Paul reading a story to me

Hi friends and family,
Sorry I haven't written for so long. Theses pictures are some of my favorite because Paul is starting to communicate and looks at the books and babbles. My mom calls him her little chinese man. He is starting to say more words. Sometimes he likes me to read to him also. He just turned 2 the other day. He is getting soo big big and it is cute because he is starting to get his personality. He laughs at anything especially if it his daddy playing with him. Whenever he laughs it makes me laugh too. I hope that everyone is doing well,
Love,
Marlene

Paul the little ham

Hello everyone,
Here are some pictures that I took of Paul. As soon as I got out the camera and he saw it,he started posing and saying da da which is what he calls everyone. We call him a ham bone because as soon as he see the camera he starts acting silly and wants us to take his picture. Last night I was doing things on the computer and everyone else was playing cards that is when I took some pictures of Paul. I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do. The boys are growing up so fast,and I enjoy getting to see them grow up and want to do different things. Amy and I enjoy taking pictures of the boys to put on the blog.
God bless,
Marlene

a picture of my cat

Hi Everyone,
I hope that everyone had a great New Year. We did, my mom dad and the family went out to eat at a restraunt. Then we came home and played games. We only stayed up until 11:00 p.m. because none of us are late night people. We had a quiet night when the boys went to bed. The next day my mom,dad,and Joshua had off from work so we did little projects around the house. I enjoyed having my mom home because now that she is working I don't see her as much. Unless of course I go to the shop. Here is a picture of my cat. He was having fun playing with the string on my mom's jacket. I thought it was so cute so I had to take a picture of it. It was funny because it snowed on Sunday and Pumpkin was wanting to go outside, so my mom let him out thinking that he would not want to. He sometimes does the funniest things. Here are some pictures of him. When he went out we had to chase after him to get him back in the house. I hope that everyone is doing well.
God bless,
Marlene

Happy New Year

Merry Christmas everone,
I hope that everyone had a great Christmas. I sure did we got to spend time together as a family. We also got to reflect on how Great God is. This is my favorite season because it reminds me how much I am loved and how much God has done for me. On Sunday my pastor talked about the new year, as I was listening to him I was thinking to myself how quickly this year has gone by. Also I am looking forward to what God has in store for me this next year.
Happy New Year.
Love,
Marlene

My Birthday

I had a wonderful 30th birthday party. Some friends and their families told my mom that they wanted to come over and help me celebrate my birthday. I thought it was very nice of them since they were supposed to go caroling with some people from their church. When they heard that it was just our family celebrating my birthday they told my mom that they wanted to come over and help us celebrate. I had a great time the kids made homemade birthday cards, and also colored me some pictures as a present. As you can see from the pictures I got blessed with a lot of gifts. I love lotions and body washes so my mom and sister found a lot of it and gave it to me for my birthday. I was telling my mom that my lips get drier up here so she bought me a lot of chapstick. The earings are because in the process of moving from our friends house I lot almost all of my earrings. It was a blessing because yesterday when I took a suitecase that I lived out of when we were at the friends house out of the trunk of my car I found them. I was so exvited that I called my mom and told her. The kind of cakes that I had for my birthday were carrot cake, and a cherry cake. These are two of my favorite kind of cakes. We had a lot of fun playing games like you take a match box and put several different items in it and then you let everone individualy look at the box for a minute and a half and then they have to write down what they saw for memory. We also played hot potato, and a game where you have to try to keep a bolloon in the air and everytime that the balloon comes to you you have to name a animal. It was a great time and having friends and family there made it feel even more special. Thank God for another year that He allowed me to live. blessings to all, Marlene

My New Room

I am so happy we finally have internt at the house. Here are the pictures of my room that I have been promising to have for you to see. I hope that you enjoy them. I don't know if you can tell from the pictures but my room is pink and the wall paper is pink with roses on it. I love my room. We are planning to get new lamps as soon as we can find some that are cute. I hope that everyone has a very Merry Christmas and a happy new year. I like Christmas because we get to focus on what God did for us and celebrate Christ's birthday. May each and every one of you find the true meaning of Christmas.
Love to all,
Marlene

update on what's going on

Hi friends and family,
Sorry I haven't written for such a long time we don't have internet at the house yet. My dad said that we will probably get it very soon. Well we are all moved into our house now. My room is all set up. I will be sending pictures of what it looks like very soon. We are still unpacking our boxes which sometimes seems like it will never end. Slowly we are fixing and doing repairs on the house. I am keeping busy cooking dinner for everybody and helping take care of my nephews. i really enjoy watching them grow up. Peter is now doing a one handed crawl, and trying to pull himself up on things so that he can stand up. It is so cute to see him do this. Paul is now babbling and starting to say a few words. Amy and I were teasing the other day and saying that we think that we are going to regret every thinking that Paul was never going to talk because he isn't talking yet. The funny thing is that now he babbles so much that we think he is going to be talking up a storm pretty soon. The weather here has been in the 20's to 40's. Sometimes we wake up and there is snow on the ground. We enjoy the snow because as most of you know in California is doesn't snow. I hope that everyone is doing well.
Lots of love,
Marlene