Good Progress on Bathroom2

Naty just stopped working on the bathroom cause he was working overtime and we had parties to go to but this weekend he said NO MORE PARTIES and got to work cause we never know when the baby is coming. Him and his dad did a lot and are almost done! I can't believe it!

Closing Ceremonies and a Champ!

Before the first game...team having "The talk"
Baseball is now officially over! AMEN! I love baseball BUT I wanted a break already, I'm getting heavy and tired so I needed a break. We had our closing day ceremonies this past weekend on June 13th and Bubbs team took 1st place as champions for the AA division. He got a nice medal to add to his last years win.

Bubbs hitting them out of the park

Bubbs stealing bases

Cubs rushing the table to pick up their AA Champion Medals

Audrey's Team
Closing day was bittersweet. I'm glad the stress of it all is over but then I'm sad that I won't have anything to do now. LOL! I was waiting for this time to come and now that it's here, I'm bored out of my mind. I have so much to do to get ready for the baby but haven't done much. I have 6 weeks left till the baby gets here and I have ALOT to do, including the bathroom I wrote about (down below), its still a mess and missing a floor. But anyway! there's a good explanation for that! My hardworking hubby has been working overtime and we've been having parties every weekend to go to so thats why he hasn't worked on it. Now this saturday is my granny's b-day dinner and sunday is open so we're hoping he'll work on it then.
My mom and Steph are still here and leaving this weekend so that is when I'll be sorting through the closet and putting Nate's clothes in there, him and Audrey will be sharing a closet, then I can get that dresser out of there and buy a new one. I just want organization and want this place ready cause I know I won't be able to do alot once my baby is here.

What else??? I really need to start looking for summer projects for the kids because they're bored out of their minds. I'll be making a trip to michael's and looking for little crafts and looking online as well.

Overall, boring!! which is better than drama, I'll take boring over drama anyday!

Angels T-Ball

Audrey had her last game on 5/30 and she hit off the pitcher! She did so good and we're so proud of how much she's improved! She's been very good since the beginning but now she's doing alot more that I can't believe. After the last game they had a pizza party for the kids and I took a pic of her little friends. These are the only 4 girls on the team. They still have closing day ceremonies were they will get their trophies.

Bubbs has his last season game tomorrow then the 2 championship games. If they win the game on June 9th, then they'll play again on the 11th, so we'll see.

I Graduated!

from CSUF with my bachelor's in Health Science and I'm glad that step in my life is OVER! I have one more step of PA school and receiving my Master's but for now I'm enjoying being a university graduate!

It was a semi-hot day and I wasn't too thrilled, at 7 months pregnant things can feel worse than what they really are. I had alot to complain about but the most important was that I had my family there with me and I was graduating!

Oh and I also forgot my damn memory card so you have to wait till I get the other pics from the disposable camera (gggrrr).

P.S. I forgot to mention how puffy my hair got! I was there since 6:30AM and the air was misty and cold and when it got hot....POOF went my hair! uuhhh

Bathroom 2, In progress

Bathroom 2 is completely destroyed! Now, the question is...when will it be done?! Naty wants it done before the baby comes so he has 12ish weeks to reach his goal but I want it done faster than that so here's the breakdown...

(X) Weekend of 4/25: move wall in laund/Bath to make bathroom bigger, destroy laund room and replace drywall.
(X) Weekend of 5/2: new copper pipes under the house, run new cold/hot pipes to laundry room, make hole in wall outside for new dryer location.
(X) Weekend of 5/9: completely destroy Bathroom
Weekend of 5/16: repiping for shower, moving sewer drain (or whatever its called) to a new location (toilet is moving)
Weekend of 5/23: NOTHING, my graduation on Saturday and nieces baptism on Sunday, but maybe on memorial day he'll put new lighting and new roof, install tub, and rock on walls to support tile
Weekend of 5/30: tile going up! tile tile more tile, walls and floor
Weekend of 6/6: painting last minute things like ceiling and moulding, put up new lighting over sinks, mirrors, install double sink and toilet
Weekend of 6/13: shower doors, cabinets and last minute things, should be done!

So we're on week 4 of 8

From there we have to finish the laundry room. Which will be installing cabinets, lights, moulding and finishing drywall.

Our Finished Bathroom

I never got around to uploading pictures of our finished bathroom so here it goes:




We finally have a finished and functioning bathroom! You don't know what that feels like. We only had 1 bathroom for about a year and now he decided to break down the other bathroom so we're gonna be going back to 1 bathroom soon, LOL. I told him this time it better not take that long! We have our wall and glass tile picked out but still have to look for our shower tile which we'll probably do sunday. But so far so good on the designing! its really fun!

Lots of Updates

Last time I was here was in February, nothing great... Naty and I went out for valentine's dinner and came home right after





March
Was my 28th B-day, we again, went to go eat and went to the movies with the kids. Since I'm pregnant I can't really celebrate the way I wanted so food, movies and kids were my choice. Also, baseball season started in March and the kids have been playing for a month now. Audrey really loves it and Bubbs likes it, haha. They're both really good and have lots of friends that make it even better for them. Oh and this month I found out that we were having a boy so March was really exciting. Oh and I can't forget about Disneyland, we had a lot of fun and the kids loved it. I'm glad we went then cause I still wasn't too big. Lots of fun!

April
This month its been the same, baseball and school. Bubbs has 2 games a week and 2 practices a week and Audrey has 2 practices a week and 1 game a week which enough! We're constantly at the park and going back and forth. Also, Easter was this month and we spent it at home with a couple of people like granny, marie, arthur, nellie, rudy, naty's parents, his brothers and the kids. It was really laid back and not so stressful since I started working on things days before.





Right now I have about 3 weeks left of school which I'm counting down and I graduate this May as well, I'm not really wanting to do the ceremony anymore but Naty really wants me to.

Overall, everyone is well, thank God and we're just waiting for this baby!

Stanley Steemer Toby's New Trick

I love this commercial! I watch it almost every morning and it makes me crack up for a long time!! CLASSIC

Bathroom 1 is almost done!

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yayy! we're supposed to go get the shower doors, sink and toilet today and finish the moulding this weekend. We buy the crown moulding at the swap meet so the man isn't there till sunday so we have to wait... anyway! I'm so proud of what it has turned into!

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.