Christopher hates his picture taken!

It seems that my son has reached an age where he is too good for pictures:) It all started a month or two ago when we were at a park and he would have nothing to do with looking at the camera! I wonder if it is because he might end up on my blog???? Well it did him no good because I have finally got a few good shots of him! I love this guy like you would not believe. He is growing up so fast and really is a young man now. It is so hard to look back on his baby pictures and think that was 14 years ago!! It really makes me feel old. i will try to post a baby picture of him soon. He will love me for that huh? Hey maybe that will fix him and he will let me take him picture more:)

A little game of catch up!

Sorry have not really posted much since January because of my semester at school. Now that is is over I will try to play a bit of catch up and do a few posts on what has been happening in my little world.

Hunter turned 6 this year! I can not believe it. I just love this little guy to death and it has really been hard for me to see him grow up. He used to be this really hard toddler and even made me question a few times where he came from and who child was he. As he has been getting a bit older he has turned into such a character. He is just like his dad when it comes to humor. Ask his teacher he really does say some funny things at the most inappropriate times.

Grandma Santos here this year for his birthday so we decided to go to the local peter piper Pizza to celebrate! We of course have a big enough family to make our own little party! At first he was so happy for me to be taking pictures but as you can see in the next one he was like "OK mom enough can I just go play this gun game"! (Which I thought I would never let me kids do).

Dont mind the older brother sticking something up his nose???? I hope this is just a really bad picture and he really is not doing what it looks like:)

Alex Singing for the very first time in public!

You all know Steve has a crazy addiction to music. Well I do believe his daughter is right there behind him. They together have been practicing a song form Taylor Swift "Our Song". Steve had a gig at the San Tan Mall on Saturday night. I decided to take all the kids out to see him play. During a break I decided to mention having Steve and Alex play their song. Alex was a bit weary and did not want to because Steve did not have his acoustic guitar with him and she thought she would not be able to do it the same. Well after a few minutes she actually took the leap and she said she would. So please click here to take a listen! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neUkr050C_Q

Alex got her hair cut!

Alex had been bugging me to take her to get a hair cut so I finally did. When we got there they measured it and she definitely had enough to donate. All in all I think they took 13 inches off! She loves her new haircut but I think she is really missing her long hair. It is so hot here is the summer I think it was perfect timing. Her hair grows so fast it will be long again in no time.

GRAND CANYON

Last Friday was Porter's Annual Grand Canyon Field trip! It was once a trip that was an overnight event but as the years have past they have limited it to a one day trip. As you can imagine that is a huge task in just one day. Since it was only going to be one full day I decide to have the grand idea to go as a chaperon. At first it seemed like a great idea, but soon turned into a scheduling nightmare. I had a sitter all lined up. The kids all were taken care of and I had paid the money to go. Then as my girlfriends and I were talking about all the upcoming events we all had to attend and exchanging babysitting offers I realized my sitter was going to be on a Field trip with her daughter the very day I needed her. I had also offered to watch another friends child. It was a mess! I racked my brain and pretty much everyone of my friends were busy that day. So my very awesome husband saved the day by staying home from work. Not a common happening in my world but so appreciated.

So that morning we loaded up the bus and off we went. We stopped at Montezuma Castle and had our snack and potty break. We also had this great scavenger hunt that the teachers had created for us to do with our groups. We were each given a camera and we had to take pictures of our entire group with various things in the picture. Ex. Take a pic with a park Ranger. They even had one where you had to lift you leader of the ground entirely! Who do you think they picked for that one. ME. The downfall for being a light person. After our snack we then drove to the Canyon. We had a small hike down in the canyon and then we had the chance to visit the area. My group chose the ice cream shop! The wind was blowing really hard and Alyssa's ice cream actually fell off her cone!

All in all it was an awesome time and I so enjoyed the time with Alyssa. All her friends were great and no one misbehaved at all. We had a great group of kids and had a blast. The only thing I could have wished for was a bit more time. We all loaded up once again and went to Flagstaff for pizza. Then we were off to the long trip home. Its too bad they say that was the last trip because Alex will be in the 6Th grade next year and we really wanted to go to that one too. Maybe we can hope for the best and get them to do it again. We will see!

Glamour Alyssa!

A couple weeks ago Alyssa went to an activity. The girls all got to dress up and get make-up on and really just have an all out fun time getting "PRETTY"! This week they went to the activity to make special frames for their pictures. Alyssa came home with these amazing pictures! She is so beautiful I just can not believe she is my offspring! I know she got it from her dad:) Alyssa is so unbelievable and it is so awesome that she is more beautiful on the inside than she is in this picture. I am so proud of her and happy to she what a great young women she is becoming! Keep up the good work girl. I love you sooooo much!

I Did It!

So its Monday morning and I am stressing out because I have a Lab final in my Anatomy class! I also as most of you know am on the PTA Board at the local elementary school. It just happens to be the monthly Board meeting at 3:30 which is only 2 hours before my final! So I go to the meeting and plan on going straight to class.... Well my plans soon got a huge dent.




Let's just say the meeting did not end well and I left not having all my emotions in check! I was a wreck and at this point had a final in 30 minutes. So I gather myself together as much as I can and go to class. I felt great about the test and thought I did good. Last night I went to class and was hoping to find out my grade. The teacher left the tests on the table to pick up and as I walk up I see a paper that says HIGH SCORE! Mind you I have two people in my class who never even get one problem wrong so I know this is not mine but glance to see who's it was and what do you know it is MINE!!!! I got the High score on the Lab Final!! You do not know how much I needed that. I think that is what has given me what I need to get through this next week and one last final on May 5Th! I have so much to prepare for before then and hope it all goes well. If not then I at least can say I had one awesome test that I kicked butt on right?!