Zara's baby shower #2

A week after our first baby shower with family, we had another one with friends. The weather was very shifty, it was sunny in the morning and then it started raining but that didn't stop our amazing friends from coming over and celebrating with us.

Food, raffles, rain, laughs and great company with the people we love were the highlight of our day. I just want to thank everyone who came and made this day so special. 

Also to those who made the shower possible, I couldn't have done it with out my mother in law's help, my husband and my awesome friend Mayra. Also my sister in law and my brother (Abe&Crystal) who hosted both of our baby showers in their backyard.

Zara got way too many cute outfits and essentials for her big debut and my husband and I are just so blessed to have friends who have been and will continue to be with us through the seasons to come.

Thank you everyone for sharing this time of joy with us!

Italian food with friends

I have all kinds of friends, friends who I know since I was in high school, some friends I met back in college, friends from church and friends that have become friends along the way and friends that even though I don't see very often are still very dear to my heart.
Well these are my friends that I met back in Jr College and we tried to meet at least once a month to catch up and keep each other accountable, some of us are married, some others are single and others are in a relationship but the we have two things in common we love food and we love to laugh!
so every time we get together we always break bread together and laugh until our cheeks and our bellies hurt.
I love this ladies and this past time they wanted to try a new place so I took them to Devanti Enoteca in Little italy, we shared all kinds of cheeses, salads, pasta, pizza and my personal favorite Focaccia with honey comb and finished the night with a walk around Little Italy.
we had a great time and I cannot wait for next month to get together again and also meet with the ones who couldn't make it this time.

picnic at the park

For my birthday my girlfriends Mayra and Jo (whom by the way found out this month that she is pregnant also!!!) took me to the Twilight at the park and we had a lovely picnic at the steps while we listen to latin music and watched people dance. 

It was a lot of fun! and since Mayra forgot the cheesecake at home we had to light a candle on a little straw pastry.

It was a very nice birthday treat, Thank You ladies!!!

a Cupcake tradition

Ever since we met, my friend Mayra and I have bonded over JUNK FOOD

I know, sad but true one of my guilty pleasures is anything that is junk I love and so does she, even though I try to eat healthy and avoid it I have to give in sometimes.

We have a tradition where we take each other out for our birthday and try a new cupcake place together and I must say it is a pretty sweet tradition!

This year I took her to Sprinkles for her birthday and as we were so excited to have our cupcake we also found some cute little shops around there an decided to go in and explore.

We found a little store where they have everything for scrap booking, awesome papers and cards and it was just DIY heaven!

Can't wait for June so we can try another cupcake place together for my birthday!

boys & piñatas

Our friends' kids had a birthday party and here it is what went down

Piñatas are a lot of fun, it doesn't matter how old are you hitting a piñata and getting all the candy out is always a delight.

Our friends have two boys and this year they decided to combine their birthdays and we had a lot of fun celebrating with them.

My husband was helping out getting the piñatas ready and of course he had to be on the roof.

Some of my best memories as a child is seeing my dad on the roof holding the piñata with my uncles and seeing how much joy it brought to them moving them up and down and making us work for it was awesome and now seeing my husband do the same for our friends' kids and in the future for our kids makes me remember my childhood.

Anyways the party was great, my friend Tasha made a delicious cake and we always have a blast hanging out with them.