Rollin into 29!

For my birthday on Saturday night we went to the Skating ring in Orange. We had SOOO much fun!!!! There were lots of spills but no major injuries I'd like to report! Thank you so much to my friends and family that came out and skated with me who cleared their schedules because it was my birthday and that was important to them.

Alana got all dressed up for me!


Jacquie and I kicked butt like we'd been skating every week! (And it's been YEARS)


My niece Hailey learned how to skate and did so well! I was so proud!!


My friend Judy came out to skate, she's a pro!

My two niece's.

My friend Anda and her boyfriend Brian drove from LA to party with us! Thank you guys, it means a lot!!

Crystal finally showed up after a loooong day of working, she never fell, but was close!!!

Me and my Crys!!!!

I accidently made Hailey fall and she was holding onto Jacquie and so Jacquie ate it and I felt HORRIBLE!!!! But not horrible enough to stop laughing and take a picture! HAHA! Sorry JQ!!

After they kicked us out of the skating ring (kicking and screaming, I wasn't ready to go!!!)... we went to a bar in downtown orange for a few drinks and some dancing!

We had such a good time and I'm up for skating again and again!! It's super fun, cheap, close and great exersice!! Thank you guys so much for a great night!!!

This is the first year in the last 4 years that I celebrated my birthday without certain friends because they were "busy" this year... cause they didn't know my birthday was Feb 28th like every year?? They all made other plans without me on my birthday. I know we all get busy and have had lots of things going on but really? Yes I'm bitter about it. How in the world after so long of doing it every year do you all of a sudden make other plans on my birthday when it's on a Saturday night? That's really not cool and I don't appreciate it! But I guess I'll just get over it and know where I stand in our friendship! BLAH!

Monday morning we are going to Las Vegas BABY to celebrate for a few more day. My BFF in Colorado is meeting us there and we plan to drink, dance and party again! Ashley's birthday is in 2 weeks so we are celebrating both of our birthdays in VIVA!!! More stories and pictures to come!

What they say is true!

There are many fishy's in the sea, but none of them as cute as me!!!

Kisses for the baby fishy!

This week's update

This week has been hectic but I wanted to blog about how our biggest loser is going if anyone really still cares? As of Tuesday I was down 11 pounds, and today 10 so who really knows?? Victor didn't work out last week and I doubt he'll want to get on the scale this week so maybe we'll skip him until next week! I hurt my back pretty bad yesterday doing pretty much nothing, so I'm hoping I'll be back to normal tomorrow to start working out again! I know 10 pounds is a lot and I should be happy about that, but I lost 9 the first week and it's only been bits and pieces since then. But 10 pounds is 10 pounds I didn't want! I'm not eating as healthy as I should be, I've been craving fast food this week but had to put a limit to it! So I'm trying to stay with it! Damn it's fricken hard!!!!! Especially when your husband isn't motivated anymore either! But hopefully we will have better news to report next week!

My BFF Ashely in CO is still doing great too! She's down 6 1/2 pounds!! I'm so happy for her! It's all slowly but at least we are all STILL trying!!! Keep it up Ash, I promise in Vegas I'll try and help keep us both on track... in Viva? Ya right! Liquid diet!!

Here is some motivation for me and Ashley... I think this was in 2000-ish? Oh, back in the days!

Too big too fast!

This morning Victor found Alana standing in her crib waiting for us to come get her! Time to take off the bumpers and put the mattress down! It's all coming to fast for me!

Happy Valentine's Day!

From our Sweatheart to you and yours!

25 Random Things

Michelle this one is for you...

1) My daughter and my husband are the loves of my life.
2) For a long time, I have considered my mom my best friend.
3) I have known my best friend Ashley since we were in 2nd grade.
4) Now that I have a baby, I'm SO over my 2 dogs. (Anyone want them?)
5) My birthday is in 15 days!
6) I'm trying to finish a book called "The Memory of Running" but it's taking me forever!!
7) Victor and I both love and collect James Patterson hard back books.
8) I own almost every Disney movie that has come out on DVD.
9) I am obsessed with pictures. (In case this is the first time you have seen my blog)
10) I think I have an addiction to water. I drink at least 12 glasses of water every day.
12) I had to call the cops on a bum that was peeing right outside of our patio twice!
13) I have a brother that lives in Utah.
14) The name Alana came from one of my ex-bosses friends, he named his daughter that 5 years ago and ever since I've been in love with it. Rose came from my Grandma that passed away the week of my wedding :(
15) Muse is the BEST concert I'd ever been too in my life!
16) I have the song "Informer" by Snow on my iPod.
17) My other best friend Crystal keeps me sane most days!
18) My husband writes the most amazing stories and I LOVE to read them.
19) Dirty Dancing is one of my favorite movies. I know most of the words.
20) I just got a part time job as the Assistant Manager at Gymboree at Main Place Mall!
21) I blog stock everyone I know that has a blog!
22) I clip coupons for EVERYTHING!
23) I LOVE to smoke Cigar's, mostly the flavored kind with filters.
24) I'm done drinking Vodka, it makes me so sick every time!
25) 25th random fact?? When I first met Victor, I couldn't stand him. I HATED working with him. My, how things have changed!

Vertical here we come!

Alana is now pulling herself up on everything! I think she's bypassing the whole crawling thing and just going to start to stand... She is very wobbly but she has very strong legs and no longer wants to really sit down, she automatically lunges forward to pull herself up on me or anything around her and just stand there! She is on her knees rocking back and fourth but no crawling yet! Instead she just wants to be a big girl and stand up!

100th post!!!

So in less then a year I've managed to post 100 times! This is my 100th!!! I started this blog in May right before Alana came into our lives in hopes that I would post pictures and stories of our new life with her so everyone can see her grow up with us! It's crazy how many pictures I take thinking "I'll take this picture so I can blog about it"... Between people like my grandparents, and my BFF in Colorado that don't get to see Alana a lot, I think everyone loves to look at the blog often so they feel closer to her because they can see her grow up while being far away! It's fun to rant and rave when I need to on here as well. But I'm glad that we can share our lives! I recommend to anyone that is going to have a baby to start one!!! I also wanted to thank everyone for leaving comments and keeping up with our lives! When I hit June 3rd which is Alana's first birthday (YIKES) I'm going to print out all of the blogs and keep them together in a binder so Alana will always have the first year of her life at her fingertips to look at when she gets older!

My baby girl in my arms 8 1/2 months ago!

Thank you to everyone for your support always and thank you to my loving husband and Alana's da-da-da! Here is to 100 more posts!!! Cause God knows I'll NEVER run out of things to say :)

Random Wednesday picture!

I found this picture of me and Crystal from a Chargers game we went to. This was obivously a picture on the way to the game... you don't want to see pictures after the drunken-ness has sunk in! But this is super cute, can you feel the love?!?! Love you Crys!

My Strawberry Shortcake!

Alana is learning to eat all kinds of new finger foods! Here is her latest Strawberry eating! She acts like it's sour. She makes the funniest faces!

Monday Morning Blues...

Working out 5-6 days a week doing lots of cardio, weights, Biggest Loser work outs on demand... We've gone through 3 weeks already. The first week I lost 9 pounds, crazy right? Well week 2 and now week 3 I haven't lost another damn pound!!!!!!! Still at 9 pounds. How is it possible to be working out so much and eating good and for 2 weeks now not loosing anymore weight? Last week Victor went up a few pounds but now is down the few to the same weight as before! I'm so discouraged........

Happy Birthday Uncle Bob!

Today is my uncle Bob's 60th Birthday! Happy Birthday Uncle Bob!!! As sad as this sounds I didn't get any pictures of him, however I did get some good pictures of the girls and me with the girls, and the three of us!

Mommy and Alana!! I LOVE this picture!


My smiley girl!


This is what happens when you try to get 3 girls in the same picture all 3 years old and under! Hopefully we can get a good one of them soon!


My sester and Ellie


Ellie cheese-in it up for the camera!


Alana never smiles when it's the 3 of us!

Tired Girl!

Yesterday while I was cleaning and getting stuff put away in Alana's room she hung out in her crib. She loves to play in her crib during the day if I need to get something done. Apparently she got tired and decided to take a nap! I didn't hear her for a few minutes so I looked in the crib and this is what I saw! I was laughing so much, I'm such a horrible mom, instead of moving all the toys and laying her down, I ran and got my camera. But seriously this picture is so funny! She was a tired girl!

8 months old today!

As we get closer to a year old it makes me so sad! 4 more months away! Alana is gaining such a personality. She is SOOO loveable and loves to give hugs and kisses. She waves now and puts her hands up and waves to be picked up! Her top teeth are still growing in but no sign of any other one's right now! No crawling yet but she's close. She kind of crawls backwards, she's up on her knees and rocks back and fourth. It's pretty funny to watch! But she gets around anywhere she wants to go by rolling around and turning her body, so she many not feel the need to crawl anytime soon! Plus being a bit heavier baby, it may take her longer! All is well in the world of Alana, she is such a happy girl, smiling and talking all the time!

This is her 80's Hairdo!

Alana & Lexie Time!

Alana loves her baby cousin Lexie! She is learning how to be "gentle and soft" with her because she wants to just grab at her and love her!


Lexie is getting so big these days with her rolling around! Look at that face!! She's got the most beautiful bright blue eyes! Poor girl looks just like her dad, hopefully she'll grow out of that soon! :)


My happiest girl!

The curse of week 2...

Yep, we all knew it was coming... the curse of week 2 of the Biggest Loser. Week one people drop tons of weight and NO MATTER WHAT, week 2 those same people either gain or loose no weight! It's so crazy and no one can ever understand it! Not even the Bob or Julian the trainers!

This week we have NO WINNER and NO LOSER!!! What I mean by that is Victor gained back a few pounds and I didn't loose anything.... So no one really wins because not loosing any weight is really not winning and no one is a looser because no one lost weight. UH!

Now that week 2 is gone and done, we can get over it and strive to make great progress for week 3 and it can only be better from here on out right? As long as we can stick to working out and eating better the pounds are bound to come off at some point! So as we move into week 3, wish us luck! This week will be hard for me not to cave into my needs for sweets! But I will try to resist!!!

Don't dig your grave with your own fork and spoon!

Haha! I found that headliner quote and thought it was funny, cause seriously how true is that? Sooooo.... this week has been a really hard week trying to stay motivated to work out and eat healthy. I know as the weeks go on we'll loose some steam, but this week was hard! I did cheat a few times. The girls and I went out to see the Pirate Show in Buena Park, they had a really good dinner, appetizers and dessert... um... not good as in good for you, but just yummy. I had several glasses of wine. So I'm sure that didn't help week 2 not being good for loosing weight, but I've really been trying to be very disciplined. I worked out every day this week except Friday, that seems to be my day off. I've even gone as far as doing some of the Biggest Loser work outs that are "On Demand" on TV and then working out at the gym too... I'm trying!!!
I have to say that having everyone jump on the band wagon with us is great too! Crystal has been here a few days a week to work out with me. Sarah came one day this week and I'm sure more next week. But Sarah and Jake are trying to get back into a better life style to! My best friend Ashley in Colorado is doing Weight Watchers and has lost 4 pounds!!!! YEAH ASHLEY!!! I'm so proud of everyone who is kicking butt with us!! We weigh in tomorrow morning so I'll post again our results. But at this point, I will just be happy if I don't gain any weight since last week. I'm ok with not loosing any this week, ONLY because I know how it goes when you work out! But as long as I haven't gained any I'll be fine!
This week was tuff but there was some light at the end of my tunnel! My sister Julie, her Husband Brian and my Hailey Lu moved back here from AZ!!!!!!!!! Anyone who knows me knows how much I love my Hailey and I've been waiting since the day they moved away for them to move back! I'm so happy that I'll be able to spend more time with Hailey! She's 13 and if I remember correctly these next 10 years to come are SUPER important in a girls life, so I'm really happy that I can be around to be there for her! Just be an Aunt. I love my Hailey and am so happy to have her back! And of course my sister to, but more excited about Hailey :)
That's is for now, see you tomorrow with our biggest looser results!!!

Bath Time!

Some cute pictures from bath time!

She loves her Angel's cup! And yes, she is in the kitchen sink still! It's WAY easier to give her a bath in the sink right now because she can sit herself up in there and it seems like such a waste to run all that water in a bath for 10 minutes! I think we'll start the big bath in a month or two! I'm doing my part to conserve water?

Can you see her top chompers???? They are still growing in. It's weird because her bottom 2 cut through the gums and then were grown in within the week. The 2 middle top ones cut through the gums a month ago and still haven't grown in completely, and the other 2 top ones are still cutting through the gums. Poor girl, it hurts me to look at it! But she is a tropper, she has been so good through it all! I'm lucky!

Look at the curls on her head when her hair is wet!! Then they just disapear when it's dry! It's so weird!

First Hair Cut??

Not sure this really counts as her first hair cut. I know, you are thinking, she's not even 8 months old yet, how can she need a hair cut already? But have you seen this girls hair? It's been out of control since the day she was born. She has grown super long hairs only on the sides of her head. See the long hairs just on the sides? Recently someone said they were here wings....Wings? So I chopped just the side wings so that the sides now match the rest of the hair length.

She had no idea what was coming!

Put the sissors down and back away mom!

Do you see what you just did to me?

The wings are gone and she looks so different to me now! But her hair will grow back and hopefully more evenly now!

Gotta keep the hair of course!

For my baby shower my cousin got me this cute box and now I have something to put in it!

What's up doc?

Finger food time!

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And the winner is.....

Monday morning weigh in??

Jamie - 9 pounds 4.5%
Victor - 5 pounds 2.3%

Yep, you are reading that correctly! I won this week, I lost 9 pounds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All that hard work this week paid off for both of us! I have to give Victor so much credit, he was up every morning before work and in the gym, honestly I worried all week about not winning. We both have been eating well and just kicking butt in the gym and now we have something to show for it! It feels GREAT!! 9 pounds?? I couldn't believe it! I know because I have the baby weight still on me that will probably come off a little easier then normal fat. And by easier I don't mean it's easy to work out every day and eat well.... But really, 9 pounds?? That's just motivation to keep it going!!! AHHH!! I'm so excited! Massages for me this week!!!

For anyone who watches the show the Biggest Loser, you know that week 2 is notorious for being HORRIBLE!!! I mean the first week people loose like 20 pounds and then week 2 they don't loose anything over like 5 pounds. So don't expect me to report big numbers next Monday, but I guess that means we have to work harder this week!

Good job on your 5 pounds hunny! Every little bit counts and it makes us feel good in the process! But... I still kicked your butt this week!!!!!!! :) Love you!

Fitness - if it came in a bottle, everybody would have a great body!

Oh, this week has been GREAT!!! Tons of work outs, eating healthy, just feeling so great about myself and not lazy! This morning Victor got up and worked out before work and then left for work. So I got my butt up and feed Alana and then packed her up in the stroller and took her to the gym with me. She loved it! Lots of lights and people moving around. The gym was packed this morning. ***Note to self, get up EARLIER weekend mornings to work out! I have to say how impressed I was with Alana though. She sat in her stroller and just hung out and watched me work out. She had a few toys that kept her company. I wasn't sure how everyone in the gym was going to react to me bringing her in with me. But I got tons of compliments on how good she was. Some lady said, "I see you brought your coach with you!"... haha! She is a lot of my motivation to work out, so yes! Everyone was really great about it!

I have to give credit where credit is due. The trainer I had for a few months before the wedding, his name is Aaron and I can't even begin to tell you how much I appreciate all he did for me. He taught me so much about working out. Half the time we worked out we weren't even in the gym, we were outside on mats. He kicked my butt every single morning I was there. But he is the nicest guy in the world so he did it nicely! He is really the most positive person that I've EVER met. I swear for me it was like boot camp! Just when I thought that I couldn't do anymore, he'd tell me to do more and I did. And then when I thought I couldn't do anymore after that, he start talking to me about the wedding... or telling me to do more so I looked extra hot in my wedding dress... I take everything he taught me to the gym with me everyday. Aside from just running on the treadmill, which I'm pretty good at, I do all this crazy stuff that works out my body so good! I get so sore and it's the best feeling EVER!!! Anyway, Aaron owns (?co-owns?) a gym in Irvine called Innovative results. Anyone wanting the best work out ever, call him! http://www.myproresults.com/

This was a picture of me before my workouts started. UH!

This was me days before my wedding! This is the picture I am striving to be like again! Here is more motivation for me!!

2 Beautiful Girls!

I don't know if I've said it before but my cousin Chrissy's daughter, Kali, who I watch during the week is seriously the sweetest 2 year old I know! She LOVES her baby Alana Rose and is such a great influence on her! Kali is very polite and listens like no other 2 year old I've ever met. She is always SOOO good for me and it's such a joy to watch her! Kali always makes Alana laugh and smile and sings to her and shares her toys with her. Alana watches Kali crawl around on the floor with her and I think Kali will be Alana's motivation to crawl! I know that Alana will look up to Kali and I'm happy that Kali is who she is. I love her as my own and look how adorable she is... she's got crazy hair, and I really never know what to do with it, but I love it just wild and crazy like it is!

This is the little rockng chair that my cousin Chrissy and my Aunt got for Alana at the baby shower. It matches the butterfly decorations in her room. This is the first time she's been big enough to sit on it and as I was looking at the pictures I realized that I had one of me kinda the same.... I'm a bit older then Alana I think, but look how cute we are! She sure gets her looks from her mama :)

The BIGGEST Loser!

So since season 1 of the Biggest Loser on TV, Victor and I have sat and watched as they find people around the country to be on the show. We sit each season on our couch, every week and watch as people bust their butts to loose crazy amounts of weight! Normally we sit and watch the show while eating dinner, or perhaps dessert... There is nothing like chowing down on some ice cream or eating some pizza, sitting on our butts watching people eat right, work out and week after week slim down! I know some of my friends said that they do the same thing, so I know we aren't alone! How do you think all these people on the show got that big!!

A year and a half ago we got married and 6 months prior to that I busted my butt EVERY day to loose some weight for my wedding (as most brides to be try to do). But I really did it. 25 pounds in 6 months! I was up 3 days a week at 5:30 am working out with a boot camp personal trainer! Aaron was amazing and taught me A LOT! On my wedding day I felt like a million bucks and was so happy to feel the way I did about myself because I was able to loose some weight and be so happy! I have always said... when all is said and done, the only thing you have left after the wedding is over is really the pictures. So for 6 months I counted every calorie that went in my mouth, my body did things I didn't think it was capable of, I worked out so hard, some days I cried. Every day pushing a little bit harder picturing me in my wedding dress and knowing I was going to display those pictures for the rest of my life for the world to see! Well it worked out great and I kicked ass!! ...

A few months after the wedding the most amazing thing in the world happened to me, I got pregnant! The first trimester I was trying not to eat anything that was bad for me. I stayed away from all of my temptations. I vowed I wasn't going to gain crazy amounts of weight.... Then the second trimester came and all I wanted was sweets. Didn't matter what kind, Ice cream, chocolate, cupcakes, cake, Twinkies, anything I could get my hands on. I've never been one for sweets, ever, so it was weird, but I gave in to it! I knew that it was going to be the only time in my life when I could be fat and cute... so I ate! Gained more weight then I should have I'm sure... meanwhile Crystal kept accusing me of making her gain weight too because I need a partner in crime when I wanted ice cream or taco bell.... And so my husband stepped in as well. We happily gained some weight together... That's what a husbands for right? My beautiful Alana Rose was born and it's all been so amazing! In the meantime I haven't really been doing anything to help my body get back into any kind of shape besides big.... Eating whatever I want doesn't help either!
Alana will be 1 years old in June and if I haven't lost my baby weight by then, shoot me! The majority of my immediate and extended family is overweight and has battled it for a long time. I promised myself I wouldn't fall into that category! Several people in my family have had surgery's to take the weight off because they were too big. I refuse to be one of those people I told myself I would never be!!! Nothing against anyone in my family, but I don't want to be like them in that way!

So here we are, 2009 and Victor and I started to do our own Biggest Loser at home! In a new place, with a super nice gym, we really have no reason besides laziness not to loose the weight.... So we weighed in on Monday and will continue to weigh in every Monday from now until our 2 year anniversary on June 23rd. We each have our own goals to loose a certain amount of weight, but our main goal for June is to kick each other's butt to be the BIGGEST LOSER! We are challenging each other to see who can loose the most percentage of body weight by our Anniversary! So the work outs and the subway sandwiches began this week. So far so good!! I'm sore as hell and it feels so GREAT!! Victor doesn't ever blog on here so this will all be one-sided... but I'm going to kick his butt each week! We have small prizes for the winner (me) each week and then at the end we have the bigger prize! Suggestions on prizes for each week are welcome! 22 weeks to be the Biggest Loser! I hope Victor realizes who he is going against and how motivated I am to loose this baby weight and to change our lives so Alana will already have the good habits from her parents when she starts eating real food.

So to all the people that want us to buy Girl Scout cookies... NO, go away please!!!! Anyone that works with Victor, I will pay you to bring him Ding Dongs and Cupcakes and anything that is bad for him! Haha! Just kidding, I want us to both loose the weight, but I just want to win more! So please help support us both! We will take any good recipes that are healthy that you think we should try! I will post every Monday who won (most likely me all the time)... So that everyone can see our progress!

***Hunny.... It's on Buddy!***