Lucia

Oh my beautiful little Lucia! I am so happy that I have been blessed with at least one girl! She just turned 8 a couple of weeks ago and will be baptised by her Daddy this saturday. What an exciting day for our family. She is very excited for that! She has shown great strides this year we switched schools right before school started (not the best plan for a slightly shy kid) so I believe that her testing scores did not come out well mostly due to the fact that she was nervous and uncomfortable and even though I knew that this was likely the case since she had always been so bright before it made me nervous. However we worked hard to try to catch up and we did! she is doing so well exactly where she should be! She is also taking some art classes after school and she is brilliant at it! She recently won first prize for a painting she made for an arbor day art contest.. I have yet to see it but I am so proud! She was also student of the month and she got the silver metal for her reading all on the same day. What a great day for a child!!! I am going to have to keep a close eye on this one though.. even though she is only 8 she is very beautiful and I dont think I am simply being biased because I am her Mother and she is very mature beyond her years. When I was her age I was still playing with baby dolls and barbies.. She has little or no interest in them. She prefers to listen to music (I didnt at that age) she loves the Jonas Brothers (says she "thinks they're HOT"...OH BOY!!!) she got an old computer from us for her birthday in her room and now wants to be on facebook almost constantly.. YIKES I can see this getting out of hand.. but she is a good girl we'll just have to slow her down and teach her well and it should turn out fine right?!

Rayanna

I love to be a Mommy.. even though there are my moments when I just want to close the door and hide away from all of them, I most often feel very very blessed to be able to stay at home with my children teaching them what and how I want them to be taught. I feel like everything I say to them and do for them or lack thereof will effect them in their lives as I remember very clearly even seemingly small things others said or did to me that had a very dramatic affect on the woman I became and how I treated/viewed others I came into contact with, so I while completely unperfect am trying to be mindfull of such and trying to teach my kids well. I hope they will come out well I really dont know what I am doing half of the time but I am not sure if many other moms really know either. I have hopes in the future to go back to school maybe at uvu?! I really want to have my kids to see by example the importance of education even at any age (which they are already recieving from their father but it would be doubly as good if both parents could show them right?!?!)

Wilford..

Wilford is going to school currently at BYU. We have high hopes for him to be graduating soon probably next year?! Soccer has always been and I believe will always be his passion and a huge part of his life. He contiues to play any and every opportunity that comes his way! And just this year he starting working for jetBlue airways which he is able to do from home in the comfort of his bedroom (even in his G's if he so desired ha ha) which is a curse and a blessing (the latter outweighing the previous) first off it is a huge blessing for many many reasons namely.. its hard to be late to work when you're already there, we actually get to see him often which is something we were not able to enjoy while he was employed elsewhere, free flights even a few cheap flights for a few lucky friends, great job, relaxing environment etc. Not to mention he just barely promoted from regular reservations to the Getaways department which is helping customers to build a vacation package. Now for the curse we have to be QUIET thats it the only one so you can see that it really is not much of a curse but anyone who has 4 kids (one being a baby) can say that is NOT always easily done!

Getting Started

So to start off my blog I want to offer my appologies to anyone reading my blog ha ha I do not believe that I am a great writer nor that I am going to have interesting details to share with everyone... rather the point of me creating a blog is more to have our memories written down since I am TERRIBLE at keeping up a journal.. but I always seem to have some time to be online so I will hopefully be able to keep this up to date. Here's to seeing how that goes!