New dance, samba!

Okay, I've changed the dance again. I love this style of dance, it's intimate and fun. Mario and I have always wanted to take lessons. I hope nobody is offened, I loved it. I love when people get passionate. Did I mention before I loved Joshua he was an amazing dancer, he's the guy featured in this video, he was also the winner on that show. He had no proffesional experience but could do everything they showed him. Anyhow, hope you enjoy it's fun makes you want to get up grab your partner and dance.

Sally and Timmy

That's the names of our new parakeets. Their really pretty birds. A friend of mine works at petco, I had mentioned to her last week that all the kids had been asking me for a pet bird. So, she callled me yesterday and told me 2 came in for adoption. i just had to buy the cage. So of course I was like heck ya. So, the kids were exstatic! They were jumping up and down and squeelin'. All they want to do is watch everything they do. Hopefully it won't be to long until their hand tamed. When we first got them home I was putting them in the cage, and Sally flew off on me, well when she did she went straight towards Kalin. Kalin cried for about 10 min. and kept pointing at the cage and saying "scary" HA!HA! I finally convinced her they were not scary and were in the cage, therefore they could not get her. The good thing about all of that is they clip their flight wings so they can't fly away. I'll post pictures when I can.
In other news I won't be joining the rec center for a little while. They said they don't watch kids mario's age. So I would have to get a family pass, which I will probably do down the road.

A Good Break for Me

I'm joining the rec center! WOOHOO!!! I get 2 hours of free babysitting a day to go workout. Can we say a break for mom. I'm siked. I probably won't be able to go everyday, but hopefully a good 2 or 3 times a week. I'm so excited. It's very rare I get alone a time, let alone time for me. I can get back in shape and have energy again. WOOHOO!! Anyway, just had to share the excitnig news.

New video

Okay, I changed the video bar. This dance was really good, it's a story of a man being deployed to Iraq and he's telling the love of his life he has to go, she's so devestated she feels as though she can't breath. It made me think of my brother and his wife, Kelly kept saying she felt like she couldn't breath she missed him so much. I can't imagine going through something like that. Hey April you'll love this. I'll be sharing more of my favorites, becaause if you know me you know I LOVE dance.By the way, click on the third box its more clear than the others.

Happy Birthday Kalin!!

Happy Birthday Gorgeous!! We love you!!

Today my beautiful little girl is 2. I can't believe, she is growing up so fast. It seems like yesterday she was a little bitty newborn. My mom bought her this adorable dress and we took her to get her pictures taken. She was excited for about 2 min, and then didn't want to do it anymore. These are the two poses we picked. She looks absolutely beautiful! Here's a few things about her a lot of people don't know. She's a neat freak. If something is out of place she will put it back or nag me until I do. Finally a kid that cares about the order of this home! LOL! She loves to help, she knows where everything goes and will do it if you let her. She's super bosy, she's constantly telling everybody what to do. Funny thing is they litsen. For instance we took Mario to the eye doctor and Maya was up walking around, Kalin was sitting politely in her chair, she looks up at Maya and says very sternly,"sit down Maya, right now." HA!HA! Maya did it to. She'll make a good moma one day, she'll have those kids in line. She also loves Elijah like crazy, she makes him case her at least once a day. Anyway, I'm sure I could go on, but I won't. She's awsome and I'm amazed by her a lot of days. It's funny how when I look back I remember thinking o, my gosh another baby, and then God drops this beautiful blessing on us and then you think what was I so worried about. God knows the plans he has their always good!

Kalin is getting shots

Here we go, my baby is going in to get shots tomorrow. We had decided we weren't completely against vaccines, we were just against giving them to her at such a young age. Their liver is not completely developed to filter out toxins until their 6 months of age. I've been doing a lot of reading on this matter and see a huge difference when parents just wait a little while. I read this article on China , they have chosen not vaccinate until 2 years of age and their sids is almost nonexistant now. Makes you think. Now don't take me wrong I'm not one of those do it my way parents. If you've decided to vaccinate since birth, than thats your choice for your family, and I don't look at anyone different. Every family does what they feel is right for their family, in all areas, whether it be what they eat, what they do, or shots, we're all loving parents taking care of our children the best way we know how. Anyway, since I don't have my kids in daycare and had breastfed her for a year and a half, I felt confident about waiting. We were blessed she's been really healthy. The worst thing she had was roto virus. When I took her to the hospital to get hydrated, the doctor was really supportive and sweet. So, she's turning two on Wed, and her appt. is tomorrow. I'm nervous. I don't really know why, we have vaccinated all of our other kids, and their okay, I guess it's because I never waited this long. I'm sure she'll be fine, but I'm still a little nervous. On another note my mom is taking her to get her picture taken in a princess dress for her birthday. I can't wait to see it! Well I geuss thats it for now, just wanted to share whats going on.

Happy Birthday Ian!!

My Ian is 5 years old today. Wow, he is oficially a big kid. He was so proud to turn five today, he hopes to loose a tooth at some point this year. We're probably going to take him to ChuchECheeses to play, thats what he's requested.Ian's the one in the green shirt. He's such a character. He's really smart and loves to use big words when he talks. He's also very funny, he can make up a joke and make you laugh really hard. He's an awsome kid, I feel very lucky that God chose me to be his mother.

You tube Video

I was trying to share a dance I really liked and it put it on my side bar, so I'll leave it there for now and change it later. I loved this dance, they played out the story so well. I hope you like it.

The Frog May Need Prozac

Okay, not really, but I had to do that because it was funny! LOL! Anyway, I briefly mentioned Freddy was all depressed, so we went to Petsmart and bought another frog, Tad. We also bought a ton of crickets so I don't have to go back for at least 3 days. When we got home and put Tad in his new home with Freddy, Freddy instantly came out of his cocoa hut. He who I'm starting to think is a she was super happy. He started hopping around, and ate his crickets that I had put in there 6 hours ago. Mentioning crickets, Mario's all creeped out about toching the crickets to feed them. One jumped on his arm and he screamed and ran off! LOL!! So, we're figuring out another way for him to do this. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot they sound like puppies, they have this light little bark, apparently thats the sound the males make when they want to mate. So, here's the best part Tad keeps climbing on Freddy's back, the kids are like, look Freddy's giving him a piggyback ride! Yea, I don't think it's that kind of ride! HA!HA! Well, I'm not telling them, they can believe what they want. Maybe oneday there will be tadpoles. You never know.

A Pirate Carnival!

Yesterday we celebrated Mario and Gabriel's [his cousin] birthday. By the way, I'm sorry Leah hope your not upset, it was just family this year. We planned it last minute, anyway it was a lot of fun. We turned the kitchen into a concession stand, and the house into a carnival, they had to have yum yum tickets to get a popcorn a hot dog, or a lemonade, cost one ticket each. To get their tickets they played all kinds of carnival type games. They could choose a ticket or a piece of candy. They chose tickets first, once they ate it was all about the candy! After all the games we had ice cream sundaes instead of cake. They got to pick any topping they wanted. We had chocolate syrup, sprinkles, gummy bears, jelly beans, crushed oreos, cherries, and whipped cream. They all pretty much chose everything! Yea, we were totally moms of the year yesterday. Oh, and just so everyone knows Mario and Gabriel totally beat me and Kelly in the three legged race. We kept falling, it's been awhile since we did those kind of races. Yea right we just stink at it. Plus the boys were practicing for a long time, they were determined to beat the moms! LOL! Gabriel got Mario a fire belly toad, he's pretty cute for a frog. The vet at petsmart told me he's depressed, so were going today to buy him a friend and some more crickets. Oh, Mario named him Freddy. It was a great party. Mario was still smiling and raving about this morning.

What a Day!!

What a day today was. I swear it was one catastrophe after another. About lunch time the kids were playing outside and I hear a faint eeee!!eee!! So I think to myself Kalin must have locked herself in the bathroom again, so I go to let her out to find her not scared but screaming with delight. Kalin and Elijah had a tube of bright pink lip gloss, they were squeezing it out into the sink while the water was running. It was eveywhere. I scrubbed and scrubbed the sink but it is still died a light pink. Plus they both looked like clowns for a good while. Later on in my day, I go to get a glass of tea to find 5 raw eggs floating in it! Gross! I dumped that down the drain. Another hour or two goes by, now it's time to start dinner, While I'm getting everything going Kalin busts open 3 tea bags all over my floor plus some sugar to. Then she decided that looked good so she licked it up! I still need to mop. In the midst of all this Kalin kept ending up naked. Another ending to another delightfully crazy day. I think I'll have a glass of wine and then mop. Urgh!

Fridge Magnets

I do not like fridge magnets. More specifically kids fridge magnets, you know it's the whole alphabet on your fridge including numbers 0-9. I bought these once when Mario was 3. They never stood there and played with them no, they would see who could knock off the most the fastest. Now you've got magnets all over your floor and your the putting them all on the fridge, you even take time to spell a few words thinking they'll get the concept. Yeah right! This goes on for a few weeks until one day you sweep them all up and throw them in the trash. Peace and order is restored back to the home. And then you notice they don't even miss them! You think I could have done that a long time ago. Well, a couple of weeks ago Mario Sr.'s cousin bought our kids, you guessed it FRIDGE MAGNETS.AAAAAhh!! So I patiently left them on there. The older kids spelled words a few times, but the younger played the o so famous game of who can knock the most on the floor. Yeah, I'm getting quite annoyed. So, yesterday I swept up a bunch of magnets and in the trash they went. We are down to about six letters and four numbers. Peace and oreder will soon be restored yet again to our home.

Ian's Learning to Read

Ian's learning to read! I'm so proud of him. He's really proud of himself. You should see the smile on his face when he gets it. First of all I have to say I love leap frog. I had bought the Letter Factory, he learned the phonetic sounds before the names of the letters. That was awsome, it was much easier getting him to understand putting the sounds together to make words. now we have letter cards, we build the word and then read it. He loved it. He read his first book today.! It was called Al Can. It goes a liile something like this. Al can tap. Al can tap on a mat. Al can rap. Al can rap in a hat. You get the jist. It was great. I love when their whole face lights up after they accomplish something. It makes it all worthwhile. Anyway I just had to share todays excitement with all of you.

Mario's 9!!

I can't believe it. My baby, my firstborn is turning 9 today. How time has flown by. I feel as though I will turn around and he will be 18. I'm so proud he is my son. He is so sweet and gentle. He respects people around him. He is funny and smart and loves to make you laugh. He loves to help, especially with the babies. He comes and helps me in nursery a lot a church. He is also very shy, large groups of people freak him out. He gets that from his daddy. Sometimes he's overly sensitive he gets that from me. I'm excited to watch him grow into a young man. I wonder who he will be when he is a man. If you ask him now what he wants to be when he grows up he will tell you an Architect or a Inventor. He has big dreams! By the way I love this picture of him he looks so handsome. Happy Birthday my boy!

Happy New Year!

Another year, it really feels as though this year went by really fast. I remember last new year's eve desperately waiting to kiss that year good-bye. That year was so long and horrible. But God's grace held onto us. This past year has been good, I know worldwide things have been not so good, okay bad, but personally in our lives I have seen God do so much in our family. It was a year of healing and and learning to trust beyond what we're comftorable with. Now that the new year is here I'm in expectation of what is to come. All that being said we totally didn't do any kind of celebrating. The kids were in bed by 9, I was in bed by 10, I'm sick!, Mario was the only one that stayed up until midnight. I heard what I thought was knocking at the door so I jumped up thinking Mario had locked himself out, just to realize it was fireworks. Mario happily says to me, "happy new year!" I just rolled my eyes and went back to bed. I felt like crap, I was in no mood for happy. So today I feel a little better, but still not great. I hope everbody's last year was good and that this one will be wonderful filled with blessings and joy.

2012,end of the world??

Okay, so I've noticed half the world is a bit freaked out about 2012 and the Mayan calenders and all. So I've been reading and researching to see what I think on this matter. On one hand history says The Mayan calender is the most precise calender, only being 3 seconds off. That's pretty amazing and pretty freaky all at the same time. On the other hand the Mayans were some messed up people. Have you ever seen the movie Apocolypto? It shows how the Aztecs were, well after all my reading you see the Mayans and the Aztecs were very much alike. They believe their God came down to make them in their image, and then thought themselves to be gods. They werer hugely into human sacrifice, because they believed they had to put blood back in the earth. They worshiped a lot of different gods for different reasons. Anyway you get the point, the were not living as God created us to. People throughout history who have studied them, some of them believe they were an alien race living among us, and thats why they knew so much. In conclusion to my deep thought there are other prophesies about 2012 that leave you a bit puzzled, But the Word says no man knows the day or hour the Son of Man will appear, if it's all gone what is he coming back for? Just some random thoughts. If this be true or not we as Christians have our hope in God not in the Mayans calender, so we will just wait on the Lord and see.