Shayna the drummer

We now have the new PS3 Yes I know what you are thinking, WHY!!! But we got addicted to the American Idol game and Guitar Hero. The fun thing is that we can all play together and have fun singing and playing the drums and guitar. It is really fun. Shayna and I are better at the drums and Dan loves the guitar. Shayna has become the new American Idol a couple of times and she even cried one time when I won :) Anyway here is a video of her new passion. On other news I have an appointment with the INS to do my fingerprints and make sure I am not a terrorist, that will be done next week. I guess things are moving along. Next week we drive down to Idaho and then come back home to get ready for our trip to Houston we are so excited.

Crafty Kids

My kids love doing crafts, in fact it is so dangerous to go to Michaels or any other place were they sell craft supplies, they always find something they want to work on. One day Tristan wanted to go potty and we had to go to Ben Franklyn to use the restroom. On the way out he saw all this cute fun and cheap crafts that we just couldn't resist and had to buy one for each. They were only a dollar each. I thought they were going to be hard to put together but they did a great job. Specially Tristan being the youngest one I wanted to help him but he did it all by himself. They turned out so cute.

House repairs

We are fixing up little things around the house. Well we are paying people to do it for us :)
Our fridge decided to star leaking one night and we had a little bit of a flooding in the kitchen. They came to fix it up that same day $$$$
Our garage has been broken for a few months and I finally made the phone call and got somebody to come fix it. We have a new garage opener and we love it. $$$$$
Our ceiling in the hallway upstairs was damaged after the swamp cooler pipe froze up a couple of years ago and we finally got somebody to fix it, he has been working on it for a couple of days and hopefully it will be done by the end of the week. The ceiling downstairs got damaged too a few months ago thanks to my children :) They were taking a bath and went a little crazy with the splashing and the water went down through the vent. the ceiling got all messed up and that is being fixed too. $$$$
Thanks to our Tax Return we are able to do all this extra stuff.

Easter

Aaron was still kind of sick and I didn't want to take him out so we stayed home while Dan went to Sandy to play on the Hand Bell Choir. He loves doing that and I always give him a hard time about practices during the week. It only happens twice a year I shouldn't be so selfish :)
My brother invited us over for Easter at his house and we had a good time. The kids had an Easter Egg Hunt. Shayna was so nice giving the little ones most of the eggs she found.

Victor's Birthday

I feel really bad about not posting his pictures on my blog, but here they are. He turned 6 on the 21st. and we had planned this great party for him. He loves Star Wars and that was the theme of the whole thing. We gave him Star Wars toys and I made him a Lego Stat Wars cake. We found a Darth Vador Piñata and plates. We invited 7 kids but only 3 showed up. I was really disappointed and sad for him. Las year it was a great success and we had over 12 kids here. I guess it didn't help that it was Easter weekend and some other parties going on at the same time. Anyways he had fun and we had lots of activities for them to do. They played Lego Star Wars for a little while too and that was the funnest part of the party I think. I found this masks to print at home and laminated them so all of them got a Star Wars mask to wear while braking the piñata instead of being blindfolded. They had pizza and cake and that was the end of it. It wasn't until a couple of days ago that Victor mentioned to me that he only got to open 4 present for his birthday and last year it was more. The thing is he opened present the night before his birthday party with just the family and I didn't get to wrap them :) but we took him to Chuck E. Cheese Pizza and that was super fun for everybody.
He is such a nice little man and I love him to death. He has the cutest smile and can be nice to his siblings when he wants to. He is so smart but hates the simple stuff, he likes complicated thing. He is doing great at school reading and learning spanish.

Disney Princesses on Ice

I haven't been able to post anything for a while due to different reasons, one of them being Aaron getting sick for like a week with RSV, he is all better now which is great. I was really scared for a while. The one good thing that came out of that week is that he is finally walking now (about 90% of the time). The weekend he got sick Shayna and I went to Disney Princesses on Ice and it was lots of fun. I have a couple of pictures of that experience. It was just the 2 of us and it always makes me nervous to drive to Salt Lake by myself but I did OK.

Music on my blog

I am so excited I found this website and was able to get some of my favorite songs in this playlist and now I can share them with everybody. The coolest thing is that I found the song Dan and I danced together at our wedding reception, Annie's Song by John Denver. Every time I listen to that song I cry, it brings back special memories for us. So enjoy.