The Family that Works together... Stays together!

We have had the opportunity to be able to work together as a family this Summer. Its has been a blast and a life teaching experience for our girls...and as parents too. Our girls wanted to make money somehow and have asked for money to do chores around the house before, but I'm totally against paying them to do work around the house. They should be helping because they love their home and want to keep it nice and clean so the spirit, friends and ourself stay happy and comfy here. Kyle and me decided that we were not gonna pay them to do chores at all!... first because we don't have the money to do so and second because they should do it no matter what anyways. We wanted, as parents, to teach them the worth of work and money though but we never knew or had " the how" to do it.
Kyle came to me, one day at the beginning of this summer, asking me if I knew a friend in need who would like to work cleaning his office...weeeell! I thought...We are in need!...me and the girls got the whole summer doing nothing and as a family we needed the money anyways. Kyle told his boss that we were going to take the job. We talked to the girls and they loved the idea of working together and finally getting payed for it!. The job is super easy!. We go just on Saturdays in the morning, each one of us has an assignment... some dusting, vacuuming , garbage bags,
and filling up the soaps bottles and supplying the bathroom with more toilet paper some light bathroom cleaning and we are done!..its just takes us 45 minutes to 1 hour to be done...and as you know "Latinas" can't do the cleaning without music!...so we take the radio to listen and dance once in awhile during the cleaning time!. We really enjoy this time together even though it is work but just to be able to do it together and be payed for it, it makes it fun!.
The girls have been able to pay their tithing for the first time and buy whatever they want with their money. It has been a blessing for us in this time of need to have an extra income. We know our Heavenly Father is watching over us and helping us to keep going. It's been hard at times but we have never felt alone. We truly feel His love and caring for us every single day!. We are so thankful for all the blessing we have specially for our lovely and sweet daughters. We love them and without them we wouldn't be the family we are!

Mama's Day!

Here is Mrs. Clark , Kayla's favorite teacher ever!...and her friend Hanna


Mother's Day is here!. Kayla invited me to go to the program that her class had prepared for all the moms today. She was so excited for me to see and hear what she did!. I got out a little bit early from my work. It has been really important for me to be involved in all their activities and programs they do at school, even though I'm working, one of the things I had perfectly clear when I decided to work it was that I was gonna make the time to be always there for them, and this time was no exception!..It was so nice to see Kaylita's face when she saw me. She was so happy that I made it on time!...she wrote a letter saying the things I do and say all the time, why I was so special for her and how much she loved me. It was sweet and funny!...Before she even started to read I got up and started to scream and yelled her name all crazy and out of control cheering for her. She couldn't stop laughing. Everybody was laughing too. She said in her note "I love my mom because she is crazy and she loves to embarrassed me" hahaha. The "highlight" of the whole thing was that I could finally meet Kaylita's "crush"...Mason, who is in a dark vest in the pic. The guy in the orange shirt was Keltin who has a crush on Kaylita, a really big crush!. It was a wonderful time with my sweet Kaylita and realized how important was that I was there for her.

Coloring Eggs and Eggs Hunt in the Neighborhood

The day was kind of cold but that didn't stop the girls from having fun coloring eggs today. Valentina came and the 3 of them were coloring and decorating eggs the whole morning. The timing was perfect because right after we had The Neighborhood Egg Hunt 2011. All the kids were there. Everybody got prizes and had a blast.
We got ready to go to Mapleton after the girls were done with their activity. We stayed over night at Grandma's home.

I can't believe I did it!...

The Dentist Said:... Retainer!!!

Dominique is getting retainer for her cricked tooth. Hopefully it won't take too long to get it where it needs to be.

Family Night Fun!

The Girl's school had a Family Night activity at the Classic Skating Center this week. Dominique and Kayla were excited to go and introduce all their friends to us. We went to pick up Kyle at work a little bit early so we could make it on time. We had such a fun time!. It was nice to see Mimi and Kayla playing with their friends, skating and dancing. We had a nice pizza for dinner and great music to dance that I loved!.
I personally love this kind of activities where you can go as a family because is the only time that Kyle can be involved in the girl's school. I know the memories of having fun as a family will stay forever with them.

...And the Day Came!

The day is here! Kyle and Grandma went to Seattle,WA.... Fun trip?... not really, at least for Kyle who was going to take the 3 days Washington Bar. Grandma on the other hand...to have a fun visiting with her sister Susan and other family members who are living in the area.
Dominique and Kayla wanted to do something special for daddy so he would not forget that God would be there for him to help. So they wrote a message on his shirt: "What would Jesus do?...He won't freak out!!!..remember, Faith and Doubt, don't mix. love, your women". I thought it was funny but at the same time sweet because they really wanted for daddy to do good but specially relay on the Lord for help and to trust Him. I asked Kyle to please take care of himself, be responsible with what he eats because in my mind I was thinking "the only thing we need now is for him to get sick, diarrhea or something'. Hoping he would listen to me for ones...will see. I asked him to to have a good time with grandma and enjoy the most he could this trip, besides of The Bar. The girls were really sad because daddy was leaving for 3 days, they don't like to be without daddy, me either so hopefully this trip brings us good news in the future. We have prayed and fasted...now everything else is in God's hands.