Happy Easter

What a great time of year.  The flowers are in bloom, bright colors are being worn, we can wear sandals, and most importantly  we get to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  We had a great Easter this year.

Our first egg hunt was at my work.  The babies were sick, so they didn’t get to go.  I had to work that Saturday, so since I was here, they went ahead and got eggs and all all the prizes and gave me to take home to my babies.  They got some loot at this Easter Egg hunt.  You see the blue elephant piggy bank in the baskets.  David was in love with it.  He wanted to sleep with it.  Every night he would give it a kiss and put it on his shelf and he would want to touch it first thing every morning.  Victoria accidently broke it for him.  He was upset and a few weeks later he asked me to go to the shelf and wanted to know where it was.  So if you ever see one of this blue and white polka dot piggy banks, let me know.  He loved it so much.

 We went on Saturday to Bass Pro Shop.  Not because there was a free bunny that had a very long line. I wanted to go to the outlets and we decided to go by there and see what is was like.  We had never been there and it was a pretty cool place.  Victoria picked out some items for her birthday list from Grandmommy and granddaddy.  David learned to shoot a gun and we did some petting of the animals, too.

Saturday morning, David and Victoria did their first Easter Egg Hunt.  Victoria would pick up the egg and then take it back out of the basket.  They she got the hang of it and started leaving them in her basket.  David would pick up an egg, bite it and then yell ball and off it would go flying across the yard.  Thankfully, no one got hit in the head.  David didn’t care for the bouncy house much.  Victoria liked it at first until the big kids started getting in.  David played the cake walk and won two cookies.  He shared one with his sister.  They both loved to carry their Easter basket around.

Going to see the dog

The Easter bunny came.  They got new toothbrushes and tooth paste, bath crayons, a new book and some juice. 

We then went to Church.  Everyone looks do pretty in their new Easter clothes.  After Church we ate lunch at mom and dads and then the cousins had time to play.  Grandmommy and Granddaddy hid eggs for another egg hunt and gave them a gift with stickers, eggs and a really cute shirt with their name on it.  We then all went home and took afternoon naps.

Best we could get

Trying out dad's shoes

I was in charge of desserts.  I got a little creative.  I couldn't get the basket handles to work right.

My Cake ball bouquet

Bunny trifle

Charity keeping David from running away

One of Victoria's favorite places...with her cousin Cason

My niece and nephews

My niece Caley made these eggs. I was impressed

Our Mexican Easter Tradition..Capriotada. (the coconut wasn't supposed to be green. I accidently colored all of it when making the cookie baskets.  oops)

Nap time

20 Months Old Update

Food-So they both love Mexican food.  Beans, rice and tortillas.  Victoria can eat a whole avocado and bowl a guacamole by herself.  They also enjoy cheese dip.  The other night David ate several tostadas with pico de gallo on it. We haven’t found anything that they won’t eat.  They both love fruit.  They like breakfast burritos.  We have two good eaters on our hands. I am thankful for that.

Likes-Victoria prefers to speak Spanish.  She is a true daddy’s girl.  David prefers English. He is a momma’s boy.  Victoria will repeat every word you say.  David and Victoria’s favorite song to sing is Old McDonald Had a Farm.  They both love to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Caillou, and the movie Tangled.  David loves Thomas the train as well. David loves to play ball and everything round or not is thrown across the room like a ball.  David also loves to push cars around.  David and Victoria both love the rocking horse and the kitchen.  Victoria likes to color and David like to put the crayons in and out of the box.  They both love they little stuffed animals or big animals.  Especially the dogs and rabbits.  David likes to bark and hop. Victoria likes to make faces and point at her eyes, ears, nose, hair, tummy, feet, and mouth.  They both like to blow kisses.  They both love their grandmommy and granddaddy very much.  David will act like his granddaddy all the time.  He will get up in granddaddies chair and act just like him.  They both love grandmommy’s ipad.  They both also like to play the night night/wake-up game.  They both enjoy mommy and daddies iphone a lot too.  David has learned how to lock mommy out of her cell phone several times. J  They will also hand me the phone and want to facetime with someone. 

David loves his Easter shoes when we got them.  He wanted to wear them all day long.



They both like to be outside, but David will stand at the door and knock on the door and try everything to escape.  And he has gotten pretty good at opening doors.  They both love to climb and they both love their gymnastics class. 



Lovies-David still loves his pacifier.  We lost 2 monkeys and the third he bit thru the pacifier on it.  So now he takes anyone he can find in the house.  Girlie or not.  He will give them up to only use when sleeping now, or when really tired or sick.  Victoria is in love with her dog.  Our friend Laura gave it to her for her first Christmas.  It is purple names Violet.  It talks and sings to her.  We just have one little problem.  Victoria likes to use the ears to suck on and this is not an easy thing to wash.  She refuses to sleep without her dog and she has gotten very attached to it. 

This past 20 months has been incredible.  I am amazed at how independent these two are, and how caring and loving they are.  Don’t get me wrong, they have their times they fight.  And they both can out run us in different directions I might add.  But they are so much fun.  I am amazed at how fast they learn something.  I know that their grandmommy and granddaddy has taught them so much.  I love all the laughs, smiles and kisses that they so freely give.  I love that they love to meet people, and enjoy Church.  I am so happy that they are already learning to pray.  I know that God has so many things in store for them, and I am so thankful that I got to be a part of the plan.  I look forward to each day and another minute to spend with my sweet family.   I am looking forward to this July, when they will get to meet their other grandparents and family in Mexico for the first time in person.  We have applied for passports and bought plane tickets.  We are ready to go.

Now, if anyone would like to finance my family so I could be a stay at home mom, just let me know.  I am sure we could work something out. J

 

I seem to get so behind on my blog, so I am going to combine February and most of March into one.  This year, Valentine’s day was the same day as our ESL class.  Sam and I decided that we wanted to go out all for our students.  We had a photo booth that was a hit.



When we got home, it was  a little late for David and Victoria, but they had gifts to open from Grandmommy and granddaddy, so they decided to open them before heading off to bed.  I had fixed a basket up for Ranita.  I made him a date jar that had a certain color for the type of date.  I also had some Club America flip flops, tshirt and mug (which he has already left on a job site). 

We got to celebrate Dad and Randall’s birthday in March.  We went to Texas Roadhouse for dinner and then ended the night at mom and dad’s to open gifts.  The cousin’s had a great time playing together.

So for St. Patrick’s Day, we had planned to go to the parade after Church.  But I looked at the schedule wrong and we were a day late.  So we ended up going to Railroad park and hanging out for a little while.  Then we got to go to the Church and meet our new pastor and his wife.  It was a fun relaxing family day.