Rooms' switch

For Thanksgiving weekend we had already planned we were going to do a big switch of rooms, in the house. We were moving the kids room to where the office/playroom was, and that one to where the kids' room was. So we woke up early and started moving the things out from the kids room, so we could paint. So all Friday was mostly focused on leaving that room ready for Saturday. Then Saturday we moved things in to where the office is, and then by the end of the day, we quickly just put the furniture in the kids' room and left it.

We still have to paint and rearrange that one. Maybe another 2 day weekend?

As the kids where helping, I asked them to bring the puzzles to the office, where to toys will be... so the picture below shows how they were bringing in the puzzles....

And then, the picture of Wes.... He just likes those necklaces... And of course, something was really funny...

Here is how the shelves turned out. Much cleaner than before. Sorry, no more pics.

Dads and Donuts (or Grandpa)

It was Dads and Donuts at school, and Wally talked to Weston days before, explaining that he was not going to be able to be there, because of work, (and possible lays offs). We all thought of asking my dad, since his work schedule and location are convenient, were he could be able to go with Weston and not miss work or drive a long distance... SO Weston asked my dad and he agreed and picked up Weston that morning and took him to school.
(Wally was able to go last year, and maybe next year, we ask Grandpa Parker to go...)

Making bread

I wanted to try a new recipe for making bread, that I got from Wally's mom. Of course, I have 2 little helpers that most of the time want to help, or "see".

Weston is looking at what my mixer is doing, and Noah is looking at Weston to see how he reacts to what's happening....

 Noah follows his brother... So he sees that Weston is laughing at what's going on, so he laughs too!

THIS is what's going on... the dough is starting to come out of the mixer!!!

Here is the "not so good" final product. I wanted to follow the recipe exactly and so I didn't follow my common sense. The bread was inthe oven for too long, with high temperature.



My dad, Nelson Ortiz's birthday

On 11/11/11, my dad, Nelson Ortiz, turned 61 and we celebrated in a small way with his brothers and mother. We had dinner and cake.

My dad and my boys.

                          

Wally and I.

My grandma, Mama Lolita, and I.

We talked...

 We laughed...

Weston played in the computer ( Noah was tired and y mom took him to bed...)

The siblings (missing Freling, in Honduras)

With some of the spouses...

I made an Upside-down Pineapple Cake... one of my dad's favorite, OR his favorite. It might not look that delicious, but it was! I need another excuse to make it again!


                             

Singing Happy Birthday...

My dad and I (mi papi)

We had a fun and calm evening. My brother and family couldn't make it.

What markers can do

11/11/11

Noah didn't want me to take the picture and he was already starting to wipe out the marker from his face. And he has red eyebrows from crying because he scared me and himself when he saw his face like that! He had a lot of brown on his face.... It happened in a matter of seconds...

And when Weston came from school, I showed him the picture of Noah and what he had done to himself, and told him that Noah was sad because he looked scary, and so Weston didn't want his brother to be alone on this.....

He wanted Noah to feel better...