In Hawaii!

I am not sure when the last time I blogged was and I don't even have a reason to be blogging right now.  I should be cleaning up my house.  We have been in Hawaii since July 19th.  We were staying in a hotel down in Waikiki.  Our truck was here already so we had someone take us to pick it up the second day.  It was so nice already having our vehicle.  The hotel was awesome.  It is the same hotel that is in the opening for the old Hawaii 5-0 show.  It is called the Ilikai.  We could see the beach from our lanai, it has a gorgeous view.  The only bad thing was that we are going to be living on Kaneohe Bay which is pretty far from Waikiki.  It was a long 9 days driving back and forth to look for houses on the Windward side and then head back to Waikiki at night.  Needless to say we were all pretty stressed out.  It was a hard transition to get to Hawaii and then more instability.  But God showed up in a bunch of little ways to let us know that He was always there.  We actually got a house that is part of a church property.  It is the house for the pastor.  The church does not have a pastor at this time so the house was available.  It was a God thing, let me tell you!  So we signed a three month lease and decided to have our house stuff delivered so that we didn't have to buy a ton of stuff for only a few months (the house is furnished!).  So now we are here living in Kailua which is a little town right outside of the base.  Jay started 7th grade and Ellie is in Kindergarten.  They both like school, thank God.  Ricardo works on Camp Smith and is adjusting to being the Gunny in charge of the entire shop.  As for Isabel and I, we hang out all day, go for walks and try our best to clean up before the family gets home.  It is pretty hard getting things done since she learned how to low crawl  a few weeks ago.  Now she gets into everything and has even eaten a piece of a magazine!!  We just heard from the housing office that a house will be available to us on October 25.  That is amazing because our lease is up on October 31st!  God is always taking care of us.  We are so blessed!
Sorry I haven't posted any pics.  I can't seem to find my camera cord, I think I left it in Texas!  So I have to wait til I get it and then I will post like a thousand pics from our busy summer.  Until then my friends! :)

Christmas 2010

I just found this post that was never posted so I will post it now.  Wow this seems like an eternity ago.

Where has the time gone???

It has been so long since I have blogged!  The time has passed me by.  I think the last time I posted I was like 36 weeks pregnant.  Well since then I have given birth to Isabel Soledad on March 10, packed up our house in Maryland and have been on "vacation" for almost 2 months!!  We are moving back out to the Pacific so we decided to pack up early and go to Texas to visit family.  We had fun but now I can't remember what we did there.  You would think we would swim every day since the weather was 100 degrees everyday (which I am NOT complaining about since I was so tired of the cold MD weather!), but we did get to hang out with family and chill.  Now we are in California staying with my Tias Terry and Lori.  We used to visit them all the time when we lived n Cali many many years ago.  They were at the hospital when Justino (Jay) was born.  I love them both so much and I am glad to be spending time with them.  My other aunt Rachel also lives here and her daughter Nicole.  My cousin Jessica is visiting so we are all getting to catch up.  I don't really know alot of my cousins because they live in Michigan and we move around so much and are always so far away.  Anyway, we are flying out on Tuesday the 19th and I am ready.  I am ready to have my family back to normal.  BUT we won't have a house right away. 
So this summer has been amazing because I have had a chance to see some of my best friends.  Terry who was my bootcamp buddy in Okinawa.  Donna who was my neighbor in Maryland, Tiffany who is my Sister (in Christ ;) ) Farah and Glenn (Farah is one of the best woman you could ever know and Glenn is like my big brother) and now my family.  I am so thankful that we have had the chance to see these wonderful people that GOD has blessed us with. 
I know this blog doesn't make sense but I am writing it anyways.  No one reads this right???
I will be posting pics soon, I hope.
Goodnight.....

SIGH!

Wow so I haven't even posted the Christmas pictures yet.  So much is going on right now.  I am a few days shy of being 36 weeks preggo, that is 9 MONTHS!!!  I can't believe that is has gone this fast and now it is slowly but quickly approaching!  I am wishing that this little girl would come early but I want her to wait for my mom to come up from Texas which isn't until the end of the month.  Part of me wants to change her ticket and have her here tomorrow (Ricardo has been asking me to bring her earlier anyways!) and the other part is telling me to chill out and be patient.  God is on control not me.  That is hard for me to understand sometimes.  Well so I just thought that I would talk about this on the blog just because.  If anyone reads this, please pray for me and my sore body to go 4 more weeks!  I hope that the next time I get on here will be to share pics of my new baby girl (who still doesn't have a name!!!).  :)

Ellie's ballet "recital"

Ellie has been in ballet for a few months now.  She absolutely loves it.  The teachers helped the girls learn a routine for Christmas.  The parents are not usually allowed to go into the dance studio but we got to go in this past class to see what the girls have learned.  It was really cute to say the least.  Ellie sure has grown.  Last time she was supposed to perform, she froze up.  The best (or worst) part was that the girls got to teach one of the parents how to do the dance.  Since I was the only one there (Jay and Ricardo were at Jay's school for his chorus concert) I got to learn the dance.  Then the parents had to perform it for the girls and the teachers.  Yeah not cool.  But I did it and it made Ellie really happy which is all that matters.  I love that girl!!