Grandma Lupe's visit

More Summer Fun!

Summer Fun!

We are having a fun summer so far. With Eddie out of school Irene has more help with apartment managing and taking care of the kids. Richie and Dinah especially like it when dad takes them out for a whole day to the zoo and the park. We had a fun time at the San Diego County Fair recently with our friends Marckende, Matasha and Jada. Richie wanted to go on all the rides except the roller coaster. Dinah wanted to join Richie and Jada, but she was not tall enough for most of the rides. The pictures are in the slides below. Abuelita Lupita is coming soon so we have more fun times ahead.

Random Summer Photos

Richie and Dinah's Big Birthday Party

Dinah's B-day and photos of the start of summer.

May 2009

Summer vacation is here!

After a tough first year in graduate school, summer is here! I originally wanted to take another class over the summer, but decided on spending more time with the family instead. We still have work, but since we both only work part time we will have time to enjoy the San Diego sunshine with the kids! There will be more pictures to come!

Grandma's April Visit

Grandma Arlieth came to the Palm Springs area for a visit with her childhood friend Peggy. We drove down this past week for a visit and we had a good time. We took Dinah and Richie to a water park not far from Peggy's place. It was a hot (100F+) day so it was nice to get some relief from the heat.

We knew that Richie would like it but we were not sure how Dinah would react. We were suprised that she just charged right in after we put on her bathing suit. We had a great time playing in the water and Grandma took us out for lunch afterwards. We had a blast and it was nice to see Grandma while she was here in Southern California.

Dinah is trying to walk!

Dinah is growing so fast! She has been able to pull herself up and stand for about a month now and in the last two days she is getting brave and taking steps. She can walk well with her push airplane toy (see youtube video) but she still isn't confident enough to walk without it.

We have not updated our blog for a long time because we have been busy with work and school. Otherwise, we are all doing fine and enjoying this time in our lives. Dinah and Richie give us something to laugh about almost everyday. It is especially fun to see them interact. They are already starting to tease each other and Dinah loves to beat her big brother up. She is not afraid of him or anything and he is for the most part quite gentle with her. However, Dinah gives Richie no mercy.

I know we shouldn't have laughed about it, but we had a funny experience at church a couple of weeks ago. Richie was actually sitting reverently and paying attention (a miracle in and of itself!) when Dinah, who was sitting up a little higher on my lap, looked down with this mischievous smile and whacked him in the head a couple times! Richie was like, "Hey! No Dinah! Don't do dat!" The rest of church went smoothly but that incident was probably a sign of things to come!

January Photos Including Visit to Grandma and Grandpa