The Month Of May

We had a good month of may. Mother's day, a trip to Arizona and my birthday! We were so excited to finally go to Arizona to visit our family! Grandma Lila drove down with us, we made sure that she didn't wear her hearing aids. The kids did really good on the way down, there was hardly any crying to our surprise. Of course we did hear a lot of "Are we there yet". Our longest stop was at the Hoover Dam. The kids like to stop there because their great grandpa helped build the dam, but mostly because the Transformers are burried there! We had a good time visiting and eating, a lot of El Rico's of course and just chillin' with the fam! We got to see Dannie's school band concert. Jody and I didn't make it to his chior concert because Isaiah got an ear infection and we took him to the urgent care. Dannie received and award for leadership that night though. Way to go Dannie! We got to go to the drive in with Dom's family. It was our first time to go as a family. We watched Star Trek and Monsters VS Aliens. We had the cars turned around and seats down. Then the wind came and it started to rain so we had to hurry and get everyone into the cars. We had fun. We hung out at Lala's and scrapbooked until late and the guys watched a scary movie. We stayed up late friday night watching Ghost Hunters with Dom and Joey. Some pretty scary stuff on that show! Dominique and I set up shop at the swap meet on Saturday. Of course we get put on the very last row where hardly anyone goes, especially because it's summer and all the Snowbirds go home. They say the best time to be there is between September through April. So needless to say we made a whole $3.00! We decided that we would've been better off selling at El Rico's. Dom will still try in September though. Saturday night was the Martinez-Tovar family Reuinon. Michael and Sandra and their family were there also. We all had a good time. Grandma especially.

Sunday morning we had a big breakfast at El Rico's. The main dish was Grandma's scones of course! It ended with a big water and some wrestling. I think Dom took Anthon out a couple of times and he got her too. It was fun to watch. that night the reunion continued at El Rico's with dinner, pictures and pinatas!

The kids post water fight.

It took the water fight to see what Isaiah looks like without curls (I think he needs a haircut)

JJonas and Momma


The McCurdy women, as beautiful as they may be this is a dangerous combination!

Ammron vs Sponge Bob

Lila vs Sponge Bob

Lila won!

Marco and Rich

Elise and Antonio

Dom and Joey

Rich and Bea

Rich feeling uncomfortable having his picture taken. It didn't help that his son in laws had unexpectedly gropped him right before this picture, thus the laughs on their faces since both Jody and Joey did it to Rich without even talking to each other before hand.

Antonio, Jody, Dannie, Rich and Joey

Flying Isaiah!

Cousins causing trouble.

Danielle and Jody looking great as usual!

On Memorial Day, my Birthday Jody and Joey went mountain biking, by the end of the night Jody was bright red, poor thing. It's been a long time since they've been able to ride together so that was nice for them. We also got to go swimming over to Marisol and Ryan's, Dannie and Delci came too. Then we had a BBQ at mom and Dom's

Jonas showing his swimming skills (of course it requires moms help)

Danielle Lila, Isaiah, Tytus and Gabrial frying like bacon after swimming.

Isaiah arguing with Danielle about who's birthday it was his or hers (Danielle eventually won)

The flower cake Dom made for Danielles birthday

We left on Tuesday to come home. That was a long ride! The worst part, Isaiah cried forever! He cried because he wanted out of his seat, because he didn't like the music we were listening to, and because he didn't want to go to Utah! It was a good thing that Delci came home with us and not Grandma!

The Livingston Clan

Grandma Bea has her arms full with all these grandkids, and this is less than one third of them.

Elise and Lila having a "Who looks Whiter" competition. (Elise won)

Poppa Rico and the Livingston Kids

Poppa Rico and Jonas after a good meal.

Jonas getting some love from his Aunt Lala.

Danielle Lila finished school on the 29th and our summer has begun!