Pudding face

The other day when we got home from work and school Lauren asked for a pudding snack. I knew she really liked pudding but her face said she LOVES pudding...LOL she had it all over her face and thought it was funny and asked me to take her picture so I did. Isn't she the cutest pudding face girl you've ever seen.

Friday night Pizza night

Every other week when Eddie comes home we like to have a make your own pizza night on Friday. We buy all the toppings we each want and then I buy already made dough balls from our local Italian restaurant for dirt cheap. The kids each get their own 10' pizza and Ed and I share the 16' pizza we all have pizza the way we want it with spending time with each other and having fun for less money than ordering pizza not to mention we all get to fix it just the way we want. The kids love rolling out their dough and putting all their toppings on all by them selves. We love Friday night pizza at our house.

Its Been too long!!!!

So its been too long since I last posted anything, please forgive me life has been crazy for the Herrera Family. Eddie started working EMS with the same company and he works nights some weeks and days other weeks, he is really enjoying it. We still miss him like crazy when he isn't home but we know God has something good in store for our family this year and we are all so excited to see what it is, so please believe with us until it comes to pass. I have started a new adventure in my life selling Pampered Chef, I am loving the time I get away to be alone and the fact that its helping us make a little extra money not to mention I love the product. If your interested in hosting or party or just buying products please let me know. Ethan is doing really well in school he is one of the top kids in his class and has made a 4.0 GPA throughout the whole year he is really smart and does really well in school, we couldn't be more prouder of him, now if can only get him to stop talking so much in class...LOL. He has gotten so tall and has started playing soccer this year and is really good at it and he is loving it.

These are some pics from his first game, his team won 4-0 they all played really well as a team. Lauren is doing well and getting bigger every day. She is talking a lot and is now potty trained. She loves to explore and try and say new things she makes us laugh a lot. We love to sit back and just watch her doing new things. She is doing really well at school/daycare and has learned so much, she can sing her ABC's count to almost 10 with skipping a few numbers and sings lots of songs, the Happy Birthday song his her favorite she sings it all the time in fact she loves to sing has has a really cute voice maybe will have a famous singer in our family. She is very girlie and loves to play with her new kitchen, babies, purses and talk on her play phones. She has become a daddies girl and really misses him when he is away at work. Both of them are the best part of us, God has truly blessed us with beautiful smart kids. I look forward to watching them grow, and pray that God will bless them and use them for the good of his kingdom.

As a family we are active in our church, I am a leader of a ministries called Touch Team, we are a group of people who go out into our community and love on the people with free gifts such as cold water on a hot day, snow balls to kids at the local park and taking food to peoples homes. For the past year God has laid it on my heart to reach out to an apartment complex that has very low income families living it, in fact every time I drive by it I wonder how it is for those parents to have to live there with their children but then I watch the kids running and playing without a care in the world and it make me stop and think how awesome God is for helping those kids only see what they need to see to be happy and then it makes me grateful for all I have in my life. Any ways God has finally made it all come together and on April 4th we will be spending most of the day at this apartment complex feeding the families, playing games with the kids giving them snow cones and having moon bounce balloons for them to play on. I'm so excited to hang out with all of them and just love on them. God is so good and although it was hard waiting for a year to be able to reach out to them I know God's timing is always best.

We love and miss all of you and hope you can come and visit soon.

Lauren and Emily's 2nd birthday party

Lauren and Emily are best friends and decided this year it would be fun to have their birthday parties together. The girls had their party at a place called The Little Gym, they had a blast and so did all their friends. Here are some pics from their party. Oh yeah the cute Dora cakes were made by Lisa, she did such a good job and they tasted so good, she is such a sweet heart for all her hard work on them.

Christmas 2008

Christmas was so perfect this year since Eddie was home with us to celebrate, its been three years since we've been able to spend Christmas together. The kids such a great job waiting till 4:30pm when Eddie got home to open their presents, yes we made them wait. Ethan got a scooter and and some soccer gear and found out he gets to play soccer this year. Lauren had a blast opening her gifts, I think she liked unwrapping more then the gift inside. She really loved her Dora phone and book that Auntie Lisa and the family gave her. Here are some pictures.

We had a SNOW Day!!!!!

On thursday morning we woke up to a Blessing from God, it SNOWED in South Louisiana and it was so much fun. Have been to the snow, played in snow but have never seen it snow like I did yesterday. This was a new experiance for both me and my kids and we all loved it and enjoyed every minute of it and made a lifetime of memories of our fun filled snow day. Lauren on the other hand much rather have loved it from the window inside the warm house...LOL Enjoy our pictures. Thank you God for letting us have such a fun filled snow day.

A visit with the Montoya Family

For the week of Thanksgiving we had the honor of having my sister Lisa and my brother in-law Robert and their three boys Eric, Alec and Evan come and visit us. We all had so much fun together and everyone got along really well. My sister and I made our first thanksgiving dinner alone together, as in alone I mean without my grandma and mom and aunts doing all the cooking. We found this new recipe for the turkey and tried it out and can I say it was the best turkey ever. We also made an apple and pumpkin pie and those came out great. All the food was so good. We all had a good meal and a great time, it makes me long to have her closer to me. I miss my sister and my family but on the other hand we have met some wonderful people here who have become our family and I would be sad to have to leave them and the place we now call home. Louisiana may be a backwoods state but I love it here. Here are a few pics.