Thanksgiving

We had a great Thanksgiving.  Our neighbors, Pamela and Bob (Whitney's parents) invited us to their home.  We had a great time and the food was delicious! This is Pamela and Whitney in front of the feast.

Qui Que loved Thanksgiving dinner too!

Scarlett is Qui Que little amiga.  She loved Thanksgiving too.

We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and are enjoying the holidays!

3 years!

Enrique and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary on the November 21st.  Well, we actually celebrated it on the 22nd because he had a test on the next day and of course wanted to study.  Either way, we celebrated our 3 year anniversary.  Enrique told me it feels like we have been married longer than that.  I am not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing....:)

Our wedding day was the happiest day of my life and ever since that day life has been a journey of adventures.  We are far from home out here in the midwest.  We are learning what is like to have our own family and make our own family traditions.  Who knows where we will end up next but as long as I have my two Enriques life is great.

I love you Enrique, happy anniversary!

Our good friends, Nick and Whitney offered to watch Qui Que while we went out to eat.  We took this picture at their house right before heading down to Linn Street Cafe.

And if you are wondering what is going on with my shirt.  That is what happens when you where a white bra under a black shirt and you take a picture with a flash.  I should have known better.

Halloween

We were so proud that Qui Que not only let us put his Halloween costume on but wore it trick or treating!  I was so worried that as soon as I put it on him, he would rip it off  (which is what happened during all our dress rehearsals). 

He was a hot air ballooner this year.  Warning proud parent overload on the pictures!

 These pictures were taken at our church Halloween party.  We handed Qui Que a sucker as soon as we put his costume on so he would be distracted.

 I felt like a horrible mom when he ate the entire sucker- tootsie roll and all and wanted more!

 Que Qui with his good buddy, Cannon Ward the monster.

 Qui Que loved helping me carve the pumpkin.  I love his little smile in this picture.

 Halloween day!  We are getting ready to go trick or treating.  This time for a bribe I gave him fruit snacks.  I guess that was a little better than the sucker.  His cheeks look a little pudgy because he keep shoving them in his mouth!

 Qui Que's good little friend, Scarlett came over to go trick or treating.  She was the cutest little butterfly!

 Whitney, Nick and Scarlett

This is my favorite picture.  He is running to the next house!

Lost and found

Little Enrique loses his shoes multiple times every day.  I am not exaggerating even a little bit.  After several lost shoes I decided to stick our return address labels on the bottom of his shoes.  They stay legible for about 2 weeks and then need to be replaced. 

Last night was the Homecoming Football parade in Iowa City.  We put little Enrique in the backpack and walked downtown.  When we got there we discovered he was missing a shoe.  I traced back our steps but did not find the shoe.  Poor little Enrique was with out a shoe which meant he could not get down and play. 

 This is our return address labels.  I faded out the address for any weirdos that might be reading this.

 We took this picture when we discovered he was missing a shoe.

 Although little Enrique was shoeless he enjoyed the parade.  Especially the dum dum he is eating.

I was so sad about losing little Enrique's new shoe.  I was planning on him wearing them in our family pictures tonight.  During his nap I went to go downtown to retrace our steps and look for his shoe.  When I opened our door I found this.

Some dear, thoughtful person found our shoe and returned it!  Thank you who ever you are!

Fall in Iowa City

Well, it has been a while since we have posted.  We have been enjoying the beautiful Fall in Iowa City.  Here are a few random pictures from the past month.

 We took these pictures while out for a walk in our neighborhood.

 Qui Que posing for his picture and eating raisins- his favorite!

 Yes, my child is watching T.V. 

I swore I would never be a mom that put her child in front of a T.V. 

I am sorry for judging. 

Sometimes T.V is great. 

Especially when your child is teething and nothing makes him happy.

 Enrique put Qui Que in the backpack and walked downtown to see me selling my pillows at Octoberfest.  Qui Que is behind Enrique.

 I love this one. 

 Note:  Enrique is not enrolled at Pacific Dental School.  He is still at Iowa.  He just loves that shirt.  I think it is time we buy him an Iowa Dental shirt.

 Happy Birthday Enrique!  Enrique turned 32 October 5th.  We love you Enrique!

 Qui Que playing with the leaves.

Serenity now!

If you have seen the Seinfeld episode when George's dad keeps saying "serenity now!", you will understand what I am trying to say.  When ever I used to walk into my closet I would think- serenity now!  It was disgusting.  It was the one room (ok there were a few) when we bought this house that we thought, that is going to be the first thing we change.  Well, two years later I finally got around to changing the nasty closet.  I no longer have to run and shut the door when I have people over.  Here are the before and after pictures.

As you can see we definitely needed to paint this sucker.  I went to Mennards (our version  of Lowes or Home Depot) and bought my paint.  Turns out I hate Mennards and their crappy paint.  But the damage was done, I had already bought my cheap paint so I needed to use it.  Note to self: do not buy cheap paint.  It felt like I was painting with water colors.

I don't even want to know what this nasty dripping stain is all about.  Either way, it had to go.

I know, I hate to paint over beautiful hardwood floors but let's be honest.  This is not beautiful.  They too, needed to go.  I ended up painting them gray.  I wish the gray would have turned out a little darker.  I will just blame it on the young, not so knowledgeable kid at Mennards.  But the light gray looks way better than this!

Finished product.  Again, I don't love the paint colors but at least now it feels clean!

Painted wood floors

Nasty dripping stain is gone!

 

Iowa State Fair

Little Enrique was so frightened of the big horses.  When he would see them he would turn around and run right up Enrique's chest and almost over his shoulders!  However, he did like the small horses.  He thought they were dogs and would make barking sounds when he saw them.

This is suppose the be the largest pig.  Poor thing could not even move.

This was my favorite part!  We went in this huge building with tons of baby animals.  We saw little chicks coming out of their shells, baby lambs, pigs, and even ostriches!   This lady let us pet the baby lamb.  So cute!

The boys walking around the fair grounds.

We meet our neighbors at the fair grounds.  This is a picture of us enjoying lunch.

We ate the Iowa Pork Tent.  Sounds legit.  It was ok.  I was a little disappointed.  I would have rather had a funnel cake.