I love my daddy...

I don't think you can get much sweeter than this... We are so in love...

Baby's First Christmas... (and smiles..)

We had a wonderful Christmas again this year. What a special day it always is to spend time with the whole family. My brother Jake, his wife Shannon and their baby girl Danielle were able to come up for the weekend. It was wonderful having them with us! It was particularly special, since it was our first Christmas as Mommy and Daddy. Here are some pictures from the day...

First is our Christmas Eve family picture..

Here is Danae and Brynn in their Christmas morning jammie's...

Nana and Papa watching someone open a gift with Brynn

There was lot's of Wii playing on Christmas day...

Two baby cousins, plus cousin Hopey and Uncle Jake

We celebrated Christmas with George's family on Friday, but I forgot my camera. =( I was sick, so I have a little bit of an excuse. Abuelo and Abuela got Brynn this great toy, she LOVES it! Thank you guys!

And, she has started smiling. It just melts my heart everytime she does it. Today she was smiling so much that I had time to get my camera and get a few shots of it. Of course it's so hard to get a good picture of it when you're the one making them smile and the photographer, but here are a few attempts, these are towards the end of the smile, but just as precious..

She's always so happy on the changing table.. She loves to look over at the light in the middle of the ceiling.. So sweet

These are the pictures she'll hate later on in life, but I just can't resist. She's just soo cute!! =)

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and are still enjoying time with family... Love to you all!

Happy Christmas Eve!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Here are a few new pictures..

This is my baby girl with her little teddy, I decided to try it and see if maybe she liked it, thinking "she's too little, but what the heck?" She loved it! She held onto it all day.. So precious!

Last night we had the wonderful opportunity to be Mary and baby Jesus in a live Nativity. Brynn was such a great girl! We sat out there for 3 hours without taking a break and she was a trooper! She'd wake up and cry a little and then go right back to sleep.. She's a sweetheart!

Danae and Hope were with me and they got to be a part of it too. Here is Hope as the angel, and Danae is the shepherd at the bottom left sitting down. One of my students Mom asked me to be a part of this for their church. We had so much fun!


Then all the girls spent the night last night and we got up this morning and made christmas cut-out cookies. It's a tradition now for us to do this together, since today was our second year in a row.

I love spending time with you girls..

We are just rejoicing this year with our precious gift from God. I cannot even begin to express my gratefulness to the Lord for His kindness in giving us a beatiful healthy sweet baby girl. I am continuously amazed by His goodness and mercy on my life.

I pray that this Christmas your hearts are affected once again, or for the first time, by the sacrifice Jesus made, that He became nothing to be like us, in the form of man, so that He could rescue us from our sin, and from this fallen world. Hasn't He been good?!

Merry Christmas!

One month...

Whoops, I missed Thursday this week! =) Yesterday was a bit busy... Everything on the home front is going wonderfully. I am so blessed with Brynn, she is an amazing baby girl. She pretty much only cries when she's hungry or tired, and she's just such a sweetheart. She's gotten really alert and has been really studying Mommy.. =) I'm just loving being a momma.. Wednesday was her one month birthday. I cannot believe it's been one month! Time is flying!
This week we got some professional pictures back from before she was born and after.. Enjoy! =)

Once again it is already Thursday! I guess Thursday's are becoming my blogging day. =) My baby girl is growing up so fast already. She is just so beautiful and adorable. She's really starting to be so alert and aware, yesterday she was looking out the window and I walked in the room and started talking and she looked right at me. The cutest part is that I got it on video... =) She's sleeping lot's the past few days which scares me 'cause it probably means she's growing! This has been our first week home without any help (except my parents are still living here, but Mom's back to work so she's gone all day...). It's been good to start having a little bit of a schedule. I don't really have one yet, it consists of sitting with my girl, taking naps, trying to get the laundry done, thinking about going grocery shopping, etc... haha! I just want to enjoy this short season of my first baby. I know it's never like this again, so my priorities are that we're eating and wearing clean clothes. =) I'm slowly getting back to everything else. Here are some new pictures of our past week. We love you all!

Here is her trademark, she is always wrinkling up her forehead.. So cute!

My Aunt Jeannine aka: "Big Aunt Nene" (I'll leave out ferocious..) ;-) came last weekend all the way from the Windy City, Chicago to meet Brynn. It was SO wonderful having her here, we miss you already Aunt Nene!

The girls enjoying hot cocoa together! I love moments like these...

Brynn in her new Sunday clothes, compliments of my cousin Lisa! Thank you SO much, I think it's one of the cutest little outfits I've ever seen! She was SO precious in it!

Brynn's first Dolphins game at "Gators Dockside" since the game wasn't on local tv... She'll be a great sports fan if Daddy has anything to say about it!

Cozying up with Big Aunt Nene..

I think this is my all time favorite picture of Brynn so far in her life.

I LOVE IT!!!!

Pretty girl, with the forehead wrinkled up again!

This is still how I spend a majority of my day... Can you blame me??

Abuelo came to visit, he was singing to her and talking to her so much, she loved it!

Daddy and his baby girl

Mommy and her little princess

I asked George to keep her happy for a few minutes before I could feed her and I came out of the room and this is what I found. She Loved it! She was crying and crying and he got the guitar out and was playing it softly and she kept crying, then he played hard and she was mesmerized... I walked out to her just staring at her Daddy playing guitar. How sweet!

Well, that's all for now folks! Hope you are all doing well!

Catch up...

Well, the weeks are flying by! I can't believe that today is Thursday! Brynn turned two weeks this past Monday, and we've had lot's of fun over the past week.. Hope you enjoy these pictures. =)

Here she is all bundled up with Daddy ready for our first walk as a family...

Here she is in her stroller, just looking really cute...

Our happy family

She was just chillin with Mommy while she put clean clothes away.. We love to hang out together.

Mommy, Nana and Brynn went down to West Palm Beach to visit Uncle Jake and Aunt Shannon, and to meet Brynn's cousin Danielle. She's only three days older than her. We had so much fun! She also got to meet her Great Grandpa, Papa Louie, and my Great Aunt, Titi Helen. It was SO great to see them, we're so glad they came to visit.

She studied all their faces so she could really get to know them... Uncle Jake was really nice to her, even though he used to be mean to her Mommy.. haha ;-)

Here are the two precious cousins together!

We love our Nana!

Just some cousin pictures!

Pretty cute!

Brynn loved Danielle so much, She wanted to give her a kiss.. But she was sleepy so Brynn decided to let her sleep.

New Mommies, happy as can be..

She Loves her baths!!

Getting all dry... My beautiful girl...

We took a nap together today, this is how she was sleeping next to me on the couch... So precious, by the way, the pillow is up against her head, she doesn't have an oddly shaped head... =)

"Mommy's little ballerina" (Thank you SO much Tina and family!)