A new chapter

This pic is old, but it's the best I can do and one of my favorites of us.

 Today was a big day for us. It is official the the Chavez Six will remain the Chavez Six. I had my tubes tied today and I think it has finally hit me. I'm happy and sad all at the same time. Analia has been so insistent that she still has a little sister waiting to be part of our family, and sometimes we felt that way too. However, the time has come that we've decided our family is complete until we marry off our kids and have grandbabies of our own.
 I'm sad that we wont have baby things laying around our house for much longer. Evie didn't stay a baby as long as I would have liked. She's walking and practically talking these days and will be two in September which is hardly considered a baby. She may soon be the earliest of my kids to potty train as well since she really seems to want to do what the other kids do we may be rid of diapers soon too.
 They're all growing up fast. Duncan will be starting school in the fall we hope and has finally started talking. He plays video games almost as well as kai and is a very stubborn little boy. He also can be the sweetest boy in the world and is still, to my joy and utter happiness, a mama's boy.
 Malachi will be 6 in September and starting kindergarten. He is a great helper and as long as you have his attention is more than happy to do anything you ask. He hardly ever complains and really tries to make us happy in everyway. He's quick as a whip and is taking the intiative to start learning how to read. We're very proud of him.
 Analia is quite the little girl. Maybe little isn't the right word. She's getting pretty tall these days and is obviously her mothers daughter, 7 going on 17. She's very sensitive and is a good little helper when she wants to be. I cannot believe my baby will be 8 in January. Just thinking about her getting baptised soon makes me want to cry. Before I know it she'll be graduating high school. I swear it seems like yesterday we brought her home from the hospital a little 5 lb baby and now she's almost as tall as my shoulders.
 Well although I'm sad they're all growing up too fast I must confess that I'm happy that we can do more things together as a family and not have to worry that they're too little.
 Our family is complete and we're so grateful for each one of our kids and the joy they bring us when we don't want to wring their necks...just kidding.
  Just as an fyi the surgery was quick and I should be feeling back to my normal self in a couple days. Thanks to my hubby for taking care of me and to my parents for taking care of our brats. :)

A boring post with no pics to start the year off.

I cannot believe it's been two months since I posted anything. Ok...I'm lying and I can believe it. The past two months were a little crazy around here. Some how I got a crafting bug and decided that I was going to make my kids stuff for Christmas this year and it was going to be great, right? Wrong. I unded up spending 5x's what I was going to in order to keep my Christmas cheap and I managed to only finish making two things. One was a crayon roll for Analia (the boys crayon rolls are still cut out, but not finished) and two felt swords for the boys that ultimately my mom ended up sewing for me while I was working on something else that didn't get finished either. The swords also ended up looking quite similar to a male body part. hmmmm...not the Christmas presents I was envisioning. So needless to say my Christmas turned out to be way to stressful and in turn I think it ruined it for me. Next year I'm sticking to store bought and I will never again decide to make anything for Christmas a month before and during finals. So if I ever get around to finishing the projects that I set out to do then I'll post some pics. Otherwise I'm sorry you're out of luck.

This past year was all in all a good one. I can't complain about anything really. We moved to Bryan, TX for Scheddi and I to go to school and hopefully sometime this year I'll be done. Although I started out wanting to go to be a radiology tech I have decided the sooner I can get done the better and have changed it to being a medical transcriptionist/coding certificate. I will be done by the end of the year and I'm so glad. I hate school. Scheddi hopefully will be at Texas A&M by the fall and will be enrolling in the Urban Planning program there. At least that's the plan. He recently told me that he's also planning on applying at Texas Tech in Lubbock where my little brother is going to med school this fall...umm...sure honey (let's hope he doesn't get in there, i'm not up for Lubbock.) Besides I like it here. Not to far or to close to family and I don't have to much to complain about once I get past the stinky cigarette smell in our house that comes over from the neighbors. I'm still working on that one.

The kids are all doing fine. Eve and Duncan stay home with me and Kai and Analia go to school all day. Analia loves first grade and is getting very tall. Kai is in preschool which here is more like glorified day care, but he loves it all the same and also is getting tall. Duncan will be going to preschool in the fall and i'll be home with Evie all by her lonesome. Since we're pretty sure she's our last baby it's been kind of sad for me this year to see her getting so big so fast.

Oh and one more milestone this year...Duncan is finally potty trained! Now my mother, husband, and mother-in-law can all get off my back about it and I have to admit it has been nice not having to change him. He is very proud of himself and is quite determined to get Evie to go in the potty too. She gets a stern talking to from him when she poops in her diaper. lol.

Although last year was truely uneventful I'm glad that it was a good one. We are eternally grateful for the peace that we've had this past year and I can only hope that it sticks around for a good while longer. We'll see.

When I get around to it I'll post pics and put something up that's a little more up beat, but for now I just had to put something up for looks. We miss our family and friends and hope ya'll are well.