WE'VE MOVED!!

Hi All,

We've moved!!

I have followed one of my longtime dreams of opening a baby boutique! You may now visit our new blog at www.jackandcoledesigns.blogspot.com

Our website is www.jackandcoledesigns.com Please be patient with us as we have MANY more products to add and lots of adjustments to make to our site. We are very excited to see where God will take us! FYI-Jack and Cole are the middle names of my two beautiful boys! ;)

Anyhow, please visit our site and PLEASE check our blog daily; I want to get back into the bloggin' world! I miss all of you!

Love and blessings,
Rachel Marquez
www.jackandcoledesigns.com

Listen up Moms!!

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Listen up Moms!!

A loooong day.

Today was such a long day. For whatever reason, I felt major stress. It's so weird how I can be so tired during the day yet when night comes, I am up for hours not able to sleep. After my kids are in bed seems to be the only time I can even think in peace and quiet...I suppose that's why I stay up as late as possible. To linger in the quiet and enjoy it!

I wanted to post some recent pictures for you guys to see. After this, I am off to bed! Tomorrow is Shelby and Savannah's last day of school! Shelby is sad she's leaving Elementary. Jr. High can be a very scary thing... I wonder if she'll be embarrassed of me going to eat lunch with her in the 6th grade?! Goodnight!

Me and My Honey!

A must have!!!

My dearest friend Amanda has a jewelry business and makes the most gorgeous jewelry you will find!! She is the sweetest gal you'll ever meet! She is so talented!



You MUST check out her website below to view some of her gorgeous jewelry! She does home and office parties if you are interested...she can do custom designs! There is no limit to what she can make!



Please contact her if you have questions or would like to see more jewelry! I'll post a picture below to "entice" you to view more! ;)

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Humbled

Lord,

Tonight I lift to you in prayer the Smith family. God I can't even begin to explain to you the blessing they have been personally in my life. Audrey~six letters to her name...yet such a huge voice of life. I am thankful that because you created her, one day, people will see Your face.

I pray also Lord that you be with the parents and family of Luke. God I may not know all the names to list Lord but you do; You created all of them. I pray for peace.

I pray Lord that you bless richly the families listed above. Lord I want to thank you for allowing me the privilege of finding these wonderful, amazing families..

Lord, give me a big faith. God, I don't want it to be at the loss of a child Lord...does it sound selfish of me to pray that? As a mother, I can't bring myself to utter those words...even for a "big faith." Show me Your spirit Lord. I love you.. I want to draw closer to you.

In Jesus name,
Amen.

It's been a while huh?

Hey guys! I know it's been forever since I have posted...my apologies for that. I am guess that by now I have no readers.. can't say I blame ya. Who wants to come to this blog everyday if there is nothing to read!?

Anyhow, here's what's going on these days: Bryce is 2!! Can you beleive it? Tomorrow is his birthday party!! We are very excited! I can't wait for you to see the cake! A dear girlfriend of mine is making it...judging from her past work it's going to be nothing short of marvelous! I'll post pictures tomorrow! Britton is almost 9 months....9 months! I have no excuse for still having the extra baby weight... it seems like only yesterday I was telling myself, "He's only 2 months old, I'll lose the weight eventually."

Enjoy the recent pics!!

Prayer Request

Can I ask you all to pray for my family?

My cousin shot himself in the head early Saturday morning on the beach in La Porte. He was 24 years old. Nobody has a clue why he did this... All they know is that he drove to the beach, sent his dad a text message that said, " I love you dad, I'm sorry." and then shot himself. I found out about it on Sunday morning right before church started. Not exactly the Easter we had hoped for.

He has a 3 year old daughter who lived with him. I am having a hard time dealing with this because I was very close to him growing up but since I got married I didn't see him as often. He was a very sweet person.

My hope and prayer is that he knew the Lord..I feel much guilt that I didn't share the Lord with him when I had so many chances.. maybe somewhere, someone along the way shared Jesus with him.

My uncle had no life insurance on him so he is struggling trying to find a way to pay for the funeral and burial. My parents are trying to help him out with this..

Pray for the family please.. his daughter, his parents and his younger brother. His brother is 3 years younger and is in the Army. He flew home yesterday for the services.. he is married and he is due to have a baby boy on April 10th that he is naming after his brother.

Thanks-Rachel

Hi Rita!

I saw a dear friend today that I haven't seen in so long! She mentioned that she reads my blog so I wanted to get on here and say hi to her! Hi Rita! You look great! I love and miss ya!

~Rachel

Down in the dumps..

Do you ever have those days? I'm having one. I don't know exactly what is wrong but something is wrong...ever feel like that? I can't pin-point what it is that is bothering me and it's driving me nuts!

I prayed about it se we'll see if the Lord will open my heart a little more...

Hmm... not much else to say. Oh, I'm baking a cake right now and it smells yummy! It's for Victor to take to work so he and his coworkers can enjoy it!

Creepy Crawlers..

I hate spiders! They freak me out! We have a family of them living in our garage. They have their webs right above our entrance from our garage to our house. For several months now I've found myself running through the door and slamming it shut before one can drop on one of my children.

Today, I was tired of running. I took a broom and swiped them all down and scooped them into a plastic container. I got all but one of them.. now my fear is that spider is somewhere running free waiting for me to open the back door so it can run it and seek revenge on me! Yikes!!

Anyhow, I looked up this spider online because it has strange markings and I've never seen it before...turns out--it's a Brown Widow. Yes it's related to the Black Widow--only more dangerous. What great news. I was hoping it would just be a house or garden spider... but it wasn't.

I'm calling pest control. I don't know if they can rid my house/garage of spiders but I am going to make them try..

A Dream Come True!!

I know...and odd title huh? You might expect me to name it that if I got a Mercedes Benz or maybe a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes right? Not quite!

We got a minivan!! Oh yes!! I am so very excited! I nearly cried at the car dealership over a van! It's such a huge blessing you have no idea! My PT Cruiser (bless it's heart) left me stranded again on Sunday after church in the burning heat with my two kids and no air! No more! Those days are behind me! I owe it all to the Good Lord! He has blessed us!!

It has plenty of room! Power sliding doors--this was my favorite part about the van--I walk up to it with my two kids in my arms and push a little button on the key chain and the doors slide open!!

I can fit 8 people in it, my double stroller AND MY GROCERIES!!!

The van is beautiful! It's a charcoal gray! I have nicknamed my beauty, "Oddy" because it's a Honda Oddessy!! Vic now calls me, Hottie in the Oddy----how appropriate! ;)

Thank you Jesus for this much needed blessing!!

I'll post pics soon..

Trip to the ER

Well today we had another trip to the ER. What fun.. I shouldn't complain because at least my child is okay.

I was folding laundry today...there was a huge pile. Britton was in his jumpy and Bryce was roaming around the living room tearing through the piles I had already folded. I walked away for TWO SECONDS to put some towels in the bathroom when I hear a sound that sounds much like a pot or pan. Then I hear Britton SCREAM! I could tell by his scream that he was in pain. I turn the corner just in time to see Bryce running the other direction and there is a pan lying on the floor next to Britton. I run over to him, pick him up and notice three very large red marks on his head! Bryce beat him on the head with a pan!!!

I was so upset. I was more upset with myself than anything.. Last week a child lock broke on the handle to the cabinet and look what happens!!

I called the doc and she said to take him to the ER because he is so young and his soft spot is still in place. He threw up a few times but they said it was probably because he was so upset.

The didn't do a CAT Scan or anything--the looked him over and said he was fine. But, being a mother I'm still nervous about it. I'm watching him like a hawk. I'm about to go into his room and check on him before I go to bed.

I hope this is the last ER trip for a very long time!
Thank you Lord for allowing him to be okay.

Anybody out there?!

Does anyone read my blog?!?!?!

Birthday party drama

Bryce had his first kid birthday party on Saturday. Two little girls from church, ReAnna and Emma had a birthday party at a jumping place. It was a cute idea taking Bryce to his first birthday party! The party iteself was a hit. They had these huge blow up jumping things--there were so many kids there!

I could hardly get his shoes off because he was tearing away from me to join the fun. The only downside was that he's a bit too little to just let go and be on his way. It was bound to happen. Bryce got knocked in the face by another child and there you have it---his first bloody nose!

I wish I would have had a camera. Thank goodness Victor was there beause I was a little overwhelmed by it all.

Did Bryce care about the pain of his nose? Nope..not one bit. He wanted to get right back out there and after we cleaned him up we decided to let him join the festivities again. 10 minutes later--the bloody nose was back. His time was up. As angry as he was, other parents probably wouldn't appreciate my child dripping blood all over the play area. I know I wouldn't have..

Anyhow, after cake and presents it was time to call it quits. I was worn out and I didn't even do anything! It was a fun time--Bryce slept well that night because he was so worn out!

So many things going on

Hello All.

It's been a while since my last post...sorry. Many things are going on. Let's start with Bryce. He is growing so big!! He talks in sentences!! Yes you heard me...sentences! His first sentence was, "Momma, I boke (broke) it!" It was precious. He's advancing at an alarming rate and I am just not ready for him to be a big boy yet! He says, "moon", "mammal" (apple), "koo-el" (school), "gape" (grape), "cokra" (okra), "luh-u" (love you), "I saw-e" ( I sorry), "Yeah-pam" (yes mam) and so many other adorable things. It's so cute to hear try to have an entire conversation with me his language! I love it!

Then there's little Mr. Britton. He's a big boy too! He's 5 and 1/2 months now and he can smile, laugh, coo, roll over and even scoot! And this past week we started cereal! Big boy food.. it was a little rough at the beginning. But, he's getting the hang of it! He makes the biggest mess but it's okay.

But as of right now, Bryce is laying in his bed crying and I am waiting for the on-call doctor to call back...they take forever. He has something wrong with his eyes. I think it's an infection and I have no idea where he got it. A little girl in his Sunday school class had it a few weeks ago but I'm pretty sure she was clear of it before she came back to church. Anyhow, it's like mucus in his eyes. He can hardly open them. It wasn't that bad when he went to bed but he woke up crying and it's so bad he cannot open his eyes.. I feel so bad for him. I wanted to take him to the ER but dad says I should just wait until morning. My response is that he isn't sleeping because he is miserable so thus we won't sleep much because it's highly likely he'll keep us (me) up. And I don't want him to suffer all night long and be in pain. But as I type this, dad is already back sound asleep as only a father could do!! Thank goodness for mother's!!

I must go now and await the call of whichever doctor that calls us back. Maybe they can call him in a perscriptoin. Just pray that none of us, especially Brit gets this.

Once upon a time...

Here are some pictures of Victor and I, before kids, stress, debt and weight gain...we look good huh?

The first one is of us on our wedding day at our hotel ;)

Valentine card

Aren't these two cupids precious?!

Pictures..

The Lion....

Well it's the morning already--I've been sitting at the computer for two hours. In the background I can hear a combination of two things: first, my husband is lying in bed two feet away SNORING and second, my sweet baby Britton is on the baby monitor 2 inches away and I can hear him snoring as well! So cute.. but obviously one is cuter than the other--guess which one (sorry honey)?

Anyhow, I read the blogs of many people and there is one that I am always touched by. Please take the time to read it--go back to the beginning when they first started the blog. I can guarantee that you will blessed by this family's story. I know I have been--I feel like I'm apart of their family! They don't even know me but I know them through a friend of a friend of a friend--they have blessed my life without knowing.

Their story is awesome--read it, think on it, and most importantly, pray for Kyle. He is a strong Lion.

http://www.prayforkyle.com/