School 2014-2015

Well it's that time of the year again. First days of school. And this year seems even more unbelievable because I have a kindergartner and a 6th grader all at the same time. How is that even possible?

 

                                                             Natalie Nicole Mendez

Age 11 and going to Kerr Middle School for 6th grade. She loves to sing and is excited about joining Chorus and having Drama class. She started shaving her legs this summer because she thinks her legs are too hairy lol.

 
                                                             Jaime David Mendez

Is 5 years old and is entering Lincoln School. He just had his first summer birthday party with Lego and Teenage Ninja Turtles theme even though his birthday is not til January.

Sophia Abigail Mendez, 20 months old. Gets to have Daddy all to her self in the mornings now. Loves to eat and draw on herself with sharpies.

This was a very emotional start to a new school year. On one hand I had my baby boy who I adore and admit to babying him because he's so small. I felt so scared to have him ride the "big" school bus. He's so much smaller than everyone else and the bus will have 1st, 2nd and third graders. But besides my fears, he has made it safely to and from school without any incidents. He's not really a lover of school and that worries me, but I guess not everyone loves school like me. Let's just say he takes after his dad lol.

Natalie on the other hand was super excited and nervous at the same time. I was very emotional. When I walked her down to the door all the other kids were at the corner bus stop already without any parents. So I didn't want to embarrass her by being the only mom out there taking pictures. Even though she didn't say so, I took some pics inside the apartment building and then stood by the door while she stood a couple feet away from me still whispering back and forth with me. I was fighting back tears. It was like she was growing up infront of my eyes. It felt like once she started 6th grade everything would start changing rapidly. And it has.

 My baby today has officially become a young lady. I was awoken by her calling my name while in the bathroom. It had come and as much as I had been preparing myself for it, it just hit me hard. And it hit her hard too. She's a very nervous person and she was so shocked that she was pale and felt nauseas. She laid down with me while I stroke her hair. Needless to say on a tmi side note I had gotten mine yesterday so it was oddly weird that we were both on it at the same time. And than I realized that David was going to now have to deal with two of us on it. Poor guy. I feel so sad for my baby girl. I mean I'm so used to having it and hating it, but I deal with it. But not my baby. I mean how is she going to run and jump like she loves to. Or go to school or do anything. She has to now get use to it and worry about things I feel she's too young to worry about yet. But there's nothing I can do about it. Life continues on even if I'm not ready. All I can do is hold on to my children for as long as I can.

A Sweet Gift

I was once again on Pinterest looking for a simple and cute gift for my son's pre-school teacher. I saw this one and thought it was very cute. I didn't have a cute thin glass jar like this one but I had just cleaned out some Snapple jars and thought that it would work just as nice.

You can find this project here.

Here's my final project.

 

I used Jelly Beans in mine and instead of a flower I just pasted my thank you card on as a sort of label. I also added a silver ribbon tied with a bow.

 

 

I even thought the Snapple top was cute.

 

 

 

 And for those who also have trouble thinking of what to write I found this great Pin on Pinterest for help on writing different types of notes. Great Help. It has all types of messages to help you out.

His teacher loved it and I loved that I made my own version. I feel like sometimes we're so worried on making sure our projects are identical to those we see online instead of just using them as an inspiration to make our own projects. I hope my project inspires you guys to make your own versions.

 

This year I turned 30 years old and I finally got to go to a Blue Man Show! But there's a story behind this. See as a teenager I really really wanted to go see them but couldn't. Then fast forward a little bit to when I met my now hubby. I let him know how much I wanted to see the Blue Man Group. Now I have to admit I didn't know how much tickets cost, and didn't think that they would be too expensive. So then on my 17th birthday, out first birthday of us dating he told me he had bought me something really special!!! So then we went to his house and he game me a card and was really nice to me but then nothing. Due to personal events that same day I ended up staying with him and his mom that day and it had been such a hectic day that I forgot about the "special gift".

 

I ended up staying for a couple of months with him and his mom. And during this time he told me that he had bought me Blue Man tickets but that he had to return them cause they were on a Sunday and because of our beliefs we couldn't go on a Sunday. I was sad but glad he stuck to our beliefs. I hoped one day in the future he would take me on another day.

 

Fast forward a year later. We were married!!!! And he decided to come clean. He told me that he had told a white lie. He said that that one year he had told me he had bought me Blue Man tickets he really hadn't. He said that he had gone to buy me some but when he got there and saw the PRICE he realized he couldn't afford them (he was a 20year old with not a very good job). He said he felt so bad and embarrassed that he had told me that white lie so long ago. My reaction was just to laugh. I wasn't mad. It was more funny to me than anything else.

 

Now fast forward about 12 years later and 3 kids and many birthdays and I still hadn't gone to see the Blue Man group. Until I turned 30 years old. He finally had bought me tickets to go on my birthday. It was all that I had imagined and we had great seats too! It was well worth the wait. We have pondered together why it took us so long to finally go and well we can't quite come up with an answer. Maybe we had just forgotten, we had other priorities, other places to use our money on. Who knows, all I know is that 13 years later my wish finally came through and I got to go with the same man I had wanted to go from the very beginning.  

Bonfire Theme Party

My Natalie Nicole turned 11 this October. We went with a bonfire theme. Getting inspiration from various Pins on Pinterest this is what we came up with.

 

We found a free template on line for the little boxes. We then found a cute picture to print out and paste on the lid of the box.

 

On the inside of the lid we glued the party information and inside we added a mini Hershey, a marshmallow and a piece of gram cracker.

We actually bought a cake at Food 4 Less and had them write happy birthday on it. But my awesome Hubby did the little bonfire on the cake.

We added some legos roasting mini marshmellows.

The piñata was just as cool. It was a bonfire. My cousin actually made it herself!

At the end of the night we turned on the fire and had all the guests make their smores. I recommend buying plenty because we ran out of them pretty quickly!

 

Everyone enjoyed the party a lot and it was perfect for October weather!