Friday, February 26, 2010

from married to now!

Just Married :-)
Love this pic!
With my Uncle Tootie

28 weeks pregnant with our papa
One week before having Kyle
Little Kyle in my favorite outfit for him. My Abuelita made him those booties!
A little over 2 months old
look at those eyes and that cute little mouth :-)
30th birthday!
In mommy and daddy's bed
handsome boys

so cute!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am alive!

Hola! I have not written in over a month! I have been just consumed with work and my new hours. I am used to it now (getting up at 4am isn't that hard anymore) but at first, I was absolutely exhausted every single day. Not only with the hours, but with learning all the details of my new job and re-learning the way I did certain things. Even though I am working in another Police Records dept., every office has their own way of doing things so I had to forget about my HMBPD ways and learn the MPPD ways.

It was stressful at first, and there were definitely mornings that I would leave for work in tears because I felt like I barely would see Kyle during the week and because there were moments at work where I would feel like a total idiot (it's hard to be the new kid!), but I am happy to say that I have grown to be good friends with my coworkers and have learned all my new tasks pretty quickly. I still pass out at around 8:30-9:30pm every night but the new schedule is actually working for me. I just try to spend my entire evening with my little family and get plenty of cuddles in before I go to sleep. :-)

Robert is at the end of his Academy and is graduating in less than two weeks! I am SO proud of him and respect all the hard work he put into his classes. He hasn't had very much time to himself at all these past 5 1/2 months. All his time has gone into studying, school, and prep for the next day. Even though it could be hard sometimes, I have wanted to make sure he had all the time he needed to succeed. I heard him tell people often that I was sort of like a single parent while he's been in school, and sometimes it was that way. I was so used to him helping with cooking, washing dishes and clothes, taking care of Kyle so that I could have a day off, and spending all day on the weekends hanging out together and having fun as a family that it was a hard transition at first. But no matter how hard it got sometimes, I knew that it was what was best for our family. I am so excited for him to start working as a police officer and also, to just have down time for himself. On the weekends, he would have to meet up with study groups, make sure his gun was clean, his shoes were shined, that his hair didn't touch his ears, that his uniform was clean and pressed.... the list goes on! And, the added stress of being possibly kicked out if you failed three tests or for not passing some of the other requirements was so difficult for him. So, yes, I am so excited for him with his new career and for the new surfboard he's getting as a graduation gift!

Kyle is doing great and talking up a storm! We took him to the SF Zoo a couple of weeks ago and he had the best time ever! Whenever he'd see a gorilla or monkey or chimpanzee, he would literally point and yell, "MONKEY!!!" and at the bears, "A BEAR!!!!" He was SO excited and in awe of all the animals. We, or I, lost the digital camera again so we had to buy an old school disposable camera when we got there. Once we get them.... what's the word... I can't believe I can't remember the word for getting your film made into pictures... processed? Whatever, when we do that, I will post them! Anyway, Kyle and his cousin Elena play so well with eachother, too. We were over at Dan and Erika's house last week visiting them and their new baby, Lillian, and Elena came into the living room to get her new baby doll. Kyle ran down the hall and yelled, "Lena! Where are you?!" It's just crazy to me how much he talks now! He's also learning how to get out of uncomfortable situations LOL Whenever we ask him to give someone a besito, and maybe he doesn't want to, he quickly turns his head, gasps, and points at nothing in particular and says," OH! What's that?!" It's so funny! He'll even do it to me and to Robert!

So this was probably a boring post as I have no new pictures to share, so I will put up some cute one taken with the computer camera a few weeks ago as well as some random older ones that I just rediscovered and love, on my next post!