The Gutierrez Family Blog: 2010

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Yes, Finally, Something Recent!

Ho, Ho, Ho, here's a book...

Santa is at the mall! It's true, we saw him!

Monday, November 29, 2010

A Visit with Daniel - a Jolly, Happy Soul

Angelinne

Mikey and Angie

Daniel holding Leah

, talking to Tama

Richelle and Daniel

Halloween

Of course on Halloween none of the kids want to wear their

actual costumes, and I haven't come up with anything for myself, so this is what we end up trick-or-treating as. Mom- Giselle, Laurel- Witch, Angelinne- Donatelo, Leah-Itsy Bitsy Spider. I think it all started with Angie when she didn't want to wear her princess dress, then Laurel wanted something different. Oh well, we still got candy!

Pre-Halloween Festivities Include...

Choosing and aquiring

Halloween costumes... Laurel is a queen, Aaron is Two-Face, Angelinne is a princess. Carving pumpkins...and attending Halloween parties!

Teeth!

Leah Finally got

some teeth, and they're really coming in now! She has three on top and two on the bottom! What a cutie! She's so much fun, and very cuddly. She's comes up with new words all the time.

Betsy's Baby Boy

This is little baby Joseph, I think he looks a lot like his brother Johnathan.

End of Summer

I'm going way back now to the end of summer. These are some shots I took of Leah in the back yard. I was trying out some photography technique, but anyone who's seen my blog already knows that I'm a horrible photographer. The garden went ok this year, we had some very tiny watermellons, only one of which we deemed worthy to eat. I was sweet, but very strange in color, bright orange and neon green inside!

Monday, October 11, 2010

Crafts

My new

fun craft:

These are flowers made from fabric and they are used for either hair clips or to pin to a blouse or dress. Thanks Katie for teaching me!

Sunday, September 26, 2010

After two failed tries to upload a video I've decided I wanted to post about something else. :P I'll have to try again another time. It was a video of Leah asleep at the high chair. Anyway, as an update on us, we had a nice weekend, which isn't over yet. We went on a date Friday night and visited with my mother-in-law who will be visiting for another week, she babysat for us. And on Saturday I took my first turn mowing the grass while Set was at work. This would have been impossible without the help of my neighbor, Tyler who got it started up for me. And I learned that it wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be. Actually it's quite like vaccuming. Then after a lazy sort of Saturday and a quick trip to the library and the grocery store I got to go to the general Relief Society meeting. It was a well needed up-lift and very inspiring. President Thomas S. Monson shared a quote: "If you judge people, you have no time to love them"-Mother Teresa. Then he talked about Charity: the pure love of christ. He said "[charity] manifests itself when we are tolerant of others and lenient toward their actions; the kind of charity that forgives; the kind of charity that is patient. Needed is the charity which refuses to find satisfaction in hearing or in repeating the reports of misfortunes that come to others, unless by so doing the unfortunate one may be benefitted. The American educator and politician Horace Mann once said, “To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.”
Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down; it is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others." After the broadcast we had pie and icecream. It was very nice, and it was even nicer to come home to my family, all of whom were sleeping except for Laurel when I walked in the door. To day we went to church, and tonight we expect to hear from family and enjoy a good visit at Mom's. Hope all of you are well.