again!

We left Missouri Monday around 11 am, and we played with the idea of driving straight to Virginia, but a very dark road, a snow storm and huge mountains and cliff convinced us that it was better to sleep somewhere, so we did. We left the hotel at 8 am tuesday morning it was so cold! We were able to enjoy the beautiful mountains of West Virginia, most of them had snow all over it. The evergreen top with snow reminded me of Christmas and Christmas song. It was such a majestic scene.
with two sick people on board. Danielle and Charles got a virus I think. About an hour before we got to Teresa's house Danielle started to cry because her ear was "OUCHI" as usually we had all sort of medicine except for Tylenol or any pain reliever for children, so we stopped at a Kmart and got some. The pain was so bad that she willingly took the medicine. We got to the house around 2 p.m. Danielle got the biggest surprise ever! Grandma had prepared her Own Bedroom with a pink bed it is su pretty she was thrill, but guess what I was more thrill because she slept the first night all by herself...well sort of speak . She still woke me up to take her to the bathroom about 3 times. However, I can not complain it is a big mile stone for her and for me.

happy Easter!

Our easter wasquite different today. The Bluemel 's Family has a very fun way to celebrate easter, center in Jesus which I love! We had a very yummy easter lunch, a colombian dish made by kathe and a very delicious dessert. After that, we watched a video of Jesus and his resurection and have a a very nice discussion about it with the kids to be sure that they understood the main reason of Easter celebration. Danielle kept answer the main reason for easter is the eggs an candies! Then we did the egg hunt in the house because it was freezing outside. The boys took over the living room, but Danielle took over the whole kitchen area by herself. She had so much fun getting the eggs, every time she found an egg she will stop to open it and eat the M&MS. She also got a pink bunny and pet shop set!
Later, started to snow, so we went outside to see the snow falkes falling from the sky what a beautiful view. A fewmoments later Danielle and lucas run into each other and Danielle has her first blooding nose ever...it was very dramatic to her, she had a huge tantrum.
It was unforgettablle

I love to see the temple!

Today we went to the St. Louise Temple here in Missouri because Charles needed to get his military garments. In our way there Danielle ask mommy and daddy to sing with her "I love to see the Temple" it was such a sweet experience. We sang the beautiful primary song about 10 plus time! When we got to the temple we took pictures of it. Danielle was amazed to see "how beautiful" the temple is. She got her fist CTR ring and her first primary song book, I got my first quad ever ( happy birthday to me). It was a short, but sweet visit to a sacre ground. Danielle realized that we did nt take a picture of mommy and daddy, so she mades us get out of the car and took a picture of Charles and I hugging each other... She is so sweet!
After that we came back home and went to have lunch to CICI Pizza I am telling you I can't eat more yonk food anymore I am really not accustom to eat it every day, so my body is wanting some real nice home made food. Danielle is having so much fun with her little cousins specially Lucas ( he is a few months older that she is ) THEY PLAY AND FOLLOW EACH OTHER AROUND LOTS OF FUN. It is nice to see my little princess enjoying some RR time after all the stress that she had do to through for the last few weeks.
Apparently the trip has caused my body to have contraction that is just not fun, so today I had to rest and felt sleep in the couch for a couple of hours because I could not stand the pain. Hopefully Sofia doesn't come until we get to Virginia.
I will tell you more about our adventure tomorrow.
For now arrivederci!
ps. pictures next week.

Our trip II

So I tried to do my blog from Charles' iphone but I was not able. we finally left Austin on tuesday evening. We made it to Keatchie, Louisiana ( just other side of the border) around 10:30 pm after dealing with a very strong storm.Luckily, we got there safe. The next day, we found out there were 7 tornados in the are were the storm got us.
Wednesday morning we went to visit the Land ( 100 acres) of Charles' aunt. we spend the whole day in the forrest. Danielle played with her cousin Isabella they had a blast, They played with dirt, pick up caterpillar, look at frogs etc you name it. In the night we all got together to enjoy a wonderful campfire ( it was very cold) and very yummy hamburgers. This morning we left Louisina at 8:30 am toward Missouri and we got here around 7:30. We will stay here until Monday when we will re-start our trip to our finally destination Virginia.
I took lots of cute pictures, but I left my camara cable and charger at Uncle's Rob truck ( our car would not go that far into the woods, so he had to pick us up at the entrance of his porperty. So, I owe you guys the pictures I promise I will send them all once that I get my camara stuff.
I have to say that after all the stress of packing and cleaning our apartment it was so realxing to do absolutely nothing and just enjoy a whole day in contact with nature, no phone, no tv, no internet, you get the idea.
I thank God for my good friend Mary and Pam who helped us to clean and pack with out me even asking. I love you guys so much and I thank you for being such a wonderful friend. I know you will touch outhers people's lives as much as you hleped me and taught me by sample how to be more like Christ!
i will tell you more about our adventure tomorrow.

our journey to virginia

Lots of last day

Today was Charles' last day at apple . He left home super early and came home at 4:30 it has been such a long time since he had come home so early after a day of work. Danielle and I were very happy to see him. Specially, because I need extra help with the packing. We surely will miss all the goodies that Charles earned from apple.

 In addition, today was my last visit with my dear OBGYN I am going to miss him and his office so  much. They are so nice. All the nurses treat you like a princess when you get there. They play with Danielle and give them stickers and princess ring etc. It was hard to say farewell to them.

Yesterday was our last day of school with Mary and Avery. Danielle and Avery hugged each other so hard when we first got there. It is going to be hard when Danielle ask me to go to avery house, but we know there are lots of good people waiting for us to be our friends.  

What do you do or When are you due?

We are in the count down process of leaving Austin for I don't know how long. Things are hectic as they can be. the packing process seems to be endless, just now I took a brake because I am tired. I think my brain started to catch up with my body and the stress because even though I don't feel stress out, I almost past out couple of time in the last two days. The reason that I said that my brain is catching up is due to my latest embarrassment. This morning, we were at Mary's doing school when Sam (Mary's niece) asked me when I was due, but what did I hear? What do I do. I frankly answer NOTHING just sit at home, play around with Mary and have school for the girls ( of course I was being sarcastic). I though that she was asking me if I work . We had a good laugh! I kept misunderstanding things that she asked me so we laughed most of the time. I can't wait to over with all this work. Just a few more days!

Happy Birthday?

I am officially 31 years old. My mom was sure to remind me how old I am. My "special day" was very  unique. I woke up super early because I needed to be at my OBGYN office at 7:30 am  to have a 3 hours glucose test, since I did not past the first one, so I had to drink the glucose thing again, they draw blood from both of my arms 4 times and got urine sample 4 times.  Hopefully, I past it. I am so scared about having gestational diabetes, so we did not do cake. We did go out for lunch to Chuy's and have a dessert split into 4 (my mom is staying with us this week). I am still waiting to hear back from my Dr.. with good news.

Despite all this, I had a nice birthday I got lots of nice phone calls from friends and family, ecards and lots of love from my husband, daughter and mother. The first one to call me was my sister in law Sarah. The last one to called me was my blood sister at 11:55 p.m. Got to love your siblings! She is a new mom, so I laughed so hard when she gave me all her excuses, I am not upset at all I just thought it was funny.  

Happy Birthday to me another exciting year to face!

This week

We had a busy week. We packed a lot of our belongings, went to the kite festival, had school with Avery and lots lots of fun at enrichment last night. Here are some pictures of all this week's event.