Occasion mini catalog and Sale-a-bration brochure

The best time of the year for buying Stampin Up products is here. Sale-A-Bration is here!! During this event that last from January 5, to March 31, 2010 every time you spend $50 on merchandise(tax and shipping not included)you can choose a free item on the brochure for free. This mean if you spend $100 on merchandise you get to choose 2 free items. Also if you want to be come a demonstrator this will be a good time for you to do it because the starter kit is 15% off and you get an additional stamp set value at $47.95. That is the price of the most expensive stamp set which means you get to choose whatever set on the catalog for free. Lets sale-a-brate!!!!

For more information on celebration click here.
Click on the picture to see the sale-a-bration catalog


Occasions Mini Catalog
Two times a year Stampin Up comes out with two new publications that reveals new stamps sets and accessories on a 24 page booklet. These items are out for a limited time. This give us two more reasons to be excited about besides the idea book and catalog.
If you want to see the mini catalog click on the picture.

Merry Christmas!

Miss O with her first gift of the night.


Meet Juanita my new sewing machine.


Playing in her ball pit.



Feeding Mr. Piggy

My two cuties playing with Tata's pig.

Mr. Jingle bells. Her favorite Christmas decor and song.

Hope you Christmas was great. For us this year was so much fun because we enjoyed watching Olivia playing and staring at the Christmas tree. This was a pretty good holiday season and can't wait to create more memories with my family. This year we spent Christmas with my family and that was good. One Mexican tradition is that we open our gifts the night before on Christmas Eve so around 10:00pm that is what we did. This year our Olivia got blessed with many gifts which made me feel good so many people love her that much. The next morning we enjoyed watching her play with every toy she got especially her power wheel quad. Pretty good year but so sad it is all over.

Oh Paris

Today I was asking my sister if she would paint an Eiffel Tower mural in my scrap room to go with my Parisian theme and I came across this a vinyl decal sticker Eiffel Tower. I just fell in love with this. I found this decal on amazon.com for $49.99 plus s&h. I also found this mural of the Eiffel Tower had an open window to make it seemed like the tower was right outside. This is a $5.00 project unless your painter charges and in my case I have a very talented sister who will do it for me as a Christmas present. Oh yeah. By the way she painted Olivia really adorable flowers in her room and it looks good!

Merry Christmas

Here are the pictures we took for our Christmas cards and the cards I made for us this year. I wish I could have put more time into them but after making over 200 in the last month I needed to do whatever was faster. I love them! For this card I used the Medallion stamp set ($17.95) and embossed it with a green powder inside I stamped my holiday message with Season of Simple Grace ($25.95)

Today I had so much fun with my Olive. I dressed her up in her tutu, we sat by the Christmas tree and we dance, sang Christmas songs, watched a Veggie Tales movie, we gave each other some xoxo's.
Oh I just love being a momma!

A pool in our kitchen

This is why you dont leave a 16 month old alone. Because she wil fill your kitchen floor with water right before you have to go.

Oh boy!

I know I am almost a month late but today was the first day in a while that I have nothing much going on besides picking up a little. I have no major projects due, I have no appointments in my schedule, I have not sick child nor husband. I am not baby sitting. I am alone and have nothing to worry about. Sigh!

Thanksgiving was absolutely fun with family with us and delicious food to eat. This was Olivia's first Thanksgiving meal and oh boy she loved it. I have never seen her eat so much in her life. She sat with her Papa(her favorite person in the world) and ate and ate and ate...I finally had to say something and she was so sneaky and went around and ate every ones leftovers yucky. After dinner we played some music and Olivia entertained us with her sweet moves. That was fun! The rest of the night was spent at watching movies until we fell asleep. Fun night so thankful for what God has done in my life. Never did I think he would have me where I am.

God, I am so thankful for your grace in my life for your abundant love. That you have blessed me with a wonderful husband that loves you and his love for you reflects on me. You are the greatest example of LOVE. Thank you Jesus for allowing me to become a mother to a beautiful little girl. I am in awe of your faithfulness an love for me. I love you!

What I have been up to.

Lately I have been so busy with so many things and by no means I am complaining. I love this busy part of my life. I never thought I would enjoy my life so much. I love where God has me at this very moment. I love my Jesus. I love my marriage. I love being a mommy. I love being a Young Life leader. I love my life. So thankful for God's grace in my life.

One of my projects this last few weeks was to make 163 Christmas cards. Boy was it tough. The last few days of it was a little stress full but fun and I could not have done it with out my two beautiful YL girls. Mariah and Beatriz. Those two girlie's are awesome. They came to babysit/help me finish and when Chris and I came home from our date they had almost finished putting and finishing the cards for me. They made me feel very special. THANK YOU GIRLS! I forgot to take a picture of cards but they came out really cute!

One other thing I did was organize the Christmas party for our YL students and that was so much fun. I wanted to make it somewhat formal nicely decorated so they could feel welcomed and loved because you know for some of them I am sure this was the closest thing to a nice and normal dinner. I hope they felt how special they are to us but most important how special they are to Him.

Please pray

This weekend we are taking our Mesa High students so winter camp to the beautiful Lost Canyon. I am so excited to see what the Lord has for us this year and what He is doing in the lives of our students. As of right now we are only taking 10 kids to camp. I wish we could take more but due to fiances that is pretty much all we can take. If you want to help please contact me. It cost $100 to send one student to camp.

This is my first year going as a mommy so it will not be easy leaving my wee one behind. I love her too much! but I have to remember the reason for being there. Regardless I know we are going to have a blast and enjoy the 50 degree weather YEY. So excited to be back in the game. I will post a blog about our trip.

Mornings at the Amaro's

My favorite part of the day is the morning. Not only do I get to wake up next to my wonderful husband but I also have a 15 month old calling me to go get her. After our morning kiss one of us goes and gets Olivia then we enjoy a little family snuggle time (oh my favorite). Then I get up and make us breakfast and of course Olivia is right behind me trying to "help". Chris' favorite breakfast is a ham and cheese quiche so yummy, easy and fast to make. I try to make it for him at least once a month.

Ham and Cheese Quiche
Prep Time:
15 min
Cook Time:
40 min
Serves:
6 servings

2 red potatoes, cubed

1 tablespoon dried rosemary

1 cup cubed ham

1 (8 or 9-inch) pre-made pie shell in foil pan

1 cup shredded Colby and Monterey jack cheese blend

3 eggs

1 cup milk 1 teaspoon all-purpose seasoning

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Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Place potatoes and rosemary in a microwaveable dish. Cover with a damp paper towel and microwave for 2 minutes, until almost cooked through.
Cover the bottom of the pre-made pie shell with potatoes, ham, and cheese. Place on a cookie sheet and set aside.
In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, and seasoning and pour into the pie shell.
Place quiche into preheated oven for 35 to 40 minutes or until eggs have set.

Recipe from the foodnetwork.com

Most times after breakfast we do a devotional together or separate that is concluded with prayer time. Sometimes after bk we enjoy a good massage by our good licenced massage therapy friend Dan Z. Those are my favorite days. Bunch of smiles.

Our morning is concluded when mommy starts her daily chores and gets ready for a fun day!

Fun night!

Oh our Halloween night was so much fun. I enjoyed watching Olivia have fun walking and eating her candy. We went to my friend Adriana's neighborhood and trick-or treated with them. Thanks girl. Olivia understood what was going on pretty fast and her eyes lit every time we came to a house. Since she walks sooooooooooooo slow we did have to carry her, my sister did most of the work bless her heart. She ate candy the whole time we were out the from the very first house we went to till the very last one. So by the end not only was she hyper but also sooooooooooooo dirty. My little princess.

After that we went to Chipotle because every year they give free food(what ever you want except for drinks and chips)to whoever was dressed like a burrito in foil. We can't pass up on that because we loooooooooooooooooove Chopotle! We all ordered our food and enjoyed a delicious free dinner.

Last part of day was so funny because our dear Olive was on a sugar high. She was laughing, dancing, and talking. I have never seeing her so hyper and she got to stay up an hour later. We loved every minute of that hour!

Now we have 360 days to think about next year and maybe by then we will have too little ones to dress up!

Trick or Treat

Yey Halloween is just a few days away and I am so excited because Olivia's costume is all ready to go. Although she will not be Olivia the pig she will be a really cute ballerina.

So this week at Younglife we had a Halloween club where we had a few treats, games and we got to dress up. It was really fun! Since this is my first Halloween where I planned something I wanted to make something spooky but yummy so here are my spider bites and scary ghost cupcakes.

Recipe for spider bites
Serves:
24 servings

1 (12-ounce) package semisweet morsels

1/2 cup creamy peanut butter

6 cups pretzel sticks
Place parchment paper on baking sheet; set aside.

In a large glass microwave-safe bowl combine chocolate chips and peanut butter. Melt on high for 2 to 3 minutes. Remove and stir until smooth.
Stir in pretzel sticks. With clean hands grab pretzel sticks and drop on prepared baking sheet in clusters to look like spiders.
Place in freezer for 5 minutes or until to chocolate is hardened. Remove and serve.

Recipe from the foodnetwork.com

This woman I love

This woman is one of the most amazing women in the world and I truly mean that. She is one of the greates of examples of a servant. This woman has giving her self up for others to maybe a little bit of an extreme. She has an amazing love for Jesus and for others too. Since I can remember she has always shared everything she had to the needy. This woman I love and this women is my mother....

Her love for the Lord has reflected in many areas of her life. She has taught me how to be a Godly wife who loves, respects and is faithful to her husband. A woman that loves her children and spends much time praying for her children to Fear the Lord. I can truly say she would give it all up for anyone. My my has a heart of a servant and I know is mainly because of her love for Christ that reflects that. I wish I could be more like her to serve others and not worry about how much I can loose or how uncomfortable I will be. I admire her and respect her and thank Christ for blessing me with a mother like her.





Mother this is for you.





p.s. I love you!

Kids, new baby, life all that good stuff

So today we went to visit the latest addition to the Costales/Mejia Family

Mr. Nathan Anthony Costales I hope I got his name right!?

born today at 8:00 am. His mommy looks so good you can't tell she just had a baby! Jealous! All of this reminded me of that beautiful day when I met my precious Olivia. It was a moment that I will never forget when that little thing stared at me and cried! Oh how I miss that. I miss holding a tiny person in my arms and YES believe it or not I miss being pregnant too. See I was meant to be a mommy.

I spent a long time trying to figure out what I wanted to do as a career from law enforcement, to teaching, to nursing and finally I figured it out. I want to be a mommy and a wife of course. I am living a dream that I never knew I wanted. I don't want to spend too much time away from my husband and kids. I want to be there after school, go to school plays, field trips, class parties. Looking forward to all that. I just realized that my true calling was to be a wife and mom and I want to be in their lives as much as I can. Motherhood is awesome even the poopy diapers!!!

So we get to enjoy Olive by herself for another year at least if God allows. It's ok becuase I enjoy time with my little sweetheart and I am trusting God's timing. Talking about Olivia she is growing so fast and learning things so fast. Lets see she can......

dance every time she hears ANY kind of music.

practically run. Well at least every time where go to the store she runs away from me.

ask for food and drink and cany pretty much 24/7.

talk on the phone with grandma.

Here are a few pictures of her recently.

Pink poodle, Eiffel Tower, Fashion, Shopping Ooh la la =

A pink Paris scraproom. After spending many hours thinking about my new scraproom and after many changes on my plans I am very excited to work on my room! The more I think about it the more excited I get! Well yesterday our boss invited us to her house for a surprise lunch! Well it was a neat surprise as she had decorated everything Pink Paris ( She loves Paris). Everything about the party was neat, her centerpieces where adorable and so creative. While sitting there chatting with friends I just knew this is how I wanted in my room.

I want the main colors of the room to be light pink, soft gray, black and white.
Here are a few rooms I found that I thought were nice I hope to use a little bit of everything on my room.


There is nothing better than a well organized room.

My room before painting it. My husband is too cute

Have ideas for me? let me know....

Mrs Ruthie

P.s. I love my family