Life with the Mozas

Monday, February 9, 2009

Baby Gifts

My mom made blocks for Adrian for his first Christmas
and I thought they were so sweet.
I am on the baby shower committee
for our church. We host a shower for first time moms...
and at our church we usually have more than one mom per shower.
The last one had 3 new mommies and our shower
in May-June will have 5 new mommies.

It is a great ministry and a blessing to share
a special time of prayer and thanksgiving
with these women in our church. Gifts are optional,
but I thought it would be fun
to make something for these mommies and their little ones.
Two of the girls had names they were sharing
and one of the girls is keeping hers a secret til the birth,
so for her I came up with something else...here are my projects.

I can't believe how SMALL he was!!!

Carly...front and back...

Baby door knocker
shhh....

Ethan Mateo...front and back...

My growing boy's got curls!

When I look back at Adrian's baby pictures...more like his 9 month pictures,he seemed quite bald! All of a sudden in the last couple of months,a LOT of hair has grown in...and it's so curly...especially in this humid Texas weather...I've actually cut Adrian's hair once already...when he started getting knots in the back from his restless sleeping habits.We'll see what this baby boy looks like in the next few months...he seems to be losing his 'babyness' and gaining his little boy-ness.My sweet Adrian is quite the handful...frustrates himself so when he can't figure something out,climbs up on EVERYTHING and then screams for mommyto rescue him by getting him down!

A really good recipe

You just need a few simple ingredients and wow...
what a winner of a dessert or breakfast coffee cake! Because of the peaches,
it almost had a cobbler like consistency
and it was gone before everyone could grab a bite!

Here is the actual link to Paula's recipe, but as to my liking...I tweeked it a little...
I didn't have blueberries on hand, so I used frozen peaches
(not quite the whole bag, chopped) and dried cranberries.
At the end, I used the left over melted butter and mixed it with half the oats
and the cinnamon sugar and sprinkled that ontop before I baked it...It was YUM-O!!!!!!

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/granite-steps-country-blueberry-coffee-cake-recipe/index.html

This is the first layer of biscuits, the peaches, then oats,

then I layered more peaches and the cinnamon oat mixture last...

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Merry Christmas from the Mozas

I'm a little late in posting this, but I'd say better late than never! It was our 2nd Christmas with Adrian and we all had so much fun watching him explore the presents, the ornaments and enjoy understanding so much more about the holidays! I hope y'all had a very Merry Christmas also!

Thursday, December 18, 2008

thoughts....

I still don't always know what I'm doing on this blog, so I will write here about our trip...It was indeed a lot of fun...a completely different setting of America to see where a lot began and enjoy good times with family that I often 'talk' to over facebook, but haven't had real conversations with in years.

Pennsylvania has some breathtaking views of tall, tall evergreens and pines, silos and farms built the old fashion way, horse drawn buggies and hills and farmlands that seem to go on and on forever. It was very beautiful.

The weather cooperated for the most part. Our drive from Philadelphia to Mohnton was rainy, but it brightened up a little the next day with snow flurries in the morning and sunshine in the afternoon along with the rest of our stay there. It didn't snow again til our last day in Philadelphia. Brrrr. It was really cold, but a lot of fun to see where our country got its start.