Didn't quite make the cut!

Well May ended with some exciting events. The Amgen Tour was one of them. Ramon took that morning off from work, so we headed downtown with the girls to watch the cyclist take off. We got there early and were able to find "Contador's" trailer with his bike outside...(hence the pic) He's one of Ramon's favorite riders. Also, standing outside the RadioShak trailer, Ramon threw DK on his shoulders (after seeing another father doing the same thing and his son getting a t-shirt) and they gave her one. She now calls it, her Lance Armstrong sleep shirt. Then a reporter came to us with her camcorder and asked me if she could ask a couple questions. I grabbed Ramon and he did it. Thinking he'd be on the local news that evening, we were let down that he didn't quite make the cut. LOL! Maybe it was that he didn't know the rumors going on about the Landis/Lance feud. Or maybe b/c he said he didn't care about that and yelled out who he wanted to take lead. All in all we had a good time.

O Mother's Day!

We started Mother's day off by having breakfast at my mother-in-laws house. Biscuits and gravy...mmm, my favorite. Linda, thank you for raising a strong, hardworking, loving son. You are a strong woman. Thank you for being there for us, cooking us dinner once a week and being the fun grandma that you are!

We spent that afternoon at the "Sandlot".

Mom, you continue to be a positive influence in my life. I am so grateful for you and all that you've done for me and continue to do. Thank you for showing me what a caring, hardworking, loving and patient mother looks like. I'm so lucky your my mom and my girls have you as their "Nana".

Mom and her girls...........Soy, P, Jae, DK, Reecerboy & Kwyn

Mi Familia!

Ramon, thank you for my babies!

Day after Mother's Day... :)

Baseball is here!

Baseball is here! We welcomed it by attending Rawhide's opening night against the Stockton Ports. It was a fun night with the girls and Gpa & Gma "E". The girls rushed down the stairs everytime they saw mascot "Tipper" the cow come by.

Mascot "Tipper"...Sawyer kept asking "Where'd the horse go?"

Always entertained!

Although they lost we had a great time eating the food, taking countless trips to the ladies room and being entertained by our two energized little girls!

Can't wait to do it again.

Easter

HE IS RISEN!

Let the easter festivities begin. We decorated eggs, had 3 easter egg hunts, went to church and then went out to an easter bash!

On the hunt! All the girls :)

$$$ and candy!

Easter morning

Festivities at the "Sandlot" The Easter bunny left a trail of jelly beans. If there's a will, there's a way!

Baby Reece and Jaelyn!

January ended with a new arrival: Reece Michael to Aaron and Tamra.

He's such a cute little guy...and yes, finally a boy!!!

I was so excited to be able to make it down to S.D. for his birth.

We can't forget Valentine's Day. Daddy surprised his girls with flowers. What a lucky guy to have 3 Valentines that love him soooo much!

T-Tam and Reece came to town for a visit. They were able to be here for the birth of...

Jaelyn Rae in March! Baby girl #3 for Sam and Therese.

Such a sweetie.

Getting bigger!

Here's some recent pics of the girls. Dakota is 5yrs.4mo. and Sawyer is 2 1/2yrs. Time flies. They're getting so big. They continue to entertain us. Dakota is still in tap. She loves to color and draw. Sawyer loves to be just like her big sister. She's about mastered the "potty" waking me at 3am for some assistance. We're so proud of our beautiful girls. God is so good!

We're getting settled into our new house. The girls are loving it. We're really liking being on this side of town. Ramon continues to stay busy at work especially with this weather we've had lately. We're looking forward to Spring time and some warmer weather.

We hope all is well with you, our family and friends!

It's been a while!

Wow, what can I say. The last 3 weeks have been a whirlwind...to say the least. We moved into our house 2 days before Christmas. Didn't give it a whole lot of thought, just wanted to be in before Christmas so the girls could wake up in their new home that morning. It was a wonderful gift!

Dakota had her Christmas performance for tap class. Paityn performed too. So fun to watch. Can't wait 'til next year when Soy can join the fun! I'm glad DK was able to do this considering she was sick for her preschool Christmas program.

AB and T-Tam were here for the holidays along with my aunts, uncle and most of my cousins. It was so nice to have everyone in town. We celebrated Christmas Eve in Lemoore with my in-laws and carried on all the same traditions. Some of those include a gift exchange where someone ends up with this decorative light up lawn cow :) And we can't forget decorating gingerbread houses.

Look at all our men...aren't they so cute!?!

Another great tradition was all the young grand-daughters and great grand-daughters opening their pajamas from Grandpa. Which brings me to Frank Albert, my grandpa. He passed away and left us December 31st. We're deeply saddened. I know though that God has a plan. He gave us Christmas with him. He was surrounded by all of his family. For those of you that don't know, this is my mom's dad. He lived in town. I'll miss my occassional stops when I'd bring the girls by to visit him. He'd always make sure they got cookies from his cookie jar. I'll even miss him getting uptight over the fact that the girls would play with his 50 cent stuffed cat doll he got at a garage sale. I'll miss talking politics with him, when we'd agree to disagree. I'll miss asking to borrow his furniture dollies and telling him I'd get them out of the shed and then showing up and they'd be all ready for me on his porch. I'll miss watching him fall asleep on the couch and then him waking and saying he wasn't falling asleep. I'll miss taking the girls over to swim while he'd sit and watch from the patio and then bring them out popsicles. I'll miss when he's grumpy and getting him to laugh or smile. All these things I will miss! But I know he is in a better place. Thank you to all our friends and family for your love and support!