7 years!!!

It all started on May 2, 2003...Raul and Kelinda were sealed for time and all eternity in the Bountiful Utah Temple. He haven't returned to that temple until this year, on our 7th anniversary. We took some pics and remembered that special day. I LOVE RAUL!!!!

Another picture?

trying to hide...I always find him...

Pioneer Trek

Finally some pics of trek. We went to Martin's Cove in Wyoming for 3 days. We "adopted" 5 children, drove 6 hours, and had an altogether GREAT TIME!!!!! all our stuff in the stake center Our Family- minus me

Who's that handsome pioneer?

Ma/Pa Garcia

Women's Pull

So hard!!!!

Raulito's birthday!

Raulito turned 3 on June 26. We had a BBQ in his honor. What a big boy!!! I can't believe it! He's talking really well (in Spanish, and getting better in English) and wants to follow his sister everywhere and do everything she does!

Shanise made the cake. Thanks Shanise, it looks great! Plus, I had just come back from trek and was nice that I didn't have to worry about it.

The cooks!

Thirsty kids!

Young love?

We went up to Logan for my cousin's baby blessing. My mom and dad and my sister Shanise were there. Fun!!!! Shanise turns 16 in October...Any takers????

Rakel and my cousin's baby (she named him Behr)

Raul and Shanise

My handsome hubby!

Raulito and grandma

4th of July Weekend

We had a BBQ with some friends and the kids played with sparklers. They had a great time. We also went up American Fork Canyon with the intentions of going to Timpanogos Cave, but we got there too late and too many other people had the same idea, so we just took some pictures. We'll have to go another day... We have an inflatable raft that we took out on the "lake" It was fun!!! Rakel and Daddy

Raulito and Daddy (he's helping!)

Me and Marbel. She was telling me the whole time that she didn't know how to swim, and the lake is so deep, and the boat was going to sink...we made it back dry...

Notice, I'm dry...

and then, I'm not! Raul was filming, but he stopped just before I fell..I'm sure it would have been hilarious...

Rakel and grandma

Rakel Graduation

Apparently the other videos that I was trying to put up were too big, so I guess I'll have to get some pics up instead... This one is Rakel at her graduation.

Rakel Valt

Yes, I know that it is sideways... It looked better that way on the camera when I was recording!!! HAHA!

Rakel!

Rakel graduated from Kindergarten last week! She's so big! She's reading and has absolutely loved kindergarten! The next few posts will be videos of her graduation, gymnasitcs meet, and dance festival at school...Then we'll see what else I find to post! I love you Rakel, congratulations!

December fun

Here's some more rewinding to last year....Get ready for a bombardment of pictures, but as the saying goes, it's worth a thousand words, and who wants to read that much anyway...Enjoy! New years with our friends Olga, Robert, and their kids. I didn't think my kids would make it till 12, but they were still going strong at 12:30am! We took some family pictures on New Years eve. Here's a bunch! Could be another engagement picture!

The kids had a lot of fun during Christmas break!

Christmas morning! (you can kind of se my mom, my brother Derek is in the black, and my sister Shanise is by the tree...)

Rakel finally got her cupcake maker! She's been asking for it since last christmas....

Not sure what that expression means....

More pictures of us!

One of our absolute favorite pictures from December! Someone's excited!

Dancing at our ward Christmas party!

The kids got to see SANTA!

HO HO HO

We decided it would be fun to make a Nativity Scene this year, here's how it turned out!

Oh, and Raulito discovered that he's a big boy and wants to wear a tie like Daddy....

Here's our snowman!