Mother's Day

Okay, big apologies from my side! I know that I put up that post to see who was still watching and then promptly went on to ignore the blog.

*blush*

All I can say, is well, I'm sorry. :) My life has been a hectic one lately with trying to find a full time job while working my "part-time job" (28-30hrs), applying to school, brushing up on math and english for the placement tests at school, taking care of Kiera all day....who by the way, thinks naps are for the birds....looking for a place for Kiera and I to live in two months and trying to figure out the whole single mom grant stuff, I have just plain been busy. But I have been working on a schedule that works for me without going crazy and the blog is on the list.

*big breath in*

Okay, so here is a cute little video of Kiera from Mother's Day. Her little class got up and did a song for all the mothers - "this little light of mine". It is a bit hard to see because absentminded-me forgot the real camera so this was shot with my DROID. But it was the best and cutiest thing in the world! My daughter of course ended up being the ham and center-of-attention. I honestly don't know where she got that from....*quiet mom*.

So without further ado...the main attraction!

October Festival

Easter

It was an absolutely gorgeous day on Easter. We spent it over a delicious brunch, time with the beautiful cherry trees and finished up with a walk around the Shirlington area. Here are just a few pictures of our day and a video of Kiera...doing what? Well, nothing other than just being her cute self!

Enjoy!

Rock on Kiera!

Our three foot wonder

Here is a picture of our little Christmas tree...and this is it. It looks like it may just be the top BUT that is it in all its glory!!! But I'll tell you what - it definately makes our apartment feel VERY Christmasy - I LOVE CHRISTMAS!

Christmas Pictures

Okay, so I definitely took my time getting some pictures up! Here are some from our visit down to the sunny country of El Salvador. Where ALL the siblings of Paul got to meet up and have some massive fun....and we got to play with the new additions to our family - Tori & Reagan ! :) I LOVE THE BABIES! Enjoy! (p.s. these are totally random pictures throughout our vacation – sorry!)

Thanksgiving

We went over the mountains to have Thanksgiving with the Garcias and what would you know - Cristy and I were wearing the SAME shirt! HA! Cristy and I made our very first thanksgiving meal without any help and I have to say it came out pretty well. We spent our other waking hours playing with Tory, playing games and downloading songs onto Cristy's new I-Pod which you can see was NOT an easy task!

Easter

Easter is here again! This year we got to spend it with Mom, Chrissy, and the Simpson family - Jon, Kelly, Elizabeth & Jonathan. Paul and I got to do a little flash back and color eggs! It was fun and we all made some pretty (or for the guys - manly) eggs. Then after the eggs were nice and dried, the adults got to hide the eggs from the kids - Elizabeth & Jonathan. I am not sure who had more fun - the adults trying to figure out where to hide the eggs or the kids trying to outwit the adults. Either way - we all had a lot of fun!

Christmas 2005 - Herron's

Here is our Christmas time with my parents in Virginia. My parent's home was decorated beautifully, of course, thanks to my mom. We had a lot of fun. The boys watched motorcycle racing, Battlestar Galactica, Serenity and a ton of animation videos and the girls scrapped and made tons of cards. We also opened of ton of great gifts - my favorite was my new KitchenAid mixer!!!!!! I have been wantin' one of them bad boys for a while. Then my mother had to go back to work the following week so we just hung out with the father figure and went to colonial Williamsberg. Too much fun with the fam!