Like fish in the water

thank goodness for a good sunny summer!!!

thank goodness for out door pools.
thank goodness for beautiful children!!

my boy was six now he's SEVEN!

I really try to be a good mother.... I really try, but then it's almost a month after that I post any pictures from Evan's b-day :S

It was fun! 

He was so excited!

We thought it was going to rain, and it did, but just 30 min before the party started it stopped.

You better believe that it was because we prayed and prayed and prayed!

I can't put into words what this little boy does to me.

In 7 years he's stolen my heart.

I love that every morning ....every morning he's the first one up and comes right by my side in my bed to warm up before his day starts.

i love it!

there's nothing that tops that up.

there's nothing!

I love my family. 

I love my kids.

I love being their mom!

One more year and he's getting baptized.

That day I'll be in tears.... happy tears.... I already know.

I can't believe my life. I can't believe my blessings.

I'm so happy.

Happy b-day to my beautiful boy Evan!

 (don't make fun at my baking skills. i know you will want to. but don;t. the only reason the cakes were on that table is because Evan liked them. yes, bless his heart, he actually said i did a good job. how couldn't i love him after that!!)

(Kaleb, Evan and Leito... best buds!)

 (my kids... plus "gabo" my other son, I wish! we love him so much!)

 (Evan and Pryia, his kindergarten's crush shhhhhhh don't tell! for two years he's had a crush on her and this year we didn;t have her phone number to invite her, but he somehow, don't ask me how,  knew where she lived so we dropped off the invitation right at her door. needless to say he was sooooo excited she came!)

kelowna

 kelowna deserves a post of its own.

we fell more and more in love with it.

we stopped by the temple for the sealing of a member of our ward. his fiancee has been staying at our house every weekend for a while while she came to canada to visit him.

well... now they are married, and they won't be needing us :)

And then we get to kelowna, and hte weather is amazing, and the lakes are soooo nice...and that's all we did. we went to different lakes everyday. and it was soooooo nice.

Fun with the cousins

 view from sarah's house

date night...wohoooo

 enjoying delicious fruit from the okanagan....yumm!!!!!

got some nice cherries and peaches... delish!

time for some screamers!!

 and church!

 she looks cute even when she cries

my three tesoros!

it was short but sweet.

can't wait to be back!

remember that time...???

Yes... it seems summer is over and I haven't posted anything about our summer.

And it was FUN!

I've loved it. So sunny, going to out door pools, lakes, the ocean.... getting tanned!!!

I finally look like a Spanish person. I was becoming whiter and whiter the longer I am here in Canada.

Now I look like when I got here :)

The kids also get super tan....yes! even though they are not very brown, they get brown. so that's nice.

they love the water. carmen is swimming really well now. evan is confident now without the life jacket and he throws himself in the water and swims pretty well too. isabel is also more confident. she got over her fears in no time. she swims with her "floaties"  and she even dunks under water without freaking out. a great accomplishment!

in a matter of 2 months they've done a lot of progress,

Now we all want to go to swimming lessons. Including me!

So let's enjoy some pictures of summer especially now that i look through the window and it's pouring rain :S

(At our every wednesday meeting with "the mexicans" . all the mothers from school ....and they all happen to be from mexico!)

( at the summer festival at the big church by our house)

( at the fair in point grey where daddy was working at a station with the army)

( being the fastest girl in pre-school at the sports day at school)

( at the spray park, on canada day)

that's how you eat ice cream

 (smurfing around)