Best Friends forever....

A good friend of mine sent me this picture of her two girls. Isn't it precious! Ohhh the memories these girls will make over their life together!!!

Thankful Thursday

I am Thankful for.....

1. My "new" living room furniture (I will blog about it later)
2. Doctors who figure out what is wrong with your child. Alex has been sick for the past two weeks. The first week, he did not have many symptoms except for not wanting to eat and being really crabby and clingy. When you are used to a laid back, content kid, it really wears you out!
3. That God has given me, yet another year of my life. For those who do not know, I turned 30 this past Friday! I think back at this past year...what a year!
4. Baby Monitors are great. I am very thankful to be able to sit here and listen to my son talk himself to sleep as I am typing this. I just smile and laugh when I hear him having fun!

Friends

As I mentioned in the previous post, Dave and I went to Akron the other weekend for a wedding. What a great time it was to see a great friend of mine get married and hang out with some college friends that I have not seen for awhile! It was once said that High School is the best time of your life. My time in college was better than High School! (of course I would say my life now is the best time of my life. I love being married with one kid!) What great people that God brought into my life and I am so glad that I can call them friends!

This is Megan and her new husband Jonathon. We met our Freshman year and were roommates our Senior year. Then since Megan and I had so much fun our Senior year, we just had to go to Mexico together and room there also! What fun!

Laura and Liz were there also! I hung out ALOT with these two my Senior year. I love that I still get to hang out with them every so often. Laura just recently moved to my neck of the woods...so I get to see her even more (hopefully)!

This is Josi, I was supposed to room with her my Junior year, but she decided to go to Nursing school in Cleveland...but I still think she is awesome! She is holding her daughter, Ruthie, who is 8 mos(?).

It always does my heart good to hang out with good friends!

Catch up

So often Dave and I take pictures to put on the blog and then we never post them. So let me take some time to post some of these pictures!

Dave and I went back to Indiana for a quick visit when Dave's mom had surgery. Dave snapped this picture of Alex, notice how he looks just like this outfit (The bull's nose ring??....maybe??).

OK, so our kid does not roll over, crawl, or walk but he can do a push up!

A few weeks ago, Dave and I were in Akron for my friend Megan's wedding. We stopped by to see another friend, Melissa, who just had a new baby! Alex was playing with her older daughter, Natalie (17 mons). Apparently Alex had a toy that she wanted to play with, so she just ploped herself on Alex's lap to get the toy. Alex just sat there and did not seem to care. I find it fun to watch Alex with other kids since he does not have a lot of interaction with other kids. All he has is me and I do not need to sit on his lap to play with his toys!

This is Kaylee (Natalie's little sister)



That is all for now...stay tuned for more!

Thankful Thursday

OK, this is not going well for me. My second Thankful Thursday and I am a day late! Better late than never, here we go....

1. Got to love disposable diapers! I know, they are filling up the landfill, but as I change my 3rd poopy diaper of the day, I am glad that I do not have to clean the diaper (just the butt that it was on!). I just wrap it up and throw it away!
2. Attached garages are wonderful. It started to rain last night on my way home from work. I just pulled into my garage and stayed nice and dry. Last time I was able to do that was when I was still living with me parents, 12 years ago!
3. Whoever has completed a Beth Moore study knows why I am thankful for her! God has used her in mighty ways in my life! I am reminded everyday that I too live in a Babylon as Daniel lived in his. The question is "how am I living for God in my Babylon?"

They are here

I had a new riding companion today on the way home from Bible Study. I was sitting at a stop light and noticed something moving at the bottom of my windshield, a cicada. I quickly rolled up all my windows...I was a little freaked out that it might fly in. I know that they are harmless...but a bug that size flying at you would make anyone scream and jump! I then got hot and rolled down my window, but did not reopen my sunroof! It stayed on my windshield the rest of the way home (about 30 min). When I got home, I jumped out of the car and ran in the house for the camera. I had to document the first Pacheco Cicada sighting! I remember when I was much younger and they were out in Ohio. All I remember is seeing their skins all over the place! The crazy thing is that the next time they are out in Chicago, Alex will be on his way to college!!! Ohhhh how the world changes in those 17 years they spend underground!
(Dave's Editorial: I wonder why Esther did not just turn the air conditioning on if she was hot and also scared of opening the windows. I'm just saying.....)

Thankful Thursdays

A friend of mine started blogging about what she was thankful for that week every Thursday and I thought that it was a great idea. So, Deanna, I hope you don't mind that I am going to follow your lead and do that same thing! Granted, I can guarantee that I will miss a few Thursdays here and there, but I will try to remain faithful! I hope you enjoy them:

1) That my friend Megan found a Godly man and got married this past weekend. The wedding was beautiful and I also was able to see some college friends of mine.
2) How great it is to have family in cities that you are visiting so you can stay at their house for free! Dave and I stayed with his Tio Eloy and Tia Patsy in Akron this past weekend (the wedding was in Akron). We also loved hanging out with them! Great conversation!
3) And of course, Our mom's! Thank you for finding us important enough to invest in our lives! And now, you are investing in our kid's life (I think I treasure that more)
(Proofreader's note: Esther wrote this entry on Thursday, but as the proofreader of the family, I, Dave did not get to it until Friday.)

Poor Guy

Well about midnight last night, a cry was heard over the baby monitor! Being that Alex sleeps through the night all the time, I sprang into action because when he does cry, you know that there is a big reason. When I reached in for him, I knew why he was crying. He was so hot (temp of 103). So we sat down in the chair to rock for a bit to calm down. Then it happened, he vomited all down the front of my shirt. Dave got called in: "Make up a bath for him!" What a night.

Around 4 in the morning, we were all back in bed. Well kind of, Alex was asleep width wise in our bed (that is were Dave finally got him asleep)with me next to him and Dave was downstairs on the couch since there was not room for him in our bed. Poor guy! Dave is such a trooper. He gave up his bed to his son and only got a few hours of sleep. We was up by 5:30 to get ready for work, and I sent him on an errand to get Pedialite for Alex before going to work (while I slept).

No worries. Except for some tired parents! All is well in the Pacheco household. Alex is good today. His fever is good and he is taking in his liquids. Now let's hope Dave nor I get what Alex had!

Spring is in the air

FYI: The picture has nothing to do with what I am going to write about. I figure what is a blog post without a picture of Alex. Right?

After living in an apartment for the last two years, I am really looking forward to planting flowers in my yard. Though the person who previously lived here did not take care of the flower beds, someone at one point in time knew what they were doing and planted some wonderful plants. There is one that I am enjoying today! They planted a lilac bush right outside the Living Room window. Since it is so nice today, I opened the windows and the smell of lilacs is filling the house!! How wonderful! Dave took the camera to work today, so I can not post any pictures today of my flowers, but maybe tomorrow!

So, last week I spent some time pulling the weeds that have been growing freely in the flower beds for the last two years. Not only did I find weeds but I found something living under the mulch. I have no confirmation of what it is but I know that it is alive, small and it moves. Here is how the story goes; I was squating down digging up dandelions when I noticed the mulch about 5 inches from me appeared to be moving. I stopped and watched just to make sure that I was not imagining it! I was not, something was displacing the mulch as it was moving around between the mulch and the ground. Talk about freaky!! I stepped back and watched it for about 5 minutes. I did not know what else to do but stand there and watch! I was thinking "should I step on it? Should I stab it with the scissors that are in my hand?" I did not do either, for I was more afraid of the noise it would make if I got it than of the animal itself! Can I get an Amen to that? I eventually saw it move under the bushes. The next day, that same thing happened. Anybody have any ideas of what it could be or what I should do about it? Help me get rid of this unwanted overnight guest living in my flower beds!!