Vacation 2010

In July we travelled to San Antonio on a mini-vacation. Here are a few of the pictures from our trip!

A Rios has been added to the Family

Sorry everyone, so much has happened since my last post almost 9 months ago! First we were blessed on April 17th with the birth of Juan Joaquin Ranger Rios. We call him Joaquin and he is a great baby!! At first we used to call him Dinosaur because he would grunt and grumble all the time but has since stopped. He's a little more serious than Thunder was, but is a very happy and sweet baby! He loves looking at himself in the mirror and is so in love with his big brother!! Thunder loves him so much and is a great helper!

Thunder has had so many changes since the last blog. He's a big brother, played his first season on Little League Baseball and started kindergarten. He is doing great in school and loves it. He's reading, writing and just playing as much as he can. His favorite class is gym. He will be starting his first season of soccer in the next couple of weeks and Jesse will be his coach. We are so excited!!!

Jesse and I are busy now with the two boys but couldn't be happier. We truly feel blessed to have our family complete! Thunder and Joaquin are so much fun and two is better than one!!! Here are pictures of the boys from the last 9 months and I'll try to be better at updating this post.

Lots of Love, Veronica

Mommy kissing Santa Claus

My wonderful husband played Santa Claus this year at the clinic that my sister in law Anabel works at...and although everyone has rough times, seeing some of these kids who struggle day in and day out puts life in to perspective! We are very fortunate for everything we have and THANK GOD for all he has provided for us!!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All!!! Santa, Mommy and Joaquin!

Santa and his helper (Anabel)!!!!

For some reason Thunder would NOT get close to Santa and he knew it was his Daddy!! Oh well I finally got a picture with him and Santa! Sometimes you take what you can get!

Misc. Other Pictures!

This is at the Police Car Wash

And this is from the Chili Cookoff!!

Thunder and Remi, aren't they so cute!

Thunder, Layla and Remi! Poor Layla Thunder is suffacating her!

My Handsome little Cowboy Baby!

Grandma's Birthday 2009

For Jesse's Mom's birthday this year we went to the Botanic Gardens to take some family pictures! I think they came out awesome and here are just a few!

The family leaders Grandma and Grandpa! With all the grandkids, clockwise from Top Left, Joe, Ericka, Grandpa, Jaci, Tina, Grandma, Thunder and Isaac.

The Rios brothers and sisters, clockwise from Top left, Isabelle, Jesse, Anabel, Carlos, Alma, Grandpa and Grandma!

The grandkids again!

Anabel. me, Joaquin and Jesse!

Fall Through Christmas

I have been a terrible blogger! I'd love to blame it on being pregnant and tired, and why that is true, I really haven't found time to sit down and write everything I need to say. We've been very busy since my last post. First, we know what Baby Rios is! IT'S A BOY!!! JUAN JOAQUIN RANGER RIOS!! We are so excited and I cannot believe I will be living with 3 men!!! I am 23 weeks along and have a very active baby inside me! Everything is progressing as it should and I will start going through Thunder's baby clothes to make sure we have everything we need! Work for both Jesse and I is going well and we can't wait for 2010 to to get here!

Enjoy all the pictures! Sorry for so many and they are out of order!

Captain Rex!Seargent Rios and Captain Rex!The family trick or treating!My beautiful niece Tina, Lake Worth Homecoming 2009! She didn't win Homecoming Queen but she is still beautiful!!!My nephew Joe, playing football for Lake Worth Collins Middle School!How we spent most of our Tuesday nights at football games watching Joe play!!!Helping Tio Carlos fix his classroom!Practicing with another baby in the house! Watching Chloe Bell! Notice how Thunder had to be on top of Momma the whole time she was with us!Me and Jesse at his high school reunion!!

Thunder's little ?

We had our second doctor's appointment on Monday, Oct. 5th, and took another picture of the baby and got to see the heartbeat. Everything is progressing as it should and I lost a pound!!! Here is a picture of Thunder's little brother or sister!