Kapanak Family

WoW....35...Really?

2012-01-08T22:28:00.000-08:00

I was thinking the other day about my birthday. I always heard older people say that they never feel like they are getting older. They feel the same as they did when they were 20. I never really understood that until this week. I often get in new situations were I all of a sudden I realize...holy crap, this is my responsibly! Am I able to handle this? Um...yes,but for that slit second, I revert to a freaked out 16 year old. It's funny. So, now I old enough to say I don't feel this old.

I had a really good day. We got up and headed out to church. We missed the 3rd hour so that we could get out to Mesa. Before we headed to Mesa, the kids each gave me a card and I got a cute a cute pair of PJ SpongeBobSquare Pants from the kids and a sewing machine cover for the new server I got for Christmas and I digital camcorder . I of course, got the song and candles, this year, they got cupcakes instead of a cake...works for me.Grammy watched the kids so that Kris and I could go to dinner and a movie...I know it's Sunday, but this was the only day it could happen. We went to Texas Road House for dinner. We both had the same thing....so corny.... but we do that all the time. After eating YUMMY steak and those to die for hot rolls and cinna-butter...yum... we went to the movies.

I love that every birthday is a big deal for our family. It started when I was a kid. It was what ever dinner you wanted, then cake and ice cream. Kris's family is all about birthdays too. They always sing and make a big deal of it. When we got married this didn't change.We make sure that EVERY person in our family knows that the day they arrived was a truly blessed day. I have been so blessed to have married a man who always goes out of his way to make me and our children feel so loved. I have never been forgotten. Every year he makes sure that I have gifts on the table next to cake with number candles. He always helps the kids get me a card, and takes time to help then each sign their card to me. So, four cards, gifts and cake! WOW.. so truly blesses to have so many people love me enough to make the day all about me. So, I have to say that there is no need to find a silver lining today...because today was Golden! I ended my day hear my mother wish me a Happy Birthday. What more could a girls want? Nothing, according to Brenda.

Happy Birthday

2012-01-04T21:19:00.000-08:00

17 years ago today our sweet Angelic came to our family. She was and has continued to be an angel that has blessed our family. She is angel sent for heaven that saved my sisters life. She was the blessing our family needed to mend fences and reunite our family. She has a smile that can melt your soul. She is grown into a beautiful young lady with big goals and dreams. With her determination and will power she can and will reach each of her goals.

We loved her from the moment we saw her, she was loved without measure from that minute.Happy Birthday Angelic, you are loved more then words can express.

You are proof that our Father in Heaven loves us and sends the right spirit to the right family. We are meant to be together.

Love you sweetheart.

Crate Paper and Ribbons

2012-01-02T23:27:00.000-08:00

Tonight Kris was on call. He was called in and when he came in I was informed that there was a treat left on the bushes for me. We were TP'd with Crate-paper and Ribbons! I feel so LOVED ! This is what they do when they don't hate you. I'm sad that I was released but so grateful to have gotten to know and love so many beautiful young ladies. It's funny because a year in February my little house was egged..that's what they do when they do hate you...and now I got Ribbons! It's funny how love grows. Sometime it's instant, but other times it needs to be given some time and extra effort. They were by far worth the extra effort.

This makes me think, how there are endless way to show someone you love them. Often I feel more loved when it's action and not necessarily words. So, again I'm reminded by teenage girls, that action is so important in showing love. I'm one who loves the silly little things, like ribbons and crate-paper!

New Years Day

2012-01-01T22:15:00.000-08:00

We went to church today....at 11am.... LOVING that!

After church he headed straight home to change clothes and go to Grammy's. She was making a big dinner for all the grand-kids. She had Ham and Turkey...she really out did herself! We sat round for the most part. But it was nice for the kids to play together. The biggest part of our day was getting her

WiFi hooked up so that she could enjoy Netflix.......a great Christmas gift for a hard to shop for mother-in-law..........She was cooking dinner when we got here. She had these cute little aprons for the girls to wear. They helped...as much as a 5 &3 yr old can...

get a few things ready. The aprons really worked as bibs at dinner . Don't tell the girls that ;)

At the end of the day, we had a good time.

Still hard knowing this is the 1st New Years without Dan. It was strange not to have him there.

But we still think of him and love him, so he is always with us.

This is the Vanna Pose

They are so silly

what a nut!

Kyle just hanging out

January 1st~

I love how my kids love their grandparents. They like spending time with them and learning from them. I'm so grateful that we an Eternal Family. Still working on some of the Grandparents....in time, it will come ,I know it.

Happy New Years! 2012!!!!

2012-01-01T21:27:00.001-08:00

We spent our New Years Eve at home...like always, I figure as soon as the kids are old enough they will be off with friends, at dances or party's. I want to spend as much time with them as I can. We eat junk food and do fireworks in the back year. We drink Sparkling Grape Juice from fancy glasses..that they NEVER get to touch.....they LOVE it. We cheers each other and laugh and giggle. Here are a few Picture of our New Years Eve.

It's gonna be a GREAT year!

Look out World here come the Kapanaks!

We're not taking everything so seriously!

He wouldn't stop, But you get to see his beautiful blue eyes!

( yes, that's were the kids get their great eyes)

KYLE!

SAMMIE

SYDNEE

My Boy

My Big Girl

My Baby

Let the Fireworks Begin!!

January 1st~

I see how much love my family has for one another.

We are in together!

2012 The Silver Lining

2012-01-01T21:01:00.001-08:00

I've been gone a long time. That's going to change.I was inspired today by a beautiful lady, Sister Vinson,who I was serving with in the Young Women program at church. I was released from my calling as the 1st counselor and keeper of the Mia Maids. I was asked to bear my testimony about how it felt about being with all of these wonderful ladies...young and not too old. Before I was to stand and bear my testimony, she shared with us her journal blog from 2009. She had it published into a book. It was unbelievable. So, as I start this new year I want to do the same. I want to write down what the 2012 year has brought to me and my family. My goal is to find the silver lining in every day. To find good, love and/or hope in everyday I'm blessed to be here as a mother, wife and a daughter of God.

So, here goes, the "list" things I hope to have accomplished by years end:

Take my health more seriously

Eat better and workout 3 times a week

Clean the bathroom before it "has" to be cleaned

Be a better Visiting Teacher

Do my calling whole heartily

Send birthday cards on time

Read my scripture daily

Show my children how service blesses you

I know, most of you do many of these things already, but I don't always. They are not going to cure cancer, or end world hunger, but I hope these small goals will help me become a better person both physically and spiritually. So here goes!

2010-08-04T15:58:00.000-07:00

Summer At Grandma & Grandpa's

On the 12th of July the kids and I headed to New Mexico. My mom flew out and we all drove back. It was just for a week. We spent the days at the park for lunch and the rest of the time just hanging out. We did get a little work done. Mom and I hung gutters on the back of the house. We seem to have a summer project every year. I don't mind, it means I get to spend time with her.

One afternoon we set up Stacy's pool in the back yard. They had fun squirting everyone with water. It was just one of those lazy fun summer days.

This is the perfect picture! This went on for about an hour!

Grandma is ALWAYS in the mix!

Anthony showing off his mini guns!

Kyle in need of a hair cut.

Sammie, she was up to something, you can see it in her eyes!
Silly girl!

Sydnee, she was just trying to survive!

Anthony would shot anything he could, little bugger got me 7 or 8 times!

Ray, he was just as guilty as Anthony! Everyone got wet.

Angelic, she just sat and laughed at the little kids. She's a good girl.

Stacy wouldn't let me take her picture! Angelic is holding her hands up over her head, it was very funny.

Good job Lic'!

My mom watching the kids play. She is the best grandmother!

My dad, he did not want to get wet. He was watching Anthony like hawk.

2010-08-02T16:57:00.000-07:00

Families are Forever

On June 26th our family was Sealed the the Mesa Arizona Temple.

We are so blessed to be able to be married for Time and All Eternity and then look in to the eyes of our beautiful children and listen to the words as they sealed us as an Eternal Family. We were surrounded by loving family and friends. The memory of this day will forever be in our hearts.

Our little family outside the

Temple after the Sealing.

I love this ugly tree, better than the reflection ponds,

I know, but I just love it.

Our babies , being so kind, everything was just perfect!

The girls were able to wear these dresses for the Sealing. The temple had little shrugs for them. I loved the dresses, I about burst ,when they were brought into the Sealing Room with them on. How special!

Our handsome son.
We're so happy that he's old enough to remember everything from this day.

Samantha, she was such a beauty all in white.

Sydnee, our little curly haired angel.

All the member of my family who were able to come! I adore each one of them. We are so lucky to be family with such loving, kind and funny people!

My family, minus my dad.

He wasn't able to come down. But I know that he was thinking of us. My Mom,Chrissy, Stacy, Enrique,Angelic,Ray and Anthony. They are always there when we need them. This is where I learned that families are an essential part of life. We love you so much.

My Grandma and Grandpa Fessler.

I can not say in words how happy I was that they were there, nor can I put into words how much I love them. They mean the world to me.

My Uncle Doug, my cousin Braden his wife, Rendi,their kids Jaxson,Alec and Joy. Also my cousins Teonna and TaNesha. These nuts all crammed in a Suburban and drove 13 hours to be with us, come on, how great is that!

My cousin Trent and Andrea. They saved the day and drove down with our grandparents. We love them for their kind hearts and very funny since of humor!

Ryan and Mandie are friends we made just recently, but we just love them. Ryan went through as Kristopher's escort for his Endowment. They are wonderful friends and we are so blessed to know their family.

Elder Carver! He is one of the elders that baptized Kristopher. He was a greenie right out of the MTC when we met him. He has a strong testimony and you feel it just talking to him. He was able to come because of a good mission president and a loving ward member that drove him nearly 2 hours to the temple.We were so happy to see his sweet smile.

Sydnee's Birthday

2010-06-30T11:07:00.000-07:00

Our Little One turned TWO!

Happy Birthday

Sydnee Grace!

We had Sydnee's birthday with her cousins, Grandma and Auntie. They had come down to go through the temple with us. I was super busy and wasn't able to spend as much time making her cake, as I did on Sam's. Syd love stars, so we had a sandy brown cake with pink stars ( she loves to say pink). It was cute.

She is such a shy girl! But very cute!

She hated us singing to her. She cried the entire time! Kyle was the same way until he was about 4yrs old. So, we got tears and smiles all within 2 minutes! Too funny!

She opened all of her gifts with such care! Then got the present out and

throw it at her Dad,

then moved lovingly to the next oneSo got so many really cute outfits! Thank you Grandma and Auntie's! She also got a purse ( so she'll stop going through mine!) with a little slide show camera. She loves "taking" pictures. But the Big hit was the

Bristle Blocks.

All the kids just loved them. Over the weekend with even more family here, they were played with by every one of the kids. She did such a great job sharing them.

She is a sweet girl, she's our cuddle bug. Sydnee is the first one to crawl up in your lap or snuggle up to you on the couch and just sit. It's hard to look in her big blue eyes and not see what a sweet loving girl she is.

Memorial Day

2010-06-06T21:12:00.000-07:00

We had a fun Holiday weekend. Monday started out with a few of the Young Men and Young Women from our ward coming over to cut their Pinewood Derby cars out for their Dirty Derby. It was fun to hear them talking… it did make me feel a little old. I remember talking to my friends like that. It was cute and scary because Kyle is only a year away from that!!
After the activity was over we headed to Kris’s parent house.

The kids swam and had a ball.

I thought the water was FREEZING!

I like it to be at least 87 degrees. I did get in, slow and painfully! We stayed in for a few hours. We had dinner and visited with his family. There is a little video of the kids and Kris swimming. The girls are learning to swim. They have too because they have NO FEAR! Sydnee will just walk right off the edge of the pool.

They are little water bugs:

Kyle is a great swimmer and the girls are following suit.

Everyone begging mom to get in

This is the best picture of Kris and Kyle I had.
All the do is try to dunk each other . I think it's a guy thing.

Sydnee, she would rather be jumping in. But she did sit in there until I got in.

Sammie, she loves to swim!

2010-04-19T18:09:00.000-07:00

Samantha's 4th Birthday!

All that she wanted was a pink scooter! She was so cute! That morning she got up and came out and looked at me for a minute or so, like, don't you have something to say. I wished her a happy birthday and she just smiled the rest of the day. She is now " a big girl" and needs no help with anything. It was a fun day. I asked her if she wanted to go buy a cake or if she wanted me to make one, she said that I needed to make her one. I tried something new. It came out pretty good, all that mattered was that she said it was the prettiest cake ever. That made my day. I had to work on her birthday, so we had cake and presents after I got home. She got a card from Great Grandma & Grandpa Fessler, cute outfits from her Grandma, Grandpa and Aunties and a stroller and crib for her baby from her Grammy. She had a great birthday.

Her new pink scooter

(did I mention I was at work ...i.e. the crazy outfit, thanks Dad! )

Her card she got out of the mail box

Her cake

Our beautiful 4 year old daughter!

2010-04-19T17:31:00.000-07:00

Easter 2010

This Easter was a little different from other Easters. We did allot of driving. Kris's mom went to Hereford, Texas to see her side of the family. His dad stayed behind to work on some projects. We invited him over ..knowing he wouldn't come .. to make sure he had a good dinner. I got up early that morning and had the entire dinner ready and we had the kids in the car by noon. We drove the 50 miles to Mesa to make sure that he had a good Easter dinner. We stayed and visited with him for about an hour before we had to get home. Kris's oldest brother was coming over for dinner. We got home and finished everything we needed for our dinner and ate. It was nice to spent the day with family. We did do an Easter Egg hunt that evening after dinner. Kyle was so cute he would race to all the eggs and then let Sammie have them. Sydnee did ok, it took a few eggs before she go the idea. We had fun. The kids were so cute.

Sydnee's eggs

Sammie's eggs

Kyle...in need of a major hair cut....with his eggs

2010-04-05T08:11:00.000-07:00

Over spring break my mom and sister came down with the kids. We spent three days just doing fun stuff. My sister Stacy wasn't able to come and we missed her. We went to the park one day and I took some pictures of the kids. It was a fun afternoon. Chrissy got so sunburned! It was funny. They drove through snow to get here and ended up in 80 degree weather with sun burns! That's spring time in Arizona! We also took the kids to the Zoo and Aquarium. It was a busy visit, but super fun.Here are some of the pictures that I took in the park.

He looks like a guy and not a boy anymore, makes me a little sad.

Kyle is so big! He's growing so fast.

Samantha looking sassy, she loves sunglasses, she is so light sensitive.

Samantha loves having her picture taken!

My Sydnee

Little Sydnee, she needed a nap. We took this one when she was playing with her shoe.

Me and my children, the only one who doesn't look uncomfortable is Sammie. ( thanks Chrissy for taking these pictures, I never get to be in them )

Angelic hates this picture, but I like it, it shows how sweet she is.

Stacy's two boys, what a pair they are! Ray and Anthony. They have the cutest smiles!

Mom and the 6 grand kids. This was a fun picture. Everyone was smiling at different times. They were all laughing and giggly. Even Sydnee, but you'd never guess it in this picture!

Chrissy and Angelic, they always stick together!

Angelic, she is such a beauty. She's growing up so fast!

My sister Christina, I love this picture. Her eyes are amazing!

Me and my Mom.

(Thanks Angelic for taking this one)

My Mom, she hates having her picture taken. She is so funny and kind and always there when you need her. She always tells it like it is, and that can be hard, but you always know where she stands. I love her!

2010-04-01T17:28:00.000-07:00

February 2010 Arrow of Light

Kyle earned his Arrow of Light. This is the Bridge ceremony, he is leaving Cub Scout and entering into Boy Scouts. He didn't have a bridge so we had to make one, it worked.

There is a man in another ward who makes these Arrow of Light awards. The boys thought that they were the coolest thing. It was a good night.

We had four scouts earn them.

We are so proud of Kyle. He worked really hard and did all that was asked of him. I'm sad to see him leave cub scouts. I'm sure he'll have so much fun in 11yr old scouts.

2010-01-20T18:48:00.000-08:00

This year Grammy, ( Kris's Mom) Got the kids a play set for the back yard. The thing took FOREVER to put together! But the kids LOVE it. They play out there every day. Sydnee is so small but she goes every where the other two go. It took us three days ( not full days) to get this thing together. It would have gone faster if all the pieces were labeled A, B ,C for example. But NO, we had to look every piece up and measure it, to make sure it was the right one. You'd think that was easy, no, no,no,no! Because there would be 5 that were 1x4x43 inches, and 4 that were 1x4x43 1/2 inches! Really!!! So it took us all day! We got it up, and if you know me, when I say we, it means, Kris did everything and I just handed him things or held things! I was in charge of reading the directions, he doesn't read them, he just looks at the pictures. If it isn't going together as pictured then he reads them. It's a blast! By the end of the three days we needed to be done for the sake of our marriage! Good Grief!

The kids love it and that's all that matters.

Kris did a great job putting it together!

Yes, it's January, and the all the tree's are green. We don't put winter grass in because it's one of the only ways I know it's winter. It's a little hard to remember that other people get snow this time of year because we have those pretty palms all year long.

2010-01-20T16:20:00.001-08:00

WWE Kapanak Style

Kyle loves to watch the WWE. One of his favorit wrestlers is Rey Mysterio. I found this mask and thought he'd love it. Yup! It was a great surprise! He wears it when he plays WWE on the Wii.

Sammie has to do everything that Kyle does. When they play WWE, it's really, just Kyle throwing the girls around and Sammie yelling "Jeff Hardy" or "John Cena". If you've ever watched wrestling you've seen them walking round with microphone talking crap to each other; well my kids use my mixing beaters and just yell the name of the guy they are. It's so redneck......but very funny!

Kyle playing the WII, it makes me smile every time!

Sammie is so insane! She has makeup on from earlier in the day. In the morning she was such a girl and by the end of the day she needed to be like her brother.

Talking crap with the beater

Now Sydnee needs a beater!

It's always a fun day at our house!

2010-01-20T15:12:00.000-08:00

New Years Eve!

2009

We had a fun little new years this year. We stayed home and spent the night just hanging out.

We had gone to Wal-Mart earlier that day and I thought it would be fun to get some sparkling grape juice to use to toast in the new year! Sammie thought it was the coolest thing that I let her use one of the "good glasses"from the china hutch. I was worried that they wouldn't like it but they loved it and we went through it super fast!

Kyle thought the whole thing was a little "girly",it was , but he did it anyway, clearly he wasn't happy about it.

Our Sydnee, she really tried to stay up, no such luck.

New Years Day. This is more Kyle's thing to do.

This is Sydnee's new thing, we call it the "pop-eye" look. When ever she's mad or faking a smile this is what we get. She is such a nut!

Sammie LOVES to ride her bike, we think she's ready for the training wheels to come off, she doesn't agree.

2010-01-20T14:34:00.000-08:00

Christmas Eve
2009

I love to take pictures of the kids! But this Christmas I didn't take even one picture! I'm kinda picky about how we do Christmas morning with the gifts. I need ( it's crazy, I know) to know who the gift is from before they can open it. Well, this year, Kyle was giving out the gifts like a mad man and Sammie was tearing them open just as fast! I had to sit with them and make sure we read who it was from, then opened them. Have you have tried to control the wind? Yea, that was Christmas at our house! Anyway, these are the only pictures I took, Christmas Eve. My mom and dad ALWAYS give the kids ( grand kids and us girls and husbands) new PJ's for to wear Christmas morning. Here are the kids in their new PJ's.

2009-12-28T20:47:00.000-08:00

December 8, 2009

Keyra came back to visit. We spent a few days just hanging out at our house. I thought it'd be cute to have the kids get their pictures done while she was here. We got the kids all dress up and headed over to get them done. The kids were good and did a great job, but the lady helping us was so rude. I wasn't impressed at all with her. After we left I really didn't feel like they should get my money so I called and cancelled the order. So, we ended up with picture in front of our Christmas tree at my house. I think they came out fine. Sure cost me a heck of allot less!

Huntyr, my cute little great nephew...yea, I'm that old, thanks Keyra!

Our children, clean and cute......for the moment anyway.

Kyle is such a good kid. He is willing to put on a smile when ever I need him too.

Sammie, I couldn't pay her to put her hand down, always posing!

I can't believe she just sat there! She did, she just smiled with her big blue eyes!

We love Keyra and Huntyr and are so glad that they are apart of our family. We're hoping to see them again in the spring.

2009-12-28T18:59:00.000-08:00

December 5, 2009

Sammie loves to dance! I found a hip hop/tap class for her. Her class performed for the City of Surprise, at Surprise Days. It's a big party the city puts on. They light the Christmas tree and have petting zoos with camel rides and different things. It's really fun for the kids. Sammie got to perform in the middle of the event. She was too cute.I took more video of it than took pictures. I do have a few.

On December 12th she had her "real" recital. It was at a high school in Glendale. They were so cute. Her class is the 3-4 years olds. Again, I took more video than pictures. I do have a few cute ones of her with her flower after she preformed. She loved the class and still will break out into her routine, so much so, Sydnee is starting to copy her moves. It is SO funny!

Hip Hop out fit with tap shoes.

She did such a good job!

2009-12-28T16:08:00.000-08:00

So... Holy Crap the year got away from me! We have had so many things going on that I haven't had the time to post anything new. So I'm laying it all out on this post. I'll try to fill in all the the fun things that have happened. I'm pledging not to let it happen again in 2010..... but if you really know me,your not holding your breath.

November 21, 2009

I can't even believe that I'm writing this down and it has really happened, my father got Baptized!

I got a call from My mom around the 19th of October, she was her normal self, we chatted about this and that, then she says " didn't make plans for the 21st of November." So I said" fine , why?"and she just said it,like no big deal!

WHAT! HOLY COW! REALLY!?

We loaded up the car and headed back to Albuquerque. We had the best time! My Dad was happy and we saw people that we loved, it was great. My grandparents, Uncle Doug, Aunt Wendy and their girls were there. We just love them.

I saw people that I hadn't seen in years. The most amazing thing was when I saw old friends of my parents from Germany! My family has been friends with them since we all lived in Germany in the late 70's. They are members of the church and have always been so kind to our family. Gary and Elaine Stewart showed up with big smiled and many tears. It was fun to watch them surprise my parents. My mom was a happy tearful mess, but it was wonderful.

Family and friends

Dad and Mom with Gary and Elaine

My parents and sisters

No family get together is complete without a game of spoons! Kyle got one! This is a fun game that brings out the competitive side in all of us! We laughed so hard our faces hurt!

2009-11-04T21:39:00.000-08:00

We had a very fun Halloween!

We went up to the Church for trunk-or-treat!

This year Sammie and Kyle picked what they wanted to be. Kyle has done this for a few years but this year was the first time Sammie picked.

The night started out a little rocky , but turned out to be really fun. I had to work until 4pm and our trunk-or-treat started at 4:30pm. I rushed home and got the kids ready to go, there was NO way we were going to be there on time. I was stressed out trying to get everyone ready. We did get there late but we were fine because the only thing we missed was the chili and corn bread dinner. We didn't mind missing that. We had just a hand full of families that came, but it was fun because we all had a good time and the kids didn't leave with a lot of candy, just enough. After leaving church we headed home to pass out candy. We had maybe six trick-or-treater's come to the house. We have two really large churches right near our housing area that were doing trunk-or-treat as well. Most of the kids in the area headed over there. So, loaded the kids up and went out for dinner. I thought if I could fill them up with Chilli's then maybe they wouldn't eat to much candy that night. As we were leaving the manager gave each one of the kids a free meal gift card because they came in , in costume. It was really nice.

Sammie thinks she's on America's Next Top Model, good grief!

Thank goodness for Kyle! He's the only one who holds still. It was like taking a picture of a real bee! She never stopped moving!

Sydnee was so cute!

No more pictures please!

Betty ( Kris's mom) made the best bags! They each had one with their name and a Halloween character embroidered on it. They are so cute.

Sammie was the best pirate EVER! She is so expressive! She's a crack-up!

Kyle was his favorite singer, Chris LeDoux. We thought we had a guitar for him but unfortunately we didn't get it in time. So, he had to go as the rodeo star, Chris LeDoux, good thing he was a very talented man.

Kyle's bag that Grammy made.

Our jack-o-lanterns

This was Syd's, mouth open with big eyes, just like her!

Sammie's, I gave her a marker to draw a face but she just draw all over it. She does not live between the lines, she a very free spirit

Kyle worked hard on his, he did allot of the cutting this year. He is such a good kid!

2009-10-20T14:11:00.000-07:00

The weekend of October 9th we headed to Albuquerque. We were able to go to the Balloon Fiesta.Friday we went to the special shapes night glow. It’s a real sight! The colors are so bright and they are so big. The kids loved it! We all had a great time. It’s fun to stand under the balloons, you are completely surrounded. We were a little worried about getting cold. We are NOT used to weather less then 70 degrees, so the thought of 50 was a bit concerning. The flames from the balloons all going off really kept us warm. The crazy Arizonians were fine………good thing! After the glow they have a fireworks show! The kids stood still for almost every thing! I love going to things like this as a family! On Sunday we were all awake and down on the field by 5am to watch the Mass Ascension. There are hundreds of balloons that go up.
It was FREEZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can’t say that enough!
We ate our breakfast burrito and hot chocolate like we do every time we go. Unfortunately, the wind was blowing too hard for the balloons to go up. So needles to say, we stood in the freezing cold eating burritos at 5am just to go home full and cold. Maybe next year!

The balloons went up right before the sun went down.

I loved this frog.

He was soo cute!

We were a little cold, Sydnee needed her gloves.

They had storm troopers with the Darth Vader balloon, the boys loved it!

Sammie and Auntie Chrissy...and some lady that was really close to them!

Daddy and Sammie.

Everyone waiting for fireworks to start.

We also went to Ray's last game. This was his first year playing, We were so glad to see him play.We had to pick between his game in town or Angelic's soccer game that was over an hour away. We love and support her too, we just had a few things to do in town. We love you Lic!

Stacy, Enrique and Anthony at Ray's ball game.

The little kids at the game...........it was too long for them.

Ray, he was so cute!

The fiesta was great and spending time with my family always makes me feel better. I did have another reason that I went home. My dear friend Chelsea and her husband Nick are being stationed to Okinawa, Japan. He is in the Air Force. I won’t be able to hang out with her or have fun conversions on the phone in the middle of the day. Thank heavens for the Internet! I just wanted to make sure that I saw her before she left. I have to say that she is one the few people who knows how mean I can be. Through it all, the really fun times and the harder times, she is a true friend! I’ll miss talking to her when ever I need her, for the next four years anyway. Then, we’ll see where that sweet husband of hers takes her next.
Love ya Chels!
Just don’t come back wearing socks with sandals ……that is NEVER a cute look!

Chelsea and Nick

Dan's Birthday

2009-10-14T16:28:00.000-07:00

On Sunday October 4th we headed over to Kris’s parents house to celebrate Dan’s 4th birthday! In 2005 Dan had bi pass surgery on his birthday; he said that he started over. So Sammie thinks it’s great that she get his candles because now Jeddah is only a few months older than her. We had a really fun time. Dan’s was in a great mood and the kids had fun talking to him.

Sammie playing a game after cake

He was killing time before dinner

Sydnee had nothing to do with her fork, cake to mouth, she was happy!

This swing was folded from the visit from Keyra. Huntyr wasn't around so Sydnee took it back. She crawled up there by her self and closed the tray, little smarty!

Dan making sure we got the right kind of cake...........yes Dan, it's an ice cream cake.

Opening gifts and it's a MUST in the Kapanak family to sing Happy Birthday loud!

2009-09-28T23:31:00.000-07:00

We were able to spend five days with a person I never thought that I would meet. I met my 18 year old niece Keyra and her beautiful son Huntyr for the first time Tuesday night. We were able to spend time getting to know her, it couldn’t have gone better!
My brother-in-law Brian has a daughter from his first marriage. She has always lived in Connecticut. We (the Kapanak side) never thought that we would ever get to meet her. Unfortunately, her parents didn’t leave each other on the best terms, so, we had all but given up on getting to know her. About seven months ago through the wonder of Facebook, we meet. She emailed me asking if we were related, being we both have the same very uncommon last name. I told her who I was and that I was so happy to hear from her. We exchanged a few emails and eventually started talking on the phone. During all this my mother-in-law also on Facebook, started to talk with her. Last week her and her son Huntyr came out to visit. They stayed with us for a few days and then we all stayed at my in-laws getting to know each other. Betty (my mother-in-law) and Keyra spent the last two days together alone. It was a fabulous visit. She is so sweet and has the cutest little boy! My kids just loved her, even Syd, who is shy with everyone! We all got along so well. We took her to see Brian, which was a little emotional, even his nurse was crying. They haven’t seen each other in over ten years. Those of you, who know us, know that Brian isn’t in a state to let her know how much he loves her. The first time he looked at her he began to cry. He couldn’t use words but he let everyone know what he felt. It was wonderful and heart breaking at the same time. I say heartbreaking because I wish they could have talked to each other. So needless to say we did a lot of laughing and had a few tears, but for the most part it was fun. She is a real sweetheart.
Grammy and the grandkids

Huntyr James, so cute!

Keyra and Brian

These girls had too much fun, passed out at Grammy's

Kris too!

Visiting with Brian

Sammie, Sydnee and Huntyr

Uncle Kris was babysitting, good job!

Brenda with Syd and Huntyr, wow crazy picture, we were playing.

Keyra and Huntyr

I think I got it!

2009-09-16T19:17:00.000-07:00

So, finally I got this thing done, well , for the most part. Wow, I did just about give up. I hope to get some pictures from our trip to Utah up. We had a great time!