Recent Pictures of Gavin and Gabe

All about Gabriel.....
He started smiling and cooing at the end of August
Last week he started sleeping six or seven hours a night...finally!!
He has a lot of the same features as Gavin
He loves to be on his tummy
Gabe was blessed in church on the first Sunday in August








All about Gavin......
Gavin loves to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
loves his shoes and the ball
He is starting say his own prayers even if they don't make sense
Can find a picture of Christ in the Book of Mormon and says Jesus
He has mastered the somersault
He loves to hold and kiss Gabe
He still loves to laugh and smile all of the time
He is all boy and is always into something or on some adventure
He starting to speak both Spanish and English words and understands commands in both languages

Visitors...

My best friend from high school, Alissa, and her daughter, Leia, came to visit us over the Labor Day weekend from Indy. It was great to meet her daughter for the first time, who is Gavin's age and catch up on what has been happening. We walked around Alexandria, went shopping, and went to bounce house with the kids. It was a great weekend.

Virginia Beach

Nestor's family rented a beach house at the end of August for a whole week. Nestor unfortunately was only able to go for a few days because he had to get back to his internship but I stayed with the kids the entire week. Gavin loved playing in the pool with his cousins but he loved the beach even more. He had no fear of running into the ocean and loved digging up the sand with his shovel. It was Gabe's first experience at the ocean. He did pretty well for being only 2 and 1/2 months old!

Graduation

Nestor graduated from ECPI in June with a bachelor's in Network Security. He is currently finishing up his internship and we hope for a job offer within the next few weeks! Way to go Nestor!!!!

Gabriel Nestor Sandoval

I never posted on the blog that I was pregnant again but I was and the baby was suppose to be due July 20th.... of course that did not happen. At 4 am on June 2nd, I started feeling contractions. They started getting stronger and stronger so we decided to go to the hospital after calling the doctor. Luckily, Nestor's sister Grace was willing to pick up Gavin on the way to the hospital, which was 40 minutes away. The whole time in the car I thought I was about to have the baby because the pain was horrible. My sister was kind enough to talk to me during the trip. When we got to the labor and delivery room, the nurses could not find the heartbeat of the baby. They did a sonogram and could just make out a heartbeat. My doctor came in and saw what was happening and rushed me to the surgery room right then, leaving Nestor in the delivery room not knowing what was happening. It took 52 seconds for my doctor to perform my c-section ( a record for her) and get the baby out. Gabriel Nestor Sandoval was born at 6:42 am. He was not breathing at birth but was resuscitated and rushed to the NICU. Gabriel spent the next 3 weeks in the NICU under special care. We are blessed to have a healthy baby boy. My placenta had completely separated and that is way Gabe came so early. It was a rough start but now, 3 months later, we are all happy and love our growing family.
A huge thanks to our family and friends that helped out during our recovery!!! I especially want to thank my mother, who spent three long weeks driving me back and forth to the hospital, cleaning, cooking, and watching Gavin.

The past six months.....

I have been a big time slacker and have not posted anything for about six months. So many things have happened that I don't know where to begin. First of all, Nestor's computer crashed and then the back-up hard drive crashed so we don't have pictures right now from March until the end of April. In March we celebrated Gavin's first birthday with a monkey themed party. We had the party at Nestor's parents house and Nestor's mom made the most beautiful monkey cake for Gavin. I wish that I had to pictures to show. I hope we can recover them. In April Gavin and I went out to visit my family in Utah. We were hoping to be there for the birth of Olivia but unfortunately she wanted to stay a little longer in Sandra's belly. We still had a blast celebrating Easter and hanging out.

Christmas Time Fun!!

We stayed in Virginia for our Christmas break this year but we had the opportunity to do a lot during our week long break. We saw the Temple lights, had Christmas at Nestor's parents house, visited my Grandpa, Aunt Ruth and Uncle Marvin, and went to see the lights at the National Harbor. We spent New Year's at Sebastian's house, dancing the night away. Gavin stayed up for the big Christmas night that lasted until four in the morning. He had to take a nap but he got back up to see Santa Clause and open his presents. He loves Santa!!! Gavin didn't make it all the way for New's Year though, maybe next year!