An engagement and a birthday

We had a great weekend. Ashley and James came to visit and got engaged. We are really excited for them. We have gotten to know James and he is a great guy. It was fun to have all of our kids home for the weekend, we were able to take some great pictures. Today was Brent's birthday. We celebrated by going out to dinner last night at Texas Roadhouse, where Brittany works. They made him sit on a saddle and gave him ice cream with a Texas style "yee-haw"! We had to force him to sit on it.

Happy Birthday Brittany!!!!!

Brittany was born at 4:30 PM on March 9 , 1989. She weighed 9 lbs. 3 oz and was 21 1/2 inches long. We can't believe she is 20. Brittany has always had a funny sense of humor, she makes us laugh. She loves her family and loves being with us. We love her and are thankful that she is our daughter. We wish her a wonderful 20th birthday.

Update

On the 11th of February Conner went on a field trip to the post office. We got to see how they work and sort the letters and load the mail trucks. It was fun to see our mail carrier and she showed us where she puts our mail when she sorts it. She left Conner a note in our mail box, she told him how nice it was to meet him. He loved getting the note.

On February 18th Parker had a Court of Honor and he earned his Star Scout advancement as well as receiving four merit badges. It looks like he is well on his way to Eagle scout. On Saturday he had a "board breaking" seminar at Taekwondo. He was able to break three boards at once with his heel.

Taekwondo

Last Saturday Parker tested for the purple belt in Taekwondo and he past. Yesterday he had the graduation. He is so excited to be a purple belt. It gets harder as he advances in Taekwondo but he is doing good and practicing hard. We are proud of him.

Florida's Tree City

Our little town of Windermere was named "Florida's Tree City". The town of Windermere had a ceremony today. Conner's class went to the ceremony and sang songs. It was very cold this morning when we woke up, 39 degrees. It was about 46 degrees when we got to the ceremony. Everyone was complaining, just a couple of days ago it was almost 80 degrees so it is hard to adjust when the temperature changes so drastically. In the video Conner is standing behind the boy with the yellow jacket and in front of his teacher in the light blue sweater.

Having a snack

Planting a tree

Three Kings Day (Dia de los Reyes)

Today we celebrated Three Kings Day. The night before, January 5th we collect grass in a bowl and we put water in another bowl for the camels to eat and drink. We place them by the front door and during the night the wisemen or kings come and leave a little gift for the kids. Some families have a big celebration on this day but growing up in Puerto Rico my family's big celebration was at Christmas and on Three Kings Day we would always get something small.

Lego Love

Yesterday I took Parker to the Lego Store at Downtown Disney. I normally don't take pictures of stores but they had some really cool sculptures of legos and bionicles. Parker loves legos, so we went to get him a small gift for "Three Kings Day" which is coming up next week. Conner is following in Parker's footsteps, he also loves legos but he could not go with us because he believes in the Three Kings, like Santa Claus. We are looking forward to visiting Lego Land this year.