More on my trip and the Winner

Happy Monday everyone!
While I was visiting my family in Chile, we went to the beaches of Caldera and Bahia Inglesa, these sleepy little towns are so fun and quiet during the off season, I love going there.
Here are a few pictures from the trip:

Here is my Mom and William playing together, they are good friends.
Yes, her hat does match her purse, she's chic like that.
My dad and William, it was his first time at the beach, he loved it!

My sister, William and me. My sister is the one with the long legs,
she would like me to tell you she did not pee her pants, its just a weird shadow... right....

This is the old train station in Caldera, it was the first train route in South America.

My Dad is lucky 13! We went to Caldera to watch him play a soccer game with his buddies, they won!

This one is not from the trip to the beach, but is a fun one, here are a few of my aunts and cousins having tea at my parent's house. It was so loud! we had like 10 conversations going at the same time, the men always say we sound like a bunch of "gallinas" chickens. Hey, we all have a lot to say :)

On another topic, the winner of the bibs is comment #1 from Hi Pericos! Please email me with your 3 favorite bibs (1-5 from top to bottom) and your mailing info. Congratulations!!

Thanks everyone for playing, I will have more giveaways soon.

Have a great week everyone!

New Products and a Giveway

Like I've mentioned before I'm a little obsessed with fabrics, I love searching for them and finding new fabrics is always so fun. I have more than I can use, but I like to think I'm not just buying fabric but "collecting" fabric. I found a few new fabrics I fell in love with, they are so colorful, kawaii inspired and fun that they had to become bibs. I think the busy bright prints will hide stains very well, they are 100% soft cotton with snap closures and made in the USA. A good friend that just moved helped me make these, she is a great seamstress.

Here they are:


You can have these cute bibs for Free! One winner will get 3 bibs (boy or girl), all you have to do is follow the blog and leave a comment here or on any other posts on this blog from January 1st until now. All comments will be entered and the winner will be chosen randomly on Sunday.
If you post this on FB, twitter or Blog about it, let me know and your name will be entered multiple times :).

Have a great rest of the week and weekend!

Me on TV, kind of

Growing up I was always involved in Theater groups and acting. I like the arts and theater is one of my favorite things. I remember doing plays and loving it, but I also remember doing kids birthday parties and having to dress up as a clown!! That was the worst job ever, no respect!

Since moving to LA I've always been busy with school, work and now family. Before kids I did a few things on TV mainly in Spanish TV, I also did extra work in a few movies. After the kids started preschool, I found I had a little more time and started taking a few acting classes.

A couple of years ago I took an acting class that got me a job in General Hospital, I was cast as Maria Zacchara. Let me tell you a little bit about Maria, the Zacchara family is a Mob family, Maria married Anthony and had a son; Johnny Zacchara who is one of the main characters on the show. Maria had been dead for 20 years and nobody knew how she had died. At first I was shown only as a picture frame on Anthony Zacchara's desk. They later called me to shoot my death, Johnny is now in his late 20's and had a flashback of when he was 8 years old, that's how they showed that Anthony was the one that had killed me, unbelievable! He was trying to kill my precious son, but I jumped in front and gave my life to save him, because that's the kind of thing mothers do, plus Johnny is a main character so he had to live, I on the other hand had to die, that's how it works.

Me as Maria Zacchara with Johnny Zacchara

It was a lot of fun, I even did my own stunt (dropping dead and bleeding to death while holding a bouquet of roses, wearing a gown and lots of jewelry, very dramatic, you get the picture). The cast was super nice and very professional, soaps are like a well oiled machine, they tape everyday and the cast has to learn an incredible amount of lines on a daily basis, don't feel to bad for them they make lots of money.

I saw Brandon Barash (Johnny, my TV son) a while back while shopping at H & M, I asked him to be a good son and remember his dead mother and make sure he has more flashbacks :). We had a good laugh, he is so handsome, do you think he takes after me or his father? LOL

Brandon Barash AKA Johnny Zacchara, now all grown up

I also played a caterer at The Bold and the Beautiful. I did that a couple of times, the last time they had called me I was pregnant, I told them that the catering uniform was probably not going to fit me, specially the tight vest they had me wear, so I had to pass. On Tuesday I received a call from B & B and they asked me if I would be interested in shooting "Open Titles", which is that video they show everyday when the show starts were they feature the cast and play some music. Well, it was a 2 day shoot and it would mean a little bit of money on residual checks for as long as they show the Open titles. I told her I would talk to my husband and call her back. I was really nervous about leaving William for 8 hours, I had never done it and I knew I would really miss him and I like to think he would miss me. We decided it would be OK so I said yes. Matt and our babysitter took care of him while I "worked", if you could call eating, sitting around and talking to people while you wait for your 10 minute turn work.
The new open titles are set during a fashion show (by the way, the models were so tall, thin and beautiful, we were all feeling very short and plain) I was one of the fashion show viewers and the next day I was a fashion show photographer. I'm not sure when they will show the new open titles, but when it airs you might be seeing my hands clapping, my boots, the back of my head or me holding a camera at the end of a runway, I'm telling you I should win an Emmy for this.
It was a fun experience, I met lots of interesting people, one of the extras I sat next to was Drew Broadrick a singer actor guy from the UK, check out his youtube video, he's also on itunes. Most of the people there were in their late 20's or early 30's like me, they were all single with no kids and found it very interesting/unusual that I had 3 kids, most of them would have a bunch of questions about married life, one person told me: You've been married for 10 years! In LA that counts for like 30 years! I thought that was funny and sad at the same time.
I thought they were all very interesting, most of them were from other States, they all moved here to pursue their Hollywood dream and they have to work hard in this very competitive industry. A few of them have had temporary success, others are still waiting for their shot, all of them have to work doing other things while they pursue their dream.
After the 2 days were over, I was glad to know I had my family waiting at home, that being a mom/wife is my job and that I have a pretty simple life.

Traveling. Baby. Family

I use to fly to Chile at least once a year, even after I had my first 2 boys. Nico's first time in Chile was when he was 6 months, Joey 7 months. William had not been there until this past December, we had not been able to fly as a family so we decided (with lots of encouragement from my husband) I should go and take just him to meet the rest of the family, he was 8 months old.
My mom, dad and brother had already met him, but my sister, grandparents and extended family had not. To say I was nervous is an understatement, I had never traveled without my kids, every vacation we've taken had been with them and I knew I would miss them terribly.
It took me a couple of weeks to finally commit and purchase a ticket, my husband had to re-assure me a million times that they were going to be OK without me, he knew I really wanted to go, but it was hard for me to ask him to take care of the kids, house and still go to work while I was gone.
I made a calendar with all their activities with very specific instruction including "they must do their hair and have clothes that match before they leave in the morning". I know, I know I'm a control freak, but it gave me comfort to know that at least I had asked.
Traveling with a 9 month old was not too bad, the flight to Chile is long, I had a 14 hour flight and I had to change planes in Lima. Once I got to Santiago I had to wait another 4 hours for the flight to my home town of Copiapo, 1 1/2 hours later I was there with my family.

Here are a few highlights of the first couple of days, I was there for 12 days.

I had to ask this Pilot if he would take a picture with William, wouldn't you?
He said: You want ME to hold him? I said: yes, I have to take the picture, I can't hold him and take the picture (there was almost nobody left on the plane). He seemed a little nervous holding a baby, but he was really nice and it didn't hurt that he was also tall, cute and wearing a uniform ;)

Here he is with his Tia Gaby, my little sister. I should say, my younger sister because she is actually about 3 inches taller than me. She is also beautiful, sweet, smart, almost a nurse and the best sister ever. She didn't want to give me baby William back, she wanted to feed him, change him, nap with him. They got to be best friends very fast.


Here are my parents and brother, this is the day my little brother graduated High School, that's another big reason why I went. We call him Reny, short for Reynaldo, he is so funny and also helpful and kind. I miss him.
My parents are the best looking grandparents ever, people always think my kids are their kids when they take them places. I will tell you more about them some time, they are interesting people.


Here are my grandparents, grandma is 89 and my grandpa I think he is 82 (he's not sure). He still thinks he is 50 and rides his bike everywhere he goes. They have a little store in their house where they sell everyday necessities and treats, my grandpa still runs it and they are very independent.
My grandma has awesome hair, my dad is jealous (you can see above that he's starting to loose his). Grandpa not so much, he's been wearing a hat since forever, he does not show is bald head very often.

More about my trip soon, have a great Sunday!

Please stay small

I love taking pictures of my children and I also love having their picture taken by people that know what they are doing. I'm still trying to figure out the camera I got for my birthday or was it Christmas 2009?
Anyways, I was looking at our 2010 Holiday pictures, Heather Telford took our pictures at the Griffith Observatory (one of our favorites places) and then some at our house. I love how they all turned out! She was amazing, so patient and fun, I specially love this picture of my 3 boys:

As I looked at this picture, I thought: please stay small!
Their skin is so soft, they still want to snuggle with me, they think I'm cool (please don't tell them the truth), they say the sweetest prayers and they dance with me until they are tired. I know a lot of these things won't last much longer and it makes my heart hurt a little, OK let me be honest, it actually hurts a lot, it feels like someone is sitting on my chest and my heart is about to stop. Is that crazy or do you know what I mean?
I use to always ask Joey to please stop growing, he would smile and say OK mom, then one day he said:
Joey: I'm sorry Mom
Me: sorry for what Joey?
Joey: I'm really trying to stay small but is not working
If I hadn't been laughing so hard I would have probably cried at how cute that was.

So tonight after looking at the above picture I started looking at older pictures and found these and Oh my goodness! I spent about 2 hours looking at pictures from 2006. Where is time going?! Don't get me wrong, I enjoy each stage of their lives, but seriously look at them, PLEASE STAY SMALL!!

I don't remember why they were crying, but for the record I was not torturing them... I think

Tonight Baby William is not sleeping on his crib, he's staying right here next to me, he's not going to be 9 months much longer.