Ramos Report

Isaac's b-day party!

2012-01-30T08:12:00.000-08:00

Hanging with Mickey the next day

They really loved him. Jonathan had to sneak away.

Isaac's party was so fun! I was really happy with how well it turned out. We did a Mickey mouse theme. We did a hot dog lunch, colored mickey pictures, played with bubbles and had cake and ice cream. We just had 3 little friends over and some parents, grandma.....and...Mickey! Jonathan and I made a Mickey costume (mostly jonathan, i just paper mached and he did all the rest) and Jonathan came to the party as Mickey. It was so fun. Isaac and Allie loved mickey. Isaac was a little hestitant at first, but then loved him and asked for him the rest of the day and then next day. Annaliese was a bit nervous and both Abbie and Billy cried. Abbie was actually pretty terrified. oops! So we put Mickey away and had him come back to play with Isaac and Allie later. They had fun playing with the music set and tennis raquet and balls Isaac got. It was so fun and I think Isaac understood we were celebrating for him. I made some homemade decorations, a free hand mickey cake and we bought a few cheap Mickey things at party city like streamers and crayons. I have the cutest kids, and the best husband. He made the costume, came as mickey and helped with the food, cleaning and decorating. I think one of the most fun things about little kids is little things a big deal. They had so much fun, and so did we.

Julie and Tyson got Isaac a super fun music set. All the kids loved it and I'm excited to use it as a bribe for good behavior.

Allie as messy as ever. She loves cake and ice cream

Isaac loved being sung too and everyone looking at him. He even blew on the candles! You can see some of the decorations I made in the back.

Glad he liked his cake

Abbie didn't like having Mickey come visit. In fact...it took a long time to calm her down. Poor Abbie.

My camera is getting slower and slower so there is a fat chance in catching fast Isaac!

Isaac loved mickey.

Here is the full costume. Its not quite done in the picture, but this way you can see the shoes and everything.

A happy Mickey Family

Allie loved him. She gave him kisses and snuggled with him and followed him around. I thought maybe she knew it was her daddy, but when Jonathan came back she went looking for Mickey, she even checked the bathroom.

My Mickey cake I made all free hand!

I know its hard to believe, but I gave him the ears and he put on the sunglasses (that he found in the closet) and did this pose all by himself. I don't know where he got it from. But its halarious! I love it. He then got a shirt for his birthday of Mickey wearing sunglasses. Perfect.

Annaliese loved her Minni ears. (cried when she thought she couldn't keep them - good thing she could) Its great what a piece of paper and a headband can do. Katie Colton found the how to online for me. Instead of making an intense one with felt i just did paper.

January

2012-01-30T07:14:00.001-08:00

I finally moved on to the new blogger so i can put captions on pictures. It works a lot better. Anyway, the point is there may be a few new backgrounds until i settle on one. You get trees for now.
Allie is learning very rapidly. She knows a lot of knew words like "cracker" and "baby" She likes to do what Isaac is doing so shes learning things like "abc....p...t..xyz...yaaaaayyyy!" It is so cute. Right now she walks around saying "one, two" "one, two" Her listening has gotten much better! She went from listening 0% of the time to listening 60% of the time. There is hope for her yet! We're on the last month until Micaela comes. I think it is a blessing that the last month is so awful because otherwise you would be more scared to go into labor. But insted you can't wait. Although having three children will be hard, having 2 toddlers and being nacious tired and hardly able to walk is hard too!
Jonathan tried on the undercloths for the costume and Isaac wanted to be in all black too!

A work in progress. Jonathan did the felt stuff.

Popcorn isn't just for eating, its for playing too. This is Isaac and cousin Annaliese putting popcorn on the castle.

I paper mached that thing night after night. It was a fun project. Jonathan and I would chit-chat or watch a movie while I put on a layer of newspaper to the Mickey head. Jonathan did all the shaping (adding the ears and nose). It seems thats how the projects go. I do the repetitive stuff while Jonathan does what needs to look nice. It works out the best that way.

Allie was real naughty for a few days. She went through a growth spurt and thought that because she could reach onto the counter she should. I went to make oatmeal and Allie reached up and grabbed a bowl of uncooked oatmeal and milk. It dumped all over her and the floor. It was halarious.

Isaac reading to himself

This is from our trip to San anontio in november. On the last day of our vacation we were kicked out of the hotel so i had to take them somewhere. I found a children's play house. It was super super fun. But they were on their last nday of a long vacation. So its funny you can see isaac crying while sliding down the bouncehouse. And Allie's hair is crusted with tears.

2012-01-20T07:44:00.000-08:00

Yay for Christmas and lots of fun. Christmas was fantastic. We are so blessed to get to spend time with family. We got lots of great gifts. We got a Kinect and we've been using it to exersize. : ) It seemed 'the holidays were over' as everyone says, but Jonathan had off for MLK day, next week is Isaac's birthday, then comes Valentine's day and then Micaela's birthday and then my birthday! We are full of holidays! I am hoping to make Isaac and awesome Mickey cake amoungst other things. But i don't have the energy to throw him a big party. It is getting harder and harder to keep the house clean and grocery shop. I am soooo tired. My Braxton hicks contractions have started already so my guess for the due date is Feb. 28th. I am still morning sick, my left leg has those crazy veins that hurt, I keep mini-straining my back, and now the contractions. So this third trimester is full of fun.
Allie is a full on trouble maker. Climbing on the table, playing in the ashes in the fireplace, shaking the lamp, running into the street, taring books ect. I'm not sure what will happen when the baby comes. I know she will go Bizerk. I've been babysitting a few children latley and I think it is helpful for her to see me hold someone else or change another child's diaper. She doesn't like it, but she needs to get used to the idea.
We've been having fun taking advantage of the few cold days we've had with fires in the fireplace and hot chocolate. Today it was around 70 so the kids had lots of fun playing outside. I love that about texas. I would rather swim in the summer than bundle the kids up everytime we want to go somewhere for 5 months. Jonathan is working hard on the bathroom. The picture is with all the walls finally up but he's done a ton since then. I am just going to wait to post the final picture for a suprise.
My new baby neice is still in the hospital. They keep finding complicatiions with her having fluid in her lungs. So we are stil trying to help them and praying for little Isabelle. My sister Anna had her little baby recently as well! His name is Andrew and he was 3 wks early at 8 lbs! I guess he was just done early!

San Antonio and Christmas time

2011-12-21T19:46:00.000-08:00

Life is so good. We went on our trip to San Antonio and it was fantastic. It was really fun going out to eat and staying somewhere new. The river walk was beautiful! It was all lit up and there were carolers on trolley boats and music playing. We had a great time.
I think Christmas gets better every year. I am excited for Isaac and Allie to open presents. It was so fun to put up our tree and Christmas lights on our house. We made some traditions to help us remember the true meaning of Christmas and that has been great as well. I’ve had quite a few jolts of gratitude as well. I realized how grateful I am to get to be a stay at home mom, and to have such a wonderful amazing husband. It is a big blessing to be able to stay at home with my 2 -soon to be 3- kids a year and a half out of school. My dear friend Marta went to the hospital again. This time she had her gall bladder removed and her lungs had blood clots so now she has to give herself 2 shots a day for 6-9 months that makes her throw up. She throws up the pain meds and the nausea medicine so she is not doing very well. Because of her weakened state she had to give back 2 foster children as well, which broke her heart. She has adopted 3 children already, and she might not have been able to keep the 2 children, but sending them back to the foster home was so hard for her. I am grateful for her friendship and that I am able to help her in her time of need.
Lastly, my sweet little niece Isabelle was born December 8th. After open heart surgery hours after she was born she is still in the hospital. Her heart wasn’t hooked up correctly so they hooked it up right. She has been on life support and drainage tubes ect. They are slowly taking her off of support and putting her back on it when she needs. Ideally she would have gotten to go home by now but they’ve found a few problems they keep needing to fix. Her heart is doing well and from what I understand she should grow up healthy. I am so grateful for modern miracles in medicine. I am so grateful that thus far Isaac and Allie have been healthy and happy. We’ve been visiting the hospital a lot and trying to help out. The hospital is 45 minutes from Jason and Julie’s (the parents) home and they have a 2 year old, and Julie just gave birth so I’m sure its been quite the journey for them.
One day when we went to the hospital to visit, Radio Disney was throwing a Christmas party. That is what some of the pictures are from. Santa came (with stuffed animals), and they had dancing, cookie decorating, prizes, ornament making ect. It was a lot of fun for the little ones and hopefully took Annaliese’s mind off being at the hospital all the time.
Isaac and Allie have been little angels. They were not going to bed well, and Allie was screaming and wanting me to hold her all the time, but all the sudden, Isaac’s been putting himself to bed a lot and Allie is just partying. I got out the play tent they got for Christmas last year and Allie loves it. Isaac does too, but Allie really really loves it. I’ll probably post videos of it next time. Isaac is learning to share with Allie better now that she cares when he takes her stuff. He says sorry and thank you all the time and it melts my heart. Isaac copies me a lot and its so hilarious. He will gasp when he sees something I’m giving him and say “THANK YOU MAMA!” Its so cute. It makes me feel great when someone is crying and he says, “are you alright” “its okay”. He knows all his letters, colors, animals ect. I gave Allie a haircut and it was a success! I’ve gotten lots of compliments and she no longer has tear drown hair in her eyes. She is repeating more words and she is so cute its unbelievable. She gives these snuggly long hugs, and gets so excited when we come home when she has a babysitter. She plays with her stuffed animals and talks gibberish. Its way too cute.
Jonathan’s brother Justin is coming in town tomorrow. He’ll be staying with us for a week and a half so that should be fun. We’ll get to get to know his fiancé better and become better friends. We are so excited for this weekend. The Christmas spirit, lights, eggnog, cookies, it’s just been so great. We are absolutely loving it.

videos

2011-11-20T17:39:00.000-08:00

Here are some videos i've taken with my new camera i got for Christmas from my mom! I love it! Isaac and I making pretzels, trick - or treating, playing in the backyard ect. Isaac goes outside and picks me flowers or clovers and comes back in saying "flowers for mama". Its super sweet - so thats one of the videos.

Extremely Happy

2011-11-16T16:56:00.000-08:00

Things are so extremely perfect right now. For a while now its been morning sickness, colds, and a strained back and all the sudden there are tons of exciting things! My sister Katie and Jonathan's brother Justin are engaged! My sister in law that lives real close is having a baby in a month! And Jonathan is building me a new side bathroom! Picking out the tile and faucets and vanities is exciting enough, but seeing my hunky husband work on something so hard for us makes it even better. We're going to San Antonio! Jonathan is covering for the branch there and they are paying for hotel, food, gas and even paying him for drive time so we'll have money to see the sights. Its going to be lots of fun! They will have Christmas lights and carolers on the river walk and that will throw us into the Christmas spirit. We've started Christmas shopping already which will help it be fun insted of stressful. My mom gave me a fantastic Christmas present already and it is still giving. An HD video camera 1080p with attached USB. It came with picture computer programs and a gift card for kodak.com and I'm making a photo book. So i should be posting some awesome videos soon! Jonathan has tons of days of work because he was so stingy with his vacation days the whole year. So we have every monday off for the rest of the year and he only works 1.5 days next week. Bruce and Katie are coming in town, and we have the Holidays and all the fun things involved. Family, work and church parties and its all so fun and exciting I can hardly stand it.
The kids have both made huge jumps in there skills. Allie knows a lot more words like "thank you" "go go" and "night night" She's gotten a little bit better at listening and she runs to the door when I say gogo and to the fridge when i ask when she wants a drink. Isaac is halarious because he still chooses to mostly babble dispite his growing talking skills. Although when he feels like it- he's quite the talker. When Grandma Ramos came over he said "Hello Grandma, How are you?" Today he asked me "what shape is this?" And I said "square" and he said, "yay! It is a square. Great Job mama" Similarly he knows his letters and shapes and colors, but if you quiz him he just says something rediculous. But if he finds a group of objects he will count them perfectly. And he will ask for the "green circle" or whatever it may be when i can't tell what he's pointing too. He saw the word SCOUT and he goes, "T-U-O-C-S!" I guess we'll have to teach him to go left to right.
Jonathan is the most wonderful husband and father. Working on the bathroom all the time, and he got us that trip to San Antonio. He plays with the kids and suprizes me and takes us to church and leads us to do the right. Yesterday i told him i needed totes to put the kids old cloths in and he suprized me by going to the store before i even woke up and picking me up some! I love him so much. We know the real reason we are so happy is because of our loving Heavenly Father who has blessed us beyond measure. We love our sweet little babies and are so excited for Micaela to come!

Happy Halloween!

2011-10-31T18:55:00.000-07:00

Yay Halloween! Isaac and Allie enjoyed Trunk - or - Treat and their parents will enjoy eating the candy. Katie Colton made Isaac and Allie's adorable Peter Pan and TinkerBell Costumes. Thank you Katie! They were so cute! Jonathan made his own incredable Rufio costume! I told him that was what he had to be and after fighting it for a while - he realized I was serious and decided he didn't want to be a lame Rufio and went all out. He did a great job. I am supposed to be a 'lost girl' or such, and its basically the same costume i do every other year. : ) You can expect a lumberjack if a dress up next year. : ) We had a great time. I keep telling myself I'll put the kids back in their costumes so i can get some good shots in good lighting, but we'll see if I ever get to it. Maybe you'll see more halloween pictures sometime in November!

Fall

2011-10-27T12:45:00.000-07:00

I hurt my back so I am learning the value of good health and good friends. Two of my good friends took Isaac and Allie. I can't change diapers or pick them up or lift heavy things like a gallon of milk. I either strained it or pinched a nerve. I am better than yesterday so hopefully I'll just keep getting better. I would hate to miss halloween! We're all dressing to a theme this year.
We find out the gender next friday at my 22 week ultrasound. We'll find out if she's really a Micaela! She moves a lot already! My brother Joe had his baby Sept 19th - on Jonathan's birthday! His name is Hudson and he is very cute.
Isaac is sooo sweet! My friends baby was fussing and Isaac said, "its okay baby gwen" when i hurt my back he asked if I was alright. This morning Allie was stuck in her highchair waiting for someone to get her down and Isaac got her a book to read while she was waiting. So sweet. Allie is learning a few good words - No, Gogo, Dada, and Down. Its pretty funny. She climbs on the table and when I make eye contact she shakes her head and says "no" When she stands on the fire place she says, "down!" The picture of her with rice all over is a funny one. I found the bowl of rice i had given her on the floor and then followed a trail of rice down the hall to find her. So funny. Isaac and Allie are both on a big reading kick - which i love. Isaac points out all the shapes and colors and animals on the page - it can take a long time to get threw a book. They play outside a ton and I love it! I just open the back door and I can do whatever I want!
Jonathan's been working a lot of overtime - I hope he wins Scottrades Customer Education Month Challenge! he's doing really well at their trade simulation challenge as well. He's been first place for 2 weeks. He is a wonderful husband. With my back out he's been cleaning and changing diapers and feeding everyone. He is pulling all the weight - which he just did with all the morning sickness so he is a wonderful man! I better go lay on my cold pack!

My new Chandelier!

2011-10-07T12:21:00.000-07:00

Our New Chandelier! I have been waiting to update that old chandelier since we bought the house. But the only one we could find under 50 wasn't one I liked. And for over a hundred bucks we could do greater renovations so its just been pushed back. Then yesterday we went to Home Depot and they had a big light clearance and we got this 140 dollar chandelier for 30 bucks! I was so exciting! It looks great! And Jonathan got a dimmer switch so thats lots of fun as well. our big project we're doing right now is the bathroom. I should probably take a picture of it - most of the walls are torn down and the tub is filled with drywall. We hit a bit of a snag - termites. we new they were there, but i guess we kinda hoped they wouldn't be. So Jonathan was a lisenced pest control tech and has done termites before so he's going to take care of it. Anyway, we're saving up and buying things as they come on sale. We got a sweet vanity 2 months ago and now there is a big tile sale. It will take a while to buy everything and to tear up and repair the walls and floors ect.
Isaac is so halarious. Here's a few things he's said:
We were having a thunderstorm
P: Look Isaac - Lightning!
I: McQueen!
I was trying to change his diaper
P: Isaac Diaperdoo time!
I: Its Alli's turn
We're driving and there are tons of birds on the telephone wires
I: Birds come down!
I gave him a saltine cracker and asked him to give it to Allie
P: Give this to Allie Please
I: Yummy cookie Allie! ( good thing she doesn't know what that means or that would have been a sore disappointment)

Yesterday we went shopping at Home Depot and I asked Isaac to help me keep Allie with us. She ran all around with Isaac 2 feet in front or behind her yelling "Allie come Back! Allie! Allie come back!" Soooooo funny to watch.
Allie is in that stage where she wants to do everything but can't. She did finally figured out how to buckle her high chair which i am so happy about because she was getting very frustrated. She is figuring out how to put shapes in the shape holes and draw with the magnadoodle. Dispite all the frustrated screams - we are happy for her.
I got a steam mop! I love it! After 3 months of being to sick to clean and all of us eating in the living room my laminate floors got very very dirty. So my friend let me borrow her steam mop and I was instantly addicted. So I got one! I never should have lived without it! Its like having carpet and not having a vacuum! Our whole house is laminate - even the bedrooms. Its so easy and gets the floors super clean! I can use it on rugs and tile as well! I got the one that is 40 bucks at Aldi's and i would recomend it.

I Am a Child of God

2011-09-27T12:24:00.000-07:00

So last night for family night Jonathan decided to do something that would really involve Isaac and Allie. So we had them color a picture of a family that said, "I love my family" Then Jonathan brought up the video above and played it for them. Little did we know that Isaac had learned all the words to the first verse at church. It was so sweet when he folded his little arms and sung all of the words and asked "one more time" over and over. We watched it around 9 times and each time was so special. Even though he may not understand it all now it melted my heart to here him sing that he was a child of God. I didn't know he could sing along with whole songs like that. He doesn't even know all the words to itsy bitsy spider. And after we were all done he ran around playing singing bits and peices of it. It was the best family night!

better

2011-09-19T13:11:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm still pretty sick, but I can get out of bed. I keep most of my food down and I can mostly make food. I am sooooo grateful for all the help people gave us while I was sick. My Mommy and Daddy took care of me and my kids for 2 weeks when my sweet husband drove us down to St. Louis and dropped us off. Then my friends took turns watching Isaac during the day. And Jonathan's mom would pick us up food once a week. And when we all had the flu she was getting us popsicles and soup. It is overwhelming how kind and willing to help everyone has been. And Jonathan has been so patient and has been picking up my slack. Happy Birthday to Jonathan today! St. Louis was fun despite feeling terrible. We went to Purina farms one morning and Isaac and Allie pet the pigs and milked the cows and had lots of fun. I sat on the front porch and watched them run in sprinklers and ride the see saw and drive the play cars and fun things like that. Allie prefered Grandma over mama by the end of the trip. : ) Isaac can talk in full sentences although he usually prefers not to. But it is helpful when I just don't know what he wants and he gives up whining and says, "I don't want that. I want milk" And when Jonathan was going to park in the back alley way insted of the front of the house Isaac let him know they were "going the wrong way" He is way to smart. He's discovered the making Allie cry makes mommy get up. And that pretending he doesn't know what people are saying helps him get away with a lot. When I told him he couldn't have more fruit until he finished his sandwhich he shared his sandwhich with Allie. He has certainly outsmarted me a few times. Baby Micaela is growing just fine. The days I'm extra sick I figure she's getting some extra growing in. : )

2011-07-26T10:51:00.000-07:00

We having another Baby! We are very excited! The baby is coming next march. We both feel like its a girl so I'll probably call her 'she' even though we won't know for a while. I am very sick so I may not post for a few months. Any time i feel well enough to sit up I need to be productive. Poor Isaac wants his mama back. My very good friend took Isaac for the day today. i am so grateful that he can go play with his friends insted of watching movies all day. I was wondering what I was going to do when she came over with lunch and took Isaac. That is a good friend.
Isaac hit his head on the hymn book holder and church so Jonathan took him home and shaved all his hair off to care for the wound. My friend said he looked like one of those 4 year old emperors in asia. I thought he looked like Avatar the Last airbender so I drew an arrow on his head. Its pretty funny. He has become really good friends with Allie since his mama is out of commision.
Allie loves to bable. She has been nice and snuggly and I love it. She loves sick mama because Allie likes it when I stay in one spot. I just lay there or even fall asleep and she plays around me. Although she doesn't like it when she's hungry or wants me to carry her. I made her some pretty butterflies for her room. It looks great hanging up but I'm to sick to take a picture right now.
Jonathan is working like crazy. He's almost done with the patio and he's clearing the weeds and stumps from our front yard shrubbery. It is looking so much better! I am very happy about it.
Hopefully I'll fell better soon but if not, I'll post again in a few months!

2011-07-16T17:59:00.000-07:00

The Youth Performance and Youth Conference I was helping with was awesome! Their performance was great. Lots of singing and dancing and you could tell they were having a great time. After it was all over they had a testimony meeting that I went to and it was so great to hear about how much they loved the weekend and now they have a stronger testimony of Jesus Christ and the church. It was fantastic. I loved it. And people at church were so good to us and to thank us for all our work gave us gift cards and free babysitting. So we went on a Date to the theater last weekend and went out to eat at Five Elements Bar and Grill and then went out for Ice cream. It was really fun. I am grateful people were so generous and thoughtful and we had a lot of fun. Isaac is so smart and I am loving it. Today he helped me make dinner and set the table. Although one plate did end up in the transh can - at least it was his. : ) He has suprised me as we go places and he points to the fruit and names them or points to the monkey and says, "ee ee ooh oh" He even knows a lot of letters. He has been very sweet to Allie too. Sharing and feeding her and playing with her. Jonathan challenged us to never get angry and always speak kindly. You can be stern but not upset. We're obviously not perfect but am Loving the results. I am sooo happy and a lot less stressed. Isaac fits have gone down and he is sweeter. Allie only walks now and is really attached to me. My new trick is to pick her up and stand so boringly that she wants down. She is allowed to grow up now because we are having another baby! We are due next March. We have been busy with appointments but make sure to still swim at least every other day. It is sooo hot! But I love swimming so I"m okay with it. Our sweet patio helps keep us nice and cool inside for less! We are doing great. Our kids are cute as ever and we love them more each day!

2011-07-06T06:37:00.000-07:00

I may have taken a few too many pictures this weekend. : ) Allie is one year old! Go Allie! She hasn't had the best turning of age with 4 shots, her blood drawn and a 3 day long fever, but she did have a great weekend! Her Birthday party was great. We got in the pool and fired up the grill and watched Tangled. The boys had a video game bonanza. It was lots of fun and the food was great. We were going to throw another party on Forth of July but conveniently someone else threw a party and invited all the same people so we all decided to go there insted (they weren't as the same time but I was glad for the excuse not to host or buy food for another party.) They had chicken and stake fajitas a big pool and a playground in their backyard. It was awesome. We all had fun but especially Isaac. He played with 2 boys his age and they had non-stop fun on the playground. We went to a flag raising in the morning and Isaac was in the bike Parade. He was in Heaven. Riding his red BMW all around the parking lot instead of the living room. Then we went to a morning pool party and then the pool party I just mentioned. We had the best day. Isaac loved it the most.
Potty training is going well, he's been able to keep a clean diaper in the morning time. He knows a lot more objects then I thought. He doesn't always respond when we work on things with him but then he knows what they are later. I guess its sinking in!
Allie is a great walker. She can walk the whole length of the room and turn around. She still chooses to crawl most of the time. She says more words and I think she knows who her Dada is. Something we're still working on with Isaac. He now calls us "MamaDada" or "honey" because were were always correcting him.
Jonathan fixed our car (the civic)! He bought an online part and fixed it himself saving us lots of money! I am so proud of him. And grateful that he is so smart and hardworking.
Life is still fantastic. I love having the van and doing so much swimming. The kids have been healthy and happy. Isaac doesn't throw such big fits anymore. He loves spending so much time outside and having fun with his friends. Learning to interact with the other little kids has been great for him.

lots-0-pictures

2011-06-24T05:39:00.000-07:00

Isaac a poopoo in the potty! I am so proud of him! He has gone poopoo 3x but he doesn't seem to get peepee in the potty yet but we're working on it. I am so happy about it. He is a great communicator now. He can say and understand so much! He is so good at sharing and snuggling and sleeping and I just love him! He goes right to bed and sleeps through the night and takes 3-4 hour naps. Aliie is one years old! Yay Allie! She can walk but just doesn't. Jonathan was watching them last night and said she was walking all over the place, but she won't for me. She took 16 steps and Jonathan said that was only a portion of what she was doing. And she said 2 when I count and when I say Allie she says, "No, No" Halarious. I can't remember if i mentioned that i'm helping with production the youth of our church are doing. There are 2000 youth doing a dancing and singing show and they will have a few days of learning and doing fun activities as well. I have spent months tons of hours finding volunteers and coordinating practices and relaying information and stuff. And this weekend is the production! I am so excited to see it! I went last night to help and Jonathan is there all day today helping with food and security and the an service project their doing. And tomarrow we get to watch the show! I am so excited. It is going to be amazing! Jonathan is almost done with the Patio! He is putting on the shingles. The state of texas is doing a energy efficent effort so someone is coming and blowing free insulation into our attic. Yay. Between the patio and and the insulation our bill should be a lot lower! yay! And my mom gave allie a pool for her birthday and we are loving it! It is such a fun activity and it keeps us nice and cool in our 100 degree weather. We are having a blast. We went a visited Jonathan at work for father's day and went to the mall and played in the indoor playground and got some food and took isaac to the toy store. It was so fun. Julie Colton is in town and we've enjoyed spending time with her and Abbie and the rest of the Coltons. I was trying to get Abbie to smile for the picture and I made her cry. Ooops! We are just having a blast. The kids are so happy and behaved and we're having so much fun.

Isaac Highlight

2011-06-08T06:55:00.000-07:00

Isaac is getting older! He grew out of his old cloths and he is talking a lot and making friends. He is sharing with Allie and asking mama for things instead of crying (not everytime!). I love to see him make friends and play with other kids. He is really nice to other kids. And he can count to ten! Its funny to hear him when he's by himself, "one two three five six nenen eight ninen ten" But if I count with him can do four. He loves to say grandma. I'm not sure if he's asking for grandma or he just loves to say it. His fit throwing has gotten much better. I have learned to be consistant and patient and help him feel like it is his choice to do what I want him too. He does refuse to go to bed sometimes and that is why I have so many pictures of him asleep on the couch. He loves to play in the new van and go places. It is getting a bit hot for the playground but Grandma Parks got Allie a pool for her birthday! Its the kind that adults can sit (not stand) in with their kids. So its fun because we can all go out together - to be outside having fun but keeping cool! As for the patio - it is getting there! It rained for a week and then we were really sick and then when Jonathan dove right back into it he cut his finger on the table saw. That was a huge blessing because any run in with a table saw could easily result in losing a finger or hand. We are very grateful that it is healing and now he's doing other dangerous stuff like climbing on top of the structure to work on the roof. I am scared. The other day I saw him hop the latter along while on the tippy top so he didn't have to get down and move it...i let him know how i felt about that. : ) He is working really hard. I guess its weed season and he is pulling like crazy. A section of our front lawn was really bad (we bought it real bad) so we just pulled everything and reseeded. Hopefully that will turn out well! Today I'm gonna work on the big prickly weeds in our back yard that just went crazy. Allie taking steps! She has taken up to 8 but averages around 3. But she is working on it! She will not take steps when we prop her up and try to have her go to her momma or dadda. She will only do it when she wants too, but that is quite often. She just gets up and takes steps! She has started to choose to play with toys insted of momma but only once or twice. She is getting older! She Turns one this month! So I have been sooooo tired. Both my kids sleep through the night and I get plenty of rest and I"m still so tired and I've gained weight so....I now go running with a friend at 6:30 am everymorning. I've only been doing it for a few days but the results have been great! I am awake and happy and have more energy! I think it helps me get a better sleep as well as the other benefits of exersizing. And then I can spend time with Jonathan in the morning before he goes to work. I had been thinking about running for a while now but I finally got the inspiration I needed when someone at church asked me if I was pregnant and when I said no asked me if I was sure. I started running the next morning! : )

New Car!

2011-05-25T08:23:00.000-07:00

We got a new car! Its a 2004 Honda Odyssey EX. It was funny because we drove around to dealerships and only one had a van of any kind in our price range and this one had 3. But one had almost 200,000 miles on it and the other one was a dodge caravan and it had goods specs and we were thinking abou getting it. Then he opened the door and reeked of cigerette smoke. It was really bad so we thought we would just have to keep looking. Then as we were about to leave he said they got a new car in and it was getting a new transmition and it would be ready wednesday. And it was a 2004 odyssey! It seems so funny that there are no decent vans in our price range except for one and its super nice. It has the upgraded features like leather warming seats and a dvd player. I was really willing to give up a lot to get car that will last and I'm super happy to get one that is the best of both worlds. (I know nothing is for certain, but we can hope! It has good mileage and a clean carfax. Its a Honda and a lot of the other cars were 2001) I'm grateful to Jonathan who works so hard and lets me stay at home and got me an awesome car. We are all sick right now so I think we're just going to relax this week. Except Jonathan, he doesn't relax. He'll probably build me a roof on my patio. He's the best.

2011-05-20T19:50:00.000-07:00

Things have been crazy latley. Isaac is improving his fit throwing skills with lots of practice. He is also getting very good at understanding and talking. It is such a relief when I can tell him to wait until we get home or that I am getting him a snack. Althought it is a little embarassing when I'm talking him out of church and he yells, "BE NICE!!!!" Gotta love Isaac. He said his first prayer. "Please Food. Please Food. Please Food." Jonathan has been working so hard on the patio! He just has to put the roof on now! I am so happy about how well he has done!. He is also finding names to add to his family tree. He has made a lot of progress there as well. I am proud of him. Allie can take a few steps. She is mostly crawling.I am enjoying her still being my little baby. The weather hasn't gotten too hot yet so we have been spending lots of time outside. At the park and in the backyard. We bought a lot of stuff at the dollar store for summer fun. Isaac is loving his bat. He LOVES to play baseball. When Jonathan first taught him anything was the bat and Allie and my heads were the ball. He seems to have let that go and will play with his real bat and ball. He loves Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. He says, "Mou! Mou!" Life is going well. I've been a bit stressed with all of Isaac's fit throwing but having lots of fun at the park and spending time with my friends. Katie Colton made that cute bow Allie's wearing when we had craft night. oh ya, Isaac and Jonathan had their very first Father and Son campout! It was great! I wasn't there but they had hot dogs and smores and Isaac played with another 2 year old who said Isaac was his best friend! I had a great mother's day. Jonathan made me a very special breakfast and i got a new shirt. Yay for Summer

Building a Patio Cover!

2011-04-25T11:01:00.000-07:00

We're Building a patio cover! Jonathan is doing most of the work but you can see that Isaac and Allie are great helpers! And I have helped with the staining! Jonathan dug 3ft deep holes. Then made 400 lb cement cylinders and then put the posts up and support beams and dragon joists. (a funny name we call the braces). He has been working so hard day and night. I wake up to him working on the patio and sometimes go to sleep to him working on it. And he spent his whole day off working on it too. He's so wonderful! He plans on making it really cool looking. Thank you Jonathan!
OH ya, and the onions are just growing in a patch in our yard! I feel like a gardener!

Happy Easter

2011-04-25T10:52:00.000-07:00

Messes!

2011-04-14T09:58:00.000-07:00

With Jonathan working on the Patio the kids have been inside and they are making lots of messes. Allie reached up and stole Isaacs sandwhich he was eating in his high chair. He was soooo mad. It was halarious. She found his yogurt and dumped it. Isaac loves putting stuff in the toilet. They have each taken a turn playing in the fireplace ashes. Allie can now pull herself up onto furniture so she pulled herself up on the fireplace ledge and started playing in the ashes! She's getting to old!!! She took her first step! My little baby! She mostly crawls but she likes to practice along things. Isaac can talk pretty well. He climbed up on the changing table while i wasn't around and I heard him yelling, "help momma! Down! Mama! Mama! Help! Down!" So cute! He is very well behaves. They now both go to bed by 9 and we have the evening to get things done and relax.
We have had a heep of huge blessings! Our AC went out and Jonathan's Dad's friend who is an AC Repair man fixed it for us. Then our Garbage Disposal went out and Jonathan's dad fixed it for us! Then Isaac threw our TV remote in the kiddie pool and Verizon is replacing it for free! We are so grateful! We got Allie a few dresses at the Dollar store, thats where we got the cute white one is the purple flowers and my dear friend Marta - who is feeling much better! - gave us her daughters old cloths. And gave us her sons old cloths for Isaac. Things are going great at the Ramos'!

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Birthdays and Sickdays!

2011-03-28T07:56:00.001-07:00

It was my birthday! It was fantastic. Jonathan took me to Outback and to see Tron Legacy in 3D. Then on Monday he pretended to go to work and then knocked on the door with Cake and balloons and streamers ect. He had the day off and didn't tell me. It was a great day! My parents got me the curtains that I posted a picture of. I love them and and they make the whole room look better. The kids have been so easy to put to bed the last couple of days. Isaac loves going to bed on a mattress instead of his crib. Allie has gone from hating to sleep and being up until 11 to giving in easily and wanting to go to bed. I just put her in her crib around 9pm and she cries for 90 seconds and goes to sleep. This has been such a relief after the monster 2 weeks where they were sick and daylight savings through us all off. They just felt miserable and we were up with them until 11 or midnight with crying kids. I posted a video of how sick poor Izzy Pie was. I took the video because I was scared of how he was acting and wanting Jonathan's opinion if I should take him to the hospital. I ended up giving him a nap, he was really tired. And then his fever got to 102.7 and I got really scared but he knocked it down and he got some rest and we took them both to the Dr the next morning. Allie is now on a nebulizer and they both took lots of medicine and are doing much better. When I found out they were both so sick and each had an ear infection I was glad I had decided to be patient with them staying up so late.
Its gotten pretty hot in Texas so we're figuring out ways to keep the house cooler besides running the AC. So our next home project is a Patio cover! The hottest place in the house - hands down - is by the back sliding glass door and big window where the sun hits when its setting. It sets right into the kitchen where I"m running the Dishwasher and oven. So we're building a patio cover so that it hits that instead of our windows. And it will be fun to have in the summer for me to sit under while the kids are playing in the kiddie pool. All you can do in the summer is swim because its sooo hot! Jonathan's been drawing up the plans and we're pretty excited about it. That side bathroom just keeps getting pushed back : )
My dear friend was in the hospital last week. My friend Marta that I go to the library with on Wednesday. She had heart failure and they had to revive her 3x. So I've been helping out with their kids and praying for them. They sent her home on Saturday and still don't know why it all happened. We are grateful she's doing somewhat better. God has answered our prayers over and over and we are so happy.

My Birthday card from my Parents and Neices

2011-03-21T10:08:00.001-07:00

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2011-03-14T13:05:00.000-07:00

The weather has been beautiful! I love having Isaac play in the backyard. Allie had her first bath without me in there with her. She crawled into my closet and opening a jar of green beans baby food. I'm not sure how she did that! So I gave her a bath. And then after she had so much fun when she saw Isaac in the tub she struggled so hard to get there herself. So they had their first bath time party. I got really excited about it. Jonathan and I are really excited for March Madness. I love competing in the brackets together. Isaac has been having a really hard time. I think he is sick, he's been really tired. Overall we're doing great! Bruce and Katie were in town this last week and it was so fun! We played Frisbee golf and made crafts and played games and had such a great time. Isaac is really learning to talk. He's doing such a great job with phrases and pronunciation. We're so proud of our little ones

New Cabinets

2011-03-08T15:45:00.001-08:00

Our New Kitchen! Our most recent project was to stain the cabinets! I sanded and Jonathan stained! They look great! So in total we stripped wall paper, textured, painted, removed a metal plate thing, removed the laminate flooring and replaced it with vinal tile, stained the cabinets, and replaced the old weird hanging blinds with regular ones. One of favorite parts about restaining is there were lots of "drips" and grime and that I couldn't get off the cabinets and I sanded them right off! And the other favorite is that is looks fantastic! Jonathan is so great! Isaac is really learning to talk. I wonder how long he has been saying things because I can barley understand him, so maybe I just didn't before. Today he said, "I want to go outside" and "more cracker please" Alle said, "hi" and "mama". So proud of my little guys! Today I watched 4 kids for a family whose mother is in the hospital (so 6 kids at one time all under 6). I think my kids are really easy now. : ) We'll see how long I feel that way. Life is still fantastic. We have had so many great blessings and we are so grateful to our Father in Heaven.

2011-02-22T12:17:00.000-08:00

Allie is all over the place! She can pull herself up and walk along furniture. She has become a fast crawler. She is happy to explore and is working on standing by herself. Isaac has gotten pretty defensive now that Allie tries to play with all of Isaac's stuff. Especially when she tries to take things out of his hands. He kicks her over, hits her in the head, and shoves her off furniture. We're working on that! His speach is developing well. He puts two words together like "Push On" for me to turn on the lights. Although it is very emotional for me as he grows up, it is a relief for him to tell me what he wants instead of screaming at while pointing at the wall. We are proud of him. We are refinishing our cabinets. It has been fun. It is beautiful outside. We took all the doors off and I have been sanding while listening to music. Isaac got to swim in our turtle pool and Allie plays with toys and eats crackers on a blanket. Jonathan is doing all the staining. Its nice to have a husband that is good at lots of things. There was lots of crud on the cabinets that I couldn't clean off when we moved in so it felt great to sand it all off. We are excited to finish and then I will post before and after pictures. Isaac is really interacting with other kids and having lots of fun at Library day and play group. I love to see him enjoy his activities more and more as he gets older. Oh ya, we died my hair blonde too. I forgot to take a picture, so i'll have to post that later!

2011-02-07T10:30:00.000-08:00

2011-02-06T12:17:00.000-08:00

Isaac turned 2! Yay Isaac! We had a really fun party with Jonathan's Family and my parents! They came in town to celebrate! It was 70 outside when they were here and they left just in time because we had a snow storm the next day! It got down to 8 degrees! We had black outs and ice storms and Jonathan got 2 days off work! yay for hanging out in the house together! Isaac got Cars and all 4 Ninja turtle movies so we had movie parties! So fun!

BYU Magazine

2011-01-27T10:58:00.000-08:00

Were in a Magazine! The BYU Magazine did an article with us in it. You can view it online at http://magazine.byu.edu/?act=view&a=2724 The part about us is called giving back and paying forward. This is the other picture they took but ended up using a different one. Our picture online is on the right side of of the article.

2011-01-14T07:18:00.000-08:00

Christmas was so wonderful this year. We had Christmas with my family Jonathan's family and the Colton's. It was exciting because Isaac was old enough to kind of understand what was going on. He got double the presents this year because Allie can't stop him from stealing all of hers. :) Bruce and Katie and Julie and Tyson were in town and we spent a lot of time with them. The girls made lots of hair accessories like the purple one Allie is wearing in the picture. It was so much fun. Thank you so much to everyone for celebrating with us. Isaac has just started the terrible twos and Allie has become mobile so I am learning to work a little harder! Even nighttime has been a lot of work with both of them not going to sleep and waking up. I think they are both teething so that gives hope of an end in sight. We are having so much fun. Besides the fact that it gives us colds, one nice thing about Texas is we have random days that are 70 degrees out so we can still go to the park and play in the backyard. Isaac is turning two on the 26th! I'm so excited. My parents are coming in town and we're decorating a cake and I"m getting Isaac a Beta fish for his birthday! The Video of Jonathan and Jason moving around is from playing Kinect. You hook it up to your x-box and you don't need a controller. SO they were playing a game where their water tank had holes in it and they had to plug them up. Its really fun. My favorite is the dancing game. Jonathan's uncle Jimmy's family got it for Christmas. Isaac and Allie get along so well when Isaac wants them too. He either shares and helps her when she's crying and laughs and plays peek-a-boo. Or he rips away her toys and yells no and hits her. He's funny. He's just learned how fun it is to kick and throw things around the house. Yikes. For the new year Jonathan's workout equipment reimbursement from Scottrade restarts. We got P90X and the things that go with it. So we're going to work out and eat healthy and be in good shape! Allie is scooting quite quickly and she gets on all fours and crawls a little bit. She is so close. We are having a great time and we're very happy.

2011-01-12T11:01:00.000-08:00

2010-12-15T21:09:00.000-08:00

Isaac tries to carry as much as possible. He stole all the ornaments off the tree and scattered them. He loves to take his trucks everywhere he goes - to bed to the store, to the kitchen ect. Allie has been making funny faces and noises. She is a bit of a drama queen. Her little pout is so sad its impossible to ignore.

2010-12-15T08:57:00.001-08:00

I was trying to take a picture of Isaac and Allie and Isaac rips her headband off and sitcks it on his head. : ) To funny Isaac. Especially since thats the best picture of the two of them together. But I'll just save it as blackmail. Isaac was invited to his first kids birthday party! It was his friend Billy. He was turning three and when his mom asked who he wanted to invite he said Isaac! I was so excited. They are our good friends that i go to the library and park with on Tuesdays. Allie loves jumping. She has not done very well this last week. We've been up all night. She's been screaming and upset. I think we finally figured out what it is. I just started her on rice cereal and Isaac couldn't tolerate it. So I'm mashing bananas and she has shown dramatic improvement. I think she maybe teething also, but I always think that. We are really excited for the holidays. We've been to two Christmas events and it is so exciting to see Isaac enjoy his first Holidays!
We're going to be in BYU Magazine! They interviewed us a few weeks ago and on Monday a photographer came and took our picture for the article. Its about how we're the youngest members of the Jesse and Amanda Knight Society. It will be in the Winter Issue! Yay!

2010-12-04T08:01:00.000-08:00

Its Christmas time! Thanksgivimg was great at Jonathan's Grandparents and we were sent home with lots of leftovers. We put up pur Christmas lights and I'll be getting out the decorations soon. I am so excited because its allie's 1st Christmas and the first time Isaac will be getting presents and know whats going on. My dear friend Savannah gave him a police truck and he loves it. We are all very sick. We took the kids to the dr and allie had a fever last night. I have been up at night with sick kids and am sick myself. I am really tired. Isaac has been so sweet to Allie. Sharing toys, playinh peek-a-boo, pushing her in the swing and feeding her. She was covered in Isaac's pasta dinner. For Christmas Jonathan installed new floors in my kitchen! They were previously just the same laminate as the rest of the house. The floors make the kitchen bigger, nicer and its own room instead of an extension. He is such a great husband. Merry Christmas!

New bathroom floors

2010-11-24T18:47:00.000-08:00

Jonathan installed new floors for me in our master bathroom. He's doing the kitchen for Christmas! I love him.

2010-11-23T18:22:00.000-08:00

Allie can roll over! She is extremely ambitious. She loves to be on her belly and will sometimes roll over the minute i put her down. She has also started on rice cereal. She gets really hungry in the afternoon! You can see how happy Isaac was when he first saw her sitting in the high chair. I thought it was convenient that he stopped wanting to sit in it, but I guess he now wants to sit in it all the time. He is so funny. Lucky for him Allie doesn't like to sit in it for very long. Isaac has been sick so he's been taking is slow while mommy speeds things up. We haven't been going to play group or library time so I've been getting a lot of projects done. I've done a lot that Isaac can do with me and been busy during nap time. Our fire place is almost all painted!!! Thats is mostly thanks to Jonathan. And he redid our masterbathroom floors! I love it! He is doing the kitchen for my Christmas present. It takes a long time and I am really excited about it. It got cold for a couple of days but its warm again! So we've been going outside alot. I love having a park right down the street with a walking path attached. My friend Jennifer and I go walking MWF and it is beautiful and it feels great. Jonathan has a lot of vacation days because he saved them and I loooooove having him home so much. Thanksgiving this week! We're going to Jonathans grandparents. And this Thanksgiving I am grateful for my parents so taught me good values and raised me with the church and loved me. I am also grateful for a wonderful hard working husband and happy healthy adorable children.

2010-11-07T08:04:00.000-08:00

Jonathan is telling this big monster duck to get away from Isaac not all the ducks. :)
This one is halarious. Isaac is helping Allie eat some eggs.

We've been having some quality dance time. Isaac is so funny.
We've been doing great! We went to my brother Joey's wedding and it was great to see him get married and see all of my family! We stayed in a cute bed and breakfast and got to go to the temple twice. The double lay overs there and back were less than encouraging to ever travel again, but we got delta vouchers because we took a later flight so i guess it will be within the next year! Isaac and Allie have been so much fun. They are both such happy kids and we're squeezing in as much park time as possible before it gets to cold!

Halloween

2010-11-02T11:27:00.000-07:00

Isaac was a roman soldier and Allie was an Alien. Our friend let us borrow the alien costume and Cheryl helped us make the roman soldier costume. We went to trunk or treat on Saturday night and it was really exciting. Isaac really seemed to get what was going on. He went from car to car and grabbed a candy. I even heard him say thank you. What a good little boy. Isaac is repeating lots of words more clearly. Allie is grabbing objects and playing with toys. She can sit up in your lap if you hold her feet. She is getting so big! We are so proud of our little buddy and our tiny Alli-tator!

2010-10-29T12:10:00.000-07:00

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Isaac reads to Allie

2010-10-11T20:13:00.000-07:00

This makes my heart melt! This is really what makes all the long nights and naptime struggles more than worth it. The first time I caught him reading to Allie she is was in her swing. He stopped it from swinging and held the book in front of her. He turned the pages while speaking jibberish. She was smilling a huge smile and loving every second. To see him love her like that when he was jealous is so truly touching. I have been unbelievably happy. I have such a good and blessed life. We love our Izzy-Pie and Tater Tot.

2010-10-11T19:42:00.000-07:00

Daddy's turn to watch Allie We especially love that she has a shirt that says "I love Daddy" and he has a surf shirt.
Isaac learned how to turn on/off the radio. He loves dancing and listening to the songs.

Even Allie liked the music. She would smile real big when it played and look around confused when it turned out.
A cute 4 year old girl came to our house and taught Isaac to jump off the couch. Jonathan -being the fun one-grabbed matresses and they (Isaac, Audry (4) and Jane (2)) had a trampoline party. I should have gotten a video of them all together. They were laughing and jumping on eachother. Probably the most fun conference session they will ever have. It was a great weekend. The Coltons and Dave and Crystal and their kids came to our house on Saturday for conference and then we watched it at there house on Sunday. It was exciting to have people over and host a big breakfast. We went to the park between sessions. We go to the park by our house quite often and Isaac loves it. I have been going to the library for reading time and the park for play group. It is lots of fun. Isaac is learning to interact with other children and participate in activities. I also made friends with someone at our church who lives next to the park. She is really fun and its great to have someone nearby. People have been driving me to the activities and we have been blessed to have so many kind people and friends nearby. Joey's wedding is next weekend!

2010-09-29T09:08:00.000-07:00

Jonathan's Birthday! We had a party with Jonathan's family and it went quite well! We hurried to get the house done in time and although we still have several projects left we are happy with it! We did breakfast for dinner while the boys watched football and the ladies chatted. Life has been pretty fun. The weather has finally been great and we've been taking Isaac to the Park. A friend of mine from the ward takes Isaac and Allie and I to the Library story time, playgroup and the park. It is so fun and I'm happy for Isaac to get to interact with other kids while his mom is around. He is really fun. He's learning more words and he loves to flip light switches on and off. We're going to Joey's wedding at the end of the month and we are so excited to meet Cami and see them so happy in love.

Pictures

2010-09-29T08:57:00.000-07:00

Allie Says Hi

2010-09-16T08:35:00.000-07:00

Allie says Hi. It is pretty amazing. She even changes it to Hey when you say hey. She is very smart. She is very happy baby. She loves to smile at Isaac but he gives her the stink eye. We've all been sick latley especially Jonathan and Isaac. I think we're starting to get better.

Getting Settled

2010-09-07T11:57:00.000-07:00

Things are going quite well, we've settled everything with our apartment, we've painted our 2nd living area and kitchen and we've been able to set up faster than Isaac can tear apart (quite the challenge). The Pictures below show how Isaac likes to get into things. We have to make sure and put the ladders down becuase he learned to move the ladders, climb up the rungs and get into things. He has learned to open the laptop and is a great typer. He got into silverwear drawer and made a mess. He didn't cover his tracks very well - he left part of a PB&J sandwhich as his signiture. He helped me cook as a mentioned before and thats when it gets fun. We hung out with the Colton's and had a picnic at the playground by our house for labor day. It was great fun. Bruce and Katie were in town and Dave and Crystal came with their three daughters as well. We had great food and played with water balloons (Jonathan threw it the farthest by far!), and enjoyed eachothers company. Isaac played in the pool and on the playground. Jonathan made Isaac a water slide - he hated it - mostly because it ended in a bucket of water. But he loved the bucket full of water balloons and he played in there a long time. Pictures to follow

2010-09-02T16:12:00.000-07:00

ps. Isaac put that bow on Allie's head in the first video. Its a video of Isaac dancing I didn't realize she was in it. :)

2010-09-02T14:24:00.000-07:00

We went to Austin and San Antonio! Jonathan's Dad had a home inspector seminar and he took us with him. He stayed in a nice hotel and went to the Alamo and other missions, University of Texas and the Capital building. UT has a really cool natural history museum and thats what most of the pictures from last post are from. We've gotten a lot of furniture this past week and our house is really coming together. We picked a great color for our 2nd living area/kitchen. Things are really turning out well and we are so happy. Isaac is really really growing up. Pamela is happy to have Allie so that she can enjoy Isaac growing up instead of wishing he would stay little. My favorite was yesterday when Isaac helped me make dinner! We had so much fun cooking, reading, doing laundry and watching a movie. Allie is such a good girl. She smiles a lot, when she's just sitting there and when she sees us and hears our voice. Jonathan is really excited for College football tonight and Pamela is happy she'll be at relief society. :) I only like to watch BYU games. Enjoy these videos!

News

2010-08-24T13:34:00.000-07:00

Here is a small update! I strained my back so i can only sit at the computer for a minute. We closed on our house! We are painting the inside and it looks fantastic! We'll post pictures when we're finished. Bruce and Katie Julie and Tyson (with baby Abbie) all came in town and we had lots of great times with Colton's. Living by Jonathan's family and the Colton's is lots of fun. Life is fantastic. Jonathan has past all his tests and is a lisenced and registered stock broker! We are so proud of him. Our anniversery is tomarrow and we are very in love and extremely happy. Allie is smiling and very social. She is an easy baby and we love to snuggle with her. And I'll give a better update when i can sit up longer!

2010-08-24T13:27:00.000-07:00

Pictures

2010-08-24T13:02:00.001-07:00

Allie's Baby Blessing

2010-07-20T10:42:00.000-07:00

Allie was blessed this passed Sunday. She wore the same dress I did when I was blessed as a baby. My sister Katie made her the beautiful blessing blanket. It was a wonderful experience and we are excited to see the wonderful young lady Allie will grow to be.

2010-07-16T07:45:00.000-07:00

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Isaac is really growing! He has figured out how to get all the rings in order on his ring stacking toy. It is great to see him really understanding and figuring it out. We got so excited when he learned that he would would do it over and over and we would give him big hugs and kisses and tell him he did a good job and he would say, "did it!" That fixed the rift in Isaac's relationship with his Mom after Allie was born. We are all happy and love eachother. In Fact Isaac even told me that he loved me. He says, "thank you" "your Welcome" "i love you" "did it!" and more. He has also figured out how to open the front door! It was exciting when he learned to open it from the outside, but just scary now that he can open it from the inside! We keep the door locked but every once and a while he sneaks out! The picture of the monkeys on his bottom are the cloth diapers my mom made for us. We really appretiate it because cloth diapers does save a lot of money! And the ones she made are easy to use and cute!
And we have a great update on the home. We purchased the home "as is" There were no major problems so we had no problem with that. The last time we went to look at the home they had fixed things! For example they replaced the posts on the front porch that had some roting on the bottom with brand new ones! There was a small whole in the living room that they patched up and more things that we were planning on fixing were just taken care of. It ends up the city of plano sent the home owners a list of things they needed to fix because this is plano and you have to keep your home up to the standard! We could hardly believe it. They are still working on more things and we are getting a free upgrade on our home! There is some rule about real estate that you can't earn over a certain percent in flipping a home so i guess that has to do with it too. I guess they have to put a certain amount of the money in the home so they aren't earning to much. I think that makes it a win-win situation. If that is the case, they earn the max amount on the house and we get an upgraded home at a discounted price!
I think Allie is finally waking up which means I'm getting less sleep. Last night she was just content to stay awake but not to be left alone. I'm tired. But i got a nap. Scottrade sent us a Scottrade onsie and build-a-bear as a congrats gift. We love Scottrade.
The Colton's are all in town! Julie and Tyson and Bruce and Katie are all in town and we had a bbq at our apartment yesterday! We have a bbq pit in the pool area and we were the only ones there at night. It was really fun! Julie's new baby Abbie is really cute and Bruce and Katie brought lots of neat things back from China including a really funny hat and pair of shorts that I"ll need to take a picture of!

We are Closing on a House!

2010-07-12T09:08:00.001-07:00

We put in an offer on a home and it was accepted! We are very excited! It is in Plano in a great neighborhood only minutes away from Jonathan's family. There is a huge park a few blocks south of our house in our Neighborhood with a field, a new playground and walking trail with big green trees. The trail leads over a bridge to the middle school where there is another playground, covered pavillions and tennis courts. The house is white brick with blue trim, has laminate wood flooring throughout, 2 living areas, 3 bedrooms and a decent sized yard! We got a steal of a deal and are excited to close on June 30th. It is closer to more family, Jonathan's work, the temple and the Coltons. We will be in Jonathan's home ward and we are excited to be amoung people we love. The following link is a map of where we will live on Milford dr. Across Alma on Simon dr is where Jonathan's parents live and just south of us where there are no streets is the park, stream and middle school. We are really excited and hope everything settles smoothly!
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=milford+drive+plano,+tx&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7TSHB_en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Milford+Dr,+Plano,+TX+75025&gl=us&ei=WT47TM23FIbGlQfVp6HVBw&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBQQ8gEwAA

Our Stock Broker

2010-07-02T08:09:00.000-07:00

Jonathan is now licensed! We are so proud of our Stock Broker who received a 91% on his licensing exam yesterday! That is the 2nd highest score in all of Scottrade this year. He studied very hard and he did extremely well. He finished in the 99.7th percentile on a very very hard test. He is now an official Stock Broker. He has a state test to take and then he will be done with it all. Way to go Jonathan!

More Allie pictures

2010-07-02T07:28:00.000-07:00

Videos

2010-06-30T08:48:00.000-07:00

The biggest challenge with Allie is getting her to wake up to eat. Some how even a wet rag and hand in the face won't wake her up. Here is Jonathan helping me to wake her up. Sometimes its impossible.
Isaac is really warming up to Allie. He likes to try and pick her up and sit with her in her chair and he even likes to share with her. This video shows how he is very loving but still a little boy. : )

Alexandra Debra-Marie Ramos

2010-06-24T10:43:00.000-07:00

Baby Allie has arrived! 7 lbs 2 oz 19 inches long. June 23rd 12:54 pm. She is very healthy and loves to sleep. I started contractions over 6 weeks ago. Once Allie was full term they just said come in when the contractions are painful regular and 4 minutes apart. So wednesday (yesterday the 23rd) morning I woke up to a painful contraction around 6 am. Then at 7 we started to time them and by 8 we knew we were in labor. Luckily we called Jonathan's mom (and thankfully she was able to come) just in time because she was arriving as we were leaving for the hospital. The contractions were 4 minutes apart and unbearably painful. But by the time we got to the hospital (about a 20 minute drive)the contractions had slowed and even become irregular - although still intensely painful. We realized that on the way Pamela had been drinking water and resting and that we should probably wait for them to build back up again. So we drove home and relaxed. After about an hour and a half of random contractions (up to 20 minutes apart) Pamela had 3 in a row 3 minutes apart. By the last one Pamela said, "we need to go to the hospital now." 24 minutes later Allie was born. We drove as quick as possible to the hospital and the contractions became all lumped together as one. The pain was constant and the only way I could tell the beginning of a new contraction was that I could feel Allie start to push her way through the birth canal! Jonathan pulled up to the front and grabbed a wheel chair. While waiting for me to get out of the car i yelled, "I need help! I am giving birth now!" That's when a loving husband picked me up and wheeled me in. I was practically delirious with pain. They through me on the hospital bed, and told me not to push until the dr came. Luckily that was very soon and with 90 seconds of pushing Allie was born! It was incredible. Giving birth without an epidural was well worth it. (I think I can only say that because it was less than a half an hour, but its true) Everything was so real and painful. I had really suffered for Allie, and all the stuff that came next was such a breeze. I've been feeling great since she was born and I am grateful that i got to really be a part of the birth. We are grateful that we made it to the hospital on time, that Jonathan's mom is watching Isaac and that she could come on such short notice, we're Jonathan's breaks went out last week instead of yesterday and of course, that Allie is healthy and here with us! Isaac doesn't seem to like her but it would be hard to understand why mommy is on a bed with a little wiggler and won't hold you. He'll get used to her, and if he doesn't we'll just spoil him and he can get over it.

We love Isaac

2010-06-24T10:29:00.000-07:00

Mr. Mischeif! We laugh so hard when he gets into trouble that he's started to laugh when he knows he's done something he shouldn't. There are some things like getting into the supply of Ramen that are to be expected. But when i tuck all the chairs under the table and pulls a chair out to climb on the table I am amazed! How do you even stop something like that?! And thats one reason why we love him. I've been letting him use his own utensils. You may think you don't see any mischief in the picture of him with the yogurt until you see the big bruise on his cheek! And fell into the doorway. Poor kid - he's so tough. He can reach the doornob, but luckily can't open the door. Sometimes he wears Jonathan's hats and it is the cutest thing i've ever seen. I've even taught him to say, "ya ya ya ya ya ya" like a rapper when I put the hat on him. His communication has sky rocketed. He understand a lot of what we say and can connect phrases with different situations like telling us he's all done. We go to the pool all the time and he loves it. He loves getting wet and splashing and watching the other kids run around.

Summer time

2010-06-10T10:58:00.000-07:00

Isaac is missing his best friend! We finished watching Liesie 1.5 weeks ago. He has made friends with Bear and Ernie, but their just no the same. Last week was filled with so many errands so I'm trying to make it up to Isaac by making this a week of fun. We've been having fun at the pool and playing in his new train! Jonathan got Isaac a giant play train with his rewards points at work. (along with a upconverting dvd player). The train is so big Isaac can walk around in it. You can climb through the back and all 4 wheels. Daddy is the most fun because he can crawl threw all the holes, but mommy is pretty good at peeking her head through the wheels and windows! Pamela can still come through the back and sick in the engineers spot. I'm sure we'll take pictures - its pretty fun. Isaac got a new crib too! This one converts into a toddler bed so we figured we better get him used to it and give Allie Isaac's other crib - especially since it converts into a basinet and has a changing table attached. The new crib is really nice. Jonathan takes his big Series 7 test to become a liscensed broker at the end of the month. He has been studying like crazy. It seems he can never get away from having a ton on his plate! On Memorial day Jason Julie and Liesie came over for a bbq and pool time. It was lots of fun. Liesie said she might need some time getting used to the pool but its okay if Mom holds her. Isaac is content even just watching people at the pool. On Sunday he was very tired but wouldn't go to bed. He was happy just to sit in a lawn chair (they have kids ones - soooo cute!) and watch the other kids swimming. But he still loves swimming and taking baths which is great because it is way to hot in Texas!

Ultrasound Pictures

2010-06-01T08:00:00.000-07:00

Baby Allie! I had an ultrasound to check position and size and it was great! I saw her little face and hair and we even caught her playing with her feet! We were looking at her little feet and then came her hand! She kept puckering out her little lips and then stuck her toungue out! She has lots of thick hair, a filipino nose and big wide lips. One of the pictures is of her hair. You are looking at the back of her head and on the top of her head you can see what looks like grass going verticly in the middle of the page next to the "hair" label. Another picture is of her face where you can mostly only see her nose and her puckered lips. The other is of her face, she is turned a little to the side and its a great picture! She was looking right at us and then snuggled to the side. It was incredable. She is turned upside down weighs about 5 lb 12 oz and is breathing already! They practice moving their lungs so their ready when they get air in them! So she is doing really well, and is absolutly adorable. Pamela's contractions are continuing strong so we predict a baby in the near future, although she's not due for another four weeks so we'll see!

Finally the Update

2010-05-27T12:26:00.000-07:00

Things are going very well! We are finally all moved in! Our walls are painted and we even have some pictures up! Jonathan suprized me by painting the bathroom blue and we painted the living room together. We helped Jason and Julie paint Annaliesie's soon-to-be room - so i think we have done a lot of painting. But they all look fantastic! We really like our apartment. Its pretty quiet, we love the pool, the kitchen is nice and we have a big garden tub. Isaac loves to take baths in the giant tub. He heard me filling it up the other day and threw a fit that he wasn't allowed in yet. Throwing fits is a new thing for him. It think its pretty funny. He just throws him self on the floor cries and wriggles around, then after like 15 seconds he's done and continues on his way. He is such a good boy. The other day i was snuggling with Liesie to put her to sleep on the couch and her pacifier fell out. I asked Isaac to get it and he picked it up and put it in her mouth. He is very good at sharing and understands more and more of what we say. He can say "night night" "done" and "hi" in addition to the normal mmama dada stuff. He usually chooses not to talk, and sometimes not to listen. He is pretty funny. He just pretends he doesn't know what we're talking about, but seeing as he obeyed the last 3 times we know he's ignoring us! He is very good with 'come here' 'out' 'go get dada' 'get my shoe' 'no no' 'done' 'hugs' and 'kisses' He has been giving mama lots of kisses latley! Usually i say 'kisses' and he puts his forhead out for me to kiss, but latley he has even given me some kisses of his own! He likes to walk around the store by himself and touch everything. He loves to feed Annaliese. Its pretty funny. He likes to take her bottle or pacifier so that he can put it in her mouth himself. He'll even walk over to her booster seat and take food off the tray and put it in her mouth. I think he will love to help take care of baby Aliie. Annaliese is quite advanced. She is 5 months younger than Isaac but can do a lot of what he can. She doesn't exactly listen to orders, but she can walk and read books really well!
Jonathan's new job is going very well! He loves watching the market and making trades. In the recent falling of the market Jonathan bet against the market and made $700 dollars in one day! I don't feel like we're bragging because we lost a comparable amount from the market falling right before that. He might get transfered to a new office closer to our apartment. That would be exellent as it would shorten the commute time and we would get to see eachother more! Sometimes evenings fly as we eat dinner, run to the store and put Isaac to bed. But we've also been having lots of fun, going to the pool, decorating and watching movies on our new 46" flatscreen lcd tv that Jonathan's parents got him for a graduation present. Its really big. On the weekends we have lots of fun with family. We drive down to Plano for fun things like a Mother's day Luncheon or birthday parties and we skip over to Jason and Julie's so that the boys can watch sports or we can help eacother out with projects. Its really nice to have family close by.

Allie is a bit like Isaac already. Pamela has had to go to the hospital 2x for pre-term contractions. They've gotten as bad as 90 seconds long with only 15 seconds between them. The Dr said they're real labor contractions, but I'm not in labor so just come back if the contractions do. They haven't been as bad latley, but they certainly prevent a good nights rest! Pamela doesn't mean to wake Jonathan up but i guess misery loves company. The hospital dr. predicted allie comin' in about a week or two! The crazy thing about it is that she still could come in a 5 weeks (her due date) so we have to be prepared, but know it could still be a while. We figure she's like Isaac and will probably come in 2 weeks.
Well with all that has happened, that is the ramos family update!

2010-05-24T13:06:00.000-07:00

Here are Isaac and Annaliese dancing and laughing. I've been trying to teach Isaac nursury rhymes and there actions, i think it will take a while, but he seems to be responding well. Isaac and Annaliese have become very good friends. They scream dada back and forth and laugh and laugh together. I'm trying to hide the camera so they won't get distracted, thats why you see them over the lunchbox. Along with being really good friends they have certainly started to pick on eachother. What are friends for right?

We're in TX

2010-05-07T14:20:00.000-07:00

We have sucessfully moved! There are no pictures because i forgot my camera cord- we don't have the internet set up at our apartment yet. But there will be pictures later! We are happy with our new apartment especially the pool! There are two separate pools and the one outside our apartment has 3 sections, one being 6 inches deep! Perfect for Isaac! Jonathan painted our bathroom blue and it looks fantastic! He did it all by himself as a surprise for me. Most especially, we love seeing eachother every day!!! Isaac loves to play with daddy, whom is so much more fun than momma! We enjoy decorating the apartment, going to the pool, and spending time with extended family. Jason and Julie live only 10-15 minutes away and last weekend we went to mayfest together. We saw a lumberjack show, went to the petting zoo, ate gyros and had lots more fun. Isaac is an official walker with no need to crawl anymore! I'm a bit pressed for time but more to come!