Maya is 4 months!

Just a quick update on our sweet baby Maya. She had her 4 month check up last week. She is 15.5 lbs and 24.5 inches long. She started cereal and is not really interested in it. She sure loves her bottle though! And as you can see she is all smiles!

Many Thanks...

This year I am in charge of making rolls and bread for our Thanksgiving Dinner. The vote was unanimous. Oh, I feel so honored. Let the work begin! (wink wink!) As I watched Charlie Brown Thanksgiving tonight and made sure I had enough flour and yeast for the bread making. I pondered on the things I am thankful for. And I would like to share with you the pondering I did.

I am thankful for my family ( you know who you are ) , my children and husband.

I am thankful for free agency and for religion in my life.

I am thankful for my friends, my freedoms.

I am thankful to have a job, my coworkers, my small 401k.

I am thankful for my health and knowing my hair on my head will grow back.

I am thankful for having someone to love and someone to love me back.

I am thankful for my bed and my froggie pillowcase.

I am thankful that I am a mother, wife, and friend.

I am thankful for trials that make me a better person. (ok sometimes I am thankful for them)

I am thankful for beauty all around us.

I am thankful to have time to do the things I like.

I am thankful for the Macy's Day Parade.

I am thankful for so many more things.

I know you are thankful that I stopped.

I hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving.

P.S.

Thank you to the UTES for kicking BYU's butt!

New camera Santa

Just an update on us.



This one please Santa....


Our poor 8 year old piece of junk camera has finally failed us. So we have written a letter to that jolly guy to ask him for a new one. And of course it has such cute pictures of the kids on it. I think I will do the most common thing that people do and throw it down the stairs. It may work after that. I'll keep you updated.

We are all doing fine. Ryan is into Cars still and its driving us nuts. At least we are not alone. Mike was telling me the other day as he talks to friends, co-workers, family that the big thing with kids this age is Cars and The Little Mermaid. Did I not say that some time ago?

Ryan came home yesterday from Daycare with a wish list for Christmas. Jaci had the kids cut out pictures of some of their favorite things. It had about 5 pictures of Cars and 1 of Elmo and 1 of The Little People Farm house. He was so proud to show Mike his list on beautiful blue paper.

Ryan also has been very interested in the potty. Ok, he is not even 2 yet and we know its a phase. So we got the potty for him. He likes to sit on it, stand on it. Last night after dinner he said "dad poop". (sorry about the language) So Mike ran and got the potty. Well, the deed was done. Dad was just a little to slow for what was coming. (Oh typing this is funny. I bet the visual is just great.) But we know he won't be interested soon then the real time will come for the full time potty training later.

Maya is getting bigger and bigger. She LOVES watching her older brother. If she isn't watching and talking to him she is chewing on her fingers. It seems like they are pork chops to her. Savoring every moment. She is a talker and will just chat away at anything in her view.

Mike is busy these days with the business. Hey, everyone needs a Plumber right? He is happy that the weather is cooler too.

As for me I am just happy as a clam. Thanksgiving is next week and I will be with the family I love. We will miss you Moores!

Until then....

P.S.- We here at the Moore house are anticipating our first niece Michelle to be born. My beautiful sister in law Brooke and crafty brother in law Jim are expecting any day now. Hang in there Brooke! We can't wait to see her!

Cars! Cars! Cars!

So most of you parents can relate...your child gets into a phase of obsessiveness. We introduced Ryan to the Disney movie Cars about a month ago. Has it been a regret? Ummm...some days! It is so cute though. He loves everything about this movie and wants to watch it all the time. It reminds me of my early babysitting days when I watched the Fullerton kids. They loved..I mean loved The Little Mermaid and watched it ALL the time! Over and over until I wished I broke their VCR. Its funny to me that I still find toys, crackers, clothes with "Cars" all over it. Seriously how long has that movie been out? I went to Payless yesterday to get some cheap work shoes and guess what?? I found Cars themed light up flashy tennis shoes for Ryan. Those suckers were more than my shoes! Did I buy them...yes I did. On the way home from Jaci's house he reminds me what he wants to do when he gets home. Play outside and Cars. (Good thing its 70 degrees now that we enjoy the outside) Since he is turning 2 next month I guess it is very easy to decide what kind of birthday he will be having. And if Santa is really watching him, then Cars will flood Christmas morning.

Family Halloween Party 2008

Our family (the Mioni's) have a Halloween Party. This year we had it a week before Halloween so most of us can attend. My mom makes her famous soup along with other goodies. We have Halloween bingo, cookie decorating and guessing games. We had a lot of fun costumes this year and the contest was pretty competitive. Here are a few pictures of the party.

We usually have a theme but this year we decided to do the traditional orange and black.

The backyard waiting for guests to arrive.

I was 1 of the 4 Pink Ladies Gang and Mike was a T Bird. And cute baby Maya was our 50's poodle girl. To bad the age group for the costume contest was 1year and above. She would of won! I just know it!

Here is Ryan as Batman standing on the toilet. Who took this picture??? Nice place to take it right Dianna? Ha Ha!

Our entertainment for the evening...Ryan playing the harmonica. Since he saw Papa play it, he loves to play it too!

My sweet Aunt Alicia as Scarlet...Carol Burnett style.

Lisandra and I along with our poodle baby! She was such a good sport considering she was held by my cousins Sophia and Solana. She really did sleep in their arms as they talked very loudly. Plus, I had to do some major intervention when one of them made up their mind that they were going to take her home.

My beautiful Grandma was alittle political this year. She is dressed oh so beautifully in her Mexican themed dress along with a sign on her saying

" Get Arpaio out! "

Nice.

The kids decorating their cookies. Thank you Suzette for providing them along with the frosting!

Looks like they are discussing answers from the movie trivia game Veronica made.


Herija as the "Pirate" and his Pink Lady Lisandra.


I love these people!

Cody, DeMarco, and Skyler

Two face!!! I can see a Batman theme going on here...we had Batman, the Joker and two face.

Thank you everyone for coming and enjoying the Party! We had so much fun and hope you did too! We are open to creative suggestions for next years party!

P.S. Sara, I was thinking about you all night! I hope you are feeling better!

It has been a long summer...bye bye...

On Saturday the weather was perfect! I think it was about 75 degrees or less and breezy. We have long waited for this day us Arizonians! We headed over to my mom and dads house to visit and to see how my Grandma was doing. ( she had foot surgery a few weeks ago ) With jeans on and doors wide open we had a great day. We didn't visit the pumpkin patch ( we miss you show low! ) due to nap scheduling issues..maybe next weekend. Here are some things we did...well what Ryan did.

-Ryan pointing at all the Halloween decorations. Don't you love that pirate shirt?

-Oh course I had to make Chex muddy buddies. Back in my day it was called "puppy chow"...you know what I am talking about! Cody and I made it and then we ate it! Yum!
-Ryan liked this spider for some reason and kept taking it off the table. I think it was because he could reach it. Its funny how all of a sudden you realize your child it tall enough to grab stuff off the table without having to be on tippy toes!
-And of course Ryan giving Frankenstein's bride a ride in a red convertible car. I think she kidnapped Swap Thing and he is laying in the back seat.

-And the traditional "Push..mama push ba ba" ride. I guess he felt that Maya needed to have a "ton ton" ride with her to keep her company. Who knows? ( let me know if I spelled that correctly DeMarco ) ***we are reminded again...only 1 picture of Maya and the rest...Ryan. I guess we haven't learned yet**

PUSH PLAY FOR A LAUGH

P.S. Yes, Ryan is going to be Batman for Halloween!

Chase has called

Well its official...I am back to work. I started last Thursday and it was an adjustment. Mike was kind enough to drop my babies off to Jaci and crew. As I drove into the high manicured Sun City Grand I seriously felt I was going to have an anxiety attack. ( I am being honest here sisters its hard to go back to work after having a baby.) I know it was all in my head. What was I afraid of this time around? As I came to the first stop sign I told myself to relax and keep driving. Of course I did and made it to the branch. I felt fine, I just had to shake it off. As I walked in I received such a sweet welcome from my coworker Sue, arms open and all. Tears came and went...they were tears of joy for being back. Yea right. Thursday and Friday were a blur since I had to help on the busy teller line. It was good to be busy. Its Monday night now and we are still trying to get into a routine. Its working slowly and my sitter is very patient and supportive. Work is same 0 -same -o, nothing has changed. Good thing for that. It has felt like I have never left.

Truck mommy truck!

Ryan this morning watching the road work outside our house. He loved watching the one guy work as others looked on. You know we have all seen that before. Ryan pointed and kept saying.." truck , road, truck, truck "...it went on and on. I just sat there and took it all in and answered him every time "yes Ryan I see the truck ".

It may be green eyes..who knows?

On Sunday we just got done watching conference and Mike was having fun with Maya and the camera. Our poor semi-tongue tied baby. I do have to say she loves the Bumbo. She likes to see everything going on. Between the dogs and Ryan there is always something to watch. I just cannot believe she is going to be 3 months old in 11 days.

If only...

Well its been awhile and people are asking for more pictures of the kids. I haven't been slacking I promise but trying to use all the time I have during the day to be with Maya and Ryan. I am going back to work on Thursday. I have a great, wonderful sitter Jaci and I am not worried at all to leave them in her care. But as a working mom I have found out it's sure hard to go back. I am thankful don't get me wrong about having a job to go back to. I guess our bank is the only one that has money now a days to buy other banks. But being off work since June 25th, its sure going to be an adjustment.

I took this picture of Maya a few weeks ago when I had to help Mike with some of his invoice work. As I emailed the picture of her to my aunt and sisters explaining if only I worked from home this is what it would look like. They laughed at her just sitting there taking it all in to the new experience of her BUMBO. My aunt said to put a headset on her and put her to work and probably thought Ryan was in the back room filing. HA! I can imagine this being the same situation with my friend Robyn. I can imagine Andon sitting oh so patiently looking at his beautiful mommy working away on the computer and Sierra filing in the back room.

So I promise I will get some more pictures of Maya and Ryan soon. I know there are Grandmas in other states wanting to see their gorgeous grandchildren and great grandchildren.