Extremely Happy

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!

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

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!

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

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

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. : )