Be Mine

(forgot to publish this one...whoops!)

It seems Valentine's Day came and went in a blink of an eye - but what doesn't in our lives these days!

Ashtyn and I got a special treat on Valentines Day - Matt took us to Outback for dinner!

You see I LOVE Outback - love me some prime rib, blooming onion and oh their Caesar salad make my mouth water - and Ashtyn LOVES there macaroni and cheese. 

How great is it that my daughter and I both LOVE the same place to go out to eat - not so great for my hubby though...

I used this to my advantage and the weekend before Valentines I told Ashtyn to ask her daddy to take her to Outback for Valentine's dinner (I knew he would not turn her down, where as he would probably just look at me with that look - NO!)

Well, my plan worked out perfectly, and Matt took Ashtyn and I on a date to Outback...

We dropped Eli off at Nana's because let's just face it eating out with him right now just sucks, and we really wanted to enjoy our Outback dinner...and we DID!

Matt and I brought Ashtyn's present to dinner for her to open.  She got a new box filled with stickers, another Zu Zu pet named Chole and a My Little Pony named Cupcake...

Dinner was fantastic and very enjoyable.  I forget how easy having one child is sometimes.

Thanks Babe for treating us to a special night out - we both LOVED it!

After dinner we went to Nana's to pick up Eli...

We let him open up his present before we left, and what did Eli get...

 a TRASH TRUCK of course...

 The boy was beyond excited and just kept saying "trash truck", "trash truck," and if anyone tried to touch it or play with it, or show him how something worked he would grab it so tight and say "No, mine" - the boy is crazy in love with trash trucks!  He even went to bed with it that night...

Valentine's Day was very special for us Trujillos, hope yours was the same!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Build-a-Bear

We did our traditional "Valentines Day" outing with Nana and Papa.  A trip to Build-a-Bear and out to dinner at Carrabas.  Ashtyn lives for her trips to Build-A-Bear and could hardly contain herself all day waiting for her to finally get there and pick out a bear.

She's had her eye set on the Red Hello Kitty for awhile now, and as soon as she got there she ran right over to get one, ready to stuff it full of LOVE!

 This was the first time Eli had any interest in the whole experience.  He actually picked out his own...a puppy!  Another word he is great at saying!  He held on to it and kept saying

 "puppy...happy puppy...puppy"

He picked out his own heart and watched it get stuffed...

 Eli was loving the whole experience until he went to wash the puppy and the sound "scared" him, he started crying, still holding his puppy - but definitely was over the whole Build-A-Bear thing.

 Ashtyn of course LOVED washing and fluffing her new Red Hello Kitty...

 When it was time to pay we had to take the puppy from Eli and this was his reaction...

 he LOVES his puppy from Nana and Papa...

Nana completely spoiled Ashtyn...not only did she get the Red Hello Kitty she also got a bed for her to sleep in.  This was Ashtyn leaving the store...

 Do I have a shopaholic or what?

That picture made my mom and me laugh and feel so proud..she is following in our footsteps...be it good or bad, it still made us smile!

Thank you Nana and Papa - your grandbabies LOVE their trips to Build-A-Bear and both of them went to bed that night with their Red Hello Kitty and Puppy in hand!

Thank you - We love you so much!

"Trash Truck"

Eli is completely OBSESSED with trash trucks....that's right trash trucks! 

I am not sure what he loves about them, but he waits every Friday for the trash truck to come down the street and screams "Trash Truck" when he sees it or hears it!  Even if we are downstairs hanging out and he hears the trash truck he will run upstairs so he doesn't miss it.

He constantly says the word "trash truck" - he refers to everything as "trash truck" and when he is excited about something he says "trash truck"... we hear "trash truck" all day long and not a muddled "trash truck" its a very clearly pronounced "trash truck"

I remember Ashtyn loving the trash trucks, but no where near the level of Eli...

Everyone who knows Eli, knows that entertaining the child is next to impossible - he will stay occupied with an activity for no more then ten minutes.  Well, the other day Matt had an idea, got on You Tube and searched for "trash trucks" and of course he found videos of trash trucks!

Can you believe some guy drives around and records trash trucks?

Well, Eli sure appreciates it, because he sat at the desk and watch "trash trucks" on You Tube for an hour, completely engaged...

Oh, Eli you are SO cute!

We have now found a new way to keep monkey boy quiet and safe for more then 10 minutes...

You Tube seriously is the answer to our prayers...!

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I did it!  I FINALLY finished my first ever digital scrapbook and I absolutely LOVE it!
I started getting into the whole "digital scrapbooking" world about a year ago and about a year later I finally have something to show!  I originally had wanted to complete Eli's Baby Book, but I seemed to get off course a bit and it just seemed to get more overwhelming as time went on.  So that's when I decided I would first complete a Blog Book and then move on to other projects - get my feet wet a bit! 
Scrapbooking the Blog was so easy since all the writing is done and my pictures were already sorted and ready to be loaded, so it went together pretty fast!  Besides for me being overly picky with layout and other composition details it went pretty smooth!
I now have two more Blog books to complete and of course still Eli's Baby Book!  I think I will take Jamie's approach and do maybe a couple pages every other day and hopefully soon I will have more books to share.
I am so grateful that I was inspired to start my blog, it is probably the best thing I could have done for keeping memories of my family and our life.  I LOVE to Blog and it makes it so easy to document milestones or simple days of life with little effort and then later allows you to put together one hell of a book!
I hope my kids will enjoy these books as much as I have creating them...now on to Blog Book 2010!

Man Down

Hello there! 

That's me doing a shout out from my hospital bed at St. Josephs...

I had a little procedure done on my heart this morning and have spent the rest of the day recovering.

My SVT ablation went perfect - was not at all enjoyable to say the least - but as the doc said,

"It was textbook and could have not gone better!"

For years I have had major palpitations in my heart which were unrelated to anything I was doing.  I could be just sitting in a chair and my heart would start racing leaving me feeling horrible!

My condition got worse while I was pregnant with Ashtyn and they finally diagnosed me with mild SVT and informed me the only cure was to have an ablation.

After LOTS of thought and prayer I finally scheduled to have the procedure - my condition was getting worse causing me to have really bad days - and when you are a mommy with toddlers - bad days are not acceptable!  So I did it - I had the procedure, and hopefully from this day forward I will never feel my heart race for no reason - just when Matt kisses me!

Like I said the procedure was VERY uncomfortable since I had to be awake and alert the entire time, so hearing, feeling and seeing everything they were doing was not so relaxing!  But with it being an ablation my recovery has been very quick and besides for a headache and feeling tired I am doing really well.

My mom stayed with me all day and then later on Matt and my babies came to visit...

 Ashtyn made me card in the shape of a heart covered with stickers, and on it she wrote,

"I love you mommy and thanks for taking me to The Goodwill"

how precious is she...

Eli loved playing on this chair during his visit!

I will spend the next couple days taking it easy and then I should be back to normal.

I am excited to finally have this procedure behind me and hopefully I am SVT free!

Now, hopefully I will enjoy a good night sleep, with no husband or kids to keep me awake...

Goodnight!

Saturday

Saturday was a LAZY day for us Trujillos...

I had absolutely NO motivation to do anything and with all the snow outside we decided to just hang around the house in our pajamas...

We did get a little ounce of energy and headed outside to play in the two feet of freshly fallen snow...

Matt carved out a little igloo for the kids to play in...

 We played on the swing set - the slide is so much MORE fun when there is a big pile of snow at the bottom!

Had some snow ball fights...

 Once Eli face planted into the snow - play time was over...

 so we headed inside for some snacks and warm drinks...

 and then played a game of "Horse" - well technically I did not play, Matt did all the work, but I did capture the moment quite nicely...

 What a good lookin' horse he is...

 What an awesome Dad my kids have!

His little riders definitely wore him out though...

That pretty much wrapped up our day - It's always nice to have a lazy day...

Monkey Boy

My son is clearly a MONKEY!

While I was getting dressed the other day, I later walked into the bathroom to see my little monkey trying to brush his teeth...

 This look is priceless...

It seems he had found a way to climb into the sink, and who knows how long he was in there before I caught him - anyone questioning my mother skills?

At least he is practicing good hygiene!