Just what I needed...

My mom and I went out yesterday...just us. We dressed up went to The Grand America Hotel to this cute place

La Bonne Vie Pattisserie

It was nice, we had a couple of yummy desserts, but we were a little disappointed and thought it would have more of a European influence....but it was still good. Then we went to the movies to see this

What an awesome movie. We both enjoyed it so much! It was nice to spend some time with my mom. We have fun and laugh a lot. I love her deeply. We will have to go watch this movie again, next time with my sister, because she will be sad she was not with us....but she's in the Caribbean so she cannot complain.

Who am I?

My life is completely unbloggable lately....sad! But today I was asked the question
                                                       Who am I?
Jen and Aubry blogged about it....so I am doing the same, and encourage all that are reading this to do it, and blog about it, because I would love to know more about WHO YOU ARE?

I am a mother, I've been a mother since I was fifteen years old, yet I'm still learning and still feel very inadequate to be raising 4 amazing children, they teach me more than I can teach them. I am a wife, I love my husband more than I show, and sometimes feel like I need to be tougher than I really am, and show him that I can do it all on my own, when deep inside I know I cannot. I am a sister and I love my siblings so much, I know they would do anything for me, and I would do the same for them. I am a daughter and my parents have turned their lives upside down for me, they are my heroes and I love them deeply. I am a good friend, and thrive on good relationships with people. I am an emotional person, I cry over anything. I am someone that drives herself crazy being worried about what others think of me.  I am someone that hates letting people down. I love food, It makes me happy, yet hate the feeling of guilt that comes after I eat whatever I want, and then beat myself up when I gain weight. I am Argentine, Italian, and Spanish and I have great pride in where I come from. I am a hard worker, and would love to work and have my own money to do whatever I want with, yet I also want to be home with my kids, so right now my kids win. I love a clean home, and love the feeling I get when it is organized, and clean, yet I am obsessive about it and don't allow myself to enjoy anything if my house is messy. I am extremely loyal. I am smarter than I give myself credit for. I am someone that will protect those I love with my life if I have to, and have a hard time forgiving people if they wrong someone I love...(it's that whole loyalty thing I have inside me) I am honest.  I am happiest with the simple things in life. I love vacationing. I am someone that likes a plan, and have a hard time when things don't go as planned.  I love summer, and would rather live in 80 degree weather everyday, and never see snow or experience cold again. I am obsessed with makeup and wish I had limited funds to buy all I wanted. I am a crafter, not a good one but I love it. I love to dance. I love parties. I am not someone that cares very much about politics, but my views on some things, I know would make many of my fellow LDS people cringe....it make my father in law cringe many times hahaha..so we don't talk politics :) I am someone that loves to meet new people. I am a daughter of God, and I have a strong testimony. I am a work in progress....

I think I could go on and on...but this is what I've got. I'm sure I will think of something else that I think is important, but I've got dinner in the oven and need to get dinner on the table for my family!
                                             

Roman's 3rd!

This school thing has not allowed me to even think much about anything other than what is due next, what chapter am I on, finals, tests, quizzes etc etc it's ridiculous! I find myself a week and a half away from Roman's birthday...it's May 1st, Sunday, so that means that we need to figure out if we want to do the party on the Friday or Saturday before his birthday. I don't like birthdays on Sunday because with church, it feels like the birthday gets lost in the day, that's how I feel anyway. Last year we took the family and cousins to Boondocks, we did it more for the cousins since the majority are older, we thought they would have fun...which they did, but now Roman knows what a Birthday Party means, and he is so excited about it. He tells me all the time "mom, my birthday is coming!!" in such an excited voice that he makes my day, and I want to make his day special for him. I have problems with decision, I question and question myself over and over. I have come up with a list of things that Roman loves...here they are:

He loves Cars

and Thomas the Train

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse

Candy



and Balloons

So now my problem is putting all that together....it will be all kinds of Randomness, but he loves it all and I cannot pick just one thing. I found the coolest cake pan, I have to take this cake pan and make the cake

Wilton 3D train pan

look like Thomas the Train, oh and he loves this cake pan, he says it is his train, I had to hide it because he would not stop playing with it, and he also told me that he wants Percy which is one of Thomas' friends, so I have to make two trains and frost them, and make faces for them with fondant or gum paste...not sure which I will use yet...then I thought, well the train can be going around another cake with Mickey Mouse's Clubhouse, then I will buy a Cars Lighting McQueen piñata and fill it with tons of candy, and fill my house with balloons, and that pretty much covers his favorite things. Talk about random, but I think I can pull it off and I'm getting so excited for this party...I'm not excited about him turning 3 years old though, this is our baby and I don't want him to grow up!

The day has come....

my sister and her hubby are leaving tonight on their two week honeymoon...late honeymoon, they got married over a year ago, but when they do things they do it big, so since they got married so fast and then had to move 3 hours away, and my sister had to find a job, they decided to save up money and GO BIG for their honeymoon. So I'm going to be the Raquel and Danny blogger, since my sis doesn't have a blog...I've tried, she doesn't have time...so she says :)  The whole family, my side and my brother in law's side of the family are all coming to my house tonight, to see them off. I know we are weird like that, we have to have a get together to see them, and to say goodbye, kisses, hugs all that. So, their trip will be two weeks. They are going to my brother in law's hometown in New Jersey, then they are off to NYC, then to Puerto Rico to board their cruise to the Caribbean...Barbados, St. Lucia, St Maarten....and somewhere else but I can't keep track of all the places their cruise will take them, very cool places though! Yes, I'm jealous, I thought my sister would come to her senses and ditch her hubby and take me instead, but apparently she wants to go with him....pfff, she would totally have more fun with me...JK JK...ok anyway. She is going to be going to cool places on her trip, so she will be texting/emailing me great pics, so I will do little posts of Where in the World are Danny & Raquel! Mostly so the moms will not be stressed about where they are and if they are safe, and all those things moms worry about...we have worry moms in our family.

 Here's to you Danny & Raquel! Have fun!!