Newsflash: Isabella Crawls...Sorta

Ok, so she gets a little help from the wood floor but before I started recording her, she crawled from the blanket on the carpet to the wood floor you see her on. Enjoy!

Abuelita Turns 91 and She Still Parties Like a Rockstar

This past weekend, we took a quick trip to LA to celebrate Abuelita's 91st birthday. Listen, she may be really old but the woman parties like no other. She had three parties in one week and two of them were in the same weekend. The woman has stamina! We all had a great time celebrating her ninth decade plus one year of life! Our weekend together consisted of food, fun, birthday cake, and pictures. The pictures below are from our Saturday celebrations but let it be known that the night before, Abuelita had a celebratory dinner with Aunt Teri, Tia Sonia, Nana, Izzy B, myself.

Below, Meter begins the antics at Porto's:

Nay Nay was also able to join in the mayhem:


Can you believe we've known each other for nineteen years? Crazy.

Sam's current favorite trick is making his thumb disappear...Below, Meter gives him some fiesty competition on who can make their thumb disappear faster:

Some silliness with Tia Sonia and Meter:


After eating lunch at Porto's, we headed to Palmdale for Elan's soccer game. They lost but we had a good time watching.

Here is a picture of Rey, the coolest thirteen-year-old in the world.


And here's Bell looking "windblown":


Bosom buddies:


I'm not sure what was so funny but these lauhing ladies are cracking up:

Once the game was over, we went to Mama's house for dinner and cake. Below are a series of family shots with the birthday girl:
Abue, Rey Sam and Elan...

Abue, Rey, Elan, Sam and Isabella:

Abuelita with Sonia and Meter:

Abuelita with Sandy, Sonia, and me


Lastly, here is Abuelita with most of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.


Felicidades, Abuelita! Te queremos muchisisimo!

Move Over Beckham, Marsh is in Training

I'm not one to brag or anything but Sam has some serious soccer skills. He must get his athleticism from me. Recently, the little man started his soccer league practice with his buddies Ben and Declan. If you recall, this is the troublesome trio that played baseball together. Fortunately, Sam pays way more attention at soccer practice. Brad and I think it's because Coach Tim asks the team to "rev" their engines and nothing gets Sam going like a good race. Below are some shots of the future pro soccer player. You heard it here first folks....



Here he practices how to stop the ball:

Coach Tim had the boys run through a couple of drills....


I am particularly fond of this shot because this is representative of what normally happens at our house except, this time, Sam is probably saying, "What,Coach?" instead of "What, Mami?"

Sam, highly intense and focused:

If you click on this picture, you can see Sam's eyes wild with happiness....he really did have a great time.

SOMEBODY's getting chunkaaaaay

We went in for Isabella's 9 month appointment and "little missy" is weighing in at 24lbs and measures 29 inches. She's in the 95th percentile for height and weight and is in excellent health. Go Izzy B and her rockstar status!

Arrrr....Scurvy Pirates: BEWARE

For the past few months, Sam has been channeling his inner pirate. I asked him what he wanted to be for Halloween and he said, "Arrrrr, Mami, a pirate!" Not one to deny the child much of anything, I promptly ordered a pirate costume and he adores it. It has a sword that makes a swooshing sound, a hook, a skull and bones hat, an eye patch, and the regular pirate regalia. He mentioned to me today that he plans on defending our family from the scurvy pirates.
Here he is, preparing for battle, performing his pirate calisthenics:

And here is the hook he will use to "scratch out their eyeballs":