Just an update!

Okay so Thanksgiving went by real fast, we had my parents visiting from California which was Great. The kids loved seeing abuelita and abuelito in fact they did not leave them alone for a minute, specially Karina, she just wanted to be around them the entire time. They also got to see my older brother and loved to play with my nephew. We also got to go to Temple square to see the lights and that was too much fun. It was absolutely freezing and we basically ran around trying to find refuge the entire time, but we made it out alive.

So I think everyone has heard the news, yes we are expecting baby # 3. Everyone is real excited about it. Karina thinks it's a girl, Troy does not care, and neither do we. But it will be fun having one more person in the home, I'm not quite sure how that will work, but it will work! So now that you know, the huge gap between my blogs will hopefully be self explanatory. I got real sick at first and then I was fighting a sinus infection and then an ear infection and then some more, basically I'm falling a part! But we're having a baby! If only I could look as cute when pregnant!(Instead of looking like I have a balloon in my belly I look like I'm the balloon!)







And last but not least. Christmas is just 4 days away, and in our house it's all about Christmas, everything is Christmas. If our doorbell rings Karina runs to the door as fast as she can and just knows that someone is bringing treats and says "mami were getting Christmas treats". Earlier it was snowing and the wind was blowing real hard and she said " look! look! it's Christmas snow mami look! Christmas snow!" We have just had an awesome year with treats this year, I've already gained I think my entire pregnancy weight! So this year due to my oversleeping eating it took me along time to get a good Christmas picture out, so I did the best I could and the least I could do to make it up for not having a good family pic. was to fetch one of Santa's little reindeer, and wallah, it was an instant success. Merry Christmas to all and stay tuned for our post Christmas news.

The Pirate and the Princess

So this year was Troy's first trick-or-treating experience, and he loved it. It did not take long for him to figure out, that he takes the treat and then put it in his pumpkin, and then when no one is looking take then out and eat as many as he can open. Our little Belle enjoyed it, she probably only has had like seven treats from her pumpkin up til this day, don't know why her pumpkin just sat on the counter the entire time, I guess she doesn't want to ruin her figure, or she's just a good little girl! We are not counting on the rest of our kids to be like her, as a matter a fact Troy is nothing like that, so we have no expectations for the future children, just Karina. Enough talk, here is Halloween night.

Feeding Ducks

We love to go to this small pond behind our house, it's just a short bike ride away and there are about six rescue ducks that live there. I'ts great they never leave because there were some that had bad injuries and can no longer fly, their rescuers live across the street from the pond and they take them in during bad winter days. So you can basically go any time of the year and there they are. Karina and Troy love the ducks, and specially to feed them which is tricky because they come so very very close while your trying to cut your bread, sometimes I feel like they're gonna just take it from my hand. And thats really the thrill of it, that they come so close and can eat almost from your hand. Even thought we are not quite sure what it is that Troy likes the most, feeding himself or the ducks, see he never shares the bread with the ducks only cereal which he does not like so only then will he feed it to them. It's a real nice spot, except for the little snakes I see all the time I think I might have gotten Karina scared of them too. Oh well, who likes snakes anyway.

Earings

Karina just got her ears pierced a week ago, and she made sure everyone she met saw them. She even showed them to the cat several times. She told Grant that she needed to have them. I guess after her friends and cousins got them she needed them as well. All she really cares about is that they look well with her Belle costume.

October Fun!

October is one of my favorite months. It's the beginning to the holidays!

And of course, CANDY. Aside from the junk, we like to do a lot of Octoberish

stuff, like going to the Pumpkin Patch, and painting pumpkins, and growing

our very own pumpkins, this year we got six from our own garden - WOW!!-

The kids loved to watch the garden and for the pumpkins, even though they

did not grow as big as we had planned them to be, it was still fun to get some free

ones. I say some because the pumpkin patch gave us one and at walmart we found our biggest one.

So due to the size of our pumpkins we decided to

paint them instead. And it was a hit with Karina. Now Troy on the other hand did not enjoy doing that one bit, he thought painting them was the scariest thing he had ever done, so he didn't participate.

My first post

We had a great summer and we have started fall with a lot of fun things. First we FINALLY convinced Grant to let us have a pet. Isn't she beautiful. Her name is Tosh, Karina did not want a girly name but sometimes even she can't remember that she's a girl and she'll say "mami he's not listening." Both of them just adore the kitty, they pick her up and throw her around, and sit on her, anyway you can imagine what a 3 year-old and a 18 month-old do to the poor cat.