Friday, December 23, 2005

Shopping madness

is coming to an end finally.

Today I go shopping for the last time this Christmas season. I'm only stopping at Toys r Us and Valley Fair. While I'm there, I will get all my stuff wrapped at the SCV Winterguard wrapping booth so that when I get home, no one will know what I got!

HA HA HA I'm a genius.

Thursday, December 22, 2005

Today at Subway

I learned today at Subway that the people making the sandwiches are not all the bright. Sorry those of you reading this that are currently employed at Subway. I'm just talking about the one here by my work. It just openned like last month, so I'm pretty sure that the workers are new and still getting used to the menu, etc.

The are quick, to give them some credit.

Today I can't have an extended lunch due to lack of staff at the office. Which is good in a way, it's really quiet in here for me.

Anywho....

I walked into Subway... don't really know what I want just yet. Haven't been there in forever. Finally I decided that the Chicken Parmasan looks good. It's hot, it's chicken, that should be safe.

The girl is already irritated at me because I didn't have my order ready when I walked in. I looked behind me, there's no one else in line, I'm not holding anyone up chick, Chill out.

I tell her what I want. A 6 inch chicken parmasan on wheat. She pulls out the bread and cuts it in half then looks at me and said "Do you want cheese?". Uh... doesn't the chicken parmasan COME WITH CHEESE? She said 'oh yeah'. She slaps the sauce on the bread totally messy.... ok I'll need quite a few napkins for this.

"Do you want Mayo and Mustard?"

WHAT????

Look at the picture! Do you not know what the chicken parmasan sandwich is??

I tell her that it comes with chicken, sauce, cheese, and a little grated parmasan on top.

"Do you want veggies with it?"

No, it's ok.

At this point I give up. Why do they offer certain kinds of sandwiches if they are going to ask if you want all the extra stuff? They should just offer veriety of meats, cheeses, and breads. Then you can have them slap it together and make your own sandwiches. That's essentially what you're doing there anyway. Starbucks has turned into that now. They give you the basic formula of coffees, mocha, latte, etc. Then you add and/or subtract what you want in your drink. Add shot, half caff, add syrup, no whip, etc. Makes it so much easier for everyone!

Ok, I ate my sandwich and it wasn't even that good. I just had to eat something or this baby will not be happy.

Reese Quote of the Day

We're randomly sitting around and I thought I'd ask him some random questions....


Reese, where's your right leg?

He pretends he doesn't know and shrugs his shoulders....

Reese, where's your left leg? Again he pretends he doesn't know.

Reese: Mom, these are called 'one leg' and 'other leg'
me: What?
Reese: That's what you say when you put pants on me. 'gimme one leg, ok now gimme other leg'

Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Reese Quote of the Day

It's 7am and I'm waking him up.

Reese looks out the window and says....

"Mom, it's still yesterday!"

Sunday, December 18, 2005

14 weeks


I got a haircut yesterday! Finally cut it off so I don't lose so much of it anymore. Chris doesn't like the fact that I cut my hair, but it had to be done. Much easier for me.

I don't think I'm supposed to be this big yet at 14 weeks. That's only 3 and a half months. Oh well... Chris feeds me well. That and the doc hasn't told me that I should stop eating sugar like when I was pregnant with Reese. Of course we haven't heard the little one's heart beat yet either. We will this weeek though. Wednesday is our next appointment. Wonder if they will take more blood from me.

For Christmas I asked Santa for bigger pants. Things just aren't fitting me the same anymore. I'm really disappointed, at the same time, I should really get over it. I'm pregnant, I should feel good about that. Although at this stage I feel like the baby is just a little bean and I'm gaining fat. My weight hasn't really sky-rocketed yet. I was 140lbs to start, now I'm 145lbs.

I eat constantly. That probably won't help. lol.

So far I've done pretty good on getting all the presents for everyone. One more thing for Chris's mom and all of Reese's toys. Then, YIPPIE!! I am done shopping for the rest of the freakin' year!

Thursday, December 15, 2005

13 Weeks


We need to start taking profile pictures of me. I'm not showing yet, but it won't be long before my belly pops out there.

Chris is doing really good adjusting to my needs. I say that as if I'm paralyzed and I can't move. I'm just saying, it's the holidays, things are a little more hectic now and I'm not feeling up to par. Like I have no energy and I get drained when I haven't even stepped out of the car sometimes. Example: fainting in the toy store.

I'm not really looking forward to going shopping this weekend, but I will have to grin and bare it. Things need be bought so everyone is happy. I did buy some things online for certain people. I got Kelly out of the way with all her kitchen gadgets and a few other things. I won't be able to take Reese with me when I shop for him. Otherwise Santa won't have any gifts under the tree. lol.

We have a nice tall christmas tree up now so Reese is excited. Santa is coming FOR SURE now! He will be a happy camper when he's spoiled with everything he will get this year. Somehow, I know he won't be disappointed.

I have a feeling the baby will get something too.

Chris is talking to my belly every day. He's so excited about this baby. New dads are so cute. Especially when I'm having his baby. :-)

Friday, December 09, 2005


The wedding party -From left to right
Veronica
Lisamomeesa
Heather
Suzanne
Kelly
Me
Chris
Brandon
Greg
Dave
Mike
JT

More Weddin' Pictures!


Oops.... The little one was a thumbnail that I accidentally uploaded.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Professional wedding pictures are here!!


We finally picked up our wedding pictures. These are incredible images. The 2 guys covered our wedding wonderfully. It's exactly what I wanted and they were totally worth all the money we paid them for. :-)

Ok, it took forever to load one picture on to this blog, I will do the other 12 pictures later.

Reese: Do I have to eat my broccoli?
me: No, you don't have to eat it, but you should, it's good for you.
Reese: Does it give me strong muscles and bones?
me: yes it does.
Reese: Well, I'm not gonna eat it today because I'm just gonna poop it out anyway.

Monday, December 05, 2005

Broccoli

Reese: Do I have to eat my broccoli?
me: No, you don't have to eat it, but you should, it's good for you.
Reese: Does it give me strong muscles and bones?
me: yes it does.
Reese: Well, I'm not gonna eat it today because I'm just gonna poop it out anyway.

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Reese quote of the week

We had just told Reese that he's about to have a baby sister or brother, but it won't be until the summer time.

Reese: Mom, when are you going to poop out the baby?
me: Reesey I won't be 'pooping' out the baby....
Reese: Then is she going to come out of your mouth?

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At kindergarten a couple of weeks ago Reese was learning the letter H. The teacher puts up random pictures and the kids have to identify all the words that starts with the letter H.

Well, there's a picture of a horn, more specifically a trumpet on the board.

Reese: That's a Soprano, Mrs. Roldan.
Mrs. Roldan: That's a horn, Reese.
Reese: No, my dad plays that, it's a Soprano. He has a trumpet too!
Mrs. Roldan: Yes that's a trumpet, but I don't know what a Soprano is.
Reese: That's a soprano, I get to play that when I go to Vanguard.
Mrs. Roland: Ok, Reese, if you say so.

Monday, November 28, 2005

Ick... it's Monday

That's it? 4 day weekend is over? Just like that?

Maybe if I enjoy the weekend a little less Monday wouldn't come so quickly.

Chris and I enjoyed our first Thanksgiving as married people together. He made most of the dinner (I made the garlic mash potatoes). I wasn't feeling so hot. It's funny how you spend all day making the dinner (especially the turkey) and it takes like 10 minutes to eat. Well now I have a lot of left overs for lunch at work.
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Baby update:

Due date is June 16, 06. The 2 kids will be almost exactly 6 years apart. Reese will be a good big brother.

I'm doing much better at taking the prenatal vitamins and drinking more water. It helps that the vitamins the doc gave me is gel. It's hard to take those chalky, gritty horse pills. It's enough that I hate taking pills.

We went over to Chris's mom's as soon as we were done at the doctor's. She just bought a new car so she was excited to show us her new car. We were excited to show her the ultrasound. Her first words were "I thought you guys were pregnant already!" So she knew somewhat that we might have been pregnant. I think she caught a clue when she made a comment to Chris in the garage and he said "I'm not worried". Might as well just tell her we're pregnant.

The due date in mid-June is perfect. Chris will be marching with the Renegades and that's before they start getting really busy with shows. That way he's not at rehearsals worried about his 8-9 months pregnant wife at home. Instead, he'll come home to his family.
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Well.... starting today, Reese gets out of Kindergarten at 1:25pm except Wednesdays. What a pain.... I don't know why they just can't do that everyday. It's easy for the stay-at-home moms who has nothing better to do.

He'll be eating lunch at school in the cafeteria with all the other kids. Chris gave the teacher $10 for the week's worth of lunches. I hope he does ok. We'll see when I go pick him up later.

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Doctor doctor.....give me some news....

"... you need to drink more water" doctor Phan says as I hand him my container of urine sample.

"told you....." Says Chris.

I have been drinking a lot more water than I normally do lately. ok, just over the last couple of days I have been since I passed out on Sunday.

We also told Dr. Phan about me passing out in the toy store. He's worried that I might have other conditions we're not aware of. Being pregnant is part of the onset, but I shouldn't be easily passing out like that. He recommended that I go see my regular doctor to get an EKG. Just to make sure there's nothing else going on that will harm me or the baby. By this time, Chris is sitting there really worried.

Dr. Phan went through some regular first visit interview questions. Health backgrounds of both families, my last pregnancy with Reese, any history of abuse, and then over all physical exam. We did the regular yearly check up just to make sure everything is healthy down there and then a breast exam.

My boobs feel like they're twice as big now.... and I'm only 9 weeks pregnant. At the end of my pregnancy with Reese, I was a D cup. Imagine that.

..... and then he said the magic words Chris has been waiting to hear....

'Let's take a look on the monitor how big the baby is...'

We saw the baby.... it was moving around. Chris said that 'she' was pissed off because we were invading her house. The doc printed off a picture of the baby showing her head, eyes, arm, and body. He checked for all organs that are supposed to be there at that stage.

We saw the heart beating too....

Tiny little spot pulsing on the screen. Yey!!

Chris is smiling from ear to ear. He's so happy he's about to have a baby. He's going to be a dad from day 1. (Not exactly the same as being a dad from age 4)

We're done with our hour long first prenatal appointment. Tons of good thoughts are going through our heads. It's real now. IT'S REAL! We saw the baby. She was moving around in there saying 'Don't you love me???' Chris is feeling he should be more protective than ever. He has 3 of us to take care of now.... me, Reese, and baby.

Before we left, the doc gave me a few packages of prenatal vitamins that are easier to take. They're gel, so they go down real smooth for me. Thank god they make that. The griddy stuff was gagging me everytime. makes me not want to take them.

I go to give blood for more testing. They test for everything. As soon as the blood enters the vile.... the lady taking my blood says "you need to drink more water" My blood was really thick and really dark.

OK OK I GET IT.

My new goal in life is to drink 3-4 bottles of water a day.

More importantly...... There's a baby in my belly!!

Monday, November 21, 2005

Ok Ok we're pregnant!


There...... I said it.....

We're 8 weeks pregnant!

We found out probably about 4 weeks into the pregnancy. This is Chris's face when he saw 'pregnant' on the stick test. lol.

We are sooooo excited!!

Girl: Bailey Taylor Clavejo
Boy: Riley Christopher Clavejo

I have been feeling the effects of being pregnant. Chris got me some prenatal vitamins to keep us healthy. I hate them, they are absolute horse pills. I am so tired everyday with this baby taking all of my energy. Everything I eat is going straight to the baby. I'm hungry all the time. Although Chris is pretty good about reminding me to bring snacks, most of the time I pack a lunch anyway.

When I was pregnant with Reese. I was told that I was anemic. Ok, so I still am. Iron deficiency. I take the vitamins so you'd think that would be enough. I also don't drink enough water.... so the combo? Passing out in a toy store. Yep... That's what happened yesterday.

We haven't told our moms yet. We're going to our first prenatal appointment this Wednesday. Hopefully we'll get an ultrasound picture and I will make a copy and put it in a card for our moms. I really hope that they get excited and happy for us.

Friday, November 18, 2005

The boy-wonder

Reese: Mom, turn on your arrows so it tells you which way to go!

I wish it was like that so I don't get lost all the time!

Sunday, November 13, 2005

Iron Chef


I think Iron Chef is the best reality competition show on TV right now. It's probably because it involves cooking and speed. Sometimes you can't put those two together and have things turn out the way you want them to be.

I love cooking. It's been brought on by my husband Chris. I was never interested in being in the kitchen before. And now things have a different taste in life for me. I love being in there helping him make our meals and creating food together. We look up new recipes and make what we think will taste good. It helps that we both love the same types of food too.

This has influence our little man Reese. He loves being in the kitchen with us helping mix, stir, knead, or microwave things for us.

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This weekend was really relaxing for us too. We haven't had one of those in a while. We went and looked at 2 condos for rent. Just something better, not necessarily bigger, just more quiet than this little mexico we live in.

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Congratulations to our good friend Jeff Pearson as he becomes the next Corps Director of the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps. Our stomping ground is beginning to look up in the world of competitive drum corps again.

We get together with Jeff and Kathy often because Reese and Derek love each other like they are brothers. This will be a good move for him and a great decision made by the SCV Board. Maybe they will bring home a championship ring again.... and again.... and again. lol.

Chris and I ran into Jeff and Kathy at the Logan fiend show this past Saturday. He mentioned that he'd like me to head up the SCV Alumni Corps recruiting efforts. Of course I'm not going to turn that offer down. I'd love to work with the corps at that level. Especially now with Jeff running it.

Wednesday, November 02, 2005

Before the wedding stories.....

Reese quote of the month...

Reese walked into the bathroom to pee while Chris was taking a shower. He opened the shower door just to say hi to Chris and discovered something he's never seen before. He comes running to me in the living room...

Reese: Mom! Dad has hair on his pee pee!!
me: Yeah? He's a guy, he has hair in places you don't have hair yet.
Reese: Really?
me: Do you have hair on your pee pee?
::Reese pulls his pants down and looked::
Reese: No mom, mine is just brown.

I'm still laughing at that one.

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

10 days and a lifetime to go....


Today marks our 10 days til the wedding mark.

We're sitting at home every night picking our noses thinking of things we might have forgotten to do. So far so good.

Talked to Robert our cake maker today. He just bought a bunch of supplies to make the cake with. Yey!!! It's going to be so yummy. The whole thing will be chocolate with mousse filling on the bottom layer and raspberry in the middle and I think custard on the top. YUM!

Reese is getting excited about the wedding too. He keeps putting on my fake vail just to be cute. Maybe he knows he's about to miss a whole week of school and get to play on the beach. lol.

Thursday, October 06, 2005

Night of beading

Tonight I sit and watch Survivor and bead a few strings of green beads for the bridesmaids flowers. Reese is sitting next to me doing his best at helping me bead a small string for himself. I gave him a short one to start and he seems very interested and will not give up. I love this guy. He keeps telling me that he can't wait to show dad when he gets home.

It seems that all he wants in his life is for us to be proud of him.

Today his teacher tells me that he'd rather sit and do nothing than do his school work. She also said that he's not ready for extended day kindergarten. What the heck. He has been going to school full time for a year and a half. This is ridiculous. He is being so stubborn that his teacher thinks he's not ready for school. We lectured him so that he understands that he has to do school work and homework not one or the other. I think he feels badly enough now that he won't just sit out in class anymore.

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My new pet peeve.....

People who don't RSVP.

What is that??? When you are invited to something. You tell the host whether you can make it or not. You have a choice. Especially something as important as someone's wedding. There is a damn postcard included in the invitation already stamped. All you have to do is fill in whether you're coming and your name. And bam!!!! You are done! Then you go drop it in the mail box somewhere. If you're not coming, great. If you are, well duh! We kinda need to know that there should be food and a seat for you at the ceremony and reception.

Why do people not think about that? Is it so freakin' hard to reply?

There is a due date on the invitation. October 1. It is now 6 days past and I still have people who have not replied. The invitations went out September 1.

I don't get it.

I am frustreated.

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Meanwhile..... I've got a couple of projects going on on the coffee table here. Not to mention a crazy girl from Oakland is wanting me to write out all her invitations and envelopes. Insane. But cool. I would love to do that. But it will take a long long time to complete. Gotta build up some stamina between now and then. I will meet with her after our wedding when I have more time.

Time to give little man his bath.