Nerf gun

One of the new toys that Josh got for Christmas and by the looks of it I think I should have bought Eric one too. It's pretty awesome but not if your the target like I was today. The boys thought it would be fun to gang up on mom...

Happy Birthday Jesus!

Elijah loves singing Happy Birthday to Jesus so I thought it would be cute to get him on video. And of course his brother thought it would be funny to be dancing in the background. Oh and at the end of the video he was blowing out the imaginary candle. lol

Feliz Navidad

I hope that everyone had a great Christmas. I know we did! Here are just a few pictures of us opening our gifts.




Eric opening his gift from my mom... It was a very nice sweater:)

Me and the boys

Josh and his new Bakugan's. They are pretty cool toys.

My favorite gift! I love this phone:) Thank you boys!

I'm definitely not going to like picking up all the darts.

Elijah on his new bike.

Josh loved his new shaving set. He shaves like every day... He might like it now but I'm sure when he gets older he's going to hate it!

We saw Santa:)

We are on our way to see Santa...


Elijah was too busy drinking his coffee. That's what he calls hot cocoa. lol

And of course Josh was super excited.

They both took their lists to Santa so he wouldn't forget about them. I thought Elijah's face was kinda funny.

He's Home!

The boys were waiting for their dad. They made signs for him at the house before we left to the airport.





As most of you know we were at the airport last night to welcome home Michael. It was so sweet seeing their family together again.

Andrew did not want to let go of his dad:)

Music

My multi -talented husband not only plays the drums but also plays a little guitar and I thought it was cute to see Elijah playing along with him. I hope that one day both of my boys will play like their daddy:)

One year older

Today Eric turned 28... Wow he's almost thirty!!! Sorry if that sounds bad but I just can't believe it. As most of you know we got Eric a new phone for his birthday. It's pretty awesome and so worth the money we spent. I on the other hand would have rather had a new hand bag... But that's just me:) Anyway Happy 28Th Birthday Babe!

My sweets!

Tagged

Ok So, I was tagged by my beautiful friend Hannah... Ladies you know how this works.



1. 1. Egg Nog or Hot Chocolate? Hot Chocolate

2. Does Santa wrap presents or just sit them under the tree? Wrap

3. Colored light on house/tree or white? lights on the tree are white and we usually just use red or white lights outside

4. Do you hang mistletoe? nah but I thought about it

5. When do you put your decorations up? first week in December

6. What is your favorite holiday dish (excluding dessert)? Home made tamales for sure!

7. Favorite holiday memory as a child? Just being with my family... I miss them at this time:(

8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa? I think I was in like 4Th grade

9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve? nope we open them Christmas morning

10. How do you decorate your Christmas tree? I've got two colors I use and that is red and gold

11. Snow. Love it or dread it? LOVE it!!

12. Can you ice skate? I just did for the first time and fell hard on my booty. It was hilarious!

13. Do you remember your favorite gift? Oh yeah, I was five years old and I got a red corvette power wheel... I'll never forget that day!

14. What is the most important thing about the holidays for you? Our Savior's birth!!!!

15. What is your favorite holiday dessert? All the pies:)

16. What is your favorite holiday tradition? Making the cookies and reading the "Christmas" story to the kids I love to talk to them about why we really celebrate Christmas

17. What tops your Christmas tree? An angel

18. Which do you prefer giving or receiving? GIVING most definitely

19. What is your favorite Christmas song?


20. Candy Canes. Yum or Yuck? Yummy... I love the blue ones even though they turn my mouth all blue

21. What do you want for Christmas? A new camera

22. Do you attend an annual Christmas party? Our Sunday school's Christmas party

23. Do you dress up for Christmas Eve or wear PJ’s? Well we go to church so we are dressed up

24. Do you own a Santa hat? I do and on one side it says Naughty and the other side it says Nice.

25. Who do you normally spend Christmas with? My little family... The Flores Family!



Now, I get to tag five others.
1)Annie
2)Casey
3)Bekah
4)Pam
5)Mandi

Christmas Tree:)

So since everyone put pictures up of their Christmas tree I thought I would too! Well here's the thing with finding the perfect tree.... Eric and I always disagree with what tree to get because he always wants a big one and I would just like one that I can reach without having to get on a ladder to decorate it. As you can see I lost again this year. Don't get me wrong, I love our tree and I am very thankful for it.

AND........I would like to say that I am very proud of Joshua. He had his seekers Christmas party on Monday and they did a gift exchange and Josh thought it would be very nice if he brought the gift that he got to his little brother instead. I told him that was very sweet of him and that maybe Santa would see that he has been a good boy this year!

BOYS

Nothing BIG just some pics of my sweet lover boys:)

First sleep over

Well today is the first time that Josh will be sleeping over at a friends house. Usually we have them spend the night at our house but I finally gave in. This is really hard for me so I am pretty nervous and excited at the same time for him. I know most of you are thinking that I must be crazy for not letting him spend the night before but you see when I was little I had a few issues with sleep overs. My good friend lived right next door and when I would sleep over at her house I always cried for my mom. My mom would have to come and get me like at 3 in the morning so after a few times of that my mom just wouldn't let me go anymore until I was way older. I guess I just really missed my family. So that is why I have been holding off on this subject with Joshua. Hopefully he has a great time and won't call me at 3in the morning crying that he wants to come home. BUT... if he does then I'll be very understanding because I've been there:)

Home sweet home...

Well after a looong trip to Houston and back we are now home. We had a wonderful time with family. We took the kids ice skating on Saturday and I managed to take a few pics of them. It was fun and really not that hard. If you roller blade then you'll find it pretty easy. I did fall though and boy did it hurt. My bottom was sore the next day:( We had an early Thanksgiving since everyone had to work this week and it was yummy. We got to eat our favorite food. TAMALES!!!! Yes, that's right and they are sooo good because they are home made:) Well I hope that everyone has a safe and Happy Thanksgiving!






There were different booths at the festival that we went to. They were all about different cultures and they even let me try on this kimono.
Here I am ice skating

Joshua learning to ice skate

Brrrr it's cold outside!

It's 6:07 and I have now been home for a total of 20 minutes. Josh had is tournament today and his first game started at 11 so we were told by the coach that we should be there by 10:30. So we did as we were told and waited and waited and waited. It turned out that the schedule was running behind and we ended up not playing our first game till 2:00. It was freezing cold outside and we had already waited for 3 and a half hours. After the first game if you lost you had to play again that same day so since we didn't win we had to play at 4:30. Mind you I'm still at the field and it is still sooo stinkin' cold outside. So between the break we went to McDonald's ate dinner and went back to the field for our last and final game of the season. It was a crazy and cold day. I'm just glad to be home and now I can relax in my warm bed and call it a night.

Trying to keep eachother warm

Happy Veterans Day!

Veterans do not take life for granted. They know that duty and sacrifice are more than words. And they love America deeply, because they know the cost of freedom, and they know the names and faces of men and women who paid for it.




Well in honor of all our soldiers I just wanted to post something special for them. I went to Joshua's program Friday...it was for all our veterans and it made me so proud to be an American.

I just wanted to say Thank you to all of our soldiers who served or are currently serving in the American Armed Forces

To my husband:

We love you and want you to know that you are our Hero! HAPPY VETERANS DAY:)

Eric and Josh (Sheppard Air Force Base)

410 Expeditionary operation

Support Squadron, Operation Iraqi Freedom

Tuesday....

It's that time again... We picked our costumes out and of course they were some sort of action hero. At first I thought gee lets be something a little different but no the boys just wouldn't budge. So here we have Indy and Batman. I'm sure we will see a ton of these this Halloween!

And below are the pumpkins we painted. Every year the boys carve them but this year we thought we would just keep it simple. Besides mom and dad are the ones who always get their hands dirty...

Joshua's Pumpkin

Elijah's Pumpkin (Of course I helped a little bit)

Wow....

That's right today Eric and I celebrate our 8yr Anniversary! It doesn't even seem like that many years have gone by. I'm so blessed to have him in my life and thank the Lord everyday that he allowed us to cross paths.




Forever and a day I will always love you babe!

Boomer what????

So here's a picture after our win over Oklahoma! I'm sure you all watched it. All I have to say is HOOK'EM Baby!!!!




Future Texas football players!

Soccer

Alright so I've been slacking a little on my blog.... Things have been a bit crazy with soccer practice and awanas and not to mention the house hold duties that I haven't had time! Well I figured I would post some pictures of Josh and his soccer team. They had two games this past Saturday one was at 2 and the other at 3. I have to say that I am very proud of Josh. Their first game was horrible. Most of the kids on his team have never played before and they lost pretty bad! The score ended up being 12 - 0... (OUCH) Well we have seen a big difference and the last game they played they lost but this time the score was only 1 - 0. Much better if you ask me. Josh doesn't really care about the score though. He just likes playing and having fun and that is all we want too!


Oh and if you hadn't payed attention.... I only have 17 days left until the Tulsa run. YIKES!!!! What was I thinking?????


I asked Josh to show me his game face



Angel .::. Josh .::. Keiston