Girls Night Out

First of all I should just say that I highly recommend a girls night out for all of you out there. To much fun to miss out on! Here in the top picture we are searching for our "perfect" dessert. Stephanie was taking the picture. And in the bottome picture we had found our dessert and appetizers at Bennigans. For anyone interested in a great dessert Bennigan's is the answer! :) More to come on our girls night out. Including a story about a cowboy and a hot tub. :)

Fun with Friends

Logan and Jhocelyn spent the weekend of Mommy and Daddy's anniversary with their friends the Garcias. Highlights including playdough, the Burger King playground and of course, Planet Pizza!

Owen and Jhocy

Sometimes the best of friends, sometimes the worst of enemies ...

One of Ramon's close teachers. They and one other student went out to breakfast every Tuesday and Thursday.
A close friend of mine and Ramon's who graduated from the language school this night.
Our friends Pedro and Stephanie. We will miss you guys greatly! Don't forget us!
This is our other friend Juan from Ecuador. He started with Ramon and graduated on Thursday. We'll miss you Juan.

Logan enjoying the hot tub on Ramon's senior class trip.
All 5 of us together.
Little dark sorry!;(
Jhocy with what we call her old woman cry! :)

change

CHANGES


Life is always changing
Always moving, never staying the same
Some people crave change
I don't it terrifies me!


What lays behind this next door of change?
I don't want change, I'm happy here,
content here,
It terrifies me!

My mind is consumed with the thought of change,
And yet it's coming at me like a train,
and yet I have no way to stop it,
I"m TERRIFIED!!!!

Summer Fun

This is Stephanie again. Erin and Ramon’s house is the favorite neighborhood hangout, because they have this wonderful pool! The first picture is of Logan with his friends Eva and Sofia. (Eva is my daughter and as Erin mentioned, she and Logan are very good friends! )

Pictures

This is Erin’s friend/neighbor Stephanie writing! I enjoy taking pictures of her beautiful family and offered to post some of them on her blog … these were taken on April 13 at my son’s 2^nd birthday party. Enjoy!

Logan's Birthday

Aargh................... How many little pirates does it take to tire out 1 set of parents????? I know, 8! Here are all the little ones from Logan's birthday party. His theme was pirates so they got to go on a treasure hunt. Here is the cake. Pirates of the Caribean was the theme.
For once I actually got him right as he was blowing out his candles!
This is Logan's friend Eva. They seem to have little crushes going on for eachother. She was the one person he kept saying over and over to invite. :)
Here is a shirt we had all the kids sign. We wanted to have something for him to remeber the people here that were important to him.
The party was a huge success. He got lots of great presents. THings that he has been asking for for a while. The kids were exhausted by the end of the day. Logan and Jhocy were asleep before 6:30. I knew the party was a success when I heard one of the kids say "THis is the best party ever, it's better than Christmas!!!!"

The sweetness of being a child again

Today is my 24th birthday. As I'm sitting here thinking of the life that has passed me by already and listening to my children I can't help but think that I would love to go back to my early childhood yrs just for a day (or 2) to be a kid again. Now don't get me wrong I love my life and i wouldn't change it. It's just to kids everyday is magical. My son Logan is so awesome to watch and listen to on a daily basis. Yesterday we went to an aquarime in Corpus Christi and he loved it. As we were watching the Dolphine show I was reminded how innocent children are. My husband and I were sitting there a little bored and hoping it would get over with when Logan in complete awe over what he was seeing said "I wish i could be a dolphine." It was said in a hushed little voice but we heard it, it was a magical moment for him. So here on my birthday I'm hoping to get back a little bit of that magic that we had as children and enjoy everyday because it's a day we will never get back. And i'm going to allow my kids to stay as sweet and innocent for as long as possible.

Logan and Daddy wrestling

Now you must know that ever since Logan could crawl Ramon started getting down on the ground and wrestling with him. The 2 of them wrestle very rough to. Ramon has always done the following to Logan "Do you give up? YES! Don't just give up tell me why you give up! Because I give up! BUt why do you give up?! And Logan's answer... Because I'm a baby!!!!!"
Now Logan's goal in life has been to get his daddy to say the same thing to him. He always doing crazy things and when you ask him what he is doing he will calmly say "Getting energy to beat my daddy" Till finally he got that energy!
One day they were wrestling and Logan had his daddy down and there was no getting out. And Logan goes "Do you give up? Yes! Don't just give up tell me why you give up! Because I give up! And Ramon's answer..... Because I'm a baby!!!!!!"
Logan couldn't have been prouder! He was telling us all about how he made his daddy say he was a baby......

Jhocy's second birthday

We got this cake for the reason that the butterflies
on top are lipgloss inside :)

Here the birthday girl is waiting for her cake.
Here Jhocy was in the middle of opening her birthday presents

but after she got her long awaited backpack from Grandma and

Grandpa she just didn't care about the rest. (Oh the joy of being 2

again)

Here all the kids are in front of the pool with there birthday

sunglasses. The party lasted for about 3 1/2 hrs. THey slept fabulous

that night. :)

A Day at the Park

CHILDHOOD IS THE SWEETEST TIME IN THEIR LIFE, THEY SHOULD STAY YOUNG AND INNOCENT AS LONG AS POSSIBLE!!!!!

We got up on saturday and decided it was a great day for the park. We didn't stay long as there was some mean looking pitt bulls there/ :) But the kids had a blast even Jesse got in on the fun with the wind:)

THe View

As I watched the View this morning (i only watch so i can argue with them) a particular subject caught my interest. THey were talking about whether or not the Bible should be taught in schools as an elective. I of course say Yes!!!! But as usual Joy had to voice her very loud opinion on the matter. SHe says no. Now I say evolution is taught in schools and now even homosexuality is taught in schools so why not christianity. It seems to me that the people who refuse to even have an open mind about it is because they are scared of the message that it brings. But what really annoyed me is that Joy basically started making fun of the people that believe in the BIble. Saying how can they believe that the ark was really made and all those animals were on board. It just annoys me how people that now so little of these things will voice such a load opinion about it and that the people who actually know stay so quiet.....