Tacos

I have to write about my lovely daughters new curiosity into learning a new language.
With that, these past few months we have become good friends with a Mexicano family here in North Dakota. Earl works with the dad of the family so through that we have become friends. Beings this family is Mexican-American they obviously are bilingual and speak both English and Spanish. Gwen has also been learning some spanish at school as well. With all that she very excitedly comes home one day and asks me "mom, How do you say 'Tacos' in Spanish?". I very surly tell her that it is the same, Tacos is Tacos no matter what language you speak. She does not agree and states that I do not know how to speak Spanish and that she is going to ask Sipriano (the dad). So a few days later Sipriano and two of his six daughters (yes that is six girls ranging in age from 15 t0 2!) show up for a visit. When Daizy and Evette walk in, Gwen first makes sure that they are Siprianos daughters and then quickly asks "how do you say Tacos in spanish?". Hand smacks forehead, I close my eyes and shake my head, "Did she really just ask that?" I think. The two teenage girls look at me as if I am a retard and can't teach my daughter that it does not matter what language you say "Tacos" in, it is all the same. Then the girls just giggle and say "tacos" with their Spanish accent and go about playing with the kiddos.

Gwen later on asked Sipriano the same question. I got the same look/reaction from him as well. But he very nicely told her that it was just "tacos".

I love my little girl's curiosity. She is so great, and matureing way too fast. For those of you who read this and have little ones younger than her, please enjoy it while it lasts! They take off like wildfire when school hits.

And remember Tacos is Tacos no matter what language you speak. Gwen did her research and now agrees. HAHAHA.

Merry Christmas!

My Beautiful Family!

I just love these guys (and Gal)

Santa Claus Day in Almont

Hello all! recently we made a visit to the great town of Almont, ND for Santa Claus Day. This is an event the town puts on for the area kids. It is amazing how giving this community is. I love it here! Santa Claus Day consists of yummy treats and Hot Cocoa, meeting Santa, and then getting your name drawn out of a hat for an unbelievable present. I could not believe what they were giving away. V-tech computers, bikes, rocking horses, trucks, barbies, 3 ft dolls. Amazing stuff. my kids were in toy heaven. Not only did each child get a toy they also got a stuffed animal for putting their name in the bucket to begin with. Oh and an ornament for talking to Santa. It was wonderful. Frank got a noisy Helicopter, Earl picked a sem and trailer with three street bikes on it, and Gwen choose a vacuum and ironing board set.

The cutest part of the whole thing was when earl got done talking to Santa, he received his bag of candy and peanuts. upon looking in the bag he looked up and asked "hey where is the monster truck I asked for?" Apparently whatever you ask for from Santa is supposed to magically appear in the brown bag you get from the elves. hehe.

VIKINGS AND DRAGONS, OH MY!

HALLOWEEN UPDATE....
Vikings and Dragon Costumes

little bit of trick or treating

way too much candy!

lots of fun and memories

pumpkin carving

Pumpkin carving was the new step in our pumpkin adventures. Granny came out for a quick visit so carving seamed like a good project for us. However i did not relies how fast they go bad after the fact so please ignore the mold.

If you look closely at this pumpkins mouth you will some a little bit of red. This was quite the scare for Gwen. Granny used a red candle to try to light the pumpkin up. However earl picked the pumpkin up and spilled the red wax. Gwen then screamed in a panic because her pumpkin was "BLEEDING" and she didn't know what to do. I thought my dad was going to wet himself he was laughing so hard.

Earl's pumpkin

Franky's Pumpkin

Pumpkins!

Not real certain as to why my son chose the girl head. He has a confidence where he just don't care what others think if he likes it he likes it and that is it.

Papa's Big Chair

it was Aspens birthday on the 21st. Aspen is our newly adopted child. Her dad and mom ride horses here at our new place and so along with them comes little Aspen. She is a wonderful little girl and we love having her around.
For her birthday we went to Papa's Pumpkin Patch. It is basically a farmer making a killing off of people like me with kids. It is a giant play ground of carefully stacked straw bales with tunnels through them and with sawed off culverts for slides. And crazy amounts of pumpkins everywhere that you can pick and take home. Don't get me wrong here it is a great place for the kids. We had a lot of fun.