Father's Day

I consider myself very blessed. If someone was to tell me 10 years ago the wonderful family that i was going to have, i wouldn't have believed them in a million years. I know my family is successful because of my husband.

He is that engine that keeps us going and makes it so easy to stir on any direction.
He is the person whose voice comforts and disciplines, whose arms hug and work hard every day.
He is the man that at the end of the day we anxiously await to come home, so that we can all be with before we go to bed.
Heavenly Father blessed me indeed when he put this wonderful man in my life, I couldn't have picked a better Daddy for my kids.

Spencer we are so proud of you for all your accomplishments, but specially we love you because of your unconditional love for us.

Happy Father's Day Spencer, Thanks for being in our lives!

Fun, Fun, Fun...

We went o Lagoon this year with both kids. It was so good to take the kids to enjoy themselves and watch their bright little faces smile every time they went on a ride or got a treat or were showing us something amazing they have just seen.

I wanted to take my video camera everywhere to save all the sweet little moments or silly things they did throughout the day.

I knew that Julia and Joshua liked each other, but this summer I was able to understand the greater friendship and sibbling conncection that exists betweem them
They take care, love and play with each other. Josh always looks up to her sister for everything and i am so proud that Julia is such a great example for him.

I've also been able to discover new things about my kids this summer. Julia is a lot like Spencer in so many ways; She has a very mellow, sweet, lay back and shy personality, but little did i now she is just as adventurous as me.

While we were in Lagoon, she didn't hesitated once to go on any ride. She wanted to keep riding the Tidal Wave and putting her hands up while riding the Lady bug drop and other big rides. She even got sad when we told her that she was too litlle to ride on the roller coaster.
After each ride we would ask her if she had gotten scare and with a very confident face she replied every time: "not scary, it tickle my belly".



My sweet little boy was the same way. He went into every ride in the kiddy land and not one little pip came out of him. He would watch what Julia was doing at each ride and he would do the same thing.
He didn't fuss, cry or anything. I was so proud of him. When he got tired he fell asleep, and after his nap he woke up and was ready for more rides.

Most of the time I just wanted to step back and just watch the kids and Spencer have fun together. It melted my heart to see Spencer act so sweet and encouraging with the kids before each ride and also to see the great big smiles that eachof us had that entire day.

May update

Haircut
i took Julia in to get her first professional haircut. Her hair wasn't bad but it was growing up uneven. so here is a picture of her new look. let's just say my toddler is a big girl all the sudden

One of Julia's birthday presents was dance lessons. She has been a great student, always doing and learning everything the teacher showed her and coming home and teaching Josh all her stretches and new songs.

On May 18Th they had a little recital type show. The girls' dance a routine moves for a song then showed off all of their tumbling moves.

Thank you grandma Smith for been there! She really enjoyed it

Our little man is One!

Mi goodness how fast the time goes by when you are having fun!. On April 28Th our little boy turned one. We celebrated at our house, with all of our family. Thank you guys for coming.
We had home made cake, the best! and spent time together.
Julia has set the bar really high for the rest of her siblings, but I am so grateful that this little guy is keeping right up to it.
Loving this little kid is the most amazing and easy thing in the world to do. he is our favorite boy(for now)
He puts himself to sleep at night and you could pretty much always tell what he needs. HE could keep himself entertained for hours.
He already calls her sister ia, short form Julia. It is the funniest thing trying to see him keep up with his sister when they are playing together.

Things that Josh can do and say by age 1:-could say tete referring to his teta which is the Spanish word for bottle
- has been able to say daddy since 7 months old
-when he wakes up, he always have a big smile for you and greets you with a hey!
-can fall asleep by himself and sleep through the whole night
-can roll over anywhere , crawl everywhere, walk by holding onto things

-open and close the stairs gate, with no difficulty.

Favorite Snacks:

-plain old cheerios

-pretzels

-his ultimate favorite: graham crackers

-loves rice, peas and carrots

Favorite things to say:
-oh, wow!
-ewe!
-cereal
-ball
-ia(calling for Julia)
-yum (after he tastes some food he really likes)
-ukie he means cookies which he calls the graham crackers

-ioky ( after he burps or passes gas, so he uses this one a lot)
still he can't say mommy, yet he calls me oty. As long as he knows who I am, we are OK

Favorite Toys:
-his little toy piano
-balls
-balls
-balls
-anything that he can fit on his mouth to chew on.
-toy phone-he can put it correctly over his ear and pretend he talks to somebody

Attitude:
lets just say he is one and the other day he heard me coming to his room and i could hear his fast little knees just crawling to the door as fast as he could and just closing the door on me.
thank goodness i found out he was just playing hide and seek with me, but boy that's is one smart boy

Mommy and daddy's favorite things about Josh:

those big wide brown eyes that just wonder and discover all day long and that cute little smile that never seems to end.

We love you Joshy, or like Julia would say Big J you are a blessing in our lives

Happy Birthday Josh!

sun..it is time for fun!

The weather was nice enough and I had nothing plan for that entire day, so we were finally able to go to the duck park. Julia and Josh love to see the duckies and feed them.

We walked around the park circuit 6 times, because we had to feed all the duckies we could possibly find, SPECIALLY the "baby duckies". With her sweet little face, Julia said to me : "look mommy the baby duckies are sooo hungry, they want pan(bread)". so of course mommy said alright honey let feed as many as we can with this loaf of bread.
You could see the commitment of this girl on feeding the ducks. She got mad at her brother for eating some of the bread. This boy would get 2 pieces of bread, one for him, one for the ducky

After we fed the ducks we went over a nearby park and had lunch, took some pictures and play on the swings for a while.

All I have left to say is:
Loaf of bread for the ducks $1, loaf of bread for Josh another $1, wonderful time with the kids.....priceless

Easter

I planned a couple of activities for the kids this Easter. It all started at the Layton mall with the Easter bunny. Julia loved stopping by the Easter bunny's house and visiting with it. I don't think she really care that much about sitting with the bunny, but i surely think she enjoyed getting a sucker at the end of the chat

We then went to ToysRus. They had an Easter egg hunt for the kids and gave gave them toys and coloring pages.

Josh and Julia had a blast and they were so excited about finding clues and stickers all over the store.

Days later, Spencer's mom took us to a cute farm in Logan to see baby animals. we all loved it, specially Julia who couldn't stop talking about all the animals she had seen and pet that day.

We saw a lot of animals, had kettle corn and home-made root beer, the kids rode the train and got to do different activities through out the place.

This was lots of fun. Thank You so much Grandma Smith for this day, we loved it!!

We came back on Easter t grandma's house to color eggs and to do an Easter egg hunt at her house

March 18th a special day

Wednesday was a very special day. First of because it was my Hubby's Birthday and second of all because it was our 6 year anniversary also.

We are one of those crazy people who get marry on each other's birthdays.
To make this day special we went out to Chuck E. Cheese's and enjoyed seeing our kids have fun. after a couple of slices of some very thin cheese pizza we went to the Bountiful temple and walked around with our kids.




What a marvelous experience it was to reminice our lives 6 years ago and admire all the transformation and changes that they have had since we got married in that Temple
seeing ourselves as parents of 2 beautiful children is defenately the grates blessing that we can both count. Indeed, six years full of memories and of great times.




I am so blessed to have such a great man beside me to hold me and to guide me.
Spencer I definately loved you more today than I did yestreday!

When we got back home, julia and I baked his birthday cake and decorated it. I sacrificed my taste and made him a chocolate cake so I imagine I wont be tasting it

Happy Birthday Spencer!