Happy Birthday!

The family at a party for Francisco and his sister Mayra

The birthday boy and girl

Francisco and Cora

Bradley

Mayra, Daniel, and Alma

Too cute :)

My Little Pumpkin

Family Pictures

Our family

Our sister in law Amanda, sister Mayra, brother Walter, sister Perla, Erin, Jose and little Xzavier, mom Marina and little Coralie, Isabel and Francisco.

The boys

The girls

Zoo!

Francisco and Isabel pointing to the giraffes, she was mad because the wind was blowing dust in her eyes :(

Coralie and her Grandma

Our adorable nephew Xzavier

Haircuts

Niki and I went to get our hair done on Thursday. We have been having too much fun together since I've been in town, and spending too much money :) Of course, my hair will not look this cute when I have to do it myself. Cora didn't get her hair cut, she just wanted to be in the picture

Update

It has been a long couple of weeks for us.......Isabel was sick for about a week and a half, we thought it was just a cold but she started getting worse so we had to take her to the ER in Yuma. They wanted to admit her to run some labs and see if they could find any infections but unfortunately their pediatric unit isn't qualified to take care of her ventilator so she had to be airlifted to Mesa. Isabel and I had an exciting helicopter ride! I had never been on one before and it was surprisingly not scarey! Isabel feel asleep after about ten minutes. She was so tired from her exciting day and it was well past her bedtime. Even though it could have been much worse it is definately not something I EVER want to do again. For anyone who has never been in an Air Evac helicopter, they are tiny. There was barely room for me (they wouldn't even let Francisco go instead of me because he was too heavy). Not to mention that Isabel comes with a lot of equipment. It was very difficult to get her and her ventilator situated so that I could see the vent to make sure nothing went wrong (it ended up on my lap) and be able to suction Isabel if I needed to, the Air Evac people could have done it but I like to do it myself, I know what Isabel needs better than they do :) After about an hour and a half ride we got to Mesa and got all settled in for a stay at the hospital. They did a bunch of lab work and finally found an infection in Isabel's trachea and started her on some antibiotics. After a few days her fever was gone and she was doing much better so she was able to go home to grandma's house in Gilbert. She is still on IV antibiotics which we have had to learn how to give......scarey, I know! But it's really not too hard and she is almost back to normal, woo hoo! We will stay in Gilbert until sometime next week to make sure she is all better and then we're back to Yuma. Cora has been so good through all of this. She has been spending lots of time with her aunts and grandmas and thank goodness she did not start crawling while I was away from her, I would have been so sad!

Invisible Heroes: The Fight Against Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Invisible Heroes - Full Version @ Yahoo! Video

This a beautiful video about a family whose son has SMA type1. Our daughter, Isabel, also has SMA type1 and has a lot of the same challenges as this little boy. I can only imagine how hard it was for this family to open up about this disease. They did it in hopes of raising awareness for SMA research. These children that are affected by SMA truely are angels and I am blessed to have one of those angels as my daughter. Everyday, even though she can't smile, I can see in her her face how truely happy she is. She has always had the sweetest little spirit. I am so blessed to be her mother and am grateful for everyday I get to spend with her.
fightsma.org and fsma.org have lots of infomation about the disease and what we can all do to help find a cure.