Resolutions, blah.

Christmas 2006 Our first Christmas togetherChristmas 2007 Presley had just been made, I know, TMI. It's pretty amazing while we took this picture she was just a little sperm making her way up my fallopian tubes.

Christmas 2008. Presley's first Christmas...

Christmas 2009... This year she knew how to open the gifts but wasn't sure why we were opening them.

So Christmas was great, fast but great. We spent Christmas Eve by going to my dad's during the day and then church and grams for dinner that evening. Christmas morning Presley saw her gift from santa. A big play house for the back yard. She wasn't too impressed, she isn't much of a morning person (she gets that from mama). Then we went to gma and pops to open more gifts and then to Kirk and Karlas for more food and fun. We then spent the weekend just hanging out at home and doing some after christmas clearance shopping. We took down all of our decorations the day after christmas, it was sad. I was so happy with my decorating this year.

Now comes New Years.

I have a list of resolutions. I am hoping next year I wont need to make any!

1. Cook at home meals wayyy more. Only 2 meals outside a week. We decided on this one together. My problem is weekends, I hate cooking on weekends. So now I only get like one dinner out and a lunch or breakfast. We are doing it this way for a month and hoping it will change our bad habits.

2. Be a better friend, I am pretty sure this was on my list last year. I hope to spend more time with friends.

3. Blog more. If there are any readers out there lol let me know. I only know of one, my dear faithful friend Courtney :) I am turning my blog into more of a journal than a page for updates. Husband promises to move the Mac to my desk this weekend so this will help. His desk is so tall and ever since my pc bit the dust, Its hard.

4. Exercise, once again another one that is on my list every year. Although this year will be a bit different. I am not putting a pound goal. Just to get moving for at least an hour at least four days a week and try to do a family outing once on the weekends, like a bike ride to the park , or hike up a mountain (thats a little ambitious)

5. This one is TMI for the blog but I know what it is and since its in words it makes it a resolution :)

6. Put my eye cream on every night. I am getting bad crows feet, and at 24 thats no bueno. I get lazy but this shall stop!

7. Most challenging... Stop shopping for the month of January.

Ahhhh words cannot even describe my feelings for this. I admit I have a problem, I shop. But in my own defense I do it well! So for a whole month I will be only allowed to spend money on groceries and even then I will go to the store with a list in hand and stay on it. I am pretty much banned from walmart and target because it would be too tempting to grocery shop there. Husband doesn't think I can do it. I don't even know if I can. I am my worst enemy, I convince myself I NEED something and lord knows I can convince Manuel we need it too. My pay off and the reason I am doing this is we want to go to DL in February and a cruise in March for our 5 year wedding anniversary. So the plan is that since I wont be buying little things we don't really need we will have a bit extra for spending the next two months.

I plan to keep my self busy with re organizing the heck out of this house. Anything that we haven't used in a year is going out. I realized this needs to be done after being sick last week I went to get some throat medication out of our hall closet and like all the nyquil and tylenol etc. expired in 2006!

I will post my progress. Probably with pictures. I need something to keep my mind off shopping!!!

I can do this!

Let's play catch up

Wow I haven't blogged since before my birthday! Lots to catch up on, too much so I will just fill you in with the important stuff. My birthday was great, turning 2

4 not so great. I want to stay 22 forever! I feel like I am getting old, blah, bags and w

rinkles, sagging and ehhh thats enough. It was a small bday celebration and I liked it that way. I had jury duty all day and was kind of bummed that after 3 interviews I wasn't selected. It was a death penalty first degree murder case and I would have loved to learn the ins and outs of a trial. Maybe next time. After a long sit in traffic ( man am I glad I dont work the 9-5 in down town!) I went and got my frap that i dreamt of all day and got a pedicure that I have been dreaming about for months! Picked up Presley and everyone ca

me over to give me gifts woooo whooo. I got some pretty nice stuff. Hubby got me a n

ew entertainment center, and a gps system. My papa and Presley pitched in and got me a PINK beach cruiser, its pretty amazing!!! I put a baby seat on the back and got P a helmet, we love going for rides!! My Mom, dad, and sisters

got me lots, a rachel ray garbage bowl and knife set hollll

a thats what I have been wanting, a pedicure, edward calendar (yum), some undies :) and apron that is so my style. We then went out to eat at Joe's bbq grill. It was a great birthday.

Next came Halloween... During the day we went to a fall festival at church with grandpa. Presley was a Nebraska Corn Husker cheerleader. Grandpa took her on a pony ride and she loved it. She went in a petting zoo and quickly petted the animals and then turned away scared. She is so funny. At night she was minnie mouse and Manuel, me, grandma and grandpa took her trick-or-treating and then we had a bon fire in the front yard with neighbors. She is so smart she would walk up to a house with her little elmo bucket and grab candy for each hand. She only got to eat 1 lollipop but she was happy with that.

Petting a little piggy at the fall festival...Grandpa taking Presley on a pony ride...

This is us at a pumpkin patch...

Presley found her pumpkin and is giving it kisses!

Carving pumpkins...

Then came Auntie LaLa's 15th birthday....

My brave mother had 40+ teens over at her house for a party and a haunted house. It took like 5 or 6 cars to get them all there. Manuel and i were drivers while Presley has some grammy time.

Next we had a dinner at grammy's to celebrate Mine and Caela's birthday...

My mom and I went on a girls only trip to Vegas to celebrate her best friends daughter, my good friend Alli's 21st birthday. It was tons of fun, but I really missed my little boo. Here are some pictures.

Then came Thanks Giving @ Uncle Lee's... The night before we were at urgent care with P, she had a high temp for 3 days and finally when it hit 104 with tylenol I said no more and we took her in. It was heart breaking. They had to do a urine test and on a baby they have to put in a catheter since she can't pee in a cup and take her blood. We had to hold her down while they did both and she screamed and looked at us like "why arent you saving me". It was such a horrible experiance. We left not knowing what it was because her tests came back fine but the doctor thought it was roseola. She said to watch for a fever break followed by a rash. The day after thanksgiving we saw the rash. It spread all over her body. Poor baby. It didn't hurt her but wasn't pretty. It went away after two days and she is back to her normal self. Pheww.

This was the start of the rash.

Of course after Thanksgiving is BLACK FRIDAY! I don't have pictures for that, but we shopped till we dropped. We were at toys r' us at 11 pm until 4 am and then split up and I was at Target with my sisters and cousins from 5 am-6 am while manuel was at walmart. Then we hit up home depot, staples, and kohls.

We just celebrated Manuels 33rd birthday on Monday. I will post pictures when I get them on the Computer.

Next is mom's birthday and Christmas!!!

I will try to be better about up dating :)

October, Love you!

Love love love OCTOBER!! In AZ we finally start to feel some relief from the 120 degree weather, we can open windows and breath again. Kids can play outside without a heat stroke, and mom's can swing on the porch with a magazine :) I have always loved Halloween & don't pay attention to the meaning behind it, it's just so fun to get to dress up and be someone else for a night. We aren't dressing up this year but Presley is going to be Minnie Mouse :) Next weekend we are going to a chili festival/farm (shnephf farms) and Pres can pick out her own pumpkin! I can't wait! October is the start of my favorite time of year, times actually Oct, Nov, Dec, Jan,Feb& March. I love the holidays, family time, decorating. With October also comes my birthday! I will be 24 this year, wow. Where has the time gone? I sware I was just 19! So here are my birthday wishes :)

I hope to start off the day with this in my hand...

So bad but oh so good ;)

While sipping on my Java chip frap. I want this...

Back in my single days I used to get pedi's weekly.... Then I got married and had to start worrying about $ and they went down to one a month... Since Pres I have had 1. :(

For lunch I would like my hubby to meet me and baby here...
I love their salad and bread sticks (who doesn't)!

Come evening time I would like to take Presley on a ride on this...
Too bad it wouldn't be on the beach lol. Of course it would have a baby seat on it! && a basket for future rides to the grocery store ;)

Maybe hubby and I could go to a movie/date that weekend and I could be wearing this...
Around my neck... or this...
but with Presley Jo :)

&& these would be nice too...

Rachel Ray knife set

&& garbage bowl.

LOVE OCTOBER!!!

Happy birthday Presley Jo!

Presley's birthday party was September 19th at 1pm. It was kinda bad timing, right when she usually takes a nap and in the middle of the day when it is the hottest in AZ. She did so good though. We had a fun spending time with friends and family. Alot of our friends & family couldnt make it. We invited around 40 people and probably half showed up. I think next year we will just do a small party until she knows what they are for :) I never realized how stressful it is to throw a party. I applaud my mom for doing it for all 3 of us 3x a year! They are alot of work. The cake, the deco, the gifts, the invites, the food, the list goes on... & Manuel being the Mr. man he is let me handle it all :/ anyways it went well and Thank you to all who came and made Pres' day special :) Enjoy the pictures!!! P.s. the theme was "Presley is rockin' out for her first birthday".

Mama and Presley getting ready to head to the party...
Gram & Papa admiring the birthday girl :)

The party

My cousin Karrissa and Presley

Me, Pres, Malynda, Zach and Brooklyn

The cake

(We didn't take alot of pictures b/c we were busy beint hosts :) Not to mention it takes 5 mins for every two photos I upload onto this blog!

September

Quick update...

I have been pretty busy (as always), haven't updated in two or is it 3 weeks now? Anywho, Presley has two teeth now! Overnight one popped up & then she wasn't eating good/hardly at all and had runny poops, we didn't know what was going on and just before we took her to the doc. another toother came in. So now she has two on the bottom. I have yet to be able to get a pic of them. She is still only crawling and cruising furniture standing up. When we try to have her walk to us she just dives, it will happen when she is ready just like crawling. She was like a month or two behind crawling but that's okay b/c I am not sure I am ready for a walker!

The Donosa household has been crazy! We are re modeling our guest/Presley's bathroom, getting ready for Presley's first birthday party, having a yard sale this weekend and on top of it all I am participating in a boutique sale. Every day up until Pres' bday is packed! So much to do so little time. It's my first time throwing a birthday party, my mom has always done that for me, so I am a tad worried about this one. It's a lot of work GO MOM for doing it every year for 3 kiddos!

I am headed to buckeye tomorrow morning to help a good friend of mine paint her new house, Congrats Courtney and Tyler on the Casa again! Should be fun, she has a two story and plans on painting wall to wall ;) It's okay, my arms definitely need the work out!

This month should go fast, sorry if I don't blog as much as I would like to this month... Hopefully October will go a bit slower for us. Have a happy September everyone!!

Oh Arizona, How I loathe the!

This should be a happy cheery post about our great San Diego trip, don't get me wrong it was TONS OF FUN! Being back in AZ though has me so depressed, explanation: It's wayyy to hot here! This is Presley our first day back begging to go outside. She loves being outside, all weekend that's all we did was hang out in San Diego OUTSIDE. She stood at our back door watching the birds and dogs banging on the window saying " ah ah ah" that's what she does when she wants something. It really drives me mad that I can't take her outside for more than 5 minutes. Her face gets red and she sweats... It's just too darn hot! I would love to call California my home, its hot during the day but not deadly hot, seriously there is a extreme heat warning in this state everyday! It's so expensive to live there though and Manuel's job and our family is here :( I just don't want to stay in this state one more summer. On a happier note ( but still hating Arizona ;)) We left at 7:30 pm Friday night and decided instead of making the 6 hour drive all at once we would do 3 hours stay in Yuma and then the next morning drive 2 1/2 hours to San Diego. Here we are stopping on the way to Yuma for dinner. Mmm Panda, Presley even had some.

Of course she loved the fortune cookie, she only got a tiny piece but her fortune said " You will soon be the center of attention" LOL should have said " you are the center of attention"

Here we are in Yuma getting ready to drive to Sea World... (She was chewing on a piece of gum)

@ Sea world, her first show, Pets Rule! She didn't like the loud noises, but loved the animals.

Mama and baby taking a break...

So cute, we were watching the Mama shamu and her new baby swimming together. You can't see the baby because the mama is blocking her here. Aw and it was a girl baby.

Of course Presley loved this and had to have it ;)

Waiting to see the Shamu show...

There is the mama and baby( she was 400 pounds when she was born! and I thought 8 pounds was bad!)

Daddy, Presley and baby shamu snuggling in the comfiest bed every, I love the Hilton!

Ready to go to the beach...

At first she didn't know what to think & then we put her in the water and it was COLD so she didn't really like that but she did love...

Playing in the sand!

I learned a lesson on this trip, when with a baby at the beach come prepared! I forgot the beach towels and oh man there was sand everywhere. We had to strip Presley and give her a cold shower outside, she didn't like that too much, Manuel got soaked because he had to hold her, we had to dry her off on our clothes and quickly put a diaper on... Sand got everywhere :( My new car :( It was so worth it though. We had such a great time and are sad to be home, but only 72 days until our next trip to CA, and this time DISNEYLAND! Yes I sure am keeping count :) I love my little family and this was just what we needed a lil' vaca from home.