For your viewing pleasure...

So I took these photos last week and kept forgetting to post them.  I was laughing SO hard that I could barely manage to even hold my cell steady enough to get ones that weren't horribly blurry!  And now, for your viewing pleasure:

After her favorite activity of "pull the dish towels off the oven", Mia is thrilled to discover that papa's shorts have an elastic waist band and not only can she reach them, she can PULL them!  :)

And yes, my determined little turkey was NOT thrilled when papa hitched the shorts back up so it became a tug-of-war. By this time I was rolling on the floor!  Good thing he had undies on!!!  lol

Yeah, I was almost laughing this hard:

Mia loves to play "I'm gonna get you!" with papa, and of course, mama couldn't be left out!  :)

One of her other favorite past times... hunting down pieces of paper...

...and trying to eat it before mama gets to her.  Oh my little turkey!  Once I come towards her she'll often throw the object from her and start smiling at me and clapping, as if to say, "Look mom, see, I don't have anything! See!"  :)

...and the "throw away"

 Today we did a morning run to the park.  I say "run" because we didn't say there for as long as we planned because it was so stinking hot!!!  It was still fun.  We walked around the little pond, fed the ducks and took a few pictures.  We were SO glad to get back to the A/C of the car once we finally made it all the way around!  Paulina said, "I am pouring sweat!  I have never been this hot or poured sweat like this before!"  :)  So see, it wasn't just me, native Utahn, that was hot!

Paulina feeding the ducks/geese and birds. 

It was such a pretty day and we took some really fun and beautiful photos, but unfortunately none of them will upload right now.  Sadness.  So, after our sweaty time at the park we ran home to put Mia down for a nap and to eat lunch.  When Mia woke up, I fed her and then we hit the road to Walmart to get my car in for a much needed oil change and to browse the store.  :)  Of course, we decided to stop in at McDonald's and get ice cream cones and a french fry to split while we waited.  Mia was ALL about her ice cream cone!

Yum!!!

Uh, mom.... why does everybody keep staring at me????

Kicking back in the cart, waiting for mom's car to get an oil change and just hanging out... silly girl!

And last but not least, a photo of our front yard.  Yes, there are still dirt spots, but it's no longer dead for those of you who remember our grass killing fiasco.  Zeus sent me this photo after he cut the lawn and said, "There, now post it on your blog so people can see how good it looks NOW!"  lol

Oh, and Mia TOTALLY said mama again!  SO not a fluke!!!

And I have proof!  

Of course, I tried to get her to do it again, but as you can see below the little turkey wouldn't do it on command!  :)

Oh HOW I love this silly little goose!  :)

Random Stories and Pics

Zeus' phone has this application on it where you can add "frames" to the pictures that you take of people. When we were over at our brother and sister-in-law's house for our niece Chayo's birthday, I got this great pic of Zeus with out his knowing. It makes me laugh so hard every time I see it and makes my day. It set off a whole rash of people taking pictures of people with different frames around them and we all got a good laugh. Unfortunately I only have this one pic of Zeus from our little photo shoot. I'll have to see if I can get some copies of the other ones to post as I find them totally hilarious! :)

So, my sweet husband was excited because our lawn was turning so nice and green from all the rain that we got in May. However, he was less than thrilled with the weeds that were ALSO growing, so he got a jumbo bonus pack of weed killer to spray the front and back yard with. When he told me he had bought Round Up, I mentioned that I thought that killed everything, but he was adamant about it being weed killer. Well, that hard working man of mine spent a good chunk of one dry weekend spraying down the front and back lawns to annihilate the weeds that were battling the grass. A few days later, this is the view of our front yard.

Apparently there was one spot in particular that he stood in while he was thoroughly dousing the yard with Round Up - which apparently DOES kill weeds, but also kills everything else that is trying to grow there. lol My poor sweetie was SO incredibly frustrated to see the thorough deadness of most of the lawn. It still makes me shake my head and grin every time I drive up to the house and see the lawn and I can't help but be grateful that it wasn't ME that sprayed it! lol He's a very smart man, and I'm glad that OCCASIONALLY he does something that reassures me that he isn't actually perfect! :)

This is a little flower that is growing off the edge of the green spot in the front yard. Zeus says it's a sign of hope for us and our little lawn. :) Too cute!

So, again a little anecdote on the sweetness of my dear husband. On Zeus' birthday (May 27th) he got ME flowers - a dozen gorgeous HUGE buds that opened up and bloomed like crazy! That's the kind of sweet man I married. He's so amazingly good to me and I'm so very lucky to have him in my life. No, he's not perfect (he DOES leave his shoes and clothes around on occasion and occasionally mistakes vegetation killer for weed killer), but he's pretty close most of the time! :)



He was suppose to try and get the day off, but with his job and the time of year it was, he needed to go in for at least part of the day. I, on the other hand, ended up being able to take it off. :) The plan was to sleep in and then go to lunch and a movie since we haven't been on a "date" in a while. Well, I slept in and he went to work. He got home early afternoon and we went to PF Chang's (thus the horse statue). We had a delicious lunch and even got a decadent free dessert for the birthday boy that was bomb-bay delicious! We ended up missing the movie because we had to run to an alternative program graduation that Zeus works with. There were around 60 students from Zeus' campus that were graduating due in part to his hard work. Go baby! One of the student speakers was the first from her family to graduate from Middle OR High School! It was amazing. Good work sweetie!!!

Needless to say, we still need to do our big birthday celebration because he had to leave the next morning for El Paso for our niece Jessica's quincenera and was gone all weekend. I was bummed not to be able to go, but the doctor didn't want me making the 8 hour drive this close to the end of pregnancy. It makes sense, but I was sad to miss out on the celebration for Jessica. She's such a sweetie and looked SO stunning in her dress. The fabulous thing is that she's as gorgeous and sweet on the inside as she is on the outside! I'm so lucky to have such great family and extended family!!!

Jessica in her beautiful dress. A family picture without Mia and I. :( Can't wait to take Mia down and show her off to the family there! :)

Zeus woke up early one morning while he was there and took his nephews DJ and Carlos down the street to the track of his old High School to get their "exercise on".

While he was in El Paso, Zeus was able to go and visit his sweet mother's grave site. The headstone hasn't come in yet, but they have a beautiful marker there for now. She is buried next to Zeus' oldest sister Delia, so he was able to visit both of them. Rest in peace sweet Grandma Lina and Delia. We can't wait to meet your namesake, baby Mia Angelina, and are so glad you were able to find out about her upcoming arrival before you passed from us.