Baby update

Today I went to my 35 week ob appointment. I am 3cm dilated and she is head down ready to come out. My ob does not want to go into labor this week so she asked me to take it easy and just rest. My first thought was of my two year old running around and getting into things. Its almost impossible but my husband helps so much I know he would not mind doing mommas chores. I think we are having this little girl very soon!

It has been a long time

This year I do not know why it has been hard for me to blog. Blogging use to be my time to relax and write about my day but these past few months were different. So much going on and I totally missed blogging. I have been visiting many other sites that have been inspiring me to do many thing! I feel so much better but I am excited to finally have this baby girl. I have stopped doing a few things and am focusing on preparing for baby, resting and enjoying some time alone with my Olivia. Hope and I think I will to blog more about the last few months and everything I have attempted to make. YESS we have about 6 more weeks to go but hope Sophia Elise will meet us sooner than that.

By the way I am thinking of a new blog name uumm?

Few pictures from Olivias party

Our little yeyo(pirate).

Free vacation

Our chiropractor was having a contest a few weeks ago called Beat the Heat which you earned points by referring new patients, answering questions, bringing people to trigger point classes, and by having a testimonial about him online. That would explain my last post. There would be three winners third price was a 2 hour massage, second price was a new flat screen t.v. and first price was $1,200 towards a vacation. We wanted a vacation really bad! My husband worked so hard getting people to the classes, posting testimonials online and bringing new people in. After working hard at it WE WON 1st place yey!

Free vacation for the Amaros!
We knew we wanted to go to the beach and go somewhere with cool weather. After searching for cool places to go we decided to go to Disneyland. Our Olivia will be turning two in about a week so we thought it would be nice to celebrate early over there and also enjoy this last vacation before our little Sophia gets here.

It was awesome the best vacation of my life! I truly felt blessed and love by my Jesus that He would let me enjoy watching my Olivia be so happy and amazed at seeing the most exciting place on Earth for 2 year old. Not only was it fun just being there but that we got to do Disneyland like never imagined. With out worrying about anything we ate good, shopped a little and ate some yummy yummy treats. The best experience ever was having lunch with the princesses. Good food and good entertainment. Just everything about this trip was awesome the beach, boat ride, Disneyland, eating out, watching movies, looking at fish, feeding exotic birds. My heart feels happy!

One of the best experiences ever Thank You Desert Springs Chiropractic, Dr Casey Johnston, and my Jesus for this awesome experience!
Pictures to come!

Desert Springs Chiropractic Center

My name is Chris Amaro and I have been a patient at Desert Springs Chiropractic since 2003. Dr. Johnston has helped me heal from all the injuries I have had from doing Young Life ministry with High School kids, playing basketball, and from the college years when I took up skateboarding. When I started coming to DSCC I was unable to bend down and touch my toes in a smooth motion and had a lot of pain in my lower back, and my wrists. Now six years later I feel younger and healthier then ever and I can still hang with the High School kids at sports. Dr. Johnston has helped me with my jaw, ankles, knees, wrists, thumbs, and shoulders at various times. Because of my treatment at DSCC I am able to enjoy an active lifestyle.

Dr. Johnston has also been treating my wife Ruthie, and my daughter Olivia as well. He has helped Ruthie greatly throughout the pregnancy and helped her deal with the pain and stress that having a baby has on the body. My daughter Olivia has been receiving treatment as well since she was an infant and she has never been sick in the first 2 years of her life except for a couple minor colds. I highly recommend Dr. Johnston and the DSCC staff to anyone seeking to feel better or even prevent injuries.

Desert Springs Chiropractic Center
127 W. Juanita Ave. Suite 110
Mesa, AZ 85210
Phone - (480)-668-1199

Lost

So we decided to start watching Lost the ABC show, the day after the show finale and we have been so addicted to it. We have Netflix and it allows us to see all the episodes we want. We have watched so many episodes and movies we even cancelled our cable. Thank God for Netflix. The show is a little weird but now that we started I relaly want to find out what happens to all the survivors of the plane. Just hope season 6 comes out before we finish all the episodes and that should be soon.

Camp life

Last week we spent a whole week at beautiful Lost Canyon yeah! We got asked to do a one week assignment where Chris helped run the camp as a head leader. I always love going up there I feel like its a second home and always enjoy every second of my time up there. This year Chris job was to make sure camp was under control and to support leaders in anyway. I love this job for him! I feel like we hung out and laughed the whole time. Miss Olivia enjoyed every little second of it too. Since the moment we got there she wanted to explore camp all by herself of course she did not but it was exciting playing with new toys an new friends. One of her favorite things about camp was this cart that Chris had to drive around

Who wouldn't love it? She always asked for one more ride. The first few days of camp were a little cold but we managed to stay warm.

Finally after the weather warmed up we were able to enjoy and explore camp a little more! We enjoyed some time in the pool and we also or I should say Olivia loved playing with all the camp toys especially the playground that is located behind our assignment house. Fun times.

Two of my favorite things about camp is the night activities. One of those is western nigh where everyone dresses up like cowboys. Now that I have a daughter I can really go all out with her and its cute.The other night they had was Christmas dinner, we all get to dress up in funky Christmas clothes and sing Christmas carols in June. This year Olivia was a cute little present and it was funny because she did not want to carry the box until she notice all the attention and then she loved it! I love camp life and this year I felt like we all enjoyed camp more then any other assignment plus having fun people to hang out helps too! Hope we get to do it again.

Feeling better

It has been almost two weeks since I have been feeling good. I still feel it once in a while but it is nothing like I felt a few weeks ago. I can eat more and enjoy food better then before. Thank You Jesus. I started feeling my baby move and pregnancy is starting to feel good but being not pregnant feels way better! Other then that doc says we are both doing good and on July 1st we will find out what we are having can't wait!

Few things happened since my last post.

1. Olivia learned to say mommy.

2. We(my husband) painted our house exterior.

3. we got a roommate so Chris moved his office into mine.

4. I celebrated my second mothers day

5. I turned 24 :-(

6. We(my husband) planted a beautiful garden for my birthday.

I will post more about it sometime this time I mean it.

Still feeling sick

Nine weeks down a lot more to go! I am still feeling so sick I just have not felt like doing anything even blogging. I am trying to survive and make it through this first trimester that in just few more weeks should be gone. I forgot what it feels like to feel good and being sick all day is causing me to feel a little depressed. I know morning sickness is a good sign that everything is OK with my baby but it has definitely been emotionally challenging. But after all I know it will be all worth it! My husband has been so gracefully patient with me and has stepped up so much I can say I am a lucky girl. I don't know what I would do with out him. Honey I love you! My mommy friends have helped me remember that this is not forever and that its OK if eat Cheetos for lunch everyday. It has been awesome seeing the love of Christ pour down on us as friends and family have come and brought us prepared food so I didn't have to. sniff sniff. I am truly blessed and even as I am pucking my guts out I can say praise Jesus! Hope my next post is a happier one.
~Mrs. Ruthie~

Changes

There are a few big changes happening in the Amaro family. One of them is soon we will become family of four an we are thrilled about it. One of the other changes is me leaving Stampin Up as a demonstrator. I decided that is was time for me to call it quits and focus on the good things to come like having a baby. This was not the only reason why I had to stop but also my business never picked up and I seemed to spend more money than I made. I know that made some mistakes and I could have done more to help it but its OK I had a lot of fun doing it. I learned, and met some wonderful people through it. Although I am quitting on selling Stampin Up I will always be a fan an customer of their products and hope to host a party or two a year. :( The last thing in our list is a really big change for us and as we know more about it I will post because it is not 100% set and do not want to rush it if is not the Lord's will. We just need Him to guide us and help us make this decision.

Morning sickness

For the past few weeks, more like since week 5 I have been feeling super sick. Most night and morning after I wake up I feel pretty good but unfortunately most of the day I find myself hugging the toilet, lying down trying not to vomit or sleeping. Yes i feel so horrible because everyone in the Amaro household is affected because of me. My sense of smell is ridiculous sensitive everything makes me sick even my Olivia. I have no energy to cook or clean and feel like I have been neglecting my family and home but right now all I think is to survive and get through this. By far this is worse than last pregnancy. I know it will all be worth it and all I can picture is holding my new little one in my arms. Tomorrow i get to see my doc and beg her to give me some thing to make me feel some what normal. Hoping and praying that my morning sickness days will be over soon.





Today my baby is seven weeks and looks like this..




He or she is the size of a blueberry! God is good!

Three years

I can't believe how fast time is flying by and today we celebrated three years of marriage. Today I remembered that beautiful day and as the day went on I also remembered how blessed I am. The best day of my life the day I entered this journey with my soul mate. God is good! This has been three wonderful years filled with many good memories. Happy Anniversary honey! I love you and love what Jesus is doing through our marriage. Thanks for being a great example of what a Godly husband should be. My love, my partner I love you!

Its positive

Yes today I walked by the pregnancy test section at the store and I could not help myself and picked up a box. Chris had told me not to waste money on those things because we were so used to getting negative ones. Today I just I just felt like one more time, I promise is the last one. Yes after about one minute I could not help myself to look and saw two lines instead of one. I am so happy and excited for the next addition to our home. We had been trying for a few months and feels kinda good to be pregnant again. Chris wanted us to wait for awhile just in case but you know me if I cant wait a another week to know I miss my period there is no way I can keep this to myself. Please pray for healthy baby, good pregnancy, safe delivery and that Miss Olivia won't mind not being the only one. My due date is November 14 or maybe a Halloween baby. Thank you Jesus.

Cards

This weekend I finally got to go in my room and do what I love to do the most. Cards! I needed to make a few cards for a few people and I really wanted to make this slider card and just play with it.

I also am helping a friend make quinceanera invitations and finally came up with this.

Yummy

Have you ever had Trade Joe's Mango-Cream bars? You must. The other day while shopping at Trader's I came across these bars and I think I am addicted they are so delicious I am so tempted to eat two. Besides having none of that yucky stuff they don't make me feel guilty because they are only 60 calories. Although they are a little small I think it is the perfect dessert and really, one is enough to satisfy that sweet tooth of mine. Did I mention Olivia loves these things too? Try them.

I am back

I can't believe it has almost been a month since I last blogged. This last month I would see my lap top and wish I could sit for a minute and type away. Many reasons why from sick child, sick mommy, ministry and other stuff. Today after putting my Olivia to sleep I finally had some time to sit down and type.

So excited though I got a BlackBerry Curve and it is so awesome. It enables me to post from my phone which means I can type from anywhere. I love it! It also has many cool applications like calorie counter, map, and a food recipe. I love that my phone gives me low calorie recipes.

Winter wonderland!

This weekend we are spending it up here at Lost Canyon a YoungLife camp in Williams, AZ. Chris had to work this weekend helping to make sure that middle school students heard about Jesus. It was been such a fun weekend as me and my Olive get to enjoy this whole camp filled with lots of snow. Today I felt like such a child because I was so happy when it started snowing. It is because I had not seen snow fall since I was in 5th grade. I remember being so amazed at how beautiful it looked and could not wait to see that again. Well 13 years later I finally got to see it again and I felt just like that 5th grader that was so thankful to God for letting me see such a beautiful thing. I giggled a few times, I jumped a couple times, I ate a few flakes, and I took many pictures. Oh silly me! So happy to shared this with my Olive.

The view from our room

My Olivia playing in the snow not happy about all that clothing she had to wear.

Going on a ride in daddy's cart.

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We got so much snow this weekend it was crazy!

My Olive loves to read!

A few days ago I went to check on Olivia and I found her doing this. She sat there my herself and pretended to be reading. I loved it! I She is growing too fast!

Free Idea book

It has been a little crazy busy here at the Amaro household we have a few things going on but I am excited I have been making more cards that I will post later and other cool projects as well. May laptop is down for a few days so I will not be posting soon. As soon as I can I will be here happily blogging about what I am up to!

Remember Celebration is here! If you want to start stamping or add more to your collection this is the perfect time to do so. Spend $50 on merchandise and get something free from the Cele-bra-tion booklet.
Host a workshop with me and get a Idea and Catalog for free!Plus you can earn free SU products as well. Email at ruthieamaro@aol.com I do check my email on a regular basis even with no laptop.

Velentines day cards

Last Saturday I had my first card event of the year and it was a blast. Since Valentines is around the corner I decided to make it a V-day card class. The cards were cute and everyone that came did an awesome job too. I just love making cards and also sharing that love with other people!

Snow day

This weekend we spent it in fellowship with our really good friends and committee members at their cabin up north in Forrest Lakes, AZ. It was a wonderful time enjoying nature and away from the rest of the world. I love nature because I feel like God whispers in my ear and tells me "Be still and know that I am God" Psalms 46:10. My heart felt happy to see my 17 month old enjoy nature as much as we did. Even though she was freezing and was super padded with clothes it did not stop her from going out side and play. I know she loved it. We went sledding which was not Olivia's favorite but I enjoyed watching my Olive and her daddy come down the hill. We attempted to make a snow man but quit after our ball looked more like an egg. The rest of the time we spent it hanging out with our friends Brian and Teresa. What a great weekend!