The most beautiful prayer!!

Every night when we are kneeling down to do our family prayer Julio & I take turns, Braiden will tell us that he wants to go first so, we will tell him what he needs to repeat but tonight, it was such an amazing moment when he started to pray by him self. It was such a short, sweet and special prayer, this is all he said:

"Heavenly father, bless us to be an eternal family and to be able to go with Moroni"

As Braiden was praying, I was in tears because it was his first prayer ever and the importance of what he has said. It is amazing to me how they start to learn what's important since they are little. I'm so happy and proud that he recognizes the importance of eternal families and the Temple. He is always so excited to see the big Moroni on top of the temple.

Great job Braiden, mommy is so proud of you!!

Mother's Day

Mother's day in Mexico is always the 10th of May regardless of the what day of the week it is so, Julio took me and my sister in-law to dinner in celebration of this special occasion.

So on Sunday, we didn't do much, we went to church then we got home and took some pictures with the boys first matchie match outfit and we wore some green to go along with their clothing. Julio was making fun of me for wearing green, he said that Saint Patrick's had been two months ago.

Mother's day was a special day for me as this year I was the mother of our two beautiful boys!!

 My boys

 Brotherly love!!

Mommy and her boys :)

La Casita de Christmas

Our FHE activity was to build our 1st Gingerbread house, Braiden was really excited and he wanted to participate. Julio's duty was to put it together then Braiden and me were in charge of decorating the house. We asked Braiden to choose the design from the two lay outs that were on the box, he wasn't undecided as of which one he wanted to make.

It was really fun to see how Braiden was distributing the candy, some for the house and some for Braiden.

The Gingerbread house was such a fun project to work on, he have decided to make it a tradition and make one every year.

Once we were done, Braiden was so proud of what we had made!!

This is how our Casita de Christmas (Braiden decided to call it that way) came out!!

Very concentrated on putting the candy on the right spots..

Look at what we made :)

This is how you do it..

Just the beginning

Ready to make our first Gingerbread house !!

Christmas Concert

Our niece Andrea invited us to attend her Christmas concert, she was playing in a High School in Littleton so, we left right after work and we were stuck on traffic but, we were able to make it on time to her play. Braiden fall asleep on the car and we got to the auditorium with him asleep but shortly after we were there he woke up and he was very attentive at the beautiful songs they played and he was excited to see his cousin. Even though he had just woken up he did very well and behave like a big boy.

Great job Andrea, we will be looking forward to join you for the next concert!!

Happy birthday Elle!!

Elle turned 8 and we were able to attend her surprise birthday party. It was nice to see her being surprised by everybody that was there. Braiden enjoyed playing with Spencer and we both had a good time.

It it so amazing to see how time flies, I remember when little Elle was in my Primary class, we had such an special connection since day one.

Happy birthday princess Elle!!

Elle getting ready to put on the lips on the frog...

Elle's friends

Happy birthday Elle!!

The two amigos :)

Lots of presents...

Super happy :)

Cute picture!

Having fun with the baby...

Happy Halloween

Today was Andrea's 13th birthday so after work, we went to my sister in-law's house, we had dinner, then went trick or treating and came back so Andre could cut her cake.

It was a really fun night as this is the first year where Braiden actually enjoyed the trick or treat experience.

These are some of the things that Braiden did and said:

* He got scared with Alan's costume, he kept telling me it was scary as he couldn't see Alan's face, once Alan showed Braiden it was him he was okay.

* When we got to the area where we were going to be knocking on doors, he was afraid of some of the decorations, he kept on asking me "Mommy no scary" and as soon I as told him no, he was okay

* He would take his time looking at the decorations

* He wanted to pet every dog in every house, he kept saying wow wow big

* He was really slow walking and wouldn't collect much candy

* Daddy started to run with him and pretty soon his pumpkin was getting really full and went we told him to let us put his candy away as his pumpkin was going to the say he kept saying, no is mine

* He learned how to say trick or treat

* He got really scare at one of the houses that had a candy bowl with the hand inside, he asked for a second candy from the bowl that didn't have the hand inside

* At some houses he would ask if he could have two candies

After we had cake and we went home, he was really tired and fall asleep in the car.

It was such a fun Halloween, I'm sure Braiden will be ready and excited next year!!

Tío Ricardo, Braiden & Tía Karina

Tía Lupita & Tío Mario

Delicious cake....

Happy birthday Andrea

Braiden and prima Andrea

The pirates

Ready for some candy.....

Our cute pirate

(he refused to wear the eye patch so we tried to paint one on)

Trick or treat!!

Halloween at work

I wasn't planning to dress up for work but, it was an incentive not to have to dress up for work on a Monday and being so that Julio didn't want to use his costume, I decided to use it and be ready to go trick or treat matching Braiden's costume.

It was a fun day at work, we got candy and we participated in a costume contest, they took pictures of everybody that dressed up and just had a good time.

Claudia, Patty, Maricela & Icela

A witch and a pirate