Happy Birthday Miguel!

Today Miguel turned 29! He got the day off of work and we spent a nice day together as a family. Tonight we dropped the kids off with the Ramos Family (thanks so much Ricardo and Suzie for watching the kids for us!) and Miguel and I went to Wise Guys Comedy Club to see some really funny stand-up comics. The comedian that was headlining tonight was the guy that wrote the script for the movies "The Singles Ward", "Mobsters and Mormons", and the "the RM". He was so funny. It was nice to go on a real date with Miguel. And the whole thing was a surprise to Miguel. He didn't know that I had planned any of this. I finally told him where we were going, after we dropped off the kids and were driving to the club. It was a great night. I hope you had a great Birthday Miguel!

a trip to the Little Gym...

This week I took the kids to their free trial class at the Little Gym. They had a blast and got almost all of their wiggles out. David kind of wandered around (which the teacher said was okay, especially as he was experiencing it for the first time) and then he eventually joined the rest of the kids in the activities. Erin did a great job listening to the teacher and following instructions...

That poor teacher! Having to lift all 45 lbs. of David and then he decided that he didn't like being picked up and did the whole "dead weight" thing! I wonder if she had back pain the rest of the day?

There was lots of fun stuff to do...

I saw a lot of smiling faces that day...

That looks like fun too!

Anya played in the waiting room while the older kids were in their class. Then she got her turn later when I took her into the Mommy and Me class and the older kids were entertained in the waiting room. By the way, she did great in her class too. On another note, don't you love the baby mullet she is sporting? She is in that awkward hair stage that kids go through when she doesn't have very much hair yet, but the hair she does have is getting longer. Funny.

Over all, the kids really enjoyed the Little Gym and I really liked their teaching methods. I would recommend it to anyone as long as you can afford $15 per kid, per class! It was nice to try it out for free though. I would actually consider it for birthday parties because the price isn't that much more than Chuckie Cheese or other specialty kids places.

We are still here... I promise...

I had to post this random pic from a few weeks ago. Very silly, but cute kids! They have gotten so big in the last 2 months. I had to get shoes for all three recently because they had completely outgrown their old shoes again, and Erin and David are now wearing size 13 shoes! What happened to my babies? And Anya has had some significant growth spurts in the past 2 months too! When we went to Virginia she was outgrowing her size 3 shoes and now she is in size 6! Don't ask me how a child's feet can grow almost 3 sizes in 3 months! I just don't know how she does it. We went to the zoo yesterday. We have a family pass for the year. Here's a pic of my monkeys checking out the zoo monkeys...

I love this one of Erin...

So cute!...

Some random hissing cockroaches...scary!

one the teeter totter...

he makes a great turtle don't you think?... but he could never handle moving that slow...

Anya's hair (most days) looks like Jim Halpert from the tv show The Office.

My little spiderman...