Too Much To Do and So Little Time

Last couple of  months has been so busy  for me with school fund raising projects, theme baskets,school concert, school western dance, basketball, church calling, cub scouts, boy scouts, hula, making a earring holding and volunteering,  ...that I been swamped....But here are some photos of some of the  few things that kept us busy.

 The School Family Western Dance...we had a good time..I especially had a good time dancing away in the kitchen with two other moms and serving ice cream floats.

 This is one the art project that I was in charge of...thank goodness I know a talented friend, who built this for me. I white washed it in blue paint and had the kids  in Isaac's class write their name and a one word description of  themselves...then I burned their words in the wood.

 Here is Isaac's class with the garden bench...they were so excited to see their work burned into the wood.

 This art project I did for Nathan's class...I had the kids and teacher draw a picture of a favorite spot in Spokane ...then I found a program that let me created this collage after scanning each drawing into my computer.

 The finish project...pretty neat!

 I was surprise to see my Isaac rocking away on marimba.

 Basketball season was pretty sweet especially since it was indoors and it was just for one child...he had a great season.

 Mya decided it was time to do Hula and we been having a great time!

 The Scouting program has been a great thing in my boys life and grateful to be part of it.

 This the one project that I have been itching to do...a earring holder and I finally did!!!

I also stopped to enjoy the beautiful sunset that Heavenly Father has provide for us.

My Baby Girl

My baby turned 6 last month and I'm blown away that she's that old!!!! She's definitely keeps me on my toes and she reminds me of myself, which is a little scary! I'm eternally grateful for the opportunity of being her mami...She was very fortunate that on her birthday there was no school and she truly had a grand time.

 

It was so funny that she was so sure that she was getting a DS, which surprise us because we had already gotten one for her the month before and was saving it for her birthday and hoping that she would really enjoy it...which she DID! Opening the presents was so early this year because dad had to go in to work, as you can see him eating his breakfast.

She choose for breakfast, pancakes and fruit...for lunch she had pizza and for her dinner Tacos.

She wanted to go to Chuck  E. Cheese to play and we went and had a good time.

For her cake she want a Black Forest Cheese Cake and it was super YUMMY!!!

So here are the annual birthday photos I took of her and she was a good sport about it.

 And this is my favorite...I love her sweet smile.

My Baby Boy

So my baby boy turned 9 on January 10th and again I wonder where the HECK did the time go!!!

I'm truly grateful that Heavenly Father chosen me to be this precious boy's mom....So, this year it was a little different, we decided that we would have birthday parties every other year and honestly it didn't effect Nate in the least...Normally, we open presents in the morning but this year we opened after school before Blake left very early to work that morning. If you recall, in our family the birthday person decides what on the menu that day, they get to decided what's for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Nate decided he wanted for breakfast; sunnyside up eggs, toasts and sliced apple, lunch: was a cheeseburger happy meal(which he was the envy of his classmates), I also made a candy lei with all his favorite candies; Twix and Kit Kats and for dinner; Salmon, couscous and peas.

 Nate is such a funny kid and it definitely was shown when he was opening his presents and his siblings were excited for him too.

 Nate was so happy with his gifts especially with....

 DS...with took him 5 minutes to figure out he got because he saw the carrying case and thought that was the only gift he got and was so BUMMED, but then again, it doesn't help that his dad wrapped it up in a brown paper bag.

 So this I was so sick, that I cheated and brought his cheese cake instead of making it myself and it was late before we had his cake, that he was in his jammies.

 These are the annual birthday photos I took:

My favorite is this photo because it's shows his personality.

Rocking In The New Year!

Since we were staying home for New Year Eve, we decided it was time to host our first  New Year Eve's party....and the invites went out.

And we ROCKED in The New Year!!!!

 We had so much fun...as you can see I couldn't even sing because the band members were making me laugh so hard!!!

 And as for the kiddies...they were downstairs in the family room, watching a movie!

 These were the brave singers and we all had a BLAST!

 Here are some of the band members and some audience enjoying the music!

 But we definitely needed help...for some it was their first time!!!

 But this Chick ROCKED it OUT!!!!

Then it was their turn!!!!(Yes, I know there's an adult there but if anyone know Jed, he's a BIG kid.)

We had a ton of fun...adults making animal sounds were the BEST....(sorry Melissa, you just couldn't get the hang of it!) games, movies, food and good friends made the last day of 2010 the BEST!!!!

Christmas Season!

 This Christmas we stayed here in Washington and truly had a good time! For Christmas Eve, we had a mix of traditional Puerto Rican food and we watch the classic "A Christmas Story"...which by the way, was more worldly that I remember and it wasn't edited!  But here is some of the food we had for our dinner.

 I wanted a family photo of us at dinner, so I put the camera on the tri-pod and this was the best of all the photos I took....not the best photo of me but cute of the the kids.

One of our tradition for Christmas Eve, is that the kids get to open one gift and it's their Christmas pj and this year it was the warm and cozy pj pants.

 Before bed, we had to prepare a snack for Santa.

 Ahh, our pretty Christmas tree.

 So, we made a deal with the kids...they could get up at 7:30 but not before!!! The boys were up early and when 7:30 rounded around Mya was still sleeping....so the boys had to wait until their sister wake up and she did at 8:40...we were mean parents making them wait!

 Christmas morning and Santa came!

 Opening their presents

The kids with all their presents...they SCORED.

The last year, we had Christmas bunch with our friends and played games and this year was no exception. We had a great time spending our Christmas day with friends and are very fortunate to be so BLESSED!