Thank You!

This year, Christmas was made special by Grandpa and Grandma, which sent a cargo of gifts and needs for the kids and mommy too. I want to dedicate this post to Grandma Heidi and Grandpa Christian for making our Christmas so special. We are so thankful and deeply touched by your sweet deeds of kindness. You really made Christmas this year, for that, from the bottom of our hearts, we want to say ... THANK YOU!!.


Bennie loves puzzles, he really enjoyed making this one.


Ayleen loves her puppie and calls it gua-gua, every morning when she wakes up she asks for it ... it's usually tangled in between her blankets. Yesterday I took it down the night before, to put it in the washing machine cause it had gotten a little dirtie from all the walks she has with it. She couldn't find it so she asked me with her big interrogating eyes where was her gua-gua I tried explaining to her that it was taking a "bath" cause it was very dirty, so she went to the bathroom, opened the shower door and had the most dissapointing look in her face when the puppie wasn't there. ha !! so cute!!.


They all really like playing with the nice play dough, after an hour Ayleen still had a hard time putting it away, and I thought she wasn't gonna be interested in it. Great Gift. For now it 's become a super fun family time activity and a good barganing chip. heh!

Opening her present .And there were other things but I just haven't had the time to take pictures of everything.
We love you and pray you have the bestest New Year, 2009, full of the Lord's blessings.!!

Kings day

Every King's Day ( 6 of January) for the past few years we've organiced a big CTP , in other words something for the poor.
This year we put together a lot of clothes, shoes, toys that friends sponsored, aguinaldos(sweets) and a nice puppet show with the story of Chrsitmas and a message of salvation,for the event.
All the homes in the area participated, which was nice, it can sometimes get a little confusing with so many people but that's just how it usually goes. Hah! We picked a neighborhood that had 150 single moms and worked with the coordinater of the neighbourhood. One thing that cought my atention was that there were quite a few Down Sindrome kids in the whole bunch.. which sure made me thankfull for the health our kids usually have.

Latest Artwork

Santillana del Mar, Cantabria
(Acrilico sobre tela)

Merry Christmas!

I'm slowly catching up on my posts.
From our hearts to yours a very happy Christmas Season. We love you!!

Mountain Men

A couple weeks ago we took all the kids to climb a mountain. Great exercise for both little and big. Here are some pics.The little girls climbing up the mountain holding hads ..so cute!

Benji and Janine did this fire; they were very proud of their work.:D

La-La and the babies.

Little lady taking a brake from all that climbing.

Kids christmas Witnessing

The little guys in the home have really been star witnesses this Christmas.
They were shinner track givers and gave out lots of tracks down town and to anybody they saw while out. They even had a lot of people come back and ask for another one of those 'beautiful papers" for a friend, cousin or other child. They take their witnessing so seriously, it makes me proud of them. Alex commented to me, after he had given a track to everyone on the bus and wished them a Merry Christmas," Mom I helped get a lot of souls into Heaven", I told him that to get saved they needed to pray the prayer in the back on the track to ask Jesus into their heart, so he went back and explained that to each person he had given the tracks to. Everyone was really happy and thanked him. Here are some pictures of a show they did in the Fiesta Inn for some very important doctors.

They had the most beautiful Christmas tree so we took a few pictures by it.

Daddy's little girl and her sour patches.

When daddy got home this last time he brought this huge bag of Sour Patches, Ayleen's absolute favorite!. It's definitely the perfect coming home gift and the way to her sweet heart.

Totally thrilled with the huge sour patch bag!!

Content Smile.!
Yum... you want some?
Time to put away..so sorry about the heart break sweet little girl.!

Posada

On September 7th we did a Posada all our friends and contacts, the idea was to do something nice for them in appreciation for their faithful support throughout the year, with this in mind, we made some special ¨Thank You¨diplomas to give out, put together a nice meal etc. It was a joint effort from the three homes here in our city. Lots of work to plan, GB the organizing commite made up of some home members and a few active members . The Lord really did lots of miracles and supplied above what we needed for this special event.
Between the three homes there was a puppet show with the Christmas Story, live music and face painting for all the little ones.

The little guys in our home worked hard for a few weeks to put together some songs, here they are performing "I'd like to be a Christmas tree", sang by Janine (5).
Their little singing troop is called "Campanitas".

Some of the attendees.

Singing "What can I give him"... ( sorry about the poor pic cuality)

Some more attendees

Micks and Lalo(AM) got to do all the talking.:D

The tech man. Phil did a very nice power point presentation of our work in Morelia for this year.

"Campanitas" and "Luna Azul" performing, singing "Burrito Sabanero".

Cristal, which did a big part of the organizing, and a dear friend.

Reception Committe; Liz and Ester (AM's)

Alex (5) all handsome before the show.

The beautiful girls of "Luna Azul".
Stephani, Mari and Teresa.(They are all young and pretty ...no need to put ages.:D)

Yumm........working on those manners.:D

Cosas buenas...

Earlier in December my little sister visited us all the way from Spain is was so nice having her around and the kids loved to go down town and give her the tour of the city, show her all the sights and walk through the artesany market. We miss you !

Tia Estrella con Alex, Ayleen y Benji

Estrella y yo sentadas encima de Frida Kalo, su esposo y la Muerte , en un banco de madera tipico labrado y pintado a mano.

Estrella, notice the detailed hand made wood work of the table and chairs tipical of this part of Mexico.

Thanksgiving

We had a nice dinner for Thanksgiving and everyone was home wich was a plus , here are some bad pictures of it. I got to be in charge of the deserts and the salads. Fun, fun.

Little Miracles.

It's easy for me to sometimes take things for granted, things like protection, health and supply, without really realizing what a true miracle it is to have good health, to not have big or small accidents and to not have to buy fruits and veggies every week, for example.

The Lord really does spoil us in so many ways that, we feel we almost deserve all of those blessings when in reality we should be a lot more thankful and praise him for all his little miracles.
Having good health and not having to take my kids regularly to the doctor is a blessing I appreciate a lot more after they've battled with a cold or fever.

Having fresh veggies every week is a blessing that not everyonce has; my kids get to eat exotic fruits every day!!, then again , it's only when we don't do the market, nad don't have it that I truly apreciate it

One of those little miracles happened just the other day.
As part of our offensive long term plan, and in order to be able to cut our expenses or generate more income the Lord showed us to ask our landlord to lower the rent. Big step of faith ! True to his promise the Lord did it and our landlord miraculously agreed to lower the rent 2000 pesos.
I gotta say that 's a first in my case cause in all my years of renting houses I've never had anyone lower the rent, to the contrary , it usually goes up every year.

So that is a little big miracle to celebrate and praise for and a kind reminder to follow the Lord even if He shows you something a bit odd or unconventional. New methods, right?

Still Alive

So ..yeah... I know it's been lonely here, but just in case you are wondering I still do care about my little blog and want it to be a happy place so I went through all my link list and took out the ones that didn't work and also added some new links from cool peoples -friends in the world that have started blogs. I still care.

Uno mas.

One more year together.... Happy Anniversary Baby!
You still have that amazing touch and thoughfulnes capable of sending me a love note and flowers when you are a thousand miles away. You are the best. I love you.

Quince años tiene mi amor...

Quien me diera volver a tener quince años otra vez , en retrospectiva creo que haria por lo menos un par de cosas diferentes.
Stephani tuvo una linda fiestita de quince años como es la tradicion en Mexico unos dias antes de mi viaje a España .
She is so pretty and is such a beautiful person inside and outside! The whole evening was just great ! Happy sweet fifteen!!