4th of July weekend!!!!!

So we finally woke up at 6:00 am to watch the balloons take off! It was pretty cool to see all the balloons with their bright colors. We met up with Sarah, Brett, the girls and Emily's parents. The sun was still hiding behind the gorgeous Provo mountains and the weather was warm. Afterwards we went to Cracker-barrel for a delicious old fashion breakfast . 

There you have it! First collage in photoshop. (Not too bad!)

Here are some more pictures for you guys to enjoy!

Look at that balloon taking off! (instead of Look I wrote Luke! hahaha)

Luke still in his pajamas! : )

I think it would be cool the actually ride one. We got on the one in Downtown Disney but it wasn't a huge ride or anything. Has anyone actually got to ride one?

Look at them go!

Darth Vador: "Luke I am your father" hahaha (even though I have never seen a star-wars movie)

Mi chiquito bello (My handsome little one)

Former First Lady Barbara Bush said it beautifully to the graduating students at Wellesley College: "As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer, or business leader will be, you are a human being first, and those human connections--with spouses, with children, with friends--are the most important investments you will ever make. At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a parent...Our success as society depends not on what happens in the white House but on what happens inside your house"

I'm happy I can spend so much time with my little one! He loves the park and the outside. He always wants to be on the go. Here are some picture Emily took of him at the park.

This is his "say cheese" smile

He really enjoys the slide and he is not afraid of it at all

I've never seen him so excited about the swing. He was just having a blast giggling like crazy, you should've been there to see the excitement on his face.

When it was time to go home, he didn't want to get off and threw a little tantrum. Even then I thought he looked so cute.

The splash pad in Spanish Fork is AWESOME!

As usual playing with his "pupo" (belly button)

We went to the splash pad in Spanish Fork and Luke just loves it, period! He couldn't wait to go into the water. He loves getting wet and loves playing with water, in fact he was freezing but wanted to keep playing! Good thing we had warm weather (90°F).

Alanis was shy at first and didn't want to get wet, but it wasn't long before she was soaking wet!

As you can see she barely wants to touch the water! Silly girl : )

After a while she was running like crazy. I love the way children can enjoy the simple things of life!

Meanwhile Luke was getting splashed all over his face but he didn't seem to complain : )

Sea food!

My aunt Jacqueline and cousin Alicia came to visit me the other day and that gave me a good excuse to cook some garlic shrimp! It was delicious, I'm so sorry for any readers out there that haven't develop a taste for sea food, they are missing some good stuff!

Pediatric Dentistry.

I been reading this blog (http://cyberdentist.blogspot.com/) which I found to be really interesting. It is about pediatric dentistry. This is an specialty that takes 2 more years after dental school and in order to apply to any residency program you have to be between the 10-20 top percent of your class. I enjoy children a lot and I think being a dentist just for kids (children from birth to 21 years of age), the office has to be a fun place to be. Check out this video (http://www.viddler.com/explore/DeanBrandon/videos/30/) I can't believe they even have a video game waiting room! That is awesome.

I feel that's what I would love to do. Good thing we have some rotations during second and third year to get more exposure to this specialty, for now I just have to get good grades. It is good to know all the requirements before hand so I know there is no much room for messing around too much.

According to the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) there is one residency program here in Utah. The pediatric dental postgraduate program is at the primary Children's Medical Center here in Salt Lake city. I don't like the snow, but we have so much family here in Utah that I think it will be good for our children to be close to them. There is only one opening each year, so we'll see how it goes. There is no tuition for those 2 years but a stipend of $36000 the first year and $39000 the second year + comprehensive benefits (health insurance and acquired PTO time each year). After all that schooling this is how much a pediatric dentist make (read this). Of course that is not my first reason to try to go into this specialty, but it is good to know that all that hard work will eventually pay off.

Any way I'm just making this post so that if you want us to move back to Utah have me in your prayers that I might do well in dental school.

Here is a video for all of you to enjoy!

Luke likes hats! LOL

Emily Prego (21 weeks )

We were looking at pictures of Emily pregnant with Luke and at 21 weeks she looks exactly the same. What a beautiful mom! Luke and I LOVE you very much!!!

Oh my dear Emily!

As you all know we are moving pretty soon to TX. I'm already putting all of our books into boxes and I came across these two newspapers. This is what it says:

"It had never happened, not once since the Thurston High School tennis courts were built in 1989. Year after year, the Thruston girls team lost to Sheldon. Then on Tuesday, the streak ended."

Emily went to Thruston and was on the tennis team that year. I miss playing tennis with my wife and hopefully once she has Sam we will play again.

I hope you can see her now on this one. Doesn't she have a beautiful smile : )

And I also found this one and thought it was cool.

I also found a random newspaper and I went through every single page trying to find something about Emily or something!!!!, didn't find a thing! Later I asked Emily why she keeps that newspaper and she said that it was Jan 1 2000! Hahahaha. I guess kids thought it was cool that it was the year 2000! All I remember about the year 2000 is that some people thought it was the end of the world..... glad to still be alive!

Meet Sam!

So here are two names that we are thinking. Samuel Benson Darquea or Logan Benson Darquea. I like "Sam" way better than Samuel but Emily doesn't want any more short names, so we are almost 100% sure that his name will be Samuel Benson Darquea and everyone can call him SAM. We also like Logan but starts with an 'L' and Emily doesn't like that.

Any way here is another picture of our little Sam. We love you Sam and we are so excited for your arrival! Can't wait to hold you in my arms and give you tons tons of love. We'll teach Luke how to say your name and since he is pretty smart he'll know it even before you get here. Luke is so good with babies, you don't worry!

It's time for an update : )

So we had our ultrasound appointment today and we found out the gender of our second baby. We were so excited to see it's little body on the screen. We have it all in video but it's hard to see the 'full' baby! You have to have pretty good imagination! With Luke's video it was so easy to see his kicking legs and still people couldn't see it. Any way this baby was a little, tiny turkey :) It was rolled up like a little ball with it's knees and feet up his face and facing Emma's spine. (Can you picture that). It was hard to get to see it fully. We don't have a picture of it's profile but all we know is that the heart is perfect, kidneys are working and that choroid plexus in the brain are the right size. We got to see the stomach and the bladder with fluid which is totally normal. We also saw the cerebellum, the spine, the placenta(perfect condition and super attached to the uterus) and the GENDER! Although that was hard to get a good picture of as well! The little booger had it's hands down covering it's privates while we were trying to get a good look... It didn't help that the umbilical cord was right in the way too! I was happy that the Dr. took the time to explain what we were looking at, but it was even better that both of us understood what it was. We also learned why Emily doesn't show! We learned that the cervix is just really far back, so the baby likes to sink into it an stays really far back in her abdomen.

Our baby!

Hand and 5 little fingers!

Gender

We are so excited to have another BOY (just in case you couldn't tell from the picture). We don't have a name yet. This baby will be born Nov 3rd! We are so excited : )