Blessings, after Blessings

This past week was such a wonderful week. Cassandra's recovering went very well after the surgery (praise God for all my wonderful family and friends that prayed for her). We had meals delivered to us all week and my husband and I celebrated our 15 year anniversary. We had both grandma's and my sister take turns watching our three girls. My sister, Veronica, bless her heart, slept on the floor and woke up with a sore back and stiff neck. Meanwhile, my husband and I enjoyed a fabulous movie (www.fireproofthemovie.com) more on that later, dinner and a night at the Marriott Hotel (the place where we met 17 years ago). We automatically woke up early and went for a swim in the pool and jaccuzzi followed by breakfast and our favorite restaurant (Adam's Steak and Eggs). Thank you Lord! He knows we needed a little get-away.

My husband and I are thinking this might be a yearly get-away tradition. I'm already looking forward to next year.

I can't stress enough the great movie we saw this past weekend. We recommend it to everyone, especially couples. Make yourself a date with your honey and take a box of tissues and be prepared to be uplifted.

www.fireproofthemovie.com

Home from the hospital

My daughter Cassandra is recovering really well from last weeks surgery. She had a metal plate in her hip that needed to be removed as well as a muscle biopsy. Fortunately for her, the Dr. said she could crawl. She didn't need a cast and she is on the floor like nothing ever happened. Thank GOD! Thanks to all our friends for their good thoughts and prayers. And special thanks to our fellowship group for organizing dinner meals this week. We are so blessed.

Homemade Caramel Popcorn

This is a delicious and easy treat to make. I made two batches for a housewarming gift. I used a recipe from this great site www.skiptomylou.wordpress.com/2007/12/23/homemade-caramel-corn

Future Photographer

Since the last time I posted, my girls have graduated from 1st, 4th and 6th grade and have now started the new school year. My oldest is now in middle school and she is a great photographer. I think she has a great eye for photography (of course, I am her mami). I wanted to post some of the cute pictures she took from one of our visits to SeaWorld.

Adelante Mujer Conference

My daughter and I attended the 15th annual "Adelante Mujer" conference today and I must say we had a great time. This conference encourages Latinas to continue their education, exposes Latinas to successful role models, celebrates and embraces the Latina culture, raises self-esteem, and network with other Latina professionals. My daughter who is in 6th grade was mostly excited to attend the conference because it was held at her upcomming middle school. Basically, she wanted to tour the school. However, she did not complain that she wanted to go home and she even asked questions at one of the workshops (I am so proud of her!). It was really nice spending quality time with her. Being the oldest, she doesn't get to have too much one-on-one mommy time. I get the feeling I will one day see my daughter as one of those professional Latinas inspiring other girls to pursue higher education. I love my girl and I am one proud mommy.

Stylish Wheelchair - So Chic!

My daughters wheelchair was looking very worn out and abused when I decided enough is enough. I made a cover for it with some leftover fleece I had. I really loved the way it came out. Does anyone love fleece as much as I do? It seems many crafters are into wool felt but I am so in-love with fleece. It is so soft and comes in a rainbow of colors. As you can tell, I make a lot of blankets, hats and now baby bibs with fleece. Hope you all like it.

World Thinking Day

Here is a picture of my daughters (far left and second from right)and my two nieces. They all had a great time visiting the many countries that were on display as well as passing out japanese candy and miniature japanese flags. I was so exhausted that evening. I don't know how many origami fish I made for the many girls that visited our booth.


I forgot to mention a week ago that I received my books from the Home Book Club. I have had so much fun reading and re-reading the books. I have tagged the pages that have the projects I want to make. I think I will go now and get started.

Here is another baby bib, hat and fleece blanket that I made for my husbands co-workers wife. I just love the feel of flannel and fleece. I hope they love it as much as I loved making it for them. On another note, we had such a busy weekend. Our girl scout troop participated in "World Thinking Day" and our troop was in charge of making a display on the country of Japan. My oldest daughter, Alexis, put together the display board while my youngest, Isabelle made tiny Japan flags. I will post picture of the girls with their display board as soon as I download them from the camera. Most of my Brownie Troop attended the event and worked real hard giving information about Japan to other eager little girls ready to learn (actually, most of the girls just wanted the Japanese candy and origami).

Self-portrait

My youngest daughter, Isabelle, drew a picture of herself and I thought it was so cute I had to embroider it. Now I'm not sure what I will do with it. I'm thinking maybe I can turn it into a cute bag or book cover. We'll have to see. By the way, blogging is not as easy as I thought. I can never find enough time to post and I'm still learning how to correct my mistakes (which I have plenty of). How do you go back and edit a draft?? I will have to play around with blogger a little more.

Happy Birthday Honey!

Saturday, February 2nd was my honey's birthday and we celebrated by getting away from the children and going on a much needed date. The girls were excited to spend some time with their grandma and two of their little cousins. We were very excited to eat a nice hot meal quietly. The weekend goes by so fast, and I never seem to find any time to craft. I haven't mentioned before, but having three daughters (12, 9 and 7)keep us very busy. Our middle daughter, Cassandra, has cerebral palsy developmental delay and boy does she keep us on our toes. She does not walk, but she can drag herself and manages to stand up wherever she can and throw things (and yes, she has even attempts to grab pans from the stove). We have to constantly watch her. Well, I did want to post a picture of a baby bib, blanket and hat that I made for a friend who just had a baby. I will be making another set for my husbands co-workers wife who is having a baby boy.

Hello blogging World!

It's about time. I have been playing around with the idea to create my very own blog for some time now, and I finally got around to do it. I was trying to rationalize the reason why I needed a blog and frankly, I could not come up with one. I decided that one of my new years resolution would be to create a journal (blog) in which I would keep track of all my crafting projects, ideas, thoughts and keep a list of all my favorite blogs. Well, it is the end of the month and here I am creating my blog (second one to be exact. I had to delete the first one because I didn't like the name I came up with). Anyways, my goal for this blog is to include pictures, tutorials, fun links and hopefully, keep it updated.