Mother's Day

I was spoiled this year for Mother's Day. The girls and I have been eyeballing this darling little backyard playhouse every time we go to Costco. But the price tag was making it a difficult decision for Ryan and me. So, for Mother's Day, he gave me some sanity, errrrr I mean a playhouse. I love my children, SO much. They are my everything, all day, every single day, except once a month for 2 hours when I go to enrichment. I needed something for these cuties to do outside so that I could have 10 minutes of "alone" time.

We spent most of Saturday putting this together, and boy oh boy did we have help. A lot of help. But, it was so much fun and they are having a blast playing in it.

I also got a mighty dose of chocolate and some much needed windshield wipers.

What more could a girl want? No really.... I have everything I could ever want. This is one VERY blessed mom.

I feel Jesus.

Most of these posts are just journal entries for me, so I don't forget the little things.

Here is a sight words worksheet I had Brooklyn work on. She handed it to me and said, "feel, Mom, I put I feel Jesus"

Isn't that so sweet, and so true.

Oh, and I guess she loves fish. I am sure she was thinking Goldfish crackers. Mmmmm, I can't wait to have goldfish crackers and graham crackers again.

Slick floors = fun!

After our maid cleans our floors, they become very slick. My girls love to drag each other and slide on the floors.

Hey, it's cheap entertainment.

Mexican dancing

My cell phone screen shattered and I am scared I am going to cut myself on the keyboard. So, I am braving it and ready to get a bandaid if needs be.

A couple weekends ago, Ryan's co-worker down here and his wife invited us to  a Stake Activity in their Stake. It was a Mexican Dancing performance by a huge group of lds high schoolers. It was AWESOME!

There is a professional dance show here called Ballet Folklorico which is the same kind of show, just on a professional level. It's on my "bucket list" to see while we are here.

There were so many dances and costumes, and different kids of Mexican music. I learned that each state in Mexico has it's own song or "anthem" as well as dance, and a costume to go with it. How cool is that. The U.S. seems to lack some culture. I mean, let's show 50 birds and flowers from each state, yippee.

Anyway, it was loud and colorful and so much fun. One of our favorite dances was when the kids put a glass beer, errrrr I mean Coke bottle on their head, partially filled with water and they danced with it on their head, without it falling. It was so neat to see. The costumes were so beautiful, I think we will have to buy some for our girls.

Xochimilco

We went on Saturday to a fun place called Xochimilco. It's an area in Mexico City that has canals all around the little city. You go in these fun wood "gondola" type boats around the canals. The people that live there get around by their own small wood boat. A lot of the people make things and sell them from their boat. They just pull up next to your boat and sell you stuff. This is probably my FAVORITE thing we have done in Mexico City thus far. We will totally go back!

More house pictures

These pictures are of our living area. Our kitchen (the spiral staircase leads to our laundry room and the maids quarters), our breakfast nook, the bar/office, the small table which is where we do a lot of school, then we have the ENORMOUS dining room table. 95% of the time, this table is covered in Lego's or puzzles or coloring books and 99% of the time it has my sewing stuff on it. 1% of the time we have people over to eat at it.

There's our house!

Donuts!

We live about 4 minutes from a Krispy Kreme. We decided to delay school a little and go grab a yummy, healthy breakfast.