Happy Birthday Zeb!

We love the Birthday boy! He requested pie instead of cake. I made him Blackberry pie and Apple pie. I think he was pretty happy. The kids planned out the whole day for him. They wrote the whole schedule down and made sure we followed every minute of it. It was very cute!!!

Mateo

The other day Mateo and Claudia grabbed some Halloween paints we had in the closet and Claudia expressed her artistic talent on Mateo. She painted him like an "Indian" It took days to get rid of all the paint.

Titus

Our little baby Titus is not so little anymore but I refuse to debunk him from his Baby Throne prematurely. After baby is born we will have no choice, but for now Titus IS the baby. he was worring me because he does not always like to eat a lot of vegetables of fruits so I found a solution. Green shakes!!!!! He loves them!!! I feel so good when he pigs out on them. And he does!!!

Church Activity

I signed up to make a cake for a Relief Society Luncheon. It had to be up in a pedestal and kind of fancy because they were to be used for table decoration for each table. The colors we were encouraged to use were white and pink. I would have used other colors but I decided to stick with their colors. The cake is carrot with cream cheese icing. I covered it with fondant which I think tastes nasty but looks nice. Hopefully the cake turned out good enough that people won't mind the fondant.

Sailor Girls

Our neighbors always give us "hand me downs". We love it! This last time they gave us this sailor dress for Laura. Claudia had one already so they now can match. Are they cute or what? Here they are with their proud dad on Sunday morning.

Sorry I have not blogged lately

I have had NO TIME to blog. Between trying to keep the house in a livable condition, feeding kids, getting sickness after sickness, piano lessons, piano practice and taking a nap every day when it's the boys nap time ( I have reached that stage in pregnancy where I can sleep for hours and still can't get enough), I have not been able to download new pics into our computer. I will get to it. I promise. Here is a pic to keep you happy for now. The boys love to hide in the bathtub. They are crazy little critters.

Happy New Year!

We went to Provo last week and stayed at my moms house for New Years. It was fun. We decided to celebrate "Puertorrican New Years". This meant that we would celebrate it according to Puertorrican time. P. R. is three hours ahead of us so when it was New Year in P.R. it was 9:00pm in Utah. Oh the perks of interracial and inter-cultural marriage! (smile) We still ended up going to bed pretty late but not as late as we would have otherwise.

Our house turned into a home!

How to turn a house into a home? Well I think it takes many things but a piano has made a big difference in our home. We are so excited! Laura has been taking piano lessons and has been doing really well. We don't need to remind her to practice. We had a keyboard and she would get on it every day and practice her songs. Her teacher says she is doing extremely well. We are very excited for her.

BYU-I was auctioning a bunch of pianos from around campus. Some were pretty beat up but two of them were in very good condition. This was one of them. We placed our bid not thinking we would get it since we only bid one dollar higher than the minimum but in the end we got it! The BYU-I pianos are tuned every semester and so far this one seems to have been somewhat pampered. We feel very lucky.

When we told Laura that this piano was for her and the family to practice on she almost cried with joy. It was a special moment. Our living room has come to life. It not only looks beautiful but there is music constantly playing. I LOVE IT! Next semester I am taking a beginners piano class at BYU-I. Cool huh?

BABY#5

For those of you who did not know I was pregnant well... I am =) We had our ultrasound this Thursday. Everything is fine with baby so far and as you can see in the picture. IT'S A BOY! We are very excited and the battle for names has already begun. It is much harder for us to name boys than girls. I don't know why. We had the girls names picked out early in the pregnancy. They felt right and there were no problems. But the boys! My goodness! We can't seem to decide until the very last minute. Is this normal?

Laura's Baptism!

The highlight of the year! What a beautiful experience. I will never forget how I felt as soon as we walked into the church that day. It was so peaceful. When Laura and I went to the locker room area of the bathroom to get her changed into her baptism clothes I felt like we were in the Temple. We automatically started whispering and there was a feeling of reverent happiness which resembled the way I felt on my Wedding Day. All these years of having learned about how baptism is a covenant with the Lord became very real at Laura's baptism. I attended Primary, served a mission, taught primary etc.... This principle has been taught to me and I have taught it many times in my life, but I guess it took a child of my own getting baptized to be able to really gain a testimony of how real and important the covenant of baptism is. It was a faith promoting experience which has made me try to be a lot more reverent during Sacrament since it is a renewal of that special covenant. Laura we are proud of you and love you so very much! ( The little girl on the picture with Laura is her friend Breckley from school. They are in the same class and happened to get baptized the same day. The beautiful hairdo was Emily's creation. Thank you Emily).