Smoke everywhere

Today Nancy, and I are off work,and the boys don't have school.Hesperia is full of smoke.We cant even see the mountains.All the schools have cancel classes due to the air quality we are having.Hopefully on Monday,we go back to normal.

tamales tamales

Yesterday we decided to make tamales. it all started off good, everyone was helping, martin was even singing to us while we were making them. i was enjoying my kids all around me, making me laugh and making some weird looking tamales. we always have fun when we're all together. i think i got excited too soon because one by one my kids started disappearing. i was left all by myself making tamales. as i was sitting there by myself making them i started thinking, when i was a little girl i remember my mom and my grandma making a big o tub of masa. i never knew how hard they worked to please us, until now that i have to make my own tamales. i guess we are never thankful for what we have until its gone. wiping a tear ( hopefully it didnt fall inside a tamale) i said thank you mom for everything. this morning i couldn't get up from bed. my body was aching everywhere, even my legs were hurting. oh i guess it was all worth it, spending the time with my kids and seeing them enjoy the finished product. love you kids.

All This Just Pho You....

Yesterday the girls and i went down the hill to visit my lettuce and angie...yes my grandma too. We had had plans to go eat some Pho together. i woke up at 8, claudia woke up a short while after me and i went in to wake up nancy. I went in singing her a song to brighten up her day, you know how everyone just loved being woken up with a lovely song.....hahaha....we looked out the window and saw smoke coming from the mountains in front of our house, nancy was still asleep that she thought they were clouds. we start getting ready, when we were all ready we had to feed the animals before we could leave....took us a while to feed the goats......the dogs.....the birds.....and the cat. soon after jamie arrived, we were finally ready to start our road trip down the hill. as we were heading down the hill we came to a place were it was so windy that we came across trucks that had flipped on their side. at one point the traffic came to a stop, all the cars started to move onto the emergency lane, as we got closer we saw that it was another over turned truck that was taking up all the "real" lanes. finally we get to lety's house, we said hi to everyone and i sat down with my grandma, to my surprise my grandma didn't have any teeth. lety had mentioned that she had gotten dentures, but i did not realize she meant for the top and bottom. i just thought she meant for the top. i know my grandma is old, but when i saw her it just made her look older. i kind of wanted to laugh but i held it in. she reminded me of her mom. i was helping her with a puzzle that she had been doing, when lety realized i was helping her, she told me not to help her, because she would take her past time away....but it was hard....it was addicting.....i found myself enjoying it....i guess its good practice....for when i have to do them...so it was time pho lunch....we all finally headed out the door for a phoful( is that even a word.....well...we'll pretend) lunch. it was very nice, spending time with lety and angie, we always have fun when we hang out together. wish we could do it more often but i cant seem to get over my fear of driving on the freeway. we finally finished and the girls headed out to get themselves some ice cream while lety and i stayed behind paying the bill. as we were heading out the door i heard the waitress and the busboy talking in their language and looking at me, til finally the waitress said " no tip?"...so i just pointed and said " its up there" ( side note...from writer...can you believe that, i would of gone back and taken it away...). after it was time to go home because martin had called us and asked to be picked up from school because he wasnt feeling well. we head home.... well it turned out that the 15 freeway was closed...after driving around in circles we get on the 215 and hit a patch of traffic....we of course were expecting that because the 15 was suppose to be closed....well that wasn't the reason.....the freeway was on FIRE.....yes it was....but it seemed like they had already tried putting it out so it wasn't a big fire. as we were trying to get home, ojitos was trying to find a way home too. we finally got home. oh what an adventure. shortly after oj gets home too. hope i didnt bore you with this long blog. but we were asked for a new blog....so here it is....extra long...

Birthday wishes

Happy Birthday Bekah................We Love You.

we have a new addition to our family farm. we got a new kitten today. now we're all set. we have 8 dogs, 6 goats, about 4 birds and now one kitten. dont you guys think he's so cute. we haven't made up a name for him, we're having a bit of trouble in that department.

trust

Yesterday we needed some groceries but I didn't want to go to the big stores because of all the people, so I went to this new place that just opened not to long ago.Its somewhat of a mom and pop produce store. Their veggies are cheaper than regular stores. When it was time for me to pay i did as usual, paid with my atm card and i saw that it was approved, but the lady's machine didnt have paper so she began placing the paper into the machine and she wanted me to redo my atm. i did, but it didn't work. She asked me to do it once again and once again it didn't work. I explained to her that the first time i had done it, the machine had approved my card,after all that you won't believe what she did....she let me come home with my groceries telling me that she would call me at night if it had gone through, and if not i'd have to go back and pay her. So i left her my number, and she gave me hers. turns out, it had gone through, so i called her and let her know that it was paid for. Can you guys believe that she trusted me and she didn't even know me, its not like i've gone into that store all the time, it was actually only my second time. I was just surprised that theres still people out there that trust strangers.

my personal writer

okay i know you guys have been complimenting me on my blogs, but i think its time to be honest.....i have my personal writer...her name is nancy....i tell her what to write and she improves it. its hard for me to get my spelling right and its hard for me to type fast because if it was me typing, i would be typing all day long....since i am a one finger typer.so i would like to take this time to thank my personal writer, thank you nancy love you, even if i make you mad sometimes by teasing you, and singing songs to you ( you're welcome) dont get me wrong, these are my thoughts, she just makes some of them a little more interesting. so thank you for your compliments. love you all

push hard,push fast...

Nancy and I recently took a CPR and first aid class that took 4 hours. it was one of those classes were you are hands on, meaning no videos and no tests.Before we went into the classroom, nancy and i had eaten pizza and garlic bread for lunch, good thing we had to work on a mannequin. it was real interesting, putting your mannequin together. As we start to give our first puffs and pushes, you can hear people popping their mannequins lungs, keep in mind, this is suppose to be a real life situation...Oh i should mention, before we started the teacher told anyone with a bad knee to use the table, while everyone else was on their knees on the floor ( they were provide with knee pads, dont feel bad for them) me being as old as i am and with a bad knee i was able to stand by the table. so we started....first we had to do one minute non-stop ( which seemed forever) than we had to do 3 minutes non-stop, and than 5 minutes. 2 puffs 30 pushes. these aren't small pushes we are talking about, they wanted aggressive pushes. they taught us about adult, child and infant. At the end of the 4 hour class we went home excited and wanted to compare stories with Oj ( for those of you who don't know, he is also CPR certified through his work). that night we went to bed with our arms sore from all the pushing. the next morning nancy woke up sore from her butt and couldn't even sit down, poor her when we had to take a trip down the hill to say bye to an aunt that was leaving to mexico. she kept complaining about her butt hurting, and i would tell her " my butt doesnt hurt" not remembering that i was standing. Now that i'm CPR certified i'm ready to jump into action...so much so that a truck passed by the house and made a loud noise, i thought was a car accident, i jumped from the sofa saying " there was a car accident" ready to practice what i learned....but then i looked out the window and my excitement came crashing down when it turned out to be just a dump truck. i know it sound bad, but remember, i like watching ER shows....i like being in the action. Now that i'm CPR certified ...I'M READY....

here comes the tears.....again

this weekend I went to TJ to pick up my uncle's wife. it was just me and Oj all the way to Tj. we left the kids behind because they don't seem to be very fond of Tj, especially Nancy, she doesn't like the border patrol asking her were she was born and the looks they seem to give people...you know Nancy and her temper. we got there 35 mins before her plane arrived , as i'm sitting there waiting for her to come out of that room i would see an older person hugging a younger relative and crying, i would join in on their tears. it kept happening over and over, i guess it was just me thinking " that could of been me hugging my parents as they would arrive from a long trip" but then reality would strike, theres no way i'd be hugging my parents soon. the interesting thing is that the night before as i was looking through my bible i found a scripture that i had underlined in 1995 on a bible that lety had given me. it goes .." and I declare that the dead, who have already died, are happier than the living , who are still alive but better than both is he who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun"-Ecclesiastes 4:2-3. God was preparing me for the weekend because i'd been crying the whole week before, i always cry when its getting close to some special day and today is my dad's birthday. so it was just to tell me that i shouldn't be sad.

HE SAID YES!!

Attention people.....there is going to be a wedding...not just any wedding, MY WEDDING. I am so excited after almost 25 years of marriage. I am excited to be doing it again, I can't explain my feelings. I think, I think.....I LOVE THIS MAN OF MINE....The plans for this wedding are now up and running. If you guys have any ideas feel free to leave them here. Mark your calendars for April or May. I haven't asked my brother yet ( chuy if you're reading this..) cause I want him to be the one that marries me. Once again I say I am EXCITED. Like Nancy would say " Mom-2, Daughters- 0"....HAHAHAHAHAHA....

Back to Goofy

So this is my first blog after i found out that i had it since 2006 without knowing. For those of you who know me, you know that i love life and i recently turned .....dare i say it......40...AHHHH!! I was always scared of getting old, but now i realized why i was scared.It's not because I'm going to get gray hair,wrinkly,fat and ugly.(well i don't know,this is scary too) :0 But on a serious note, if I can even be serious( for all of you who know me), I was scared of getting old because I thought that I was going to die when I turned 40. When i got sick last year I was thinking " Yup, it is true, I am gonna die when I'm 40". I went through some scary stuff but the Lord helped me out, He never left my side. I was recently reading my Bible and i figured it out that the only one that knows when my time is up is God. Now I am going to keep living my life without being scared of dying every time my birthday gets close and keep being me goofy and weird self.....because word out in the street is I'm weird....what gave people that idea (...Angie). Well I hope I haven't bored you with my very first blog, I'll try to get better at this.