G7 Films: Garage Gym Throwdown!

Check out the newest video from G7 Films...A.K.A. my very talented husband!! His videos keep getting better and better! My brother in law competed in a fun competition this past weekend in Austin, achieving 2nd place! Way to go Mike!

CrossFit Central - Garage Gym Throwdown from G7 Athletics on Vimeo.

Father's Day...and an update...

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!

I wish I could have been with mine today, but we're here in Laredo just taking it easy. Probably cooking out later.

Aren't they the cutest?? :)

Baby update:

Today the midwives actually came to us!! Turns out they were in town to do a homebirth, so they called to see if I wanted to do my prenatal checkup at home...uh...yeah!! This was perfect, as it also gave them the opportunity to see where we are going to do our homebirth.

Everything is going great with Lily! Heartbeat was good! I can't wait to meet our little girl. I am only 24 weeks, but I am so over being pregnant! Ugh...I have so long to go. I was looking back in my blog at pictures of when I was pregnant with Bobby. I found one that was taken 2 years ago today! And since I am due at the same time as with Bobby, I took some pictures of myself today wearing the same thing that I did in the last picture. :) Only with this one...I look a lot bigger. Arg.

Not so much a 'bump'..more like a 'mound'...

24 weeks! (Wearing my snazzy new headband that I whipped up yesterday!! I also made 2 more!)

Who knew Rob was crafty?

After almost 3 years of marriage (next week!) I think I am rubbing off on Rob. My craftiness I mean. He came up with the most awesome craft idea ever! Rob was going to give some dip-belts to his dad and brother and he wanted to personalize it somehow to make it more special. He came up with the idea of 'branding' the belts with the logo for G7 Crossfit! Perfect.

We bought the materials and went to work. It was actually pretty easy and fun. Rob did a great job, and they loved them! When we told Rob's family that Rob 'made' some gifts also, they were skeptical, to say the least. But, they were pleasantly surprised by his craftiness.

Gettin' crafty with it...(nana nana na-nana...).

Proud of his creation!Excited about their gifts!!

My Blog-worthy Birthday!

My yummy cake.

For my birthday, my sweet hubby surprised me with a night away! I wasn't expecting anything like that at all! My sister, Michelle watched Bobby (my first night away from him...sniff...) for us, which was so great of her. We really owe her one...Bobby wasn't feeling well and woke up at 5AM!!! After the night she had with him, Michelle said "I am definitely not ready for kids!". Ha!

Rob took me to a fun restaurant called Benji's. The food was good, but what I enjoyed most was the dessert!! MMMM....chocolate cake. It was so tasty! After dinner we were going to do some shopping around the Galleria area, but it started pouring, so we decided to go to the hotel.

Rob's dinner. I don't know if you can tell, but it is a pig snout!

The hotel was so beautiful! We stayed at the Hotel Granduca. We got upgraded to a better room for free! All because Rob was nice on the phone. Plus Rob had told them what he was doing, and they thought it was so sweet!

We even got matching robes! (I made Rob put his on for the picture...then he promptly took it off!)

There were rose petals, and candles...but no matches...

I continued my celebration last night at Lupe Tortilla with the rest of my family. It was so fun!

Happy Birthday to Us!!

CrossFit Houston's Summer Challenge

This Saturday, my brother in law, Mike, my sister in law Becky, and Rob all competed in CrossFit Houston's Summer Challenge. I am so proud of them all! It was Becky and Rob's first time to compete. They all did great! Becky has only been doing CrossFit for 3 months, and she got first place in the modified woman's division!! Way to go Becky!! We were all so excited for her!!

The competition took place at CrossFit Houston. The gym was pretty awesome on the inside, with one exception...no A/C!!! In 100 degree weather, with 100 plus people crowded inside, you can see how this was a problem. It was so hot in there, and I wasn't even working out! Bobby came with us, and he was such a trooper. He was so cute with little beads of sweat on his button nose. It was even worse for him, probably, because he had to be attached to me most of the day with the baby bjorn! We did take some A/C breaks in the car a couple of times and a trip to Jack n the Box.

Becky

Way to go Becky!!!

Rob



Mike

This is Bobby and my mother in law trying to stay cool in the heat!!

I am now really motivated to workout!! Rob has been training me and my siblings, Casey, Jason, Michelle and Brian. (More on that later!)

Beach Workout

On Sunday, Rob and I went to Surfside. CrossFit Sugar Land was having a get together. Rob is a certified CrossFit Instructor, and is working towards having his own clients, and training out of our garage. He has been helping out at CrossFit Sugar Land every once in a while. At the beach, I got to meet some of the people Rob works out with and helps coach. Usually at parties, we all eat too much, and then sit around stuffed. Since this was a CrossFit party, it wasn't what you might expect, everyone did a workout on the beach first, and then we all ate some food. :) Don't worry, I did not partake in the workout! I sat in the shade and took lots of pictures.

Everyone, getting ready. There were a lot of people there, probably around 60 or more.

The workout has begun! They were doing it relay style, everyone had a partner, they would do a round, and then run back to their partner through the waves to tag them.

Rob, doing his thing!! :)

Some observers on the beach... NOT with CrossFit...

What is CrossFit, you ask?
( taken from their website: )

CrossFit is the principal strength and conditioning program for many police academies and tactical operations teams, military special operations units, champion martial artists, and hundreds of other elite and professional athletes worldwide.

The CrossFit program is designed for universal scalability making it the perfect application for any committed individual regardless of experience. We’ve used our same routines for elderly individuals with heart disease and cage fighters one month out from televised bouts. We scale load and intensity; we don’t change programs.

Rob has been having me work out during my pregnancy, I really think it will help me during the labor and delivery. Soon after giving birth, I will begin doing harder CrossFit workouts. Don't worry, he'll give me time to recover! :)

Hair today....gone tomorrow!!

Summer is here, and it is time for haircuts! No, I am not talking about my hair....although, I am thinking about a shorter cut...we'll see.

I cut Rob's hair again last night, but this time, I buzzed it off! It was a lot of fun, and I got practice for when I cut Bobby's hair someday. :)

Half-way there!!

Rob's summer style:

He did it!!

My baby graduated!! :) He won't be officially done until August, but this weekend, we celebrated his graduation from the College of Biblical Studies, Houston. It has been a long road, but the end is finally in sight!! I couldn't be more proud of him.

Graduation was Saturday morning, and then Rob's family and mine came over for some food and good times. This was the first time that Rob's grandparents got to see the house, and it was a lot of fun having so much family around.


This is just the beginning of graduation season for us, next up are my sisters in law, Veronica and Becky, both getting their masters degrees. One from St. Edwards and the other from the University of Texas. Both graduations are in Austin, on different weekends, of course!! Then in June, is my little sister, Michelle. She is graduating from Clements High School!! She is all grown up!! I can't believe she is going off to college soon. I am sure going to miss her!!

Let's--Go--Fly--a--Kite!!!

We have been having such great weather lately, and last Sat. was especially nice. A perfect day for kite fly'n!! Rob and our friend Chris decided to try and fly our kite, and I don't know if it was operator error, or the type of kite I bought, but they couldn't quite seem to get it off the ground. (they claim it was the kite, that it was a weird shape, but they don't make just normal diamond shape kites anymore!!)

So, being boys, they took matters into their own hands. First, they tried sprinting down the street with the kite behind them, hoping that would get the kite higher in the sky. When that didn't work, they borrowed Terry's bike, and rode down the street like crazy to get it higher and higher. It worked pretty good, and also gave those of us watching a great show!!

Forgive me for the middle of the video. Rob wasn't paying attention, and the kite got stuck in the tree, and I lost it with my camera. Still a pretty entertaining video though.

We are homeowners!

It is official, we are homeowners!! We closed on our house today, after much anticipation. We won't be able to move in until hopefully Thursday. The house needs some work, so we are having most of it done this week before all our furniture is in. We are getting all new floors, and new countertop and sink. It is going to look really good once it is all finished. Don't worry, I will post before and after pictures!

We actually got started on 'project Garza' this weekend. I use the term 'we' loosley. My husband is the greatest!! Due to my pregnant state these days, I could not be around the fumes in our house from paint/primer/wall paper remover. So Rob did practically everything by himself, along with our new neighbor Terry! He cut down a tree, tore up the jungle in the front yard, ripped out the current counter top (which was spray painted a nice metalic silver), ripped up most of the current carpet (more on that later), lowered the bar counter in the kitchen, took down wallpaper in the guestroom and primed it, and attempted to take down wall paper in the kitchen, which has 2 layers, so it is near impossible, so we decided to give that a rest for now and come back to that later. He is so great, I felt so bad for not being able to help, but he did such a great job, I am so proud of him!! Thank you !!

I will post pictures as soon as I am able!!

Now that's what I call trust!!

Rob has been saying for weeks that he needed a haircut. He hasn't had one in a long time, and his hair was getting pretty long. On Thursday night, we weren't doing anything, and he looked at me and said: 'You wanna cut my hair?' Really?!? I have never cut hair, except to try and fix his mangled hair when he tried to cut it himself once. But we decided to go through with it, with the agreement that he could go to a barber shop the next morning if it looked really bad.

I had no idea what I was doing!! I was just slicing and dicing away, a big chunk here, a small piece there....and pretty soon.....

ta da!!

Not so bad if I do say so myself!! Every once in awhile, I can see where one piece is longer than the other, so I still need to trim it up a bit, but he was happy with it!!

A baby shower....and a boo boo

Wow! This weekend was soo busy! I went to my friend Karen's baby shower, had 2 birthday parties to go to, and Rob helped Karen and her husband, Michael move.

I love baby showers!! It was a lot of fun. Of course I made something for Karen, a nursing cover. Now, I promise I won't post about every nursing cover I make, because I know that can be boring. But this fabric was so cute, and I got to use the gift tags that Casey made me for Christmas for the first time!!

Here is the cute tag that Casey made me for when I sew gifts for people, which is a lot!!

Karen, trying it out with a doll!! Little did I know that she just picked out bedding, and it was brown and pink with polka-dots!! What luck!

Me, Karen and Kelly

MEANWHILE.....

While I was having fun at the shower, Rob was helping move Michael and Karen to another apartment. Rob had a little accident. Have any of you ever tried to walk through glass? How about trying to run through it?!?
Rob mistakenly thought the sliding glass door in their new apartment was open, he decided to run and hop over the rail into the parking lot to get more stuff. He took a few steps back to get momentum, and off he went...BAM!! He hit the glass. Thank you Lord that the glass didn't shatter, because as he puts it, he 'wouldn't have a face' right now!! He really could have gotten hurt. I was worried that he had broken his nose, but luckily, he just got a really big cut on it, and it is slightly swollen. Poor baby!! :)

It looks worse today, because it has started to bruise and swell a little bit. :(

Happy Anniversary to my love!!

One year ago, Rob and I promised to love and honor each other for the rest of our lives!!
I can't believe it has been a whole year already. It has gone by so fast!


Our entire wedding party, the more, the merrier!!

We got engaged in Sept. and got married in January. Planning a wedding in 4 mos. can be done, people!!
Our ceremony was just beautiful. our worship was amazing, performed by our friends Iris, Pablo and Ernie. We really wanted to point everything to Christ, giving Him all the glory for bringing us together. We had such a fun time at our wedding. It went by so fast, though!! It was great to have all our friends and family in one place. Enjoy some pictures from our big day!








Roberto, you have been such a wonderful husband, I couldn't ask for anything more! I love you so much! I can't wait to see where God takes us in 2008, here is to many more years to come!

reUNITED!! (class of '97)

This weekend, Robert (as he was known in high school) and I went to San Antonio for his 10 year high school reunion!! It was so much fun. He graduated class of 1997 from United High School in Laredo. The class voted, and chose to have the reunion in San Antonio. We decided to stay in Austin, to save money, and so we could see Robert's sister Becky, and his brother, Mike. It was a busy weekend for us, we did lots of driving, lots of eating, and not much sleeping.

I met many of Robert's friends, including his girlfriend from 7th grade (Roxanna), and his girlfriend of 1 week in 8th grade (Ana)! :) Everyone was so nice and easy to talk to. I was a little nervous about going, I wasn't quite sure what to expect, but no worries! I had a good time.

The first night, we went to a Mexican restaurant and had dinner. We were sitting on the patio, and there was a band playing. Turns out, one of the guitarists was from Laredo and graduated from United a couple of years before Robert!! They knew each other, and since there hand percussionist wasn't there, Robert joined in for about 4-5 songs! Everyone was cheering him on by the end of the last song. He did such a great job!

Pointing to his name on a poster he signed when he was a Sr. at the Sr. breakfast!


Robert playing the congas!

Saturday, we went to a park for hamburgers and hot dogs, and later that night, we went to a nice restaurant for hors d'oeuvres, and mingling. There was a slide show, and prizes! Robert won a prize for being the 'Jack of all Trades'! (He had had the most jobs since high school).



Some of Robert's classmates at the park


All dressed up!


Robert, Mark and Eliud
Eliud and Robert, goofing around!

Sunday morning they had a brunch, but we didn't go to that, we went to church with my brother-in-law, Mike. Then we went to lunch with Mike and our friend from Sugar Land, Anneke. She is going to school at UT to be a teacher. It was so fun to get to see her and hang out with Mike.

Me and our friend Anneke


Rob and Mike