ahh, Mia. what more can you say.

sweet little Mia, boy does this little one sure love her hats, sunglasses, and other random accessories! never a dull day

Another Angulo Project....

For those of you who have been over, you know that our backyard is essentially a giant hill- nary a flat space to park a kiddie pool or slide. We have long been wanting to flatten it out...THEN...Rod got a chance to borrow some fun 'toys' from work. Needless to say, after a few weekends, we have a large flat area....and LOTS of dirt. Now for the hard part...getting grass back in the space! It will be fun, we now have a place for little soccer games, volleyball, and general running around. Someday we hope to find a playset....maybe make a firepit...well, you know us...there is always something in the works! COME ON up to PLAY!

Picnic at the BEACH!

We went to the Alum Creek beach- only about 15 mins away....not a bad place to play in the sand, have a picnic , and run around... not too sure about the water. Mia and her friend Josie had a lot of fun playing in the sand- Diego crawled around on the grass, attempted to eat many things that were promptly wrestled out of his hands, and a few rides on the swings.... All in all, a fun afternoonn that we would like to repeat again this year...

Dudie, Dudie, Dooo...

At the "beach"- too cold for the water but great for a picnic dinner w/ friends

First popsicle....YUMMY and Messy! great combo if you're a kid!

Well, at least I should be happy they have finally found a project they can work together on...they were a model in efficiency - well, at least in the unloading part!!


Contemplating bubbles in the backyard....

the classic- face pressed into the glass- courtesy of ROd's cell phone!

Our beautiful baby bug! Diego has been having a tough time the last few days- his 'birthday' present was getting tubes in his ears and now the poor guy has yet another ear infection...we are now looking for the proverbial plastic bubble in which he can live for a while- he needs a break from all the sniffles! hopefully the warmer weather will bring it our way...

ONE! one! ONE! one! ONE WHOLE YEAR....

hey brother- are you coming out any time soon??? this was taken about ONE week before Diego arrived....and Mama was more than READY!

Wow....this time last year....


HORRAY! where does time go, so much fun to have such a wonderful little boy in our lives! We feel so blessed for such a sweet little son, sweet little brother- sweet baby boy!

Happy Birthday MY BABY BOY!

espanol....


so, DIego wasn't exactly timid...but he wasn't a crazy cake smasher either...though, we did 'cut him off' after several handfuls

please note the 'assistant' finger entering the picture....apparently Mia was applying for the role of official cake tester...

so fun to celebrate with family- this was a serious birthday cupcake meant to share! Glad you could come Cousin Carson!

Okay, so its not quite baby Diego's birthday...but we were so excited to have the family together to celebrate our little Dude...

Easter Celebrations

Some pretty important "dudes" in my life!

Searching, searching...

all ready to go to the Easter Celebration! He is RIsen!

Hat...

My sweet, sweet babies

Making a bird house...

LOOKING BACK...Bird house 2008...if we had another picture- you'd see me with a giant DIego belly...we made this bird house about 1 week before we welcomed the newest angulo...



We made our annual spring bird house- but, ironically, we failed to get a picture of the Dude making is first footprint decoration on the bird house- oops! probably because it was a two person job and we don't quite trust Mia with the camera...yet!

Party balloons

We were getting ready for a birthday party! We were celebrating birthdays for all the Spring CHICKS...well, and the one little Rooster!

Growing "duck hair" and Duckie's first haircut...

Mia and I had fun planting seeds, watering, and watching the Duckie Hair grow! After about 10 days Duckie was ready for her first hair cut! SNip SNiP!

Learning new tricks & just being cute!

just being a cutie


Mia is learning to RIDE A BIKE! what a big girl...

Look at that concentration....

Angulo "art"

Mia cooked something special for Diego...I think it was 'potato salad'

a fun cuddle with Pappaw...

getting ready for a bike ride with Mammaw....

Hola Tio Javi!

We had a short- but great- visit with Rod's brother , Javier. The kids really enjoyed meeting him again (Diego for the first time) Too bad we didn't get a better picture of the new buddies- but I guess this will do! Hopefully next time the whole family will get a chance to come so we can hang out with Tia Mirna and Cousin Luca!