Family Fast

Hi, everyone.

As most of you know, Stephen has been looking for work pretty much since Feb. when the Chili's he was working for closed. He has a job right now, but the work environment is bad and the agreed upon salary has not materialized (he is making a little over half of what he was supposed to be making), so we have been continuing to look for a better job and applying everywhere we can.

Stephen had a several job interviews with a company this last week and we thought he would get a job offer, but unfortunately, we found out yesterday that they decided his school schedule might be a conflict so they went with someone else. (Stephen is in school several nights a week and would need to leave before 5pm to get to class on time.)

We are trying to keep a positive attitude and continuing to trust in the Lord. We continue to pray and we go to the temple as often as we can. We find a lot of peace in the temple and in prayer.

Chris made a suggestion that both Stephen and I really like and that is to have a family fast. For those family members that are able to and would like to participate, we ask that you fast this Sunday (Nov 1) for Stephen as he continues to look for work.

Halloween Costumes

These are this years offering of Halloween Costumes. K through 5th grade could be a character from any book, they just needed to bring the book. Erin was originally going to be the white witch of Narnia, but we couldn't get her hair to go that wild, so she ended up being the Littlest Princess. Nathan was Dracula. 6th through 9th grade had to be something from Core Knowledge (what they are learning in school). Jarom is a Cowboy and Jacob is a "gym student". Isaac can be anything he wants to be, so he is a Cowboy as well.

Happy Halloween Dinner

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Belle

We don't have any kids at home anymore but I thought since many of you have called and inquired about Belle's condition that I would take a few photos of her and post them she hasn't been very co-operative so I'm just posting two photos.

FHE pumpkin carving

We had fun tonight carving pumpkins. Sean was behind the camera, and then he was baking pumkin seeds.

Good day

This was a fun day. It was the begining of October and we had time off of school for UEA (the teachers union here in Utah). We went downtown and we hiked up Ensign peak. While we were hiking we met three different families who knew someone that we knew. One of them knew Aunt Anita in Houston. Then we went to memory park (war memorial) and had a picnic. After that, we went to the city library and looked around and borrowed a few books. It was great. The kids were all pretty well behaved. After that, we went home and the youngest zonked out because we wore them out running up and down Ensign peak.

Wedding Pictures

Here are links to our wedding pictures. The first two folders have the Houston pictures. There are some really good pictures of the whole family (or most of the family) and some really good ones of the brothers. And, of course, I'm kind of partial to the pictures of the bride and groom.

Wedding Photos Rob

Wedding Photos

The third folder has pictures from our reception in Carrollton. They are in random order because they are a collection of photos taken by several people.

Wedding Reception

Pics of a few family members & friends

My camera is very bad, but I try to take pictures occasionally any way. I took just a few at Josh and Jen's place the day of Jen's baptism. Most are blurry, but there are a few good ones in the bunch. My camera works better with the flash, but I didn't want to continue flashing a bright light in everyone's faces while they were trying to visit.

Jennifer Baptism

Cute Gillian Pictures

Here are some pictures of Gillian from our wedding last year. Chris thought they were really cute, so I thought I'd share them with everyone. Gillian is such a beautiful girl!

Wedding Gillian

Stephen, Sarah and Dante Update

The day that Dante turned six month old, Sep 30, I asked my mom to take a few pictures with her good camera. Here they are, there are a few really funny ones in the bunch.

Dante Six Months

In other news, Dante has been eating solid food now for about a month. He really enjoys eating. He eats everything from baby rice cereal to slices of bread to Grandma Anguiano's Cheesy Potato Soup. The potato soup is a new food. He ate it for dinner tonight and he really loved it.

He also has his first tooth! It has been pushing on the gums for about a week now, but today, after eating the potato soup, was the first time that we could actually feel the tooth. When I see my mom next I'll try to get a picture of his tooth to post.

Dante is also pushing him self around a little now. He's been getting up on all fours and rocking for a few weeks, but he would usually face-plant when he would try to move forward. Now he can push himself forward a few inches at a time to get to a toy he wants. Won't be long now before he's actually crawling.

In other news, I have started running again! It feels so good to get out and exercise. Dante comes with me in his stroller. He's very good while I'm running although it is a little extra work for me to push him along as I go. I'm super slow and I only go 3 miles right now, but it's something!

To Adam: Stephen and I feel your pain. Stephen works during the day and has class three nights a week. I'm only in class one night a week, but I have another online class and both my classes have a lot of work I have to do. And you're right about the brain. There are only so many hours that one can study or read textbooks at a time before the brain turns to mush. I've reach the mush level several times this week as I have midterm projects and papers I'm working on.

To Connie: Yeah! It's so nice to see pictures of your family and to have you join us on the blog!

I look forward to seeing pictures of Halloween costumes!

Lilia's Teeth

Well, her teeth are finally coming in. I'm sure I'll live to regret it once she starts biting things (i.e. me). They're so cute and I thought I'd share them with you. These pictures were not easy to get. The macro feature requires that the subject be very still and Lilia kept covering her teeth up with her tongue.

Enjoy.

Discount Windows 7

I thought I would let all you tech savvy know about this discount. You can get Windows 7 Home Edition or Professional for $30.

The only downside is that it is an upgrade license and not good for a complete install. I prefer to do a clean install rather than an upgrade but if you can decide for yourselves.

If someone who is not a student is interested in my copy just let me let me know and I could get it for you. Hooray, Windows 7 is here!

I am still learning this.

I wanted to try and post some family pictures.

I think I signed on okay

Thanks Adam for posting Isaac's B-day pictures for me. I got the blog invite and I hope this is working. I am just seeing if I can post on the family web site now.

Isaac's 5th Birthday

Connie says: I though these were cute. Isaac turned 5 today and he wanted a pinata for his birthday.