Successful Mothering Convention...

It's that time of year again. The day I look forward to all year long is just a couple of weeks away! Every year I go to the Successful Mothering convention. It's a day just for moms. I go with my friends and am always excited to invite everyone I know to attend. They have the best classes and presentations for every type of mother out there. It is in Sandy at the South Towne Expo Center and it costs just $15 if you purchase your tickets online in advance. I hope all of you in the Utah area will come with us on Sat. January 24th and enjoy a really fun day for mothers.

You can get more info from the website www.successfulmothering.org

GO UTES!

Go UTES! The University of Utah just won the Sugar Bowl! I don't even like football, but I was glued to the TV for this one. Miguel is a student at the U, and proud of it. Great game UTES!

She's walking!

Its official. Anya's walking! We were hoping she would walk while her aunt Paula was here visiting and she did. Before she could only walk one or two steps and then she would fall. She put on a show for us this Tuesday and walked a record 7 steps and then a few minutes later, 10 steps! We got it all on video too but I was unsuccessful at transferring the video to the computer. I did get some pictures of it though.

"mommy, me feed Anya..."

This morning I heard Erin and David get up but I still hadn't heard anything from Anya yet. She normally cries until we go to get her out of her crib. I went to check on her and found David next to her crib feeding her cereal through the railing. I asked David what he was doing and he sweetly reported back, "Mommy, me feed Anya so she be happy." He is such a nice brother.

Happy Anniversary Miguel!

Miguel and I celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary this week. I can't believe how time flies! But here we are 5 years, 3 kids and a lot of college semesters later. There really is joy in the journey. I love our life. Thanks for all of the good times Miguel! And thanks for the cute kids too.

Letters to Santa...

Erin wrote a letter to Santa the other day, I thought it was cute how she drew Santa's sleigh with all of the presents she wanted in it. Miguel held her hand to help her write the dear Santa part at the top and she wrote the rest, obviously.

Alive and well...

First a broken computer, then a broken camera... we are still alive and well. I will try to keep this updated more.

The amazing tent...

The kids got a play tent from Ikea for their birthday, well actually we broke down and gave it to them the day before their birthday so that they would be distracted and let us clean the house in preparation for their party. Well, they just love playing in their tent. Sometimes they pretend to go camping. Other times the tent is their house or a cool fort. One night we set it up in their room and they slept in it all night. It was a great motivator to go to bed and stay there. They even let Anya come in and play with them. I recommend this tent to everyone! It was way cheap and it creates hours of entertainment and imagination.