Temple Square Christmas Lights!

It's that time of year where Temple Square lights up. We had the opportunity in going on Saturday evening. And it was packed, but the christmas spirit was felt. I loved the lights and the kids were in awe of how many lights they are able to put on these trees. It was beautiful. If you get a chance go see the lights. We even took some pictures and we think we found the our christmas card picture among the pictures that we took. Some people were kind enough to take a couple of family pictures of us. They even had two Nativity scenes this year, one was on the reflection pond and it looked as if the figures where floating. It looked really pretty.

Thanksgiving Family Dinner!

My dad carving the turkey

The delicous Turkey my dad prepared


We got together at my parents house and had our Thanksgiving Dinner. After dinner we watched a movie.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Tomorrow will be Thanksgiving and we will be busy eating turkey and celebrating with family. I just want to share some things that I am most thankful for.
1. My husband, Jorge for the sacrifices that he does for me and the kids so that we can have a better future. For being an excellent husband and provider.
2. For my kids, they are kind, caring and lovable and I am truly thankful for their health and the intelligence that they possess.
3. For the gospel, without it I would be lost. and for the testimony that I have of the true gospel of JesusChrist. And for the comfort that it brings me to know that their is a god that loves us and wants the best for us and who is always at our side.
4. For our jobs and the means to provide for our family in these tough times. Eventhough we might sometimes have little we still have a roof over our head and food on our table.
5. For my immediate family, for the love they give me and the example that they are to me.
6. And lastly for my friends, they are a blessing to have because without them life would be a little dull.

Twilight The Movie

Twilight!!!

Well the big day has arrived for us Twilight Fans. I was kind of skeptical if to even dare go to the movie theather today to watch the movie. But Jorge decided for us and we went together to the 4:10pm show. He bought the tickets this morning (he has been sick so he was out sick today too) not too bad for a sick day. He was nice enought to go with me and we had my mom and dad watch the kids for the afternoon. They told him when he bought the tickets to arrive 1 hour prior to the show time so that we could stand in line. We arrived around 3:10pm and went right inside cause they were seating the people and we waited inside, which was very comfortable.
The movie was very good. They did skip alot of parts from the book but showed really the most important parts of the book. I can say that I thought they did a pretty good job in acting out alot of these parts from the book fairly well. I can also say that they did a good job in keeping alot of what the book is about and didn't really add anymore to it. So I give it Two Thumps Up!!.
When we left the theater there was a huge crowd in line for the 7:00pm show and we were glad we came early to see it. If you haven't seen it and you want too, it is worth it!! My opinion!!
Jorge like dit also. He has even started reading the first book as soon as he got home.

What Part of Thanksgiving are You?

You Are The Stuffing

You're complicated and complex, yet all your pieces fit together. People miss you if you're gone - but they're not sure why.

What Part of Thanksgiving Are You?

Cold, Headache, Cough, Stuffy nose

When is this going to be over? We have been sick for almost 2 weeks now. First Braden started with the cough and low grade fever then Jorge started feeling sick last weekend, then Kaylee catched the virus braden had (braden is fine now) and Kaylee is sick, and me, well I was the healthy one out of the bunch and now I am sick with same thing and Jorge is still battling this cold. He stayed home from work yesterday and today went to work but called me around 11 am to tell me that his boss told him he could go home if he was not feeling well. So since he carpools with 3 other people he was not driving his car so I told him I would pick him up. So I went to salt lake and picked him up and we got home and he crashed in bed and hopefully he will wakeup feeling better.
Jorge specially has so many things going on now between school, work, hoemwork, calling that he doesn't rest like he would like to and his body may not be as rested and when he catches a cold he feels miserable. So I hope my honey can feel better soon.

Tagged!!

I was tagged by my friend Ariana. And actually it has made me think more about things that I wish for or things that I like. So here it is, Have fun!!!

Eight Favorite TV shows:

1. Dancing with the stars (I love this season)
2. Extreme Makeover Home edition
3. ER
4. Rick Steves (shows of places that he has gone to)
5. Funniest Home Videos
6. Ellen Show
7. Tyra Show
8. Good things Utah

Eight Favorite Restaurants:
1. Costa Vida
2. Mimi's Cafe
3. Dragon hill
4. Ligoris Pizzeria
5. Chick Fil a
6. Chuck-a-Rama
7. Golden Corral
8. Famous Daves
Eight things that happened yesterday:
1. The kids were sick
2. Stayed home from church (I missed going to church)
3. Played Trouble with the kids
4. Made dinner
5. Made brownies
6. Read the ensign and my scriptures and prepared a YW activity
7. Watched TV with the kids
8. Went to bed pretty early
Eight Things to Look Forward To:
1. Thanksgiving
2.Christmas
3.Being done christmas shopping
4. Going to Paris, France one day
5. Having my kids healthy again
6. Taking a long and much needed vacation (but who knows when that will happen)
7. Finishing our basement
8. weekends, when jorge is home and we can spend time with him.
Eight Things on My Wish List:
1. A Trampoline or swing set for my kids.
2. To payoff my mortgage
3.To paint my bedroom and redecorate and have a new bedroom set
4. To always have my family close and for all to be well and healthy
5. To go to a Josh Groban concert again.
6. Mit Romney to run for President in 2012 and Sarah Palin to be his VP
7. A much needed vacation
8. to go to Disney with the kids once more
Eight Things I Love About Fall:
1. The beauty that comes from the changing colors on the trees
2. The weather, I love it, its not too cold or hot.
3. drinking hot chocolate
4. Halloween
5. Thanksgiving
6. Holidays in general-and knowing that Christmas in coming
7. The falling and raking of the leaves.
8. getting my winter and fall clothes out and using blankets in the house while I watch TV or while I read.
Eight people I tag:
1.Jenny Leavitt
2.Mariann Pero
3. Rebecca Pollock
4. Jorge Guillen
5. Zildy Manuell
6. Susan Foutz
7. Jenny Helmer
8. Don't know who else.

Grandpas Work Christmas Partyyyy!

On Saturday my dad had his work christmas party at Classic Fun Center. Since he doesn't have small kids anymore, he decided to take the grandkids. So we dropped off the kids at classic and Jorge and me went to eat breakfast and to start some of the christmas shopping. It was nice to be alone the two of us, having in mind that the kids were having a good time with their grandparents. They provided breakfast, 2 hours of bouncing, skating, lasertag, ect.. Plus Santa Claus showed up and gave each child a toy (let me tell you, they went all out with the toys, they were cute toys). We then picked them up at around 10am. Kaylee and Braden were so tired.



In the evening we went out againg to the Newgate Mall, just to walk and see the decorations and then we got some takeout from our favorite chinese restaurant, Dragon Hill. And had a quiet rest of the night.

Santa Mail!

On Monday the kids and I wrote letters to Santa. I saw on a Macy's commercial that they were going to have a big Mail Box at their store locations for kids to drop their santa letters and for every letter they get the store will donate $1.00 to the make-a-wish foundation. Macy's will even deliver the letters to the postoffice so that they can be mailed to the North Pole. So after watching this commercial I decided to have the kids write their letters. Ofcourse I was the one that wrote them and they decorated them and put stickers on them and they would just tell me what to write and what toys they want for Christmas. It's a great idea because now I kind off know what they want for christmas, Hint, hint!!

So yesterday we went to the Layton Hills Mall, where their is a Macy's store and we found the big Mail Box and it was so cute that I took my camera and took pictures of the kids infront of it and while putting their letters in the slot. They were so excited!! I remember when I still BELIEVED that santa was real. It is the most exciting moment for a child to BELIEVE that he knows what you want and to know that he comes late at night. I just want my kids to have that experience for a long time and hopefully not find out about the truth until they are much, much older. Now they are already telling me that we need to leave Hot chocolate and cookies for him to snack on when he comes. We did this last year and when they woke up the next morning and saw that the mug was empty and the cookies were gone, they were so surprised because they knew he had come during the night. Those are the most wonderful memories.

I myself had a great childhood because my parents never told me about the Santa thing. I always BELIEVED it was true until I found out for myself when I was 10 or 11 yrs old. I'am getting into the christmas spirit already that I even changed my blog background. Wait until I put my chirstmas music playlist, coming soon!!!

Cute Flowers

Yesterday afternoon we went to Roberts Craft and bought some flowers. Well, I have been looking at this cute hair clips for Kaylee's hair since a few months ago and they are kind of pricey for what they are. They run between $3.00 to $6.00 a piece. The cuter and bigger once can be even more. Well I decided to buy flowers of different colors and hair clips, and cut off the flower part and hot glue the hair clip to the back of the flower, and done. So I made these today and they turned out pretty good, and I only spend $7.00 on the materials. Cool Huh?

And bytheway, kaylee lost another tooth and she looks so adorable with her missing teeth.

Daughter-Mother Date!

I had planned to take Kaylee to see High School Musical since 1 week ago. So she was looking forward for the arrival of Saturday. We went to see the movie together and went to the 11am show. She was very excited that finally she was going to see this movie. We bought some candy before hand and I was able to sneek it in purse. We arrived at the movie theater and bought some popcorn and went inside. I can say that I really enjoyed this show. I have seen the 2 previous movies with kaylee and this last one was a much bigger production with bigger music numbers. The chemistry among the actors and actress was noticable and it truly was quite a good show. Kaylee also enjoyed it and now wants me to get her the soundtrack which she knows alot of the songs quite well already. She loves to listen to RadioDisney and knows the songs by heart. My little singer!!

Jorge on the other hand had a Daddy-Son date with Braden and he took him to the Hill Airforce Museum, which Braden loves. He has been there several times and never gets tired of the place. We think he is going to be a pilot when he grows up. Then Jorge took him to eat. Its funny cause Braden chose to go eat to Chuck-a-rama buffet.

Me and Kaylee went to target after the movie and had some pizza hut pizza in their little cafe and then bought a couple of things and went home. We really enjoyed ourselves together and we plan on doing this again often, maybe next time I will have the date with Braden and Jorge with Kaylee.

Election day!!!

This Election Year for a new president has been exciting. I voted on the first day of early voting this year because I didn't want to wait till today. Right at this moment I am watching the covereage on channel 2 CBS and McCain is ahead, I am so excited that this race is so close that its nerve racking. I hope he wins for the better future of this country. For human rights, our moral values. I voted McCain because of my moral values and my believes of what a family is constituted of and in giving an unborn baby its right to live. And other issues that I don't want to get into. We wiil see who wins tomorrow for sure.