Piano Recital 2012

Kaylee had her 1st Piano Recital on March 24th. She did such a good job. We are so proud of her. She performed 2 songs that were her favorites from the books that she has learned from. We want her to continue taking piano lessons and hopefully she will continue until she is able to play very well. Her teacher played a song from Phantom of the Opera. She did a beautiful job. I would like Kaylee to someday be able to play that song.

Our Nephew "Andrew"

On March 13th Jorge's nephew came to visit us from Venezuela. We've had alot of fun having him in our home. He will return to Venezuela on April 13th. It has been nice for the kids to hang out with one of their oldest cousins.

St Patrick's Day Banner (Decoration)

I was looking through a blog that I follow. I've made several things that she shows in her blog and they have all turned out really nice. I saw a cute St Patrick's Day banner and thought to give it a try. It turned out very cute and easy to make. I made two of them one for my kitchen window and the other for the Dining room window. Here is how they look like.

1st Grade Animal Zoo

Braden had his Animal Zoo Parade. He chose to be a Scorpion. He wrote a report about Scorpions and Joge helped in making a Scorpion Costume for the Parade. It was a great looking costume, he was the only scorpion in the whole parade. It was great to go and see the kids parading in their different costumes.

February

I guess our lives are not that exciting. We really have not done anything fun lately. I can say that jorge went on a business trip to Burbank, California for 2 days. It was his first business trip. He missed his flight home so he came home the next day. Ths kids have been doing good. Just plugging along with school. Doing a good job with their reading, math and everything else they are learning. Braden has been playing Basketball with the Jr Jazz. He is playing better, better each time. He started not knowing how to play and now he has an idea of how the game goes. Kaylee is still in piano and liking it. She has a recital coming up this month. But she would like to get into dance soon. Hopefully we will be able to get her into a nice place. As for me, I am working and taking care of the house. Started exercising and eating healthy. I hope I can stick to it this time. I really want to loose the weight and look, feel better. My mom had a birthday on the 26th of February and we all went to celebrate her birthday at The Mandarin in Bountiful. The food was great and we all had a great time together.

Cousins!!!

My Mom "The Birthday Girl"

Our new Dog!

So we went to the Humane Society of Utah about 2 1/2 weeks ago looking for a dog named Jackson. They brought us the dog, he was super shy and nervous yet very cute and quiet. We decided to give it a shot and brought him home that same day on a weeks trial period. Jorge and I said "well if he doesn't come around we will return him before the week is up". We really liked him and wanted him to respond better to our family dinamics and to show us that he loves us in return. By Tuesday of the following week he was starting to show signs of responding more to us specially me, he followed me everywhere and would sit down by my feet while I worked. As the days went by he started to come out of his shell and really show us his true personality. We decided to keep him and adopted him a week after. Jackson is an 8 yrs old English Springer Spaniel mix, he is kind, quiet, lovable, loyal, good to us, doesn't bark unless someone is at the door, he sleeps all night in his own room downstairs, he is good with the kids (yet he is still scared of them once in awhile), he is all trained and just such a GOOD DOG. We hit the jack pot with jackson. This is the type of dog we were looking for. A polite and playful companion.

This is when Jackson was still in his shy and nervous stage.

He is alittle scared of cameras so I need to get a more up to date picture.

Christmas 2011

This year Christmas Day was on a Sunday. We got together Christmas Eve with my family for dinner, games and dancing. We had a great time together. Christmas Day we opened our presents early sunday morning and then went to church. After church all of our family came over and we had a brunch. We had ham, rolls, salad, fruit salad and cinnamon rolls. The food was very good and we had a great time opening more presents. For New Years we went all to eat at a restaurant and then we came home and fixed some Tequenos to snack on. Tequenos are cheese sticks with a dough wrapped around the cheese and then we fry it. It is delicouse. We were prepared to wait for the new year but we all fell asleep watching Kung Fu panda 2.