First Day of School 2018

The kids started school at the end of August.  They are all attending Swigert again this year.  It is a good school and only a 1/2 mile away from home.

Diego- 3rd Grade

Ms. Snyder and Mr. 

Ruby- Kindergarten

Ms. Marijke and Mr. Jim

Eli- 5th Grade

Ms. Whitfild and Ms. Mills

Black Canyon of the Gunnison

We took a family vacation this summer to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison.  It's a state park in South West Colorado.  We camped a couple of nights and also got to stay in a hotel.  It's nice to be in nature.  We had car troubles (or so we thought), so that is why we stayed in a hotel right by the car shop.  We thought it was something majorly wrong with the car, but it turns out the oil cap was just missing (or something like that).

a cool park that we stopped at on our drive

The canyon is very deep and narrow.  The river was very loud; I love the sound of water.

Diego working on his Jr. Ranger activities.  We saw a little bear right before this picture was taken.  It was a black bear cub.  We wanted to see a bear in Yellowstone a couple of years ago, but never did so we were happy to see one here.

eating at our campsite.  There was no running water; not my favorite kind of site, but we made it work.

eating at the hotel.  We used the grill they had there and ate our camp food that I had prepared at home.  We went swimming and had a good time.

Cousins and Cousins Camp

My parents hosted Cousins Camp again this summer!  My kids look forward to it every year and so do I!  Cesar and I get a night and day without kids!  I'm grateful for my parents and all their hard work.  This year the theme was Strength in Numbers.  Saturday they went to Devil's Head for a hike.

My kids have been working with Ivaras and Greta for a while now on SpiderDudes- a series of short films.  They make scripts and then record it.  They also created Cervantes Daugele Studios and took these pictures for the website. 

Babysitting

I have been babysitting a lot lately and enjoy getting to know new neighbors and kids.  My kids like it too.  Here are a few pictures:

Cameron and Colton

Cameron and I went to school to eat lunch with Ruby

Tallen

Ruby and Cameron at storytime

Ruby and Perrin playing in her room

Snack time

Jillian, Perrin, and Cameron

Morrison

and Eli and Diego with "little sisters" at the library

Ruby's gymnastics and some summer pictures

Ruby took a gymnastics class at the Rec Center and really enjoyed it.  She loved wearing her leotard each week.

Ruby enjoying life at the City Park Summer Welcome

One night while the boys were at Twilight Scout camp Ruby and I went to the pool and had a nice time together.  We picked up Sonic for dinner and enjoyed swimming.

Ruby playing with Cesar's camera on his phone

Ruby's First Lost Tooth

Ruby lost her first tooth June 24, 2018.  She is only 5 and hasn't even started Kindergarten yet!  Diego was almost 6 when he lost his first tooth and Eli was 7!  The tooth fairy gave her $1.

Diego is 8!

Our little Diego turned 8 in March!

He was baptized and confirmed a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by Cesar.  He is such a special little boy and we love him!