don't you hate it ...

when people post pictures of their kids ... everyday? i do. i just can't help it though. every single picture looks the same, but every expression is different ... and i love her for that.











i love this one. even if it's blurry.

monumento al jibaro puertorriqueno - part ii

i posted some pix of this statue in puerto rico a while back. well, here are a few more that i took of the statue from different angles. i just love the blue sky.

jewelry for sale

my cousin, yadhira, is selling beautiful rings. i added a slideshow of pictures of what she currently has in stock. if you're interested in purchasing any rings, please e-mail her at yadhira.santiago@gmail.com.

lollipop, lollipop

"anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby."

~unknown~









this is probably the only time i don't want a kiss from you.

18 months

i can't believe my baby bella is 18 months already.



she's no longer my tiny baby.


look at how big my finger looks compared to her face.

maternity pix

my good friend, yeira, took my maternity pictures with our point 'n shoot camera. i thought they were the best pictures in the world, and i cried when i first saw them. i still think they're the greatest pictures because it reminds me of a very happy moment in my life.



however, she recently did a maternity shoot and i'm totally in love with the pictures she took.


you can view more of her recent maternity/family session here.

now, go. go away. go check out her blog!

amen to that...

i was just reading this post and came across this one paragraph that made a light bulb go off ...

"[...] there is a tendency for us to think that other people have it figured out, that their marriages are better than ours, that they are happier, that they're having more sex, that they don't get depressed ... when the big secret is that we're all struggling. we are all suffering from one thing or another (parents or not). we are all questioning if we're okay, if we're the only ones. we are all wondering what is wrong with us that we don't have what they have?"

can i get an amen?

seriously though, it just makes me realize that my life is not as bad as i believe it is sometimes.

random puerto rico pictures

just a few random pictures from puerto rico that i never got around to posting on my blog.













don't ask me what the creature is in the following picture. all i know is that it has to be the largest creature i've ever seen in my life. eew!





a little close up ... ok, maybe a little too close up.



ah, yes. much better.



and last, but not least, our favorite person in the world.

sick baby

mom, i'm sick. get that dang camera out of my face already!

100th post!

this is my 100th post! yippy!

below are a few pictures i took of bella last night. she was eyeballing joey's chocolate ice cream bar since he took it out of the freezer, and once she got a taste of it, it was hard to get her away. she loved it! she is a little sick and was having a bad hair day, but the ice cream made her feel much better.

yo gabba gabba!

warning! yo gabba gabba will turn your child into a zombie. maybe that's not such a bad thing.

mommy + bella

i love these pictures that my husband took of us this weekend.

bella's funny faces

i very rarely use flash. in fact, i try to avoid using it completely. but for these pictures i left it on, only to get these funny faces from bella. as you can tell from her hand in her mouth, she's teething.

my daddy

ponce, pr

me + my bella

i love these pictures that my sis, keimi, took of bella and me.






my gorgeous sister, keimi.