2014 has been amazing

Well its going to be a year again since I have written in my blog! I am so bad at writing now a days.. i might just go back to Vloging. Oh well here I go anyways.. So a few months after we came back from Peru, we wanted to start trying to get pregnant. We had talked about going to Peru first because it would be nice to do that before we had kids and then later once the kids were older. So yes i was pregnant and i went 40 weeks and then some(8 days). 

Our son was born 7/11/14 and was a whopping 8lbs 10oz! You know how people say its unexplainable ..that moment where you hear his first cry and see him for the first time..it truly is. i was speechless when i saw him and all i could do was smile and cry and the same time. God made such a beauitful, wonderful, sweet baby boy for us and we have been blessed.

SO we have been living in Texas for 3 years now and guess what? we are moving.. LOL seriously everytime we turn God ships us off somewhere else. I am sad to leave because I have made some great friendships here and love the Texas culture and weather(some hot days could be missed). 

We are moving to Michigan with our brandnew baby boy and will have a WHITE winter! His first christmas will have some snow which will be pretty nice. I am so happy and proud of my hubby for following his dreams and trusting God in this new chapter. 

Lets see on other news, i became a stay at home mom! crazy never thought i would be one. you know you picture your life so much differently from your after high school thoughts. I thought i was going to get married at 30 and perhaps have kids later and be a working mom. But God has shown me that He always has a way better plan. Today I am 30 years old and have been married for 4 yr and 5 mo and have been a mom for almost 2 months! and yes i want to have more kids...at least 1 more but if i can 3 more?.. :) i heard that the biggest adjustment is when you go from 2 kids to 3 kids..then after that its not too bad. lol but i guess we will have to see about that when we get there!

I also am very happy that this year the last of my high school BFFs will be getting hitched!! Sandy Ondina Guzman! I have known this woman since the 4th grade and i love her! She inspires me and loves me and i feel so happy when i am around her! If she was an animal , she would be a tiger! she is fierce, powerful, beautiful, likes calmness but also loves excitement and can be gentle when needed. LOL okay i know i am a nerd. well anywho she is like a sister to me, we have gone through so much, good, bad, sad, funny, akward and crazy! she is my BFF APV! Tanya, Jasmine and Jenny are all married to great men and i pray the best marriages for them and now i pray the same for my Sandy!

Also my BFFs from College are tying the knot! (Kathy and Jessica), this year. This year is the year for LOVE and Marriage! I just need to invest in a jet or something.. lol jk hopefully after this year i will have tons of freq flyer miles! for next year when alan has his friends wedding. 

okay well thats all , baby Alan might wake up here soon . Time is precious! lol I was at the store the other day and the casher was like wow you are here early, not like i go there a lot...he said he wished he could wake up early but ends up just sleeping in . i told him , dont feel bad take advantage, and if you want the best alarm clock , have a baby! hahahahaha okay well PEACE.

My Yearly Post

I seem to have an internal clock that tells me its that time of year again...time to write a post. I am once again packing last minute for a trip to Atlanta. So much has happened since my last post that I fear this blog will become more like a novel! Any who I am still living in Texas and enjoying the friendly atmosphere and long summer months. I know it gets crazy hot, but hey it only means getting to go to the beach, river or eating raspas to cool down...not frostbite. Alan and I have now been married for 3 years and 5 months! wow geez it doesnt even feel that long ago we were having our first dance. :0) still in Love and so Glad God gave me an awesome husband.

On the work life: I was promoted from program coordinator to program supervisor for the Parents as Teachers program at my job and also Meld ,parent support groups. I was excited for the opportunity and a little nervous since i have never been a supervisor for 7 staff members before. So needless to say I have been learning a lot and seeking God's guidance through it all. I cant imagine leading without Him. A few words, leaders need to know how to ask the right questions and not always have the right answers..or are expected too. Its all in all a great experience and work environment. I think the ladies i work with are exceptional human beings and have hearts of gold. Its always a blessing to see a worker that takes pride in their job and also their team.

Family Events: My brother graduated from high school yay! My parents-in-law have come to visit us on several occasions and we have eaten way too much Mexican food. Lol. Alan and I got to visit my grandmother and I got to show Alan the beauties of Peru.



Its been a pretty awesome year..now that i recap it all ! Thanks God. :)

So whats ahead...My best friend Jasmine is getting married in November! My best friend Sandy is going to be hitched in 2014! The last 2 comadres to tie the knot!! And God willing Alan and I will start trying to have a child...dun dun dun! :D We are very excited and feel that its about that time in life where we want to make future good citizens and most of all become parents. <3

when i am prego..i hope i remember to write on here again...thanks and until next time. Ciao

Stockton/Modesto

Well this week I was in nor cal for a parents as teachers training. I really enjoyed it and the people inner on my training too. We had women from Hawaii, Idaho and the local area. Had brain load all day and in the evening we went shopping and goofed off (brain default mode) lol.
I got to indulge in some yummy taco truck sopes, in &out burger and fries, chipotle and some sweet company .
All in all I'm feeling ready for the next part of my job , home visits with patents and children! Ready to see Alan again and hug and kiss him to death! Lol

A year later!?..2012 update

So we don't live in NY anymore! We def got our adventure up there. From snow storms to lake fishing. We left June 2011 and moved to Texas again!

Yah we had no idea we would be back that quick. We are renting but saving up for a home with acreage. The dream is to have a small farm! We live in new braunfels TX but since Alan works in Seguin and I work in San Antonio we are looking for a fair middle point. We are hoping to move in June or so but we are sooo ready to have our own place!

I just started a new job as a parents program coordinator and love it! I can't believe I get to work with a great Christian non profit too! And the benefit package is super!

I get to coordinate weekly parent support groups, do home visits to support parent and child bonding and I best of all I work with awesome caring and passionate coworkers.

Anywho that's the latest and greatest in my life. I want to start up this blog again so you'll be more in tuned with me! Love ya!

The Great MOVE

So life has a funny way of making sure that I have new challenges and reasons to add more layers of who i am. lol Literally, layers, since we now live in the Northern section of America. I think its funny that before Alan and I got married we talked about how much we loved the summer and hot weather, while some people would complain about being sweaty or too hot we were like lizards ready to bake out in the sun. So we told each other that when we got married we would live in the south or somewhere warm. JA!

But I guess we did live in Texas for the first 2 months of our marriage and we had awesome weather, little did we know God was working his magic to send us to New York. Alan got a job offer during June and we moved to Lakewood, NY end of July begining of August. 

The nice thing we had was that our relatives in Texas gave us a house to live in for free and we still were close enough to the ranch and would go hang out there whenever we could. So we do miss having open country space but once we came up to NY to look for an apartment we realized that we were going to some what of a country place in NY too!

You should have seen us throwing our stuff together and hitting the road to start our new adventure. I think that during the move it hadnt set in yet, at least in my mind, how much we would miss Texas and that we were actually starting our lives out, independently..you know away from our familys (our support systems).

Although I knew it would be EVEN further away from California, I knew that it was for the best and really Alan getting his job was an answer to prayer. He had been looking for a job for over half a year and with the wedding, honeymoon, move from Cali to Tex we were really low low on funds. So God provided once again like He always does. He Da MAN..I mean GOD! lol


So yes, there was a whole mix of emotions (excited, sad, happy, anxious, curious, and thankfulness of course)

So we live in a 4 plex apartment complex in Lakewood, which is a town and its just outside the city of Jamestown. But when people ask where we live (people not from this area) we say Jamestown because its the "bigger" city. I love where we live because its right on a historic street with a park at the end of the street that oversees the Lake. :)

Right now its all covered with SNOW but in the spring and summer I know it will be beautiful again. I think that its also pretty cool that we have our own 2 bed room apartment. I do miss having a garden or backyard but at least we have a little balcony! We get to have our Grill out there and when it was warm I had my plants and flower out there. I was able to grow some tomatoes and green beans. My favorite was seeing my flowers grow!  So life is good.

To end if off even though I do deeply miss the beaches of Cali and WEATHER!.lol I finally experienced Winter for the first time. Its a season of waiting, hibernating and rest. REST, yes that,what is that??? lol I am coming to appreciate that word more and more. Not just the whole getting more sleep and doing nothing rest. But the resting of my soul, mind and heart. Resting in appreciating the small and big things around me and watching love in the moments of stillness.

we moved!

UPDATE! We no longer live in Texas but are all the way up in NEW YORK! Can you believe it? oh yah and we have been married for 10 months! :) MR. and MRS. Roe

so behind! :P

I havent updated in a while but so far all is well. I will make it brief because there is so much to update y'all about. So my mom came to visit me and the Roe Familia! She had a great time, it rained for most of the time she was out here (which was great because it was mostly at night). We went out to town and shopped and her and Deone Al's mom got along well. OH! and my mom she shocked me! okay so before we went to pick her up i told Al's family that she is shy and doesn't talk that much but after she gets to know you she opens up! but ohhhhhhhhhhhh no she was talking it up the whole drive back to the house and everyday she was just so talkative. lol I know she loves to talk and share but she barely knew Al's parents. Anywho, it was awesome my mom and his parents get along great. :)

Then on the last day she was here in Texas, we went to go see llamas. yah okay so i have had this weird hidden love for llamas, ever since my last Peru visit. I thought they were such cool creatures and so gentle. I had told Al and he had asked me if i would want one and i said Yeah! He said maybe i could train it and i immediatly saw myself riding a llama in my head. lol. SO we went to go see llamas and bought if from this old man that was nice but he didnt have a clue about llamas (that was a red flag)..anywho i saw the one i wanted, she was so cute, her body was dark brown and her tail and lil face was blackish brown..but the cool part about her is she had a lil white on her chin and neck and here legs (loooked like leg warmers) :) beautiful. Anywho, Alan was so sweet and he let me rant about how awesome llamas were and i told him all the research i know about them ( i did my homework)and finally i decided to call her "Sweety" because she was so sweet and gentle and she even had white sugar on her chin : D lol. i trained her for a week, she would run away from everyone when we first got her but i got her to stop, let me pet her, then she finally let me hug her and would walk with me. It was such an awesome feeling, training an animal is beautiful. I never in my wildest dreams would have thought i could do such a thing, but something about connecting with an animal without language but just consistency and patience was inspiring. sigh, God had other plans though, because the family went on a trip for 3 days and I left her food and plenty of water but when we got back we found her dead..and she was being eaten by the vultures..it was grusome. I wont go into detail because it was just sad and fortunatly we got there and they had just started picking at her. My heart sank when i saw her lying there...seriously all i could say was "NOOO" and just cry. I had so many plans for her and so many good times with her. It was a horrible day and I was not expecting her to leave so soon. Al and his dad helped me bury her and i made her a cross grave. I am coping with her loss but I know God made her and will take her back, ill see her in heaven and connect again with her.