Tessa Galindo

I truly have been blessed with 3 adorable, hilarious, loving and sometimes obnoxious children. That does not mean that is has been easy... When I had Gabe and only Gabe I really thought that I had it all together. I thought I was on top of the world, I had the absolute best and easiest baby boy, a clean house and dinner on the table most nights. Plus all of the side stuff that I was able to do, you know like a 60 mile walk, no biggy. It was a happy peaceful place. Then we decided to get pregnant again...   Gabe, he is my peaceful, laid back, easy going child.   When I finally did get pregnant we thought it would be fun to let this babies sex be a surprise. Well that little surprise ended up being a girl and let me tell you, she STILL surprises us every single day, one way or another. She popped out of my uterus with spunk and an attitude! She has rocked my whole world. I suddenly didn't want to do anything or go anywhere. It took me a long time to get bac...

It's April! Oh. My.Word!!! When did that happen?! With a new month I have decided to make some new good habits in my life starting right now! I figure if I write it here then I will have myself to be accountable to, whether anyone reads this or not.     First of all I got a fabulous calender to put up on my wall to put all of Aprils fun activities on. I think this will make it easier for everyone in my house to know exactly what is going on everyday. Juliana just started dance, so that's on the calender for every Tuesday. Fridays is my Tessa day while my sweet friend takes my little monsters for me. We will be penciling in a date night once a month as soon as Jorge gets back on a day shift, also a date night with the kids. Of course there is all of the other regular weekly activities as well, MOPS, Bible Study, play dates and having my sweet little Cylie every Thursday. I'm hoping that by having the calender up it won't only help me to remember what I have go...

Most people don't know that I have a crafty side. For 2 reasons, 1. I'm ADD so most projects I start NEVER get finished {I can't even paint my nails without getting bored or distracted} and 2. I have kids. 'Nuff said. However, I have jumped back on the DIY bandwagon recently. I find myself going to stores and saying " I can make that!"...well, most of the time I don't... but I could! lol..maybe.. I have never been very good at coming up with my own stuff but I'm great at copying. So of course pinterest has helped inspire a lot of fun stuff that I have done recently. Just for fun here are a few of my latest projects that I have done :o)   I made this for my dad for Christmas, its nice and simple but its words from a book that he read to me when I was little so its sentimental too :o) I made this sign for my mom for Christmas, just a cute way for her to hang all of the grandkids pictures up {She has 10!}     I made these mugs for my...

I will never forget the day I found out I was pregnant with Gabe. I had just gotten off of work and had a short break until I had to go to class. It was the last day of my final college math class. I found out I was pregnant and then I had to go take my final, my brain and my heart were racing. Concentration was no where in sight and I hadn't even told Jorge yet because I wanted to tell him in person. The anticipation and excitement were killing me, that was the longest hour of my life! We had been trying to get pregnant for 4 months, when its your 1st baby 4 months seems like a lifetime and crazy thoughts go through your head. Yet, the day had come and I indeed was knocked up! *** I did tell Jorge I was pregnant that night when he got home from work AND I passed my final, for those of you worried about those details ;o)*** The pregnancy was so great, I worked all the way up until I had him. I remember looking at people yelling at their kids thinking "how could you ...

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...