New Blog: My Married Life

Hello!

Good Saturday morning to all. Can't you believe the month is almost over? Crazy! The past few weeks seemed to have flown by for me and I don't know if to get excited about it or not. Before we know it  the end of 2011 will be here. Yikes!

As we all know everything will come to an end, eventually, to give something new an opportunity to bloom. I started this blog on June of 2010 to document my journey as I planned our destination wedding in Punta Cana, DR. In between wedding posts I talked about many things, personal and non personal. However, I feel like I cannot base the following years on posts about food, fitness, and my life in general because this blog was not meant to be for that. Therefore I have created a new blog about My Married Life. There I will talk about a little bit of everything, from home buying to more babies to school, recipes, career, vacations, adventures, parties, etc etc...

I am not yet done with this blog, so those who come to read but don't follow me formally don't get upset, I still have some wedding related posts to blog about and of course the wedding week recap I've been looking forward on sharing with everyone. I'm just waiting on our professional pictures to come in. Hopefully within the next week or two or three (fingers crossed). But trust that this blog will not come to an end without those pictures and the recap.

So please stick around to see those posts and feel free to jump over to the new blog and continue on following me on my new adventures as a married woman :)

The new blog website is http://pamela-mymarriedlife.blogspot.com/

I'll be expecting you! ;)

I Got Robbed!

Yes you read the title of this post right. I got robbed and so did FI.

Sunday the 30th we got up and got ready to go to church at 1pm. After church we went to a friend's house to hang out and cook, we usually do this 2 times a week. When we got home I started to wash clothes and clean. At some point after getting home FI went to the room and was changing his clothes, etc. Then he tells me that his white gold chain and white gold diamond ring are missing. We looked everywhere and couldn't find them. I wasn't too worry I just thought that he had misplaced them and soon he would remember where he had put it. He insisted that someone took it because he was 100% sure he had left it on that spot.

The next day he noticed that that matching bracelet for the chain was gone as well, so he started looking for all his jewelry and yes just as he had suspected his bracelet was gone along with diamond studs I had gotten him for his birthday a few years ago. He was so mad, fire was coming out of his ears.

Later that day his mom found out that whoever did it got in through the window in our living room, there were foot prints on the window panel because it was muddy outside from all the snow and since I had mopped the night before there was nothing on the floor :(. We had thought that someone had gotten keys somehow because nothing was broken and we had left the door to go up to the second floor (his mom side of the house, we rent the bottom from her) unlock and when we got back it was locked. So that means whoever broke in got scared or better yet took precaution and locked the door in case someone got home while he/she was still there.

This past Monday I had a friend over and I was showing her all the wedding items I had recently bought. I gave her a bag with my jewelry inside and she says "I love this necklace, this is so pretty" and then she says "Where's the box for the earrings?" I say "What do you mean is right there, you're holding it." She says "Look there's nothing inside." My heart dropped to the floor and I started to panic. I went to look where I had it and no earring box. I wanted to cry. How was I going to tell my mother? Why would someone steal from us? We have never hurt anyone, we have no enemies! Worse part is that whoever did it is someone close to us. And its scary too because that thief is among us and we don't know who it is. I feel like I can't trust anyone. This really hurts me.

I noticed my earrings were missing a week after and that makes me wonder what else did that person take that we are not noticing. The strange thing is that I don't understand why they only took certain things. I had my necklace, earrings, and brand new camara FI got me for christmas in the same place together but they only took the earrings. Also why didn't they take our laptops or all the jewelry they saw, TVs, or any of the other valuable things we have? Is like if they didn't want to make it that obvious that someone had been in our house and stole from us.

Not only did they steal the earrings but they also took the receipt for the care plan my mom got for the earring for 3 years. So that makes me think that that person is a male and they'll be giving those earrings to their partner for Valentine's Day :'''(

Below are the earrings that my mom bought for me and that I was going to use on my wedding day. :(

I have a confession

If you remember, a few weeks ago I posted about needing motivation to workout and get in great shape before the wedding. Well that same week I started having health issues that prevented me from doing certain things such as running, hopping, jumping, and so on until I got in to go see my doctor. That meant that I couldn't do no exercise at all. That got me a little upset because I was really looking forward to it.

Anyways, by the time I saw my doctor, got scheduled for some tests, and got the results back almost two weeks had passed by and I had not even started day one of my "21 day routine". Finally things got sorted out and I had to make some decisions concerning my health that would allow me to keep going with my future plans.

I decided to start my routine again on 2/1 but that didn't happen and unfortunately I have no excuse for not starting it. All I can say is that I've been feeling a little lazy. I'm not a morning person, so for me to get up at 5am to run on the treadmill or sit in front of my tv half asleep to do some workout video umm yea that don't go too well with me. Then at night time I get caught up cooking, baking, cleaning and before I know it everyone is sleeping and it rubs on me and I get sleepy and there goes working out.

One thing I can say that I'm proud of and that I've done is watching what I eat and I've been portioning my meals. That's a big one for me because like I said before I just loooooveee food! I've been baking and cooking a lot more this past weeks but it' been healthier meals an when I bake I usually bake for fun. Like last night I baked 3 dozen of peanut butter cookies and three dozens of chocolate chips cookies and a batch of brownies and can you believe I only ate half a brownie :) I'm so proud of myself!

Tonight after school I intend to go straight home and do an hour of exercise. Will I do it for real? Who knows. Will I try really hard not to get caught up in other things and get sleepy? I will do my very best.

So again, please think of me and send me some working out vibes.

Happy Thursday!

Philly GTG

Last Saturday I drove down to Philly to meet up with some wonderful knotties from TK's DW board.

We meet at this cute restaurant called Jones. The place was really nice and the food... yummy!

One of the most wonderful thing about being engage has been finding The Knot and being part of the DW board. There I've found wonderful ladies going through the same things, whether is FIL's drama or deciding on doing Boudoir pictures or just getting opinions on those small details that our guests will never even notice. Those ladies sure know how to help each other through the planning process.

Not many knotties get to go to what we call knotties GTG (get together). I, in another note, have gotten the opportunity to attend 2 one in NYC and this one in Philly. I also had the pleasure of meeting a former knottie who referred me to my now wedding photographer Julia Azcona and to her husband Gabriel who did an awesome job with our STDs and who will also be recording our wedding (more on that coming soon). I feel so grateful to have found TK and to have the opportunity to be part of their little destination wedding community :).

Here you have Amanda, Laura, Vanessa, and myself at Jones.
Showing off our bling (with the exception of Laura who had dropped off her ring to get clean and the wonderful Nessi designed a ring from sugar packets lol)

and here you have Laura, myself, and Amanda

I had so much fun with you girls and I'm looking forward on hearing about your weddings in just a few months.

I also look forward on attending other knottie GTG!

Have a great rest of the weekend!

Back to school!

Today I start class again. I'm not too excited about having to start class but I'm kind of looking forward to it if that makes any sense.

For those that don't know I'm majoring in nursing, my love for nursing goes way beyond your imagination. I started college back in late fall of 2008. I register with one online class and ever since I've been taking 2-3 classes a semester. I have to admit that its been hard joggling school, a home, my son, FI, and a full time job not to mention planning this wedding but I'm determine to keep up the good work and finish my career while having a life of my own, even if it takes me double the years.

This semester I'm taking one class, Anatomy & Physiology II, and I'm kind of excited for it. I decided to take only one class because last semester I was taking 2 and had just started planning the wedding and it was horrible. Knowing that we only had 6 months before the wedding I decided to just take this one class and put all my effort into it that way I'm not running around like a chicken without a head =)

Lets get this show started!

I'm a Auntie! :)

So yesterday morning, around 2:52am, I get a call from my brother saying that he's on his way to the hospital with his girl and her mother and father. He says that she's in labor. However, they thought the same thing 2 times before withing the last two weeks.

So I say "ok... well, just call me if they keep her".

(ring)... Is him, he says "they kept her, she's 6cm dilated".

At this point is 3:30am and I'm really excited but soooo tired. So I say to call me when she's 8cm and I'll get ready and go over to the hospital.

At 4:59am I get a tex message that says "She's 8cm come over".

Yup, I missed it. I got up at 6am. At the same time my alarm went off and about a minute later he texed again saying "are you coming? She's 9cm. you're going to miss the birth"

So I quickly get up and start getting my son and myself ready. As soon as I get out of the shower I get another tex that says "She's fully dilated", so I drop my son off at my mother's and start driving to the hospital which is only 15 minutes away. I get lucky to make it to the hospital in exactly 15 minutes, being a school day and with all the traffic.

At about 9am she's ready to start pushing. It only took her 18mins to get her out.

This was so exciting! I was able to see my first niece being born. :D

The Parents

The proud auntie

Isn't she just gorgeous!

Naila enter the world at 9:18am

Weight: 8lbs 4oz

Height: 19 1/2 in

Welcome to the family Naila!

Happy (late) 4th of July!

I hope everyone had a blessed and safe day yesterday and I'm hoping your weekend was great. We had our son’s 4th birthday party on Saturday and I loved every minute of it. My little baby boy is no longer a baby. Ohhh how I miss the times when he was so tiny and chubby and I just held him close and filled him with hugs and kisses. Now he just wants to run around and jump everywhere with kids his age. I know, I know this has nothing to do with my wedding but he is in the wedding party if that makes it any better :). We are who we are today because of him, probably if he wouldn’t of been here today we wouldn’t be planning our wedding or maybe we would be, truth is that we will never know and I’m okay with that because I love how my life is. Meet the most important child in my life...My son!