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.