Sunday report

We had a good day. Watched a movie this morning with Bella (The Incredibles) but I think most of it went over her head.. LOL

Then we watched some football and had a very relaxing afternoon. Billy was *very* happy after last night's game when the Saints won 45-14 against the Cardinals.

And while he was watching the game I went to Archivers and scrapbooked for 6 hrs :) These are the layouts I finished... I might add a few extra embellishments but I'm so glad I'm almost done with my 2008 pictures!! :)

Our baby Mocha...

Mocha died Thursday night at Billy's mom farm. It seems she got pneumonia and went downhill really fast. For the last month or so, Bella has been praying and she always prayed for Mocha, along with her grandparents, uncle, Mommy and Daddy and everyone else. She was indeed part of our family and we are really sad. But I have faith that we'll see her again! There's gotta be a special place in heaven for our sweet pets!

She was such a good dog and she loved us so much, especially Billy and of course Bella. We were so fortunate to have her for almost 5 years in our family and we are going to miss her so much. She'd have turned 5 on January 25. And all we have now are the memories we shared together...

Thank you all for loving her and taking care of her one time or another. And thank you to everyone that emailed us or posted your condolences.

These are 2 layouts I did 2 days before she died.

Crib Climber

Yesterday while we were at church, Bella started climbing up and down the cribs at the mother's room. My mom thought it was so funny and started taking pictures of her... In addition, she hasn't taken a nap in 4 days!! Not a good combination...

Fast forward to today. She had lunch and then both Billy and I tried to put her down for her nap. But she refused to! So we just left her in the crib and after crying for a little bit, she started talking and playing with her stuffed animals. Then, while Billy and I were having lunch here comes little Isabella walking out of her room with her blanket... *sigh* I think this definetely marks the end of "babyhood"...

Maybe once she goes back to "school" and her routine she'll start napping again. One can only hope!! :)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

We went to the zoo today with Papi, Nana and Grandpa Bill. Bella loved it! She loves seeing all the animals and learning about new ones. It was a free day at the zoo and so it was literally a "zoo"!! It was packed and between our stroller and my mom's wheelchair it was quite difficult to walk around. But we managed..

Yesterday I worked all day until about 6:30 pm. So, when I got off work I went home and finish getting dinner ready for our family. Billy's dad drove from Lousiana to visit us and my parents and brother came as well. We had a nice dinner and then decided to play Scrabble. We have a Deluxe edition but hardly ever play.. So, last night we had fun playing a Bilingual version of Scrabble (for my dad's sake mostly) and laughed so hard at some of the words :) We only played 1 round and I won with 126 points!! :) GO ME!! After the game, we watched a movie and paused at 11:55 to watch the ball drop at NYC. We went to bed at almost 1 am but miracles of miracles, Bella slept in until about 8:30 am!!! I was soooo grateful she didn't wake up at like 6 am like she sometimes does..

So, I hope and pray that God will continue blessing us with a wonderful new year full of health and happiness and love and peace and every blessing that we ask of Him. I'm not doing a list with all my "new year resolutions." I just want to continue enjoying our time in Houston, continue to exercise regularly, and continue to set aside time to scrapbook and stamp and create crafty things :)