Merry Christmas!!

We wish you all a very merry Christmas, and best wishes for the New Year!!

Happy Anniversary!!!!

Yesterday was mine and Sal's 8th anniversary!! I can't believe how fast time flies!! We didn't have a babysitter, so we took the girls with us to our traditional Macaroni Grill, and Sal wrote me a beautiful letter that made me cry in the middle of the restaurant!! We didn't have a lot of money so we didn't do gifts, so we just enjoyed being together!! I love you honey, more today than yesterday, and will love you more tomorrow!!

Tina in Real Life!!

I watched this movie last night and the first 15 minutes gave me a glimps of my future!! A 17 year old begging to drive, a 15 year old who thinks she is in love with her boyfriend, and a 10 year old trying to convince her Dad that she is not a baby anymore. All of them had lots of emotions and drama!! What have I gotten myself into?!?! If you haven't seen this movie, I recommend it, it is very funny, and pretty clean!! Although I am very nervous about my girls becoming teenagers, I wouldn't change anything for the world!!!! I LOVE MY GIRLS!!

Halloween!!

Wow, this Halloween was a busy one!! Monday the 27th, the local High School had a Halloween party where you could go trick-or-treat around the rooms, and they had lots of games and activities for the kids to do. Then the 29th, Sal's bosses stake had their trunk-or-treat which always has a huge turnout!! They also have games like cake walkes and tossing bean bags and so on. Then on the 31st our ward had our trunk-or-treat, which has a pretty good turn out! After that, we walked around our complex, cause you always have to knock on doors!! So needless to say, we have candy till next Halloween!! It is lots of fun though!! Ariana dressed up as a Snow Queen, Tycee was the Diamond Princess from the newest Barbie movie, and Mia and I were butterflies!! I love dressing up, maybe next year I can get Sal to dress up too!!

Mia's Blessing

Mia was blessed Sunday October 12, 2008 by Sal who did a wonderful job despite him being nervous!! We were very lucky to have most of both of our family's here with us for this very special occasion!! Her dress was made by Sal's aunt, and I made the headband so they didn't completely match, but it worked out ok anyway!!

Day at the Zoo!!

The Denver Zoo occasionally has free days, where you can go to the zoo completely free!! It gets really crowded, but it was lots of fun!! The polar bear kept swimming back and forth on his tummy and back, it was really funny to watch him. He would swim to a rock wall, climb up on it then fall on his back in the water and float for a while, then turn on his tummy and go back to the wall, and do it all again! Then the leopard had three cubs which were so cute!! There is also lots of museum like exhibits which are really fun to walk through! It is a really nice zoo and a fun way to spend a Saturday!!

Good Job!!

Ariana's school just had their quarterly awards ceremony where Ariana received three awards! The most out of anyone in her class!! She got a perfect attendance, academic achievement, which means she only got A's and B's, and a citizenship award which is only given to two kids in the class for being a good helper, following rules, and always participating in class. Good Job Ariana, We are so proud of you!!

Who am I?

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You are thoughtful and care very deeply for your family. A loving home is of great importance to you and you always try to make people feel welcome. Although you have a great capacity to love, you also have a great capacity to hurt, so at times you can be sensitive. You're firm when you need to be, but people trust your judgment and appreciate the kind way you always handle things.

Allright!! I like Esme!! Yes, this sounds like me, at least I think so!

Great big sisters!!

I have two of the greatest helpers in the world!! Ariana and Tycee love to do everything for Mia, that I hardly have to do anything at all. I may have to make the bottle, but it seems that I don't ever get to feed her myself!!

Way Behind!!

It has been a while since I posted anything, so I have lots of updating to do!! Ariana had her 7th birthday and I can't believe that my baby is that old!! It was a great day, we had lots of our family in town so we all went to Chuck-e-Cheeses where the kids played and had a ball, ate lots of pizza and sang happy birthday to her.

Sal got to take a little weekend get away to Moab with lots of friends. He had a great time biking and hiking when he wasn't flying over his handlebars!! He came home with lots of cuts and bruises, but he said they were all worth it!!

Tycee begged and begged me to get her ears pierced after she saw Ariana putting on some cute earrings. I didn't really want to do it quite this young, but she wouldn't stop asking, so we finally took her to the mall and did it. She cried after the first one because it got stuck in the little gun thing, but after she saw it, she was so excited and didn't cry at all after the second one. She then had to tell everyone that she did it!!

Gotcha!!

Caught a very cute moment, She isn't really smiling yet,

but I just happened to take the picture right at the perfect moment!!

My girls!!

Just some more cute pics of the girls. Ariana and Tycee are just loving their new baby sister, they can't seem to keep their hands off of her!! They are such good big sisters though, they want to do everything they can to help me out. They are such sweet girls!! How did I get to be so lucky?

Congrats!!

A big shout out to Brenley, Isaiah, and Leilani who were all baptized on the 2nd. We are so proud of you, and love you very much!!

She's Home!!

After two and a half long weeks of living in the waiting room of the hospital, our little girl came home on Saturday, August 2nd. She gained almost a pound, leaving the hospital at 4 lbs 12 oz. She has done amazingly well. She kept pulling out her feeding tube in the hospital, so the nurses decided to try giving her a bottle, and she just took right to it with no problems at all. Usually when they are that small they forget to breath while they eat, but she had no problems! They were saying that she would have to stay for at least 4 weeks, but she did so well that she showed everyone that she wanted to go home!! Ariana and Tycee are loving it that she is home and they can hold her whenever they want, they just want to kiss her and hold her a little to much and keep waking her up!! We love it though, finally having all of our girls home!!

I did it again!

Well, It happened, once again I could not make it to full term. My water broke again, and of course she had to be breach, so I had to get a c-section. So our beautiful new baby girl was born 6 1/2 weeks early, weighing in at 3 lbs 14 oz and 16 inches long. She is doing so well though, thanks to the steroids I recieved last week. She had no problems with her lungs or anything!! The only thing we have to wait for is for her to gain weight by herself, then she can come home.

Proud Mommy and Daddy right after she was born.

She actually has hair!! Neither Ariana or Tycee had hair!

And just a couple more pics of her cute face!!

By the way, after having such a hard time trying to name her, we finally decided on

Mia Kealani Gamez.

More baby news

Well I have a little bit of bad news today, I had a test come back positive, which basically means that the glue that is supposed to hold everything in is starting to come out, so that means I could go into labor at any time. I am only 32 weeks, so it is really early, and I am just not ready for her to come yet. So in the meantime, I have to go on bed rest and try to keep from going into labor at least for the next two or three weeks, which would still be early, but I am now getting steroid shots to help the babies lungs develop faster, just in case I can't make it. I am not dialated at all, which is a really good sign, but that can change quickly. So I would really appreciate your prayers and thoughts for the next couple of weeks that the baby will be fine and come when she is ready.

Thankfull!!

I had another checkup today and things are looking very good!! Which means I don't have to go on bed rest!! So I am so thankfull for all the prayers and thoughts that everyone has been giving to us! It has helped. I still have to take it easy, but I am not stuck to my bed!! So now we just have to hope that she doesn't come before August, if I could even go to the middle of August that would be even better, as long as I don't have to leave her in the hospital at all! Here is an ultrasound that I got today that is of her face which I think is so cute!! If you tip your head to the left, her left eye is the little slit looking thing right in the top middle of the picture, and you can see her left cheak and her nose and lips, her right eye is in the shadow right below the left eye, so it is completely sideways. I hope you can see it cause I just think it is adorable!!

Nauvoo

We just took a trip where we were helping my brother Brandon and his family move to Kansas City and my family decided to make a church history tour out of it. Here is the Nauvoo Temple which is so amazing. There are so many stories and places that are so spiritual that it really puts a new perspective on everything. It makes it so real to actually see where the saints were and to hear what they went through.
This is the Carthage Jail which we stopped at on the way to Nauvoo.

It is very hard not to cry here, the spirit is so strong, and to hear the story

while looking at the bullet holes in the door and walls is very humbling. Joseph Smiths Home and grave in Nauvoo.

Us in Adam-ondi-Ahman on our way home from Nauvoo.

Liberty Jail

What an amazing experience to actually see where everything happened. I have been to Palmyra New York and to walk through the sacred grove and seen where it all began, what an experience to now come full circle and see where it all ended for Joseph Smith. I can't begin to imagine what they went through because of their faith in the Lord, how hard yet wonderful it must have been! If you ever have the chance to come here, I would definitely recommend doing it!! It is definitely a big testimony growing experience!

Graduate!!

Ariana's school had a big graduation ceremony for the kindergartners. It was so cute. They sang songs and did the sign language to "Proud to be an American". Ariana did it so well, I was amazed! They also sang a song to the tune of "New York, New York", but changed the words to "First Grade, First Grade" It was really cute! I think I started crying when they first walked in and didn't stop until we had left!! I am just so amazed at how quickly time flies and they grow up so fast!!

Suggestions

I would still love to hear suggestions!! We are definatly still open to new ideas!!

Poll change.

So our poll has changed, we still can't decided what we want. So tell me if you like Mia or Selia better!!

I think we have a winner!!!!

I think we have finally named our little girl. We wanted to try and put our names together somehow, and we were brainstorming in bed last night until about 12:00, and finally came up with Selia. Sal is definate on this one, he loves it, I think I am still trying to get used to it, or I am just waiting for the click that says "wow, this is the one!!" I really like this name, I think it is cute and we could just call her Lia for short, but I still think that we are just going to have to see what she looks like before I settle on a name for sure!!
Thanks to everybody for your cute suggestions, I really liked them all, I don't know why I am having such a hard time!!!!

Baby Girl Number Three

We are sure having a hard time trying to name our third little girl, nothing seems to feel right, we have searched websites with baby names, looked in books, and there are none that we can decide on!! So if anyone has some cute suggestions I would love to hear them!! We are looking for an original name, that isn't very long, and goes well with the middle name we have picked out which is Tialani.

Anyway, things are going good, The girls are so excited, Ariana was a little dissapointed at first, she really wanted a brother, but as it gets closer, she is getting more excited. They love to feel the baby move and they always talk to her and when we all say goodnight to each other they always say goodnight to the baby too!! They are also very into trying to name her!! Ariana gives us lots of suggestions all the time.

The Doctors are keeping a close eye on me, I have to go every two weeks now to get an ultrasound and extra tests to see why I deliver early and to try and keep this baby in here longer this time!! I really don't like to hear women say that they just want the baby out. I want to keep this baby in here as long as I can, to make sure she is ready. My comfort is not worth the risk of the baby having to stay in the hospital because they came to early!! I would give anything to keep this baby in as long as I can!!