DIY Gifts For Daddy's Birthday!

Dear Husband,

Thank you for all you do for us. You are a good Daddy, too.

We love you!

Love,

Baby Henry and Your Wife 

It's my hubby's birthday!! He's another year older and wiser and more handsome if you ask me (hubba hubba)! This year, since baby Henry is bigger and let's me actually work, I decided I would make a ton of gifts for my hubby. 

Enter Pinterest. 

I know there was a time that Pinterest didn't exist, but man, finding ideas took forever back then!! Now all I do is click my Pinterest app on my phone and voila! I search whatever I want or I look at the recommended pins. I love Pinterest!

For Hubby's birthday I decided I would make several special things.

Here they all are. The photo frame in back is a picture of Baby Henry wearing a diaper and Daddy's sneakers and poem on the right. It's the only pic I'll put up of that since I don't want anyone to misuse the picture.

I made a box to store the coupon book and tie in.

That's Daddy playing video games! He loves CARS!

The side details.

Te inside with nothing in it.

Here's the tie we decorated. I found a white one (score!) at TJ Maxx and then we wrote on it and Baby Henry left his handprints and footprints on it for Daddy. And Baby Henry calls him "Dahi" (silent h).

This is the coupon book I made for Daddy. Well, I found it on Pinterest and printed it out and cut it up.

He has used a few of them so far! And used the SMOOCH one the very second I gave it to him! Oh DADDY!!!!

Then I saw this and had to make it. The front is boobies...

the back is a butt... with a kiss. I put glaze over the kiss that's why it looks like that. I didn't want the lipstick to smudge but now I wish I'd just left it alone. 

It was one of Daddy's favorite gifts, lol ;)

Father's Day Gifts From Baby Henry

It's Father's Day y'all!! Whoop whoop!!! For some reason I'm in such a great mood! 

Even with this little guy tearing up my craft room. This is what he does... EVERY... DAY... NO... LIE...

But I don't mind 'cuz he lets me work.

And he's super cute. How could you get madd at a face like this??? You just can't. He's a good baby. Baby Henry chillin' like a villin' in summer! What what!!!

Okay back to Father's Day stuff. So Baby Henry decided he wanted to give Daddy and Grandpa something for Father's Day. 

Here's Daddy's gift. (P.S. It's Pinterest-inspired but you already knew that.) I took the "Walk a Little Slower, Daddy" poem and translated it into Spanish since Daddy is fluent in Spanish and is still learning English. While Daddy was asleep I took his sneaker and stamped it in yellow paint then onto the printout. Then I took Baby Henry's foot (while he was awake, not sleeping! that wou;dve been a disaster!) and painted it orange and stamped his footprint over Daddy's. 

For Grandpa, I used Baby Henry's palm print. First I painted the water scene. Then I painted Baby Henry's hand yellow and imprinted it onto the painting. He's a little fishy! And he's hooked on Papa!!

Dad and Granddad loved it!

The Beach in Spring and Our 2-Year Wedding Anniversary

Hey there! Welcome back!

Look!

Look below!

Do you see him?!?!?!

It's Baby Henry being funny! Or... well... I guess it's Mommy and Daddy being funny, lol. We love playing with his long hair. I thought this would be a fun pic to share with you all.

Here are a few more. Recently we spent an afternoon at the beach. It was sunny out but still a bit windy. 

This pic below is one of my favorites. It's Daddy skimming rocks along the water and Baby Henry in back in his little cruiser. My two boys. Words can't express how much they mean to me :)

Here's another candid of Daddy and Baby.

So recently Daddy and Mommy celebrated their wedding anniversary. We've been married for two years. I know we JUST did the church thang in September but we did the legal thang in May of 2013 so legally, we have been married for two years. I made a few things for Daddy this year. First, a cake because I love making cakes. I just realized though that I had made him a blue cake last year for his birthday! Blue is my favorite color and it's Henry's favorite color as well, so... who cares! More blue the better! 

In addition to his blue cake, I made him a little frame. I printed our wedding song lyrics ("Sabes" by Reik) onto heavy cardstock, then I cut it out in the form of a tree. I then pasted it onto another white background, cut out red hearts, and hung them on the tree branch. Then I framed the tree. after that I cut out two of the same hearts again and wrote our names on them. Then, using 3D dots I put them on the outside of the frame so they would stand out.

I also put lipstick on and kissed some cardstock and wrote him a little note. Then I laminated it and told him to keep my kiss in his wallet. Then, I cut and laminated another piece of cardstock and put our wedding stats on there, i.e. how many years, months, weeks, days, hours, etc. we've been together. This was another card for his wallet.

A close-up of the tree of love frame.

Anniversaries aren't really big in Ecuador and my parents never really celebrated their anniversaries either. But I've always had a love for celebrating special moments and this is definitely one of them. I love remembering the first time we met, and the first time we went out, and our wedding, our son's birth... everything. It is all special to me and I am happy things happened the way they did. It wasn't easy when I moved to Ecuador, but Henry was a silver lining. I never expected any of this to happen. We met and became friends. I was positive that was it. Then one day... love happened :)

Daddy's Birthday Cake

Happy Birthday Daddy!!!

Baby Henry and I made Daddy a birthday cake!

Happy Birthday Darling Daddy!

He's Arrived!

Our baby is finally... here!!

Our maternity photo shoot, waiting for baby to come.

Henry Alejandro, Jr. was born on April 14th (two days late!) at 3:08pm. He weighed 6 lbs and 14 ounces and is 20 1/2 inches in length. It was a natural birth (no Cesarean!).

Baby Henry and Daddy

Baby Henry and Mommy

We love him so much! I can't believe how beautiful he is! Everyone said he was going to be a big, 8-pound baby. They were wrong! He was a wittle itty bitty thing! I started crying when I saw him come out. He's healthy which is what I wanted! My little munchkin!

And here's a little instagram shot I posted. Hahaha. This is him! He's always smiling!

Two Baby Showers and We're Finally Home!

So in February my mother-in-law Laura held a baby shower for me in Ecuador. It was sort of a farewell I guess since Henry's embassy appointment was later on that month and then we finally picked up his Visa on February 28th. We booked our flight back to the U.S. (a first for him!) a few days later and now we are back home, yay!!!!! We were really holding our breaths! He is a bonafide U.S. Resident now.

So here's a picture of my baby shower in Ecuador. The video in back is of a music video, in case anyone thought otherwise. That is my darling husband. He has the best smile ever! I love him so much!

And here we are back in the U.S. First thing we did? Shop for a crib for baby Henry!

I loved the white one in back, but it's so expensive!

On March 22nd, we held our U.S. baby shower with all my U.S. family.

This is the cake I had made from Luigi's Bakery.

And next to the cake are the souvenirs I made. Since the theme of the party was flying, I decided to make little suitcases as favors. I stayed up til about 5am the day of the shower to finish making these!

These are the invites I had made by Vistaprint. They are boarding tickets. This invite set up the whole theme for the party. We were coming home.

Here's a closeup of the suitcases. I made the little labels as well.

I was in a hurry so inside I only had time for some small sacks of candy.

Closeup of the labels.

The suitcases were all different types of designs. I found a template for them online. I searched everywhere. It was not easy I must admit.