Tessa Galindo

I have to start of by saying that I am still in shock that I have a new baby girl! I feel like I just had Juliana, and I still remember being pregnant with Gabe! How did this happen?! Before baby number 3 was born it just felt so surreal and I kept saying I'm not READY! Now that she is here its the most magical amazing feeling. Let me back up for a 9 month review really fast... (still trying to figure out how 9 months has passed by too!). In December we found out I was pregnant, it was a total surprise to us and to everyone! I was back and forth on how I felt about it. I was happy on one end and scared on the other. Right after New Years Jorge left for Afghanistan for 3 months. Worst. 3. months. of.my life. Hormones, and 2 toddlers and tiredness and so on and so on did not equal a good time. Finally when Jorge got back things got much easier, until he got sent out TDY again and again and yet again. Finally things started to get easier with summer time. I got some energy back an...

When I had Juliana 2 years ago we didnt know whether we were having a boy or a girl so we simply painted her room seafoam green and decided to decorate after the "baby" came.  Well, 2 years later and her room still was not even close to being decorated at all. I was to indecisive on what to do. When we found out that baby JG3 was a girl then we knew we would have to put the girls together.  So, here a week before she is due we finally finished the room. Trying to fit 2 girls into one small, awkward shaped room was no easy task. Plus my indecisiveness took over again... I'm thankful for a husband who has great ideas and pretty much decides for me. He really took on a lot of big tasks these last few weeks, for which I'm so grateful for!  So here's the room all done!  The room has double doors which uses up the entire wall, we wanted to cover it up so that we could put the crib against it so we decided to do a curtain wall. The picture doesn't do it justice.  Oth...

It seems to be that I get the best ideas in my sleep, or maybe its that mid-sleep mid-wake time. Either way sleep must do me some good. I woke up one morning with the idea in my head that I would make Juliana a Picket Fence Headboard. For months I have been stewing over what to do for Juliana for a bed since we will be needing to convert the toddler bed that she is sleeping in now, back into a crib for the new baby. I really didn't want to spend a lot of money on a nice bed to just decide in a couple of years that we want to get bunk beds or cute matching twin beds. So I started googling and pintresting. I found a lot of great ideas. I told my sweet friend Caycee about it and she loved the idea, she started thinking it could be cute for her girls rooms also. It turned out to be a great thing for both of us because we motivated each other to get it done. She called me and said lets go look at wood! We found wood pieces for .75 a piece which was a steal! Only it really needed to b...

One of these days I will get better at this blogging thing... Maybe... Anyway here's my top 5 for this past week!  5. Jorge went back to work this week, he's either been traveling or working from home for the past 6 months. While I love having him home I tend to not get much done. This past week was nice because while he was at work I got a lot done. I went through my closet and got rid of a ton of clothes and rearranged. It was very refreshing! It's nice to have a few hours to get things done and then to relax the rest of the afternoon! Jorge just got word that he's leaving again for 2 weeks, while I  am bummed out I'm hoping to get A LOT done!  4. Last Sunday we went to church! It has been awhile since we have made it to church, we have either been gone or someone has been sick so it's been hard to go. It was so nice to go as a family and to get a great word! That night we had carne asada at Jorge's moms house with all of his family. We took some...

    My sweet little Juliana turned 2 on June 23 {Sunday}... Lord help us all! Last year for her 1st birthday party I kept it very simple, it was actually really nice to not put a lot of effort into it but I did feel like I jipped her a little bit. This year I decided to do it bigger for that reason and a few other reasons. I decided on a Fish theme because she LOVES fish! There is not a whole lot that she's "into" yet, but she sure does know about fishies. For all my parties I usually google the theme like crazy and then take away the little things that I like from each party, now with Pintrest its so easy to find everything in one place. I did the same thing though, took what I liked from each party and made it my own. I love doing parties, but I certainly won't be doing 3 big parties a year! My sweet niece took all of the pictures for me. Enjoy! My cake Table I had big plans for this table but it didn't work out :o/ Favors ta...