Update

I think it's about time I wrote something to let everybody know that we are alive. Since I cannot tell you every single thing that's happened to us in the last, I don't know, FIVE MONTHS!!!! (Believe me, I've got validated excuses for not writing in a long time). I'll give a quick update of the important events regarding our family the last few months:
-After my sister gave birth to her baby daughter on Halloween, we enjoyed having a baby in the house again (all crying set aside of course).
-Our little family keeps growing! I think that, by now, almost everybody is aware that we are expecting our third child due this June. We are all soooo excited about it, even Taylor and McKay, and I am happy that the all-day morning sickness is gone.
-My mom is in the house! Yep! My mom came to stay with us for the months of December and January. She came all the way from Honduras to come meet her granddaughters for the first time and spend Christmas and New Year's with all of us. So, for a while there, we had a total of 8 people living in our house: 5 adults, 3 kids under the age of two and a dog.
-Ben got a promotion! That's right! In January, Ben became the new manager of the Banner Bank branch in Nampa, ID. Congratulations Ben! We are all so happy for you!
-We moved! Of course, with Ben getting a new position in Nampa, we decided that the commute from Pasco, WA to Nampa, ID was going to be a little hard, so we said good-bye to our home in Washington and made Idaho our new home state.
-We are no longer homeowners! We were so blessed to be able to sell our Pasco house so quickly considering how the current economic situation has affected everyone. For the moment, we are renting a house and looking to buy one in this area.
So you can see that we've been very, very busy. We are all getting ready for the arrival of our new baby, and also getting used to a new place, new routines, new friends, new ward, new job, new state, etc. But, we are also grateful for the new opportunities and changes that have come our way.

Happy Halloween!

Ready to Pop!

So for those who have never met her, this is my sister Raquel. She and her husband are living with us and, as you can see, they are expecting a baby. She is about due any day now (11/02/08 or before). Anyway, I took this pictures because my mom asked me to. It turns out that she's never seen her daughters pregnant giving the fact that she lives in Honduras and we live here. So, these are for you mami!

Dance Lessons (What NOT to do)

Lesson learned this day? Next time, don't dance with a rolling pin in the middle of the dance floor!

Hope you all enjoy it as much as we did.

Happy 28th Birthday Ben!

So I realized that it has been a whole month since I last posted on our blog. I have been a slacker, but I have also been VERY busy with huge projects around the house, sick kids and husband, my sister and her husband and dog living with us, trips to Portland and Spokane, church calling, etc., etc., and more etc.'s that I have not had the time or the desire to do it. I am not justifying it or looking for sympathy. I am just confessing that I procrastinate when it comes to blogging.

Anyway, I did make the time to celebrate Ben's birthday. Actually, we celebrated it when we went to Portland the weekend of the 11th for John and Melissa's annual Halloween party (which was so much fun), and last week when we had a few of his co-workers and friends over for dinner and games. It was probably a good thing that we celebrated his birthday earlier because the poor guy has been at home sick for this entire week. On his actual birthday, of course, he had breakfast in bed, went to work and came back three hours later because he was feeling really crummy. The only fun thing we could do for him, besides opening gifts, was going to the movies that night. We watched "Eagle Eye" which we thought was pretty good. Even though he was sick, I think he enjoyed his birthday. We are just waiting for him to get better so things can get kind of back to normal. So, Happy Birthday Ben! We LOVE you!

Nursery! Nursery! Nursery!

Since the day McKay become mobile, we counted the days so she could be in Nursery, and it's finally here! She is in nursery! It happened two weeks ago, and she loved it!. Their teachers said she was a pro. She liked being with her sister a lot, and I think Taylor didn't mind having her there either. They didn't even fight! Hooray for Nursery!

Sweet Dance Moves!

This video is a little over a minute long, but it'll show you some of Taylor's and McKay's sweet dance moves! So bear with me and enjoy!