Sweet Pea Shower

It's that time of year again! As usual I am putting together an event in memory of Gabriel for his birthday. This year we are having the Sweet Pea Shower! This event has an open invitation for all, so come out to support us and bring a friend!

 

In Memory of Gabriel Eric Nava

Date: Saturday, November 07, 2009

Time: 12pm-4pm

Place: St. Joseph’s Church

1105 MAIN STREET

, HOPE VALLEY, RI 02832

RSVP: Corin @ 401-524-9182  

For more information visit: http://projectsweetpeas.com/SweetPeaShower.aspx

Home Sweet Home

Last week Ayla and I went down to visit with my sister in South Carolina for a week. It was an amazing week! We met my little nephew, who is absolutely adorable, and Ayla was able to finally meet her Auntie Missy and Grandma C. It was great just to be able to see them again! I was even able to go to Charleston for a day and see some friends from IHOP ;)

I am finally home, and now trying to catch up with everything! It's amazing how many emails can accumalate in a week!

Here are some pics from our grand adventures:

Missy and Domonic

Ayla feeding Domonic

Friends from Charleston

 

Welcome to the World Dominic Xavier!!!

Just wanted to announce that my nephew, Dominic Xavier (I hope I'm spelling his name right!) was born this afternoon! Big congrats to my little sister, Missy, who is going to make a great mom :) I can't wait to go meet him next week!!!! I will post pictures as soon as I can!!!

Terrible Two's....already???

This picture pretty much explains my life lately. A screaming toddler! Wow, what happened to my perfect little angel?! She has been throwing the worst tantrums lately! Spoiled doesn't begin to describe her, and she hates to be told 'no'. In fact she hates the word so much, she decides that it is necessary to turn into a devil child and attempts to blow mommy's ear drums with her screeches! I've always heard of the "terrible twos" but I thought I had a little more time before I had to worry about that! Wow, this is making me re-think having another baby for a loooong time! lol


Overall she has been great. Ayla had her 18 month check up a few weeks ago. She weighed in at 27 lbs 4 oz and 34" tall (although I believe she is taller, the nurse had a really hard time getting her to stay still...lol). She is finally starting to come out with some new words, but "mommy" STILL isn't one of them :( Stubborn little girl! She reached the minimum number of words to avoid speech therapy for another few months. The pediatrician wants to re-evaluate her at her next appointment and make a decision.

Ayla and I are leaving for South Carolina next week! My little nephew is due this week! I'm so excited to get the news..... I can't wait to meet him :) Ayla hasn't met her Auntie Missy or her grandma Cheryl yet, so this will be a very exciting trip for everyone! We are staying down for a week, and I'm hoping to be able to take a drive to Charleston for a day trip to see some old friends!

Well thats about it for now! I'm going to really try to update more often :)

Pics of cake and Ayla...again :)

Midnight Madness

I know I haven't posted in awhile, I really haven't had much free time to myself at all. Really, couldn't we extend the day by say 10 hours.... or maybe just skip sleeping. I could get so much accomplished if I just didn't have to sleep ;) Let's see...where to start?...

Project Sweet Pea:

We had an awesome graphic designer put together a graphic for our logo. It came out AMAZING. The designer is Rachel Blanchard and you can check out her stuff here:
http://www.coroflot.com/RachelB83
We have uploaded our new logo to our cafepress store so check it out: www.cafepress.com/projectsweetpea
We are also working very hard on getting our online personal stores ready to go live. We will have t-shirts, tote bags, candles, ornaments, burp clothes, and much more! Check back on our website to see whats new.

I am also very excited to announce that we have 4 new project leaders working with us, and a few others who are interested! Added to Gabriel's Gift, Shannon's Star, Shelby's Sunshine, we now have Kiernan's Kindness, Ayda's Blessing, and 2 others to be named soon! I hope that we can continue to grow and cover as many hospitals as possible. I feel
so blessed to be working with such amazing women!

Sweet Cravings:

The business is still in limbo right now. I am working to get the deposits back from the restaurant owner. We are tossing around different ideas of ways to get this started, some of the ideas would mean putting it off for a year or so.... which I'm not too happy about, but I know I will have it eventually. Maybe it's just not the right time. That being said, I am still doing cakes for friends and family and actually keeping pretty busy with it! For the past two months almost every weekend has been booked with cakes. I am also now waitressing on a regular basis 3-4 days a week, and between the two I am exhausted. It's nice to finally be able to contribute again to the family income!

Ayla:

My sweet little baby is turning into a bit of a monster... I have to admit I think she may be just the teensiest bit spoiled ;) Oops. I'm hoping that all this is her going through the terrible twos early, and this is the worst of it, b/c if not....we are in HUGE trouble! It's really not all that bad though, she is still a ton of fun, and full of love.

Nate brought her to the Pawsox game last night, where she apparently had a great time. She even met Paws and had her picture taken (which I don't have yet).

Mini Get-Away:
We were able to escape to New Hampshire last weekend for my birthday, which was amazing! We spent the weekend relaxing, shopping, playing disc golf (which is actually a lot of fun!), and eating way too much! Ayla enjoyed all the new scenery. We even took a trip up to the Ben & Jerry's factory in Vermont and scored some free ice cream :)- mmmmm....ice cream!

Unfortunately I have been having issues with my camera lately so we only got a couple of pics from the weekend.




Well, I think that covers almost everything.... I promise very soon I will stop being such an awful friend and catch up with everyone! I don't really need full nights sleep ;)

Pictures

I will give a better update tomorrow, but thought I would share some pictures of my two favorite things while I had a couple of minutes :)

Ayla:










Cake: