Saturday, January 28, 2017

Four months of catch up! Oct-Jan

October






Cousin time with Lily!










Family 5k (+1)







A visit from the grandparents :)




November
Altar del Dia de los Muertos

Pan de Muerto

Coloring for Day of the Dead

Bela enjoying some pan de muerto

When she grins goofy just to make us smile

Voted!

Fun with dad


Birthday hug for Niko

A special bond

Pinners' Conf with Lizzie!

Snuggles for dad at church

Window musings

Family 5k

DIY

Taking out the Christmas decorations

A trip to the pet store with a friend


First real snow of the year

Aquarium

Thanksgiving prep


Sisterly love

Black  Friday

Helping out, of course



Story time

boop!

Nails painted!


Early-Mid December
Living nativity in Alpine
Living nativity in Alpine

Living nativity

Dulce trying to get the cat to climb the tree, which it did a lot


First dance recital!




At the ward Christmas party

Ward Christmas party

Lights at temple square


Birthday breakfast: German pancakes





Christmas and New Years in Alabama
We spent a fun-filled and relaxing three weeks in Alabama with Mario's family for the holidays.  I realized as I put these pictures on the blog that I didn't get many of Mario's family.  He took some with the camera but I'm so late with this post that I'm just using my iphone stuff.
Mario's mom and dad absolutely spoil the kids and Dulce spend days after getting back to Utah saying how she wished she was still in Alabama :)  Mario's mom is an excellent cook (and I've actually LOST weight since coming back from there, despite being *almost* in my third trimester) and we ate a lot of tasty stuff!  Mario's dad is also a great cook and made some of the most delicious fish I've ever had!
Mario got to do some pawn shopping with hid dad and golfing with a friend, but mostly it was just everyone hanging out at the house.  The kids loved the dogs and chickens and chicks.  Mario's dad MADE a see-saw for Dulce one day.  We went to two different beaches, saw some movies, and got to catch up with Gaby and Mariana.
I didn't really document it, but Mario and I also celebrated our fifth wedding anniversary.  Mario's parents watched the kids and we did dinner, a movie and a night over in New Orleans.  I had never been there before and I thought French Quarter was so cute.

We spend a little bit of time at the beach after the outlets one day.  It was a little chilly, but Bela and Dulce LOVED the sand.  Makes me wish we lived near a beach!

Having fun with mom in Relief Society

Dulce with her chick.  We bought two the Saturday after arriving.  Mario's parents still had the two that they had bought with Dulce two years earlier when she spent two weeks with them during the summer.

Bela ready for prayer

Bela loved the crab legs at the buffet!

Bela having a blast the buffet

She was so proud to be able to get on this chair all by herself

Dulce couldn't pull herself away to let me take a decent picture.  Mama and Papa Abue were so nice to play playdoh with her for hours on end!

At the trampoline place

At the dog park

Sisterly love.  With some tech junkies in the background ;)

Chupando ca~a del ponche

Doing her birthday pi~ata (finally!) on New Years Eve

chillin with the chickens

Dulce wasn't scared that this beast of a hen ("la pollito") was half her size

Paw Patrol cake!

Our last full day in AL..at the beach



Workin on the walking with the abuelos!


She loved walking on the pier and looking at the water.

Decorating her cake

She loves flashlights/headlamps almost as much as her abuelo!

Eating her grapes (cherries, actually) a little before the midnight countdown on NYE

Indulging