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This past week was a whirlwind of pediatrician appts, kleenex all crumpled up and sleepless nights. The three of us are getting over a cold this weekend and its our weekly screening of walking dead tonight here at our house which is really the silver lining to our not so great week. I only went to crossfit twice and i ate very carelessly and i'm definitely not proud but hey i've been sick and looking after both my sicky poos' so that makes it ok right? Chris and I are making plans for this thanksgiving week we're trying to fit everyone in which is difficult because my mom and dad live across town from each other and chris family is right in the middle! I'm making all the fixings this year thanks to chris mom. She has taught me everything i need to know to make a well rounded thanksgiving dinner and i'm putting it to good use this year. I'm not one for Black fridays but i sure am when it comes to the online deals! It all started black friday last year i noticed all the sweet deals on etsy, Betsey Johnson, and on Solestruck, nearly everything was handsomely discounted and i was able to bring in a pretty awesome haul! This year I've got my eyes on these little numbers

I love these Lita's with a clear heel! I'm 5'0 so i'm a huge fan of jeffrey campbell shoes! Chris is 5'9 so i can afford to wear as many heels as i want without being too tall. Plus jc has allot of platform on their shoes so they are a breeze to walk in! I always shop jc on Solestruck  and we buy most of our shoes there in general because they do not charge tax nor shipping and their customer service is flawless*

I love love love fur!! (faux of course) nothing to me feels more glamorous or feminine than fur and this coat from nasty gal in particular.

I'm on the lookout for a big statement "bib" necklace like this one here. I love the simplicity of this outfit its right up my ally, all black with one statement piece, this is my holiday inspiration outfit for sure.


I'm learning a little about cameras so i can pick out the best one for this space. I never realized how many cameras there are and how different each result can be!

Beautiful boy

our silly baby boy is the most adorable first thing in the mornings. He's amazing.

On a saturday

It was WINDY in el paso today! We woke up pretty early my little boy had a stuffy nose and couldn't eat or sleep comfortably (yes we co sleep and i still breastfeed). I had a moment today when i stopped looked at chris and my son Valentin and i realized "wow i am a mother" I kissed my little guys sweet waves on his forehead and i closed my eyes i can't believe how lucky i am. I can't believe chris and i are raising our baby together we've talked about this since we were teenagers now apart from being my best friend he is my husband. I'm so thankful for what i have. We're not perfect, or have great style, we may not be rich but having each other is worth more than all the sunken treasure beneath the sea. We are so lucky to have so many people and our families who love and support us no matter what and always want to help and be there for us. I don't know what is better than this. This is God. God makes this possible and i believe it wholeheartedly, i see it when i wake up in the morning and see my son sitting up smiling at me with his big gorgeous smile and bed head, i see it in my husband when he reads my mind over and over again i'm so very very happy nothing could take my faith away.

Infinitely sore

This week has been an interesting one it has ended with chris having the whole weekend off! (he hasn't had one since may or june). Crossfit this week was rough it is hard to climb back up again after getting off the monkey bars, but i have climbed and i'm back on track! Valentin, Chris and i are watching a little gilmore girls before we head over to the suprmarket for some fresh veggies to go with the shrimp we're having for lunch, then we're off to the park for a walk. Chris is totally maxed out on gilmore girls i borrowed the 3rd season from my sister and i've been watching it all week but i promised when i finished we could do whatever he wanted. I have been feeling so very inspired lately to use my hands to make things, plant, paint, clean! I don't know where this hunch is coming from but i feel sooooo good about it! Productivity ladies and gents, the cure to any and all low lows. Well that and physical activity of course. I'm still working on getting some amazing pics of us and our day to day stuff i love my family and i really want to share them here:) Well we're off for the day, goodbye!

crossfit

Tonight is going to be an exciting one because i'm going back to crossfit after taking a few weeks off (baby stuff) And its even better because chris is starting crossfit for the first time! I started looking into crossfit back in august, took an intro class and signed up for the on-ramp which is a month long beginners class to prepare you for regular crossfit classes so you learn all the movements and correct form. I fell in love and have been doing it ever since! I was never the kind of person who was good at staying motivated and fit i hated it so much to be honest but i've gone through pregnancy,a c-section, being a mom for the first time and carrying around all the left over weight it certainly doesn't help that i was overweight before i was pregnant also but honestly crossfit isn't like the hamster wheel at the gyms and zumba. What i love about it is that you are always with a trainer in a group and you can scale down the movement so that form doesn't suffer because really its not like your gonna walk in there and be able to do a pull up or even a handstand push up so there are scaled movements so that your still working to your full potential without hurting yourself. I have so much every WOD i really do and i never thought i'd fall in love with something like this and i swear in the beginning i was always visualizing the part in Fight club when edward Norton says "A guy who came to Fight Club for the first time, his ass was a wad of cookie dough. After a few weeks, he was carved out of wood." and i just visualize myself pushing myself past my limit and being all tough. Its a little bit of a dramatic reference haha! But i do go a little crazy in my head sometimes. I'm also a huuuge movie buff so that doesn't help!

Sundays

Tonight is our weekly backyard screening of Walking Dead! It started over the summer when we got a projection screen, we would watch a horror movie with the family in the backyard and it was so much fun because it was warm and We would always order a new movie from the on demand channels and it was a blast! We started it up again for the premier of Walking Dead this season and its really become a thing. i love it because it really brings us together and its great to catch up and watch our favorite show all together.

Eventful

Chris and I went out with friends last night thanks to his mom for watching our bub. It was nice i felt out of place allot of the time but i always do almost anywhere anyway so i guess thats not really relevant but we did have a great time with my two buddies Amanda and Melanie. This was our first time at both bars we went to so it was really exciting. We started at a bar called Hope and Anchor and It was really casual and...unstuffy? I don't know I liked the vibes there mostly and so did Chris. We ran into our friend Lorena whom Chris and i met back in the myspace days like 7 years ago and found out that Amanda had recently met her when she took a trip to Austin a few weeks ago, they totally hit it off over there so if was a fun little reunion for all of us. We spent a while there and to be honest i probably would have liked to have stayed there the whole night but Amanda wanted to take us to Black Market. It was just down the street but paking downtown is a nightmare so it took a while. After we got down we started walking over to the bar and once we got inside i swear it looked just like how my apartment was decorated. The music was epic i even spotted this guy from the crossfit gym i go to. I couldn't help thinking that it was weird to see him with a shirt on. All in all i had a great time, i mistook strangers for people i knew on two occassions,embarrassing!  But a great time! Just as soon as we got home our little guy was waiting up for us with a big smile and it was the cherry on top of our evening, and really our lives.

Days like these

chris is playing COD since he has tomorrow off Valentin fell asleep in my gray v- neck he looks adorable because its huge on his tiny little body but he looks too cozy to change him but he’ll be warm tonight because he’s sleeping with us. I’m pretty certain that i want to darken up my hair quite a bit. I’ve decided i probably want a level 4 i have really light hair right now compared to chris and my little guy and i want us to all to look like a little family plus its getting colder and i’m always drawn to dark hair in the fall/winter i always wear brighter colors during this time also which most people reserve for warmer weather but i’m opposite i looove dark colors during summer with light hair. We stopped by Michaels and it definitely looks like i can get all my supplies for the christmas gifts i’m making everybody this year and for cheap! We’ve had sushi 2 nights in a row this week first my dad treated us and tonight it was chris parents. We are so lucky to have people who love us and treat us to sushi!! good night c: