Elena's orchestra earned a #1 rating at State!! WOOT! WOOT!
I was super sad that I didn't make it to Elena and Isabel's concerts because I was working. This is a major downside of working. (Money is the upside. 😉)
They really loved their orchestra teacher. He was great!!!
Braum's with friends after the concert.
I do have Sebastian's end of the year band concert though. Enjoy!
Isabel and all her track stats. This was when I had to start taking her to physical therapy because she's hyper-flexible. The physical therapist thought it was due to pulling her gluteus medias or minimas (I forgot which, but it was an underneath muscle). Anyway, he was having a hard time telling her how to stretch it out because she was too flexible for any of the stretches to work. She was so mad because she was doing fabulous in track but then ended up crying through her races because her hip hurt so bad.
I braided and beaded her hair for her.
Sebas flint knapping.
The boys started watching a fútbol game in español to practice Spanish.
Pretty running day.
Pretty driving day.
Jubal got this note from a girl in her class.
We tried to start teaching the kids Spanish. This did not work.
Easter egg decorating is always one of my favorite traditions. I loved that in Wichita it was warm enough to do outside, and that we had lovely deck for it too. Meanwhile in Evanston, our friends were buried in record breaking snowfall.
Elena has been doing her nails so cute all the time! I loved these ones!!!
Some Easter decor I picked up on clearance. So cheerful and spring-ish.
I'm a mom and a nurse, hopefully decent at both but that's debatable. I love history and family history and blogging is my way of keeping my family's history. Most of all, I love Leo (mi papacito esposo de Colombia) and Ana, Elena, Isabel, Sebastian, Nicolas, Jubal, and Efraim (mis hijos). My other passion is also dark and rico and from South America--that would be chocolate. Basically I like to eat chocolate, eat chocolate icecream, eat frozen hot chocolates from Dairy Queen, eat Peppermint Yorks, Junior Mints, and of course dark chocolate truffles. Okay, now that I've wiped the slobber off my chin from thinking about all of that, I'll get on to the rest of my blog. Oh, and I'm trying to learn Spanish but spend too much time blogging/sewing/reading/sewing instead.
"Managing a home involves much more than keeping a house clean, organized, and attractive. These skills are important...but these skills are only a means to an end. The paramount objective is to create a setting where family and friends are comfortable and happy, where there are good dinners and good times, where there is fun and laughter, where children acquire good habits and are taught life skills and how to be self-reliant and responsible, where challenges are faced by coupling temporal endeavors with eternal perspectives, where joy through gospel teaching and living prevails, where kindness and respect reign supreme, where love is strong enough to bind the family forever, and where children are nurtured toward eternal life."
--Daryl Hoole
“Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.” Elder Boyd K. Packer - November 1993 Ensign
"Dear Prude,
Sober of not, I am forever yours."
-Percy French, a letter to his wife (1776)
"Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories."
-John Wilmot
"Science advances, it's like a ladder--one step leads to another. But art isn't like that. Art is about being human. Children make art instinctively. Archaeologists know that when they find evidence of art, they're found evidence of human beings. It expresses all that is best in us--our desires, our hopes, our truth. And so, art changes, but it doesn't get better."