My fabulous birthday!

well, i was so excited to turn 30!!! why? everyone asked me that! well/// because i deserve it, i have accomplish a lot in the last decade and this is a new chapter,a new decade!yaye!so here we are my little family is posing to remember this awesome evening!

Me and jared wrinkled free, however... that will not last .... we had just over 40 guests that came, we made it an adult occasion only, except for my kids, cuz well... i just couldn't exclude my kids, i am their mom....!Beside, I didn't feel too bad about it, after we were paying for a nice night out for everyone else:) The dinner was catered by my favorite Italian restaurant, Foscari, and everything was delicious!The guest arrived timely and enjoyed some appetizers as well as some glow in the dark drinks... ahahaha so proud of that one!I found out that tonic water glows under a black light, so i made some tonic ice cubes and put up a black light in the house... awesome ...!

my sister in law Aira made my cake, it was again freaking awesome, this woman is ridiculously(probably not a word) talented. On that table was also my invitation , if you can see it, it says, forever 30, my friend Jill made it as well as all the cute other things at the party!even this candle apples.... she just is amazing!And in case you didn't figure it out yet,it was a twilight birthday:) in the invite it said you are invited to a "Fangtastic" birthday, so cool! then she made a trivia about me, it was at some point embarrassing but overall was great:)

now this is why it was without kids, there was fire(candle) everywhere! it was beautiful and i can't say thank you enough to Jill, jared, chad and whoever helped.the highlight of my party was a skit made by jill and chad, they recreated a scene from twilight and made a parody ! it was hilarious, but you will not see any pictures of that because Chad will simply not allow me to post pictures of him dressed as Edward.I respect that..... for now:)

so i had a blast, it was fun , i was sourrounded by lots of people i love and they all made me feel wonderful!Big thank you to Sarah for flying from CT, it was a great present:) I love it!

Halloween 2010 costumes!!!

not much talking tonigh on the blog but here I am , Arwen

My awsome pirate

sweet witch

BEAUTIFUL candy corn

the sword fighting

Aragorn(strider) and Arwen

And the family:)

family

I have been in canada for 2 days now and goodness..my moms food is good!I am just so grateful that my sibling and the extended family is all pitching in at helping with my dad.we are taking turns to help my mom and dad with this nasty cancer that i hate and want to vomit when i hear myself talking aboutt it:) yannick came, i am here now, and joel is coming when i leave and i hear my other sibling will be all coming to spend 1 week with them, to allow the worst of time to be easier.you guys are awsome! and i just want to say.. I LOVE YOU!

my dad

Just as i thought my life was wonderful, something terrible happened.My dad has cancer.He has prostate cancer and it was diagnosed way too late.
The cancer has spreaded to other organs.I will be flying to see him and i hope that the doctors will have sometype of good news for us.So far....its not good.I am in total shock!I found out 2 days ago, while i was in florida, and it has been crazy since then.total disbelief.he is now in the hospital,he cannot walk anymore, his liver turned him green and has difficulty breathing.I was told that the therapy that he is on is helping take the pain away, but will not cure him. I have to come to grip with the fact that my dad will die. I have been fasting as well as the rest of my family, and we are hoping for the best.Who know's maybe they will find a cure in the next week:) ok... probably not.I will do what i can to help my parents,i have great kids that are always including him in their prayers,they are very sad that their papi will be leaving us.I am so grateful to know that we can see him again.after all....we are all dying...he is just dying faster than the rest of us.I need to stop crying my screen is all blurry.that means i will stop writing. hopefully next time i write , i will have better news, but for now, i need to prep another trip.

2010 family pictures in!

ok so here is me and jared

my boy!

my girls!

Eve 7 years old

us...all of us...

Christian telling me a secret...

Natalia and me

my girls...

my stud....

some of that....

Christian 5 years old

Natalia 3 years old

again...us..together...

my three munchkins...

mom and dad

and i don't know why this one uploaded again..sorry... to see more go on facebook!

New family pictures to come!!!

just waiting for the photographer to give them to me!2010 family picture done! that was my 10th family picture!so cool!My picture wall is expending!

Love

wow!This is a weird post but i feel inspired to write this. I am so feeling in love lately with Jared thatjust had to write it down.After ups and downs i can definitly say that if you persist, it pays off!Jared and I are at our best .We are feeling some changes will be happening for our family and we are excited.Its amazing how children can feel when their parents truly love each other.Any improvement in the love department between a couple makes a huge difference with the children.I am so grateful for the gospel and for the atonment of christ that just helps us better ourselves. An eternal perspective is everything!I love my family!

fun with the Nelson's

So sunday right after sacrament, we drove back to Santa Monica to go and cheer for Luky, He was playing at a festival and since we don't see as often now since he tours we decided to go hang out!Christian loves his big cousins and never get enough of them!Lucky was kind enough to smile for me on this shot!thank you!

Now here is Christian with luke's brother Micah, christian thinks that micah makes the best silly faces.. and he is right!

and again

and this one is daring making to touch his shoulder with his tongue...

yep.... they are related!Aunt Annie was there too, we hang at there house for a bit and chatted.Will was of course on the road again(ahahaha) but hey hanging out with the Nelson's is always a blast!

Fun on the Santa Monica pier

I love where i live!Where get you have the best weather, be on a beach on a pier holding an attraction parck with some great food?Yes here in Santa Monica, on the pier ... i took pictures from the fairestwheel(not sure f the spelling) it amazing, i love the ocean!

The view was just breathtaking, my kids had a blast and it was the perfect day!

California is the best. no matter what people say, it is the best.
I love being here.its $$$$$ but well worth it!

all this on the pier, everyone has seen this.. its like on every movie!

that picture was taken from the highest point, i almost threw up taking this shot... jared was laughing at me......ah!ah! ah! not funny.... but hey i am a trooper!I enjoyed this day with jared and my three munchkins.I loved hw relaxed the atmosphere was and loved being with my family!

breakfast anyone?

Bacon and eggs anyone? my kids were excited when i told them bacon !!! and then i wanted pancakes... so i made eggs and bacon out of pancakes and that was all inspired by a blog about pancakes!

yummy, then i just really got into it!i made....

a turtle.. which was so adorable and of course delicious!

And my little one wanted a flower... so I made it! and now its like 11 am and my kitchen is a desaster.... off to cleaning!

melt down!

OK, i watched the lovely bones the movie last night, and I cried my eyes out! right after the movie i went and kissed my 7 year-old that was sound asleep told her i loved her and she replied "me too" in her sleep:)

I mean as parents we love our kids so much! It just made me so much more aware of how we have to be careful with ..sad to say but almost everyone! I live in Los angeles area and even though i am in the safest county, there is always those wachos!I remember wheni was little i just would take off in the morning on my bike and would come back only when i was hungry!Yes..i lived in town so i guess my mom felt that i was pretty safe.Here.... NO ONE let there kids go off like that anymore!so sad... and we find ourself entertaining our children (which is great spending time with them) but on the other hand "I" feel sometimes that they lack the opportunity to be kids and explore and therefore prove to us at the same time that they can be thrusworthy in doing these little adventure!

I started thinking way too much!Sometimes i want to move aaway from the rat race, the superficial and all that stuff to have in exchange more rural sourroundings form my kiddos.Sunny California is wonderful and has so much to offer! but like in the scriptures.... each thing has its opposite:)

Thats my favorite age btw!3years old... that smile is just melting my heart!

a day in the kitchen with my kids!

Ok today was just spent in the kitchen, it was beautiful outside and the windows were all open, it was not hot, a nice breeze was coming in and it was the perfect cooking day!So when i wike up i decided to make some waffles and that led to huh.... making

zucchini bread and then i though.. i will prep my dinner which consisted of thi huge awsome moist flavorful meatloaf wrapped in(if you know me you know the answer!) BACON! cuz bacon is good!

yes i wrapped this puppy and under this pig belly there is meat mixed with romano cheese and herbs and bread soaked in milk and ah.... just so good! To go with it i used the left over zucchini as a vegetable to be a side dish and i made this amazing califlower puree! its so good! you simmer califower in butter and milk and heavy cream them add salt and pepper and then you blend it into this puree!fabulous!then i went to the market and i don't know why i came back with a crab!Yeah... my kids thoughi was the coolest mom ever!

this dungeouness crab was big ..looks small there but if you know the size of my sink... you know its big!

So the kids played with it and i did too (i had so much fun!)

yep my new friend mr. crab. well.. it was a short friendship!

about to go in the boioling water!look at christian's face..... he said.. you are about to die!

and he died!

yummy for my tummy! And at the end.. i decided to poach an egg to see if i could do it! and i did! so weird....i wonder if i am ......nah......probably not:)