Art in the Park

This was our first year Erin experienced "Art in the Park" at Lincoln Elementary. Either we missed it last year or I wasn't aware of it! This year's theme was art of course and mom's volunteered to be in charge of an art or craft project. Projects that were included were making kites, lizard beading, painting, stamping, making tissue flowers, stenciling, sidewalk chalk and many many more! I had tons of fun and enjoyed spending the day helping and being with Erin.

Paint stamping with her best friend.

They decided to make beaded bracelets instead of beaded lizards.

Boot Camp - Field Day

Eli at Erin's field day at school. The theme for this year was boot camp! So, there were relay races, tug of war, jump rope, push ups, bike races, and the tire thingy that you have to run through!

They also had a dunk tank. Eli and Rico had fun watching the students get dunked!

One of the obstacle courses was a bike race. Erin did pretty well. She finished 2nd in Mrs. Hawkin's class. She bikes everyday, so it paid off!

We also got to see Erin do push ups effortlessly!

The Mask...& red velvet cake....mmm

That same night, I'd just finish sewing ties for the boys for Ca's wedding and with some left over fabric, Erin cut out a mask and had me sew it for Eli. He's such a big goof!

Oh, yes...it was a virgin drink!

On Cinco de Mayo, E-Ca brought some tacos and burritos she had left over from her party at her apartment. She also brought some yummy daquiri which Eli loves, loves!

My first red velvet cake with butter cream frosting. This is also for Ate Emily who was also craving for red velvet cake. We ate a peice for you!

Erin was making cupcakes from her toy bake set she got from Isabel from Christmas. She made this red velvet cupcake and was so yummy that I decided to make red velvet cake the next day!

Someone's in trouble...

Erin is such a great older sister. She loves Eli and takes care of him on the playground. Mama sent clothes with Monica coming back to Rexburg and this is her favoreite, favorite shorts. She makes sure I wash them every night! This one of the days that was nice and warm. Lately, it's been raining and windy!

I know parents wait to put their children in timeout until they are two years old. Well, Eli is almost 21 months old and Rico and I feel that he is smart enough to know that there are some behaviors that are not ok. For instance, on this day, I made brownies and gave the brownie spoon to Erin. Of course, Erin shares, but she refuses to let Eli hold it. So, Eli screams. So, I get another spoon and dip it into the brownie mix but he doesn't want it, he wants the one Erin was holding. He throws a tantrum, throws the spoon on the floor, makes a mess and attemps to knock Erin's spoon out of her hands. So, here he is in time out. He wouldn't stand and face the corner, but he stayed there anwway. Terrible, two's here we come!!! Yeah!

BACK TO WORK!

Well, Rico had about a week and a half break before he started working full time at Lexington Law. If any of you know Rico, he's very focused in school or work! He's a very studious and hardworking person. So, it was nice that he didn't have to worry about school or work for that window frame. We had more time to do things as family like going on long walks, going to the zoo and swimming at green canyon hot springs. We'll have more fun times to come!

Many of our good friends have moved on to grad school and started careers, as we are still anxiously waiting for our acceptance letters to law and grad school! I am nervous, but I know the Lord knows what our little family needs. Keep us in your prayers. We hope that our next move will be a good experience as we had here at BYU-I!

Toothless girl!

She finally lost her other top tooth! Yeah!

He did it!

The Pascual family!

Our little family of four!

Tito I-Boy, Ate Ems & Jen, Uncle Rock, Tony, Richard & Charley drove from Cali and arrived at about 2pm on Thursday!

Rico with his class mates.


Ahhh! Finally, after eight years, Rico graduated with his Bachelor's Degree.

Fun week to come!

We are two days away from Rico's graduation! His family is arriving Thursday at about noon. We have about 12 people in our house! Crazy, but they always know how to have a good time! We are very excited since Rico is finished with finals that day. They too are excited and would love to see what Rexburg is all about!!! LOL We will be heading out to Utah on Saturday to spend time there and show them around temple square!!! So, we'll be leaving in the morning Saturday and coming back that night! Boy is that going to be a fun,long day!

Erin singing the alphabets backward!

Erin, sending a blow kiss to E-Pa!


Here it is, Pa. Erin's high school matching head band and pillow (my first sewing project).





Erin is singing the abc's backward while Eli wants to "hold it" (the camera). Also, I have been teaching myself how to sew since my friend gave me her old sewing machine. Erin is wearing a head band that has high school musical prints on it!

How many ways can you say "cheese"?

Eli makes the funniest "cheese" smiles! He makes us all laugh!

Erin's fairytale ball...dancing the Teton Mountain Stomp

Can you see Erin in the Snow White dress? She's in the back with the yellow skirt! They walk in circles, so Erin will come up to the front where I was video taping and you'll get a better view of her....she's so adorable!

Erin's fairytale ball & dancing the Waltz.

Here are some of the backgrounds we decorated for Erin's fairytale ball at Lincoln Elementary...


Sleeping Beauty.

Goldilocks and the Three Bears. When the dance instructor introduced Erin's teacher as Madonna...we all cracked up. She was dress up as Goldilocks, blond & curly hair.

Erin dressed in Snow White is dancing with Happy, one of the seven dwarfs. His mom headed the committee and we planned it out!! JK

Eli is smiling in front of the Hansel & Gretal backgound.

Cinderella background.

The cutest Snow White!

Dancing the Waltz...


We had so much fun preparing for Erin's fairytale ball at school. The second graders have been studying different genres of books. The focused on the fairytale theme and planned a fairytale ball. The instructor from BYU-I came to teach them the Waltz and the Teton Mountain Stomp. I went into help decorate a the backgrounds which included Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, the Three Bears, Hansel & Gretel. It turned out so nice. Hats off too the mom who headed the committee. We pulled it all together as parents were sitting in the auditorium waiting for their second graders to arrive at the ball. Erin dressed up as Snow White and here she is dancing the waltz with a mouse from Cinderella.

My little entrepreneur!

Erin has been doing well in school! She's close to reaching 100 points in her AR test (accelerated reading)at school and then she'll get her picture posted on the "Wall of Fame". We've been working really hard by going to school afterschool to work on it at the computer lab. When Erin gets 100% on all of her tests, we get her favorite treat, Mango A-go-go at Jamba Juice.

She also finished all of her assigned reading before spring started and will receive a "Book Worm" (I think that's a special bookmark). She's also a math master, meaning she tested and passed all of her math tests within 2 minutes. She is now working on the same tests, but trying to pass them within 1 minute. So, far she's done well and if she passes all of them in a minute, she'll be a math Einstein and then on to math Ph.D.

Erin is a great big sister. She loves to help change diapers, take baths for Eli, dress him, and feed him. She's a great help around the house too! She loves to wash dishes.

She's always thinking of ways to make money by doing chores, recycling plastic bottles and cans. A couple of weeks ago, she passed out blue raffle tickets to neighbors and friends in the ward and ask them to come to a bake sale she's setting up in front of the house. So, that day is today! What can I say, we have a little entrepreneur! She inherits that gene from her dad...
However, she is a very impulsive spender. She loves to get things from the quarter machine and buy toys for herself and her brother from the Dollar Tree store.

Tie dying t-shirts..

Sorry, family...we have been terrible at blogging lately. Here are some things we've been up to lately! Erin was really excited one day to make tie dye t-shirts with E-Ca. Look at all of those color dyes. We put hearts on Erin's and Erin also made one for Eli! I still need to wash them before they wear it =/! The turned out really nice! We bought a pack of 3 tshirts for like $4, and Monica already had dyes. They were really worth it! If we bought them at Berekely, they would have been $15 - $20 each. We have so much fun with E-Ca...she's very special to us!

One freezing, sunny day...

Eli and I went outside and thought it was warm enough to play...it was actually sunny, but freezing cold! Here, Eli tries to keep his hands warm and cheese at the same time.

Princess party!

Erin was invited to our neighbor's birthday party. It was so cute to see them dressed up and they acted just like little princess. Erin was the Little Mermaid. I was so surprised at how quiet they all were at the party! They got to decorate a princess crown that Hilarie made from her Cricut machine(which I desperately want); played pin the crown on the princess; and had cupcake and juice!

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We've been heart attacked!!! Tears of fear & laughter!

E-Ca came over to heart attack our house. So, we told Erin that someone had "heart attacked" the house and she took it in medical terms. She wouldn't let us open the door because she that someone had had a heart attack outside our door. She started crying until we open the door and she saw all the candies that were taped to the door. We felt so special and we love E-Ca!

Eli does all sorts of funny things. We bought this baby bath from DI and I used it once to take a bath for Eli, but it didn't work for us. So, Eli uses this as a recliner and here he's watching "Horton Hears a Who?" with E-Ca and Erin.

Erin takes pride in her missing tooth!

Eli is always fighting for my attention while I'm either on the computer or doing the dishes. One night, I was trying to update my blog and he kept pulling me and turning off the computer. He finally gave up, found Erin's hat and put it on by himself, and went downstairs to look for Erin to showcase her hat he was wearing. Silly kid!

2 sick kids...

Ok, so it was Friday and we'd plan to drive down to Utah for a friend's missionary farewell. Eli got sick with a mild fever the night before and Erin came home Friday with a fever. So, I decided that we would stay behind and that Rico will go take his LSAT and the farewell party. We all needed some fresh air, so E-Ca and I had lunch at IHOP and then took the kids out shopping. Actually, E-Ca and I went shopping at Porter's and Robert's. Fun, fun, fun!!!
Here, Erin keeps herself occupied as we we walked around the store deciding what craft we wanted to do to keep ourselves busy for the weekend.


We thought Eli made a cute little elephant. The kids had fun and fresh air was exactly what they needed! Erin had a fever that lasted two days and Eli is still snotty, boogery, and keeps me up way late lately!

Coupons from Mickey D's!

I am a coupon clipper freak! Eli & I had lunch at McD's and Eli loves loves the indoor gym...apparently so does E-Ca!

Have you ever seen a little kid so happy over a cup of soda? He's something else. Last night, Eli took off his diaper and put it on his head as a hat. What was he thinking..lol!