I'm back!

I'm such a lazy blogger, and that might not change. Just now I received a phone call that my Mommy is coming to visit! YIPYY!!

I have repented, and I'm not going to blog about my bad "judgement" experience at Church. What I want to tell my children is to always remember that the Church is true and perfect...THE CHURCH, not the members. We are just people who are trying to reach a goal the best way we know how. Never judge the Church by its members or leaders, EVER!

Okay, no more to say there, now PICTURES OF OUR LATEST ADVENTURES (that is one of the reasons I haven't post anything lately: we have been busy with constant visitors).

1- after decorating Hannas' pumpkin, she wanted to place it in the front yard on almost dead grass

2- Our adopted dog for one day. I found her on the street. I gave her a bath and fed her. She was housebroken, but we just can't have a dog at this time. I have to make it up to my kids so I let Ian play on the computer and the girls pamper themselves with a teaparty (3,

4, and 5 are taken at Sea World. The park celebrates every season big . Halloween season at Sea World was awesome).


6 (Halloween day!! (kind of) we (the kids) dressed up and gave candy away,
7- Ian was Darth Vader this year at the ward trunk-or-treat. Unfortunatley he fell down hitting his beautiful face on the grownd. He has a lot of scraches on his cute face. :S he still got tons of candy, though.

8- My niece Monste turned 5. Nicky had this great idea to throw her a party just like she had last year. We did everything at the last minute but the party was a success. All their friends from ballet came to the improvised princess party.
9- more spooky things at Sea World
10- Hanna had her first ka-bobs and SHE LOVED IT!

11- School had their competition to sell cookies. The girls weren't close to winning so they missed the cookie party. I felt so bad for them so I made our own cookie party for Nicky and her friends. They got to decorate their cookies however they wanted. They loved it!

12- Hanna is a girly girl: loves tip toe while walking and loves nice shoes (even though she calls them flip flop) there she is wearing her tu tu and ballerina shoes. 13 We celebrate Mexican Independece day. The kids made their own Mexican flags. Nicky did it all by herself (that's supposed to be an eagle killing a snake but it looks more like a turkey! LOL I love her effort to do everything on her own) 14. Another picture of our ONE DAY DOG!

(15,16 and 17 are more at Sea World. Hanna loves Shamu. She calls her MAMU and will do the motion to get splashed when it's asked. We got very good seats . If you check picture number 17 you can tell she was in heaven.
18 THE JAFFERS CAME TO VISIT. We had a terrific time with our friends the Jaffers. They came and visited for a weekend. I was glad to see the kids still love each other so much. Nicky and Ian kept telling me that they and the Hobbs and the Matthews are their best friends. Aw, if we could all live in the same place. Oh, well. At least we get to go and visit them some times, right?

19. Hanna's first day at n. She wasn't sure that she was going to like it. She actually did pretty good. Let's hope this will last.

20,21 and 22- My b-day. My friends from Monterrey came to visit as well as my sister Dina. We had a coustume party to celebrate. WE had so much fun. We danced, had Kareoke, played the Mafia game and ATE, ATE, ATE!

23 and 24 the proof that if I want to have a beauty moment with cucumber facial my kids would slowly remind me that it's also one of their favorite snacks.

I still need to post pictures of Nicky's b-day and Nicky's first day at school, but that would be in the next blog. 'till next time. Gotta get to sleep zzzzzzzzz

Trials in life...

There have been so many things going on here. I'll try to catch up with this entry. After all I hope I can print all of it at the end of the year. It's fun to see how things have been progressing, and to look back, especially during the trials and our thoughts in each of those times and how Heavenly Father has helped us to overcome each one of them.

A month ago I went and visited my sister Dina. She just had her third baby. Hanna was super happy looking at him until I held him. In that moment she looked at me, disapproving the situation. Her eyes looked like I was betraying her and then when I gave the baby back she ran to me making sure that everybody knew she was my baby. I held her and she kept kissing me and telling me, "MOMMY, BEBE!" pointing at my little nephew. She is indeed my spoiled little baby and I love it.

The following weekend I went back to visit her, since her oldest son was turning 2 years old. I really didn't want to go, but my other sister was there so I didn't want to be the party pooper. I packed the kids in our minivan and took off to Austin to visit them. The party went well until my other sister Monica

, my little sister's sister-in-law Myra, and myself kept telling Dina that the baby didn't look fine. He was breathing funny and had a yellowish color in his skin. She and her husband took the baby to the clinic. Later on that day they called and asked me if it would be okay for them to stay in our house in San Antonio since the baby needed an operation right away. We packed up all the kids and came back to Austin. My older sister stayed with me to take care of the kids so my other sister and her husband could stay at the hospital day and night. Unfortunately, my sister and her daughter needed to go back home. I was flying solo taking care of one 5 yrs old, two 3 year olds, one 2 year old, and my 17 months old baby. After that my cousin from Monterrey called me and told me her husband was transfered here for a year to work in San Antonio and needed to see If I could help her settle in. The experience was quite interesting. I do believe that I kept my sanity due to Heavenly Father's help.

People who know me know that I'm not a crier. The day that my nephew was operated on I was super sad, worried, and with tears during the day. That really impacted Ian. I wasn't even punishing him, but he thought I was really mad at him. He got sad and told Glenn that I was mad at him. Then Glenn explained to him that I was just worried about baby Hyrum. Ian told Glenn that I shouldn't be worried because Jesus was taking care of him. Glenn went upstairs where I was trying to do some cleaning and told me about this. I hugged Ian and told him I loved him and that he was right. Isn't it interesting how our little kids can help us so easily to remember to have faith in these kind of situations?

I was impressed with my baby sister's steadfastness. She was and is so faithful knowing that whatever happened it was going to be for the best. It made my admiration for her grow stronger.

They only came home to shower, eat, and lay down their kids. The days went fast and in no longer than 3 weeks baby Hyrum was back to his home with her mommy, daddy and siblings. Unfortunately, a week later he was in the hospital again for some "blood infection" then the doctor realized they made a mistake. He stayed another 2 weeks at the hospital (this time in Austin). He is back to his house again but needs to use oxygen and eat through a tube.

( A few days later) More miracles in our family: My sister called me this morning asking if she could come for a visit. We all were and still super happy that baby Hyrum is no longer requiring a tube for eating. He's still on a little oxygen and hopefully the doctor will remove it this week.

Anyway I have so many things to post. Most of them are good things, but I really need to post something that I think is important for people to know, especially my kids. I guess it will be in another blog. I'm about to cuddle with my honey.

I love you Ian!

I've got to be lacking in something. I guess I picked this blog :S. Between cleaning, cooking, and entertaining the kids and our visitors, all my time gets absorbed. Even right now I'm just stealing some minutes of my time to remember some quotes from my favorite boy.

"MOM, CHECK THIS OUT!!! COME HERE HURRY UP!!! LOOK AT THAT GIRL SHE IS WEARING GLASSES AND SHE'S STILL BEAUTIFUL!" (didn't learn that from me. After all Glenn wears glasses and I think he is pretty hot. I like the nerdy style)

"MOM I'M NOT SCARED BECAUSE IF WE SEE BAD GUYS, I KNOW YOU CAN KILL THEM WITH YOUR BIG FEET AND YOUR BIG LEGS!!" (My eyes were direct to see if my feet and legs were that big, dang it he is right!)

"MOM, OF COURSE I KNOW HOW TO SPEAK SPANISH. LISEN... CHO-CO-LA-TE! YOU SEE? I'M AWESOME"! (no kidding)





MOM, I LOVE THAT MESSY HOUSE WHERE WE WENT! THEY HAD VENOM. I WISH I COULD HAVE A MESSY HOUSE TOO...(arriving home) MMM OUR HOUSE SMELLS MUCH BETTER THOUGH" (the smell of clean)

"NICKY COME PLAY WITH ME" (Nicky) "I'M COMING DEAR" (Ian) "NICKYYYY I'M NOT A DEER! STOP CALLING ME THAT!" (lol)

"MOM YOU ARE MY BEST MOMMA" (how many mommas does he think he has?)

"MOM CAN YOU BUY ME CHOCOLATE?, (me) NO IAN I TOLD YOU NO MORE CANDY (I) NO MOM I DON'T WANT CANDY I JUST WANT CHOCOLATE, YOU SEE IT'S NOT CANDY IS CHOCOLATE" (silly me)

I love you my Ian Lee with all my heart!!

When are you coming?

Of course the invitation is on for all our friends and family. So far my old friends from Law School, our friends the Redd and my sister and family had come and visit. It's been fun and we are hoping to have more visitors soon. Here some pics to remember.

Too much excitment to move to San Antonio...

and lots of dissapoinment, too. Today I told the kids that in just 5 days we will move to San Antonio. Then Nicky and Ian started to make their own idea of time and kept bombing me with questions. I told them that we will be in San Antonio in a blink.

Glenn came back home on time to join us at church. Ian was behaving SO well that morning (which is rare with him). He was so happy "to go to church" the whole way there, which again is very unlike him. Then he sounded so disappointed while I was parking our queen in the church, saying, "MOM! THIS IS NOT SAN ANTONIO!!!" Glenn and I cracked up and told him we were at church and we will go to San Antonio in 5 more days. He then told me, "I THOUGHT WE WERE MOVING TODAY" ... right after that he started to act just like always. However, I still love him.

(3 weeks later) We survived the move AGAIN! We settled again in 3 days. The house is so spacious that we felt the need to start buying more furinture so it won't look like a museum. We have lots and lots of frames to hang on all these walls again but no furnitures. It's been nice so far. We got season tickets to go to Six Flags and Sea World. The nice thing is that both of the places are just like 10 minutes away which means that we don't have to spend the whole day there. So far we are just going for a couple of hours and then coming back in time for naps.

Man, cleaning a house is so much work. It takes easily 2 to 3 hours of my day. I might start waking up earlier than the kids to have the place clean...NAH!

Anyway I have totally put the blog on the side due to the little time that I have. There is so much to do. I don't feel the rush to enjoy and get to know the city as fast as I felt when we lived in Arlington. However there are so much many things to do when you live in a house:S