a little update

Sorry no pictures to post but I thought I would post a little what has been going on.
Mark started the Madera office on July 1st and is loving it. We feel so blessed that everything has worked out. He is currently working the day shift which is 10-10:30. It has acutally really been a good schedule to work which I never thought I would say. He comes home for lunch and dinner which is really nice to be able to see him.
It feels different now that he is working where we are from. I dont know. We both liked living in Southern Cali, but now that we are settled we feel like we are home. Its a good thing we love California and Madera so much because we will probably be here a while!!!!!

Kaelyn has been getting ready for school. We started buying her school stuff and Im starting to freak out...can I really have a child in Kindergartin??? Oh my... She has been growing up to fast. She has started to do more things around the house like doing the dishes, cleaning up after meals, and my favorite helping her brother get dressed etc. She is such a good sister. Today they spotlighted her in Primary and I just sat there thinking how blessed I am to have her.

Enzo has been the typical 2 year old lately. Testing my patience and then being the sweetest little guy. He has been learning his alphabet and knows almost every letter when we point them out to him. I need to get it on video and post it.

As for me I havent been up to much. Getting bigger everyday it seems. Sorry I wont post pictures of me... I have never been one for pictures while prego... I didnt do it with the others either. We have been thinking about baby names and here a few I like:
Valentino
Lucas -is starting to be my favorite!!!
Anthony or Antonio
Knowing how we are we probably wont have a clue till we are in the hospital and the baby is born.

Happy Fathers Day Mark!

Our Beautiful Garden

Ok well maybe not that beautiful yet but I love our garden. Since we have moved back we have planted a Pear, Apricot, Fuji and Granny Smith apple trees, Naval Orange, Peach and Citrus Cocktail trees. We are so excited to see them grow!!







For vegetables we planted zuccini, tomatoes, Bell Pepper, Green Beans, Corn, Brocculi, Lettuce, carrots, grapes and Strawberries. We are very lucky that the previous owners of our house 6 years ago took care of the dirt in the back or must of had a good garden because that area is not Hard Pan so are garden might actually survive. It was pretty easy digging the trenches for the sprinklers. Since we started the garden we have used it to teach the kids why we are starting a garden and how to plant and take care of it. They love it just as much as we do!!

Keeping busy

I thought I would try to keep up the posting. We have had a few exciting things going on lately. Kaelyns friend Chaye that she has had for while came over to play on Friday. They had so much fun dressing up and being girls it was fun to watch. Kaelyn and Chaye are both looking forward to their first sleepover in a couple weeks!






Today we started swim lessons with some friends from the ward. It was a lot of fun to watch the kids cry really hard at first and then love it. Kaelyn did not want to get her face wet at all but after she did she loved it. Enzo and I started a mommy and me class and it was so hilarious. Enzo loves the water and will be probably be swimming before Kaelyn. He was jumping in, swimming almost by himself and loved going underneath the water. He tried several times to copy the older kids who were playing around and doing headstands under the water. He would point and then try, only to almost do a somersault. He kept saying "again, again." He should sleep really good tonight! Hopefully I can get some video tomorrow!

Warning:DO NOT READ IF YOU LOVE CATS!!!

So this is my first post in awhile especially with a picture but I felt like this deserved a post. (Even though it takes forever to load) First I would just like to say a lot of people know that I have a very strong dislike for cats. Maybe its because when I was young my family had a cat that would chase us through the house and claw at your legs while you walked down the hall. I would always have a blanket around my waist covering my legs if I didnt have pants on. Im also very allergic to cats which doesnt help.
Since we have moved back to Madera to our house we found that a few cats had made it their home in our backyard. This did not make me very happy at all. We have a lot of dirt everywhere at the moment and I have a son that loves to play in it so it has made my blood pressure raise a bit. So we caught them and took them where they needed to go.
Except for Batman. He was not as easy because hes very wild and not nice at all. Well after some tricking and rope with the cage door we caught him. Thank goodness. So we dropped him off far away.. sorry.. I know its mean... but he made his way all the way back to my house. Yeah I wasnt very happy about it but I thought because we had gotten rid of all the others I would keep him. I thought he earned his keep since he made the long journey all the way back to my house. I thought he would help keep the rodents down since I hate those also.
Well I started noticing all the things he was doing that I didnt like and I couldnt do it anymore. This cat ownes my backyard. My kids are scared of him, I think dogs in the neighborhood are scared of him and bascially I couldnt handle the smell that I could smell where he was doing his business. So this morning while I was really upset because he had knocked over all of my trash cans (it was trash day so they were all full), I went to the store to get some enticing cat food and tricked him, and thus the picture! I couldnt wait for Mark to get home so im so glad that I have a brother n law here to help me when I need him cause in a few mins he is taking BATMAN away forever... well I hope. Hes taking him somewhere even further! Hopefully he wont make his way back again. I had to post this I think it is helping my stress level go down by typing my frustrations. Sorry to those that love the hairy felines. Sorry for the long post too!!

Busy... Busy... Busy..

We have been so busy lately. We are now in our house and really enjoying it. It has been really exciting because we have done a lot of improvments and it feels totally like a different house. It feels good to be home but we miss everyone in Santa Paula too. The kids have enjoyed to see their cousins almost everyday and Enzo asks us everyday if he can go to Grandmas. It feels good to have them so happy.

We also have been busy with expecting another baby. Yep surprise. Jennifer is expecting around November 9. It hit us a little off guard but feel like because we have been blessed to have another one everything has been falling into place. We found out we were pregnant the same week Mark got his transfer and then things have just been working out since. We have had our first ultrasound and the Dr said the baby looked so healthy he didnt think a miscarriage would happen so we thought we could finally share the news. I have been really sick. I mean really really sick but im glad that it has finally passed a little and I can enjoy it some more. Kaelyn is so excited, and wishes for a sister. She tends to mention it in all of her prayers and talks about it often about what her and her sister are going to do. Im sure she will be happy regardless of the outcome.
Its crazy though to think that I will have 3 kids. WOW!!
Mark is still working in Ventura until the end of June in Ventura. He comes home for around 4 days and then is off back to work for another few days. It has been hard having him so far away but I feel so blessed that I will be able to have him work close to home soon.

Im sorry that I dont have any pictures of the house or the ultrasound. I only have the laptop to use right now and its really slow so I dont get on the internet often.

Easter in Fresno/Madera

Kaelyn and Enzo getting their Easter baskets.





Quick picture before church. Trying to get them to stay still was a little hectic.

After Sacrament meeting we came home to wake Mark up and then we were off on our way to Fresno to go to Ashleys. It was nice to visit and relax before we started working on the house.


Heres a picture of the cousins in their adorable Easter outfits waiting to do the egg hunt!



The egg hunt was a lot of fun. I tried to leave a few eggs empty so that they didnt get to much candy and well my kids didnt want anything to do with those. They would check them and if they were empty they would throw them on the ground. It was pretty funny to watch.