Bolivia Pt. 2-The main family

The day we got to Bolivia was the same day of Albert's Class reunion. Bolivia does those a little differently....All graduating classes have their get together the same time at the same place. So Albert went with his little sister Susana.

This is Albert's dad holding sammy.

This is Albert with his grandma and mom with Sammy
This is Albert's youngest brother with the boys. Susana was a little nervouse because this was the first time Fernando had ever held a baby.

We're back from Bolivia

Well, we're back! We had such a great time. We took so many pictures and there is so much to tell that for the next couple of weeks all I'm going to blog about is our trip.
The flight down there went smoothly. Benji and Sammy were so well behaved that I recieved compliments from nearby passangers. From Miami to Santa cruz, we flew at night so both the boys slept the whole way. We were greeted at the airport by my sister-in-law, Susana. The whole trip was a surprise for Albert's Family. No one knew we were comming except for her. She is a Doctor and wanted to make sure she didnt schedule any patients, so we let her know. But our surprise was that she told my father-in-law and he was hiding behind some cars and actually surprised us. Albert tried to explain to Benji that he was Daddy's papa, but the name "papa" stuck with Benji most, So that's what he called his Grandpa.
To be continued.........
P.S. Saw New Moon last night...loved it...Cant' wait till June 2010!

Halloween Week

We had a family activity of carving pumpkins on Wednesday. Benji lasted about 5 minutes with the pumpkin and Albert 7. I am dumbfounded that I have boys in my family who don't like to get dirty! The one pumpkin is supposed to be a kid in his bed scared of an eye looking through the window...but it didn't quite turn out.
we also went to a trunk or treat on Thursday. On Saturday we plan on crashing Pleasant Ridge ward's Trunk or treat also.
In other news Sammy rolled over today. I got my video camera and tried to film him doing it again but by that time he had no interest in performing again.

Sammy eats baby food and other tid bits of the week

This week Sammy had his first try at eating baby food. It was bananas. He doesn't open his mouth as wide and anxious as Benji did, but he still liked it.
We are also really excited to be going to Bolivia soon. we leave on Nov. 6 and will be back on the 21st. Had I known when I bought the tickets that New Moon would be out on the 20th I would have made the reservations for a week earlier. And right now I am fighting terribly hard to control my desire to see it on the 22nd, which is a Sunday.
I also received a letter this week from one of my baptisms from El Salvador. He has been on his mission for 8 months now and is a District Leader and Trainer. When I got the letter and read it I couldn't help but to cry.

My B-day and We have a baby Girl!!!!

Thursday was my birthday and Benji and Albert surprised me with Breakfast in bed and Roses. Even though it was at 7 am I still loved it. Then I packed up the boys and met my mom at the zoo where she gave me my birthday present of a zoo membership for the whole year for our family. We all love the zoo so much it was a great present. To top off my b-day Albert took me to Salsaritas to eat.
The Angola family would now like to welcome our newest member of the family......Samba, our 6 week old German Shephard baby girl. Benji went through varios names like Gabby Angola, girl, and finally got to Samba.....which is also his favorite kind of dance.

Life goes on

I know I have been far to delinquent in my blog. but I think a good blog includes pictures and I just bought a connecter for my memory card to the computer so now you all will get to see pictures again.

It's been far too long

So I was listening to the radio on the way to the gym this morning. Star 102.1 with Mark, Kim and Frank in the morning. They were talking to Tersa Smith who does the news at 9. She was talking about how her blog domain expired and was turned off for not having written on it so long and it got me thinking about my poor neglegted blog.
I have been struggling with a lot of changes going on....1.trying to adapt to being a stay at home mom. 2.My callings as a 1st counselor in Relief Society and Activities Director for the branch. 3. Trying to be a better daughter of Heavenly Father.
ADAPTING TO BEING A STAY AT HOME MOM-I'm not. I kind of knew I was never the type to stay home all day and have a clean house with the nutritios meals a day. I had to be stuck in the house all week 2 weeks ago due to my radiator giving out on me. I went crazy. Became impatient and took out all my anger on Albert when he got home from work. I knew I was being irrational. So now that I have my car back I am so much better. I am in the gym by 9:30 am every morning, which makes my day go so much better. Not to mention I am now 20 lbs below my prepreggo weight. I still count myself being a stay at home mom because the boys are just in the gym daycare for 2 hours. That still counts right? And.....since I am so much happier leaving the gym my family gets 2 some what nutritional meals a day. Sorry breakfast you will just have to stay with oatmeal packets.
MY CALLINGS- actually they aren't so bad. Gabby Craft is the prez and she is way on top of things. Besides we only have 12 Sisters on our list. Being the activities director is easy too. Everyone in our Branch are such good friends that they are all over at our house on the weekends playing volleyball anyway. I just need to start having an opening and closing prayer. However Pres. Cruze asked me to organize a temple to trip to Nashville to do Baptisms....They are complete booked to the end of the year.
TRYING TO BE A BETTER DAUGHTER OF HEAVENLY FATHER- We had a stake women's conference last week that was such a booster spiritually. I knew that I needed to improve my prayers and scripture study. The conference was a huge shove to do that. We watched Reflections of Christ. I highly recommend it.