Our new Pets

On Monday I went with the kids to Petco and Petsmart to see the cute animals and we left Petsmart with two new goldfish. They are little and easy to take care of, but the kids love to watch then eat and swim. One is Kaylee's and its the orange fish her name is Miley (as in Hannah Montana). And braden's is the brown one his name is Woody (as in the toystory character). They are so cute, they help me feed them and clean their fish bowl.


Woody and Miley

Hogle Zoo

On saturday we had on taking the kids to the zoo. Since Braden is now officially Potty trained I told him that his prize could be to go to the zoo. So saturday morning we headed to the zoo. It was a nioe hot day, not much people were in the zoo. And we had a good time there. We saw the majority of the animals and saw the elephant show which was so cute to see the elephants doing their thing. We were able to ride on the new Conservation Carousel and the Train. The zoo has changed so much in the last couple of years that I was amazed at how clean and nice it looked. They have made major remodeling on certain animal exhibits and it looks nicer now. I hope you all enjoy the slide show of pictures.

Breaking Dawn

I can't believe we are 1 week away from the "Premier" of Breaking Dawn. I will up at Girls camp the day it comes out so I have told Jorge that he needs to get it for me so that when I get home later that day I can start reading it. I think I will even read the ending to Eclipse so that I can familiarize myself with the ending of that one. It's been awhile since I finished reading that one. But I'am so excited and hope all of you are also. We are contributing to Stephanie Meyer's bank account, now with the new book and on December with the movie.

Pioneer Day Holiday Weekend July 24th, 2008

This weekend was a great time to rest and relax. Working for the church has its perks. Jorge works for the church and he gets the 24th off. This year since it was on a Thursday he got the 24th and the 25th off plus the weekend. So on Thursday we just stayed home and relaxed. I went out with my mom for a much needed alone time for myself. We went window shopping and I ended up getting some stuff for Kaylee and Braden. Why is it that always I end up getting stuff for my kids instead of for myself?








On Friday night we got together for a family BBQ. We made hamburgers, hotdogs. After we were done we played ROCKBand till 11:00pm. It was so much fun.

Monday Night Activity

My dad and Jorge shaking it!!

My mom (Marta) and my mother in law (Denise)

I also helped to shake it

On monday night I wanted to visit my parents. It had been about 1 week since I didn't see my dad. My mom I always see because we hangout together alot. Either we go out or she comes over or I go over her house a couple times a week. So yesterday I told them we were coming over and that I was going to bring everything necessary to make ice cream. I got this fun and simple ice cream recipe from my friend, Evey. We work together with the Beehives in our ward and for last weeks beehives activity we cleaned the nursery toys and made ice cream. We mixed everything in a ziploc bag and got a bigger ziploc bag and put the ice and salt in it and then we put the smaller bag in the bigger bag and wrapped it with newspaper and tape and shaked it for about 5 to 10 minutes and VOILA!!! ice cream done. It was so good. So we made the same thing over at my parents yesterday and enjoyed homemade ice cream. If any of you want the recipe let me know and I will email it to you.

The Leavitt Family

Yesterday we had dinner with the Leavitt Family. They used to be our neighbors but moved to a new house here in Syracuse. They are still close by enough that we can get together and have the kids play. We went over their house and barbecued and talked. The guys played their guitars and also played Ping Pong. Jenny and I have been getting together lately but we had never done something that included the "Husbands" and we found that yesterday they had alot of things in common. That's great that we can rely in good neighbors and friends.