August 2010

Summer in Germany is beautiful, we've been trying to take day trips and enjoying the weather. Now Nathan is 2 months and sleeping 6 hours straight. We only have to wake up once now and we feel so much better now and not like walking zombies.
My life now pretty much consists of enjoying my days with my baby and I couldn't ask for more. He is such a joy to be around. I love to see his smiles and all the new little things he does. I love you baby so much.

mmm can you see the waffle next to Nathan

My boys ready to go to church

one more

and one more, i can resist myself

July 2010

My little boy is a month old. It feels like he has been with us a lot longer than that, actually i can't remember my live without him. We are enjoying this time besides the fact that we are sleep deprived and all we think about is "sleep". Nathan sleeps for 4 hours straight then wakes up every 2 hours until he is ready to be up finally. I heard 4 hours is not bad but man I'm tired!
I know this soon will pass, but i dream with the day my baby will sleep through the night :)
So this month we were brave parents and decided to take our first trip as a family. And I say brave because Nathan strongly dislikes his carseat. Do you want to hear him cry? put him in the carseat. So we drove 4 hours to Garmisch to stay the weekend. Lucky us Nathan slept the whole four hours, we couldn't believe it.

Here are a couple of pictures of Nathan at 1 month old.

The last four months of our lives

In these last 4 months many things had happen, major events in our lives like having Nathan finally with us. Nathan was born on June 5th at 00:20 hours. He weighed 10 1/2 lb ( ya he was that big) and 22 in. I dont want to go into details since I have to share with you 4 months of our lives in this post. But let me tell you it has been hard and at the same time wonderful.


Most of the month of June we spent in the house just trying to figure out how to be PARENTS and how to take the best care of this liitle addition to our family. Jared's mom and dad came all the way from Albuquerque to visit us for our week. We had so much fun with them and They were a lot of help :).

Some here are some of our memories from June:

This is our first picture as a Family and I love it, Nathan looks so small and I was hurting and so tired at that moment.

Isn't this picture so cute :)
I love the following newborn picture of Nathan

I love how Jared fell in love with his son since the moment he saw him. I love my boys and I know Jared and Nathan will have a great relationship.
Since the first night Jared was very hands on, he would change Nathan, He would walk him around the hospital. Jared complained when it was my turn to hold him ( yes we took turns because we didnt want to let him go.)

And this is my favorite picture ever. I think is the cutest thing don't you?

Nathan and grandpa taking a nap

Mom and Dad were here for Nathan's blessing.

Maternity Photos

These pictures were taken when I was 38 weeks pregnant. Today I hit my 39 week and I'm ready to have this baby soon

Jared's 1st Surprise Birthday Party (march 2010)

Sorry I'm sharing this so late, but my head has been in other places like: baby, baby and baby. But better late than never. I'm so happy to have planned Jared's first surprised Birthday party. He was so happy and so touched to see his friends there for his Birthday.

I hope you like your party honey. I love you so much and can't wait to celebrate many birthdays with you.

Baby Shower

Jared and me are amazed that so many people have helped us with things for our little Nathan. My friends Hannah and Sonila from church planned a baby shower for me. We had so much fun and Nathan got cute gifts.

Really, really good food :)

Beautiful women and great friends. I love all of them

While we were having a party, our boys were playing games at a friend's house. But later they came to eat our food. Here is Jessica given Jared the diapers with melted chocolate. Jared didnt know... just look at this face :)

We got great things for Nathan. We also had 2 other baby showers from Jared's work. One from his coworkers at the jail and the other one from his coworkers at the Coleman Health Clinic. We have been blessed since many people have giving us all sort of stuff. I can't wait to post pictures of Nathan's room, it is almost done.

Poland trip (March 2010)

Here are some pictures of our trip to Poland on March. We stayed at the Elim Christian Center, which is a wonderful place. We did service projects and also had lots of fun... enjoy

The Elim Center is actually an old castle the years ago 4 missionary families transformed into a place where they help the needed. The castle runs through donations and help kids in the community and also unemployed people. We stay 3 days and help sort some clothes and also we did some painting.

This is the aparment where we stay:

The Elim Center is close to a small city called Boleslawiec which is famous for their Polish pottery. This city exports most of the polish pottery that you see in the States. I'm going back for some serious shopping before we leave Germany :)

We decided that we were going to find a church in Poland, the closest one was almost 2 hours away from where we were, but we went. It was a little bit difficult to find, but we found it ... see the small black square ?

We got there on time, It was a really small room with 15 people including us. They only have a branch president and the missionaries are the ones who give the talks on Sundays, so you can imagine how many talks this missionaries have given in their missions. The 2 missionaries we met were from Utah and translated the service for us, they were so happy so see us and we also met a sister missionary from Utah. The members where so nice, even though we couldn't communicate we felt their love and excitement for having visitors.

We enjoyed Poland a lot, here are some pics of the city:

Jared wanted the mini car above :)

Our wonderful friends, The Woods