halloween pictures in december!

i finally got the halloween pictures off of my camera and on to my computer. but then i erased the halloween pictures of the kids. so now all i have is pictures of mike and i. but i think they are pretty funny so here we are! we were courtney love and kurt Cobain. and we won the contest! we had so much fun on halloween. Owen was a dragon and scarlett was a fairy princess. they were soooo cute! Owen had a littl surgical procedure on October 30th, and so he was not really in the halloween spirit. we took them trick or treating, and then they stayed at my mom's while we went to our friends house for a halloween party.

Owen is 1!

Owen turned 1 in October! it has taken me a while to post the pictures, sorry. i have been so busy. also it was not an easy birthday for me. i was sad because he was turning 1. his first year of life was difficult for me but i think i have worked through it and am now able to accept that is is healthy and normal. I had a very hard time believeing that he wa okay early on because when i was pregnant i was in a car accident and it caused me to have PTSD. i was so worried that the accident had caused some kind of major damage to him, and then i ended up having him a month early. I am happy to say it has been a 8 months since i had a panic attack, and i feel like i am happy again. I can enjoy owen and not worry about him so much. i cant begin to tell you haow good it is to play with your child and not worry if the way he moves his arm is normal, or the way he moves his head is normal, or was that sound he made normal and so on. i wanted him to have the most perfect birthday and i feel like HE had a great time. he got lots of presents, and he had his own cake which he destroyed! he had a great 1st birthday. i feel so blessed to have owen and i am so incredibly thankful that God protected him. He is the most amazing easy going baby. he is always happy and has the most insanly gorgeous eyes. we are so lucky to have him.

Flying J

My cousin Adam and his wife Trina and their new baby Cy were in town. we got to hang out quite a bit and it was so nice to see Cy for the first time. we love him so much! so the pictures of baby Cy are above and there is one picture of Owen and his first girlfriend ,Gracie, too. WE took the kids to the flying J. for those of you who dont know what that is, it is a western dinner show. My, sort of aunt and uncle, own it and perform in it. so that is why the babies have cowboy hats on too. so cute!

Fall in Ruidoso

Every year, in the fall, we take the kids up to the ski area and take pictures. We took some food up there and had a picnic. it was freezing but so much fun. the pictures of scarlett are some of my favorite ones. when we tell her to show us her mad face we get the look that you see in the pictutre above. and in the picture where she is standing a little strange, that is her posing, which she does for every picture now. i tell her to just stand still and smile but she does not have time to listen to that with all of her posing ideas running through her head. thus we have posing pictures constantly! i love her imagination and humor!

This is how we cling to our guns and religion!

My dad got scarlett a 22 for her birthday. it is pink. i am sure that some people will have a problem with this, but i dont care. i was raised around guns, i know gun safty, and i turned out just fine. my kids will be raised around guns and they will know gun safty, and they will be better for it. hunting is not a bad thing. if people did not hunt and eat meat, there would be no human race today. so thank God that people killed animals and ate them. if the new president of the united states wants to take them away, he is going to have a hard time taking them away. But good luck to him.

Tyrone, Dora and Diego

These are scarlett's pet turtles. we have to see them daily. they live at my mom's house because we have no place to put them. but now they are hibernating, and scarlett tells EVERYONE that they will be back in june. but for right now they have to sleep for a long time.

oh by the way...

the picture of scrlett sleeping is a picture of her in her sleeping bag that Grandma and Baca got her for her birthday. she just wanted to sleep in the sleeping bag for weeks. needless to say, it want a brilliant present. Owen got one too. Scarlett's was a puppy anbd owen's was a train (trains are also something that owen loves) if it makes music, has wheels, or he can bang on it, he loves it.

Pictures of Grandma and Bacas trip to New Mexico.

We had so much fun with them. it has taken way too long to post pictures. they got to be here for mikes birthday. we went to the zoo with them and the kids loved it. Here are some pictures of the trip. We love you guys! thanks for coming to see us.

Owen and his flute.

I think he just loves all music making objects. he is definitely a remund. we need to invest in a different color flute though. i love the one where "baca" is trying to sleep and he is playing it right in his face.

Scarlett Birthday pictures!

i can never get a good picture!

All i want is a picture of both of my kids lokking at the camera, smiling, at the same time. it NEVER happens! here is my latest attempt. i will never give up. i have tried everything! any suggestions?

one of my all time favorite pictures.

i think that this is the sweetest picture of owen and fred. (mikes dad)we have one of him and scarlett when she was three weeks old and i love, love, love them both. mikes parents were here visiting and meeting owen. we had a great time with them. we went to the zoo and relaxed and just had a lot of fun. i have a ton of pictures to share but i had to send a special note with this one because i love it so much. thanks for coming to vist grandma and baca! we love you guys!

my baby is three!

Yesterday was bitter sweet! Scarlett turned three. i am so incredible proud of all of her accomplishments in three years, but i just wish time would start to pass slower and slower, instead of faster and faster. She is an amazing child. She is so smart and beautiful. She is kind to everyone and she is very curious and imaginative. she has a great sense of humor, and her vocabulary amazes me and everyone else around her. she makes us laugh all the time. i cant imagine my life before her and i never want to imagine life without her. we never knew love like the love we have for scarlett. she is best, most perfect little girl and we love love love her.

THIS ELECTION!

I will admit, i am one to get really passionate about the current election. After all, it is the future of this country and my kids have to grow up here, so of course i am going to have an opinion. I have weighed all of my options, and i have watched both sides of this election unfold. There are times when i am furious about the "no child left behind" supporters, and what they think. (Most of them don't have kids, and if they do their kids are not at the top of the class.) I hate that Obama wants to raise taxes on small businesses, or raise taxes in general. That directly effects my family, because our small business is our well being, and taxes are rediculous already. the last thing this country needs is for the taxes to be raised. Tell me, really tell me, what will that do to help this country. if someone has a good argument against me, please, i am all ears. I hate that people slam a woman for not haveing enough "experience". Tell me this, what experience does Obama have? Palin literally has done more than the man some people want to elect as president of the unnited states of america. And then the ironic part is Obama supporters want to slam palin for not having experience, which totally contradicts everything they are for. Why would people attack her daugjhter and her son with down syndrome? that is just petty. I get really frusterated that my generation, are the ones that want to elect him as president. Sure it would be nice for someone to come in to office and save all of the poor and give billions of dollars to people who "need" it. but lets face the facts, that is not even possible. Where do you think that money is going to come from? i will tell you, the taxpayers. small businesses make up 71% of the money for our economy. What do you think will happen if small business owners are forced out of business because the taxes are to high to pay? Talk about a great depression! And then we have the peoplewho are worried about global warming. who are we to think that we can actually stop this earth from changing? God is the only one who can control that! not us...we are not that powerful!
I went to Denver this weekend, to a womens conference, and i heard the most powerful sentance come out of a womans mouth. She said, "So many people are worried and scared about what will happen during this election, but the bottom line is this...GOD IS IN CONTROL!" That gave me so much peace. we dont have to worry about any of it, because God already knows what will happen and you can bet he has a plan.

painting fun

the other day i was nailing some things on the wall and scarlett said, "i want to go outside and paint." i said okay because i thought i am right inside and can keep an eye on her. i thought, "how messy can she possible get, and she is about to take a batha anyway." well...this is what i found in only five short minutes. and i had just told her to only paint the paper. i am so glad i have a sweet little girl who listens to everything i say and obeys without any arguing.:) afer she had destroyed herself, i thought, "what the heck, let her mess herself up as much as she wants." we had to drain the bath water twice to get all of the paint off. what i did not post was pictures of what she looked like after i took her panties off. that area was the only part not painted, so it still looked like she had panties on.

Dance Dance Dance!

Scarlett started dance. she loves it. i have mixed feelings about it.here are my concerns:
1. the other day scarlett got kicked out of class for crying. when she stopped, i opened the door to let go back in to class, and the teacher said "the rule is, that if she leaves, she cant come back in to class." Which made me think, "we are not making a career out of this, it is just for fun." and she is three! and the class is 2 hours long! i guess we will see how it goes.
2. there are some crazy moms in the dance world. kids get punished if they get kicked out of class. i mean i know that you can't allow your kids to give up on things, but please it is dance. some days it is hard for me to bite my tounge,so i guess i vent about it on my blog.
3. i dont want to offend anyone, but i really dont think that boys should be forced to go to dance class. and if you do send your boys to dance class make sure they dont say thing like "look mom, i am a sweet little danicing boy and my sister is a sweet little dancing princess." yes that is what i heard from a boy the class after scarletts. (his sister is in scarletts class) so i can not escape them. but i wanted to walk up to his mom and say, "what do you think you are doing." he is going to get the crap baet out of him when he gets to school. that is mean.

Well there is my venting. we really are enjoying dance, and for right now we will continue to go. but if at anytime she wants out, she can quit.