happy to be a mom...

mother's day this year was just odd {i'll post later}. here's what makes me thankful to be a mother:


these moments


...& these


...& these


...& these


....& these too


...& these


...& these


...ohhh, & these too


...so proud, love these


...& these too, but most of all.......


THIS MOMENT!

where it all began...

my great grandparents started it all... and here i am today. i love you and miss you very much and know that i will see you both again.... thank you for giving me and my children....


my beautiful grandma bucky, who then gave me and my children.....


my beautiful mom. i love you mom.


and to my husband's beautiful grandmother who gave me and my children....


my beautiful mother-in-law.

happy mother's day to all the lovely mother's in the world!

pink lips

 wow, i'm looking through old pictures and i found this one of me & daniel at disneyland for his 1st birthday.  

1. why am i wearing such pink lipstick & 2. how did i get it to look so perfect.  it looks painted on.

can you see them?

{very sad, my daughter said "what the heck is a smurf?"}


then i found this picture {2003}

beauty, part 2

here's the view from santa monica blvd - awesome! i parked across the street and was a total tourist walking up and down the street taking pictures.

this should be the end of the temple shots since i don't think there is a spot i haven't shot.....{at least for this season}

Confucius Says

Confucius Say: *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Man who run in Front of car get tired. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Man who run behind Car get exhausted. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Man with one Chopstick go hungry. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Man who eat many Prunes get good run for money. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Baseball is wrong: Man with four balls cannot walk. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* War does not Determine who is right, war determine who is left. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Wife who put Husband in doghouse soon find him in cathouse. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Man who live in Glass house should change clothes in basement. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Man who fish in other man's well often catch crabs. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Crowded elevator Smell different to midget. *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

there were a few others, but not something i would post... so i didn't! enjoy!!

got his face

tyler had swim league final this saturday and he took a breath to the right...yeah...i got a face shot!!! {webb had their shaving party friday night & shaving 2 seconds off his time}. tyler did great considering he has never been on the swim team & that he was put on varsity. i know he's going to miss swimming, i think it got in his blood a little. now he's going to have to think of "reasons" to wear his speedo....i guess if i was as sculpted as him i'd be wearing close to nothin' too {when no one's at home of course}.

mrs. frickelhuber..

today during our drive together kennedy says "i put a boy lemur and a girl lemur together & now there are 56 long tail lemurs, because they had babies & their babies had babies & now there are a lot of lemurs" {zoo tycoon}. that sparked a conversation regarding lineage & how 2 can amount to so many lives. she then says that when she has babies she will carry on the madrid name. this is how the convo went from that point.....

*no, tyler carries on the madrid name
~oh man, why?
*because you will take your husband's name
~but some husbands take the girls name
*yes some do, but there's very few that do
~well, if his name is like frickelhuber then i'm telling him he has to take my last name. {she's NOT going to be mrs. frickelhuber}.

needless to say i busted out in laughter and grabbed the first thing i could find to write on so i wouldn't forget "frickelhuber" {whoville immediately came to mind}.
that inspired me to keep a l.a. journal of thoughts, inspirations, conversations..."experiences" that will happen during or little weekly journey.

my baby girl...

i realized last night as i was getting everything ready for kennedy's bday party that she is no longer a little girl. that her age will now alway be double digits! i became very sad and started to feel a little guilty that i didn't put much thought into making this party "special", so when she asked me for a tiara (at 9 o'clock at night) & i knew i had to pick up tyler from school at 10, i quickly got ready and ran out of the house...to the dollartree because they have all that wedding/quinceanera stuff....well, they didn't have it! dang! this tiara is no longer a dollar item, i knew where i had to go.....yes, walmart, and yes it was multiple dollars for her tiara, but she got one and she wore it like a headband & it was totally cute!!

i created this collage (a simple project that took hours because i had to import all my cd's of pictures to go through the last 10 years) and stapled it on the goodie bags. i also printed out 8x10's and put on the tables for decoration. it was cool because it was glow minigolf, so everything white was glowing. i'll post a collage later (can you tell it's my new fad, & the fact that i ran out of free picasa space).

smile

i love to take pictures. it started in high school and has never left my heart. sometimes i get the "ohhh man...nooo...i don't have lipstick...nahh...i'm tired...i'm fat (who isn't, except those glam-skeleton's on 90210)" and it's like pulling teeth, especially when i go for the group shots..that's when the peanut gallery gets loud...so i stopped. then when the next holiday rolled around i started to hear "hey wait, we didn't get our group picture...we gotta do pictures...where's anjanette?"...it's a good thing i get giddy when someone wants pictures taken!

instead of clogging my family blog with 12,000 versions of the same photo, i started another photo blog {smile}. just photos taken, modified, converted by me and my family. tyler enjoys landscape photog and he's really good at it. there won't be much narrative, just pictures that make us smile!

i'm around the world..

my first out of the country post comes from taiwan. it was the perfect post on a day that i needed it the most. thank you olive tree guitar ensemble!

creative mind at work!

this is from kennedy's blog..... what a great idea!

beauty

Angel Moroni Statue Los Angeles LDS Temple


(i love my camera!)


The Beautiful Los Angeles Temple

as most of you know, once a week i am in los angeles for kennedy's acting class. i am so excited that for the next two years i get to spend at least an hour on the grounds of this beautiful ginormous temple. the the temple is only 2 minutes from the playground. i didn't notice anywhere else, but near the entrance where the water is, there is music to be heard. i can't wait to listen to the scriptures (because we all know that i hate reading, so all the scriptures and anything else churchie is downloaded on my ipod), near the water, with soft hymns playing in the background. i'm a lucky girl!

mom, being on the grounds reminded me of the day you received your endowments. please email me the family picture.

party like a mormon!

here are a few pictures from our elder's quorum social gathering.

they played thump-thump?? they are die hard, competitive, thump-thumpers! trinidad goes along for the ride..... the women are the {worst} most competitive.

you go girls!

deal of the day!!

these dkny's were originally priced at $245.00 american dollars. then marked down to $147.00. i got the black ones for $29.99 and the (light) tan for $24.99!!!! i got kennedy a $140.00 top for $4.99 (i know this because most of the original tags are still on and most of the stuff comes from macy's). ok, so where is this fabulous place???...... liquidation warehouse, rancho cucamonga. right next to the dollartree....have fun!!

justin's senior prom 4/25/09

i'm so glad my daughter's smarter than we are....

kennedy's been having A LOT of problems with a certain 3 girls at school. they're just mean and extremely sassy and...... (uggggggggg). anyway, kennedy has been talking about trying out for a solo for her schools chorus performance since the beginning of the year (every year the school puts on this performance at the end of the year-all students perform) & what, if anything, have i learned these last few months as being kennedy's mother....."don't tell her she "can't" {insert verb...act, sing, perform..} because she always will". well, yesterday was try-outs and i guess it was very american idol style and (again she wanted it really bad), when it was first round she thought she was eliminated because two-by-two he would select to move on out of the 3 girls in the group. two girls were selected and kennedy was left standing, in her words, she started to black out and get shaky and started to cry. as the girls were consoling her, mr. mann says "NAME?" and she then turned her tears to laughter because she actually made it to second round. at second round mr. mann was eliminating groups of people, and somehow she thought that she was in the group with the ones eliminated, so she (again) started to cry and exit the band room when a boy came out and said where are you going, you're in! so needless to say it was a very emotional day for her. then as girls were congratulating her, the evil jealous bitter-betty's started saying "she's only in because she cried her way in" these girls are 10 years old and already so vicious. i know elementary has always been filled with mean, mean, horrible kids since the beginning of time, but when it's your child as the target it's very hard to "love one another". i do pray for them and for myself because i don't have such good feelings towards these (%^$&$^%^&^% *#@?*@$!@$#) girls. and to make matters worse, one always gets the character award and another really shouldn't be acting this way towards kennedy for several reasons, but i won't go into that right now. kennedy will be singing "food, glorious food" from oliver. she found it on youtube and played it for me last night and it's cute. i know she'll do a good job.

anyway, back to the topic of my post. so we frustrated parents started shooting off all these "come-back" suggestions for the next day at school and then later had her big brother talk to her, which helped more than we did. so i asked her today how it went and she had 2 encounters, the first one in the morning and the second one in the afternoon.

so this is what my brilliant daughter said.......
you haven't seen me practice for annie?....yes, i have
you haven't heard me practice my songs?..... yes, i have
you haven't seen me in beverly hills at my acting class?........well, no.

priceless, i love it! now if she could say this also to miss "character award", that would be awesome! her, kennedy just ignored. which is probably better because she's not worth the energy!!

"THE JACKET".....

 

Happy Earth Day!!

One Year Ago....

Last year, on Saturday, April 19, 2008, Trinidad & I received our Endowment at the Redlands Temple. We had family and friends there to support us. Thank you to all of you that participated in our very exciting day!

p.s. we were sooo hungry that we forgot to take pictures outside the Temple!

Thank you to~
Temple President Bringhurst & Sister Bringhurst for taking the time to meet with us and making sure that we were taken care of.

Bishop & Julie (Bishop thanks for being Trinidad's escort)

Tricia

Mat & Kira
Katie & Chris

Kathy & Gene

Mom (thanks for being my escort)

Elaine

Bucky

Wes & Julie

Larry & Carolyne

Bro. Wright

I'm sorry if I forgot anyone. Some that attended left before I could say goodbye.

Bailey's Welcome Party

my first attempt at creative photography. Miss Bailey 3 1/2 weeks old.

Easter 2009

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter & reflected on the resurrection of our Savior. Brother Wright gave an incredibly spiritual talk today in sacrament. I was so excited when I saw his name on the program. I cried from almost the moment he began to speak....

Here are (tons) of photos from today. I think some family members hold all their frustrations until "The Eggs"... We had a lot of fun. Joey & Ernie, the house looks amazing!!

LOVED IT!!!

NOT a hannah montana fan, but actually loved the movie. now i gotta get the hoedown throwdown moves down!!

"DAYS WITH MY FATHER"

This is an amazingly beautiful story of a man who gets to know is father after his mother dies.

It scrolls up and down. I had to click on the first picture then was able to use my arrow keys.

Enjoy.

Ryan's Day!!

MISS BAILEY...

i just realized today that i never posted pictures of my niece. please see march archive "it's a girl". i posted on facebook... go figure!

Well HELLO!!

It feels like forever since I've updated the blog. We were on a 5 day cruise for my job's physician retreat. I had minimal work and lots of play. I've posted a slideshow of our cruise. We went to Ensenada and Cabo.

Kennedy had her first acting class and had a blast!! She has homework, she has to memorize a commercial or write her own. He also gave enunciation exercises and information on how to break down a scene. Very cool and o'so mature! I see my baby girl blossoming in the next 2 years.

Walking around the Century City Mall, I came to realize my future for the next 2 years! Mr. Spatz allows the parents to camp out in the offices, we just have to be out of sight. I will be listening to a lot of scripture during this time.

Enjoy the slide show (big slide show at top of the blog). Here's a slide show of the docs.

hello beautiful

we went to victoria gardens last night and as it was time to go we walking to meet tyler with his friends we walked by a window and i saw this amazingly beautiful blingin' ring. went in. tried it on. bought it!

now...... the store was swarovski's

it's so pretty and i almost ran into several polls looking at it bling in the moonlight!

disneyland 3/24/09

i finally took daniel back to disneyland after his complete chanting/screaming hours-long fiasco back in january of 08 & he did really well!! we can never go to disneyland without something happening to us...well, mostly my mom....and this time was no different. at pizza planet there was an abandoned backpack. i tried to take a picture of the bomb-sniffing dog in action and was told "mam, you can't take pictures when the dog is working". i asked if he wanted to watch me delete the picture and he said no. then after everything was clear, i see him talking to the dog's massive handler and he points at me, then the talked some more, i started to freak, then they both with the dog walk over to me, my eyes are huge and i'm closed teeth telling my mom "they're coming over here", then the handler says "you can take a picture now"... i was so nerveous, i took a quick one and let them all be on their way. daniel was tall enough for all rides except indiana jones. He got on space mountain and when it was over all he would say was "that was fast....that was awesome!....that was fast..".