Soccer is over.. :(

I had so much fun with Brooklyn playing soccer! I am so sad to see the season come to an end! She had a blast, so that makes me super happy! Here are a few pics from her last soccer game. Oh and they were given trophies, so we had a little team get-2-gether at Pizza Hut so I will put some it of that too!

Go Lightning!!

Check out her moves!

The Team & Coaches

Diego, Jason, and Dave

Jorge, Skyler, Brooklyn, Hayley, Kaitlyn A., Kaitlyn C., & Kaitlyn M
Brooklyn and her trophy!

My sweet children

God has truly blessed me with the most wonderful kids on this earth! I just have to share this picture because they are just so sweet! It is getting colder out here, and so far we haven't had our A/C on in over a month (I think), and we haven't had to turn our heater on *crossing fingers* which makes it like 70 degrees (give or take a few) in the morning in our home. So instead I have been having the kids wear the PJ's with the footies, they are so warm! They were getting ready for bed the other night, and looked so cute so I snapped a pic of them.......

A*D*O*R*A*B*L*E

Thanksgiving is next week!!!

I am so happy for Thanksgiving this year! This is the first year we will have family out to our home!! Diego's parents are coming for Thanksgiving Dinner and we have some friends that might be stopping by later that evening :)

I am excited b/c normally it has just been our little family (since I moved from OK). When I lived in OK, I had like 3-4 different homes I would go to, between both sides of the family! It was great! So when I moved to AZ, it was so sad to not be jumping around from place to place...


**My plans
I have these special centerpieces that I am making for the table, then I am going to set all the food on our HUGE island, that way we have room for our plates, and pretty centerpiece on the table... you know instead of crowding it with food :) I am also making cocktails for the first time for the evening when we have desserts! Yummy!!

I am so excited about cooking all of that yummy Thanksgiving food!! YUM!

Courtney's Baby!!!

Well my friend had her baby! I am a little late at posting this, but I wanted to wait :) He was born on Oct. 25, on her due date! Can you believe it! Only 5% of babies are born on their due date! His name is Jake, too cute!!

Lovely, Lovely..

..I am so glad that we got our fire pit set back up at our new house! It was so nice roasting marshmallows with the family!

Halloween 2008 and the visit with my Dad

Well here are the pics of my little Halloween stars!! Brooklyn was Hannah Montana! Alex was Dumbo! They were the best looking ones!!! Then there is a pic of the kids with my dad and step-mom last night before the kids went to bed...they were here on Thursday and left this morning. We had such a great time!!!

Pumpkins!!! Oh and Traditions!!!

Well it seems as if our little family has started a tradition!! Here is the story.....

We went to buy pumpkins on Saturday and when we got home Brooklyn asked "Where are we going to carve the pumpkins?" and I told her "Outside like we always do". Then I got to thinking that every year since Alex has been born (which is 3 yrs) we have carved our pumpkins on the back porch on our patio table AND every year we take a picture with them :) Although the first year we didn't do a "family" one...we got one with me & the kids then Diego & the kids. So it is kind of funny that we have started this little tradition of..it HAS to be on the porch and it HAS to be on the patio table and we HAVE to take a family pic :) I love traditions, and as silly as this seems..our kids are going to be able to look back at the years of carving pumpkins and have good memories!! We also have our silly traditions for Christmas and other holidays as well that I will never ever change! Some of them have been from when I was a little girl that I am now doing with my family!! I hope my kids are able to pass it down as well :)

Here is our "traditional" (ahaha!!) family picture from 2008