today.....

...15 years ago at 8:02pm, Skyler Erin Lynnae Pietri was born to Dr. & Mrs. Pietri at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach. Yup, that's my princess, she is 15 today and I remember clearly that day as if it was today. She is our little lady, sweet, compasionate and always so full of love. Baby, this is your day, dad and me love you more than you can ever imagine and are so proud of you. Thank you for being our daughter. Happy Birthday!!!

b'day weekend.....

.....so my baby boy turned 12 last Saturday (19th), we kept asking him what he wanted to do for his b'day and the answer was "I don't know"....so on Friday he finally said he wanted to do NOTHING, yep, nothing, he just wanted to stay home, odd but true. We still wanted him to celebrate anyhow so on Friday we took him to eat at his favorite place, Longhorn. On Saturday we took him to the movie theater and since he didn't want a b'day cake we had a krispy kream doughnut for "cake". On Sunday we took him to the bowling alley. For not wanting to do anything we ended up doing a lot and he really enjoyed his b'day weekend. And I am mad because I lost all the other pics from the weekend, the memory stick went blank arghhh....

berry day.......

......so, on the 4th of July my brother who lives in Louisiana told me he had bake this yummy 3 berry pie and that it came out real good, I believe him 'cause, like me, he is a great cook and baker. Well, he offered me the recipe but down here in Puerto Rico berries are not that accesible or easy to find. On Saturday we went to Costco and guess what? jaja...they had ALL kind of berries, so of course I bought Blackberries, Blueberries and Raspberries. And pie I made. My brother wanted proof that I really made the pie, so here are the pics to prove it...

.......2 pounds of Blueberries, only used a cup

and since I was left with way too many blueberries I decided to make blueberry pancakes, yumm!

...so Rick, here's proof of your pie, it was goooooood!!!

back...

...from our fabulous vacation. We had soooo much fun!! And now it's back to reality, actually it's been more than a week that we got back but I have been so busy at the office...... anyways, my hubby is away again with the Navy/Marines for two weeks, I hate it when he leaves, I miss him sooooo much.....Haitham had this pic taken at the beach, we had to decide from 10 but since they were WAY too expensive, we purchased this one, and again since I don't have a scanner I had to take a picture of it and that is why the light isn't good......

on vacation.....

.....yup! we are leaving to enjoy a much needed vacation, we'll be back on the 30th.....

challenge week 4....

.......was all about stamping and though it should be a technique right up my alley, I really had a hard time figuring out what to do according to the intructions...this was the result..

challenge week 3....

......this is what I came up with

....and this one was for fun

challenge week 2.......

...click on the pictures to see the details better.

i'ts been a while.....

.....since I scrapped, so I decided to follow a challenge that's running in a group I'm part of, I didn't sign up but I want to commit myself to keep up with it and have at least a page a week done. the pictures I used for this one are from when we brought Skyler home, she was so tiny and fragile, so many memories come to mind, how much have happened since then.....

finally...

...I made a LO, actually 2. It has been a long time since I last scrapbooked, so today I sat down and made 2 very simple ones. Of course they lack journaling , but then again all my LO's are journaling less, I should do something about it 'cause after all it is a story we tell in every page we make, I'll work on that.....someday!!! you might want to click on the pics to see them closer, I don't have a scanner at home so I have to take a picture of the LO's and they just don't look very well.....

this one self explains, Skyler got to meet her inspiration Dr. Robert Rey, she says she wants to be just like him, he was very nice to her........

and this one is from our 2006 trip to Disney World. Haitham was picked to help the lady from the Japan pavillion tell a story. She then gave him a button for being part of her presentation, pretty cool!

this....

......is what GOD treated us to yesterday

and this is what HE gave us today

just a sample of HIS greatness.......

Dr 90210

....got to meet this cutie pie!!! he's sooo nice and down to earth, eye candyyy!!! aaaand, today 15 years ago we said yes to spend the rest of our lives together!!! i'm sooo grateful for my hubby, he's the best, he's been there for me thru thick and thin, I LOVE U honey, thank you for this 15 years together and many more to come!!!!!