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Sydney Aurora

2011-12-02T05:09:00.000-08:00

During the halloween celebration she was princess Aurora!!! she was looking at this decoration ...I wonder what she was thinking.

At the Botanical garden, She felt in the lil pond so we had to strip her down.

At my friend Jenn's

Admiring the flowers!!! AW we love summer time!

Little Sydney is almost 2 and she is growing just beautifully, reaching her milestone from talking in sentences to making disasters lol. It seems it was yesterday she was a tiny baby. She is very told, she fits almost perfectly in 3 T clothe!

She loves coloring on the wall! so right now we are working to make her do it at the table. At this point she already understand the concept of time out! she had had a fair share of them, so at this point I just have to give her a warning some times works some times doesn't. I can't wait to potty training her and be done with the whole diaper thing, they are so darn expensive. She is definitely a daddy's girl she loves spending time with daddy and cuddling up with him . Here are some pictures of her

Danielle Lauren!

2011-12-02T04:45:00.001-08:00

Danielle during Halloween at the Army hospital. She wanted to be Mulan, so my mom made it for her! she chose the fabric and supervised every detail lol.

Here posing for the camera before we adventured to go trick or treating in the neighborhood. It was the first time she has done it up here since it was only 30 F why not?

2011 soccer team!

At the Botanical Garden!

Walking around our beautiful running trails
Danielle is a first grader!!!! I can't believe it. I always wondered if people exaggerated when they said time goes fast. Well now that I am an adult, I totally agree with them . My baby is a beautiful and smart 6 years old who is constantly testing my knowledge, my patient, my spirituality, but it also makes me to be prepare to answer all those great questions that she has about life and death, about Heavenly Father, science and math, grammar and spanish wow she does keep me learning which is good.

This year she begged to homeschooler, but honestly living in Alaska where the winter is so hard and dark I had mix feelings about doing so. Therefore, we agreed that we would try school once more and if she did not like it, we will homeschool. Thank goodness she has a great teacher, a very sweet lady who has a very structure classroom and Danielle seems to be happy about school once more!

She is reading perfectly, in fact roles have changed she reads to me all the time. She loves art a lot, good thing Mrs. Adamsom is an art major and she get to teach them art skills! Her math skills are great and so her physical education once. her PT teacher gave her an outstanding recognition because of her hard work in gym class! here are some pictures of her!

Sophia Camille goes to school

2011-12-02T04:28:00.000-08:00

My mom made Sophia custom, she wanted a purple princess dress with purple wings , she said she would be the butterfly fairy!!!

THis was at the church Halloween celebration, she was really tired!

She let me put make up one ..in fact she was so happy that she was wearing make up!

Sophia loves Arrow , our new family member, this picture was taking in the summer now he is so huge.

Sophia started to go to pre school this year at the same elementary school that Danielle attend. It is a typical peer program, so she gets the opportunity to spend time with kids who are a bit delayed or need some social skills who are 3 years old.

Sophia is "the super friend" like her teacher calls her, she is friend with everyone and she is always very consider of other kids. I am so proud of her.

Her and her friends are so excited about all the fall and winter celebration. She can't wait for Christmas to get here.

Sophia enjoyed decorating cookies during holloween and making a beautiful thankgiving card for Thanksgiving and now they are focusing on Christmas.

Her and her sister decorated the Christmas tree last weekend!!! She is indeed a joyful lil person and I am so happy to have her in my life! here are some pictures of her

Wow 6 moths has passed!

2011-12-02T04:12:00.001-08:00

I was in shocked myself just to see that it has been six months since I posted last. However, I do have a good reason, perhaps it is not the most cheerful one, but it is a reason after all. You see in June of this year I started to notice that my left eye was dropping and since it was the beginning of summer I assumed it was caused by the very alive nature! a couple weeks later my friend Jana , who is an optometrist, checked my eye and rx some medicine. A month later, the problem persisted, this time accompanied by pain on one side of the neck or the other, chin pain you named it, so I kept getting in an out of physical therapy for different pains. My friend Jana told me there was more than allergies. My pcp dr. and physical therapist decided that I was working out too hard and I was stressing my body too much, so I stopped running right after I did my Midnight Sun Run in July and switch to something lighter.

By August, my problem with my eye persisted, so the dr referred me to another optometrist for a second opinion, this one sent me to a neurology and this one referred me to an Oftalmologist. Each one of them came up with their own diagnostic, but it was the Neurology who i think got the accurate one. He said I must likely have a Horner Syndrome and that I needed to see an Oftalmologist who will do the test to confirm it.

So finally at the end of October I got my appointment with the Oftalmologist, he did the test and the result was positive. A month ago he ordered MRI and I finally got it done yesterday and today I have a follow up, so we will see what is going to happen.

It is easy to write all these, but truth is that I have bounced from dr to dr from mri to ctscan to xrays to physical therapy holly molly I am just eternally grateful we have insurance. Just one MRI was 1400 dollars! Good thing my vision itself has not been affected by this so called syndrome, just my eye lid and of course my vanity. I guess now they need to figure out what caused it . That I guess is the tricky part.

Anyway, JUSt an update now I get to post un things of the girl

Danielle's Kindergarden Ceelebration!!!

2011-05-21T12:00:00.000-07:00

Last Wednesday was a big day for my Danielle! she finished her kindergarden program and now she is ready to start first grade next year. She was so ready to be done with school, the last two weeks were eternally long for her. Getting up it was a challenge and she would cry when I was going to leave the classroom. Despite all the drama she would always have a great day at school. I think the last month was particularly hard for her because Charles went back to night shift, so the days he was off she wanted to stay home and spent time with her daddy. Now she is a happy camper, no more school no more getting up early or going to bed early ( so she thinks) and it is sunny and warm outside! Here are some pictures of that great day!

Mrs. Stihler ( Danielle's teacher) is turning her into a first grader!!!

Enjoying a last lunch with her classmate!

Standing in line to go up the stage! she wanted to wear this beautiful dress that we got her for Easter, well it was actually to go to the daddy and daughter ball, but Charles couldn't take her because the only person who could cover his shift wouldn't do it lol.

Danielle with Mrs. Sithler and Miss Liz

Just waiting for her turn to come!

While all these was going on I was wrestling with Sydney to keep her quite she cried the whole time . Good thing was there for a bit to see Danielle and helped me out while I took a few pictures. Wholly Molly Sydney made that day so hard on me even then I try to stay calm and not ruin my sweet daughter celebration. I love you Danielle !!!

Chena Hot Spring/Spring break

2011-03-26T16:42:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we went to Chena Hot Spring Resort which is located about 1 hour and a half from our house! It is such a beautiful place the combination of the hot spring with the snow on the ground makes the place very very beautiful! The girls we so excited and so did we! As a couple Charles and I got to enjoy a nice marriage seminar. The Chaplan in Charles' unit was the organizer and he did such a great job in giving every body information about how to strength a marriage. As a family, we were able to enjoy different activities with including the swimming at the indoor pool and the Ice museum! here are some pictures of it!

Little Sydney enjoying some time out side again the weather was perfect only 20 F ( let me tell you after months of negative this feels like summer)

Danielle and Sophia playing with some ICe cups!

This is the lobby at the building that we were staying at! Notice the moose and the caribou and also a quail

Sydney and Daddy

The girls playin outside the Ice museum while we waited for the guide to show up

Ice park 2011

2011-03-26T13:05:00.000-07:00

The week of my birthday was so nice and warm (only 10f)! It was the perfect weather to go to ice park, so we went every day of that week that Charles had off! Sydney did not like wearing gloves, but she picked up really quick how fun it is to be outside! Oh my gosh it was just great specially the slides. The sculpture were just amazing! Sydney felt sleep couple of time on the sled so we jput her in a sleeping bag and let it take her nap while Sophia and Danielle went up and down the slides! Bottom line is I could live here if the weather was like this every winter. here are some pictures of it!

Danielle, Sydney and our friend Nina in one of the Eskimo ICe sculptures

Sophia and daddy going down the Papa Johns Slide!

Danielle on ice turtle

Sydney and Daddy going down the slide! she love it so much Charles had to take her a few times!

Danielle and Sophia sled a mile !!!! Yeah for both of them

Sydney's 1st birth day!

2011-02-19T16:22:00.000-08:00

My Baby is One year old officially! and I can't tell you how happy I am!!!! We had a little lunch bday party for her with the littlest one of our friends because we did not want a huge thing. I am becoming smarter with this party things! Less it is definetly more!

So I made sunflowers cupcake with a tiny lady bug on top it was quite a task but they turn out pretty cute. My girls were so happy and I was pleased to do this for them.

Sydney seemed to like the frosty the best lol. I love my girls and I am so happy that I can do things like these for them. Here are some picture of our little lunch!

Danielle loves to help Sydney with everything and she LOVES getting pictures with her baby sister. What a beautiful daughter and sister she is!

Sydney trying to choose her cupcake lol, but the rule is if you touch it its yours!!!!

This is the table with little treats !

And her presents !!!! we did not get her one, but she is ok with it ! lol the beautiful dress was a nice present from The Squires GrandParents! thank you very much she looks so cute on it!

christmas day

2011-01-08T11:56:00.000-08:00

So here are christmas day pictures!

Sophia was the soul of the party! she was so excited about all the presents and using expression like " for me? "I love it" or "it is my favorite"

Danielle got lots of clothe from The Squires grand parents they are always so nice and generous. She loves this sweater and a pink outfit very much.

Gram sent this purple dress Danielle and Sophia love purple!

This was her favorite toy . The pillow pet! and the dress ...well let just say that she put it on right away.

thank you all for the great presents my girls are so very bless!

Christmas eve!

2010-12-30T12:34:00.001-08:00

On Christmas eve we went to our friends house to enjoy a yummy Christmas dinner.we were about 5 families in that house good thing they have a big one. The kids did a little gift exchange , the missionaries brought the spiritual part and we all had a great time. It was -40 outside so cold .

Here is Sophia modeling her boots!

I dress up the whole family on Christmas eve hoping that we could get a family picture, but it did not happen the kids took turn taking a nap and then it was too late we had to leave.

Sydney was wearing her cute outfit and I promise her hair was up for whatever reason every time I take a pictures she has it on her face! well guess al my girls have done that before .

So one of my friend took a pictures of Charles Sydney and I. I think she was too close lol

This is my cutie Danielle modeling. Ever since her and Sophia watched Barbie Fashio fairy tale they both have been modeling lol

December! 2010

2010-12-30T11:49:00.001-08:00

Wow I have not realized that I have not posted something since August! it has been quite of an adjustment for me to have Danielle in School and to deal with all of my others duties.

Before I realized December came! and due to Sydney getting sick, Charles being gone for 3 weeks on training and Sam's messing up my Christmas card I ended up not sending Christmas card this year! instead you will receive new years card at some point.

Here are some pictures of the girls! enjoy them

Danielle and Sophia got boots for Christmas from Gram and they love them! here is Danielle modeling them.

Little Sydney decided to walk at 10 months old , so I am busier than ever chasing her around!

This was when we decorated our Christmas tree!!! Sydney had so much fun!!!

My three princesses! I love them so much. This was my attemp to get a nice picture for my Christmas card which Sam ended up making in a mess.

Sydney is upset because Danielle is holding her! she just wants to walk

1st day of school

2010-08-25T14:31:00.003-07:00

My little one had her first day as a kindergardener today! We, got up super early to get ready and be on time for her first day of school ever! Once that she was all dress up she asked me to take some "PHOTOGRAPH" of her. Of course I did it. We had a special pray and we all headed toward the school. Once in her classroom, she had to sign in, answer the question of the day and other series of activities! After I picked her up (1 pm) she told me that "everything" she did was her favorite thing. I am so proud of my sweet Danielle !

Posing with the cute out fit gram got her!

She chose this stool to take her picture taken

Leaving the common and going to her classroom!

Signing in! wow she is tracing her name in cursive

Little Sophia saying good bye to her big sisi I almost burst in tear, but I hold up I am so proud of my Danielle.

1st Soccer game

2010-08-25T14:31:00.001-07:00

Gram and Grandpa visit!

2010-08-25T13:46:00.000-07:00

Soccer is season is finally here! and gram and papa too. They came all the way to Alaska to visit us!! we did so many fun things , but it was fun just to have them with us!

sleep over fun!

2010-08-25T13:24:00.000-07:00

My friend Jenn and her husband went on vacation and left me twoof her kids! my girls had so much fun playing dress up and having sleep over for a week. Here are some pict.

Sydney figure out how to stand up in her crib!

Sophia is shaking it! lol

Gianina doing Danielle's hair

Air Show!

2010-07-19T09:42:00.000-07:00

Sunday Morning! the girls dancing while the watch the new barbie movie!

Saturday we had so much fun at the air show, we saw military demonstration and people jumping in parachutes from planes, but most fun to see all our friends from our ward!

Danielle and her friend Ashley!

Jump jump jump. In our way to the car we got rained on! the raindrops were huge and the water was sooo cooooold on top the wind blowing so hard. However, we had so much fun at home a yummy warm pot roast was waitting for us!

All about Sydney!

2010-07-04T09:07:00.001-07:00

This 1st pictures is Sophia having with Rody! we have had this toy 4 years now and our second child is finally enjoying it!

Miss Sydney starting to roll on back and viceversa. I did take a video of her doing it, but I can't upload it I already tried, si I need to take a break and try again later.

She can reaches her toy now and chew them

This is probably the funniest one. I was cooking and I just herd her crying with despertion , so I looked and this is what I found. Now she gets strap in every time, so she cries more since she does not like strap.

Here she is watching a little tv

Summer Festival @ North Pole, AK

2010-07-03T22:32:00.000-07:00

Today July 3rd I adventure myself to go to the Summer festival up in North Pole all by myself and my 3 girls. I decided that if I am always afraid that I can't handle my e kids on my own then I would never be able to do so; therefore, I decided to jump in at once and I am so glad I did we had so much fun. I think Sophia and Danielle had the best part of it, but Sydney was such a good sport! Now I know I can go anywhere by myself and my princesses.

Danielle giving tip to Sophia of how to play this game

This was an attempt of my part to get a nice pictures of the girls wearing their Disney t shirts that Gram and Papa got them during their trip. However none of them cooperate even though they were so happy with their present as you can tell they put them on right then.

Here is me with my 3 girls at the festival people were looking at me I would like to think in awe that I can do it on m own. I figure my girls deserve to have fun even when daddy is working

Sophia and Danielle playin in the mini golf

Danielle got her face painted. Sophia on the other hand, was terrified of seeing the lady clown can't blame her I am afraid of clowns too.

More Bday pictures

2010-06-04T12:57:00.001-07:00

We gave the girls a great surprise! we got them a big pinata!!!! Danielle was so excited! all the kids had so much fun hitting it and then eating all the candies; since, Charles put tones of great candies on it.

Sophia finally got the hint and started to hit it!

Sophia was eatting the whole cake all by herself!

Baby Sydney enjoy her time in this little bouncing thing! she was playing with the little animal mobile!

Princess cupcake they were "Pinkalicious"

Birthday party!

2010-06-04T12:13:00.000-07:00

My girls Bday party was yesterday! Sophia turned 2 years old on june 1st and Danielle will be 5 next tuesday. Since Charles has to work this weekend and will be gone for the next two weeks for training we decided to celebrate our princesses yesterday! here are some pictures!

This is the cake that I made for them. No princesse this year! Danielle wanted this clown cake that she saw on a magazine. She even helped me to decorate it! She said and I quote "we don't have to follow the instruction we can decorate it in the way we want it makes more special"!

JOJO is the little girl in the middle her and Sophia are great friends! so cute

My girls an I

Lots of presents!

My creations! I spend 2 days making these clown cupcakes they were a pain in the neck! I did not have more time to make more princess cake that was a full task. Next year I will start a week before! I had do much fun making them. Danielle were so happy

Random

2010-04-17T07:54:00.000-07:00

My girls are always ready for picture. ere are some random photo shoot of them.

Danielle and Sophia are always smiling for the camera

Sydney Aurora is ready for church!

A little nap in her swing!

Sophia during the Easter celebration at play group!

Danielle and her favorite tights and shoes. I promise she has other but she really loves those red one I need to find them a replacement

Ester weekend

2010-04-17T07:28:00.000-07:00

Charles had to work on Easter so we had to work the system we did the egg dying the day before. Sophia and Danielle had so much fun doing so with their daddy. In the evening we went to our friends house where we all celebrated easter.

We did the egg hunt on Sunday while Charles came home for lunch. We had fun not matter what.

Sophia enjoyed the egg hunting a lot. Earlier in the week we celebrated Easter at play group, so she already knew what to do .

Little Sydney sat very looking very pretty!

My little Sophia Camille!

Baby blessing and new dresses!

2010-03-11T12:48:00.001-08:00

LAst Sunday we had the opportunity to bless our baby Sydney Aurora. Charles and some of our friends stand there and share this very special moment. This was the first time my mom was able to be present to one of my kids blessings here are some pictures.

Here we are all together. Sophia is super tired since we go to church at 1 pm

Danielle and Sophia ot these beautiful easter dresses from Gram but Danielle did not want to wait to wear them. I figure it is a special ocassion so she could wear it and so her sister.

Gram also send them some cute every day outfits and they wore them when we went with Buelita around town. Here it is my pretty much only picture I have with the 3 of them.

Sydney got a cure brown out fit with some pink we put it on her on purpose to take this picturres of the 3 of them and send it to Gram Teresa.

ONe more of Sophia posing with my lipgloss

Warm enough for a day!

2010-03-11T12:39:00.000-08:00

Last thursday the weather was so warm and cozy only 40F. The sun was bright and shining, so we had to go out and go for a walk in our neighborhood! The girls had so much fun it took us one hour and half towalk around the two blocks. However, we enjoyed it so much Sydney stayed home with Buelita still not warm enough for her.

Sophia playing with her shadow!

Danielle making a snow mountain!

Both Girls playing happily!

Sydney in her crib! I am still working on making her stay the night here.

She satrted to play with her hands so cute!

this week in our life!

2010-02-26T20:35:00.001-08:00

Charles and I got to watch a video while I was at the hospital it is called " the happy baby on the block" in the video a dr. walks new parents on how to calm an upset baby. My husband learned how to swaddle little Sydney as you can tell she is not very happy about it, but it does work.

Little Sydney in her very cute outfit!

Danielle outgrew all her clothe so we went shopping! she loves this outfit! good thing my mom is here and she is going to make her some dresses

Sydney is exercising her vocal cords. She is a screamer.

Sydney and my sweet mother!

Introducing Sydney!

2010-02-22T20:15:00.000-08:00

Here are some pictures of Sydney and the girls ! enjoy them

Danielle is taking piano lessons and she is really loving it. She practice by herself every day, so Sophia likes to "play the piano" as well.

I could not help to take this picture of Sophia is she adorable! I think so

Here is baby Sydney Aurora in her swing we are trying to figure out the way she can stay in her crib at night. She does not have any problem sleeping during the day. The problem starts when I want to go to bed.

Sydney first bath!

She took a long nap after her bath we were quite excited!

I had more pictures but somehow I deleted them while i was posting them, so I will take some more tomorrow for all you to see her!

Opening of the first present on Christmas eve

2010-01-01T20:58:00.001-08:00

I ca't never get the pictures in the right sequence. However, you can tell what goes first. This happened on Christmas eve after everyone was gone and my house was a completely disaster. After we cleaned up, we let the girls open one present each! Sophia got to open a present from Tia ( my sister) they got this lovely pijamitas! Sophia was so excited she was trying to put them on herself. Danielle, on the other hand chose to open a present that her friend Benson brought her. She received this beautiful Christmas book by Glenn Beck. It was so appropriate for the occasion since read it that night and then we ended up our night reading the Christmas story from Luke! I am not sure why but I guess now you have to hit older post to see all the Christmas pictures this is my third post on Christmas fun! I still have left Christmas day, but it is taking me sometime to do it .

Christmas eve !

2009-12-31T11:24:00.001-08:00

Christmas Season 09

2009-12-30T14:20:00.001-08:00

This year I tried to do some different I implemented the 25 days of Christmas with material that Teresa was kind to send me! I have to admit I was not able to do it every single night, but most nights we had fun activities with the girls! Our very first one was the ginger bread house! Danielle loved it Sophia was more interesting in eating the the candies than anything else.

Another night we went to the North Pole to visit Santa Claus. It was not what I expected, but we still had fun! Danielle told Santa what she wanted for Christmas and he was such a kind Santa. She told Danielle, who was wearing a top that says "Princess", you did not have to wear that top I already now you are a princess! Sophia was not very fond of Santa so daddy had to hold her.

Gram sent the girls their Christmas dresses at the beginning of december, so they have to wear them in different events and Christmas parties! We went to a few of them and it was so much fun! I love this pictures of them sitting on the bottom of our stairs

Another of our Christmas Season outti was the pioneer park! it was minus ridiculous outside, but we wanted to go and enjoy the fireworks, so we did and had fun!

We also got to decorate our Christmas tree! Sophia was so excited about the lights every time we went out and we drove by our neighborhood she would pointed all the decorations and Christmas lights. It was our own trail of lights. Not sure if you know but it is dark here almost all day long so it is so much fun to have all the Christmas lights on all day long as well

Danielle Dancing

2009-11-23T17:45:00.000-08:00

More museum pictures !

2009-11-21T10:47:00.001-08:00

Bonus picture. This is the way Charles bundle up to walk to work every morning. Yesterday he added an outer layer.

A Polar bear and some seals

Sophia lloking a piece of stone took from the tectonic plates. Not sure if you know but Alaska covers pretty much all the natural disaster from Tsunami to earthquake.

Danielle and her totem again!

At UAF museum

2009-11-21T10:29:00.000-08:00

LAst Saturday we went to The University of Alaska at Fairbanks Museum! It was a very fun experience specially because it was -15 outside, so it was nice to entertain ourself with some indoor activity.

The very 1st thing Danielle noticed was this huge totem pole which is right outside the museum. She was fascinated by it and she wanted a picture of her with it , so her daddy took her outside and did as she aske, while a very unhappy Sophia ( because she wanted to go too) and I waited in the car.

Sophia was fascinated by this huge black bear which is standing tall right by the entrance. Initially she was afraid of it ,but then she kept on going back to see it and she will say "puppy". Unfortunately our camera acted up and half of the pictures we took were completely dark , but Charles fixed it and here are some of the good ones.

Danielle and her to tem pole . It amaze me the words that she know . I did not realize she know what a totem pole is.

Here is another picture

This is a smal totem ole inside the museum and she wanted a picture of it.

Sophia was mesmerized by this artic fox. She wanted to touch it so she tried to "remove" the glass.

This is a huge whale's skull.

Playing in the Snow!

2009-11-08T21:20:00.001-08:00

Charles decided he wanted to build a snow man in our backyard! but the snow is like dust up here because of the lack of humitity in the air, so he decided to water the snow, but it still a project in progress

Saturday afternoon we headed to Birch Hill ( The ski place) to get some pictures taken on a real dog sled. While we waited for our turn our friend took some pictures of us here is one!

After the pciturs Charles and Danielle played on the sled. Originally, Sophia did not want to , but when she saw Danielle having so much fun she joined them

having fun in the snow

Specialist Flynn!

2009-10-29T15:56:00.001-07:00

Yesterday, my dear husband was promoted from E4 ( PFC) to E5 ( Specialist). We had the opportunity to participate in this ceremony where his NCO said very nice things about Charles and his progress and how proud he was to be able to submit his name for promotion before his actual time and get it approved. Sophia and Danielle were so happy for their daddy and so was I. I can't express with words how much it meant for me to be part of this small ceremony, but very significant for our little family. Danielle asked Charles all sort of questions about his new batch. I would like to share my joy and happiness with you all.

At the Farmers Market!

2009-09-12T17:00:00.000-07:00

My little Danielle walking around looking at all the jewelry by the way quite price!

My little Sophia she is so cute look at her one big tooth. Anyway, she had so much fun playing with the gravel and Jack! she was so dirty that I had to bathe her.

This is Romanesco. It is so pretty looking my picture is not that great, but it looks like someone carved it! not to mentioned that is delicious taste better than broccoli or cauliflower.

Sophia is so cute she kept on posing for the camera

My sweet girls and I

On Wednesday the girls and I went to the Fairbanks Farmers Market with our friend Laura and baby Jack! I had promised Danielle that we would go there and she could have a smoothie, so she reminded me of my promise as soon as we got to this nice but small place.

Besides the yummy smoothies, the farmers market had a variety of produce brown locally. It was a mazing to see this huge zucchini and green onions. Very big collar green and lettuce and also a Rubanesco, a hybrid mix of cauliflower and broccoli. The day was just gorgeous! a nice way to spend a Autumn day. Here are some pcitures.

Beauty of Fairbanks!

2009-09-04T08:38:00.000-07:00

Last night as I walked home I saw this beautiful sunset it was 9:30 pm

Here is another picture of how God paint the sky!

All the trees changing color almost imperceptible until you watch from the top of the hill!

A little log cabin!

My back yard on a very foggy morning it was 45 F that day!
We have been driving around exploring our little town now that we have our car. and this is what we found!.

1-We live about five miles or less from a ski resort! There are 2 sides of it , one on post just for military and their family and other one is public. We actually went to check out the public side of it and as we drove by we saw these beautiful cabins, houses and chateau! I took a few pictures of them.

2-The trees are changing colors announcing the new season, Autumn! It is such an spectacle to see all the different shades of the trees from the top of the hills.

3-The geese wake up me up every morning with their migration. It is amazing to actually see them forming the V as the fly through out the sky going to a warmer places which means winter is just around the corner.

4-Our little town, well it does have an international airport, a little down town area very cute by the way and lots and lots outdoor activities to offer to the visitors. Our friends have gone is so man adventures just around town we can't wait to start ours!

5-The University of Alaska is up on a hill and it is so rich architectonically speaking I could not take a picture of it because we were driving and Danielle was so grumpy so we had to come home and put her to bed, but that is another story.

6-I discover that my backyard is the most amazing scenario to enjoy the beauty of the earth. From a foggy morning to a beautiful and colorful Sunset. This will be the perfect spot for Lucas to explore I was told that moose hang out in the backyard and deers and you can see red fox around post. Of course I am so lucky still have not seen any of this yet! Here are some pictures of this wonderful place that now we have the blessing to live in! Remember you are always more than welcome to come and see all these by yourself.

Our first out and about out of post!

2009-08-17T09:02:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday, we had the opportunity to drive around our new little town thanks to our new friends the Scroogins who loaned us their second car, so we can have a break from the hotel.

We wanted to go to the State Fair so bad, but it was raining it actually rained all day long. By the time we got home, our pants were so wet.

Our first task was to find shoes for little Sophia who already outgrew the one she has. Let me tell you that was almost mission impossible. We went to 5 different stores ( we actually visit more than that, but for her shoes we did look into 5) including walmart and none of them had shoe of her size. We ended buying some Merrill shoes that cost us an eye it is probably the most expensive pair of shoe we had bought for kids yet. $40.00 !

We also went to try to figure out what kind of winter gear we should buy, man it is a hard task . For Danielle we have to buy -40 F boots, and the coat we weren't 100 % sure so we did not buy anything just yet. We have to hurry up because it can start snowing as earliest as end of september. In less than month the temperature is going to drop to 30 and below So exciting! not really. We also went to Mc Donalds for lunch and to this place a hole in the wall Mexican place. We pay as we were eating at Chuys but we were actually eating at Arandas if that makes sense. I decided that I will be come an expert in Mexican food because my chicken enchiladas and refried beans are much better and cheaper, so I will have all our new friends over for Mexican dinner every so often! we were told prices should go down after the tourism season ends! which I am looking forward to because there are some restaurants that i would like to try I just heard great things about it!

Here are some pictures enjoy them.

In Downtown Fairbanks crossing one of the river

The park down town

A picture of some of the building in down town!

These are the kind of slippers that I want!

One of the cutest little street in down town!

Neighbors night out!

2009-08-05T08:32:00.000-07:00

Last night we attended to this event. It was nice to be out and have a little taste of life on post. Pinky, who is the lady in charge of housing, has become our very good friend and has taken us under her wing. She came to pick us up after her work and took us to this activity. She is from the Philippines, so Charles believes that me being a foreign has helped us a lot with this lady. For instance, we got our very first house ever! we signed up papers yesterday and now is official. We are moving in on August 18. Charles realized the more he talked about me the lady would showed him a newer house, so now we ended up with a brand new house!

Pinky has been extraordinary, she introduced us to every person she knows and finds in her way. Her philosophy I have come to conclude is we have to help each other we just have each other. Don't you love that? I do. Like Michael and Teresa said to us "in the Army you become each others family" and I can see that materializing. It is so nice to talk to people and here al these pieces of advices that everyone has for us. Thus, last night this couple started talking to us telling us how we should prepare ourselves. The husband was very funny, he told me that around Christmas if I see something that I like buy plenty of it right on the spot because next time I come back it will be gone! lol

We ate what I think it was the best hamburger ever...I was starving so it was delicious to me. We saw the Eskimos dance. etc.

We are doing well the girls are ok so we keep on going that is the latest.

We are here!

2009-08-02T17:07:00.000-07:00

After a whole day of traveling we are finally in Fairbanks! We came last night around 5:15 which is 8:15 Texas time. Overall our trip was ok. We had to run around but the important ting is we made it alive .

The girls went straight t bed, so Charles and I got chance to watch a movie and plan for today Sunday. We got up quite early 5 am, but we were awake at 4:30 thanks to sophia who was asking for food at that time. We took showers and headed downstairs to get some breakfast then came back and got ready to go to church.

The weather, well let say it was cool 50 degrees! good thing is summer time. The lady who picked us is so very nice! she is such a go positive woman, our ward seems very nice I met a few ladies today looking forward to make lots of friends!

Danielle has such a good day, during sacrament meeting she asked this little girl if she could be her friend and the little girls replied yes. So Danielle turned around with a huge smile in her face and told her daddy and me " I made a friend" You just can't imagine the joy in my heart. That just made me realize one more time we all need a friend!

I will post picture when I take some so far haven't had the chance. Fairbanks is pretty country I still haven't seen downtown if there is such a thing; and it might not happen for couple more weeks which is when we will have our car.

People in the plane where very friendly this lady flight attendant who is a retiree military welcomed us and told everyone we were just moving to Fairbanks people in the plane just clapped and cheer us I felt so grateful.

That is for now I will keep you up dated!. love you all

Just in case!

2009-07-28T07:41:00.000-07:00

You wonder what is going on with us. We are in our way to Alaska. We left San Antonio, Texas last friday and we spend the night at April's. The same night we stopped by to see Sarah and the kids for couple of hours I could not leave texas without holding baby Zachary. Danielle held the baby too.
We left Houston and came to Atlanta to spend a week of vacation and pampering at my in laws. we got here saturday at midnight got up super early on Sunday to go church. Micahel was so kind to set up the alrm for me! We met tow people at church who lived or are some how living in Alaska, so they came over for diiner and gave us all the scoop about the place we will be calling home soon.
Yesterday, Teresa, the girls and I went shopping to the mall and in the evening Charles and I went to see harry Potter. I have so many questions reagrding this movie any one would like to provide answers?
Today Danielle and Gram have their Gram camp thing they went to a diary farm, so Charles is studying for his test while Sophia and I hang out.
We are enjoying Atlanta I stil lhaven't taken any pictures so I will post them soon.

Swimming Lesson

2009-07-19T07:15:00.000-07:00

This is a bonus picture of Sophia! She is a little princess she loves shoes and purse. Every time she gets a new pair of shoes she bring them to me and wants me to put them on. For instance the pair that Sarah gave her last month and the pair my sister got her yesterday. It does not matter that they are a little bit git she still wears them!

My dad and Sophia were always picture ready!

At the pool right after of swim torture ups I meant swim lesson!

Danielle waitting for her turn to get in the pool and show the swim instrcutor all she learned

The first thing we did this summer was taking swim lesson at Fort Sam Houston. There were two full weeks full of fun and work for me but it did make lose a few more pounds so that was a gain ! Danielle finish the class and graduate but Sophia is a different story she was not having any of that she cried all the time she did not want to be put in positions or any of that, so of course she did not graduate! It was fun thought now we practice and she does a little bit more. Let me tell you Sophia has a mine of her own. She likes to pinch her sister or her mom if she does not get what she wants and through fits etc you get the idea but she has gotten some not very soft touch in her bottom and looking forward to time out

Sea World again and again!

2009-07-19T07:05:00.001-07:00

We bought season passes for Sea world as soon as we found out we were going to be living in San Antonio and it has been really worthy! We have been there so far 4 times and hopping to go one more time before we leave our dear Texas! here are some pictures of the girls having good time.

Danielle enjoying a snack while she takes a break from dancing

My daddy loved Sea world so we went couple of time with him.

Sophia putting her things back in the car

My dadddy and Sophia dancing to the rhythm of the music !

By the Sea !

2009-07-19T06:48:00.000-07:00

By the beautiful Sea you and Me oh how happy will be! You can tell I watch sing a long song with Disney. Anyway, I love the beach and Danielle seems to have that same inclination. She is my little mermaid you know. We got the chance to go to Galveston with aunt April during 4th of july weekend. The water was just perfect though the sun was very very hot. We didn't stay there for more than 3 hours but that was plenty of time to suck up the Sun! and enjoy all the fun by the Sea. I wish I would have seen a SunSet , oh well next time!

Danielle likes the water much better than the sand! So here she goes to rinse her self after playing in the sand.

Isabella and Danielle always have so much fun together. They both love princess, they both love to dance and make up and communicate to each other pretty well. Danielle tell everyone that Isabella is her cousin and best friend! Here they are playing in the sand you can appreciate in the picture that Danielle is not very fond with the sand now Sophia and ISabella are having a blast!

Charles let his inner child to come put and play with his daughters and Isabella in the sand that works perfect!

Summer 2009 in Texas

2009-07-19T06:32:00.001-07:00

This was on 4th of july at aunt April's house we had so much fun! Danielle decided she wanted to jump from the stone and so she did!

Sarah and Olivia enjoy a nice swim

My little Sophia loves the water, but no necessarily swim she just like to hang out!

Lucas is quite a swimmer Danielle and him had so much fun playing in the pool

My daddy and Sophia enjoy their favorite hobby "Eat"
Hi everyone it has been quite a while since I update my blog, but let me tell you it was not my fault my computer was acting up and got fix over and over again until the keyboard broke and we decided to use the guarantee. Now I have a brand new one and I am up and running to update you all about our adventures! before we move to Fairbanks Alaska.

This summer my dad came to visited us and we were so happy to have him for a month. Sophia and him had a very special connection. Danielle on the other hand said my dad just told her what not to do believe me sweetheart I have been there! At last she had lots of fun playing "Pretty Pretty Princess with him" my dad is such a good sport he will put all the jewelry on. I am glad my girls got to spend some time with him he is so much fun most time..oh he taught Danielle how to squirt with a syringe so I have been suffering the aftermath of that. Anyway here are the pictures enjoy them.

Things that kids say!

2009-07-19T05:57:00.000-07:00

This is rather unpolite, but it was funny too! Last night we went to Sea World and we had so much fun , but also I have one my most embarrassment moments cause by Danielle yet. We were going to the restrooms and we were walking behind this lady who had a very generous DERRIERE. Suddenly out of no where Danielle said mom that Lady has a HUUUUGEEE BUTT. My first reaction was to cover her mouth immediately. My face changed colors it was such an awkward moment. I explained to her that is rude and we don't say those things and then she went but Look IS HUGE! oh my gracious. I passed the lady as fast as I could and kept my hand on her mouth until we got to the bathroom.

2009-06-10T17:59:00.001-07:00

I must be really tired because I pressed enter before I actually typed my post. So this week the girls started swim lesson. Danielle is loving it and Sophia is not really enjoying it not sure if it is the time 11 am or the fact that she has to do things. i think is both. We have been so busy that she had hardly taken nap this week; for this reason, today we say home until 30 min before class and let her sleep for 1 and half. I do not have pictures of them swimming because it is too complicated trying to take a picture at the same time that I am trying to help my kids out.

In another note today we went to Barnes and NObles Danielle has been asking me to take care for the last ferew days so we finally made it today we read 5 books! she loves Barnes and NObles and I do too! It is such a Magical place full of great entertainment BOOOOKKKSSS! I missed Barnes and Nobles when I was attending UT I would go after school and spend hour immerse in a wonderful book while enjoying a pie or some delicatessen!

Sophia enjoyed the book I read to her and then she decided to pull out books from every where I think she felt the magic too!

Lately,

2009-06-10T17:58:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday Danielle!

2009-06-08T20:45:00.000-07:00

Oh my goodness my little baby is already 4 years old. I can hardly believe it. I spend every minute with her and I sill feel that I miss something. Four years have gone so fast. she is so well spoken and very social and sweet as she can be. We celebrated her 4th Birthday last Saturday she decided that she wanted only girls and it was like that for the most part ( couple of boys had to come) My friend Mary helped me to bake and decorate her cake and she basically helped me to plan to whole party. It turned out so well. We had lots of fun.

At the Market

2009-06-08T20:31:00.000-07:00

My two princesses and I enjoying a yummy lunch!

The girls were dancing around this light pole!

Sophia decided that she was tired of being in the stroller, so she figured out the way to get out

Danielle and Avery have been friend for 4 years now! Baby Addy is growing so fat we forget that she wants to be include in pictures!

Danielle admiring Mexican crafts
LAs thursday my dear friend Mary and her 2 girls came over to visit us for couple of days! We had so much like we always do! This time we wanted to do something different that it did not require us to spend too much MONEY, so we decided to go to the Square Market in down town San Antonio. My girls and her girls had lots of fun admiring the Mexican art and crafts. Then we came home and went swimming for a few hours! We can't wait to see them again! Here are some pictures of that adventure.

2009-06-02T05:10:00.001-07:00

Wow I didn't realize that I have not publish any post in the last 2 months, so here is an update. My Dad came to visit us again he brought us presents and yummy treats from Nicaragua at least for me Charles does not think hey are yummy. Danielle and Sophia were the luckiest one they got lots of dresses made by mom and their very first earrings they are very cute but I still haven't taken them to have their ear pierce. Originally Danielle wanted to do it, but now she chicken out.

ANother thngfs

Happy Birthday Sophia!

2009-06-02T04:50:00.000-07:00

Our little Sophia turned One year today june 1st 2009. We all got up and sang happy birthday to her while she was still in bed. She woke up and let her beautiful smile greet us ! Her eyes were so bright and sparkly! She wore her birthday dress the whole day but wasn't able to take pictures. I did take picture of her very 1st birthday cup cake after in her swimsuit. She couldn't wait to eat it so everything was really fast. Happy Birthday my little princess! here are some pict.

Picture of Danielle's soccer game

2009-04-28T06:24:00.000-07:00

1st Soccer game

2009-04-26T14:05:00.000-07:00

Danielle has been at 3 soccer practice, but her 1st game was yesterday at 9 am. We got up super early spend a few hours with Aunt Bekah who came for a short visit, and rushed out the door since our closest YMCA is 25 min away without traffic. Anyway, we got there hopping it would not rain like it did last weekend which will cause the cancelation of the game. Luckily it didn't happen. Some girls and parents were already there ready for the game. Not my Danielle she and her dad had to make a scene over the chin guard, the socks and finally the hoes. At this point Charles called me to rescue him because he was about to lose his mind! (never mind I have to deal with situations like this 24/7) So Danielle and I got to an agreement . She was going to wear those things until the game was over, and so she did.

Now the most important thing was that she loved playing soccer, she control that ball from the moment the game started until the very end. She score twice, she was so excited about it all the time. she kept on saying to her coach that she will " Never give up". At moments even the girls on her team tried to take the ball away from her. everyone took a break and turns, but not Danielle. The coach wouldn't take her out. Charles and I were so excited! it was fun to see this side of her so competitive. Unfortunately don't have pictures yet, but I will post them later. The blueberries won their first game!

Happy Easter!

2009-04-13T05:53:00.000-07:00

Our easter pictures all in yellow!

Danielle working on an Easter craft while daddy plays with Sophia

Sophia is so excited with the her 1st Easter egg hunt!l

Our Easter was very peculiar since Sophia and I were sick last week , we didn't get to do as much as I wanted. However, we made it as fun as we could. We baked some easter cup cakes and set up small simple baskets (very primitive) and did a little egg hunt inside of our little apartment. I guess the most important thing is that we were together to celebrated the resurrection of our Savior. We had a wonderful service at church and had a nice dinner. Here are some pictures of the girls having fun.

Go Bluebuerries!

2009-04-11T09:18:00.000-07:00

Our little Danielle decided that she wanted to try soccer during spring time instead of continue with her ballet classes, which was quite shocking to us. However, we want to let her experiment as much as she can, so with that in mind she started soccer practice the last weekend of March. Few days before the first practice her daddy and her went to Academy shopping for soccer gears! here are some picture of our soccer player!

Her soccer ball is white and pink as well as her shoe and chin guard!

Learning how to do passes

Here is her first GOOOOOAAAAAALLL!

The other day she asked me when she is going to start Ballet again! So stay tune one of this day...

Happy Birthday to Me!

2009-03-12T06:40:00.001-07:00

My birthday week started quite early I recieved a very nice card from my mother in law full of wonderful things. Then we drop Charles off to work and the girls and I went to my sister's to have a wonderful birthday breakfast, after that, we went to Austin to meet up my friends for lunch at the Arboretum. We had so much fun I am so lucky to have so many great friends and family. My birthday two times 16 was phenomenal. I felt like 16 again. Thank you all for making it so special!

My dear friend Pam. She lives life at her fulness and make me to be like her when I grow up! She is beautiful inside and out full of wisdom and she belongs to the red hat society!

This is my dear friend Mary she is as sweet as she can be! wonderful woman and mother and of course friend and she made me a cake and took all these wonderful pictures!

My sister was a great part of it she is always there for me she loves me unconditionally!

And of course my Sweet Sophia and Danielle who was having too much fun with Avery to be part of an pictures.

We want cake!

2009-02-19T04:03:00.000-08:00

My princeses and I went to Peoples Picture to have a photos sesion. Every one at the mall will stop us to say hi to them and give them compliment on their hair and the cute dress they were wearing which ae the lastest gift from Gram.

Here are the results!

SOPHIA IS TRYING TO WALK

2009-02-12T13:54:00.000-08:00

HAPPy Birthday SISTER

2009-02-12T13:47:00.001-08:00

YESTERDAY WAS MY LITTLE SISTER B-DAY AND WE CELEBRATED IT ALL DAY LONG. WE HAD SO MUCH FUN WE WENT TO EAT, THEN TO CABELAS TO SEE ALL THE AMAZING ANIMALS THEY HAVE AND THEN TO "TIA" HOUSE TO EAT CAKE AND ICE CREAM," YUM". WE CAME HOME AROUND 7:30 . JUST ON TIME FOR THE RS PRESIDENCY VISIT. YES THE WHOLE ENTIRE PRESIDENCY CAME TO VISIT ME AND WELCOME ME INTO MY NEW WARD! HAPPY B-DAY CC

SOPHIA IS 8 MONTHS

2009-02-02T05:54:00.000-08:00

WE CELEBRATED MY NIECE 1ST BIRTHDAY AT CHUCK E CHEESE. WE HAD SO MUCH FUN! THIS WAS SOPHIA'S 1ST TIME AT THIS PLACE AND HE ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE OF IT . CHECK IT OUT

Remember the Alamo

2009-01-30T14:52:00.000-08:00

Today, the girls and I adventurer into down town San Antonio. There are so many places to visit there, but nap time was coming up soon, so we have to choose one historical place and Danielle decided the Alamo. She asked questions about rifles and things in the museum and she wanted to explore evertyhing which we did in a whole 1 hour. It was fun, quick and educative.

Here are some pictures of our first adventure in our new city. If you wonder where Charles was..at work.

Very silly

2009-01-22T14:26:00.000-08:00

So MAry and I were watching "Every body loves Raymond" and we were commenting how Deborah dress just like a mom. The I looked at Mary and asked her "we don't dress like that...do we?" of course I knew the answer I do have a mirror in my house, but anyway Mary reply "yes we do" we both laugh and try to fix it with the following "of course we dress with more up to day clothe". Anyway, a soccer mom is a soccer mom weather she wears tennis shoes or flat shoes.

What a nice surprise!

2009-01-17T06:12:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, the girls and I went to Austin to get my car repair again and spend the day with Mary. We left home at 7 am in a very cold morning (well nothing compare to Pittsburgh). We got to North Austin around 8:30 am. Stop at McDonalds for breakfast, drop the car off and then headed to Ikea with my friend Mary and all our kids (now we have 4 , 2 each all of them Girls). We got to Ikea and we found out that they have a child care for free! Yeah, but it was busy, so we decided to wait until some parents pick up their kids and then we can leave ours in replacement. We waited for another hour before we could leave our kids in the playground area, but it was so worthy because my dear friend Monica Allen was at Ikea too! what a great surprise! She is expecting baby#3 another little boy, but she looks great. I love Monica so dearly she took me under her wing when I came to Texas 7 years ago now! She and her husband are eternal friends to me. It is so funny how things happens so randomly?!? We having being talking trough face book ( that's another story) for the last few days. So I thought about yesterday and call her and let her now I was going to be in Austin and I would like to see her, but I did not have my car anyway... you get the idea. And it did happen! What a nice surprise. We spend the rest of the day with Mary and came home at 8:40 pm after getting stuck in Austin's traffic, stop twice one to get food and other to check on Sophia who cried most of the trip, but with a fixed car...I guess that was the price I had to pay for having fun with my friends. thanks dear friends for making my day!

Christmas eve ...really quick

2009-01-17T05:53:00.001-08:00

Danielle and Lucas dancing while uncle Thomas Sings "devil woman"

Danielle and Lucas are Mary and Joseph while Pawpaw reads Luke. This was our spiritual part of of the trip.

We all sang Christmas hymns to remember Jesus. Here are Chris and Sarah Zarky ( Charles' sister and her husband) and Thomas and his guitar.

Danielle and Gram. Danielle is holding "baby Jesus" that night before she felt sleep I asked her what was her favorite thing of the day and she said "being Mary" We had lots of fun

You remembered we left Pittsburgh, stopped in St. Louis, Missouri for a night, went to Houston and stayed there couple of day from some family fun and then we all went to spend Christmas in the hill country at some cabin that Michael and Teresa rented for all of us. So here are some pictures of Christmas eve!

Graduation Ceremony

2009-01-11T06:01:00.000-08:00

Friday morning we went to Fort Sam Houston where Charles had a little ceremony as he ended the first part of his training program. My kids were the attention. They both were tired and loud. This time is Sophia's nap so it was particularly difficult for her. The hour ended and we rushed home to have lunch and nap, I even took a nap myself.

We were so happy to see Charles walk trough the stage and get a special recognition for doing great in his physical test Yeah Charles!

Here are pictures of the event.

My week ...so far

2009-01-08T05:40:00.000-08:00

This week has been quite crazy, well the all are, but this one in particular so here is a summary. Sunday was our 1st day at our new ward I am a new person for the 3rd time in a year. If you remember how hard it is the 1st time in a ward you will understand how emotionally dreary is to put yourself out there again , try to get some friends, get use to everything perhaps a new calling and take my husband to base where he has to sped the rest of the week while he is doing all the outprocess paper, so I am on my own again. Monday, some family drama, we see charles for a few hours, clean some more for whatever reason I still have not finish doing laundry I wash, and do and I still have a huge pail of clothe that I am trying to eliminate...not too much luck yet. Charles come home for dinner and then we took him back to base again. Tuesday, more family drama, but it is over, things cleared up everyone fine sort of speak. I worked out take care of my girls you know breakfast, nap dirty diaper Sophia has some spot in her body need to go to doctor. I can't go yet because we have to do paper work . We were 4 suppose to go to playgroup, but it is raining so there it goes my chance to meet new people. I don't lose my mind just kept on going. Danielle cried for about an hour, in her room I may add, because she does not want to take a nap ( but she is super tired and need one really bad) I close the door until is quite adn wento to check on her she is peacefully sleeping such an angel. I clean some more trying to hang pictures and make this place more like home. The girls woke from nap, I put them in the car go to the comissary to get groceries not food at all in the fridge. We picked up Charles in our way back , so he can have diner with us. 8 pm Charles has to be on base beofre 9 so we have to leave again Danielle asked me over and over again "why Daddy is working so much, he already worked why we have to do this every night, my eyes are closing I am tired and she ket on going".

Wednesday got up super early got the girls ready and went to Austin to get my car fixed, bugged my friend Mary to pick me up and spent the day with her and her girls . This was my fun day so far we went to the park , the girls played and we talked we had to catch up on almost a year since we see each other is funny we are so much a like and we have similar opinion on most things. I guess the best part is that if we disagree in something we don't really argue we make our pint and keep on talking. I love Mary she is such a wonderful woman made my week much more pleasent. It is 3 pm called Gilbert to find out if my car is ready he tells me that he did not worked on it because he has been sick all day long , go pick up my car rush to not get stuyck in Austin traffic which is awful. Stop at my sister's in my way home. She is awaitting me with a fun movie The women...not my favorite but good enough to laugh a little bit. Have anice dinner and come home at 9 pm put girls to sleep and get ready for another day. Just in case you wonder what I have been up to

Happy New Year!

2008-12-31T18:32:00.000-08:00

Good bye 2008 and welcome 2009. So many things happened during this year. From the very beginning to the end . It was a year full of first time. 1st time I was separated from my husband, first time I lived with my in laws, 1st time I experience how it feels being a single mother. The first time I hold Sophia among other first time.
I am so thankful for so many blessing that I experienced this year, perhaps the most beautiful blessing is that I had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and though him I endured to the end.
I am ready for a new year...I think

Sophia's Blessing

2008-12-21T16:16:00.001-08:00

Baby Sophia playing at aunt April's house

Today we got to bless baby Sophia. Gram, Paw paw aunt Sarah and Aunt Bekah and Aunt April were there as well as uncle Jonathan uncle Chris, uncle Rob and all the cousins. we had such a fun time. It is nice being surrounded by family.

Here is baby Sophia posing for a picture on Saturday night after Aunt Sarah and uncle Chris sealing

Danielle and her cousin and friend Isabella being cinderella and Aurora respectively.

Isabella took Danielle as a guest to Jazz class. They love spending time together dancing together and fighting too they love each other so much.

Eternal Family

2008-12-21T15:51:00.000-08:00

The Zarsky Family (Chris, Sarah, baby Olivia and Lucas) was sealed for time and eternity yesterday at the Houston Temple. It was such a beautiful experience to be part of such a wonderful event.
Charles and baby Sophia. Their first picture after six months!
My sweetheart and I!
The whole family...We can all be together forever.

We are in Texas

2008-12-20T16:29:00.000-08:00

Yes after 2 days of traveling cross country we are back home ...that is since we still don't have a home. We got here thursday around 11 pm and I picked up my husband on Friday morning. We went to the Temple today for Charles' sister sealing it was just beautiful it reminded me that families can be together forever. We ( Danielle, Charles and I) sang I love to see the temple as we watched the beautiful house of the Lord We are having so much fun. Texas

The Gratest Gift of All

2008-12-10T04:24:00.000-08:00

"Billy you had made some friends...Friendship is the greatest gift of all" Santa said to the little boy in The polar express movie. How do I know this line so perfectly well let say I have watched this movie about 3 or 4 times this past week with my little Danielle, but that is not what I would like to write about. When I moved to the States almost 7 years ago, I could count my friends with the fingers of one hand. Through the years I develop long lasting friendship my dear friend Corrine, my dear friend Mary, My fun and nice lady friend Pam, my great friends in Nicaragua Nohelia and Brenda. This year however, the list increased drastically. I met Rachel Price in Virginia a wonderful woman, great mother and great friend too who gives herself fully, non member I should add with great values. Rachel reminded me how important is to be and have a good friend specially when you are in a new place. Rachel touched my life so deep that I decided I would be that kind of friend in my next move. Pittsburgh was my experimental area. I forgot about myself and my self-pity, I forgot that my husband is gone, that I was new in a new city etc, because I realize that there were so many ladies who needed a friend. "Everyone needs a friend" Pte. Hinckley said and I came to realize what a truthful statement that is. There is always someone. Someone who needs to be listen to, someone who needs to be helped, someone who needs company, someone who needs to laugh, someone who needs love, someone who needs to talk or like to TALK, someone who needs to be served, someone who needs a girls night out. I am glad that I came to Pittsburgh, I am glad that I listen to the prompts of the Spirit and and follow them. I knew Heavenly Father wanted me to come here, initially I thought it was so that we can save money and for me and the girls not be in our own while Charles is in school and that is right, but there were so much more. I believe, now, the main reason was to grow as a individual, as woman, as a mother and wife as a friend as a member of the church! I have learned so much in this ward, I am not bragging at all I have all my life ahead to learn even more. I am just so happy to know why I was sent here. My mother in law who is such wise a wonderful lady had tough me so much by doing rather than saying She is always baking something for someone she si always giving 100% for her cub scout meeting, she is always have the right answer and she gave me a farewell party last night . It was so much fun we laughed so hard with all her great ideas, it was so much fun to see the ladies that came have fun, laughed and mingle with each other. (notice how many times I use the word FUN).
I guess I should finish this blog I just wnat to say that we all are different yet we all are daughters of the same Heavenly Father, there are so much we can do with all our talents paaprhasing Pte. Uchdorft I discovered I too can create something... eve a Smile

Christmas Dresses

2008-12-07T15:37:00.000-08:00

Gram went shopping for my little girls and she came home with two beautiful Christmas dresses for Danielle and Sophia. check it out. I wanted them to match , so I look everywhere for a cute dress with a reasonable price I could not find them, but gram did... she pleased me even thought she is not much into matching dresses. Just because of this from now one she get to pick and choose to give the girls whatever she likes. I certainly appreciate how much she care for what I want and like. Here are some picture of the girls in their Christmas dresses. Thanks Gram Teresa

It's Beginning to look a lot like CHRISTMAS!

2008-11-28T16:50:00.000-08:00

Today Grandma and Danielle decorated the Christmas trees and put up all the wreath and Christmas decoration. It was so much fun. While they were doing that Sophia was practicing walking with this car / walker toy! We were amaze to see her giving her first step! Sorry everyone but I am posting more than a couple of pictures my Husband is looking at this blog too .

WInter Wonderland!

2008-11-24T12:12:00.000-08:00

It has been snowing for the last few days, so we haven't gone out since um I guess yesterday when I had to take Danielle to the Dr. since she was complaining of earache which ended up being both ear infected. We did go to church for sacrament, in our way home ( not really on the way) we stopped at wallgreen to get her medicine. Once at home we had a video conference with Charles.
Today, I wanted to go to the outlet mall since it is the warmest day of the week ( 40 the highest) according to our forecast, but Danielle did not feel like it so we got to stay home. At least they took a nap and I read my book, and write on my journal and write later to Josh...
Here are some picture of our winter wonderland and the girls
Here is Danielle Gram and Pawpaw having fun tin the snow

Last week recap

2008-11-21T05:30:00.000-08:00

We were quite busy last week. We had dinner or lunch at each of our friends house. We had play group and school etc. On Saturday we had dinner with Mandy and Madeline and their kids and the we headed toward the chapel for Jenny Kish a lady who has been visiting the church quite a while, but couldn't get baptize because her husband wouldn't allow her. Due to her faith and perseverance she "partook of the fruit" It was so wonderful to be part of this special event all of us were so supportive of her we brought dessert and had a celebration after wards. Her faith and desire to choose the right was a great reminder of how I should feel regarding the blessing of having a testimony and the gospel in my life.
Sunday we went to church under snow showers...ever since it has been snowing, so we have done little to almost nothing this week, except for yesterday Danielle had ballet class and the parents are guesses were allow to watch the performance it was so cute then we headed to Chick File A to celebrate. I am doine for now thisis not really relaxing when i have both of my aughter sitting on my lap crying as I attemp to wrap thi s up

Re-Vacuum?!

2008-11-12T10:37:00.000-08:00

Everything started last friday when I decided to take my car to walmart for an oil change; since, my car has so many miles in it I chose to do the "high mileage service" thinking it will help my car bit more. Teresa, the girls and I went shopping for the almost 3 hours while my car was at the shop. I picked up my car, and I noticed they did not vacuumed it, I thought oh not big deal, but I did not look at my recipe. When i got home I saw my recipe and there was a list of all the things they supposedly did to my car included vacuum. I got upset and called Walmart regarding this. My point was and I should say is that what guaranty me that this person did everything that he was suppose to do when he said he did something that he did not do. I talked a manager who told me they will give me a full service again blablabla, so I brought it back on Monday and here it is where the fun part began. After telling the manager what happened about my car not being vacuum and on top of that my only six months old battery that we bought at walmart not working. I was told they will take care of it.
Half hour later I got called to let me know that my car is done everything is fine and ready to be picked up. When I get the person who helped me out was a different "MANAGER". HE SAID THAT MY CAR HAD BEEN RE-VACCUM I said you mean it has been vacuum, because they did not do it the first tie that is why I brought back. The guy looked at me a bit upset for my correction and he is "NO IT IS BEEN REVACCUM WHICH MEANS THEY ARE VACUUMING NOW" I SAID yes because they didn't do it the first time. The guy looked at me with an attitude and told me again my car is being re-vacuum and gave me the same explanation. I told to myself, just forget about it. This dude probably didn't approve grammar or whatever, juts let it be not worthy. However, it makes me upset because he saw with those eyes and he did probably thought this "Mexican don't now how to speak my language RRRRR" I hate WALMART.

What a day

2008-11-06T17:08:00.000-08:00

Gosh it started at 5 am when i woke up and I could not go back to sleep, so I told myself why don't you get up and work out now that the girls are sleeping? Well... I did, but I just barely started to work out (maybe 20 mint into it) when Danielle woke up and started to whining she wanted cereal, then she did not like that cereal, then she wanted something to drink oh my gosh I am getting mad just by typing all these. Suffice to say that it was a very hard day, but it is finally over both girls are sleeping and maybe I will get to relax before I'll go to bed. Perhaps the best thing that happened today
is that Charles got 92 in his very difficult test of microbiology, so YEAH one good news! now I am going to have a big bowl of icecream and big chunk of brownies to compensate my day

THE CIRCUS

2008-11-02T06:32:00.000-08:00

It ha been some years since I went to the circus. The magic was still there. I laughed so hard with the clowns. They had special contest "Dancig with the Clown" You might agree that Cloris would have won the contest. The trapecist did not disappointed me at all . It was so ooo much fun. here are some pict.

Halloween is over

2008-11-02T06:07:00.000-08:00

But we had lots of fun, it was an eventful week. It starter the saturday before Halloween. Our neighborhood celebrated Halloween at the park (across the street from where we live) there was a camp fire, a spooky blow out castle, lots of food from hot dogs to pizza, pies etc. Danielle had lots of fun playing with the other kids, Sophia was mesmerized by the camp fire, Teresa and Michael enjoyed all the neighbors. We went for a hayride you get the idea.
Tuesday was our Halloween party at school , my friend Mandy was in charge we had lots fun there. Wednesday was our trunk or treat at Church, we had a chili dinner and we ended up trick or treating in side because it was freezing cold and wet outside due to our very first snow fall of the season.
Thursday, I baby sat y friend Melissa' kid. Friday went trick or treat around our neighborhood after a visit to the dr office Danielle had an ear ache ended up being and ear infection, Sophia's ear are just fine. Going back to our Halloween celebration, we came home and Michael was already set. He was G.I. JOE (check out the pict). Our neighbor Lauren and her family invited us to go around the neighborhood with them, so we did. We ended the night with a video conference with Charles.
Yesterday we went to the "greatest show on earth" THE CIRCUS. Danielle favorite thing was "the elephant painting". Thanks Paw Paw for taking us.

Sophia is 5 months old

2008-10-30T17:58:00.000-07:00

Sort of, she'll be 5 month officially on Saturday November 1st. here she is having her breakfast. She is growing so fast!

The little Mermaid!

2008-10-30T17:55:00.000-07:00

Danielle wanted to be the little mermaid for Halloween, so grandma made this wonderful custom for her! she has already wore it twice! I will post more pictures tomorrow.

My dady was in town!

2008-10-22T08:09:00.000-07:00

My daddy was able to come to visit me all the way here in Pensilvania! thanks to my in laws who were so kiind in allowing my dad to spend some quality time with e and the girls. I can't express how happy I was to be able to see my dad and specially see him enjoying time with his grandkids! Sophia and Danielle had so much fun with him. We visited a pumkin patch thanks to Teresa and Michael who drove us there, we went to the zoo and the Science Center and ate a chick fil A almost every day ! My dad loves the cow that says eat more chicken.
Love you dad we can't wait to see you again!

I lost 10 lbs

2008-10-10T11:08:00.000-07:00

I was so excited and proud of my self I lost 10 lbs...but I already gained 5 over conference weekend. You know it was cold and we wore pj just the perfect time to EAT everything but the kitchen sink ( i learn this when I was in school) anyway, I am so frustrated why is so easy to gained it all back why would I do that when I worked so hard to lose ...oh well the pumpkin muffins were DELICIOUSnow I am back working out and I PROMISE I will be good in my eatting this time around

And the winner is...Me

2008-10-06T16:44:00.000-07:00

Yes , the girls fought against me yesterday when I put them down for a nap...After ;listening to their crying, complain, etc They both surrounded and took a 3 hours nap. I was able to take a nice shower and watched the last session of conference peacefully!

Dancing in the rain!

2008-10-01T08:52:00.001-07:00

I love this picture of my Bonita...It was a raining day, so she wore her jacket and rain boots, and they turn out to be perfect for the perfect picture! Danielle loved posing and this one was my favorite.
Maybe we will look into modeling clothe we will see.

Sisters!

2008-09-30T13:24:00.001-07:00

Couple of weeks ago I was walking in the mall with my two princess when a lady from people pictures approached me and gave a coupon for a free 8x10. We got the picture taken a week later and I was finally able to scan it. The story behind the picture is as follow. Danielle was holding Sophia, but Sophia was not very happy about being so close to Danielle, so she pushed herself away from her sister falling in her legs and this was the result! We loved it

Video Conference

2008-09-28T19:13:00.001-07:00

Today, We were able to have a video conference with my sweetheart. Danielle spent about 30 min. talking and looking at her daddy dancing for him and just having fun through our apple computer! He was able to see Sophia and I was just full of joy to enjoy the blessing of seeing him again. It has been almost 4 months since we saw him last, so we are very grateful for technology for allowing us to have this family experience. Only we know how much we miss each other and how lonely we feel at times even though we are surrounding by people. I am still trying to get a hop ( military flight) to go to see him in October. Hopefully we will get one and we can see each other soon.

God's Happiness

2008-09-27T20:15:00.000-07:00

I just came back from a delightful night! I went out to dinner with my mother in law. We had such a nice and uplifting conversation and then we headed out to the church to be spiritually nurture by our leaders during Relief Society Conference. May I just say how much I appreciate to be reminded of my great heritage, to know that I can be an instrument in the hand of the Lord to Answer someone's prayer and by "uplifting someone I raise myself a little higher! That is God's happiness for me and for all of you my dear friends to help other, to serve others, to share with others daughters of God that they too are loved and they too can be creative!
There is saying that goes It is nice to be important, but it is important to be nice! I will end this blog quoting president Uchtdorf
"Lift up your chin, walk tall, God loves you..."

Indignity

2008-09-26T13:56:00.000-07:00

A few nights ago Danielle and Grandpa were playing with a blanket. Danielle decided she was a "MONSTER" and was chasing grandpa, so he grabbed her and put her in the Texas game room ( yes the house is so big it has a room with things that resembles Texas even the flag is every where) Anyway. So here is the conversation between grandpa and Danielle.
Danielle: I am a Monster
Grandpa: I don't want monsters in my house ( grabbed her put her in the other room)
Danielle comes back into the kitchen and asked Grandpa
Danielle with her hands on her hips asked: Why did you put me outside...I am not a DOG
I laughed so hard

Good Bye Summer

2008-09-14T19:24:00.000-07:00

We said good by to summer during labor weekend at the Moon Park. Our new ward has lots of different tradition. One of them is to start the summer with a great picnic and to end the summer with another picnic. Other tradition is to start church 10 min. after the hour ...not sure about that. We did have lots of fun at the picnic our ward is great lots of nice people .
Here are some pcitures of Danielle having so much fun in her favorite summer dress "Cindirella dress " as she called it made by my mother. My camera still broken, but I was able to dowload this pictures with Teresa' camera.

Sophia is 3 months

2008-09-02T18:03:00.000-07:00

Believe it or not she is 3 months old as September 1st. She looks so grown up. Actually yesterday we were having tummy time on the floor and I decided to hold her hand and make her stand on her feet, for my amusement she gave to steps on her own. I know you might think that is just my imagination, but not she actually did it! Today while I was giving her a bath she look at me trought the mirror and gave me a huge smile. My baby is growing too soon. I will post picture but my stupid camara stop working again, the worst thing is that I just got it back fro the repair shop. anyways .

What a night

2008-08-29T05:49:00.000-07:00

So, on wednesday after exploring around our new city ( I haven't posted that we moved to Pittsburgh Pensylvania two weeks ago) and having so much fun with our knew friends, we ( my girls and I) came to an empty house since Mike and Teresa left to Colorado to visit Jonathan, who is in the AIRFORCE ACADEMY. I put Danielle to bed and came down stairs (our bedroom is in the third floor) with Sophia in my arms to turned off all the lights and secure the doors when suddenly I felt down the stairs not remembers details I just remebere that i COULDN'T shelter my baby or avoid in any way for her to get hurt. Those 3 seconds were the most terrifying of my entire life. ONce in the floor I started to scream so hard with so much pain because I knew Sophia was hurt the only think I could think of was call 911. I crawled the remainnig steps with my baby in arms to were the phone was, and picked it up and dialed I was a nervous wrack I have never been in such stage before all I could think of was that I caused brain injury to my baby.
Police came paramedics came and they were checking me when all wanted was for them to check my baby what in our way to the hospitalmy brain kept playing over and over again those 3 second and I could not stop crying.
Sophia, thank to Heavenly Father, was just fine she did not get even scratch her motor skills seems to be just fine and her behavior normal, no bumps on her head or anything I hit my head, my back m y bottom etc no major injuries. The dr said it will take 3 weeks until I fully recover.
Our friend Lisa, whos is the RS 2nd counselor, came to the hospital to help me with the girls and took us to her house to spend the night there, but before she took me to the Pickkets house so that I could get a blessing.
Let me tell you how much my testimony has increased on Garments and blessings. I am up and running ( well not really running but you know what I mean) all the areas that I got hurt was were garments cover except for my head that still hurts and feels numb.
If this was not enough, Danielle woke up yesterday with fever 102. I felt we came home we all took showers wore pj all day long. I felt so lonely and sad all I wanted was my husband next to me and my mother to cry on her shoulder. Don't get me wrong I am so thankful for Heavenly watching over me the fact that we are just fine after such a fall is a great blessing! I ended up the day singing hymns specially count your blessings, so that my sadness were replace for gratitud.
Today is more promissing Danielle still sick, but she does not have other symptoms than the fever. I guess we will stay home all day long and just enjoy the tranquility of being here and rest.
I typed this perhaps to give closure to such a chapter in my life and keep moving forward. Now I am going to call my mom since I feel less emotional.
I will post picture of the beautiful place where we live and its sourrounding areas maybe later. There are lots of tree every where, beautiful vegetations, fun pools with waves, a wonderful friendly ward great brand new friends who welcomed us with open arms etc it is wonderful to be able to count blessings they become uncountable.

Sophia is 2 months

2008-07-31T14:40:00.000-07:00

Sophia is two months old tomorrow, but today she had her 2 months old check up she is 95 % in weight ( she weights 11 lbs 11 oz) and 90 % in height ( she is 22 1/2 inches long). In general, she is doing great, except for her constipation. She is suppose to get vaccines at this time, but I was told since she is not 2 months until tomorrow, they would not give her vaccines, so I have to go back tomorrow (not happening) or Monday. Now they don't realize how hard it is for a mom to go to a dr. office with a 3 years old and a baby. Usually is not that hard, but I have to travel between 20 - 30 minutes to get to base and then get a permit to go in ( which implies to get both girls out of the car) and then drive for another 5 - 10 min (depend on traffic) to get to the dr. office is really no fun. Thankgoodness my dear friend Rachael came back from vacation and she will be watching my very inquisitive and hungry for knowledge Danielle.

Happy 6th Anniversary !

2008-07-26T11:15:00.001-07:00

I can't believe that we have been married for 6 years already! and Charles gave me the best anniversary present. He is number 31 out of 88 students in his class and his avarage is 88.5 ( very competitive class) This make me so happy because it makes our separation so worthy! I am so proud of him and I am happy that he is proud of himself and realizing that he too can do it. We still have a long way to go, but the reward will be wonderful at the end of this road. I know we are not the first family to be apart on special ocassion, so I am at peace with myself thought I miss him.
He is doing all this to provide a better future for us and I thank him for doing so.
Happy anniversary sweetheart!

My little Ballerina!

2008-07-10T14:03:00.000-07:00

Mommy "I am so EXCITED and HAPPY" that is how Danielle described her emotion when I told her we finally got a ballet class for her. Since we came here I was looking for a place for her to attend to ballet academy, but most of them go with the school calendar, so she could not getting until September. However, this academy has a summer class. Here are some picture of my little Danielle making her dream come true!

Sophia 1st video

2008-07-07T12:39:00.000-07:00

Here is a video of our little Sophia enjoy it

ONe month old

2008-07-04T15:14:00.001-07:00

Sophia reached her first month into this world. SHe is growing so fast and so cute. It seems to me that she looks liker her daddy. To celebrate her first month we gave her her first bath. Look at this after bath picture she is not very happy.

The NKOTB are back!

2008-06-29T10:35:00.000-07:00

Yes they are and if you are fan of them like I am you will go back on time by listening to all their songs. Let me tell you I was so shock when I read about it on my friend Mary's blog. I could not wait one more minute and I went to you tube to check out their new single "Summer Time" and of course some of the old songs. Before We realized we ( My friend Rachael and I) were jamming with their song and dancing "The right stuff" oh oh oh ....I couldn't helped to go back on time my goodness I was only 13 years old when they were in their peak of their career. I could barely understand the lyric of their song, but still hum them. There is a saying in spanish that translated it goes something like "To remember is to live again" and I did re-lived by listening to all those songs. I was so excited by the memories that I felt like teenager again (for a short period only).
I have to say that Joey looks as hot as you can imagine I had a crushed on him when were kids, wait a minute I still have a crush on him. I do disagree with Mary I think they are not too old to do this stuff they are just right Mary. (hahaha)
Anyway, I hope you too can re- lived all those beautiful teenagers years.

Up date

2008-06-28T08:50:00.000-07:00

Well the last couple of weeks have been crazy. Lots of drama, stress, sleepless night and days etc. Charles came to visit us for 4 days last week. It was so nice to see my husband again! we went to Buch Garden, the beach, to dinner and just be. Danielle was so happy to spend time with her daddy she even smile in every picture we took. Sophia was neglected a little bit ( I took only one picture of her and her daddy).
Charles is back in Sa Antonio, Texas where he is attending school. We to join him soon in a few months.
Sophia has colics as a result of cesarea, thankfully grandma realized why she was so fussy before I did. Now she is taking some gas relief drop and life is a bit easier. See Danielle did not have this problem.
Danielle is doing great! loving her sister too much which implies time out and some spanking (unfurtnatrly) can't wait for this part to get better.

Me , I have not been able to drink milk or eat ice cream for 28 days now. I guess I don't need the calories, but oh boy I surely wish I can drink a big glass of milk with a whole package of OREO COOKIES.

5 pictures

2008-06-28T05:09:00.000-07:00

My friend Corrine , who is in Hawaii for 6 months or more enjoying some deserve vacation. Tag me to post 5 pictures. Mine are no of the house; since it is not my house. However, here are five pictures of our favorite monments from last week.
I tag you Mary Walker and you Kathe and April and Alexa. The idea is to post five pictures of different rooms in your house without straight in it. Good Luck. Here are my five pict.