Any one want a Tortilla!!

The girls got a little taste of their heritage this last week.  While my Abuelita was visiting we decided to make tortillas.  Watching my girls make tortillas with my grandma took me back to some of my sweetest most cherished memories as a little girl.  I use to go to my grandmas almost every Friday after school and spend the weekend with her in Mexico( its was only about 20 min. from our house).  They had a big ranch with every animal that belonged on a ranch.  I would  work right beside her so proud and excited to be there.  I would have to help milk the goat and make cheese, feed the animals and sweep the dirt!  Yes, in Mexico they sweep their dirt!  A couple of times I even went to cock fights with my grandpa(that's another story).  I would swim in the irrigation canals and eat mango's in their hammocks all day! I loved it and never got board with going their.  It was another way of life, and I Loved it!  I wish my girls could experience those sweet memories on the ranch, but times have changed and its OK!  I look at them with their great grandma and the joy they feel with her and how they love her with them, and in a small way they are experiencing what I had, and that brings me a deep peace within my soul, and a realization that it wasn't all the fun I had their.  It was the great love of my Abuelita and Abuelo!

Go BOBO GO!!!!!!

Go BoBo Go!!!  The Saturday after Halloween we went to the State Fair!  My grandma(Abuelita) was with us and we wanted to take her to do something fun and different from what she is use to so Rich found  out about this Banana Derby at the fair and we were there!  I haven't laughed this hard and loud in a long time!  It was the funniest thing I've ever seen!  These monkeys sit on these dogs backs and they race.  The funniest thing is that these monkeys really get into it. The one in yellow was bouncing up and down like a real Jockey in a horse race!  The girls thought it was the greatest thing ever as did I!  We also went to the petting zoo, which was crazy!  They had a zebra, giraffe, lama, camels and all other kinds of animals!  It was fun!!   

Happy Halloween!!!

Hooray for Halloween!!!   We had started to talk about what each of the girls wanted to be back in September (because I just get so excited about these things)  and one day we were driving to the mall to get ideas, as we were driving  I got all kinds of different answers from Emeli and Eden and Sarah all of a sudden started to yell "my turn my turn"  so I asked her thinking it would be something her sisters had just said  Nope!  In her deepest voice very sure of her self says " I want to be a turtle!"  I about died from laughing so hard.  So we walk into the mall and guess what we found the turtle costume!  As we walked out of the store she was beaming with pride holding her bag!   A couple of weeks latter Emeli told me she needed to be a rainbow fairy  and Eden a yellow fairy!

So this year we decided to have a family Halloween party!!  We had a lot of fun and it all made Halloween so much more festive and fun!  We had a donut eating contest, a pumpkin rolling contest and a little dance contest, and of course lots of yummy food!! Afterwards we took the kids trick or treating and some stayed behind to pass out candy.  It was fun to be surrounded by friends and spend the evening together eating, playing, and laughing!  I looked around and felt so grateful and blessed for good friends and good friends for my children.  Friends that become a part of you and are more like family then just friends!   Thanks everyone for everything and we missed those of you who couldn't be there! A tradition was born so plan on it next year!  We had fun and the Kids loved it!!!