Ashley Beck at In N Out in LA!

Laura Heida , Ashley Beck and I are great old friends from when we were very young. Ashley lives in CO and flew through LA on her way to china with a 6 hour layover. So we went to pick her up and went to In N Out to eat dinner. It was a lot of fun and of course Ashley said Santi is the cutest baby she's ever seen.

Many events

To catch up in fotos they're pretty self explanatory. We went to the pumpkin patch a second time with Aunt Cindy and she graciously paid for us to go into the petting zoo where we spent most of our time and had the most fun! Cindy really has a kind way with animals (and people too of course).

Halloween was fun at our house where Laura Heida came over to hang out. It was lot of fun. Since "the boys", Marcus and Gabe, were there, I asked them to move a heavy piece of furniture for me: a cedar chest. So we opened it up and took out all the very old family heirlooms inside. some older than others. and tried some of them on!

The Harvest Festival at church was a lot of fun where Marcus and Gabe dressed up as Ninja Turtles and the girls as nerds. They all made their own costumes! Very creative!

I didn't wear a costume but i did find a very old sweatshirt from sixth grade...and it still fit! It's from when I was in a sleepover club with a couple of friends.

And you can see I'm trying to enjoy my shake at Ruby's while my aunt Romy intends to scare my son at the lunch table. Simple pleasures.

P.S. The ducks are at a park where we went to feed them. Santi was mesmerized. How did I not get pics of HIM? But aren't the ducks pretty?

Trying to catch up

Santi entertaining himself in the mirror. At the pumpkin patch. Can you find the annoying grammar mistakes in the signs? One apostrophe needs to be taken out and lent to another. I shouldn't let this bother me so much but it does.

The past few weeks

Seth still held him even though he(Santi) was rooting for the Angels.


Loves hanging out with his pals! Poor Marcus had his wisdom teeth taken out.


Thanks for the pumpkin beanie Marilyn!


He reminds me of when Toby was a baby here.


Sleeping comfortably.

About a week

I can't believe it's been about a week since I wrote. Time's gone by so fast. I'm so glad we get to see mom and Seth tomorrow!!! woo hooo! (sorry mary and geoff's family).
let's see. right now we're out at my aunt glenda's getting pampered and relaxing. beto even brought out his supplies and has gotten to use some of uncle kirk's tools to make some painting frames a lot faster than he did at our house.
tonight we drove to LAX with laura heida to meet a friend for dinner. this friend, we'll call her ashely beck, had a layover on her way to china, so we went to In N Out. good times and great pictures! many laughs.

Sunday we went to Los Altos Church of Christ with my aunts and uncle bruce and saw many old friends (i mean, that have known me since before i was born). afterwards aunt glenda took us out to lunch at Ruby's and then she spent the night at our house. Monday we had to go downtown to try to get beto a tourist VISA to go to Canada. See, his VISA expires Dec. 5 and he has to leave the country for at least a few days and then come back to the USA and gets another six months. To get a canadian visa we had to get there to the embassy before 10:30am but someone didn't read the website correctly and thought we had till 4:30. but the security guard was very kind and looked over the application and gave us some advice, such as needing to get proof of bank statements and tax forms of the person who will fund the trip (for only three days, remember?!) which is my mom, but she was still in london. and we had to get a letter from beto's employer that he would be returning to his home country to work. my gosh! all that for a three day trip! we americans are really blessed that we can go ust about anywhere with just a passport!

so after talking to my aunt she called her son who works for ins and he said beto should go to guate and fly back in thru seatlle where he works and he can stamp him in. so that's what we'll do.

so i saved this draft and now it's two days later. mom and seth got in early yesterday and today we did laundry and mom and i went for much needed manis and pedis. we hd a fun day with santi. laura heida came over for a bit and we had a good Bible study with mom and Beto.

pray for seth. he got really sick all of a sudden tonight. he's sleeping now. i pray he sleeps all night and wakes up feeling just fine and refreshed. we hope that it was only just a matter of being exhausted!