Honduras Mission

At the end of February I left for our church's annual Honduras mission trip. It's a week long medical mission in which we spend a day in each of four communities in the north of Honduras. we spend the better part of the week in a beach front hotel, which helps us feel like we're on vacation at the end of long exhausting medicine dolling days. The pictures below are just some of the ones taken by different member of our missionary group. Enjoy: Beach sunsets are amazing:

The water was a bit cold to be out there...it was warmer than Los Angeles beaches though.

I was translating for some our doctors.

SPRING and Sprinklers

Ok, so I haven't posted in a while, and I've been getting complaints. But it doesn't really help when I don't have any pictures. We have lots of holiday pics that were all posted elsewhere, so everyone who follows this blog has already seen them and there's no need to show them again. Part of the reason for them having been posted elsewhere is because they weren't taken with our camera, so they didn't belong to us and we had no control over the posting.

Where is our camera you ask? Well if you don't know yet, we left it in the Newark airport on our way to Boston over the Christmas holiday. So we spent our whole vacation without a camera and calling the Newark airport everyday. Turns out, when we got back to L.A., Newark airport is not very reliable (the airline people told us this in Los Angeles). So we put in a claim, but haven't yet gotten our camera back, and I doubt we will. So that's the story of the lost camera.

We haven't bought a new one because that was an expensive camera and a new one would be more expensive still and it's not at the top of the list at this time. We do have a smaller camera, that more than does the job. But after having the other one...it just feels sort of sad. All of this to say that we've been pretty bad at taking pictures.

The boys are not looking much different from when they did over the holidays, the only things you can tell is their behavior and you can't see that on pictures. Maybe I'll start posting some videos.

Ok, so where does the title come from? That's Ricky's conversation about Spring. He's been told at school when spring was going to start, so he spent all last week saying that spring was starting, and he was very excited. He asked me if he could go out and play in the sprinklers because spring had started. Sprinklers? Well, since last Spring, everytime he saw the sprinklers on he'd get all excited and say "it's spring!!" He did this all summer as well. So somehow, sprinklers and Spring are practically the same thing and he wants to go out and play in the water, which is really why he likes sprinklers/spring in the first place.

Adrien, my baby, is not so much of a baby anymore, he's started his terrible twos tantrums, specially when he's tired. He does have a wonderful personality, though; he's very social, will wave and say hi and bye to everyone and even blows kisses...well almost everyone, there are some over-friendly people that he just stares at and gives them a "what are you doing?" look.

So this is my update, sorry again for the lack of photos, we will make an extra effort to snap more shots of the boys. Stay tuned for a post on our nature walks....maybe we'll take some pics at one of them.

Proud Mamma

Ricardo had his Christmas program at school on Friday the 19th. It was simpler than previous years, but the last two years my child has become quite the performer. So here are a few pictures that really show how happy and excited he was. There were a few videos to go with it, but I've been having some technical difficulties so it'll have to wait.

Enjoy,

Random Photos - Alphabet Photos - B

So that I don't skip any letters in Sonia's Alphabet photo thing here is my entry for the letter B.


Don't they look so cute? Of Course in the second photo Adrien is ready to go, this has taken too long for him.

The pictures below are just some really nice ones taken of Adrien and yet again his interesting faces.




Enjoy!!

Halloween!

I know it's a little late, but we had a great time at K&E's annual Halloween bash. I know you all have already seen the family pics of us at that party, there are some, not necessarily of us that you have not yet seen. So I'm sharing them now:

Our lion tamer hosts did a great job with their costumes this year(as always), and of course baby Langston made a great lion. If you notice in the first picture here mom tamer is having a hard time with the little lion, but by the last, all he needed was his meal!

- My little darth vader, that was his costume, really enjoyed running around outside, and he looks a lot like his brother here.

He also had a fascination with the dead!!

Ricky's Christmas List

Last Week we went to target, just to hang out, that's what we do on weekends, hang out at Target. As we walked in I reminded Ricky that we weren't going to buy anything and he said that he just wanted to look for his birthday (December 7) so I decided it would be a great idea for him to make a Christmas list. He ran with it!! We went down every toy isle and he pointed out everything he wanted. I thought I'd be writing down everything, but he was surprisingly selective. The list is still long, but very detailed.



To tell you the truth I'd forgotten about this list, that I had decided would be sent out to everyone thinking of getting him birthday or Christmas presents, until Ricardo asked me yesterday if I had put a few items on my list. I said "what list baby?" - what a bad mom I am for forgetting his list already - and he said the one for my birthday, did you put...in it? And then I remembered.



So after the long explanation here's the list. All the items can be found at target (at least the one in Burbank, Ca), and I tried to be as detailed as possible (now if I only could read my writing):



1. Spike the Ultradino - Giant remote control dino that makes lots of noise, it's usually in a display case for trying out.


2. Little hard animal figurines from Schleich (there specific ones he requested):
2 Elephants - one with the trunk up and one with the trunk down ( he made sure I put both on the list)
Crocodile, Killer whale, and another whale that was labeled as a "right whale", but I think any other whale would do.


3. Dino rescue Mountain - Diego (not absolutely sure it's Diego, but I think so)

4. Imaginex Gorilla Mountain

5. Anakin Skywalker - Clone wars Action figure - Got for his Birthday (thanks to God Parents K&E)

6. Bashing Boulder Mine - Matchbox

7. Screaming Banshee - from the Cars movie - it's a Yellow giant car that eats little ones

8. Elefun Game

9. Spiderman's Hypersonic Spiderjet

10. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Mini Motorcycle

11. Handy Manny - Lets go to work - Fisher price

12. Pat Pat Rocket - Little Einsteins

13. Transformer - Any he doesn't have would make him happy. He has bumblebee, Optimus Prime and Megatron.

14. Diego Buildable megabloks underwater rescue (this one has a lot of small pieces so if you can put it on the bottom of your list, I'd appreciate it)


OOOps, I almost forgot: when we went through the bathroom isle there were all these children themed bathroom things and they had a whole jungle theme ....did I mention Ricardo likes elephants?

There was a cup shaped like an elephant that he made sure I put it on my list and it's one of the items he asked about yesterday. It's one of these Toothbrush holding bathroom cups.

Ok I think I got it all.



Now because we didn't want to leave Adrien out, we watched what he was drawn to and wrote some things down (much smaller list):



1. Walkie Talkie - phone ( he likes phones)

2. Any play phone

3. Starwars sword

4. Fisher Price Learning vaccuum - he spent some time pressing buttons on this one.



But I know he'd be happy with wrapping paper and empty boxes, so with that in mind, enjoy your shopping!!

PhotoHunt #11 - Lazy

So it's been a long time since I've done one of these, but it's ok.

The Theme is Lazy and Adrien certainly enjoys a bit of laziness on a hot summer day.

Enjoy,