Old Birthday Photos.

The camera was finally passed onto me a few days ago. So here is the "catch up" photos I have long promised.

Below, photos from my 22nd birthday party: 7/27/08


Bella was very interested in the candles.


The Ice-cream cake Dorian got me (yummy). I have no clue why the photo won't turn around, so turn your head...I've been trying to get it back for a while now.

Finally...a post!

Bella checking out baby Carmen, who was born in May. She's borrowing Bella's car-seat here to sleep while Bella and the cousins play.


Bella, 9mos.


Hi again everyone...

I've been having an extremely difficult time aquiring pictures, and it seems that I never like to post blogs without them. It looks so boring without pictures. Anyway, I still have yet to post the birthday ones in July, because Freddy has the camera still. But I have a couple of new Bella pictures sent to me from a cousin in Indiana...yes, how sad that I get pictures of my own daughter from someone else. I really need to resolve the camera situation.

In recent news, I've started classes again for the semester. I'm taking a Latin-American history class (by choice) because I find the subject interesting, and a Sociology class by necessity in order to get my degree. Both classes are pretty easy for me so far, and I like my teachers. I'm also still working part-time.

Dorian has been up in the morning super early to go to work as usual, however, now I have to drive him to work so that I can use the car during the day. Needless to say, our weekends have become precious.

And...the getting better news....Bella will be a year old before we know it. We are planning quite the party for her, with a princess theme. Dorian's mom and cousin have already bought 30yards of fabric from Los Angeles for table cloths. So here's my pitch: if any of you (that is my friends/family back in the midwest) would like to come out here mid-November, we'd be happy to pick you up at the airport in LA. Unfortunately, I can't pay for airfare for everyone...but if I could, I would!

Here's a couple of pictures that I've aquired from recent days. Enjoy!

Lack of stuff...

I haven't been on this thing in a while...mostly due to the fact of having a lack of photos.

For my 22nd birthday, Dorian's family had a party for me again, but the pictures are on Freddy's camera. I'm still waiting to borrow it and upload them. Bella was entranced by the balloons and birthday candles...hehe.

And...we're crawling regularly now...hard-core and fast too. Here's one of the most recent photos I have of me and Bella. Sadly, I'm still waiting on the others.

Hope to have more stuff soon!

A "Dark Knight"

After a sleepy start to my morning, I think I'm finally fully awake.

Last night (or this morning?) we went to see the premere of "Dark Knight", the new Batman movie. Dorian and two of his brothers thought it was the greatest movie of the year, along with probably the entire packed theatre. The great thing about living so close to LA is that when movies premere out here, we have some really special events. People not only came in costumes, etc, but our theatre was hosted by a really famous radio DJ out of LA. The host, along with a few of his other "high-class buddies" was planted exactly in the middle of a completely packed theatre. There were probably 5 or 6 screens showing the movie here, and all of them were super full a 1/2 hour before the show started. News cameras and radio stations were abundant, recording interviews of fans standing in line/opinions after the show. Mr. Ledger's performance was grusome indeed, but he had quite the turn out for his last full length movie.

Needless to say, it was a long night, and I, quite frankly did not expect the turnout that it did have. It was lots of fun though. I can only imagine what it was like in LA for real last night...next time maybe we should make the drive for a premere blockbuster if we're up to it.

Wanna know a secret?
(Shh...don't tell, but I still liked Iron Man better for some reason. Dorian has already explained to me that they're not comparable due to the fact that Dark Knight was geared toward an older audience.)

~*Return to Cyberspace*~

So...It's been about a month.

We now have internet again, as we finally got the cable people here on Monday. So much has happened since the last post. I'll do a re-cap as efficiently as possible.

July 4th- I took an extremely cute picture of Bella, but we didn't end up doing much in the category of patriotism. The day was extremely busy, and I had to work.

A couple of weeks ago, Bella started crawling. Well, by crawling, I mean "scooting". She can scoot herself across the floor now, and once in a while will get up on her hands and knees and rock back and forth, as if to actually crawl, but soon gets tired, and goes back on her tummy. We've had to keep a VERY close eye on her the past couple of weeks.

The remedy to this, has been yesterday's compra (buy) of a walker. Here, she is quite stationary, and I can get things done while she is playing with her toys. Her feet don't quite reach the floor, so the "walking" part of the walker has yet to be discovered.

And the final new "Bella" thing, is that she can now pull herself up in her crib to standing. I have caught her on several occasions pulling herself up to reach things she shouldn't, like her wipe box, and/or clean diapers. However, as soon as she notices that you notice her, she sits down in her crib...my little sneeker...

We have a new bedding set for our bedroom, and it is quite nice. I am so happy to have some new stuff. So here is a whole slew of pictures/videos and hopefully you will be able to follow them.


Pulling herself up to reach those things she shouldn't!



New comforter & pillows. Yay for me.



Bella's 4th of July photo.


Bella and her uncle Eban love to play together. She gets extremely excited when he comes to play.


Bella stops at nothing to be adored by friends and family. Here, cousin Gabby is unaware of the fact that she's aiding Bella's diva-attitude by giving her so much attention.



Bella has spent some good playtime minutes in her walker so far. In these two pictures, it's not quite assembled yet (missing the tray toys), but she is eager to try it out!


Scooting to check out the package of diapers.

Baber.

A picture of Bella that Nayeli took as an add on to today's post.

Which Bottle is Mine?!

Here's a video of Bella showing how coordinated she is with her bottle. She also thinks the water bottle is hers! I'm still trying to get a clapping video. It seems she doesn't want to clap on camera because she's too interested in the camera...lol.