Easter

This was Jovani's first Easter. This holiday was better than Christmas considering Jovani is older now and he can enjoy toys. Hes very grabby and curious. Enjoy...

See what I mean?

"Come on mom! I wanna play

Yikes

Sorry I'm falling behind on this blogger thing. Well, I have two post to write about so lets get started shall we?

I think it was two Sundays ago I got introduced to a new hobby. Fred and I made some new friends, they go by the name of The Medranos. Very nice people. I don't have many friends out here. I have a handful of them and I, as always, am the youngest one. The Medranos, unlike my other friends (no offense lol) are young like us =]. In their 22s, married for 5 years. (crazy huh? Im surprised I made it to two haha just kidding Fred, love you.) Anywho, they are originally from Corpus Christi and they are into fishing. So one Sunday, they took us fishing on base and I caught my first fish and it was a MONSTER! I'm surprised I reeled it in. Jovani was then due for a feeding so I had Fred throw my line out and I caught another fish! A catfish =] Fred says he caught it, I say I did, so I'll give him partial credit for it. Men!!

Captain Jovani

Shrimp bait yummy

There is my MONSTER!

Award winning fish, you'll see me on ESPN soon

Then we used him for bait =[

See that white spot on Freds face? Thats a fish ha ha

Theres our (MY) fish we (I) caught

Cute, we threw him back

Easter Eggstraveganza!

**There is a lot of spacing between the pictures so bare with me. Its 1201 AM and Im so tired** This is Jovani's first Easter. So in honor of this occasion, we went to JcPenny's to take some pictures. Now, we wont get them til the 7th of April, sooooo, ya'll back home will get them late.But, I expect to see those pictures in a frame when I get back home. The Navy sponsored a party/carnival for the kids who live on base. I was kinda iffy about going since Jovani is so young, he wouldn't be able to participate in any activity's. I still went and I met up with some friends there. Jovani had his first egg hunt. Fred took him, he got three eggs =]. After, we went to take some picture with the Easter Bunny. Jovani wasn't in a picture taking mood. Every time we would call his name to get his attention so that he could look at the camera, his head would go farther and farther down. I told the guy not to wait for a smile, just get him looking up. It didnt work. Fred did the hula hoop contest, but didn't win. Its ok, there is always next year. They had a deejay, a few of those inflatable jumpy things. I dont know what they are called. The sure did look fun though. There were pony rides, a petting zoo, and free food. I'm looking forward to next year when Jovani will be able to participate in the events.

So GQ don't ya think?

Hunting time

He was so tired.

Oh Jovani...

The other day he went to his cousins birthday party. I love dressing him up lol.

Isnt he BEAUTIFUL?!

I'M BACK!

A lot has happened since the last time I updated. The first obviously, is I got my computer fixed =]. My friend Alana has a friend whose husband fixes computers. Can you believe Best Buy wanted to charge me all that money and this guy charged me 40 dollars, got rid of all the viruses, installed spy ware and antivirus, and he saved all of my pictures and videos.

The second I wanted to post so bad but I couldn't due to the fact that the surprise pertained to my family back home and they would of read it and known the surprise. Well my dads birthday is February 13. Fred's dads birthday is February 14 and we thought since Fred's dad never met Jovani and my sisters never met him either, it would be a good idea to fly out to Chicago to surprise them. The only one in on it was my mother in law because she is the one who paid for our trip to Chicago. Thanks mom! And of course Joey (Fred's brother cause he picked us up from the airport) Jessica, Tiffany and Amanda knew about it.

We got to my house around 1030 at night. My dad answered the door and we yelled surprise. I was so excited I forgot about everyone else and ran inside to see my mom. She gave me a blank look, like she didn't recognize me. Finally reality snapped and she started laughing. She said she was just thinking about me when she heard the doorbell ring. Mother instinct I guess. That night My sister Veronica and nephew met Jovani for the first time. The next morning, my mom had called my two older sisters to come over and have breakfast at her house, but she was going to the store so she would call them when she got back. Well, my sisters did not listen. They showed up to the house when I wasn't there. Nonetheless they were so surprised to see us there.

Jovani's first plane ride.He was such a good boy, slept all the way.

My dads "30th" birthday present. He has been 30 for five years now ha ha

My little sister meeting Jovani for the first time

Later on that night was my father in laws party. When we got there I called my mother in law to let her know were about to walk in. So as we opened the door, my father in law turned around looked at Fred, looked at me, back at Fred and then looked down to see that Fred was carrying Jovani. everyone there went crazy because no one knew we were coming. my father in law was speechless. He didn't know what to do or say. He was so surprised and emotional he cried,after all it was the first time he met his grandson.

Even after being bundled like this every time we stepped out the house, he still managed to get sick. He hated that thing too.

Fred's nephew Xzavier and Jovani

Apparently, he doesn't like the light on when hes sleeping.

My sister Letty and my nephews

And my boys who I miss so much!!!!

So, as some of you may know, the man I married just happens to be a fan of the WORST baseball team EVER! (Cubs) And I am a White Sox fan. Well, one day I was at my moms house, and Jovani stayed with Fred, when I got to them later on that night I was looking through my camera and I found this picture. I did some editing to fix the problem. Can you tell?

We were only in Chicago for 17 days, we were in 20 degree weather and before you knew it, it was back to sunny warm days in Corpus Christi. We wont be back in Chicago til the summer time. It seems like a long time from now, hopefully the days go by fast.

Outside watering the grass

Grandma Menchaca got this for him. He loves it. He cant really touch the floor yet but we put a comforter underneath so he can have his bouncy fun.

Aw man!

My desktop got a virus!!! My computer wouldn't connect to the internet and long story short, Fred took it into Best Buy cause we have the warranty with them and it would still come out to 260 to get it fixed! Why did we pay an extra 300 dollars for then? I was just worried about my pictures because I have all of Jovani's pictures, my pregnancy, vacations back home and dumb pictures of Kobe. I used 3 thumb drives and 3 Cd's and I got almost all of the baby's pictures saved. So Im gonna have to go to Walmart, get a 200 pack of Cd's and maybe then I can save all of them. My friend Alana knows someone who can fix it for a lot cheaper, like 50 bucks, but who cares, its not 260. I dont understand the purpose of a virus, seriously, dumb jerks. Anyways, Jovani is turing 3 months on Tuesday! Hes a big chunker munker. Hopefully I can get my computer fixed soon so I can put pics up. I took a lot of them too. I uploaded them to Walgreens from my computer and sent them to Chicago so that my mom and MIL could finally have updated pics of the golden boy. Technology at its best =] Um, that all for now folks Eve

Sorry

I have been slacking a lot =[

Lets see, I got over my throat infection, now I have a stuffy ear that I am completely deaf in.

Ive been like this for the past week. Fred has been messing with me and he'll talk low so I say "what?" and after about the third "what?" I'll look at him and he'll be mouthing the words to make me think Ive gone completely deaf. The doctor gave me some suddafed but all that does is make me fall into a coma and I fall behind my schedule.

I took Jovani to the doctor for his follow up and hes all better. Then she told me I could take him to get his two month shots. He wasn't prepared for it, neither was I. Luckily I ran into Fred at the hospital and he gave Jovani one shot and another corpsman gave him the other two all at once. I felt so bad for him, he turned bright red purple and he didn't breathe for a good while. I started to get a little scared and then he finally took a breathe. Next time, Ill be sure to give him some Tylenol BEFORE and then some afterwards.

And, what you've been waiting for... pictures!!

He sleeps JUST like my dad, with his hands crossed on his chest and some milk coming out the side of his mouth

I love his smile

Mr. CEO

"what mom? Im working!"

Time for a bottle and nap

mini me

ok, no more

M.I.A

I've been sick =[ I don't know what I have or why I'm hurting. Every time I swallow it feels like I'm swallowing needles. Id rather spit. I went to the doc and good news is I dont have strep throat. Bad news is out of all the meds they gave me,nothing works. Its day three and I just want to numb my throat and go to sleep.To make things even worse, Jovani is sick too. He has an ear infection but I took him just in time cause the infection just started. His chest is congested and they gave him a nebulizer (sp?) and its times like these (doctors appointments)that I am thankful we have Tricare because the nebulizer was delivered to our house and the receipt was a total of 225.00 that we don't have to pay. Got bless the military for this. I have lots of pics to share, but my camera is upstairs and that to me feels so far away so Ill wait til Fred comes home from work to add them later on. Oh yeah, Happy New Year!! We didn't do anything special.