Baby Shower

Here are some photos from our baby showers last month:

Valentine's themed baby shower:

 Cute baby shoes from Mom Cajas's coworker!

 Drink of the evening: Fem Ale...get it! Female! There was a cute poem Mom and Dad Boone wrote for the occasion:
Belgian barley, a bit of rice
Honey and spice to make it nice,
Peel of Orange, Berries blue,
A little flavor, a pinkish hue.
To celebrate Baby Cecelia
Arriving soon to join our familia.

Safari themed baby shower:

Becca did a lot of work helping my mom with the invitations, decorations, and setting up. Click on the following links for more info and pictures on the Safari decorations Becca made: Baby Shower Invitations, Part 1 - Sewing, Part 2 - Garlands, Part 3 - Photobooth, Part 4 - Jungle Terrarium

Thank you everyone for the awesome showers! We have such wonderfully talented family and friends! We had a great time!

For more photos from the showers click here.

Holiday Recap

Hi Everyone! So here's the recap of an eventful 2 months:

I started a new job at the beginning of November at Summit Surgery and Recovery Center. They are a bone and joint surgery center. They do a lot of same day surgeries but they also do some over nighters. I work in the evening shift in the recovery care center. I really love working there! I feel so appreciated by the administrators, my coworkers, and patients. I even received a bouquet of flowers welcoming me to the team my 2nd day of work!

We went to Disneyland with Mom and Dad Boone in the beginning of November as well. It was a lot of fun! We met up with my Aunt, Uncle, and cousins for dinner. It was great seeing them. They also helped us get great spots for the fireworks and Fantasmic. We got some great video but I didn't upload them here.

Thanksgiving

Kristina's Baby Shower

Christmas work parties

Christmas in Phoenix

New Year's and our 2nd Anniversary at Tlaqupaue in Sedona

Annual Flagstaff Fun Weekend with the Gang

While up here for the Annual Flagstaff Fun Weekend, our friend Callie's (33 1/2 weeks pregnant) water broke. We took her and Bart to the hospital. On Saturday evening she delivered her beautiful son Ethan!

 Callie and Ethan

Proud parents

It's been a busy few months and will be a busy next few month preparing for the arrival of our little bambina! We'll attempt to keep you posted!

Water Rafting

For her birthday this year (4/12) Mom Boone wanted to water rafting on the Salt River. We went through Canyon Rio. Sadly, we lost our camera on this trip. It didn't fall into the water, we just simply misplaced it. We either left it on a life jacket or in the dressing room. Either way it's gone. But Mom and Dad had some great photos. Our rafting guide, Alejandro, was awesome! He and his wife are both guides. The guides have to live near the river. It's like camping all summer long.

Walking down to rafting site. Super excited!!!

The guys.

Us ladies.

Below are the photos taken by their professional photographer. Photo 7, 11-13 are beautiful photos of the scenery. It was so relaxing. I won't lie, I was nervous at first. I thought rafting would be really scary but it was so much fun!!! Being one out in nature. It was great. Photo 8 is of one of the giant holes we rafted through! So awesome! Love holes! You get so wet!!!! It was an awesome trip! Thanks Mom and Dad!

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We're Back!!!

It's been a very busy month and a half. We've been getting healthy (aka getting over what is hopefully our last cold of the season), celebrating birthdays, and spring cleaning. Lots to blog about. 

My folks are up here visiting for the week while Trevor is in Cali working. They brought up our patio set we bought at a garage sale we found on Craigslist in Phoenix. The guy originally bought the set for $600 and we got it to the tune of $140! It looks fantastic! We can't wait to use it next weekend when some friends come up for Memorial Day weekend. 

Thanks Mom and Dad for coming up and bringing the patio set too along with many other things!

Stay tuned for more updates of what we've been up to the last month and a half.

Quarter of a Century

My green Rice Krispy birthday cake! I made it myself! 

I turned 25 on March 13. Trevor "surprised" me with tickets to see Avenue Q at The Gammage in Tempe. So awesome! It was really funny! For adults only.

After the show we asked an usher to take our picture next to the show's poster. She warned us she cuts people's heads off. We thought she was exaggerating.

We were able to get some good photos though:

 

Later we had dinner at Joe's BBQ in Gilbert. It was great fun! I didn't get any pictures with my family =(. I'm bummed about that. I totally forgot I had my camera I was having so much fun. 

The high school gang, minus Amy. The cute little girl in pink is Lana, she's Ellen's niece and my birthday buddy!

The nursing gang! T3 Woot Woot!

The gang gang...haha! 

Hanging out at Mom and Dad Boone's after the festivities. Their Beet martini is awesome! This is the closest picture I have to a family one, except the one above with Mark.

Thanks everyone for hanging out with me on my birthday! It was awesome! I had a great time!

Thankful Tuesday

So apparently I can't do this on Sundays. I probably won't be able to keep this up, either. It's a bit time consuming, but I think taking the time to reflect upon your week to see where God touched your life is important and this is easier than writing in a notebook (writing a lot makes my right wrist hurt).

Things we're thankful for:

• Grandpa Bart is being discharged from the hospital today. Yay!
• Trevor made it home safe with his luggage from a work trip.
• We live walking distance from a church/community we enjoy.
• The grandmas and grandpas I care for at work. I love caring for them! There's much to learn from them!
  

Update on Grandpa

My grandpa is now at a step-down unit. His repeat CT scan was the same. He may possibly be discharged today. He's still very weak. He's having trouble swallowing. He had a modified barium swallow and it shows he has a diverticula, somewhere that's causing him difficulty swallowing. My mom wasn't able to tell me where. I'm guessing the esophagus. Usually diverticulitis is in your bowls. Always, thanks for all your prayers. My grandpa is doing much better!

Prayers Please

My Grandpa Bart is in the ICU at Banner Good Sam for a possible stroke. They did a CT scan today and will do a repeat tomorrow. They aren't sure if the scan is showing a recent stroke or an old one. Please keep him and my family in your prayers. Thanks!

I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas

As promised, here's the low-down of our first Christmas as husband and wife.

Cajas Family
The 21st-23rd my family came to spend an early Christmas with us. My mom worked Christmas Eve and Christmas (poor mommy!), Mark worked Christmas Eve, and I worked Christmas day. So this was the only time we'd be able to spend together. It was great to see them and spend some time with them. It snowed during their visit. They had a great time playing in it!

My dad and Mark had a great time sledding down the side of the driveway!

Family photos! Trevor was at work when we took the picture on the right.

For more pictures click here.

Just the Two of Us
On the Christmas Eve it was just Trevor and I. It was really nice to spend some time alone together to celebrate the holidays and the birth of Jesus. It was an easy relaxed day. Nothing fancy. We opened presents in the morning and went to mass in the afternoon. It was really pleasant!

Opening our stockings! Trevor got me some yummy snacks and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I got him a loofah, ACDC boxers, and a Hallmark Joker ornament. I also got him the Hallmark Dark Knight ornament, but couldn't fit it in his stocking. He opened it later with his other gifts. Do you see a theme to his gifts this year?


He bought me a sewing machine! Total surprise! I'm always saying "I wanna do...but it requires a sewing machine." Yay! Now I have one to make curtains and reupholster our dining chairs and bar stools. I can make our Halloween costumes and all sorts of things. But first, I need to learn to sew. It's an awesome sewing machine!!!

I got Trevor his first ever Bat Mobile. On top of that it is the out of production Lego Bat Mobile! I found it on Ebay! He was so thrilled he got to work on making it later that day! He was so surprised! I wish I got a shot of the look of surprise and absolute happiness! I also go him a calendar, a book, a deep fryer, and a few other things.

Boone Family
Mom and Dad Boone, Kazton, Cocoa and Ozzie came up to spend Christmas and the weekend with us. I had to work on Christmas day so I didn't get to see them until that evening. We had Christmas pizza. On Saturday, Kaz went snow boarding at Snow Bowl while the rest of us went The Day After Christmas shopping. Trevor and I also made our first holiday dinner...it was more of a Thanksgiving dinner than Christmas but nonetheless a holiday dinner.

For more photos click here.

Thanks Mom and Dad Boone and Cajas and Mark and Kazton! It was great spending time with you! And thanks for all the movies, video games, cds, and kitchen gear! =)