My Sweet Grandma!!!

Well, we had my grandmother's "going away" party last month! She moved to LA, actually Riverside, to live with my aunt. As I know it's the best thing for her, it is still very sad at the same time! I spent a LOT of time with my grandma. She was always baking and bustling in the kitchen or doing her crewel stitching. I have so many fond memories of being at my grandmas. When I had Chayce she took care of him for the first few years while I worked. And my daughter, Ciara, had the same sweet luxary. But now she's very old and her health isn't the best and she just needed to live with someone, so it was time! So we had a little get together and took some pictures of our family! The one of top is our immediate family. I'm so grateful to have these pictures as our family rarely gets together! My son couldn't say her name, Vivian, so he called her "Mumu" and that's kind of stuck as her name from my family!

The other pictures are of my cousins, Nicole, Kelli and Tara. And there's a cute picture of Ciara and her cousin, Hunter. They look so much alike. I had to laugh though b/c Wendy's blog talked about the "red eye" in her pictures and ALL of these pictures have it, and of course, my blind eye gives off the "white eye"....

Everything is good, just trying to keep up with work and kids and husband....what a challenge!!! But in November we'll be in Hawaii so I do have something awesome to look forward to!

too busy to blog!

Well, I'm not sure what happened, but boom, it's September already!! The last month has been a total blur; working all day, soccer, kung fu (yes, my son is finally in an activity besides computer/video games), ballet, girl scouts, who has time for dinner, baths, reading 30 minutes a night and homework!!! Jeez!!! I feel tired all the time lately...been taking lots of vitamins...also it's still so warm here. So what am i blogging about...i don't know. I guess to try and remember to breathe and not let life overwhelm you...Try to get some exercise in there too! That's why i started walking 2 miles a day on my lunch break. It's kind of a pain, but i just can't seem to get up early enough to do it in the morning....and you know what my evenings are like...impossible! I do feel; however, haggard and old, that I am doing a good job; keeping my kids involved; having them try different things and hopefully somewhere over they rainbow they'll either a) use some skills they've learned, i.e., helping a person with their groceries, being aware of our community or b) learning how to be a team player and work with others or c) staying physical and healthy; or d) ALL OF THE ABOVE.... I just want my kids to have a healthy and happy life...is that too much to ask for???? Maybe...I hope not...Anyways, i got a cute picture of Ciara and her friend Madi this summer so I wanted to add it to this page...