One Lovely Blog Award!

Thank you to Renee from Keeping Speech Simple for nominating me for this One Lovely Blog Award!!  Check out her blog that is loaded with ideas for therapy!!!! You can find her blog here!

The rules for accepting the award are:

1. Thank and link back to the person who nominated you. 
2. Share 7 things about yourself. (See below for some fun facts about me!)
3. Nominate other bloggers and comment on their blogs (usually on their about page or contact directly if necessary) to let them know.

7 facts about me:

1. I am still an SLPA, or a speech language pathologist assistant. I just completed my 3rd year working in the schools.  I plan on returning to grad school, just waiting for a program to accept me!  This was my first year applying. I know this is a process in itself and I have patience and faith that one day I will become an SLP!

2. My husband and I are expecting our first baby! We are beyond thrilled and excited to be blessed with a bundle of joy! Baby Mendoza should be arriving November 2015.

3. I love to cook.I like trying out new recipes and learning about different foods from different cultures and trying to cook those dishes! My husband is a picky eater so it is hard to make masterpieces in the kitchen! lol

4. I love to eat! Food is my friend! lol I do try to maintain a clean eating diet but chocolate and I have this never ending love affair! I have a big sweet tooth but try to maintain it to only once or twice a week. I love shrimp, chicken, corn, fruits etc! I love to try new foods as well. I am trying to expand my palette and discover new favorites to add to my ever growing list of foods I like!

5. I’m a bookworm. I love to read! While I was in school, I was just like Hermione Granger in Harry Potter! Speaking of which, that is my favorite book series! I can read those books over and over again! I am currently obsessed with the Aurora Teagarden mysteries and the Waterfire Saga series. 

6. I love my pets! We have a cat named Scabbers and a Puppy named Belle! They love each other as well and even though they like to wrestle and it seems like they hate each other, when they settle down they always look for each other and cry when the other is away.

7. I love to learn from other SLP's. I love looking at all the different blogs that are out there and just learn as much as I can about the field from other Slp's. Its amazing how blogging lets people share their experiences and materials to help each other become better therapists! 

Here are my nominees: 

1. SLP Chelsea   - Chelsea has a super cute blog with tons of therapy materials and cute activities!

2. School Slp – Kim has a fun and colorful blog where she shares her therapy materials and Ideas! Love it!

3.Speech Therapy Fun  - Jennifer has an adorable and colorful blog where she also shares materials, ideas! Cute!! 

4. Speechasaurus – Amy has a wonderful blog where she shares links, reviews and therapy products for all!! Amazing!

I know I am short a couple blogs but several have already been nominated :) These are some of the fabulous bloggers I had a chance to collaborate with during our spring blog hop!

Now it’s your turn to go and make someone’s day, like Renee made mine! Go and nominate a fantastic blogger!​

First Day of Spring!

Happy First Day of Spring Everyone!! Welcome to my page! I just love the spring! Flowers are blooming and there always seems to be a sense of happiness in the air! I know that Spring always makes me feel happy! I am so excited to be participating in my very first blog hop! I am a 3rd year Bilingual SLPA. I have been loving my experience so far. I am excited to go back to graduate school when the time comes! I can't wait to see which school I will get into! I am happily married to my loving and supporting husband David! We've been together since High School days! We just got married last year and it's been an Amazing year as husband and wife!

We have 2 pet babies! A wonderful Dudley Labrador named Belle (Like the princess)! She is so full of energy and loves to play with us all the time! She is 7 months old and still has a lot to grow!  And our first pet baby was our little kitten named Scabbers (like the rat in Harry Potter! lol ) He loves to take naps all day and play with his baby sister! He is my big boy and will be one year old very soon!  Time goes by so fast!  

In celebration of the first day of Spring I am offering up a brand new product! It's a synonym and antonym matching freebie.

This freebie includes 12 pairs of synonyms and antonym cards in both black and white and in color! They are also Bilingual! The Spanish translation for each word is shown at the top and the English word on the bottom! You can download this FREEBIE by clicking here!

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog! There are many more products yet to come! I am so excited to share them with all of you soon! Check out all the amazing goodies you will be able to get during this blog hop!

Click on the link to "Hop on Over" to the next amazing blog!!

The Liebster Award!

I have been nominated for the Liebster Award by Kim Jarvis, of School SLP! The Liebster Award is an award given by current bloggers, to new bloggers with less than 200 email followers. The goal is to help them get their blog started and welcome them to the blogosphere. Anyone who is nominated is then asked to nominate others. To accept the award, the blogger must answer 11 questions posed by the blogger who nominated them. 


1. Why and how long ago did you start blogging?
I started my blogging journey in January of 2014. My first posts were about my first year as an SLPA. I started blogging because it was in a way like a journal. This was a good place to keep track and remember all the things that we have done in speech. It also opened my creativity to make products for my bilingual students. I was so inspired by so many speech bloggers with all their cute products and posts. I wanted my students to have cute activities/games/etc as well.

2. What one word sums up the heart of the blog and why?
Passion: I absolutely love what I do. I wake up every morning and I am so grateful and blessed to be in the position that I am in. I am excited to continue my education and by the grace of God will hopefully become a certified Bilingual Speech Language Pathologist someday. I hope this blog is a reflection of my love for speech therapy and the desire to help. 

3. Is there something that you learned late in your blog journey that you wished you had known before?

Yes! I learned that its better to plan your posts ahead of time and that you can schedule them to post on their own! I learned that very late in my blogger journey! Thanks to reading other blogs and ideas, I learned how to keep my blog up to date as much as possible.

4. What is your favorite pastime other than blogging?
Reading and Dancing. I love to bury myself in a good book. I love hoe your imagination can take you almost anywhere. My favorite book series to this day have been the Harry Potter Series! I love those books. When I was younger and reading them daily, I wanted to go to Hogwarts.  I also love to dance. Salsa, Zumba, pop, hip hop, tejano, cumbias, bachata.. the list goes on. I absolutely love to dance. Plus its also a great workout! lol 


5. How many hours per week do you dedicate to your blog? 
Not as much as I would like. I recently started updating my blog at least 2 times a month. I am working really hard to get better at at least posting once or twice a week :)

6. What category of blog posts do you enjoy the most?  
Of course I love any post that has to deal with bilingual students and or speech therapy in Spanish. I really love blog posts that target social skills/ACC devices for non verbal students. I am a proud sister to two brothers with Autism and I love seeing all these different activities that I can share with them and also my students. 

7. Where does your blog inspiration come from?
My inspiration for my blog came from my students. I loved seeing all these activities and supplements that targeted different aspects of speech therapy...in English. I would use some of these activities and simply translate them in Spanish. Sometimes they would not carry over as easily. That inspired me to start a blog and a TPT store. I love my students and I wanted to have materials that had a theme, certain character, book companions etc that they could read/interact/relate to :) 


8. What post have you written that you are most proud of?
I guess the post I am most proud of is my Batman Post. This was the product that started it all. It started my blog, my whole creativity process. It was so hard for my to post it because I felt it still wasn't perfect, it could be better. Its specific to 2 sounds (k/g). I am planning on doing a series of superheros targeting different sounds.

9. Is there any post that you have been planning to do but keep postponing? 
EVERYTHING LOL. Yes there are tons of products that I have been creating but get held up because of other issues (personal, work and family,) that have made these last couple of months a little crazy. But I have lots of ideas and things in the works. I appreciate everyone who follows me and requests things that they would like to see because it really does help me to understand and see what exactly is needed. 

10. What is your favorite aspect of blogging?
I love interacting with all the speech therapy bloggers. I have learned so much from them! Not just how to be a better therapist, but how to make therapy fun and interesting and creative! 

11. What recipe, project, or idea on my blog would you most like to try yourself?
I would love to try the book companion for Dragon Loves Tacos. I love this story and I think my students will enjoy it as well!!. 

A huge thank you to Kim for nominating me! Here is my nomination for the Liebster Award...
Chelsea at SLP Chelsea! 

New Year 2015

Happy New Year Everyone! I know this is very late! I have been head over heels bombarded with plenty of things this year! Just think, it's only the beginning! I have made several resolutions for this year, not just personally but also for speech therapy and my blog!

Here Goes! 

1. Be Healthy

This is my biggest and hardest obstacle! I love food All types of food!!  I love to cook as well! This is something not a lot of people know about me! Yes I have put on a couple of "married" lbs but I have managed to stay active lol. But this also includes me not sneaking chocolate (my true weakness) or those goldfish crackers/fruit snacks when I work with my kiddos. Also just staying active. My puppy helps me in this department. She is full of energy and loves when we go on walks/runs!  Pretty soon she will be my trainer pulling me around instead of me guiding her :) 

2. Plan Ahead

I have been lacking in this department in regards to my blog and TPT products. I have started so many projects and have so many ideas that I cant keep up! LoL But I have a planner that is specifically just for blogging so I am hoping that this year will be better!

3. Spend more time enjoying those around me

 Spending more time with my husband, family, friends,

Well these are my resolutions! I think 3 is a good number to start with and hopefully I can keep them up all year round!