Go Suns Go!!

I would just like to say YA! for the Suns actually winning the 1st game of the season 109-107 against the Clippers. I'm SOOO excited for basketball season to start up again. It has become my favorite sport. Last season I was VERY pregnant and that was pretty much the only thing that kept me sane. Haha. I would also like to wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my oldest brother Steven. He turns the BIG 24 today! What an old fart! haha j/k. We didn't do much. We're just hanging out watching the Suns opening game. Chillin out at home. Hopefully we'll win! Here's Matty enjoying the game. He is totally into it!! So cute! Later!

Saturday was AmAziNg!!!

Yesterday was a pretty normal Saturday for me. I spent most of it with my mommy around town. (Berto was at work.) We went shopping and had lunch, you know normal mommy/daughter stuff.We went to get her computer from her house because I was going to show her how to download something and decided while we over by her house we would stop by the Target. The one on Power and McKellips... We were looking at the baby clothes and turned down the aisle where they have the walkers/swings/cribs on display and my mom saw someone playing with their baby in one of the walkers and asked how old their baby was. He said 4 months. I told him his baby was really cute and we kept walking. My mom got all excited because Matthew is 4 months and she had been dying to see what he would do in one of those walkers. As we passed the man I realized I knew him from somewhere but I just couldn't quite put my finger on WHERE i knew him from when all of the sudden it hit me like a 10lb bowling ball!! OMG that is LEANDRO BARBOSA from the Phoenix SUNS!!!!!!!! I was sooooooooooooo EXCITED i could barely hold it in. ( actually i didnt... we went down another aisle and i jumped up and down with joy and clapped my hands like a little kid on Christmas morning.) I passes by him again just to confirm i had actually seen him and it was DEFINITELY him! So we decided we would go walk past him one more time but just so he didnt think we were stalking him we made a point of saying, "lets go look at the shoes." So as we walked past him the final time he was speaking Portuguese to his family and that is how i KNEW it was Leandro Barbosa. HE'S FROM BRAZIL!!! Then as we left Target we were getting into our car and he was parked only 1 space away. He was driving a Black Dodge and his family was in a Black Range Rover. OMG all i have to say is that it was VERY VERY exciting for me. Barbosa is one of our (me and berto) FAVORITE players and then to run into him at Target of all places and actually get to speak to him!! SOOOOOOOOO COOL! I would have taken a picture but he was with his family and he probably doesnt get any privacy. Id he were alone I would have but i wanted to respect the fact he was with his daughter or whoever the little girl was. This kind of stuff never happens to me so Im OVERWHELMED with excitement! Here's a picture of Matthew sitting in the same walker the little girl was sitting in!! HEHE... **** i think we have finally found a best friend/companion for Matty. Meet: MR. BEAR Matty LOVES Mr. Bear and its so cute to watch him give LOVE to his new friend! and i would just like to thank my mother for getting me hooked to the my zoo and island bingo games on FACEBOOK. Im officially addicted, haha im actually only blogging now because im waiting to make money for the my zoo game. im pathetic. This i know. Later!

Dear October

Dear October, You have indeed failed and I think disappointed every living person in the state of Arizona. How could you make over 100 degree weather this time of year? We look forward to you, October, for reason that when you come the weather changes and becomes the most PERFECT time of year. BUT you have failed. Although you did redeem yourself a little by throwing a RIDICULOUSLY beautiful day at us today! I think the high was only like 83. GORGEOUS! Keep it up and i might forgive you... Sincerely, Julie And I am so HAPPY that today was my day off and I could actually enjoy the weather outside! I just chilled at home with the hubby and Matty. It was a good day... MOHAWK! :) Everyone tells me I need to cut his hair but I just can't do it! I was blessed with a baby with a TON of hair. He has more hair than a lot of babies that are 6 months older than him! How could I cut it?? ugh.... I refuse!

DiNNer DaTE wiTH My MoMMy

I'm so glad its Friday! TGIF!! After the week I've had the weekend is a welcome gift for me! Since Berto is at work I went to dinner with my mommy. We made it a date and had a TON of fun! I haven't laughed so hard in such a long time! Just what I needed to cheer up after everything. We went to Olive Garden and I had what I think is the BEST salad EVER! Haha it was just their regular salad that you get whenever you go there, but today it was so GOOD! I must have had like 4 helpings! Either way it was totally YUMMY!

Afterwards we went over to Fiesta Mall to walk off our GINORMOUS meals. I found Matty's Halloween costume! He's gonna be Eeyore. The baby in the picture is super chunky and Matty has some chunk to him so I think he'll look SUPER cute in it! At least its NOT a pumpkin!

That's all i really care about! I can't wait to take pictures of him in it! Hopefully he won't be a grouch and will let me get some pictures of him! Well i HAVE to finish these dang invitations! Later!

We made Matty try on "pimp" hats on! SOOO funny!!

sLeePiNg BaBy MeAnS MoMmY iS FREEEEE!!! : )

Right now i LIVE for moments when Matthew is asleep and i have a free moment of time! As i have said before i took on the VERY challenging task of handmaking ALL the invitations for my brother Clif's wedding. Little did i know at the time just how many invitations i would be making or just how intricate every little detail to these invitations are. Don't get me wrong i am a creative person and I LOVE that i am able to do this for their wedding but I SOOOO could have used maybe 2 more months to get them done. He proposed in July and they are getting married Nov. 14. I had exactly 2 months to finish 200 HANDMADE invitations. All in all, I think they turned out super cute and the best part is that they aren't perfect and not one of them is exactly the same as another. Its what makes them UNIQUE! They are supposed to go out by the end of this week.... OH CRAP its already Thursday! haha j/k/ All I have left to do is address them and then off they go to the lovely couple to be stuffed with pictures and stamped! I really had NO idea how popular my brother is and how BIG his fiancee's family is! This should be a totally FUN wedding! I'm so happy for the both of them! This is what the invitations look like....

On a different note! I am totally EnJoYiNg the weather in AZ at night! I open all my windows and doors and turn off the A/C. Its so nice that our electric bill will finally start to go down!! And the cutest picture of Matty!!!

10 ThiNgS i lOve!

I feel the need to post things that I LOVE today because i am having the week from you know where! I thought Monday was bad, Tuesday was worse, and it just seems to keep getting worse. So I am reminding myself of things that make me happy! I need to cheer up! Here goes... 1. My hubby Berto and baby Matthew 2. My Family & Friends- they are the best! 3. My job :) (bethesda pediatrics) 4. Disneyland- I want to go there SOOOO bad! Anyone wanna take me? j/k 5. www.facebook.com 6. Target~ i can get into LOTS of trouble here! 7. Purses 8. Baby Toys are sooooo much fun! I can't wait for Matty to start playing with them more! 9. Spaghetti~ Which I'm totally having for dinner... YUM!! 10. My Blanket (Blankey) haha yes i am 22 and i still have a blankey... so what? He's been through it all with me!! Even when i had Matthew he was there. See the purpleish blanket behind me?? YEP! that's him! LOVE Blankey! :) Please excuse this terrible picture of me! I was in labor and not feeling so great. I think i had JUST gotten my Epidural so ya.... EWW!

Matthew is going to be 15 weeks old this friday!! We just started giving him rice cereal (spoon fed) and it is SOOOOO CUTE!! I cant believe he is going to be 4 months in a week! Its gone by so fast! Life with him has been amazing and hectic all at once! i wouldnt change anything though! Here's some pics of Matty eating his cereal... Today had been a CRAZY day! i though Monday was bad but i was wrong! People were rude at work and we are so incredibly busy this winter because of the dang swine flu pandemic. Everyone is freaking out that they are gonna get it or that their children are gonna get it. All these people just live in fear and i dont think its healthy. i LOVE LOVE LOVE the winter season because work is busier and the weather and the holidays. i just plain LOVE winter but i will be grateful when THIS winter is over so that people will hopefully calm down and be nicer! At least i am lucky enough that my mom comes to my house and watches Matty so my husband and i can work and not put him in daycare! Thanks mom! im also so grateful for my wonderful husband for doing all he does! he is amazing! I look forward to tomorrow, its hump day and i get off work early... BRING ITON! :) Until next time.... p/s I REALLY want to dress Matthew up as a cute dinosaur for halloween.... He would be so adorable! i havent decided yet but we'll figure something out and no matter what he'll be SUPER cute!

This year has gone by sooo fast!!

WOW!! I can't believe its been a year since ive posted anything!! Lets see... in the past year SOOOO much has happened! Where do i even begin?? I will try to go in the best order i can.... hopefully i dont leave anything out! SOOOO..... December 2008~ I found out that i was PREGNANT!!! DUE July 29, 2009 February 2009~ Berto & I celebrated our 2 year anniversary!! i can't believe we've been together that long! For anyone who knew us BEFORE we got married you know EXACTLY how crazy it is that we are together!!!! March 2009~ Berto turned 25 and took off to his home El Salvador to visit his family... i couldnt go cuz i was 5 months pregnant at the time and SOOOOO not able to travel. April-June 2009~ NOTHING excited happened AT ALL!! Well i did have my baby shower memorial day weekend! thanks to all that came it was a TON of fun to watch everyone play the games! JULY 2009~ This was by far the CRAZIEST month for me!! July1 i had my 36 week appt with my OB and they told me i was dilated to 1cm and 85% effaced. ( I didnt think anything of it because all the baby books i read said that it could still be weeks before baby comes...) Well i woke up at 6am July 2 and i thought i peed my pants!!! But it wasnt a huge amount but enough that i knew it wasnt normal... SOOO i called my OB and they told me to go ahead and go over to the hospital just to be safe. So i went and they tested the fluid to see if it was amniotic fluid and sure enough it was! the nurse told me i had just earned myself a room at the inn. :) I was SO nervous/EXCITED! i couldnt believe this was FINALLY happening! I had a REALLY rough pregnancy. i was sick the whole time and then they thought i had gestational diabetes and it turned out i didnt but it was VERY stressful! I couldnt wait to have this baby and be done! So after 11 hours of labor i relented and got the epidural! after that it was so nice! i couldnt feel anything! They had to tell me when to push!! So i got the epidural at like 6ish PM.... i started pushing at 11pm and an hour and 41 minutes later my baby was here!! Matthew Mauricio Serrano 07/03/2009 12:41AM 7pounds, 8ounces 19 inches A BUNDLE OF JOY!! July-October 2009~ we have just been loving up our baby and enjoying life!! i cant believe he'll be 4 months old next week!!! How crazy!! Life changes SOOOOO fast! My tasks right now: 1.find matty a halloween costume ( NOT a pumpkin cuz everyone does a pumpkin for baby's first halloween.) 2. FINISH my brother Clifton's wedding invitations! He's getting married Nov. 14 and i offered to make all 250 wedding invitations! Call me CRAZY! especially trying to finish them with a newborn!! I will try to keep up on my blog... not that my life is all that interesting but i WILL try! Later! ps: here are some pics of us!!