Announcing Baby Grady Alexander Aguirre

Grady Alexander was welcomed into the world on March 5th, 2008 at 3:48 p.m. He was 6lbs 13.8 lbs and 20.5 inches long. He was born on his due date! Baby Grady is an excellent baby. He hardly fusses and takes all of Jackson's bumps and noises in stride. We are sooooo lucky to have two amazing little boys!
Life this past few weeks has come in full force with Grady's birth, Jackson's birthday, a visit from Auntie Jess and Grandma Gayle, St. Patrick's Day and now Easter this Sunday.
Casey has been amazing and I don't know how I will ever do it without him. He has 2 more weeks of vacation and I know that Jackson as well as myself are going to have withdrawals! We are looking forward to a visit from Nana Karla and then in May Grandma Linny and Grandpa Scruffy.
What can I say? Life is GREAT!!!

Guess what... I am blogging again and it has been less than 2 weeks!

Hey All,
Hope all is well. Here are some new pics of what we have been doing the last few weeks. We have recently joined the Children's Museum and Jackson has a blast every time we go. We went to Chuck E Cheese for playgroup and are basically trying to live it up before the new babe joins our family. I am now 35 weeks tomorrow and go in for non stress tests and sonograms weekly from here on out. We are looking forward to the new addition especially since I am not sleeping much these days anyway. Casey now has less than 2 weeks left on this surgery rotation and will be a lot closer to home doing Internal medicine here in Erie when surgery is over. This will be nice since he won't have to drive 70 miles a day. For fun let's see how many of you think we should cut Jackson's hair on his birthday??? How many of you think the baby will come before or after the due date of March 5th. Name your date!

January update...or something like that!

Okay, here it is January 17th and I am not doing so well on keeping this blog current but thanks to Alesha, I am on here again trying to be a better blogger! Thanks Alesh!!! We have now adjusted to being back in Erie and had a wonderful Christmas with our own little family. Casey is now doing his second surgery rotation, (his first was last month) and has enjoyed more than he thought he would. (Though his still says surgery isn't for him). We were lucky enough to have him home for the holidays as he was given the whole week of Christmas off as well as New Year's Eve and Day! Great gift eh? Now he has been traveling to a small town 35 miles from here called Meadville. Hours have been pretty good though and weather has cooperated so he has been coming home each night.
Other than that life is back to normal. Jackson continues to crack us up everyday and his vocabulary continues to grow. He is constantly asking to play with his friends and is really social though Nurery has been a little tough on him still. J has been potty training( at our house only) and is doing great with it. We just joined the YMCA and have been doing some swimming classes on Tuesdays with a lot of our friends here in Erie. It is great to live in a place where we are surrounded with good friends and everyone is in the same boat. (Mostly students).
The pregnancy is going well with less than 8 weeks to go. I go in for a Sonogram next week. I am measuring a bit small like I did with Jackson so they just want to make sure everything is normal. Other than sleepless nights there is nothing else to report in that area. We'll keep you posted though.
We are looking forward to a visit from Auntie Jess tomorrow evening! And as Jackson would say... "Where'd Grandma go?'' (He is always teasing her with this!)
I wanted to update some pics as well and have found that I have been lacking in that dept as well so here are a few pics from Christmas.

What a Trip!

Wow, What a trip! Utah was great and we are now home in Erie getting ready to celebrate the wonderful holiday we call Christmas! We feel so very blessed, especially after a long and wonderful trip. I am especially grateful that we made it home in one piece. If we thought the trip to Utah was trying read on for another amazingly trying trip home. It all begins Sunday morning with a bleak, winter weather storm approaching Cleveland due to hit just as we are scheduled to land! My darling in-laws walk us into the airport just to make sure we are actually going to take off and make it. Despite the dreary forecast they send us off... We get on the plane and almost immediately the passenger in front of us turns around and tells Jackson that he needs to be quiet as he is repeating the word hands in response to me telling him that I am going to clean his hands. Mind you he isn't even yelling or crying or what not, just being a typical 21 month old. I tell her to give him a break, and that he is only 21 months and in reply she tells me that he needs to be courteaous to those around him! We continue on our merry way and I am reading to Jackson and then we are watching the airplanes take of while we await our turn and yes Jackson is a bit excited and asking for more planes. Again the passenger in front of us turns around and tells Jackson to be quiet. At this point I get into it a bit with her and tell her that he isn't even 2 yrs old and that I can have him sit there and try to be still and quiet and then she can expect a tantrum or that we can go about what we are doing. I tell her that if she has a real problem, she can ask the stewardess to move her or that she can put some ear plugs in. She tells me that I am egging him on and that we need to be courteous of those around us. Mind you he isn't yelling or causing a raucous. He is being very well behaved for his age. Her expecations were absolutely ridiculous. Later on in the flight, the lady got what was coming to her, she ran into the overhead bins where the luggage is stored. The moral: never tell a pregnant lady and her son to be courteous of those around them when they are doing the best they can and in all actuality behaving very well! Anyhow on with the rest of the trip. As we are leaving the pilot tells is if we have to be rerouted, we will land in Pittsburg. (not a good sign). Eventually we are getting closer to our destination and things are looking bleak. We are being rerouted! Not to Pittsburg either! We are landing in Grand Rapids Michigan where we will await until the runways and weather get better! We sit in the plane for an hour while they decide what is going to happen with our flight and which terminal we will get to unload on and await our destination. Grand Rapids is an itty bitty airport and after many strolls up and down the hallway and trying to get Jackson to at least have a short nap, we find out that our future holds a 6 hour bus ride to Cleveland. Yep you read it correctly, they were bussing us to Cleveland! Me, 7 months pregnant with a 21 month old child and every other passenger on the plane. I plea not to have to go this way but upon further research there is simply no other way. The bus we were to ride became overfull and fortubnately for us we were able to ride in a small shutte bus with only 5 other passenger, all of whom thought more highly of Jackson than my previous nasty airplane passenger lady. Meanwhile Casey has made his journey in the snow and wind at 30 mph to Cleveland where we would end up for the evening. At long last, 1:30 in the morning we arrived at the Cleveland airport by bus! Jackson was a complete trooper and really delightful the entire trip! And the next morning we made our way to Erie. Home Sweet Home!

Jackson's first ski adventure

Live footage from Park City Ski Resort!

JOY to the World!

JOY to the world! What a wonderful time of year! As most of you who are visiting this blog have noticed, I am a lousy blogger! I am hoping that once I return to Erie and get past the holidays, I will be a better blogger. However, having said that, there are no gaurantees! Well for those of you who read the last blog, I want you all to know that Casey returned home today and lo and behold, he found our cameras in the trunk of the car! Hallelujah! He returned home and all seems well on the homefront. Jackson and I return on Sunday. Unfortunately we will miss the Sing-a-long and with it all of you! We hope it is as memorable as all the rest and we will be thinking of you!
Our time here in Utah has been fun filled and fabulous. Very busy of course but excellent nonetheless. I wish I could have seen more of all of you but I am lucky we got as much done as we did. Here are just a few highlights from our stay in Utah...
Halloween at the zoo, (Jackson was a pirate), Tifanni's wedding, Thanksgiving with family 3 times, weekend in Park City, Pie night, a weekend in Denver, Colorado without Jackson, (our first time away from him), Jackson's first time skiing (soooo cute and fun, he still talks about it everyday!), Time with family and friends, Jessica's visits and of course, seeing all of you!
We wish you all well and Hope you have a truly wonderful, delightful, uplifiting, Holiday Season. Merry Christmas!!!

The trip to Utah

Okay, so it is taking me sometime to get used to having a blog and actually writing in it. I guess it is a lot like my journaling skills. What can I say. So finally I am here making another attempt to share a bit of our family with yours! We have officially arrived in Utah after a trying trip to get here. Wednesday October 17th, we loaded up the car and took off to Cleveland to stay the night and leave our car for 2 months. We end up in a sketchy hotel. Needless to say the toilet seat in our room wasn't clean and there was an old blood stain on one of the pillow cases. Ice machines were located on every other floor which seemed odd but hey it was just a couple of hours right? We sleep for a few hours if you can call it that and rise promptly at 4:45 a.m. to get ready for our early flight out to Utah. We load up the shuttle and we're off! Next we drop the luggage at curbside after shuffling a few pounds here and there and should be ready to go through security, however, Jackson isn't on the ticket so we have to check in inside now as well. Because Casey and I are on different flights and Casey is to arrive several hours earlier he gets his first solo flight with J. and is somewhat nervous about it, (don't tell him I told you that, wink wink). We check in and the lady at the counter tries to get me onto their flight and it just might of worked but my luggage had already gone through. So it is off to Cincinatti for both of us and then on to Utah for Casey and Jackson and on to Minneapolis for me and then to SLC. Now we're at security, putting are many things through to get scanned when I realize our video camera and camera are missing! UGH!!! We check to the hotel to no avail and call our neighbor to check our house again to no avail so I guess we're out a camera and video camera with the small chance it was left in the trunk of our vehicle, which we won't know for 2 months. But hey it could be worse. Eventually we can replace those items if we need to and nobody was hurt so we're moving on. Casey gets flagged for having a screwdriver in his carry-on???? Guess not a screw driver, just his medical equipment. In the meantime, we are needing to hustle on through to get to our gate on time and we still need breakfast and of course the pregnant lady needs to go to the bathroom. So we make a couple of pit stops. Potty, then breakfast. Breakfast consists of bagels, fruit, and a yummy looking smoothy. I say yummy looking because I never got to even taste it! That's right we get down the ramp and are trying to get J. out of the stroller and collapse it when the $7.00 airport smoothie tips, tumbles and finally lands on the stroller base and then the airport floor, demolishing the cup and leaving a yummy sticky mess everywhere! At this point we cut our losses and load up onto the plane as best we can where J. dumps half his fruit onto the plane floor. What do ya do??? We arrive in Cincinatti with no further damage and divide and conquer. By by boys, and I am off traveling by myself for the first time in 19 months! Next thing you know my flight is delayed an hour and a half. FUN FUN. I manage and luckily it just means less wait time in Minneapolis. I arrive in Minneapolis just as Jackson and Casey arrive in SLC. Casey has a wonderful flight, Jackson naps an hour and a half and the whole plane is full except the one row Casey and J. have to thesmselves. Casey goes to grab the luggage all 200+ lbs of it that's right my luggage arrived with them! I could of flown with them afterall. Oh well, I get to wait in Minneapolis and I have one more hope of getting in a little earlier. The flight before mine is going to SLC! I check to see if it is full and of course it is so again I wait and wait and wait. That's right my own flight is delayed! Finally after much waiting I arrive in SLC, and have never been happier to see my family. Oh and P.S. for all of you that might be wondering....IT'S A BOY!!! Jackson is going to have a little brother and we are thrilled! Who knows maybe they'll share a birthday. (Hope not though for Jackson's sake).