Roar!!!!

Zeb likes to go online and show the kids videos of wild animals like lions and tigers fighting for food, and doing all kinds of scary loud noises. They LOVE IT!!! I love this picture because Titus' face is so explicit. I think it's funny.

Haloween 2009

Here are the kids Halloween day. Laura was a dead bride, Claudia was Snow White, Mateo was Tigger and Titus, well he was nothing. Oh well, he is too little for that kind of stuff. Next year we will think of something. I would like to thank our neighbors for all the costumes. They were very nice and let us borrow them. What fun! My dead bride was very dutiful in practicing her piano especially after we threatened her with no trick or treating if she did not practice. What evil parents we are!!! Ha Ha Ha (witch's laugh)

Surprise!

I was going to bed the other night and as I passed by the girls room this is what I saw. I was so proud of them. I think this is a good habit girls, It will keep you strong and safe in these latter days.

Mateo "EL GUAPO"

I finally got Mateo a white shirt and tie for church. He is now officially a future missionary!! He loves it too.

Claudia the helper!!

Claudia decided the other day that she would do my dishes so she brought a chair to the sink and started washing away. It was sooo cute. Thanks Claudia! She did a great job too!

Yellowstone with Titi Madeline

It was wonderful to have Madeline and Mom over. We had lot's of fun, and of course ate up a storm. Those women know how to cook! Four hours away (from Provo to Rexburg) is too far away. I wish we lived closer.

Zeb took them to Yellowstone. He is such a great son in Law! Mateo went with them. I think Mateo thought it would be fun to go but on the way back Zeb says that he said "Dad, I don't think I want to come to Yellowstone ever again is that OK?" Poor little guy he was sooo bored.

Claudia on K-Bus

I found two more pics of Claudia on her first day of school. They really were the cutest so I had to add them. The school picks up and drops off every kindergartner at their home no matter how close the live to the school. I had to send a note letting them know that I do want her to walk home with her big sister. The only reason they let her walk is because of the advantageous location of our backyard.

Our other primos

These are my guapo boys. They are getting sooo big. I got this tie for Mateo but now I need to find a shirt that fits him better. He still looks handsome though. He is modeling his new attire while showing us his manly owie on his face. Macho Macho Man!

I made this quilt and pillowcase for Mateo. ROAR!!!

We met the Baileys in Washington D.C. Zeb and Heath were both training for the Foreign Service. We left the job but they stayed and just finished their first tour in Costa Rica. The will be off to Latvia in about a year, after language training. We call them our cousins because, well, they are! Zeb and Melinda found out soon after we met that they are both descendants of Esaias Edwards. So there you go primos!!!! Luke, Ana, Mollie and Daisy. We love and miss you. Thanks for dropping by.

Back to School

Well school started about two weeks ago so I figured I'd better post some pics of the school girls. Laura is now in second grade and it looks like she will be able to finish all of second grade in one same school!!!!! I won't say that too loud or I will jinx (sp?) her. Her teachers name is Mrs. Hawkins.

Claudia is the star of the day because it was her first day of Kindergarten! She rides the bus to school and then walks across the backyard with Laura when school is out. She goes to PM Kindergarten and her teacher is Mrs. Rhoer. She is supper excited and jumps off the walls if she ever has homework!

Mother of one year old tries to do Genealogy

My life is not so hard because I have four kids. My life is hard because I have a one year old!!! The other day a sat at the computer and got a lot of work done on New Family Search. I'm trying to get my genealogy organized . . . I though Titus was being way too good so when I turned around to look for him, viola! There he was having a GENEALOGICAL BLAST with the corn flour I use to make Arepas! I concluded that this is why usually it is old people that get into genealogy. Oh well, I guess I will keep trying, after all no one is calling me a young fresh flower (or flour) anymore!