Trey's New Room

Now that we finally have our house...Trey gets the room he has always wanted! A Graffiti Room!!!! Different I know, but he loves everything about it. He has a loft bed with a "homework station" underneath. He has his own desk and filing cabinets. One wall is completely done in graffiti and the others are painted red and grey. Alvin, a "professional graffiti artist", came and designed him a wall. Trey loves skeletons, skulls, skateboards, and he is quite the fashion kid. He enjoys several brands, such as... Hurley, Fox, DC, Ed Hardy, Flip and Volcom, so Alvin put the logos on his wall as well. We all love the wall, especially Trey! He really did use spray paint, which is crazy to me because of all the detail he was able to do...... I'll post more photos when the rest of the room is finished.

It pays to do the right thing!

On Tuesday morning, after night nannying, I decided to swing into Starbucks for a "second wind". It is a brand new Starbucks that has only been open for a week... As I was in the drive-through line, I saw a Wendy's Happy Meal bag in their beautiful landscaping. I kept staring at it thinking how awful for someone to throw it the bushes when there is a trashcan 10ft away. Since there was three cars in front of me anyway, I decided to jump out of my car, pick it up, and throw it in the trash. As soon as I picked up the happy meal bag, I saw a $5.00 bill underneath it!!! "WOW!!! ... It's my lucky day!" It was then my turn to pay for my coffee, so when I pulled up to the window, I handed the guy the $5.00 bill along with my debt card and told him to put the cash in the tip box and to put the coffee on the card. He had a HUGE smile on his face.... He said, "I have been here since 5am and NO ONE has picked up that happy meal bag. I thought it would be neat to put cash under it so whoever did decide to pick it up would get a little reward...and instead of you keeping it, you put it in our tip jar." He then handed me my debt card back along with my coffee and said, "no payment needed". That made my entire morning! It just goes to show....It pays to Pay it forward!!!

Holidays

Our Christmas this year was rather hectic. We thought we were moving into our house before Christmas, so we didn't decorate or anything. Turns out we are not moving into our house until Jan 15th, so I guess we could have been more festive for Christmas. Trey spent Christmas Eve with us. We went to my PawPaw's house like we do every year for great food and family. Christmas morning, Trey had a GREAT Christmas at his dad's house. He came over for just a little bit on Christmas day to see what Santa had left him. He was so surprised to see a gocart! When we move into our new house, Trey will be able to ride it everywhere! Aurelio and I didn't really do Christmas for each other due to our HUGE purchase...OUR HOME! This is an invitation for everyone...Christmas will be at our house next year....! We have always wanted to host a close family event like Christmas! On Christmas night, we went over to our friends' house for a bonfire and games. This Holiday was a success, but we are glad it's over.

The fam!

Trey got a Razor Gocart from Santa!

This kid loves clothes!

Aurelio is singing the song he wrote for me!

I was feeling festive on Christmas night.


The Martinez Family

My Christmas lunch plate!!! Yummy, thanks to my wonderful mom and aunts.

Merry Christmas

E and C

Here are the precious twin girls that I care for at night! They are doing AWESOME! Most of the nights they are sleeping 7-8 hours at a time....YAY!!! That's the goal! These two girls are so strong and such good babies. These are a few pictures that I took of them.

New photos of TREY!

I realized that I have not taken pictures of Trey in over a YEAR!!! On Saturday, Trey and I went to take a few updated pictures of him. Of course he is a fabulous model, so the photoshoot went by extremely well.