Papa's Birthday and pics of the kids of course!!!!

I had more pictures to post, but blogger was acting up, so I will post just these few. It is rather late to say Happy Birthday to Papa now, but I just wanted you to see how handsome he was when we married. He still is very handsome!!!!



This picture of "Papa and Beya" was taken on our wedding day, on the steps of the Reno, Nevada courthouse, December 16, 1968.

Asa decided he would like to experiment with Beya's makeup.

Papa and his nietos in our trailer. He loves being GrandPapa!!!
Drawing submarines for Asa. Asa is the engineer, Papa does the drawing. So cute to watch.

Happy Birthday Valentina

Our dear Valentina turns one year old tomorrow, the 14th. Her party was yesterday at the Spaghetti Factory. It was so nice to have so many people there that love her to celebrate not only her birthday, but her homecoming as well. Thank you God for making her for us!!!!! I thank God every day for my grandbabies, having two is even better than one!!!!!!!!!
I was so proud of my family yesterday. My daughters are beautiful, sweet, loving girls. My sons-in laws are kind, loving daddies, my husband is my best friend, and my grandbabies are my world.
I know Cameo is going to post tons of pictures, so I will just post two of my babies.

My two baby girls!
Asa looking very handsome all dressed up, sitting with his parents!!!!!

Life is Good!!!!!

Back on schedule ???????????

The holidays are over and our lives seem to be on a schedule. As much on schedule as retired people can be I guess. Have I mentioned that I love retired life? The only thing lacking is money, but otherwise it can't be beat!!!!!!!!! Papa loves it too, he keeps talking about going to work one day a week, but has yet to do anything about it other than talk! LOL He enjoys his grandbabies as much as I do as you can see below.

Papa with the grandbabies (and toys) at Cameo's

We took Asa to G'dale again this weekend. We were hoping we had snow for him to play in and we did!!! Papa has his Dad's hat that he always wore hanging on the wall above his dresser, Asa saw it and since he is into toro riding and cowboys, he wanted to try it on. Isn't he adorable?

Asa in Great Grandpa Pedro's hat.

He also likes to build with his legos when we are there.

Such concentration!

Here he is setting up his farm. He brought alot of his toys from home, but played with the "Property" toys instead. He wanted to bring them all home with him.

There were a couple of inches of snow when we arrived Sunday night, but snowed two more inches after we went to bed so it was nice soft snow for him to play in the morning.

He would run and fall on purpose, he had a great time.

What an angel!Eating snow off his mittens was his favorite thing to do.

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2008

Happy New Year everyone. I am truly blessed with a wonderful family and it feels so great to have it finally complete. We have waited for "Sissy's Baby" for three years, and this year on Feb. 16, "sissy's baby" finally had a name and face!!!! Our dear Valentina.

My dear Asa is so sweet and is such a great joy to me and all of us. He comes into a room and just lights up the whole place. He has made all of us want another baby in the family.

Our dear Valentina is such a loving happy baby. She makes me laugh all day! Her closed eye, flat mouth smile is so funny.

It is so fun to watch the two of them together. Our joy is tenfold with her here with him.
We had the ultimate Christmas with our two kidos. I cannot imagine anything more heavenly than those two playing together. What fun it is to be a beya!!!!

Life is good.......

Anniversary Weekend

Papa and I celebrated 39 years of marriage on Sunday! That seems like a lifetime ago! I would like to be young again, but I do not want to live my life again. I am the happiest that I have ever been now, at my old age. I have good relationships with my dear daughters, sons in law and the best ever with mi nietos, Asa and Valentina. Papa and I are at a great time in our marriage also. Life is good!!!!!

Saturday night we got dressed up and went to the Yakima Valley to see if we could find a mexican bar that would have live music so we could dance. We had three places that we would go to before, but they had closed down, (due to too many fights). We decided to try another place we had been to years ago, but when we got there, nothing was going on, but the owner said they was going to have a dance across the street. We went over to Ixtapa and had the best time ever!!!! We danced all night and had so much fun. Everyone at that bar was so nice, friendly and fun, we cannot wait to go back for Papa's birthday next month!

We came back to Vancouver on Sunday afternoon and it was good to see our babies again. Trina and Cameo along with the angels and I spent all afternoon shopping yesterday, had a great day. The kids are so good!!!! Life is great!!!!!

It's been a while.........

Well, I have been busy since I last posted with, most importantly a trip to Guatemala to pick up our baby girl angel!! It is so good to have her home where she belongs. I cannot wait to get up in the morning to go and play with her. She is a blessing, as is our first angel, Asa! Have I mentioned I LOVE being a grandma? I have two wonderful grandbabies!!!!

Since Valentina was 10 months old when she came home, I started thinking about my babies at that age, so I took pictures of pictures again, and here are my babies between the ages of 8-12 months. I think they are so cute!!!!

Cameo at 6 months

Asa at 9 months

Trina at 8 months old

Cameo at 11 months old

Trina at 10 months

Trina at 6 years, Cameo at 6 months

I am so blessed to have two wonderful grandbabies that I can enjoy everyday.

Thank you God for the blessings of My husband Papa, and my daughters and their families. Trina, Josh and Asa, and Cameo, Norm and Valentina. I am so very very blessed.

I went to visit my dear mom at the care center last week. She is doing about the same, weight keeping at 80 pounds. She is always so glad to see me when I come and is so sad and crys when I leave her. It is so hard to leave her, but this time my niece, Denice was there visiting from Alaska, so she was okay when I left. Kind of.... I am so thankful she remembers who her kids are yet, I know the day will come when she doesn't but as yet she does and I am glad for that.

My dear mother and I on Saturday.

Denise, Mom's first granddaughter, visiting from Alaska

Halloween with Asa

Here are some pictures of Asa when we took him out for Trick or Treating. He was so cute! He really did not like the scary costumes other people wore. MumMum, Daddy, Cameo and Beya all went around with him. He always has an entourage following him. We all adore that little guy!

How cute is that?

Beya and my little guy.
MumMum, Daddy and Asa. Asa was so excited that Daddy came!!!