Happy 8th Birthday Danielle Lila!

My sweet "Sweet Pea" celebrated her 8th birthday on June 12th and we were lucky to have some family in town. Her cousins Daesha, Elijah, Dominic, and Ammron. We had a lot of fun and I just wanted to write this blog to tell her how much I lover her. She is a sweet and fun loving girl, she is always happy and excited and fun to be around. She loves playing with her brothers and friends. She has been playing the violin and is doing very good at it.

I can't believe that my sweet little girl turned eight and was baptized this year. My how time flies. I always tell my kids to stay little as the picture to the right of my blog says. We got to go and pick our her dress for her baptism day. We went with Lala, Elise, and Grandma Bea. We had a lot of fun trying dresses on, and of course she looked beautiful all in white. We finished the evening with a little celebration with some family at my Tio Michaels house and had a little party that included making our own pizzas and enjoying cupcakes. Happy Birthday Danielle Lila! I love my sweet, sweet girl!!!


Danielle's brothers and cousins watching as she opens presents.











Danielle wanted a hex bug for her birthday












Popsicles with the cousins






Danielle Lila enjoying the process of trying on dresses.














This is the one!





Making pizza with Tia Sandra
Daesha and Danielle Lila's butterfly pizza



The Butterfly pizza as a finished product. Almost too cool to eat!
















We finished the night with some family
"Rockband" and of course my dad and Michael were by far the most talented! They're musical genius'.

Got Chocolate Milk?

Tytus and Jonas are my Chocolate Lovers, just like me. They especially love chocolate milk. In fact if I would let them they would drink a whole gallon in one day!

Most of the time Tytus will poor himself a glass and then Jonas will beg him for a drink, Tytus will give him one and then I have to get Jonas his own. Well yesterday I heard Tytus ask Jonas if he wanted some chocolate milk, I thought that he was going to poor him a glass. Instead I look over and he has a big cup and two straws for them to share. What a sweetheart!! It was the cutest thing ever!

mmm, mmm, good!!

Greek Festival 5k

So my uncle David talked me into running the Greek Festival 5k. I like to run but I don't do very often although I should. I have actually run a few races with David, one in Moab Ut when I was oh I don't know in elementary or junior high, a couple of SLC ones and then this one. The last one was last year. As I said before I don't do much running so I didn't have much training at all. In fact I ran 3miles on Monday, 3miles on Tuesday, jogged/walked 2miles, with kids in a stroller on Wednesday, walked 1mile on Thursday and the race was on Saturday. I ran the race with David, my cousin Omar and his wife Nelli it was at Sugar House Park. My Tia, (aunt) Maricela was also there with Omar (Bebo) and Nelli's kids for encouragement. I wanted to try and keep up with David but that just didn't happen. There were two hills that just got me real good. I just kept telling myself "go slow, just don't walk, just don't walk!" It was funny though because while doing my best to make it up the last hill, I was passing a lady and a little girl who turned out to be my aunt Judy and her granddaughter Maddie out for a morning walk! Well then I kept on going and the last end of the race included some down hill, nice, and then I picked up the pace towards the finish line where David, Bebo, Maricela and the kids were waiting. I wish I would've pushed myself a bit harder but I made and that's what counts! I finished the race 30:48 . I was 14th place overall in the women's 5k and I took 2nd in my age group, 30-34, there we a total of 7 in that group. So I think I did a pretty good job! It was fun and I hope to get one more race in this year. I'd like to thank David for inviting me!! I'd also like to thank my Jody for watching the kids so early in the morning, if you didn't know he works the grave yard shift and doesn't get home until 3 in the AM and I had to leave at 6, and yes the boys did wake up early. Thanks Babe!

And Their Off

I'm the one to the far right

" Oman" (they misspelled his name)

Nelli

Me

David, Me, Nelli and Omar

(Just to clarify, I grew up calling Omar by Bebo and I still do. I feel odd calling him Omar, hmmm, odd!)

I'm Back!!

Wow it's been a long time! A couple of months ago I was ready to get into a grove and keep up on my blog but then my computer got a virus and I was not able to. Now I'm back and ready to go! Is this a good thing or a bad thing I ask myself? I mean yes I love having my computer, being without was driving me crazy! And sweet sweet Tina was the one I turned to to help me look things up. Thanks a bunch Tina!!
So how can this be a bad thing? I think we all know, too much of a good thing can also be a bad thing. Now that we have the computer back the whole family wants to be on it, including me. I've given the kids time limits and this goes into affect after homework "and then you probably won't have time to play". So they get to choose.
As for me, I get on some times and spend excessive amounts of time also. Like yesterday when I was trying to beautify my blog. It literally took me hours, with all the helping the kids, making dinner and getting them to bed in between! Of course I'm not the fastest at figuring all this stuff out so I'm sure someone else could have done it faster! But I'm pretty proud of myself for doing it! I think it turned out pretty good if I do say so myself.
Now I can focus on updating, of course I'll be doing some back tracking, I hope that I can become pretty fast at doing so!

Kindergarten Graduation and The Little Red Hen

On May 25th (my birthday) Tytus had his graduation and they also did a little play of The Little Red Hen. The play was real cute. Aftewards they performed their Elvis dance one last time for those of us who may not have been able to see it very well at the original performance. I can't believe that the school year is over and Tytus has graduated from kindergarten. He's such a big boy now and is looking forward to first grade. Good Job Tytus!

Highland Elementary Dance Festival

Wow it's been way to long since I've done this! I'm going to do my best now to post more often. We've been pretty busy these last few months making lots of good memories!

These pics are of the Dance Festival that the kids school put on. It was so cute! The whole school participated in it, they all worked so hard! Each grade did a dance and then a combined one at the end. Tytus's (Kindergarten) dance was to Elvis and Danielle Lila's (2nd grade) was to the beach boys. We're actually lucky that we were able to be there for it. It was actually supposed to be on May 18th, the day we were driving home from Arizona (we were there for my sister Elise's wedding). They cancelled the performance because of bad weather, not that it was any better, it was so windy but the kids still had fun! Jody recorded it and here's the link if you want to watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0bk9jxwCYo

Did you Know That Nacho Libre Eats Nachos?

One day while eating lunch the boys had this conversation, Daniela was at school. "Did you know that Nacho Libre eats Nachos? Yeah he likes them!" It was pretty funny.

These pictures were of course taken at our last house in Highland.