Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone

Hello to all.
In honor of Thanksgiving 2008, here are 2008 reasons for me to be thankful:

1. Life
2. Family
3. Friends
4. Just kidding, I won't go on.

I figured this was an easier way to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving. We all have very different reasons for being thankful for this year. I have many things to be thankful for, a few of them being my family, first and foremost. I wouldn't trade them for anything. I am also thankful for friendships being re-kindled.

I will be trying to send Xmas cards out, so if you are one of my newly found friends, I need addresses.

So again, HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

Love to all
Darci and Family

A look Back at 2008

So, I was kind of told that I am not a very good blogger. I blog about some mundane things, and then forget about the more important events in my life and the lives of those around me. So, I know it is kind of early, but I thought I would take the time to do a little review of the year and send 'Kudos' out to those events I didn't do at the time.

March 2008- Diego IV's 15th birthday. We took Diego and some of his friends out to eat, Goodwood (where else) and then we dropped them off at the movie theatres and let them loose at the movies.

June 2008- Antonio's 10th Birthday. Pretty low key, well, as low key as 4 or 5 9 and 10 year olds running around your house can be. We had some of Antonio's friends over to the house for a little fun time.

July 2008- Trip to St. Louis. We had a great time visiting family and friends, going to baseball games at the new stadium. We were there for two weeks.

November 2008- Diego III's 38th birthday. Diego and I went out to dinner by ourselves on Saturday and then on Sunday his mom cooked dinner so we spent the evening over there. I love her cooking.

December 2008 - Miguel's 12th birthday. This is going to be a big birthday for Miguel. He will be ordained a deacon and be a bonified 'young man'.

I love my family and I am proud of the men that my boys are becoming. I get comments from friends and people in general about how good my boys are. Yes, they can get on my nerves and each others nerves, but that is what kids/brothers do. I never have to worry when my boys are out in public or at others' homes about how they are behaving.

I love you all and I will try to be better at blogging. I really need to take more pictures and post them.

Love to all
Darci

My top EIGHT:

What are your favorite TV shows? (In no particular order)
1. The Office
2. Life on Mars
3. LOST
4. 30 Rock
5. Seinfeld
6. Army Wives
7. Ghost Whisperer
8. The Unit

What are your favorite restaurants?
1. Goodwood
2. Tucanos
3. Red Robin
4. Cafe Rio
5. Panda Express
6. Los Hermanos
7. Fuddruckers
8.

What are 8 things that happened yesterday?
1. Went to the dentist and had a tooth pulled
2. Changed the filters in my water purifier
3. Went to Target for 'soft foods'
4. Finished Jodi Picoult's 'Change of Heart'
5. Started Jodi Picoult's 'Mercy'
6. Taught 3 piano lessons
7. Went to my sons Parent/Teacher conference
8. It snowed

What are 8 things you are looking forward to?
1. Thanksgiving
2. Christmas
3. Going to Disneyland in April
4. Seeing my son get ordained a Deacon in December
5. The rest of my life with my husband and kids
6. Losing about alot of pounds : )
7. My oldest son making the Honor Roll this semester
8. Checking my blog tomorrow to see if anyone has left a comment

What are 8 things you love about fall?
1. Thanksgiving
2. Seeing the trees change colors
3. Christmas is coming soon
4. That the year is almost over and I get to try my resolutions again(I usually fail)
5. The small break between sports
6. Cuddling with my kids and/or my husband
7. Drinking hot chocolate with marshmallows
8. Halloween

If you are one of my awesome family members, I tag you!

Happy Halloween!!

Okay, so am I a totally bad mother for not having pics of my kids in their costumes???? We kind of went back and forth on a couple of different ideas for Miguel and Antonio.

At first, Miguel wanted to be Captain Underpants. Captain Underpants is evidently the principal of a school and in his spare time doubles as Captain Underpants. (You can google him for more info). He has a red cape and his 'outfit' is his whitey-tighty's, and he is bald. So, Miguel keeps his hair fairly short anyway, so he asked Diego if he could shave his head in preparation for this costume. So we did, but not totally bald, just a really short buzz cut. Then, we were trying to decide how we would do the costume since we didn't have any flesh colored sweats or anything, and we weren't sure how the school would feel about it. ( I really didn't care what the school thought, I am not happy with their festivities anyway this year). In the end, he and Diego decided that it would probably be better to go with a different costume, and being Thursday night, Miguel decided on Albert Pujols.

Antonio, on the other hand, had not come up with any ideas. Do in visiting with my brother Scott and Helen the Saturday before halloween, the topic of politics came up. The idea was thrown out for Antonio to be Barrack Obama for halloween. We all started laughing becuase he could totally pull it off. His skin tone is the same, his face is more oval and thin. The only thing we couldn't figure out was how to make people realize that is who he was. I was trying to come up with different slogans or something that I could make into a sticker or pin, but I couldn't come up with anything concrete. So, Thursday night came, and when I got home from work he had decided to be Batman, which we already had the costume for from Miguel the previous year.

They had a great time on Friday. As mentioned before, the festivities at the school were not anywhere near the usually holiday activities, other than a parade. So Diego picked them up early and took them to his office for Trick-or-Treating. They came home with so much candy. Then that night, we went over to some friends house and all of the kids went out again, while the adults stayed in.

All in all, a great evening. I think there might be pictures coming from someone that Diego works with, she takes pictures of all the kids, so if she did this year, when I get them I will post.

Love to all
Darci

And the winner is...

Kellie was right, it is a Liger, and it does have serious skills. So, Antonio has to write a 300 word report on an animal of his choice and he chose a Liger. They have to include a hand-drawn picture of the animal, (Miguel suggested he use the picture of the Liger from Napolean Dynamite:-)), ya know the one he draws for the weird girl???? Anyway, I just wanted to see if his drawing really showed any kind of difference in the face and the body.


Love to all
Darci

It's a bird, It's a plane, It's a ......................

This is a drawing that Antonio, my 10 yr. old did for a school project. Can you guess what the animal is?





Can't wait to hear what you think. He got help with the outlining from Miguel.

Love to all
Darci

Homemaker, Suzy Homemaker

So I made my first Pineapple Upside Down cake yesterday. Here is how it came out. Looks pretty good, not sure how it tastes yet.