CHocolate Cookies!

A few weeks ago, we were spending a Sunday afternoon doing nothing! So I told G to get maggie and come to the kitchen and we would make homemade chocolate cookies-it would be maggie's first time!! G kind of looked at me with a wierd expression on his face and walked slowly into the kitchen. As maggie and I are mixing all the ingredients together G just kind of watches and then he starts asking strange questions, like "So what are you doing?" and "Is that good?" (after I have taken a bite of cookie dough) and "How do you make the cookies round?". Well come to find out- G has never made homemade cookies before either!!!! WHAT!! I thought that was crazy!! We didnt take any pictures while we were making the cookies but I got some of Maggie and G enjoying thier first batch of homemade!!!

Sea World

Memorial Day weekend we had a chance to take maggie to Sea World for the first time! The weather wasnt too hot and we went on the one day when there was no rain! Yay! Maggie seemed to really enjoy herself. Her favorite part was playing in the water, of course, but she liked the shows and loved to to see the dolphins and the peguins. She has told everyone about them!! She was so good and pleasant all day, except at the 4-D Pirate movie-first she broke her 3-d glasses and then we had to get up and leave because she got a little scared and was crying from all the little extras the make it a 4-d show!! Everything said and done, we all enjoyed ourselves and I think G even thought it was pretty cool!!

Look at my garden grow!!!

I am so excited about the progress of my square foot garden. I went out today to pull of couple of weeds and guess what I found!?!?! I found squash and zuccini!!! There are 2 baby squash , 1 baby zuccini and another zuccini that looks like it is ready to eat!!! It looks better than the ones that I saw at HEB this weekend!!! All my plants are growing so well and I am just super excited, especially considering my track record with plants. I always try, but I havent been super successful! Just thought I would share the most recent progress!!! YAY!!

movie in the park

This weekend we had a chance to go to a movie in the park that Time Warner Cable was hosting. G and volunteered to help out through work. The weather was pretty pleasant with a nice breeze. We set up a blanket in the park and got to enjoy eachother company. Maggie had such a good time eating popcorn, snocones, and playing with hulahoops. There was also "The Magical Grandpa" who made balloon animals for the kids- maggies didnt last very long, it blew away and popped!!! We were there for several hours, so she didnt quite make it through the whole movie, but we all had a good time! We look forward to the next one and hope some of our friends can join us!!

Temple Trip

April 25th, Gerson and I were able to go to the Dallas Temple and be sealed together as a family for all time and eternity. What a wonderful day!! My parents were our escorts and assisted us whle we were there. Maggie was a doll and so good during everything! We were able to have a few close friends and members of our ward join us. I am so happy we finally made it and look forward to the road ahead. I am so proud of my husband and all the progress we have both made.

Happy Easter!!!

Easter weekend has come and past and Maggie is an expert egg hunter. last Monday we did an Easter Story Easter Egg Hunt for our family night and she was so excited when she realized there were actually things inside the egss!!! She had so much fun she kept wanting to hind and find the eggs and carried her easter Basket around all week. Saturday we had our church Easter Hunt in the mornign and went to Mom and Dad's church in the afternoon. She prefers to open the plastic egss as soon as she finds them so we had to keep reminding her to put them in her basket and then we would open them all together at then end. After she fell asleep Saturday night, i Started getting her Easter Basket together from the "Easter Bunny". My poor hunsband was totally confused, apparently there is no easter Bunny in Mexico!! Isnt that sad!!! The easter Bunny never brought him any goodies during his childhood! Maggie was very excited when she saw her basket in the morning! I put way too many bubbles in it, though!! Then on Sunday afternoon we got a phone call from my brother Scott, who is in Iraq!!! YAY!! He was given the evening off and was able to get to a phone and call us. He sounds good andwill hopefully be home this summer sometime. Well thats our Easter in a nutshell!! Hope everyone had a great Easter!!!!

Strawberry Pickin'

The last 2 Fridays Maggie and I went down to a local pick your own farm to get some strawberries. I first went with a couple of my girlfriends and then Mom, Becca, and Seth joined us this last week. We had fun picking strawberries and I have been slowing making homemade jam, fruit leather, and strawberry pie. I was able to help my friend Laci make her first batch a strawberry jam (without any mom assistance, mine or hers!). We made some delicious jalapeno-strawberry jam! yummy! Any way enjoy the pictures and maybe if you are lucky you may get a taste of the yummy jam!!