A Soto Christmas

I can't believe how fast Christmas came and went, I wish Christmas was an all week thing so that I can get tired of it, instead it leaves me with an ache and emptiness in my heart that I want back, LOL!! I just can't wait to have a normal Christmas, with my house COMPLETE, with only cleaning and decorating to do, not last minute painting, or last minute tile hanging, I swear, this has been our life for the past...6.75 years! It'll be 7 years that we've been here and nothing has ever been complete, I don't remember a time that we were able to enjoy our house and not have something going on. There is always something and I have a feeling its always going to be that way....gggrrr. But hopefully next Christmas we'll have everything complete, our backyard too! with full deck and full play area and tree house. We've completed a lot this year and I'm very proud of Naty but again, I want to enjoy my house already! As I speak, I have 3 large Christmas containers in my living room and our fake tree as well. Naty doesn't want to move the stuff into the garage yet because he can't get to where he wants to store it because he moved a lot of things into that corner and now he's blocked out! GREAT! So I have a living room full of boxes and a big ole' tree. Oh and we can't forget the stuff he used to tile the bathroom, thats a whole other vent. I JUST WANT MY HOUSE BACK!


Ok onto our Christmas story, on Xmas Eve we went to Miguel's house to visit the kids for a bit, since we got there kind of late we didn't stay too long cause I had food in the truck that I had to take to Laura and Ruben's house. So we visited a bit, seen the cuties and then left to Ruben's house. Everyone was there and we had a good time, talking and just being with each other. The food was good the company was good, what more can you ask for!?!? Oh and it was funny cause no one knew I was pregnant so it was hard keeping it in and especially cause everyone was talking about my cousin Genna being pregnant I just kept thinking in my head, "little do you guys know!" LOL. So it was hard keeping it a secret but I did it! I was even asked about 4 times if I was going to have anymore, I kept saying, "I'm not sure." hehehe. So from there we went home and my mom and steph spent the night with us. I stood up baking cookies and treats while everyone went to bed.


The next morning we woke up at the crack of dawn because the kids couldn't WAIT to open their presents. We got up and the rest was history, the kids tore open those gifts faster than I could take pictures! hahahaha again, I was having some morning sickness that no one knew about and I had to make breakfast like that and cook the dinner too, BARF. Somehow I managed and didn't puke but it took alot of strength.





After much cooking, it was time! My grandma, Carlos, Miguel, Veronica, the kiddies, the in laws and Jesse came over, A very low key Christmas. We sat around, chatted, ate and ate and ate some more. When Miguel left, thats when Mayra and Alex showed up. Naty and I were just waiting for the perfect moment to drop the news but there never was one, LOL, it wasn't till everyone was leaving already that Naty said he had something to share, in between the craziness and the goodbyes, Naty blurted out, "We're having another kid!" LMAO! I was in shock that he said that and yelled back, "A kid? you mean a baby!" Oh man, that was classic. Well after about 5 minutes of denial from everyone, it finally sank (or sunk?) in and we got all of our congrats from everyone. I was 8 weeks by then and everyone was shocked but very happy. It turned out to be a great Christmas and I can't believe next Christmas we'll have a 4 month old baby. It's AMAZING. Thank you God, once a again!

Lots of Updating to do

I'll be updating my blog starting from December on. We've had alot going on and lots of exciting things, especially that we seen the baby and heard her/his heartbeat yesterday, it was awesome!

On Audrey's B-day we went to the mountains early in the morning and filled up the truck with snow for the kids. It was sooooo cold that we couldn't hang too long and besides it was Audrey's b-day so we wanted to get back ASAP.


When we got home the kids had fun making a snowman in our front yard and they did that while I cleaned up the house. It was also Mia's 2nd b-day and I didn't make it to her b-day party cause I had to get my baby's dinner ready but Naty took the kids while I cooked, cleaned, baked and decorated.

When they got back my mom, steph, the in laws and jesse came over to celebrate little Audrey's b-day. She was so excited and thought a million people were coming over like at Bubbs' b-day party but we told her it wasn't going to be big b/c we're taking her to disneyland. She wasn't having it and was mad that she wasn't having a jumper, lol, well she got over it once she opened her presents.