Birthday!

Un mensaje para la abuelita en su dia especial!

Happy Birthday mommy!

Con Mucho AMOR,

Valeria y Peter

Our Pumpkin Farm Adventure!

Halloween morning came and I didn't even realize it was the weekend. I asked Peter what time he had to go into work and everything. Then IT HIT ME!!! It was HALLOWEEN!!

We had a couple ideas for costumes but nothing for sure. After eliminating the options of being K-Fed & Brittney, and zombie mom & baby, we decided to run some last minute costume errands to be Mr. Pumpkin Farmer and his Prize winning Pumpkin! Between Goodwill and Walmart, our wardrobe ideas became a reality.

When it was finally time to get dressed for the evenings events, artist Peter took my stomach as his canvas. While the orange layer dried, I finished getting ready. Then Peter painted the eyes, nose, and mouth.

After some finishing touches, WE were READY!

First we went to a house party where was saw all kinds of creative costumes like: Inspector Gadget, SHAM WOW (commercial guy), Chicken from It's always sunny in Philadelphia, The sticky bandits from Home Alone, the bad kid from The Incredibles...and the list could keep going...but you get the picture.

From there we went to a Zombie PROM. Even though neither Peter nor I were dressed as Zombies. It was a lot of fun. Especially since we were finalists in the costume contest, a contest I didn't even want to do since we weren't dressed as ZOMBIES!! However, people really loved the "Pregnant Pumpkin & Pumpkin Farmer" so we won a DVD, House of the Dead.

The night ended by resetting our clocks back 1 hour. MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY!!

Hope you all had a great Halloween!

Here are some Halloween Costumes we saw:

There are more on the Picasa Album: http://picasaweb.google.com/valeria.rodez/MoreAustinLiving?feat=directlink

Happy Halloween!

Love the outdoors!

Saturday was filled with FUN outdoors activities!
We hiked around Bull Creek Trail (near Peter's old apartment) for a little. The trail head was at a dog park area. All the dogs were running around fetching balls, swimming, playing with each other. This was such a tease. I really want a dog right now, but the more I want it, the more I realize we can't have one =(.

After our hike through BullCreek Trail, we ate lunch and Peter went with his friends Paint balling, which I, for obvious reasons, can't partake in.
Instead I went to Town Lake downtown to paint.

A couple people stopped to see what we were doing. One woman even asked me for my number to contact me about a painting...we'll see if she calls.

That day we found out that a couple that works with Peter also live at our complex!
It was really exciting!!!

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Sunday we got off to a late start but we did some window shopping at Babies R Us. I think we decided on a couple things but haven't made any purchases yet. We want to be SUPER SURE!

Then we ate lunch at Peter's favorite burger place and headed to Lake Travis were some of his friends were windsurfing. There we saw a beautiful purple and orange sunset.

DOCTOR VISIT at Week 29!

I went to see the Dr. Eng again this morning. I weigh 149lbs, that is 4 pounds more than I weighed 2 weeks ago! My stomach measures 30cm. Dr. Eng also checked the babies heartbeat (130) and said that he was doing great.
I got the results back from a glucose test that I got done 2 weeks ago. It came back negative for pregnancy diabetes. So with my weight, heart rate, size of belly, and test results back, all we had left to do was ask her some questions.

She told us that in about 1 month, we would do another sonogram to see in what direction the baby was in. If he isn't head down, then at that time we will try different things to try to get him to get in the right position. She said that by then, however, most babies position themselves correctly. Now all that is left to do is wait til November 5th for our next visit...hopefully in these next two weeks I can get rid of this nagging cold!

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Hoy fui a ver a la doctora otra vez. Peso 149 lbs. ¡En estas últimas 2 semanas aumente 4 libras! El estomago mide 30cm. La doctora le escuchó el latido del corazón al bebe y esta en 130, normal. La vez pasada que fui a ver a la doctora, me hicieron un examen de diabetes, me salió negativo. ¡Así que todo sigue bien!

Le pregunte que cuando sabíamos si el bebe estaba en la posición correcta para salir. Ella me dijo que como en un mes me iban a hacer otro sonograma para ver en que dirección estaba el bebe. Si está mal acomodado para ese entonces, entonces nos enfocamos en tratar de ayudarlo a acomodarse bien antes del parto. Ella me dijo que la mayoría de los bebes se acomodan bien solitos. ¡Ahora solo queda esperar hasta el 5 de Noviembre para volver y esperar que se me quite esta gripa!

Austin weather is schizophrenic! Yesterday it was humid and raining. Today it is BEAUTIFUL: cool, clear blue skies, with a lovely breeze!

Can't ask for a more beautiful fall day!
I made (Leilani's recipete) Baked Ziti for Ashish, Peter, and myself. Since it was a beautiful day, we ate it outside by the pool.

After dinner we drove to Pflugerville to Tinseltown Theater where we saw Lance Armstrong's movie: The Race Across the Sky.
http://www.ncm.com/Fathom/Sports/RaceAcrossTheSky.aspx
It was an intense 100 mile mountain bike race across some rugged terrain in Colorado's little town of Leadville.

After the movie we caught the tail-end of Happy hour at the Domain with Eli (a colombian who works at NI), his friend, Ashish, and us two. I ordered a virgin cosmopolitan =)...basically cranberry juice in a martini glass. The waitress even put a lime on it to make me feel cool...haha.

Feliz Cumpleaños Abuelo Pedro!
From us three here in Austin