Christmas Time Is Here...

The JOY of the season!!!

Our Memories of past christmas'

To make new ones.

I just love remembering the birth of our Savior, being

able to teach our children what a special gift that He has given

to all of us. We are all truly blessed. I hope that this year we can all

truly give freely of our time, our talents, and

mostly our love to those who need it.

Have a Very merry CHRISTmas, with Christ in it!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

We had a very nice Thanksgiving.

Danny's family came over and we ate lots of good

food and played a fun game.

We are so thankful for all that we have.

Hope everybody else enjoyed there day too.

Ideas to live by

I just love looking up new ideas online.

Here are just two of the many ideas that I have found

and I am going to try and sew them up. To make my life easier and

more organized.

All I need to do is to find the time to do it.

Go Blue Team!!!

Little League T-Ball

"Blue Team"

This is one of Daniel's many friends...

Andre and Daniel are in the same class together

at school, which is really nice.

Go Blue Team!!!

Daniel just hit the ball and now he is running

to 1st base, Good job Daniel!!

Here he is hitting the ball, he is an all-star if

you ask me. He can hit that ball pretty hard.

I am glad that we are playing sports together with

our children. they grow up too fast.

Our Sewing Day

Mom, Joi, me and Vivian are getting together to sew some things

for Joi and little Scotlin. I am also going to sew some other things too.

Like Halloween costumes and decorations and so much.

I am super excited to get together and to sew.

I'll post pictures of what we have sewn together.

Should be fun!!

This year for Halloween the boys will be

Cowboys and Natalie will be an Indian.

We are excited to carve pumpkins this year, and

to make pumpkin pie, yum. It is already getting

cold and so the feeling of home made food sounds great.

Especially if its warm.

A Classic

This morning we went to take pictures of Danny's car. He is

trying to sell it, but it is hard to sell your very first car. This car is pretty cool, too.

We like to take drives in it and I like the windows because they are panoramic.

The car itself is a pretty smooth car...

It's a Classic

Daniel's T-Ball Practice

This was Daniel's first day of playing t-ball.

He was really excited and loved playing. A lot of the kids didn't know what they were doing, but they soon got the hang of it. Daniel knows one little boy, from his school in his same class. Which is kind of nice. There are two girls on Daniel's team and the rest are boys.

Our oldest son is growing up. Wow! this is pretty exciting.

Daniel is now telling everyone that he plays 3-4 sports, or that he wants to... He is so funny.

I will be adding a video later on. And pictures too.

Look at that Face...

What a Cutie-pie. Matthew is getting bigger each new day.

He isn't really talking much, just yelling and mumbling mama.He sure does understand me when I talk to Him though. Matthew is such a great baby. I love Him!! He gives the best hugs, not kisses though. I am not sure He knows what they are. Here in this picture He is hanging out in the basketball hoop, wanting to play some b-ball. My little baby is growing all too fast.

All my kids are.... ohhhh!!

Well, what can you do?? =)

''Life is like a box of chocolates''....... They run out all too fast and then

you have to go and get some more.

The baby pic is my absolute Favorite picture of Him!! The one at the top is Danny's, We just Love him!!!

Good Friends!!

Some of our Good Friends....

We went out to Dana Point yesterday to visit

George and Barbie Miranda.

We hung out and swam at there pool, we dodged

spiders and had lots of fun being with them.

We are so , so , so Glad that they are hear again in

sunny california. We have known them for about 6 years

now and hope to stay in contact with them for along time.

They are such wonderful parents and absolutely awesome

people, Thank you so much for being our friends!!!

Love you guys!!

Our Homemade table

Apparently Im not the only creative one in the family

When our neighbors moved they gave us this table and chairs they said they were just going to throw it away cause the glass had broken from the wind.

Now we have a nice super heavy duty travertine table hopefully that will last a long time.

Projects I made

This was super easy to make. All you do is get some

fabric that you like and some thin batting. It's kind of like putting

a blanket together.

I plan to use this for my daughter Natalie for when She

is restless at church, if you know what I mean.

I plan to make one for Daniel, but I haven't found the right fabric yet.

Then, you just sew it all together and Vola' .

You now have yourself a wonderful activity for your children

to do. If you want more info on how it made just let me know.

This is so fun and more easy then the Activity book.

All you have to do is get a piece of wood. Now I don't know

how big it is suppose to be, I just grabbed what was laying around

in my garage. I didn't even sand it. In fact the piece

of wood that I used was really yucky, I would have

liked to buy a new one.

You can decide if you want to paint it.

I didn't, to save even more time. Either way it will look Great!!

So.. Then you get fun, cute, fancy, any kind of scrapbook

paper. And you simply just cut circles out of the paper. One

big circle, one small. Glue the paper together with a glue stick.

Add letter stickers if you fancy it.

Then you get your awesome hot glue gun and some rad

clothes pins and hot glue it all together. After that you

now can admire your good work. And it does not half to be

perfect..... Trust me if it's for your kids, they'll just love it.

All in all... THis project took me 30 minutes. And it was fun and

now it is totally cool. My kids love them and now

Daniel has a place to put his cute things He brings home

from school.

My mom gave me the idea to do this project. Thank you mom!!

By the way... Daniel is liking school and some times having a

hard day. But you can't expect perfect children in one day.

Let me know if you what you think.

Friendship never dies!

My best friend Apryl Harris came over yesterday to visit me. Me and Her go way back, like we met in 6th grade and were friends ever since that.

As some of you know... Apryl and I grew up in good ol' St. george Utah, Then my family moved to California in 2000. And I left all my friends and My senior year of High school, Which was a bummer but what can you do. So I was living in Cali. When Apryl was still in utah, Then I think Apryl moved to Cali. in 2002. I was so excited that She was closer to me.

Today we are still close friends, But I admit it... We need to hang out more, But as a mother of three (under the age of 5) makes it a little more harder to find the time to Hang out with Friends and Family. But I am going to try my best. She is so cool, she is my Hairstylist. She cuts and colors my hair, and She is really good at it. So if you ever need your hair done then you should see Her!! Well... It was so great to see Her!

To Make or Not To Make......

I was really craving some Yummy Chocolate mouth watering Cookies...So I decided to make some.
Since I know how and I like to make them. I got all of the ingredients out and I start making the cookie dough. But to my SURPRISE after I had already started to put the flour in( which is like the LAST ingredient) I noticed little black things in the flour. YUP!!!! You guessed it...BUGS. EEECK!!!
I was so upset, and sad. But I really wanted cookies. I had no other flour besides, Wheat. And I have never made cookies with wheat flour, and I thought?? ?was it possible? would they ok?
I was a little nervous, but I started to make another batch, and I finished the batch, tried the cookie dough and well, it tasted ok. not great but still. I put the first two batches in the oven, set the timer and went to change the laundry. I got so busy that I had forgotten about the cookies. supposed
So then I thought....Am I not to make these or have them???
Finally they turned out and they taste good Plus there Bug Free. Better cooked then as dough. Well that was my little experience today.
And all in the sake of a silly craving.

Daniel's First Day of School!!!

He was so cute, and not even worried about it. There were so many kids lined up to go. My little Daniel is growing up too fast. I was a little-bit worried, but I didn't cry. I am just super excited for Him and I know he will like it. This is a Wild journey having kids and watching them grow up and teaching them. When we picked Him up from school, Danny, Natalie, Matthew, and I were waiting out side of the fence for Him until his teacher knows that we are here for him. But when He saw us He was a little emotional and his eyes were watering from excitement to see us. We handed him some balloons and a giant card, saying we love you and congrats, etc. Then we went for a frozen yogurt at yogurt-biz, and talked about his day. He just loved it.
Thankfully!! This is all too weird for me. I almost can't believe that Daniel is in school....

Family reunion

We had such a wonderful time spending time with our family at the reunion. We had many adventures and had lots of Fun.

Swimming with Friends

We went back out to Banning to visit some of our very good friends, and we went swimming. Which was really fun for the kids. They just love being together again. we sure do miss them. We use to hang out with them all the time and now that we live an hour away, we don't see each other as much. We sure did have a good time though.