Showing posts with label cousins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cousins. Show all posts
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Force Cousins in Town!! Dinner with Family.
Janma, grandpa and Lucas exercise patience in the waiting area before our table was ready. Waiting for a table for 11peeps at Crystal Springs Restaurant in New Braunfels Texas.
Kayla soon to be 14. Where does the time go? I swear she was 5 yesterday and 3 the day before that. My beautiful teenage niece.
Pops and daddy..
Uncle Shane is opening the humor portion of our evening.
Too cool little chicks hang at the end of the table that was just for cool kids like them.
Addie takes a minute to update daddy on the ten most important things that happened in life overnight since she saw him last
A Lucas and mommy selfie.
Monday, March 11, 2013
Sunday after Church, part 1
We made 6 individual servings of fake snow for play in the back yard. The kids all where so impressed as their tiny bit of flaky powder turned into a cup full of snow for throwing. The dry stuff was the same stuff that is in disposable diapers and changes to gel when wet. We got the little snow present from Jenny and Nate a couple of Christmas's ago and have been holding into it for a fun with the kids day. Sunday was the perfect timing. It starts with sodium polyacrylate. Check out this link to make your own backyard snow: http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryhowtoguide/ht/fakesnow.htm
After our backyard fun including snow
we brought the kids in for a short wind down period of popcorn and a movie. They watched Alice in Wonderland, the one with Johnny Depp. Then a walk to Audubon Park with my bigs and niece Zoe. Of course I trekked it through Loyola. The rest of the crew met us there. I Love that Mima is only a short walk from the park.
After our backyard fun including snow
we brought the kids in for a short wind down period of popcorn and a movie. They watched Alice in Wonderland, the one with Johnny Depp. Then a walk to Audubon Park with my bigs and niece Zoe. Of course I trekked it through Loyola. The rest of the crew met us there. I Love that Mima is only a short walk from the park.
Spring Break in NOLA, First Morning
The kids, the ones in public school, have spring break for the week March 11-15. As soon as the new year started, Amy began mapping out her trips for the year including plans for this week. She proposed this trip for us from Texas and just hoped that there was a possibility that Jenny in Florida could make it with her munchkin, Zoe. Jennifer, Jenny, didn't bite on the invite and we didn't expect she was going to be able to get here from so far with extra budget constraints (expecting new baby and starting military ministry).
What a trip! Oh my word, the drive from Texas to NOLA always has a 70% chance of getting very irritating as soon as we cross the state line. This was one of those trips. It took us 3 hours and two movies to move 45 miles. Ugh!!!! Crazy enough our kids were fantastically patient during this delay. Amy and I on the other hand had a hard time keeping our cool. And we were hungry. You would think knowing the likelihood for traffic we would know to eat early. I don't know, we had plenty of snacks. I just was craving a horse, I mean a burger.
Best part of day 1 was the fantastic patience of our kids on a torturous 12 hour trip that should have been 8. Close second and maybe actually tied for first was getting to stop and meet up with my friend of 20 years, Kari. 20 years!!!!! 20 years pass so fast. We had an awesome visit and meal but we did have to cut it shorter than I would have liked based on the ticking time bombs that were our kids. The littlest girls were asleep in the van within minutes of getting back on the road.
And then again also tied for first was getting to Mima's however late to find out that Jenny was there with Zoe after all!!!! Great surprise!
So we all celebrated, unpacked and crashed for the evening exhausted. We did change clocks and set alarms for church in the morning. Mom and dad haven't settled into a church here yet and mom brought us to one they had tried once. Cool thing, it is pretty much named the same as our home church that we love. We went to Journey Christian Church. We totally loved it and I hope mom and dad do too. The kids went to Sunday School after praise and worship and the message delivered was focused on doing life in community. Read Proverbs 20 verse 13. Toward the end of service I had to run to the ladies room and found a wall hanging with one of my favorite, perhaps THE favorite, scriptures on it. Great morning at church.
What a trip! Oh my word, the drive from Texas to NOLA always has a 70% chance of getting very irritating as soon as we cross the state line. This was one of those trips. It took us 3 hours and two movies to move 45 miles. Ugh!!!! Crazy enough our kids were fantastically patient during this delay. Amy and I on the other hand had a hard time keeping our cool. And we were hungry. You would think knowing the likelihood for traffic we would know to eat early. I don't know, we had plenty of snacks. I just was craving a horse, I mean a burger.
Best part of day 1 was the fantastic patience of our kids on a torturous 12 hour trip that should have been 8. Close second and maybe actually tied for first was getting to stop and meet up with my friend of 20 years, Kari. 20 years!!!!! 20 years pass so fast. We had an awesome visit and meal but we did have to cut it shorter than I would have liked based on the ticking time bombs that were our kids. The littlest girls were asleep in the van within minutes of getting back on the road.
And then again also tied for first was getting to Mima's however late to find out that Jenny was there with Zoe after all!!!! Great surprise!
So we all celebrated, unpacked and crashed for the evening exhausted. We did change clocks and set alarms for church in the morning. Mom and dad haven't settled into a church here yet and mom brought us to one they had tried once. Cool thing, it is pretty much named the same as our home church that we love. We went to Journey Christian Church. We totally loved it and I hope mom and dad do too. The kids went to Sunday School after praise and worship and the message delivered was focused on doing life in community. Read Proverbs 20 verse 13. Toward the end of service I had to run to the ladies room and found a wall hanging with one of my favorite, perhaps THE favorite, scriptures on it. Great morning at church.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Photo Blog
Amy sent these images yesterday. I know I am slacking again on keeping the blog current so I thought I would post some photos of my kiddos and their cousins to hold you over until I actually write again.
this is Ms. Olivia Baltera
Here is Dominic, too cool to take off his hat at the table but I think he is just coloring. Don't call the courtesy police on him yet.
these three play very well together
Emaleigh doesn't like to stop what she's doing to smile on my time.
Monday, June 29, 2009
Florida Girl, Zoe!
My mom treated me and Emaleigh with a quick trip to the sunshine state to meet my new niece, Zoe Claire Garcia. It was awesome to get to see my sister in full mommy mode. Jenny's got that natural nurturing instinct. And she was pretty generous sharing Zoe snuggles. I got to hold her a bit. Jenny even skipped baby baths all week just so I could bath Zoe when I got there. Ms. Zoe was calm cool and collected for the most part. 
Emaleigh had a great time too but she was less interested in Zoe and much more interested in Ziggy, my dog nephew and Zoe's big brother. I wish I had a better picture of him but he did not like the red eye on my point and shoot camera. I will replace this photo when I get a better photo from Jenny, hint hint.
And then she definitely soaked up some Aunt Jenny and Uncle N8 love too.
My plane left from the Orlando area on Sunday at 3:30 but we took off from Lakeland at 10:30 am so we could use the trip to fit in another visit with family. My childhood friend and cousin who lives in Winter Garden, Florida. We stopped by their home for a quick lunch and visit. She and her husband, Mr. RB, have two son's. The oldest will be 3 in October and played very nice with Emaleigh, sharing his toys and showing her how they all worked. Her baby was born only a couple of weeks before Zoe. I love this picture with the two of the in their infant carriers still snoozing. Both of these have plenty of hair that they could spare some to my one year old who is still as bald as the day she were born.
Ofcouse we managed to get one rare pictire of Jenny, Dawn and I all together. It has been so long since we were all together. I think it was at my wedding four years ago. I hope we will be able to update this photo sooner than four years from now. The trip was quick and the visits were both entirely too short, but I am glad that I got out there anyway. Sometimes you take a day for a trip you'd prefer to bee a week long just because that week never comes along. Maybe at the end of 2010 we can all reconvene in a mountian town to chase all of our toddlers plus one more from Texas in the snow.
Emaleigh had a great time too but she was less interested in Zoe and much more interested in Ziggy, my dog nephew and Zoe's big brother. I wish I had a better picture of him but he did not like the red eye on my point and shoot camera. I will replace this photo when I get a better photo from Jenny, hint hint.And then she definitely soaked up some Aunt Jenny and Uncle N8 love too.
My plane left from the Orlando area on Sunday at 3:30 but we took off from Lakeland at 10:30 am so we could use the trip to fit in another visit with family. My childhood friend and cousin who lives in Winter Garden, Florida. We stopped by their home for a quick lunch and visit. She and her husband, Mr. RB, have two son's. The oldest will be 3 in October and played very nice with Emaleigh, sharing his toys and showing her how they all worked. Her baby was born only a couple of weeks before Zoe. I love this picture with the two of the in their infant carriers still snoozing. Both of these have plenty of hair that they could spare some to my one year old who is still as bald as the day she were born. Ofcouse we managed to get one rare pictire of Jenny, Dawn and I all together. It has been so long since we were all together. I think it was at my wedding four years ago. I hope we will be able to update this photo sooner than four years from now. The trip was quick and the visits were both entirely too short, but I am glad that I got out there anyway. Sometimes you take a day for a trip you'd prefer to bee a week long just because that week never comes along. Maybe at the end of 2010 we can all reconvene in a mountian town to chase all of our toddlers plus one more from Texas in the snow.
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