Crayons

Since we got a magic board for Joel, he got to be a pro using his hands to write and loves to do it, so we got him the routine that before or after he eats he can express himself on paper, so we have some paper and crayons on the table ready for him. He takes his activity very seriously (as he usually do with mostly everything he does) and doesn't eat that much the crayons, yay!!! He just break them.....oh well...!

Our little princess

Our little princess (8-9 weeks) on her Doctor's appointment we found out that she is doing great, I was a little concern because I got use to Joel eating a lot, probably she eats average, at her two months visit she was 23 inches and 11.14 lbs (she gained three pounds), so she is growing fine.

 Sweet dreams!

Rosca de Reyes

This year again we made Rosca de Reyes (Wise men ring) which is a sweet pastry very typical from Mexico, celebrating the Wise Men visit to baby Jesus, this usually is celebrated on January 6th.

We just forgot to take a picture with the whole family.

Our active big boy

Here is Joel our happy big boy. The weather has allows to spend time outside because we have had beautiful days, lately we have been going to the park twice a day, Joel enjoys being exploring everything & running around, some other times we just take a walk around the complex. Love winter time!

In these pictures he was wearing a hat that grandma Ana Luz made him, eventhough not always is that cold to wear we had to take a picture with it, so here we are.

Joel loves the swing, and he can spend around 15 mins there

He loves to bring different things when we go for a walk, so I have to watch him very close and sometimes carry them whenever he is tired of holding, pushing his toys.

We were watching a hot air balloon that was really close to the town home were we live.

Bath time

Diana really enjoys taking a bath, she loves to kick the water and relax while we give her a bath. Happy little swimmer!

Diana's 7-8 weeks

As you can see these are some old pictures (December)  our little Diana is growing and thanks God happy and healthy, it has been hard to pick a few pictures of her but here are some so you can see her growing!

One more on Christmas

We had a great experience this year,  we have some ideas of things we would like to do the following years with the kids, but this time was rewarding, hopefully we can make the twelve days of Christmas to somebody or family some time in the future.
Let me tell you what our experience was on saturday evening, there is a brother at Church that he is not in his five senses even though when you talk to him he answers everything you ask him but he still in his world and this due to a bad accident he had, so not every body talk to him, but we respect him a lot and try to be nice to him, he rides his bike to Church every single Sunday, summer or winter time, we haven't seen him missing Church,  feel bad for all of those who are healthy and have a car  and don't want to go to Church, we grateful to be able to meet special persons in our lives who help us to give our best not matter what. Well, we wanted to do something nice for him, and we got some presents and got a plate full of food and Tom drove by his apartment that night (because this brother was working we didn't find him earlier), and when he opened the door and saw Tom, said: I was praying for this, I was praying for this, took what Tom brought and closed the door. That was it, no more words, but he certainly made us feel grateful we gave him something that night to make him happy. Our eyes were full of tears and now that I'm writing it I have the same special feeling for that little action we did on Christmas eve.  We are grateful for all the blessings we have and hope we can share with those less fortunate every time we can, so we can be the Lord's hands in some way.

Before I forget and not mention this, on Christmas day we had dinner with the Smith's a very beautiful family we met when we just moved to Yuma in the first ward we were attending, they invited us over again (second year) to their home to have dinner with them and another, we are grateful for the opportunity to be blessed with good friends around us that make our lives better, and all of this is because of the gospel of Jesus Christ that help us to be better, and to have good examples at Church with wonderful families. We love Christmas season because makes us remember Christ birth, and give us the opportunity to be givers more than receivers or at least trying to learn that principle in our lives.

Here we have our little doll enjoying her time there as well

Here we have our other little one having some fun with daddy, as he had the chance to explore the trampoline the Smith's kids got from Santa, Joel loved it.

 We had a great dinner and enjoyed the company a lot. We brought four different things for dessert, we were not sure what would be best (wish I took pictures of them but I forgot),  chocolate chips cookies, cheesecake, chocolate cake and a pineapple cream cake.

Joel's art

In December we had a new thing to do for Joel,  since the weather has been so nice to go to the park we also started doing a few different activities with Joel so he can discover others ways of entertainment than cars or blues clues or leap frog, actually he did pretty good when we first introduce them to him, well for a little bit until he starts wanting to eat the crayons, finger paint and the other paint for drawings or may be I such called it 'Baby art', and when he starts working he gets very focus and take it seriously, you will see him.

Here are some of Joel's master pieces, more will come soon!