Today Is Your Day...Let's Celebrate!

We celebrate Dominique B-day in the morning and then in the evening with 2 of her friends, Valentina and Mary. We have some cake and fun. Daddy was able to make it just on time. It was a wonderful day for Dominique, at home and school she celebrated with all her friends and buddies. She got lots of presents!. What a day!

Our Dominique Turned 12...How Fun!!!

Dominique, a daughter like you is a very precious gift to us. You were once our little baby..now our shinning star!. You are growing so fast. Sometimes I wish I could stop the clock. You are turning into a beautiful young girl. You have been blessed with so many talents. You are such a caring, sweet and wonderful example for Kayla. You are a great older sister and friend for her. You have so many qualities that make you  so special in our and God's eyes. Don't ever forget that you are our joy and that We love you with all our heart!.
Turning 12 in the church is a big deal. So we are so excited for you and for all the great thing that are waiting for you this year.
We got up earlier than usual so we could fix breakfast for Dominique, before school and work. It was Kayla's idea. She fixed pancakes and juice for Mimi, decorated her trade. I made her cake yesterday. So Kyle Kayla and me got up really quiet, prepare everything and woke up Dominique with the happy b-day song. She was so happy. Kayla felt so happy because her plans worked out perfectly!
pd: Jack helped too!

Beehives' Surprise for Dominique

Dominique will be turning 12 this week. Her Beehive's leader, Sister Johnson, called me the other day to ask me if it was ok for them to come on Saturday early morning (4 days before Mimi's Bday)... to kidnap Dominique. They were gonna take her to Sister Johnson's house where all the girls were gonna be having a welcome and B-day celebration for Mimi and into the Young Women Program. Dominique didn't know anything about this...obviously, because it was a "surprise kidnapping". So ...Saturday came and all the girls were knocking at our door right at 7.00 am. Mimi, Kayla and Mary were sleeping the 3 of them in Mimi's bed. While the girls were trying to wake up Mimi, Kayla and Mary didn't even move!...They were totally out. The "beehives girls" blind folded Mimi and took her. It was still dark, cold and snowing really hard outside. Mimi told us afterward that she had so much fun. They had a really good breakfast and games. Welcome to Young Women little princess!

And...Santa Came....What a Holly Jolly Christmas!!!!

We slept over at grandma's after Christmas Eve dinner with everybody. The girls didn't expect any present from us and just one from Santa this Christmas because we had been trying to save money to go to Chile. I had a conversation with them a couple of weeks before Christmas explaining them that we couldn't do everything. Chile was gonna be really expensive for us because the money exchange, so we really needed to save and because we didn't have already too much money to work with we were gonna had to do the best we "all" of us could. We would get something but maybe not what they were hoping to get. It was sad for me to have to do this because Christmas is "magic" for them but...what else we can do?...I wish they wouldn't have to go through any of this but this is our reality and we have to live on a really tight budget.
Well, after I had this talk with them, actually it was a week before Christmas... I was praying one night...asking God for help. I didn't even know what to ask I just said that I wanted for my girls to have a special Christmas, that I knew that they were hoping for certain things and even though I wasn't the kind of mom that give everything they ask for, I knew they had been trying their best in everything, specially being the best girls they could in the gospel and that HE KNEW that better than me...so that I didn't know what to do, because I  was feeling kind of sad...I was already planing on doing some fun not expensive activities with them and I was looking everywhere for ideas for cool not expensive presents. I knew they were really trying to do their best on being "good troopers" and I saw them happy. This Christmas was gonna be a little bit different.I told my Heavenly Father I was getting more frustrated than them....anyways...The night when I was praying I just pour out my heart to my Heavenly Father and went to bed with a really peaceful  feeling that they were gonna be ok and I shouldn't think too much on them...they were happy why to make things more stressful for them with my frustration. Then, the next morning I went to work...when I was parking I got a text message. It was from a friend of mine...she was asking me if she could give presents to my girls, like "Secret Santa" , she is not a member and she said to please not to get offended but she had been thinking of me a lot lately and if it was ok with me she would do it for my girls then. I started to cry. I WAS SOOOOOOO GRATEFUL to my HEAVENLY FATHER, I KNEW HE MADE THIS LITTLE MIRACLE  POSSIBLE for my girls. I was more than happy and answered her what happened the night before when I was on my knees saying my prayer. I said thank you to her for being so in touch with the spirit. She is a really nice lady and told her I knew that. I was really thankful for her kindness. She told me to make the girls write a letter to Santa asking for whatever they wanted> She was gonna see what she could or not get for them. BUT she got every single thing that my girls ask to Santa, even Ipods!!!...Dominique and Kayla were so happy, neither of them knew about this until after when I share my testimony with them about prayers and how sweet Heavenly Father is with us! How "ANGELS" don't needs winds sometimes to be angels. That we can't forget the things that happened to us because the same way people always help us in one way or another. The same way and example on helping other we need to follow to show our gratitude to our Heavenly Father. We had a wonderful Christmas morning at grandma's house. It was snowing and Mapleton was the perfect setting for a cozy wonderful Christmas with Grandma and Grandpa.  MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Watching them opening presents...looking their faces, they were so happy...priceless!!!