New addition

We have a few new additions to our family. The kids have been working on their responsibility and are now the proud owners of fish!

Analia's fish is a guppy and her name is Saraphina.

Kai's fish is a silver molly and his name is Link after...you guessed it Zelda!

And Duncan's fish is a black molly and her name is Sabel. The older kids picked this name.

So we got the fish last night and much to our suprise we  had three babies in the tank this morning! I don't know if they'll last but for now they have evaded the others pretty well. I hope they do so we won't have to buy anymore fish!

Halloween 2009

This Halloween wasn't my favorite...

I was stressed with school and unfortunatly didn't put much effort into our costumes. Analia insisted on being a vampire this year, so naturally we were her pet bats!

We all had "wings" at one point, but they were distroyed of course since they were basically black garbage bags. But even though I wasn't thrilled with our costumes, I think they worked out ok.

And as usual I wasn't able to get Kai in a picture by himself. He was probably "flying" around. haha

Us

Sadly, Scheddi and I are all kinds of boring, but even at that we are all kinds of happy. This is a horribly unflattering pic of us from this past 4th of July, but it's the latest one we have. I need to get on that.

Anyway, we love it here in Bryan and aside from my hideous undecorated house, we don't have too many complaints. I love our ward and I'm glad we'll be here for a few years. School is school and life is life, but it's ours and right now....I can't complain!

Analia

Analia has indeed been growing this year. Her mouth especially. She is definitly in the habit of talking back and trying to change my mind when I say no. Although it's hard for me to keep my temper with her....I try. At least I like to think I do. She definitly has more luck with her Papi though. He has more patience than me.
This year in first grade she's doing suprisingly well. She doesn't hate school like she used to and seems to get along well with the other kids to. I on the other hand am not thrilled with her school. I think they've cut down a whole rainforest to provide me with every flyer they can afford! I regret to say the teacher sends home more papers about what color shirt to wear that day than she does about what they might actually learn at school that day. I have since sent her a message saying that I would like some sort of info on her academics! She also learned something quite educational the other day. When she got home from school she asked me what a "pimp" is. I was so shocked I couldn't contain myself and started to laugh! She then proceeded to inform me that it was indeed a real word. I agreed and came up with a quick and subtle explanation of the word and told her it wasn't appropriate for her to say. She was happy with that and I still to this day get a chuckle every time I think about it. Anyway, here are some updated pics of her:

Even though I know I'm braging, I think my daughter's gorgeous! Sadly, I think I say it too much because she often responds to this compliment by saying "I know!"...oops!

Here she is at her first dentist check up, sad I know, but I was glad she only had 1 cavity and not 8 like Kai.

Here she is after she got it filled. This picture still brightens my mood when I look at it. I asked her to smile after her face was numb and I got Elvis. Haha, I love it!

Not the greatest pic, but this was her first day of First grade! I can't believe she's in first already. Her attitude is in at least 7th though. ugh!

This was her first day at the bus stop. She likes riding the bus and I like them riding to. It makes life easier even if I do have to have them out there at 6:30am!

She's growing up way to fast for me and I am begining to dread the teenage years with the attitude she has. But I still count my blessings that she's part of our family and I can't imagine us with out her.

Kai Kai

Oh my crazy lovey dovey Kai. Kai is still as lovey and rambunctious as he's always been. He loves playing his "new to him" game cube that Uncle Devan gave to him for his birthday this year. Although, if he plays too much or for to long in one day he gets emotional. I think he's definitly a sensitive little boy. He just turned five this past September and I can't believe he's getting so big. Here are a few shots of him:

His first day of Pre-k here. I was not happy that he missed the deadline for the cutoff by 1 day, but there was nothing that could be done and he ended up in pre-k again! However, he seems to like being one of the oldest and constantly reminds me that he and one other boy in his class have the same birthday and they're the oldest! He also remembers every song he learns and sings them to me when he gets  home along with telling me what he had for lunch that day.

This was one of the games he got for his birthday this year to go with the game cube. He was so happy although the pic doesn't say so.

Here he was showing off his "monkey skills" when we were at the orangutan exhibit at the Waco Zoo. He's quite strong I must say and has no problem getting around on ropes.

After a long hour or so of running up and down the hall with his siblings he needed a rest. I'm sure he was telling me some random thought, but I was just looking at my sweet boy as the adorable five year old that will

someday grow up and have a family of his own.

At Kai's first dentist appointment we found out that he had 8 cavities! So on our next trip to the dentist we got to get him druged. Here he is letting it kick in and it was quite comical for me to watch. I always say "kids are for their parents entertainment."

It's hard to believe how much he's changed this year. He's smart was a whip and just as cute with his freckles that will soon take over his face just like his mommy. He's eager to help if he can keep focused for long enough and loves to tell me random facts. His only downfall this year is that he has decided that he wants to "give Duncan to the neighbors" and as sad as it sounded, it reminded me of my own two middle siblings who have come to grow out of wanting to give one or the other away. (more or less anyway, lol) All in all he's a perfect five year old!

Duncan Punkin

Although I do have to admit that at some point this year I thought Duncan was retarded it turns out he's not! We had his speech evaluated and it turns out he's fine. He actually has been speaking a little more clearly every week since we've been here, but for a while I was worried. I especially love it when he calls Evie "EE" and Analia, "Yella". Although he has taken to crying obnoxiously loud when he doesn't get what he wants, he's overall a good little boy still. I can't believe he'll be three in a little over a month. Although he can't wait until he gets to go to school and ride the bus, he has been pretty helpful and happy at home with me and Evie. He loves his baby sister so much it makes my heart melt. I foolishly don't have any pics of him lovin' on her and will promptly correct that mistake. In the mean time here are some pics of him:

I love this pic of him. A couple weeks ago it was raining when Kai's bus came and Duncan decided he wanted to go with me. Although it's a crappy camera phone picture I absolutely loved it!

Papi and Duncan watching the fireworks this past 4th of July. He really enjoyed them this year.

He is in love with his Geotrax and when he's lucky mommy sets it up for him in the living room where there's enough room for all of the track. His new obsession is making his trains crash.

Here he's rearranging so they can crash. It amaizes me how long these can hold his attention.

He also is in love with helping me cook and watching Super Why on PBS. Since we don't have real cable I'm glad that he'll settle for that. He likes it so much in fact, I think we'll have a Super Why birthday party for him this year.

Evie

Here are some pics of our little Evie. Now that she's one she is rulin' the roost!

She's finally cutting her top teeth and when their both in she'll have a whole 4!

Here she is having birthday cake with Kai who turned 5 in September too.

She walks like a pro now and was in love with the aquarium at the Waco Zoo.

Her red hair is slowly getting darker, which makes me sad, but nothing I can do.

She is the sweetest little girl. She just started saying "mama and mom" and has realized that it's funny to say it all the time because mommy will actually answer. She also wants to do everything the big kids do and is still our dancing queen. Even during the kids primary program yesterday she was bobbin along. She also learned to fold her arms this week! I love you little girl!