Pictures!

If you know me at all, you know I LOVE pictures. I used to get teased because I carried my camera in my purse and took pictures everywhere. I love looking through albums, my scrapbooks, and I am even known for looking at the computer screensaver picture slide show for an hour!

In the four months that Aubriella has been born we have literally taken thousands of pictures of her! I've printed almost 500! It amazes me how much she has already grown and changed and I'm so glad we have the pictures to capture all the memories!

Even though we take plenty of pictures, we decided that we also wanted to invest in professional pictures. It is great to see what a pro can capture of our baby! We choose Christina Landeros (Moments Captured Photography) to take newborn, 3 month, 6 month, 9 month, and one year pictures of Aubriella!

The day of her 3 month photo shoot Aubriella woke up fussy- a rare occurrence. I thought for sure her nap would help, and when she woke up 30 minutes before Christina got here I thought we were safe. Nope! 5 minutes into the shoot Aubriella was already yawning and tired. I was disappointed after Christina left because I knew that Aubriella hadn't been herself and was nervous that there wouldn't be any good pictures (Aubriella ended up sleeping the entire afternoon!). I am pleased and relieved to have the pictures back and see that Christina was able to capture the baby I know- even the serious tired side!

Curly Top

I LOOOOVE that Aubriella's hair is getting wavier everyday. When her hair is wet (or sweaty!) it gets so curly and has the tightest little ringlets! Throughout the day it relaxes a bit, and usually I can manage to part it or tame it down. Sometimes though (like the day of her 3 month photo shoot) there is no way to fix the mess of hair and it does what it wants.

For example....

Here is Princess Sleepyhead when she just woke up:

And Baby Burrito after her bath about to go to sleep:

Sometimes the best thing to do is wear a hat:

Or just let it be crazy and LOVE it anyway!

Daddy's Little Charger Girl

Is this not the cutest cheerleader you've ever seen?

Aubriella and I like to wait at the front window until daddy comes home. She gets a huge smile when he starts coming up the walkway! Today we decided to make him extra happy and try on her cheer leading outfit. As usual, she was such a ham smiling, which was hilarious since she had her 3 month photo shoot earlier in the day and all she wanted to do was fuss and sleep!

I had her propped up on the couch and she tipped over! She thought it was funny!

My little petite baby is chunking up! Look at those rolls!

It looks like she doesn't have a choice- she's a Charger fan!

Little Velazquez

Last week Jose needed to go out of town for work. Aubriella and I were able to join him and she did pretty well in the car!

She loved her first night in a hotel!

And she loved meeting her great grandma! Jose's grandma lives in Mexico but was in Los Angeles visiting. We are so glad we were able to work it out so that they could meet. Jose's relatives all said she is unquestionably a Velazquez!

We were even able to stop by and see Jose's dad! He just kept saying how beautiful she was-- and of course that she looks like a Velazquez!

Aubriella is so lucky to have 5 living great grandparents! We don't take that for granted. The morning after we got home, we decided to go have breakfast with Nino and Nina (Jose's grandparents). We love Saturday mornings with them because it is rare that we get them all to ourselves (not to mention I LOVE Nina's breakfast potatoes!). We took along our camera and video camera to capture the memories we are so lucky to make with them!

Mother's Day

It was so exciting to realize I have a holiday celebrating me! I am so grateful for Aubriella and am so lucky to be her mommy!

I got to admit, it is a hard balance deciding how much the day is now about me , and how much it is still about my mom (and Jose's mom!). It wasn't without a lot of thought (and a little guilt) that I decided to spend the afternoon how I wanted. Now that we are pastors (just realized I haven't blogged about that yet!), we have to close up the church once a month so by the time we left church all I wanted to do was go home. After a quick stop at Trader Joes to pick up all the yummy things I've been wanting to try we had a great lunch at home and rested!

Later we went to my mom's house, and then Jose's mom came to our house!

Kisses!

Most of the time when I give Aubri a kiss I say "kiss" before I do it. I kind of think she may be starting to know what that means! Whether or not she understands, I still love kissing her soft little cheeks and letting her slobber back!

Future football fan?

This update is especially for Laurie Lee!

Aubriella has TONS of football and Charger outfits since her daddy is such a huge fan. I don't mind her being a football fan, but she has to look girly while doing it!

Look how tiny she was 13 weeks ago! This was on Superbowl Sunday.

Couch Potato

Here is another couch picture. I had to post it because it is currently my favorite picture EVER (at least until the next photo shoot!).
Seriously, I have the cutest kid in the universe. Let's not argue that.