Happy Thanksgiving!!!

There are so many things to be thankful for:

• my savior, Jesus Christ
• my incredible husband
• our healthy beautiful kids
• our family's health
• an incredible family
• living close to family
• being able to stay home with my kids
• roof over our heads, food in our stomachs, clothes on our backs

I hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving!!!

Noah sits up!!!

Tonight Noah stayed sitting up all by himself. Last month he was only rolling from his tummy to his back. Now he can roll over from his back to his tummy and then back to his back and he can sit up. It won't be long until he is fully mobile. Where did my baby go?

Tree lighting

Ella and Noah in the stroller
Noah enjoying the outside
Ella waiting for a balloon animal
Frosty the snowman
Ella with the train

Mommy and Ella on the train
Ella loves trains!!

Tree lit

On Saturday night the Outlet center had its annual tree lighting. I have never been before because I would normally be working during it, which Gabe had to do so he missed it, so this year I thought it would be fun for Ella and Noah. It was pretty corny, they had an arctic idol where Frosty, a penguin, an eskimo, and a polar bear sang and performed. Frosty won!! They also had a train which Ella and I rode, while Grammy sat with Noah. Ella got glow necklaces and a balloon animal. She loved it and that is all that matters. Christmastime is officially here!!! WOO HOO!!

Girly Girl

One nail down 9 to go
Sitting with Grammy
All done!!!

As many of you know my mom goes and gets her nails done every two weeks. Today she invited Ella to go along with her to get her nails done too. Ella got to pick which color she wanted to go on her nails. First she picked the brightest purple I have ever seen. I told her no purple. Then she picked the brightest pink, I mean 80s pink. Gabe said no. Thankfully Grammy helped Ella pick the perfect pink for a two year old. I am so thankful that we live close so now they could go do fun things together!!

Goodbye for now

Dear Ruthie and Ron- There are so many things to say. I want to thank you for being such good friends to my family. You have always been there even when I haven't and I appreciate it. You both are such beautiful people and Missouri is lucky to get you. We will miss you dearly, but we know we'll see you soon. We love you both very much!!!

Espinoza Family

Noah naps

I am so excited I had to share with all of you, Noah napped all by himself!!! I'm sure to many of you this is nothing special to me it means his own crib soon! Yay! First of all I am a strong believer in cosleeping. Ella slept with us for six months and then moved into her crib. Noah came home from the hospital and has spent every night with us. Even when Noah naps, 99% of the time he sleeps in my arms. I stop everything I'm doing and I hold him his entire nap. I did the same thing with Ella. I love having Noah sleep in our bed at night but I would love to be able to lay him down for a nap. So today I laid down with him in our bed and after an hour I got up to do some things around the house. He continued to sleep for 90 minutes!! He is becoming such a big boy!!

Update

I thought I should give everyone an update on what has been going on in the lives of the Espinoza family. First of all, we moved from Colorado to California, which was long overdue. Gabe hated his job in Colorado and after much praying and looking he received a great offer to go back to Gap Inc., which is where he was working when we met, and be the Store Manager of the Banana Republic Outlet in San Ysidro, California. San Ysidro is right on the border of California and Mexico. So we will be living somewhere in San Diego, close to his work but not too close to Mexico. He received the offer on Tuesday, October 28th. And by November 1st we were packed up and driving from Colorado to California. We had been packing over the last couple of weeks because we knew as soon as Gabe had a job we would be leaving Colorado. In the midst of all our packing was Halloween. Ella was a witch and Noah was a pumpkin. We went to a local museum that was having a festival. We also went trick or treating. Ella got way too much candy but she had a great time, Noah slept through most of the day. Right now Gabe is training in Lake Elsinore and Carlsbad. He won't be taking over his store until the 2nd or 3 rd week in December. So at the this moment we are staying at my mom's house until he takes over his store. In the meantime, we are trying to rent out our house in Colorado. Any prayers would be greatly appreciated because we need it to rent before we move so we won't have to pay mortgage and rent. Since we are at my mom's house, I haven't been able to upload any pictures here on blogger. I will keep trying but I have been uploading on Facebook, so you can pictures from there. Please keep our family in your prayers as we adjust to a new job and a new state at the same time.