The Ferrera Family

Dancing with Sara

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These are the videos taken of our Christmas in Austin. I love the look on his face when he sees the trike we got him. I took him to the park on it the other day and we were able to walk around a couple of blocks first. He thought he was hot stuff.

APD Graduation

2010-11-15T10:56:00.000-08:00

Jason graduated from the APD academy. I am very proud of him. He did a great job! The last picture is a picture of a rare moment of Jacob falling asleep outside of his bed. The second to last picture is of Jason and Jacob playing with play-dough. I took it the day before his graduation and thought it was cute enough to share.

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Shamu

2010-09-13T05:56:00.000-07:00

We loved Sea World. Killer Whales are so amazing in person! So big and beautiful. When I was downloading this video Jacob watched it three times. He loves it. (poor Bruce didn't like the loud noises).

Silly boy

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Water in the Face

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Water

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Walking

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He has taken many three steppers for the past month but the past three days he had become more brave and is taking more and more steps.

Easter

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Family visit March 2010

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I had a great time with my family. Thanks for coming to visit!

Feburary 2010

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A little late on this post but here it is. This birthday month included; Gabe, Jessica, Allison, Monique, Jon, Sara, and myself. The beautiful flowers were from my hubby. I also got a card from Jacob :) A huge thanks to Laura for cooking dinner and making this delicious dessert! Also a thanks to everyone for all the nice gifts!! We also got 8 inches of snow, crazy. Jacob also had a lot of first one was taking the pans out of the cabinet and then climbing all the way into it. More pictures on our shutterfly!

Walker toy II

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The TV stand is covered due to him loving to put his hand in the VCR and push buttons on the cable box. I have asked for a new TV stand with glass doors but our electricity bill was crazy high this month and I will have to wait : ( but this is working well so far!

Cars

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Police Officer JD jr

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Jacob already pretending to be like daddy.

Soccer and Laughs

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For Laughs

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Almost crawling

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49ers game

2009-11-03T08:10:00.000-08:00

Going to the 49ers game needed its own post!

California Vacation

2009-11-03T07:40:00.000-08:00

Here are five of the 200 or so pictures from our 3 week vacation in California. For more pictures go to our shutterfly account at ferrerafamily7.shutterfly.com. We started out in Sacramento to Redding to Eureka (Trinidad) to San Francisco to San Clemente to LA.

Seward

2009-09-18T14:30:00.000-07:00

Got to visit one of my best childhood friends and his family this weekend, Ben. He and his family are moving to Virginia

on an assignment from the Navy, so it will probably be awhile 'til I see him again. We had a great time hanging out. Who would have thought fifteen years ago when we were sitting

on that couch playing games we would one day be sitting on that couch introducing the newest members of our family.

Hanging out

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I gave Jacob a bath and then took him outside with just a diaper on and put him in his horsey while daddy cleaned the garage, yea!!!!!

Oops

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He seemed to be doing good but oops. Just so everyone knows he was laughing after I pulled him up. If you need proof just watch the video again and listen at the end. I wanted to share this because I watched this over and over and laughed and laughed. I hope you can enjoy it.

Rice Cereal

2009-09-18T13:52:00.001-07:00

This was Jacob's first time trying rice cereal. He has become much better at actually swallowing it and now he gets really excited to eat it.

A Visit from Auntie Laura

2009-09-08T19:39:00.000-07:00

Laura, Jason's twin, came from California for a visit. Laura is great with babies and Jacob loved all the attention she gave him! We miss you Laura but we are excited to see you in a few weeks in California!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4 Months

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Jacob is four months old! He is laughing and interacting more each day. Last night at 2:30am he started crying and when I went to check on him I found him turned over. He was not happy about it but was easy to get back to sleep. At 7:00am I heard him playing in his crib and went to check on him and again he rolled over! But this time, it was okay because he was ready to be awake.

Jacob and Daddy

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Just had to share this priceless picture. Jason is playing the X box and Jacob is studying the controller, already plotting how he will one day beat his dad.

Vistors

2009-08-18T12:17:00.001-07:00

We had the Kneib family come to visit us this weekend. We all had a great time! Bruce, again, showed us what a great kid he is and Allison and Greg got us out of the house (which I greatly needed)!

Poor Baby

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Jacob's first ear infection; hopefully, his last. He had a really bad runny nose and constantly had one hand in his mouth and the other hand on his ear. He would fuss when I would put him down to sleep but one time, when I went to check on him, I found him praying for relief : )

3 Months Old

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I can't believe he is already three months old!

Farm Time

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Playing

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I miss you Nana

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Here I am Nana telling you how much I miss you : (

Papa and Nana

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This is the last blog from our trip to Iowa. For more pictures go to ferrerafamily7.shutterfly.com Thanks mom and dad for a great time! Jacob is greatly blessed to have you as grandparents!!!

The Willis Family

2009-07-22T14:55:00.000-07:00

Thanks Allison for everything. You are a great sister, mom and wife. I aspire to be more like you in many ways. Give Makenna my love everyday.

Best Friends

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Jacob met his mom's best friend and had no problem loving her like his mom does. "I [Jacob] fell asleep on her three times in two visits. This is quite a feat for me because I don't like to go to sleep, but she was just so nice, and I was so comfortable around her. No wonder she is my mom's best friend! Gabe is pretty cool too! He gave me a bunch of diapers and was very easy to hang out with."

Baby Showers

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Thank you all for the great showers and the great gifts!

Meeting Great Grandma Pauline

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I loved my Great Grandma Pauline!

Going to Iowa

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My first plane ride. Bye daddy! I love you!!

Jacob's Dedication

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This was a very special day for Jason, Jacob and me. I want to send out a special thanks to Mom and Annie for attending. It meant the world to us to have family there! For all those who were unable to attend here are some pictures to enjoy and we are grateful for all the prayers raised to heaven asking for God to bless Jacob and to help Jason and I raise a child with the knowledge of Christ's love.

Just for Laughs

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Auntie Allison, Makenna and Nana's Visit

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Jacob has been having a blast with his Nana during her visit to Texas. Allison brought encouragement to my mommy insecurities and has made me feel like it is all going to be just fine. Makenna brought comic relief with her smile and playfulness. She appeared to love her cousin to death by getting so excited which ended up in pulling his hair and trying to gouge his eyes out.

Watch Me Nana

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Bumbo

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Pyloric Stenosis

2009-06-10T12:12:00.000-07:00

Well, there comes a time in every parents life where an emergency trip to the hospital will take place, for Erin and I that time came a short five weeks into parenthood. Always one to keep people on their toes, Jacob began vomiting early on last week and after it progressively got worse we decided to call his pediatrician on friday morning. No appointments were available for that day so they booked us for monday and told us to keep a close eye on him. We could have tried later on in the afternoon but we were supposed to go to my sister's wedding rehearsal. We called the pediatrician that saw him when Jacob was born and she got us in right away. She knew exactly what was happening when we explained his symptoms. Within half an hour we had a room reserved at a hospital and we were on our way for a sonogram to confirm the pediatrician's diagnosis.

The diagnosis was Pyloric Stenosis, which happens when the muscle that allows food to pass into the small intestine from the stomach grows too big and closes. The food is not able to pass and the only thing Jacob could do was vomit everything he ate. I KEPT TELLING HIM NOT TO DO SO MANY SIT UPS!

Seriously though, for any parents or soon to be parents this could be a lethal condition that effects mostly first born male babies from 4-6 weeks of age. It is easily corrected by a short procedure and before the procedure was invented by a doctor in 1930 babies that had this eventually passed away.

We were very lucky to have so many people praying for Jacob and for a great team of doctors that helped make him well again. Everybody says chicks dig scars, so Jacob is already even more of a chick magnet then he was before! YEA!

Pictures!

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Go to the website below to keep updated with pictures of Jacob.

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JACOB'S HERE!!!! WAS UP!

2009-05-03T07:27:00.000-07:00

Well after a close call on friday night we were released from the hospital and the nurses said it could still be as long as 2-4 weeks away still. Erin and I were real excited when we got there but disappointed to leave. On the ride home Erin said, "I want to have him this weekend." Well, she got her wish!

Erin called me saturday morning while I was at work and said.... "Umm... you know all those big time contractions people keep telling me about, well I just had one!" I got home at 12:30p.m. and the doctor said not to come to the hospital until the contractions were 2-4 minutes apart and consistently coming that way for an hour.

We cleaned the house, gathered our bags and watched the movie The Assassination of Jesse James. We left the house at 4:30p.m. and Erin was in her bed at the labor and delivery center by 5:15 p.m. Erin was already 6cm's dilated. At 7:41p.m. Jacob David Ferrera was born.... Yea!

New Piece in Baby room etc.,

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This is Bruce, my college roommates son. He came to visit this weekend. He was very well behaved and Erin and I had a greatime getting to spend time with our old buddies from ACU.

We also installed the my favorite piece in Jacob's room. We bought this map three years ago and have been waiting for the right time to put it on the wall and now that Jacob's on the way we've finally done it. I could have used a little help from Jared and or Dave 'cuz my initial attempt at hanging it went down in a ball of flames, leaving a nice hole in the wall but I think the frame does a nice job of covering it up.

Jene and Luke have also started their training for watching Jacob. We are gonna have to put in a lot of time and effort for the training but we figure to save a fortune on childcare. Laterz. JUST KIDDING for any of you gasping, with your hand on the speed dial button to a social worker right now.

Baby Shower for Erin

2009-03-30T16:07:00.001-07:00

Erin, had a great baby shower this weekend. Some of our friends from ACU even came all the way from San Antonio. Apparently that's where "the real stuff comes from." For those of you not from Texas, that's what what the old Pace picante sauce commercials used to say.

Erin and I received more nice gifts then we ever could have imagined and would like to thank all of you who took part and gave gifts for Erin's special baby day.

2009-03-19T16:37:00.000-07:00

Wud up homies! Ummm.. this is the first time i've "blogged" I am sure anyone that has been interested in our blog has long since given up on possibly seeing new updates. But low and behold here we GO!!!!!!!!! This is our new furniture for the baby room, my favorite is the picture on the wall. Everyone make sure and tell Erin how TOTALLY AWESOME it is because she didn't want it at first. Hey, maybe more to come later. Later.

Jacob Update

2009-02-01T10:44:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of Jacob's room so far. I just received the bedding and was excited to show everyone. Also here some pictures of me at 26 weeks.

White Christmas

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Christmas in Iowa at the Sigmunds

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The silly picture of Erin eating is a reminder to all Iowans to be thankful for Tasty Tacos. They really are the best and it is one of the 'must dos' when we are there.

Christmas

2009-01-06T06:03:00.001-08:00

Here are some pictures from Jason and Erin's exchange of gifts for Christmas. Jason received his Wii!!! Erin received stainless steel pots and pans, a maternity pillow and the awesome furniture we are sitting on. Many thanks to Jason for all the great gifts.

(Luke did a great job guarding the presents 24/7, he thought they were all going to be his.)

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This is my niece Sara who is very excited that she is going to have a baby cousin. She kisses my tummy and talks to the baby constantly when I am with her. She is amazed by the idea and asks many questions about the baby. When I asked her if she wanted a boy or girl cousin, she stated very confidently that she has been praying for a girl cousin. I have been shopping with her and she finds all sorts of baby things that she wants Auntie Erin's baby to have. When we eat something she says is that for the baby or the baby must be hungry. Here are a couple of pictures of her pretending to be like Auntie Erin. She is helping me to understand how awesome it is to be apart of one of God's greatest miracles-pregnancy.

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Here I am four months pregnant.

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