May And June

Well So much has gone on in the last couple months.  Thomas had training in the woods up north from here for 2 weeks in may, so it was just Abigail and me at the house. So I got a idea of what it was going to be like when he deploys again. It wasn't as bad as i thought. I did get bored from not talking to someone and the end of the day. But It should be fine when he leaves in August some time.  Then My Mom and brothers came out here to see us for a week that was such a blast. 

                                                We went to the NASA station  here in MS 

then went to pensacola fl. to the aviation museum and the beautiful beach they had. 






                                    

                                  

   We went to Hard rock Casino here in MS. to the beach and hung out at the house. Abigail had such a blast with her Uncles. Thomas cooked a lot for my mom, made her fancy drinks. She was pretty catered when she was here. My mom did make lasagna while she was here and oh man it was so good.I have been waiting for her cooking for months. It was a nice vacation for them and it was sad they had to leave. Just so glad we will see them in july again. 

                                                           

After they left i had a doctors app to finally find out what we were having. And as you can tell I'm in a pink mood. So its another girl, which is really funny because this whole time everyone thought it was going to be a boy. A couple days ago i had just told Thomas and my mom that i had a feeling it was a girl. And sure enough she was. So we are Naming her Julieta Ann Gonzales, Or julie for short, because we are saying it the spanish way. We are naming her after Thomas grandma Maria Julieta. And my middle name is Ann. We thought Julie we be nice for short and works out good because that is also my grandmas name. So keeping it traditional. Which I love! Thomas did want a boy pretty bad, but he said we will just have to keep trying for more kids of course way after this one. 

I have baked also I made Betty Crocker Banana Bread couple weeks ago and it came out so good. I did not take any pictures. If you want try it out here is the recipe, i love this one so much that i don't change anything in it.                                                                            http://www.bettycrocker.com/recipes/banana-bread/51427396-6764-4b0a-a73a-78c683c703d2


Well Happy Cooking to you guys. 

These last Weeks.

OH Man... These last couple of weeks have been not fun. I have been so sick with this pregnancy, and both Abigail and Thomas have been such troopers. Abigail who kind of understands whats going on is very helpful to me. She just keeps telling me to eat so my stomach can get big. Funny girl. Thomas has been my life saver, I don't know what i would do if i didn't have him. He has made us breakfast lunches, and dinners. helped clean the house and still work during the day. All while i lay on the couch or bed and moan cause I don't feel good. But finally Thomas felt so bad Friday when he came home i couldn't eat anything so he took me to the ER to see about getting a prescription for nausea. After being there for 3 hours giving blood, getting hooked up to a IV, they finally gave a Prescription for Zofran. This stuff has been helping, i was feeling so good sunday that I helped Thomas finish our front yard. 

Then something hit me today and i was back to how i felt and it felt terrible worst day so far. I am finally feeling ok now thats It 7 o'clock. I am hoping tomorrow goes ok. I really don't like this part of pregnancy. You feel so blah!!! I envy women who don't get morning sickness. Also I have not baked or even really cooked a dinner in weeks to post. SO hopefully thats changes soon. 

ON my death bed!!

So as I am writing this I am trying to make it threw this with out getting to sick. I feel like I have been sick for months but really it only has been couple weeks. But I know what is making this happen to me and I am so excited about it, i just wish I didn't have to get sick with it. SO I am Happy, over joyed, excited to spend the word that Thomas and I are expecting are first child. Yes we have Abigail. But this one will be Thomas's first. I am so excited... The down fall of all this though is Thomas leaves us once again for another deployment in August and my due Date is Nov. 3rd. He will be gone for the birth of his child. I do have to thank god though cause I am so thankful for His family and mine. They will be here with me for the birth. I am so excited for this child to come into our world. I just dislike that I have to get morning sickness (which is all day). Hoping it passes soon and I can get off my death bed! Please pray for us and a healthy baby. Also they way we told are family was cute so i need to share it. Here's a picture we sent parents and siblings and grandparents this in the mail. 

Nice Weather!!!

After a Couple rain storms and thunder storms, tornado warnings. WE finally got nice weather like 70 degree weather.. Its been so wonderful to go outside and enjoy it. So Thomas had all these plans for the weekend to go do stuff, truth was he was more excited about His new Jeep then the weather. Thomas bought this Jeep Wrangler couple weeks ago. Finally got it started running, so he wanted to go take it 4 wheeling (which is why he bought it) But 1. I get car sick so don't do good off roading and 2. I don't like getting muddy. But I went along for the ride. And it was fun! Abigail had the most fun. Our jeep got covered in mud. 

So on Sunday we decided to plant flowers and fix up are front yard. (should i say thomas fixed up our yard) He did a wonderful job we just need to finish one side then we are done. And of course 

Miss Abigail helped tell us where we needed to put things.

We also enjoyed going to the beach, I can't wait for warmer weather so we can go there like everyday. It was Definitely  a nice weekend but of course this weekend is rain. So I am thankful that we did go out while we could. 

  

Cooking

I swear I am cooking. I just haven't been cooking that great of food, or just not one that I thing is good enough to share. I also have been really tired lately so I have been taking naps with Abigail almost everyday and usually thats when i start blogging. If I am lucky i can squeeze it in with her around. She usually is pretty chatty and wants my attention. Which I just love about her. She is always talking about some crazy idea she has. Or some game she made up.
I will post some food soon though. I am going to try to become a Mexican lady for a day and TRY key word "try" to make homemade tortillas. I have been wanting some for weeks now and here in the South (so they say) you can not find good mexican food or tortillas. So today I am going to try to do it. Wish me luck... hahaha. Lucky I have my mexican husband to help me. haha. I'll post it later or tomorrow.

Oh pinterest

So I know you guys all follow pinterest or well most of you. I am in love with the ideas and recipes and crafts I have gotten from there. I decorated my house and got so many ideas from there. I also have tried many recipes too, but one that Thomas and Abigail love is Mozzarella Sticks. They are easy to make and I thing a little healthier then what you get at restaurants. I made them about a month ago and they came out good so yesterday morning I went grocery shopping and thought i would make them for lunch. (now thats because i went grocery shopping hungry) So I am going to tell you the recipe

Mozzarella Sticks 
A package of egg roll wraps (picture below)
package of string cheese (12 pack or 18pack will do)
a little bowl of water
frying pan with veg. oil or olive oil

Steps:
1. Get the package of string cheese and pre open every single cheese and set them on a plate or paper towel. Next get you bowl and set in next to the cheese.

2. Get the egg roll wraps out of the package and set them on a paper towel. Set the piece of cheese in the middle of the wrap. Wet each corner with just a tad of water.

3. Grab the corner at the bottom and fold it over the cheese then tuck in both sides. Then roll.

4. Keeping doing that with each roll till all the string cheese is gone.

5. Heat up your frying pan till is it hot and ready to fry. Start putting in the sticks with some tongs. Fry till the are golden brown. Be carful the cheese will ooze out on some of them.

                                   sorry picture not that great but some what the should look like

                                                           egg roll wraps I used

V - DAY

I was trying to figure out what to get Thomas for Valentines day but he keep telling me nothing I am fine. So then we decided not to exchange gifts anyways. I did ask him to make me some dinner, so if he is doing that I had to bake him something. Well last week Abi was eating chocolate covered pretzels and I'm pretty sure Thomas ate most of them. So thats when I was like oh I'll make that for him. Which i thought was going to be a lot more time consuming but it wasn't that bad.

All the stuff I needed was rod pretzels, chocolate chips semi sweet and white morsels, sprinkles

                          I melted the chocolates in bowls and started dipping and covering the pretzels.

                                                                   My little Helper

                              I laid them all on a cookie sheet that was cover with parchment paper

                      I took some of the white chocolate and dyed it pink and drizzled that on top.

The finish project

You know what I really like how nice the came out and so fast. I am going to do this more often. HA : ) Hope you guys enjoy and Happy cooking to you!