A Priceless Smile

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Snow

So as you can see we have Snow again this year. We live in an area that is not suppose to get snow (at least that is what I am always told...or at least we don't get very much very often! well every year that I have lived here, we have had snow...and lots of it that sticks around for days....so don't believe the locals when they tell you we don't get snow!)

Anyways..my kids love the snow and head out to play in it as soon as they can...some times it is very funny to see how desperate they are to play in the snow. We will barely have a couple of cm's of snow on the ground and they are out there trying to build snowmen and toboggan hills....






the one thing that the kids hate about the snow is shoveling the driveway. We have a very steep driveway that when we get a little snow we need to shovel and salt right away or we can not get out of the driveway...oh and it's long too so it takes about 2 hours to clean off and salt....so it is not fun at all.....unless you are Macie, who plays while the other two work.

Macie's birthday

Macie was very luck this year. she was able to celebrate her birthday twice with friends. 1st was on Sunday when the Ochoas came to town and Lola and Tita were over. We had nice dinner and then a great cake that Addie made and decorated. Then Macie opened her presents. She was super excited!

Macie and Eva trying to get to the cake before everyone else...those two like to get into mischief together!

Macie getting ready to blow out her candles on her 1st cake.


Then during the week she was able to have another little party with some friends so she got a second cake (cupcakes actually) and was able to party some more.


Don't you just love the faces with all that blue icing on them!

Macie with her new little baby.

Christmas 2010

I know it is a little late...but here are some pictures from Christmas


the tree on Christmas morning
Nathaniel with his new hockey net. We didn't realize just how big it was until we put it together....it is a very large net
Belle with her new 'fake" nails.. She has a very bad habit of chewing her nails. Hopefully these will help


Macie doing her little happy dance..she really was into the presents this year.



Addie handing out presents later in the day when Lola and Tita came over.

1st day of school 2010

September 7th was the 1st day of school this year. The Fine Arts program that Belle and Nathaniel are in, changed things around. Up until this point, there was one class- per grade and they were just all move up together. This year they tried to mix things up by creating split classes....so there would be 2 of each split classes. Nathaniel is in a grade 4/5 split (he is in grade 5) and Belle is in a grade 6/7 split (she is in grade 6). Because the kids did not know what class they would be in, the school posted class lists out side the school, before school started so that everyone knew where to go.


Addie is starting grade 11. I can't believe that she is just one year away from graduation.....it is crazy. She is really starting to be a young adult every day!

Redoing the Floor

This is what our floor looked like at the front entrance to the house. It is the original floor making it over 50 years old, and wood flooring at the entrance to a house in a rainy climate is not a good thing...so needless to say the floor looked horrible, thus we decided to rip it up and put in ceramic tile.

Addie and I started at about noon one day with a hammer and a chisel and started ripping up the floor. It took us about 7 hours to get it all up. The floor was rotted in so many places that it just snapped apart, but would not pull up in one piece.

But we got it all done....though I am not sure that I can get Addie to help me with a project like that again.
Ramon was in charge of laying the new tile....Macie and Belle were more than willing to help Ramon with that job. We got it all laid in one day, but the thin set that Ramon mixed, wasn't mixed right so half of the tiles did not set, so they had to be ripped up again, cleaned off and reset.....after about two weeks we finally got the flooring done....I will have to post pictures of the completed floor

Addie's 1st Choir performance of the school year

This year Addie is part of the Senior Choir at school. They had their "1st night" performance on the 27 of Oct to show off their talents. They did pretty good. We are looking forward to hearing them at the Christmas concert.