We are here in the Dominican Republic !!

We have fineally made it to the Dominican Republic...The time is going by so fast I can hardly believe we have been here a week already... we have seen so many fun things and hope to see alot more. It has been so good to come and see our family, Felito's sisters and all our nieces and nephews, it is growing so big. We are staying in a beautiful hotel in Boca Chica a 7 minute car ride away from Felito's brother Franklin and sister Sobieda. Our hotel has a fresh water swimming pool and two master bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, kitchen and dining and living room. The hotel has cable T.V. and wireless internet. To sum it up we are in paradise. The grounds around the hotel are breath taking palm trees, ground cover and beautiful flowering bushes of all colors. It is around 86 degrees in the night and of course slightly hotter in the daytime.

Day 1 (thursday)- figured out rental car and hotel, then we went to visit family, Franklin, Sobieda, Amanda and all of Andres and Michaels cousins (eight in total). It was so fun, the power was out so we enjoyed sitting out on the frount porch and playing with glow lights that my dad brought from the states. We had a delicious hamburger, fries and drink. Which we shared together. It was so great to be back with family and Andres had a ball running down the street with his cousins. Michael enjoyed getting held by his aunts and cousins. Mom and Dad enjoyed meeting felito's twin sister for the first time. Mom was asking if there were fireflies in the D.R. and at that moment we saw a few fling around.

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Get your Vacs

Last Thursday Andres and I Started off with Sore throats and ear aches...( I had a bladder infection) and then we ended up with the SWINE FLU! All I can say is we wanted to die...but we can fineally swallow and the body aches and pains have subsided....thankgoodness! WE are now vacinated Andres after the fact got the flu shot and Micheal got the flu vac and 2 other shots to make him current to go to the Dominican Republic. WE ARE SOOOoooooo EXCITED!! One more week! Yeah! Felito and will have to wait until next week to get vacinated for the swine flu vac. Micheal is doing so well the Doctor said that I can start him on solid floods I was so supprised because I didn't start that with Andres until 6 months. Well good to hear from some of you guys! Love you all !!

"Hey ya all"

hOw ArE YoU ALL? We are doing really good. We are getting really excited it is only 13 days now until our big trip. We are so EXCITED to see Felito's family and to have Andres and Michael meet their aunts and uncles and Grandma. We had a really good halloween Andres was an adorable pumpkin and Michael was a monkey. We went trick or treating and Andres LOVES candy. Then we went up to grandma and grandpas for the evening. Michaels baby blessing was really good. He is such a good baby. He loves to smile and coo. He is extremely vocal I love it. We miss being in contact with you all and hope all is well.

I am not connected...

We are sad to announce that we don't have the internet anymore....maybe we will get connected next year! I feel really bad because the blog is they way that I stay in contact with some of you. Call me anytime...Take care until next time.

"The first steps a baby takes are into your heart"

We welcome our healthy baby boy Micheal Miguel Martinez. He was born on July 30,2009 at 3:22 p.m. in Logan Regional Hospital. He weighed 8 pds. 2 oz. and was 19 1/2 inches long. We are enjoying him so very much he is a joy to have in our family. We love you MICHAEL!!

Enjoying Our New Home

We have moved in well okay...we moved in 2 months ago I have been a major Blog slacker... Bracken Andres' cousin came to visit us in our new house before we had moved in most of our stuff and Michael was not yet born.

"The first steps a baby takes are into your heart"

Michael Miguel Martinez

was born on July 30, 2009 at 3:22 p.m. He came into the world weighing 8.2 pds (lighter than his older brother Andres) and was 19 1/2 inches long. We want to publicly welcome him to our family he has been a joy.

Moving In...

We can now move in....too bad we don't have a truck. We are renting a U-Haul tomarrow to move our stuff. If I had a truck I would be tempted to be moving all day today. (Not the best probably for a 9 mo. prego.) I am just sooooo EXCITED!! I am going to the house this morning to wait for the delivery guys to bring our new kitchen appliences. And I think I will put up the crib first thing. Andres' bed will be delivered this afternoon so I can do a couple things today while I am waiting for Felito to get off work. We had a long meeting after the open house last night. After that some of the familys were really ambisious and are taping and painting their walls I however came home and after a bowl of fruit went straight to bed. We'll keep you posted.

Open House

Hey everyone!! I want to invite you all to our Open House and of course it wouldn't be me if I didn't invite you only 3 days before the event. Thats all the notice you got on my wedding day so I guess its the same this time sorry :(

Neiborhood Nonprofit Housing Corporation is pleased to invite you to an OPEN HOUSE
for the Mutual Self-Help Housing Program Group 16
It will be held this Wednesday, July 22, 2009
4:00-6:00 p.m

Open house signs will identify participating homes.

Please come and see us so you know where we will be living, "Our home is Your home" you are always welcome.

Hello Everyone

Something fun for July. Andres is sitting next to me flipping through the channels on the T.V. he stopped on ESPN where they were starting a soccor game. The national anthem was playing and Andres put his hand on his heart. tapped me on the shoulder and said mum mum. he is so stinkin' cute. I love him sooooo much.

What a Bummer...

I am now home on bed rest. Darn it all! I have high blood pressure so the doctor said I have to stay home and take it easy. So poor Felito has to go to work and go work on the house every night. I guess if I have high blood pressure it restricts blood flow to the baby and can cause a lot of problems I sure don't want to get started early so I am home playing with Andres and keeping my feet up. I get horrably bord but what can I do? We are comming really close to moving in I am SOOOOO EXCITED! Before my doctors apointment yesterday I went to T.J.MAXX and got a couple colorful onsies and some pants and shoes for our little Miguel. I am getting so excited to have him here and see what he looks like I dream with him a lot and he always looks very similar to Andres. Oh yeah Andres went poop and pee in the potty yesterday it was fun but he is far from being potty trained. He is my best little friend! Congratulations Jessica on your new addition I heard that evey thing is doing well and you are enjoying your little boy. Tell next time. bye-bye

I am still Alive!

Wow I can't believe how fast the time is flying. I am already 36 1/2 weeks prenant. We are are almost finished with our house. We have been laying sod in our yards we have layed six homes this week and our turn will be on Friday. It has been so much fun doing our yards and seeing the progress we got to choose 3 trees and 5 shrubs our houses are beginning to look like homes. We will hopefully have the open house the 22 of this month (JULY). yeah! We have worked our butts off building 12 homes it will be sooooooo GOOD to be done. (That is a understatement.) I haven't seen or spent alot of quality time with Felito for a long time it has been WORK WORK WORK!! Andres is growing up...he looks like he is three but still acts like a soon to be two year old. His new favorite thing to do is to be tickled he tells us when to "tdap" and "doo" it makes me laugh because sometimes he mixes up one with go. He is sooo cute I can't wait to see how he is as a big brother. He is so helpful, he likes to help me around the house. When we were weeding and raking to get ready for sod he was mommys little helper to pile the weeds and he rake the yard. He did 50% of the work weeding because I couln't bend over and standup so I scooted around the yard and he carried the weeds and piled them around I owe him big time he is my best little friend. Congratulations Cassie and Jon I heard your good news!! Until next time....

Building our New House in Smithfield

This is our House in Smithfield. It has

Baby Lasley- is now 4 months old

This is Andres and Baby Lasley (Toni's baby) his little cousin at the Hospital 4 months ago. It has taken me a really long time to upload the pictures. Andres was so happy to see the baby he wasn't allowed back there and we snuck in with a Doctor. Baby Lasley is so beautiful he looks alot like both parents. He was adopted out 2 days after he was born.

Guess what were having???

It's a Boy!! Felito, Andres, Toni and I went to my ultra sound yesterday it was so fun. I was really shocked that we are having a baby boy. I decided on Andres' name so it was Felito's turn to choose a name he wouldn't tell me any girl names and he had me so fustrated. He said I know that it is going to be a boy so don't be disappointed when we go to the ultra sound and it isn't a girl. I wouldn't be disappointed at all either way but I was sure we were going to have a girl....woopsie....not a girl a cute little baby boy! His name will be Miguel Angel Martinez!!! He will be just as cute as his older brother Andres and will hopefully be the best of friends! He is due to arrive the 3 of August...but we will expect him Lasley standard time which may be a few days late....jajaja! We are so EXCITED to meet our little guy!

Some of Andres' Favorites

1- Belly Buttons : He loves to show you his or see yours. He knows mommy has a baby in her tummy and he lifts up my shirt and rubs my belly and listens to it. He is so cute!
2- Drawing on everything: A couple of weeks ago he was doing so well with a pen we though that we didn't have to watch him really closely boy were we wrong. He drew on our bathroom door, so every morning he shows me it and says ought owe!
3- He is talking a lot more some of his favorite words are: ought owe, agua (water), leche (milk), balloon, bubbles, wow, dada, I can't think of any more right now but there are more. I love how he speaks spanglish like his parents.
4- He loves to dance: He watches Americans best dance crew and he tries to break dance and hip-hop
5- He likes to sing: He likes to watch VH1, MTV or CMT he is a lover of music like his daddy and great Grandpa Richards.
6- Play with dad on the computer
7- He likes to snow board on the xbox: he biffs it like the snowboarder on the game falling on the floor.
8- He likes magnets
9- He likes putting on new or clean clothes he rubs his tummy and feels like he is the handsomest guy around.
10- He loves family: He gets so excited for any visit.
*** He loves oing outside even though it is cold!! Mommy doesn't like it at all!! He likes to play in the snow!

Buena Noticia!

We are sooooo EXCITED!! We are expecting!! We are going to add to our little family this summer. Andres and the baby will be almost 2 years apart. I haven't had my first apointment yet but I think that I am due end of July, first of August. All I can say is I am showing alot faster with this one or I am further along than I think.
I am so happy and at the same time a ball of nerves. I don't know how I am going to give Andres and a baby all the attention that they need. Andres is my little man he is the love of my life. I hope he will be a good older brother....he loves kids I just don't know about kids that take time away from him and his attention.
Our house is comming along really well we are now working on our closet organizers and putting in our inside doors. I am just sooo glad to be inside working rather than freezing outside. We will hopefully be getting into our house before the baby is due. I am sooo happy for our house it will be good to have room to run around. We are living up at Aggie Village it is cold and so tiny. Some other things I am looking forward to is a dishwasher (besides me), a dryer and space!!

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