Natalia....

Here is the great shot of Natalia at her last competition, courtesy of Michelle! I think their outfit was so pretty and went so well with the song. They dance a beautiful dance to Sittin by the Dock of the Bay and they look so pretty. The next competition is April 24 in Nampa, Id. It is so fun to watch these competitions and see all the different dances that are done, it really is entertaining. Natalia has grown up so much and is an excellent dancer. You all need to come and watch her dance!!

Woops...

I put two pictures of Ryan on that last post for some reason, so here is the picture of Seth....

Update...

This is what we have been up to, birthday's and dance! Seth had his birthday first, on Febuary 15. We let him invite 8 friends over for pizza and cake. That was kind of a mistake! It was crazy loud for 2 hours and a few of the boys were a little out of control but he was happy so that is all that counts. Then it was Ryan's on Febuary 26, for his we let him have a party at the bowling alley since last year he didn't get a party. Well he invited about 12 kids and 9 showed up. Now that was really hard because they were all very busy and hard to keep track of but they had a blast and 7 year olds are so cute and they say funny things. Then it was Natalia's birthday on March 3. I can't believe my little girl is 12!!! She is having a little party at the bowling alley tomorrow night. She is the busiest of all the kids. She has dance 3 days a week plus they perform at the college here every so often but that is over for now. We just went to dance competition in Pendleton where they won 1st place for their hip hop dance which I plan on taking a video of because that is one of the cutest dances ever and they are all so cute! I will put that on here when I get it videoed at the next competition. She is a great dancer! She is now in Young Women's! Can you believe that? I can't, I actually started to cry, I never thought that day would come and it did soooo fast. Anyway I have an excellent picture that was taken of her at the competition that I am putting on here next, it is so good. That's it for now....

I'm Back!

Well guess what? I am back!! Not that any of you missed me very much but I decided to take a few minutes to post our new family pics. They are so good and I was so excited when I got them. They were taken by a great friend of mine who really knows how to take pictures, thanks a ton Michelle, I love them, you are a great friend! Anyway I have tons of pictures of all the stuff we have been doing so they are coming I promise. We have been extremely busy as usual and by the time I get a few minutes I really don't want to sit at my computer but I decided its been long enough so I promise to post lots of pictures this week. Anyway let me know what you guys think of the new pics, I would love to hear your comments!

Happy New Year....

Well I have been a bad blogger lately! I feel like I have to fight everyone to get on MY computer, so we decided to get another computer. We will now have 3 computers, Yeah!! So the last 3-4 weeks have been crazy as usual. We did get to go home for Christmas for a few days and we had a great time as usual. The kids had fun and loved their gifts. I do have a story about that. Because we live in this wonderful valley we don't have very much shopping and so the internet is wonderful BUT stuff takes a little longer to get to us. So we decided to get the boys electric guitars, new skateboards, and shoes from "Santa". We got all of them off ebay because of the weather we could not get out of town to go shopping. So we get the guitars no problem. Seth's skate board made it as well about 2 weeks before Christmas. Well we couldn't find Ryan's skateboard as fast but we finally did on ebay and it was coming out of Utah so we figured it wouldn't take too long to get to us. Well to make a long story short we ordered Ryans skate board it shipped out on Dec.14 we did not recieve it until Dec.28 when we got back from Idaho. We didn't get his shoes either. Seth's shoes came on Christmas eve so we got everything for him but not Ryan. So we had to tell him they were from us and Santa brought him the guitar and the legos. So anyway it was very interesting! I felt so bad but he actually did better than I thought. He did say one time why did Seth get more presents then me? So that was fun! We did get through it and the roads were terrible when we traveled but we made it and had a good time. Now we are into the new year and I have made a few goals this year! Hopefully I will achieve them. I will tell you all that one of my goals is to learn something new. I kinda think I might want to learn how to knit or croche(not sure how to spell either of those words!), so we will see. If any of you know how to do either of those things maybe you could teach me??

As promised....

Here are a few of the pics I took at my brothers wedding in October. I am no photographer but I sure had fun pretending! As I sat for hours on end retouching and fixing I wished I would have done some different stuff but oh well. I think that they turned out pretty good. If you read this Stevie- I am working on an album for you and Kriste! Anyway let me know what you all think, I would love to hear your comments!

Where am I?

Well I honestly don't know. What I do know is that I have almost zero time to sit at my computer anymore. Between dance, scouts, work, and homework i have no time left for me! At the moment I am on my lunch break eating a salad and chicken nuggets from wendy's taking bites in between typing! Sad huh? I have so many pictures I need to post and share so hopefully I will get those on here soon. The saddest part of all this is usually I am done Christmas shopping in November and I am still not done yet and Christmas is 13 days away! Help!!! Anyway we have been doing great besides being busy. The kids are doing great in school. I help with Ryan's class every wednesday morning with reading groups for an hour. I really enjoy that. Natalia has a 3.76 gpa and hopefully next semester it will be a 4.0. She is a great student. Seth is doing very well he is very smart and loves to read. Ryan struggled for a while to read but is now doing better. Larry's business is doing very good he recently aquired a new product that he sells to the Safeway stores. He does the Nature's nuts and they have trail mixes and dried fruits as well. I am still working at Carpet One. The people I work for and with are very good people. I am lucky! It definately has been busy for me, probably the busiest I have ever been in my life. As I look back on the past 10 years I can see the many blessings that I have enjoyed and even took for granted. It really is amazing at how fast the time speeds by, I know I have said that a lot but I honestly can't believe it. Anyway off to work...I will post some pics I promise!