Heavenly Father or Santa Claus?

Isaac has been praying for quite some time now and lately he has been treating

Heavenly Father as Santa Claus.

It is funny and cute to see him praying but I have to be better on teaching him the right way to pray.

His prayer goes something like this:

Heavenly Father, thanks for this day, thanks for mommy

daddy, Belle, Hannah, Isaac and Sam.

I want to see the castle (talking about the Sleeping Beauty's castle from Disneyland)

say hi to Mickey, watch transformers, wear my Halloween costume

go to the park , in the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

I made this "pumpkin Toffee cheesecake" for our book club today and it was YUMMY!!

Go here for the recipe.

The month of August...

David and I went to the Goncalves Temple Sealing. Hope is a very good friend I have and I was so happy to be with her this day. I am also glad that Families can be Together Forever.

My friend Monica blessed her cute son this month and invited us over for her yummy empanadas from Argentina (David caught me eating some)  Jacob is the cutest baby :)

Belle on the first day of school. We always have two first days, one that they can wear anything and the first day they have to wear the school uniform.  The girls do not like to wear uniform.

I am learning to be a "boy mom", Isaac is doing great with potty training, he does not have any accidents anymore and it was by far easier to train than the girls were. This day he was yelling my name and when I came outside he pointed me the "xixi" on the tree and said: Look mom!!! That was me!!! I guess it is true that boys can pee anywhere :(

Spiderman went to one of his friends birthday. He had a lot of fun!

More yummy recipes from my favorite girls and having friends over to eat with us as always...

Sam is in love with Mickey and it is the only hour of the day that he sits quiet :)

I had some of the young women over for some cooking. I love these cute girls!

Saying goodbye to my friend Leah and her boys. Since Kris died, Leah is moving back to San Diego to be closer to family. I am going to miss her.

Our family hiked "Diamond Head" today. The hike is really easy and the views are GORGEOUS!!!

Hannah teaching us at FHE how to sing one of her Primary songs in sign language and some of the girls of our monthly Book Club.

Back in Hawaii and last weeks of July

Since I have been taking so long to update the blog

I decided to do this big posts with all what happened each month after getting home.

I was really happy to see David again, everything is back to normal now

and the only sad thing was the time it took me to get things in a routine again.

I took more than 2 weeks to clean the house, organize and put things away

and get used to "real" life...finally I am glad I did it.

I got to go to the Book Club. It was one of my favorite books by Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice", nice talk and yummy food. I made this dessert from my favorite girls, Our best bites girls :)

 I also decided to challenge myself and do like "Julie and Julia" with the Our Best Bites books. It will take me a long time but I am going to make every single recipe from their book.

The other picture is David and I going to a really fancy dinner with the JRC Society. JRC  is the LDS attorneys society. I met some really nice people, ate yummy food and listened to the top LDS Church attorney. He was very nice and we had a great night.

We got to go to the Vercelles Temple Sealing. It always touches my heart to see a family get sealed. Sherryl's family was even more especial, I know her since she was learning the gospel with the missionaries and she is my Visiting Teaching companion too.

Hannah having fun with the Iphone app that has the hymns with sing along captions. We love it because we do not have to "find" our Hymns books anymore...you just put in your TV and voila!
 

We had plenty of park days, the girls enjoyed their school summer break. Here is Belle entertaining the kids from the neighborhood as always and Sam showing you that he doesn't like my TV shows :)

Hannah helping me to bake these cute cupcakes from the book, they turned out pretty good huh? I think Sam loved it!!

More "park days"

Sam showing you how you can get what you want!

We went camping with some of our Ward's members. You probably know how I feel about camping...lets just say that it is ONCE at year event. It was fun having our friends around but I still didn't change my feelings about camping :) but I would love to "camp" around the pool in a hotel anytime :)

I also surprised David with a cake for his birthday. He had fun celebrating with his friends and getting me to go camping with him as one of his presents! The cake was a Transformers cake, off course :)