Goodbye.

Phil, Angie, Ashley and Sarah left today for Leon, Gto. after almost five years of working together.... and thus starts a new chapter in our lives..... exciting!!
We love you and will definitely be missing those two cutie pies. Praying that everything works out great for you guys.

Change

Change...
It can be a scary word or sweet relief to ones ears. It really is a matter of perspective.
Change...
It comes into our life, sometimes invited but mostly like an uninvited and unexpected guest that turns out to have the answer to a problem and impeccable timing.
Change...
Difficult to face but in the end so much happier for it.

Here is to change... Cheers!!

Watermelon and Land

Bits of Summer.

Little Friends

PGness- 7months

Got around to taking some pg pics at seven months ... or 32 weeks along .... I'm dreading the last 8 weeks of pregnancy; back pains and rib kicks are everyday things, I could never get use to this kind of body abuse.

Family Play Day with Mommy

My Boy Scout.

So these pictures are from the week before last, but I promised daddy I would put them up so; here the are, Alex looks forward to this every Saturday afternoon, and he finally got his shirt and all his gear to be a real Boy Scout.

Empathy.

It seams lately, Mexico is just making headlines on the news. I don't normally post news but I felt really saddened when I heard about this. I can't beggin to imagine how the parents of all the todlers that died feel, I'm sure nothing can compare to loosing your baby, so for all those little ones and the parents they left behind if you read this today say a prayer for them.
(In the bottom excerps of news reports)

Mexico day care fire kills 38 children
HERMOSILLO, Mexico (AP) — Sobbing relatives waited outside a morgue Saturday to claim the bodies of 38 children killed in a day care fire in northern Mexico despite desperate attempts to evacuate babies and toddlers through the building's only working exit. A father crashed his pickup truck through the wall in an effort to rescue his child.

The family of 2-year-old Maria Magdalena Millan held a funeral for her, dropping white roses onto her tiny coffin and attaching a Dora the Explorer balloon to the cross marking her grave. One woman held a framed picture of her.

"I love you and I don't want to leave you here!" her mother screamed.

Delfina Ruelas, 60, said her grandchild German Leon died of his burns Saturday morning, three days after his fourth birthday. She and her husband saw television news reports that the ABC day care was on fire Friday and rushed over that evening.

"I thought he wasn't that burned and that we would find him OK, but he was very burned," said Ruelas, dissolving into tears outside the morgue in the northern city of Hermosillo, where she waited along with 30 other relatives. "They operated on him yesterday, and he held on, but today he couldn't hold on."

Firefighters carried injured children through the front door — the building's only working exit — and through large holes that a civilian knocked into the walls before rescue crews arrived, according to a fire department official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the fire.

Noe Velasquez, an employee at a nearby auto parts store who helped pull out five toddlers, said the father of one of the children rammed his pickup truck through a wall. Velasquez did not know if the man's child survived.

"I didn't sleep last night. I've never gone through anything like that in all my life," he said.

There were an estimated 142 children in the day care at the time of the fire, their ages ranging from 6 months to 5 years, and six staffers to look after them, Bours said at a news conference Saturday.

"As a doctor I have confronted death on many occasions," Lopez said, his voice cracking. "But I'm seeing so much misfortune and suffering now, it breaks my heart."

Thirty-three children remain hospitalized, 23 of them in Hermosillo, including 15 who are in critical condition, Lopez said, adding that one of them is brain dead.

Nine children have been transferred to other Mexican hospitals, eight of them to the western Mexican city of Guadalajara, and one to Ciudad Obregon in Sonora, he said.

A 3-year-old girl with burns over 80 percent of her body was sent by military transport to be treated at Shriners Hospital for Children Northern California, said Carlos Gonzalez Gutierrez, Consul General for Mexico based in Sacramento, California.

Photographs showed the sidewalk outside the day care strewn with upturned, slightly blackened baby seats and cribs in the immediate aftermath of the blaze. Cribs also could been seen through huge holes punched through the walls.

Cuteness.

I'm sure all mothers think their daughters are beautiful and cute...but mine is just the cutest.:D

It's a .....

So it's a... girl!!!A couple days ago I did a nice ultrasound with the main purpose being finding out what I was having , the Lord loves me ... it's a girl, just what I wanted and prayed for, she looks strong and healthy ..oh and she does have 10 fingers and 10 toes...I think!!

Those good old Gipsy Nights...

I'm sure everyone that has been in The Family during their childhood years has at least one picture of a gypsy night, I'm no exception, I clearly remember a childhood picture in which my dad had a painted mustache and we were dancing around a campfire dressed like gypsies .... big deja vu ... for activity night we had a gypsy night!!! The kids were really excited about it for days in advanced and the best custom got a price ... well, they all did really!.

Micks dancing with little girls.

My little gypsy girl , at 2yrs and 2mts. She's quite the character!!.

Our neighbour and friend doing the honors of cooking the chicken.


A group shot with some friends and Micks, Mari, Cris ...

The cutest gypsyes, Ayleen, Alex, Janine and Benji.

Benni Boy(4)
Ayleen and Alex(5)

The only family picture that came out half decent ..even though Ayleen has something green in her mouth ... I tried .

First...

Ayleen en su salsa, disfrutando sin ataduras.

The boys
The first construction in our land.

A few weeks ago, during the vacations the kids had, we made a few trips to our land and cleaned it out, bought some machetes, and even build the first building on it!! A little cabin daddy made for the boys. The place is so peaceful and quite, daddy went camping with the boys there, they came back telling stories of stargazing, freezing cold nights and bread robber raccoons .

Tying the knot

Long time friends and supporters of our work here got married on the 16th of May, 2009... The wedding was gorgeous down to the last detail .
and one picture of me , sporting my 5months of pregnancy..enjoy.!!