Mia's Blessing

Mia was blessed Sunday October 12, 2008 by Sal who did a wonderful job despite him being nervous!! We were very lucky to have most of both of our family's here with us for this very special occasion!! Her dress was made by Sal's aunt, and I made the headband so they didn't completely match, but it worked out ok anyway!!

Day at the Zoo!!

The Denver Zoo occasionally has free days, where you can go to the zoo completely free!! It gets really crowded, but it was lots of fun!! The polar bear kept swimming back and forth on his tummy and back, it was really funny to watch him. He would swim to a rock wall, climb up on it then fall on his back in the water and float for a while, then turn on his tummy and go back to the wall, and do it all again! Then the leopard had three cubs which were so cute!! There is also lots of museum like exhibits which are really fun to walk through! It is a really nice zoo and a fun way to spend a Saturday!!

Good Job!!

Ariana's school just had their quarterly awards ceremony where Ariana received three awards! The most out of anyone in her class!! She got a perfect attendance, academic achievement, which means she only got A's and B's, and a citizenship award which is only given to two kids in the class for being a good helper, following rules, and always participating in class. Good Job Ariana, We are so proud of you!!

Who am I?

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You are thoughtful and care very deeply for your family. A loving home is of great importance to you and you always try to make people feel welcome. Although you have a great capacity to love, you also have a great capacity to hurt, so at times you can be sensitive. You're firm when you need to be, but people trust your judgment and appreciate the kind way you always handle things.

Allright!! I like Esme!! Yes, this sounds like me, at least I think so!

Great big sisters!!

I have two of the greatest helpers in the world!! Ariana and Tycee love to do everything for Mia, that I hardly have to do anything at all. I may have to make the bottle, but it seems that I don't ever get to feed her myself!!

Way Behind!!

It has been a while since I posted anything, so I have lots of updating to do!! Ariana had her 7th birthday and I can't believe that my baby is that old!! It was a great day, we had lots of our family in town so we all went to Chuck-e-Cheeses where the kids played and had a ball, ate lots of pizza and sang happy birthday to her.

Sal got to take a little weekend get away to Moab with lots of friends. He had a great time biking and hiking when he wasn't flying over his handlebars!! He came home with lots of cuts and bruises, but he said they were all worth it!!

Tycee begged and begged me to get her ears pierced after she saw Ariana putting on some cute earrings. I didn't really want to do it quite this young, but she wouldn't stop asking, so we finally took her to the mall and did it. She cried after the first one because it got stuck in the little gun thing, but after she saw it, she was so excited and didn't cry at all after the second one. She then had to tell everyone that she did it!!

Gotcha!!

Caught a very cute moment, She isn't really smiling yet,

but I just happened to take the picture right at the perfect moment!!

My girls!!

Just some more cute pics of the girls. Ariana and Tycee are just loving their new baby sister, they can't seem to keep their hands off of her!! They are such good big sisters though, they want to do everything they can to help me out. They are such sweet girls!! How did I get to be so lucky?

Congrats!!

A big shout out to Brenley, Isaiah, and Leilani who were all baptized on the 2nd. We are so proud of you, and love you very much!!

She's Home!!

After two and a half long weeks of living in the waiting room of the hospital, our little girl came home on Saturday, August 2nd. She gained almost a pound, leaving the hospital at 4 lbs 12 oz. She has done amazingly well. She kept pulling out her feeding tube in the hospital, so the nurses decided to try giving her a bottle, and she just took right to it with no problems at all. Usually when they are that small they forget to breath while they eat, but she had no problems! They were saying that she would have to stay for at least 4 weeks, but she did so well that she showed everyone that she wanted to go home!! Ariana and Tycee are loving it that she is home and they can hold her whenever they want, they just want to kiss her and hold her a little to much and keep waking her up!! We love it though, finally having all of our girls home!!