Invaded

Today this little guy lead an invasion into my family room.  Star Wars became the reality of my afternoon.  I figured if my days were going to all be the same I better make them a little more eventful.   So when the invasion began I embraced it.    Little Man has the biggest imagination.  Everything is huge and overblown with him.  It warms my heart to know he is such an active, loving child.  I can't imagine my life without my Little Man.

Hum Drum

Wishing I had something fun to blog about.  But alas I have nothing.  My life is running as it usually does.  Nothing new and exciting.  

Nico did start baseball again, and Syd is playing Spring soccer, so I suppose I can post some new sport related pics.  

Sophie is, well, Sophie.  And I've posted alot of just Sophie lately.  

Mr. G is working. Maybe I could follow him to work and snap some photos of Officer Garces in action.

I am working.   I could snap some pics of me @ the gym.  Or cooking breakfast, lunch or dinner. Or cleaning out my closets, using the wonderful Space Bags.   Or pics of  me driving carpool.  Or folding laundry.  The choices are limitless.

See my dillema. 

Here's to hoping something 'blog' worthy occurs at the Garces house.

So In Love

Just trying out a new application I found on a friend's blog.  It turns all your pics into polaroids. Stay tuned for more transformed pics.

Oh Stinker Bell

How we found Sophie last Sunday night.  Flashing the camera, stuffing pineapple in her mouth all the while looking way too mischievious.

A Miracle.

Yesterday my mom and I were out and about running Saturday errands before she left.  And the first errand was to the dry cleaners to pick up Nicks clothes.  I grabbed my wallet, paid for the services and placed said wallet on my bumper as I loaded the clothes into the back of my SUV.  I proceeded to leave the wallet on  my bumper, get in the car and jump on the freeway to go to Costco in Chino Hills.  Went to Costco, and didn't discover it missing then because my mom paid and then headed over to Lowes for a couple items.  It was then as I was going to pay that I discovered it missing.  Panic set it.  I started freaking out, using bad language and then got really silent.  We headed back to the cleaners, no luck.  Backtracked every step.  No luck.  And came to the conclusion that is was gone.  I was hoping that it fell off on the freeway and got run over and that no one took it.  And did I mention the wallet was $150 also.  Nick had got it for me last summer as an anniversary gift, and I loved it.  So I came home, cancelled everything and prepared to start over.  My only consolation was that my temple reccomend wasn't there and the night before I had given Mr. G the $120 in cash I had in it.  End of story......

Skip to tonight.  7:30 my doorbell rings.  At the door is a man holding my wallet.  This is what happened.  My wallet somehow miraculously stayed on my bumper the entire time I was on the freeway, as I got off the freeway in Chino Hills and turned onto the street to go to Costco, my wallet flew off my car.  Across the street from Costco there is a Great Indoors that is going out of business.  And because of that they had employed sign holders to advertise on the street that they were going out of business.  It was this sign holder that saw my wallet fly off. He picked it up and returned it to me tonight.   He was a little hispanic man, with a very thick accent who lives in Riverside.  He drove all the way from Riverside tonight to return it to me.  Nothing was gone.  Even the $1 dollar and gift cards I had inside it.    My heart was full.  I gave him $20 to say thank you but that doesn't seem enough to convey my gratitude for his kindness.  

I am grateful for the example of Christ like service that was shown to me tonight.  My faith in the kindness of others has been strengthened.  

Sick as a dog

This year the cold/flu seems to live at my house.  I have caught it 3 times now.  But this time it's soooo bad.   Not moving, body aches, can't breathe, it hurts to cough etc.   You catch my drift.  So if I don't post for a little bit you know why.

Sydney's Big Day

Sydney was baptized yesterday.  It was a very special day and I'm keeping my thoughts privately written somewhere else.  There were some very sweet experiences that occured there.  So I'm going to let the pictures tell the story of the day.

Diego

The newest member of our family.  My little guy Diego.  He's a 9 month old, Toy Chihuahua.  He weighs about 4 pounds and that's all he's going to weigh.  He is having a little bit of a hard time adjusting.  He left his brothers and mom and is missing them.  I can tell.  The kids say he's crying.  He's been here a little over a day and we are all smitten.  I am not a dog person but he was my idea.  And I can't get enough of him.  Even Sophie thinks he's the greatest thing ever.  And she hates most dogs.  Tonight she asked if he could sleep with her in the crib.