Lexie's blog

 I have always wanted to match with someone and I finally have my little mini me to match with. I always look for outfits that’ll match for me and Lorenzo, it’s one of my favorite things to do. I am always looking for the same shoes also to match with our outfits. Whenever I go to any store and see an outfit for me I instantly go and look in the kids section and see if I can find something that can match me. Whenever I have free time and I am online on my computer I look at matching outfits for us too. I feel like I can't stop!  Every holiday I always look for matching outfits for us. The best part about the matching outfits for the holidays is that it is always themed for that specific holiday. Then, we go get our pictures taken with our outfits on and frame them. I am going to make it a tradition to do it for every holiday even when he is older and doesn't want to do it. I even get them framed and give them to my mom as a present every Christmas. 

 I can’t believe Lorenzo is already 2. Every single day he is learning something new. It’s crazy how much he already knows and watching him grow is just so crazy. He is getting so much fun now, he’s getting to the age where he wants to run around and play. Lorenzo is learning a bunch of words, he copies off of anyone. He is in the “terrible 2s” and that’s the worst part. If you tell him no he throws a tantrum which sucks. He’s always saying “mommy I love you” and that’s the cutest thing he has been saying. We even went and took pictures for his birthday too at the beach and let him play in the sand after we were done because he was being so good, which is a surprise.  We had a train birthday for him and he would just keep saying “choo choo”. He got a ton of presents and clothes. The family came and he got to play with his cousins all day, we even got him his favorite food, pizza. Finally, we got him his own personal cake for himself and he made a huge mess, but I didn't care b...

 I have never been out of the country and I finally was able to go. When we first landed I was confused with the language because thats all they would speak at the airport, but we finally were able to get to our transportation and left for the hotel. We stayed at a nice hotel in Puerto Vallarta and it was an all inclusive resort. It had a beach, pools, hot tub, even a kids section for Lorenzo to play. They had five different restaurants that were all themed different, from Mexican food to Italian food, the best part was that they had an ice cream stand that you could go to as much as you wanted and was open all day. We even got to leave the resort a couple times and got to explore what Mexico was like without the resort and saw what the culture was like.  The sun was super hot over in Mexico but it was amazing. Lorenzo went down the slides several times, we ate a bunch of ice cream cones and ate so much food, the food was so delicious I couldn't get enough of it. At night they...

     Since I was a kid, I loved dolphins so much that I even wanted to be dolphin trainer. My dream was to swim with dolphins, but I never had the chance to do so, since it is hard to be able to find a place to swim with dolphins around here. Well, that all changed when I went on vacation to Mexico this past summer. There was an opportunity for me to go swim with dolphins and I decided it was finally time to do what I always wanted.    When I went to go swim with Dolphins I was so excited I couldn't contain myself. When I walked in I saw the dolphins and my eyes lit up as I was getting more excited as the time got closer and closer. Once the dolphin trainers called us in we walked over to the pool where the dolphins are and got ready. We had to take off all piercings and had to put on a life jacket as well. Once we got in the water with them, it was a dream come true, the dolphin came up to me and I was able to touch it and pet it. It would do tricks for us and ...

 Gastroschisis is a birth defect of the abdominal wall, which causes for babies intenstines to be outside of the baby's body when born. When I was 13 weeks pregnant I found out that my son, Lorenzo, was going to be born with this defect.  There was nothing we could do about it except wait until he was born. Every week I had to go to a specialist to look over how Lorenzo was doing and whether or not he was getting worst.  Once he born, he had to be flown to the Riley's Children Hospital in Indianapolis. The doctors would slowly put his intestines back into his stomach everyday until they were completely back inside him. The whole process took about a week for Lorenzo and afterwards had to get surgery to close his stomach up. He had to slowly start eating after the surgery, because he was not allowed to until after everything was back inside his stomach. After a month of being in the hospital, Lorenzo was finally able to come home with me. 

       The Goblin and the Grocer is a small restaurant located in Beverly Shores, Indiana. I have been working there for almost a year. It has been the best place I have worked at by far. The workers are all friendly and the customers couldn't be better, not to mention the location of the restaurant is amazing. The restaurant is located right down the road from the beach and the camp grounds.  The customers are the sweetest people ever and no one ever complains. You get to meet a lot of new people as they come from all over the country. There is seating inside of the restaurant and they have seating outside as well, which is pet friendly to customers. Inside the restaurant, they have a deli that people can come in and purchase instead of sitting down and eating. Also, they have there own merchandise that you can purchase. Their menu is always changing with the different seasons, so customers can come in and expect something new all the time. I wou...