Happy Birthday Elena!

Today Elena is one year old!! Happy Birthday!!!! Unfortunately however, she's being running a fever off and on for the last two days and threw up twice this morning. So I didn't take her to church and she's taking a nap right now. Ana went to church with a friend of mine that lives down the street from us. I really didn't think it would be best to keep her home all day. She was already mad at me for doing her hair, and I didn't even use the bow I wanted to put in!! Sigh. I guess bows will have to wait till Elena grows some hair. Sigh. And then Ana wouldn't eat anything for lunch that I offered so I told her that she'd just have to go to church without eating anything (she wanted to take a bag of cheetos to church and I told her no). Life is certainly more confrontational with an older child. I used to think I'd never let my kids play computer games, watch tv etc. on Sunday, but church is at 1:30 and that's a long, long morning and I really couldn't think of anything else for Ana to do, so she watched a movie and played on the computer. Sigh again. I was busy cleaning up vomit in my defense though. Anyway, moving on to the more interesting things that have been going on these last few days.....

We flew to Arizona on Thursday because Leo's parents were sealed in the temple on Friday (and Leo to them). It was really great!!! I was Martha's escort which was kind of funny because I sat in the "mother's chair" in the sealing room. Hee. Hee. They had it in Spanish, but I'm fairly used to that and all was good, except they had to seal Leo to his parents twice because he didn't give them his full name the first time. Sigh.

Then in the afternoon, Martha had a birthday party for Elena. In all honesty I think big birthday parties for young kids is kind of a waste because they won't remember a thing, but I let Martha do whatever she wanted to. Martha planned the party for Saturday but since Leo had to be to work on Sunday we left Saturday to come home, so Martha had to move the party to Friday evening. She was upset because the Primary trick-or-treat was that night and unbeknownst to me, she had invited the entire primary. Yeah. She definitely goes all out. She made two pinatas, two dresses for Elena to wear, and bought three cakes (She asked me to pick one of those decorated ones from the store, but I think they taste awful so I picked angel food cakes with strawberries and whip cream instead. YUM! Also nice because I could give chunks of cake to Elena without her getting all messy.) Only eight kids came, which I think is for the best, 30-40 kids (what Martha wanted) would have been chaos. Poor Martha, it wasn't what she wanted at all. Really, the very best gift she could possibly give Elena, she already had that day--when she, Orlando and Leo were sealed in the temple. I know that sounds sappy, but hey, it's the truth. Here's Sebastian and Elena--he's so big! Below is them in March.

I was pretty jetlagged the whole time I was there. It really is very tiring to fly across country especially when you have to get up for flights at 4 AM.