Family Update

I was finally permanently transferred from the Business Office to the Curriculum Department on 1/3/2011 at Maricopa Unified School District and I'm so thrilled. My two new boss ladies are awesome! I get to do a whole bunch of fun new things and am always so extremely busy. I'm so happy to not work for my previous boss anymore!! I'm still learning but it is soooo much better.

Will is busy with real estate the short sales and foreclosures take forever so he is also helping Toma a couple days a week with his plumbing company and installing shower enclosures and mirrors etc. He still does BPO's but they are much less than before.

McKenna has straight A's and never seems to have homework I would think that in 7th grade she would have more because it is very rare for her to have any. She is piratically as tall as me these days and can now wear all of my clothes and shoes. She is a beautiful girl! She is considering trying out for the cheer leading squad and still goes to 4-H doing sewing and ceramics. It helps that I'm the teacher of ceramics class :o). She adores Sophia and is a lot of help. She looooooves young womens and the leaders love her.

Calvin has all A's and one B. His teacher absolutely loves him. His best friend Jacob for the past 2 years is getting ready to move next week and he is pretty upset about it. He is getting tall and is very thin. He is a great boy with the best personality always looking at the positive side of things and he still is his Daddy's shadow. He goes to 4-H also but isn't quite old enough so he comes to my ceramics class. He goes to Boy Scouts every week and is getting ready to do the pinewood derby. He is Sophia's favorite person for making her laugh no matter what he does. He is a neat little boy and likes his room clean which I appreciate. He constantly is telling Sophia how beautiful she is and how much he loves her.

As for Sophia in a couple of weeks she will be one already! Time flies by so fast! She is always happy and one of the best babies I've ever been around much less had of my own. :o) She's slept through the night since she was 2 months old. She has two teeth on the bottom. She took her first steps yesterday....let go of the coffee table and took two steps then eased her way down to the floor to crawl. She did that twice yesterday. She can say the following: baba, no no, go go, momma, dad, dada, getup, num num, nn ahh, mmm and a lot of babbling. She cracks us up because anytime she see's someone with a drink she goes n ahhhh. She loves music and books. She is trying to sing now along with her dancing. She still loves her binky but only wants it for naps or going to sleep (Calvin & Kenna didn't like them). She started kissing on the mouth usually she dips her head down for you to kiss her on the top of her head when you say give me kisses. She will kiss the mirror, pictures, stuffed animals and now me every now and then. She has a temper and if she doesn't get what she wants she will slap and yell. McKenna was playing with her while walking down the stairs and bonked Sophie's head on accident and she got so mad that she slapped her, pinched her and then bit her shoulder. We have no idea where that came from and was about 2 months ago! Little turkey. She finally stopped spitting up all of the time about 1.5 months ago and that's wonderful because it was all of the time. She does not like oranges or orange juice. She prefers formula or pop. She loves sweets especially chocolate anything. She still likes to eat bland baby oatmeal and hasn't ventured to try a whole lot more as her tummy has a difficult time with dairy still and she is funny with textures. Sophia weights just under 19 pounds and a little over 30 inches long and her cheeks are the only chubby thing on her. She brings all of us joy and happiness every day! We all feel so very blessed to have her in our lives.

So life is all wright all wright. :o)

Gogo Boots

Sophia looking like a cutie pie last night! Calvin adored her "Gogo boots" along with everyone else that saw her. We all love this little doll!!

Our Star...

Our little super star McKenna isn't so little these days...sadly she's 5ft 6inches already at 12 years old. This was a red carpet even for the Young Women's Night in Excellence so they were instructed to dress and look red carpet ready with ladies doing hair and makeup for them like they were celebrities. McKenna was setting up her table and was disappointed she couldn't find her volleyball at home to bring and display. Her setting up
The finished product...included a basketball, basketball pictures, her scriptures, her green with white stripe karate belt, her 4-h hankie, her barbie ballerina book, her 3rd place white ribbon for Pinal county fair that she won for the displayed pink apron she sewed. We were surprised she didn't bring Bunny the stuffed animal bunny rabbit that she has had for 13 years and still sleeps with nightly. :o) She had just walked down the red carpet and was greeted by paparazzi, Shannon Williams a wonderful photographer in our ward. The girls had to work it and get two pictures there. :o) Kenna was a great sport and struck a pose, as most girls almost frowned or slumped like they were miserably embarrassed. (I don't blame them I would have been embarrassed also) :o)

After the red carpet and award were handed out the leaders had them stand behind their tables so all of them and us could walk around and ask them questions etc.



Here's some of the leaders all dressed up looking beautiful as well!

The young ladies all looking at each other's tables. Notice how tall McKenna is and she is only 12 some of these gals are 17 yrs old.

McKenna is such a beautiful girl inside and out! She constantly amazes us and we are so very blessed to have her as our daughter, she truly is our super star!

Change is coming....

Change is coming to this sad un-updated blog! Soon very soon :o) I hope in the next few days. I miss you blog and how else shall I journal??? Life has been so busy and stressful that it has taken me away for far too long....and who am I kidding facebook hasn't helped!

3 Cute Kids and a Croc.....

3 cute Kids + a crocodile = good times

We met up with Mandy my cousin's wife and their kiddos at The Rainforest Cafe in AZ Mills Mall last week...kids loved all of the scenery, I loved chatting with Mandy she's like one of my best friends and then fun shopping at the mall afterwards. I didn't realize that I had my camera until we were leaving the mall and Mandy and her kids had long sing taken off so I tried to re-create the Rainforest fun with these few pics. I love these three precious cutie pies!!!!!!

Am I just cranky....

Or do people post the stupidest comments on facebook sometimes? Maybe I'm just cranky or maybe I am one of those stupids that posts stupid comments but give me a break sometimes there is a real lack of common sense as to what people care about reading. I guess that's why I don't get on fb very often. I get that it's a sounding board to your thoughts and feelings but come on really some things are better left unsaid or kept private! So rather than offend I'm venting on my personal blog. :o) I'd love to post "Pull your head out!" ha ha ha now I feel better...

A week with Grammy

Look at those blue eyes! Sophia 8-4-10 My mom Grammy came down to visit for 8 days and check out her new house which is down the street. While she was here she took some pictures which you see here.

Sophia is a happy little girl! She's 6 months old now and weights 16 lbs. She is so precious and practically always smiling.

McKenna loves her baby sister and obviously anything to do with peace signs and headbands. :o)

In this picture Sophia looks a lot like me when I was a baby. See her cute pierced ears they are little diamonds shaped like a daisy.

My Momma aka Grammy and pictured below is their new house that they will retire in next October. :o)

Sophia loves Calvin! She thinks he is getting her all of the time and tries running away in your arms it is so cute. Calvin can make her laugh like nobody else and he thinks she's the cutest thing ever.

This isn't in order....Calvin started 3rd grade on Monday, August 2nd and this is him all ready to go. Black is his favorite color so he had on his black shirt to with his favorite black converse shoes :o)

My two little girls and I chilling Sunday, August 1st after church.

My niece Adia picked out this cute little dress for Sophia, she did a good job I thought because it is darling and her headband matched it perfectly. Thank you Adia!

We had a great time with Grammy and the week past by too fast!