The past weeks happenings.

This week has gone by pretty fast. The weather has been so perfect so we have been doing quite a bit of swimming. More Tyler then I because I am at work in the afternoons when he goes but I have been playing with the kids on the slip n slide at there house and we did come over and swim one of the days! It is there last week of school this coming week!! PARTY!! Then they leave to Jamaica for a couple weeks so I am off!!!! While they are gone we are headed to Colorado for a few days which I am so excited for. My mom and sisters are also going to meet us there for the baby shower so it should be a fun time!


On Saturday we got invited to attend Carly's Grandpa's 90th birthday party! It was a lot of fun and not what you would expect for a 90th birthday party. It was more like 21st birthday party! It was crazy! For 90 is sure knows how to party. He even drives himself still. You would never know that is was that old. His memory is so good and he was the life of the party. But the strangest part of the whole night was when someone took him to the neighbors house and got him a stripper for his birthday present. That was so funny and shocking to me. I just can't imagine getting a 90 year old that gift let alone anyone and from what I heard he loved it. So SICK!!!



On another note we came up with a nickname for our baby. Because we don't know what the sex is and are not finding out and hate saying it I came up with the nickname ROCO! Which is the abbreviation for Ronnee or Cutler Ortiz. So now when you hear me say Roco I am referring to our baby!
On other news on the baby front. I am growing which is expected, but now I am getting heartburn like a madman. Some days are worse then others but man I hate it! I think that I am starting to swell a little at some points in the day which sucks! But other then those lovely things, things are going well! Roco moves a ton and I have been feeling really good. So I am grateful for that! I go to the doctor on the 8th next, then we are off to Colorado!

Feeling a little old today. . .

HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY HANNAH MARY!!!! I can't believe she is 16 and driving and dating. Man I feel really old. But I hope she has the best day and enjoys being 16!

And not that Jacob Riley will care but I never posted on his birthday on the 16th because I was out of town but Happy Birthday JACOB RILEY! He will kill me for this picture but if definitely sums up how funny Jacob is!

Just feel like typing...

So the baby is growing and so am I. He/she moves a ton but not when other people want to feel. Ashley wanted to feel the baby so bad but every time he would be moving he would stop as soon as she touched my belly. Such a brat! So far the pregnancy is going good. I love feeling the baby move. At night my feet hurt. Sometimes they swell a little bit. I feel like the rest of me is swelling to. I am trying to change my diet a little bit and not just eat whatever is easiest. Which is not always fun because ice cream is so good!!! Tyler has been being so good about making dinner every night so when I get home from work I don't eat junk. That has been really helpful. I was being really bad about drinking Pepsi for the caffeine when I was on my vacations and now I am trying to cut out all soda. I think that will help me feel better. My hip no longer hurts which helps so I have started my walking and little workout thing everyday so I think that now that I can get back on schedule I will start to feel a ton better.
What else is going on... Tyler's job is going good. He loves it which I am sure helps. We are going to Colorado in a few weeks for a baby shower and my mom and sisters are going to meet us there also which will be fun. Did I mention that my sister in law Stephanie is pregnant and is due the end of November and so is our other sister in law Alecia and cousin Lindsay. BABY TIME! My other sister in law Sally was pregnant also and due around the same time but sadly she had a miscarriage. Bless her heart! She is doing better now and keeping busy which I think helps her. Hope she knows we are all here for her.
Other big news is that we started the house searching thing again and we saw one the other day that we really liked. We put an offer in and we will soon find out if we got it! So keep your fingers crossed!!
Well I think that is all for now and it is getting late enough that I wont feel guilty for going to bed! Night!

Ashley's Wedding! Minnesota!

I have finally somewhat recovered from my 2 weeks of being away from home. It was so fun and then I got sick of course. But now I am starting to feel better now so I can now update the blog. lol! Like it is really that hard but ya I just special.
So this last week Tyler and I got to go to Minnesota. We haven't been back there since Tyler graduated 2 years ago. Kind of crazy it has been that long but back to our trip. We flew out of San Jose at the but crack of dawn and made it to Mn early afternoon. We went and hung out with Aunt Rachelle and her family and then on Wednesday I went to hand out with the bride Ashley and her family. Tyler went and played around with his friends and did his own thing. It was so fun to see Ashley and meet her family. We mostly did wedding stuff but it was so fun to be there with her. Ashley married Matt and they are the cutest couple ever. She asked me to be her Made of Honor. Such a compliment. She is the sweetest girl ever and now she needs to pop out a kid so our kids can be best friends! (sorry for the ramblings I am not even going to reread this so I am sure it is a little scary) The bride and groom looked fabulous. Her dress was beautiful! The bridesmaid dresses were very cute on the other bridesmaid but me the pregnant one not so much but what can you do. My belly was have a huge day and so I look nine months pregnant instead of 5 1/2. I can tell I am not going to be one of those cute little pregnant girls. Here are few pictures from the wedding happenings. And this is as close as you are going to get to a belly shot. Their little nice Kennedy was the flower girl. She is absolutely adorable. They put little sponge curlers in her hair. And she did so good walking down the aisle. She walked and stopped at each row talking to the kids. Matt ended up having to go get her so we could get going. Then she fell asleep for the rest of the ceremony. Did I mention how beautiful the ceremony was. I think the whole thing went perfectly and it was so fun to help them get ready for it. It was the least I could do for her! Her family was the best and I cant wait to plan another trip out to see them all again. LOVE YOU ASHLEY AND MATT! BEST OF LUCK!





When I get some better pictures I will post them!

happy MOTHER'S day!

Hope all you Mothers out there had a fabulous Mother's day! It was kind of fun to celebrate my first Mother's day. Tyler made me dinner and the baby and I loved it. He/she started kicking after and Tyler got to feel it for the first time. It was so cool.
I also want to say how grateful I am to the Mother's in my life. My mom is the best and is such a good example of a great mom. Honestly she raised 10 + kids and is still kicking! And also my sister Rachel. She is a great mom with the best kids. It is so nice not to be the first to become a mom. She has given my so much stuff for when I have a baby. Thanks for everything! Between my mom and Rachel's help and knowledge I should be able get through anything! And also I need to thank my Mother-in-law! She did a good job at raising her crazy son and she is always so good to me. I could go on and on about all the mothers in my life! Thanks for all the good examples!

Az Trip

I got the opportunity to go to AZ again while Tyler attended training in Scottsdale. I told him that there was no way that he could go to Arizona without me. It worked out perfectly because I ended up not having to work that week, so off we went! It was a fun week and one of my last flying trips before the baby. I will be going to St. Johns in August for a family reunion but we will be driving because I will be great with child!
I finally got a picture of my Grandma Mickey and I. She has been living with my mom for the last couple months, lucky mom! My mom takes her to Utah on Friday. My mom is winning Mother of the Year for putting up with grouchy Grandma for that long! p.s. We do love my Grandma she is just getting hard with her old age!


One of the days while I was visiting the family I got to go to the ranch for my dad. He needed me to turn on the well at my Uncle Demar's house and then added going to my Uncle Bryan's ranch to feed the cows and separate one out. I think that I am good luck when it comes to that kind of thing because the cow we needed was the 3rd cow into the corral and made it so easy. Sam and I got lucky! It was really fun to go to my Uncle Demar's house, it game a chance to take a couple pictures. That house has some fun childhood memories when I would go to the ranch with my grandpa.




The next day my dad needed to go get the cow and bring it into town so Mickey, Hannah, and I decided to go with him. My poor dad. We dropped him off at the house and we went to get the cow, which was obviously going to be an adventure with the three of us but we did pretty good. Took us a long time but that was only because Mickey wanted to ride the cow! lol! I am not sure he is going to take us to the ranch let alone send us to do something without supervision. It probably reminded him why he normally goes to the ranch on his own or sends his sons!

This is how we hook the trailer up! HAHAHAHA!

I made it to one of Sam's baseball games while I was home. They won and he did an awesome job! It was fun to watch one because I am sure it will be the only one! I see baseball star in his future!



Then I headed to the valley to hang out with the kids and help Rachel pack for her big move to Sj. I think that I mainly played with Ivy while Mickey and her did all the work. Ivy is hilarious, she goes from being happy and smiley to giving the death look in a matter of seconds. She loved giving Tyler the death look. Got to love that little tiny angry girl!


I didn't take a lot of pictures, I kept forgetting to pull it out but we did have a fun time. I love playing with the kids I only wish I had half of that energy!
We went to the state softball game on Friday night. It was fun to see everyone even though they lost. Then on Saturday we got to go to the lake with Ben and Jess and Chris and Bailey. Thank you again Chris and Bailey for taking your boat out and thanks Jess for inviting us! It was a fun to watch Tyler try and learn how to wake board. He never successfully got up but he had some great teachers and I think eventually he will get it down. He just needs to figure how it feels to be pulled by a boat. Thanks again everyone for the fun day!
It was a fun trip, wish I could make it home every couple months! Thanks to everyone for letting us stay with them and for everything.