Family Photos, Outfits, & Ice Skating

This is a really random post that sums up our week. At he beginning of the week, we were all down with a stomach flu of some sort. Tuesday we had family pictures taken by our good friend up Hobble Creek Canyon. They turned out cute, but I'm saving them for the Christmas cards. You can see a small one on the side bar, but that's all your gettin' till Christmas. This photo was taken the night before pictures, after I had rolled their hair. Cute smiles from everyone. This was my sewing project this week. The girls loved them.
Yesterday, Miguel surprised us with lunch with Grandma and Grandpa and then we went up to Salt Lake to watch the girls second cousin Daniela compete in an ice skating competition. She was so good at only age 9. We were all very proud of her and the she was so kind to the girls. Gabriela was in awe over her and Sophia just kept rubbing her outfit and feeling her rhinestones. It's always fun to meet new family members.

Heritage Makers Party Tonight!

Just a reminder that I'm hosting a Heritage Makers party tonight. They create books, board books, calendars, and a dozen other things with your digital photos. I've been using them for 5 years now and I'm still just as in love with them. The party is a 7:00 at my house. Come one...come all! If you are reading this, you are invited. You wont want to miss this and since Christmas is coming up, you'll find really personal gifts to give your loved ones. OH and I almost forgot...if you come, you recieve a FREE 12X12 PAGE, just for coming!

Hope to see you all tonight.

Things to Remember

I just wanted to jot down a couple of things that have happened that would be fun to remember. This is after all my journal.

I discovered today that my children really are Mexican American. We served pretty authentic tacos tonight and the next thing I know my kids are dipping their tacos in ketchup. I told them their Grandmother would be so displeased to see them do that. The weird thing is, it was Gabriela who initiated it. Up until the last week, the child wouldn't touch ketchup with a ten foot pole. If I have had any success from joy school, it would be that we converted Gabriela to ketchup. I gave them a blind taste test and ketchup was one of the items. Ever since then she proudly proclaims that she likes ketchup.

While making dinner tonight, Sophia comes crying to me that Gabriela pushed her. To humor her, I asked her if Gabriela needed a spank? She said "Yes," of course. So I dramatically march to their bedroom and told Gabriela not to push Sophia and that Sophia thought she needed a spank. She gives me this sad puppy dog face and shakes her head no. I start winking at her and telling her "Come on Gabriela, get up, you need a little Spank." She was not getting my sarcasm at all, so I gently lift her and swat her on the bum. I'm totally amusing Sophia or at least I thought. I said, "o.k. Sophia I gave her a spank, are you o.k. now?" She says, "She's not crying!" Boy that's some vengence she's got for her sister. So I just told Gabriela to cry and not to push her sister. It made me laugh though. Now I know the truth.

The other night, Sophia wanted to go to bed wearing her Sleeping Beauty costume. I let her and then I thought I would be funny and told her that she must prick her finger on the thumb tack so she would fall asleep. I got all dramatic about it and in my best Malificent voice I declared, "Touch It...Touch It I Say!" She pricked her finger and closed her eyes. Of course Gabriela had to do it too. In the morning they come to me all hot and bothered proclaiming that I did not go in and give them a kiss to wake them up. In my head I'm thinking, yeah right, I'm not waking you up. Anyways it's stuck all week. They have to prick their finger to fall asleep.

The Big Reveal

So I've been working on this dress over the last couple of days and I think it turned out so stinkin' cute. I wouldn't let her wear it with that green shirt normally, but her white shirt was dirty. I'm so proud of myself and for that it was well worth my effort. It's reasons like this that I'm so happy to have three girls.

Julianne was my little helper while I was sewing during the girls naptime. She always seemed to wake up first. Sometimes I get sad and wish I could sew and do crafts with my Mom, because she loves it as much as I do, but the other day when I looked over at Julianne, I realized that my Mom is always with me. Just a miniature version of her! Love ya, Mom.

Painting with Pudding

For Joy School today, we did pudding paintings. Of course Julianne had to get in on the action, and boy howdy, did she ever! She was not in a good mood today and when I pulled out the camera it infuriated her quite frankly, but I just couldn't help myself to these photos. Oh and not everyone can pull off that hair do. That's a Julianne specialty. It's what's left over from her pig tails yesterday and her bed head from last night. One of my walking buddies said it looked like Ace Ventura, but I think Bozo the Clown is more appropriate. Got a love it!

Family Home Evening in Hobble Creek Canyon

We decided to hurry and see the leaves before they all fall this week. We took dinner up the canyon and enjoyed the beautiful colors. It makes me want to plant maple trees in my yard. We had a good time playing around with the camera in the scenary, so enjoy! We stopped to see these deer by the road. Sophia took the opportunity to empty her stomach (she hadn't been feeling well all day), so we took her shirt off and put her coat on. That's why she's got clevage showing in the following shots.

Goofing Off and the Terrible Flood

There is no real content to this post, but then there seems to be any real good content to life story right now either. We're just plugging along right now. Any who, we were goofing off last Sunday after naps with the camera as we enjoyed the weather and here is what we got.

Sophia enjoying one of the apples off the tree out back.

Nice bed head on these two, don't ya think?

So Sophia was irrate with me last week because I didn't bring my camera to dance class. I've been taking her picture through the summer and didn't think she even really cared. I was severely wrong. She gave me the crustiest of looks and totally pouted because I didn't take her picture at the end. It was so bad that her teacher noticed and took one to try to smooth over our relationship. So this week I had camera in hand, even if it is my crappy one, and snapped her photo. She's a fairy from Sleeping Beauty.

This may not be a blog worthy picture, but there is a story here. You see while I'm chatting and watching Gabriela's class, Sophia and Julianne are supposedly down the hall watching a video. Then next thing I know I here Julianne screaming in the distance. I go running thinking she's fallen down. As I run around the corner I encounter Sophia sitting in the floor taking her sweats off in front of the elevator. At first I thought maybe she put Julianne in the elevator, but I quickly realized that the screams weren't coming from in there so I run to the bathroom. What I saw was definately not what I expected to see. Julianne was sitting in the large trough-like concrete sink with the water running full throttle. She was soaked up to her neck in water. She had climbed into the sink using the step stool. I couldn't believe she hadn't gotten up there because it is pretty high up.

I had to go strip her down to her diaper and all I had to put on her was Gabriela's size 5 sweat shirt. So she trotted around like that for the next hour and a half. So embarassing. When I went to pick up Sophia's clothes that she had left in the floor, the pieces started coming together. The reason she took them off, was because they were soaking wet. Now I know the brains behind the mayhem. These kids always seem to get me.