Work Christmas Bowling Bash

This Is My Departments Ward Christmas Party. Tuesday is 5.00 to get in and 1.00 a game 1.00 shoe rental 1.00 hot dogs etc. They have Karoke and pool tables. It was a whole lot of fun! I took Amulek, Angelique and Araceli. Amalekia and Amerika were working. This the second time we the family had been here. These are college students from North Harris that wk in our Department on there off hours. We all had a blast!

Zoo

The day after thanksgiving we get a free day at the Zoo. It has become a family tradition. So here we are with the animals.

Let is Snow! Let it Snow!

Wednesday Dec 10 the snow came pouring down! Everyone called everyone on there cells and I had to quickly go to Wal-Mart and buy gloves for all the kids. It came out of nowhere and the next day was sunny and in the 60s. Man, this is crazy Texas weather. The kids had YM/YW combined and went ice skating outside the Woodlands Mall. Crazy LDS Youth hum!

Moving on Up! (Jeffersons Theme)

Some of you know I was applying for two jobs. One was the Border Patrol in which I had already passed the test and was onto the physical fitness test. Technically I was hired for Border Patrol pending the rest of the requirements. I was doing my sit-up and push-ups... This job was $45 a year without a degree. I was really excited about the dollar amounts and being able to provide that to my kids. Of course kids did not want to move!

The other position that I was going for was North Harris.I got hired for Lone Star-North Harris and my first day was Monday the 17th of November. I am so excited! That was the best birthday present ever! Monday first day of work and Tues my birthday! My title is Department Assistant with the Retention and Recruiting Dept. I really love this Department. I use to get money per semester for working with them in recruiting and when the mess with Adolfo happened I had to stop. Then even when I wasn't going to school I would stop in and volunteer to wk for free by speaking at a school or set up a presentation table at a High School etc. In the back of my mind I always hoped to work here and wanted to get to know and volunteer to increase my chances of being hired hired. Well, my wishes came true when I popped in to say Hi one day to say hi! and they said they had a opening and encouraged me to apply. and WaLa! I get paid double what I get paid with SISD and to top it off I am just about seven minutes away from work! Neat hum!
Click on this link to see me and my co-workers at the Xmas HoDown!!

Happy Birthday to me!

Lets hop! I had a few friends over to celebrate my birthday at the Hop! The Hop is a 80s club. They allowed you to bring food and provided the place with balloons and table clothes. It was neat we had cheesecake, shrimp, tortilla rolls, grapes and cheese. We danced to michael jackson and cindi lauper! It was fun! My b-day was Tues the 18th of November.

Hurricane IKaramba!

Boy, I was smart and left for Corpus ASAP. It was adolfos weekend with kids. They texted grandma too with all the details of the storm. They texted around 3am about the strong winds and they 6 am with details of the scarey quietness. Adolfo had them for a whole week because I didn't want to return to Houston because my electricity was still off. Adolfo had his on pretty quickly. After the storm the kids were in Corpus for two days and spent most of the time his Houston. His girlfriend went with them to C.C. and then returned and stayed with adolfo and the kids in Houston all that week.

When I returned to Houston you should of seen all the trees that fell down! My oldest son Amalekia stayed alone in the house with no electricity and with other members of the church helped cut down my tree and put in the front yard. My tree fell on the fence in the backyard and broke it. I was so so grateful it didn't hit the house. Trees were down like crazy! There were some people that took longer to get there electricity on.

I felt good because as I was in Corpus u could see all the people trying to help galvestion and houston. Just awhile ago we were rallying to help them when we thought it was going to go in that direction.

The house that is in the picture is not mine! But thats is what you would see all overe town. Trees down all over the place.

17th Birthday Celebration Continued

Amalekia felt bad because we didn't even get a cake or sing to Amerika. He on his own made a cake with jam for the filling. He made the HAPPY B-DAY AMERIKA sign that he hung and bought her, with his own money ,two cards (one from him and one in behalf of the family) and also bought a basket full of candy. I bought her the latest Stephanie Meyer book: Breaking Dawn! It was on sale at Kroger for $13.50 Oh, we waited till she came home from work to celebrate. That would be at 10:30pm. We only had a little cake, so that we wouldn't gain so much around the waist. Ha! Ha!

Amerikas Bowling Birthday!

Amerikas birthday seems to always fall on good times. It is before school starts and mom feels guilty about not doing anything fun for the kids all summer. It also gives me time enough to save a little bit so ... drumroll please! We went bowling! At the bowling alley Angelique and Araceli got to Karoke and we all sat and ate pizza. The kids got to play in the arcade and then bowl(which they had never done before) It was neat!

Amalekias 18th Birthday!

His birthday was this Sunday the 6th of July. He is now officially in the Elders Quorum. Hopefully pictures will be forthcoming! Anyone seen my camera?

JOBS! JOBS! JOBS!

There are three people in this house with a new job. Amalekia was hired in the produce dept. of Kroger. Amerika was hired at Dairy Queen and I was hired at Aracelis school that is 3 min. away. I will still be working in the library and will be able to walk to and from work. I am excited since gas prices are so hi! Araceli will be in first grade so that will be neat to be right there in case she needs me. Iwould even be able to come home for lunch, eat and put something in the crockpot for when the kids get home! Neat hum! (There will be no pictures for awhile since I CAN"T FIND MY CAMERA!)

Amulek's 15th Birthday

This is Amuleks 15th birthday! We ate mole and had cake! It was fun! Oh, and today we actually got cable in which I have already put parental blocks.

Amalekias Graduation Picture

My oldest son has graduated!! I am so proud of him!! He plans on going to North Harris Community College and hopefully his mission. I never thought he would even have to think about going on a mission but I guess I never thought all these changes would be a part of my life either. He opted not to walk the stage but he did go take graduation pictures so I could at least get to brag to all my friends. I hope to be able to take the whole family to disney world in the summer to celebrate and get a brake from all our troubles for awhile. My son will try to get a job, a drivers license and catch up on medical and dental appts. He will be the first to do everything so I am sure the other kids will be watching his every move.

We moved out of our apartments and into a home! Our apartments were getting real dangerous to live in. The Lord helped us get this neat rental home. It has three bedrooms, bay windows and wonderful tall trees. We moved into a wonderful ward, we still go to the same building. Now we go at 8:30am! I have already met with the bishop to let him know I need a calling. I am ready!

Araceli hospital stay

I took Araceli to the doctor on Friday because she seemed to have the flu. The doctor wanted to do a swab test to see if she had the flu. Well, when they put a q-tip up her nose they started a nose bleed. This was around noon.They couldn't finish the test so they assumed she had a flu and prescribed medication. Tamiflu which costs me 50.00! Well, we went home and she had another nose bleed around 3pm. Then around 10:30pm Angelique was playing around and hit her in the nose with a care bear. Araceli and Angelique then fell back to sleep when the nose bleed started again. Angelique is such a heavy sleeper so it was hard to wake her up. It was funny because she finally got up and instead of waking up Amerika she went to the restroom and layed back down. I had to shake her awake again, then she woke Amerika. Amerika sat with Araceli while I called the hospital to get a confirmation that this was pertinate enough to go, then Amerika said Araceli had just coughed up some blood. That was enough to convince me! Of course, I hung up the phone, and took off. We go to the hopital and signed in, when the nurse called us in to take her blood pressure and weight, Araceli threw up blood all over her clothes and floor. They immediately put her on the stretcher and when they were inserting the IV she just calmly asked "Why are you doing that?" She was admitted and they suctioned up the blood and stopped it with a powdery substance. She had to stay over night to make sure it was not anything internal. She could only have soup and popsycle. It turns out that she was swallowing her own blood and therefore her body rejected it by throwing it up.

Gents "Thank You" Dinner and Limo Ride

We were wondering why the Bolden Family picked a Golden Corral that was 40 min. away. We got there and started eating and the food was the best! Cat fish, Bar-B-Que ribs, Steak, shrimp, salads, cakes, ice cream... It was worth the drive! Then the Limo arrived to pick us up from Golden Corral. We drove half way home and then we stopped at a game place. They had bowling, fuzz ball, pool, boxing game a virtual roller coaster, row your boat virtual game..... It was fun and then they took us home. They had music playing in the limo, a fireplace and sodas for everyone. There were about 28 people in the limo. Another night sponsored by the Bouldens! A night to remember!

Hannah Montana

I surprised the girls and took them to Wal-Mart to buy Hannah Montana shirts and told them to try them on and I would take a picture of them outside of Wal-Mart. I then recorded telling them that they were about to see the Hannah Montana Concert Movie. They were excited! It was neat because it was in 3-D. The lines were long but the wait wasn't to bad. We got in the 9:45pm showing. That is all that was left. They were girls there with t-shirts and wigs of Hannah Montana. We had a blast!

Candelight Gents 16

One of my dearest friends Mr. Boulden invited us to his sons Gents Party. Mr. Boulden is a man that volunteers at our school everyday from 8-3:15pm It has been two yrs that he has been doing that. He is like my Dad. Heck he is a Dad to the whole school. Half the kid at my school don't have a father and consider him one just like I do. Mr. Boulden is a father of 7 kids(two girls and five boys)and is a Katrina survivor. All the boys are named Michael Boulden. We were able to see evidences of Katrina and hear stories.

Angelique and Araceli were asked to stand up in it. Angelique held a candle and Araceli dropped flower pedals as she walked down the church aisle. I was even asked to speak at the church. The speakers were Mr. Boulden, me and the preacher. Even though I was at a Baptist church I was to share the story of the Anti-Nephi Lehis who buried their swords and the 2,0000 Stripling Warriors who fought for freedom.

The food was all made by Mr. Boulden himself. He made red beans and white rice, homemade potatoes, gumbo, chicken, spicy meatballs, cajun rice, ham, meat in gravy....... The list goes on and on except I don't know the names of these dishes. It was yummy!! We all had slushies that were so, so good. They had a DJ and then a famous raper. Of course I didn't even know who he was . The famous raper had two dancers with him and they danced a little that was fun to watch. He didn't allow them to do any ugly moves because this was a family event. I thought that was nice. Then to our surprise a live jazz band entered the hall. Boy was that awesome!! Everyone was dancing and having fun! We were given a cake to take home. That was also yummy!! It was about a five in a half hour drive to and five in a half back.

I was happy I went and these were the nicest people you would ever meet! Great Food and Entertainment!

MLK Parade

Amulek , was in the Martin Luther King Parade on Jan. 21,2008 It was a little cold and rainy but we all went out to support him. Amulek is the cute short one in the middle holding the red flag. They were the first group in the parade. They have won competitions and were the largest JROTC High School there. Amuleks best friend who is LDS is David( first person to the right holding a flag) We were so proud of him!! and of course screamed his name!! We had just got to the parade and they were the first up so we ran and ran to catch up and take these pictures. Amulek didn't know were coming, SURPRISE!