Bri Lee's Blog: 2012

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Long Time, No Update!

Okay well its been a really long while since i posted something so i think i should now lol :) Gosh where to start??? hmmm well since im not in school for the semester i have been watching little miss Zoey, she just turned 1 on September 1st (Jack's and Anthony's birthday as well hehe) and geez shes a little handful and the most talkative little girl i have ever met. she is wayyy ahead in her speech, she is saying so many words, like Please, Up, Hush, Puppy, Happy, Turtle, and many many more. Shes incrediably smart but she can be a little terror when she wants to. I have also been recently watching my older cousins baby Vincent along with Zoey. He is going to turn 2 in December. He's so cute and the total opposite of Zo, hes the most chilled out baby i have ever known and speaking of opposite he dosent say very much of anything other than Up and Ease for Please, and there is, vroom, and of course uh oh when something falls. But since ive been watching him he is saying a little more than he used to cause if you want something at Bri Bri's house you have to ask for it :) its been really great having both of them but honestly sometimes i get a little overwhelmed, i just have to remind myself to slow down and take it one step at a time.

Lets see.... Anthony is now a teenager eekk! he had a lot of fun on his birthday, we went to Dave n' Busters and played lots of games and got lots of prizes from all the tickets we won! He wanted a Shark cake for his birthday this year so i made him one, it was my first time sculpting anything out of rice krispy treats and covering it with fondant so i mean it dosent look professional but for my first time pretty good lol. he loved it and to me thats all that matters :) Nathan also turned another year older this october and he wanted a Lego cake, the cake i orignally wanted to make him was a lot cooler but with two little ones time is just not on your side sooo ill have to do that one another year but he loved the one i was able to make him with the time i had. the only thing was it made HUGE slices of cake lol it was 3 really thick layers! everyone at the party was splitting the big slices, i thought it was pretty funny :D

It was also little Michaels birthday today!!! he turned 3! my family and i got him a little motorcyle he can ride on (the one where he pushes with his feet to go forward) and oh my goodness he looved it! it took it upstairs to bed with him haha hes seriously one crazy kid :) hes getting so big i remember watching him when he just turned 1! its really bittersweet for me, hes doing so good though, hes a little chatter box now, of course he still has his Michael babble that no one but him can understand but thats just when hes really excited and just starts rambling. other than that we can pretty much understand what hes trying to tell us, he always wants to come to Bri Bri's house along with his older brother Taylor and i love it, he tells me he loves me now and just lights up when he gets to come over. it was really sweet cause his brother Taylor randomly picked out Roses at the store and wanted to give them to me!!! i thought it was the sweetest thing ever!!!!!

Besides family and watching kiddos, i have started to take care of myself more as well, my grandmother and i have started a program to help us lose weight, and so far its really working, i am eating a lot better and i have been working out almost daily. so far i have lost 15lbs and went down a pant size! i feel a lot better and love getting to take some aggression and stress out on the punching bag my dad has every day, it feels great!

okay so enough text, heres some pictures! :D

Vinny the little cheeser :)

Zoey and Vinny chewing on some yummy plastic guns lol ;)

me and Vinny

Anthony's Shark Cake!!

Closer view of the Shark

Well now the shark is dead lol

This is Nathan's Lego cake, the skittles spell out Nate if you cant quite make out what it says lol

Nathan posing with his cake

Probably one of my favorite pictures of the year all the BOYS being so silly :)

Little Michael, Noah, Mikey, Nathan and Taylor

My Beautiful roses michael and taylor gave me :)

Picture i took and edited of my roses

and another :)

This picture was at -10lbs

One i like of me

this is at -15lbs

cheese!

Good one?

Losing pounds, Gaining confidence

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Latest News

So its been a while since i last posted, Im offically 19 now! crazy right? i cant believe how time has flown by it seems like yesterday when i was playing dress up and having tea parties with my sister and cousins all playing with barbies and baby dolls! Sometimes i wish i could go back to those days, things were a lot more simple ad care free thats for sure. On the other hand i love being older and having a little more freedom to do what i want so i guess its not that bad.

Lets see things have been hectic and crazy like it always is, some good, some bad but over all just seems like one big thing after another. My family took pictures in the beautiful Texas Bluebonnets, we havent taken pictures in the bluebonnets since Anthony was like 3 and Nate wasnt even born yet sooo its been a long time hahaha. We found this really really thick patch of blue bonnets, so thick that every once in a while wed look up from taking a picture and couldnt find Nathan because he was hiding in the flowers they were that tall and thick, it was pretty funny(:

well im off for the summer, my first big semester in college was a success i past all my classes with a 3.0 GPA so i was extremely proud of myself and so relieved that i did good. Kayla, Anthony and Nathan all passed as well. Now Kayla is a jr. in high school, Anthony is in 8th grade and Nate is in 2nd grade! So happy everyone has passed and is moving onto the next grade!(: Now im just waiting on the results for my financial aid for the fall semester, im anxious to see how that will turn out, im also debating if i should make a career change. im now considering going into Sonography, and being a Sonogram Tech, my mom is going back to school for that this fall (cross my fingers) and it sounds like a pretty interesting field to me sooo now im not sure if i wanna stay a teacher or if i want to be the Sonogram person that takes the first pictures of babies(:

Another thing that has happened, i have a new Aunt! My uncle Josh (moms brother) finally got married to his girlfriend (they've been going out forever and they finally got married) shes awesome and i love her and her kids so im glad shes part of our family, and in case you didn't already guess it i made their wedding cake haha and it was the BEST cake i have EVER made in my life, it was melt in your mouth, not overly sweet and not too bitter either pure goodness. i was very very very happy with how it came out and that everyone loved it, i got so many compliments on it which made me happy. i also took pictures for them i wasn't their professional photographer at all, they had one of those but i did take the reception pictures(: it was a really fun day, they had the ceremony at this beautiful botanical gardens and had the reception at a restaurant, good food, family and laughs what more could anyone ask for? Hmm so far this summer we haven't really done all that much, Anthony went to Scout Camp and had a ton of fun. The Texas summer heat is really cranking up yesterday it was over 112 degrees outside, YUCK! My AC in my car is all messed up too so its pretty miserable. I really hate the heat, and its not even officially summer yet just yucky if you ask me, i hope this winter is the coldest winter ever! well i think thats pretty good update of the Ramirez's (lol) Picture Time! :)

My Birthday cake my daddy made me <3

Anthony and Nathan in the Blue Bonnets

Kisses for Kayla

Anthony Disappeared lol

The Ramirez Kids 2012

Me and My mommy <3

Me Lost in the beautiful Flowers :)

Kisses for Momma!!!

My Gorgeous Sister

My Heart Breaker Brother

Hot Momma!!! :)

My Momma and Nathan awwwww

My Favorite of Kayla

All of my Cousins waiting for the Wedding to start (kinda blurry)

The Silly boys

And the Goofy Girls

Their Wedding Cake.

6 Layer, 3 Tier, French Vanilla cake with fresh strawberries inbetween each layer.

Cutting the Cake

They are so cute :)

I love them

My New Aunt Christina :)

Before the wedding

Just me

Gettin ready for the wedding

Monday, March 19, 2012

Ramirez Update

so things have been pretty much the same for us here in the Ramirez household. Kayla turned 16 in January! eekkk! Kayla and i have been doing a lot of things together like going to the mall and just trying on beautiful prom dresses just for fun. Anthony also got his first cell phone! theres been some pretty big milestones goin on here lately if you haven't noticed :)

My great-grandmother also had a birthday in February. she turned the big 91!!!! Of course i made her cake. Two tiers chocolate and vanilla, with marshmallow flowers and candy clay butterflies (its like fondant but taste more like a vanilla tootsie roll and its a lot easier to work with, kinda like edible play-dough.) everyone loved it, we had family from out of town come a visit for her birthday so it was really nice but really crowded at the same time (not that its always crowded living with 13 people, you think id be used to it but i guess not ha) but anyways it was fun and my great-grandmother loved her cake and the drawing i gave her for her birthday as well. ive been drawing a lot more now, so far ive drawn something for my dad, my uncle, both my grandmothers, and my great-grandmother. i hope everyone dosent expect one from me now hahaha :)

school has been going great too, a whole lot better than last semester! my grades are tons better as well as my teachers i actually understand things now, not that i dont struggle cause i do but still its a lot easier. ill have some pictures of school too. oh and my mom and dad suprised me yesterday with an early birthday present, im on it right now! yep they gave me a brand new HP laptop! i love it!!!!! its the best present ever! its scary to think ill be 19 next month bleck! i dont like that number im getting old lol anyways heres some pictures!