The Silence

This is what I get for sitting on the computer reading blogs. Benji's normal routine in the morning is to wake up, sit on the couch to eat oatmeal and watch cartoons. While he does that I get on the computer. As I was reading I noticed it was rather quite, I looked to where Benji normally is and this is what I found.........empty. So I went to look for him.


This is what I saw next.......Where it shouldn't have been.

I looked in the kitchen and found him......in the strawberry milk mix.......

Creating Art work.........

Moral of the story, silence is never a good thing when you have a toddler.

GO KNOXVILLE ICE BEARS!!!!!

Tonight the Angolas went to a hockey game. We went to see the Knoxville Ice Bears take on The Huntsville Havocs. It was a great game. The Ice Bears won 4-1. Benji really like it and was screaming when everyone else screamed. Even when the crowd was screaming more adult words. The first time he said it, we explained to him that he shouldn't say those words so instead of screaming "hey, goalie, you suck!!!" He was screaming "hey Goalie, You're bad!!" Granted its not as strong but comming from a 2 year old it was pretty cute.

Our 2 favorite parts of the game was when the referee knocked over a player and of course the fight.

A day in Atlanta

Last week Albert and I decided to go down to the Atlanta Temple on Saturday. We asked my parents if they would take care of Benji for us. They agreed happily. Saturday morning as we were leaving. We realized that this was the first time we were going on a road trip with out Benji. We were kinda sad and almost turned around to bring him with us. Fortunately sanity set in and we kept going. We stopped at Waffle house and had breakfast then were back on the road again. Albert drove the whole way and we didn't even make it out of Knoxville before I fell asleep. Albert wakes me up and tells me we are in Atlanta and needs help with the directions. I looked at the clock, 8:05am. He made it down to Atlanta in 2 1/2 hours. Good Grief, how fast was my husband going? Anyway, we pulled up to the Temple.......Gates closed. WHAT????? I had checked the website last night to make sure. So we call the temple and sure enough it was closed for cleaning. We were so bummed. We then went to the book store where we meet a bus full of members who drove 1 1/2 hours to go to the temple only to realize that it was closed. Albert decided to make the most of our trip any way. We decided to take the subway to downtown. When we got to the station, we realized we had to buy tickets from this automatic machine. Figuring it out was exciting.



We finally did!!! Then we realized we had no idea where we were or where we needed to get off at to get to Downtown, So I finally called............

No one answered. We walked down to the platform and finally found out where we were. So the next train that came we got on. It was really fun because neither me or Albert has ever been on one. People got on, people got off. We realized that we might have gone to far so we got of at the next stop. WOW!! Talk about scary. Out of maybe 500 people, I was the only white one. Normally I am used to that considering I grew up in a shady side of town myself, however the people there didn't looked to pleased to see me and I was being stared down by everyone. We got back on the train going back in the direction we came from and finally found the right stop. We walked around a little bit and were getting really Hungary so we decided to go back. We had already decided......better said is....I already decided that we were going to have lunch at the Cheesecake factory. Pure Heaven right there in my mouth. The food was great, especially the cheesecake. Then we headed for home, and again I was asleep before we even made it out of Atlanta. How was Benji being without us the whole day????? The little runt didn't even miss us. He had so much fun with Grandma and Grandpa that he was mad when we came to get him.

New Year's day Activities

Benji's Funky Due after the movie
Albert and I at the park

Grace the beautiful (I'm kinda jealous)

We had a lot of fun on the first day of 2009. The first hours of New Years we spent with the Craft family. Benji says that Grace is bella (beautiful).

My sister's friend, later in the day to become boyfriend, came over so the Angolas plus Rosie and Brian went to the park. After the park we went to see the movie Madagascar 2. It was cute. Benji, fell asleep half way through it and as a result we got the most laughs from his hair as we were leaving.

Happy New Year

Right now I am waiting patiently to head out to PARTY!!!!!!! Tonight we are going to the Dan and Gabriella Crafts home to celebrate the New Year Latin Style. Unfortunately I have been nauseated all day long.
I received a wonderful email from Kerin Alvarez, one of the young men I helped bring into the gospel. He finally got his mission call. He is going to the El Salvador San Salvador East mission.

2008 Angola Family Review
1. Vacation to Nashville
2. Benji started using whole sentences (even though he speaks Spanglish)
3. After a year and a half of trying we are finally Pregnant.
4. Albert got employee of the month 5 months running
5. Benji Survived Thanksgiving.

Well, Not much happened this year. But next year will sure be a doozy.
For those of you planning to do your New Year's resolution just remember this quote:
"New Year's resolution goes in one year and out the other"

Great Grandma Jessie

On Sunday my Great Grandma finally passed away. I say finally because she has been holding on to life by a thread for a long time now. She died at the ripe Ole age of 96. Can you imaging living 96 years?
She was born on October 11, 1912. She was raised right here in the Knoxville area. Grandma had an interesting life, which included an extremely active single life. We had found out recently that my Grandpa, her first son was not my great grandfather's child. My grandmother became pregnant by a sailor and raised my grandpa by herself for 3 years until she met my great grandfather, who adopted him. My biological great grandfather's name is Frank Knot. So if anyone has any Knots in their family, we might be related. So when my grandmother revealed my this to me, my first question was, What were doing with sailors? I shouldn't have asked. Turns out my Great Grandmother danced with a group called Daughters of America. They were a group of girls who would "entertain" sailors while they were in town. I mean entertain as dance half naked nothing else. Hello!!!! Shocker!!!
Even though she had a rough young adult life, I am so happy she overcame it. She married a well, had 3 more sons, too many grandchildren and lots of great-grandchildren and 2 great-great grandchildren.
She outlived all of her cousins, her husband, her brother and sister, and 3 of her sons. She has so many of her close family members waiting for her on the other side that I know she happy to finally be with them. I miss you and love you, Grandma.

I've been tagged

A)The rules are posted at the beginning.
B) Each person answers questions about their sweethearts.
C) At the end of the post, the person then tags 6 people and posts their names; then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment, letting them know they have been tagged.

1.What is your husbands name? Albert Benjamin Angola
2.How long have you guys been married? 3 years 4 months
3.How long did you date? ooh that's a good one....well, we were good friends in the mission (nothing happened, just friends) After we wrote a lot, but in person we were together for 2 months before we got married.
4.How old is he? 25
5.Who is taller? Albert, but before I went to Bolivia I thought I was.
6.Who can sing best? neither, but it works to our advantage when we want to wake up Benji.
7.Who is smarter? UUUm I am....but he is pretty smart too
8.Who does laundry? I do. Albert tried once and used way to much bleach and ruined all of our white clothes
9.Who pays the bills? we both pay equally
10.Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Depends on if I feel pregnancy nausea, I might try to sleep closer to the door
11.Who mows the lawn? Good thing we live in an apartment, but if we had a lawn. Albert would
12.Who cooks dinner? I do. Albert will cook once in a while but it is always some weird creation and Benji and I end up eating peanut butter and jelly
13.Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? we are both to prideful for that. we just stop talking until it passes
14.Who kissed who first? Albert kissed me in the airport not 5 minutes after I got to Bolivia
15.Who wears the pants? I let him wear the pants, but just because his butt looks so good.

I tag--Stephanie, Hailey, Lindsay and Teresa