Allie's Baby Blessing

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.

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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!

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

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

Videos

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

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.