Vacation Bible School

Mali and Alex attended Vacation Bible School this past week and had a really fun time. They sang a few of their songs in the end-of-the-week program. So cute!

Mali gets her purple belt in karate

Mali was awesome during her belt testing. Watch how precise and strong each movement is. She is really coming along great! I love to see her concentrate and prepare for each move. She is very happy now because purple is her favorite color. I hope she'll agree to keep going to another color!

Swim Team

This summer we're getting up early every morning and heading to the pool for swim team with the Storm team. Here is Alex swimming his very first race. He came in last, but we were so proud of him for finishing. Mali is so precious running along beside the pool cheering him on.

Mali swam several events that night as well. Here she is. She came in last as well, but it's just for fun!

Florida Vacation

Franco won an incentive trip to the Ft. Lauderdale Harbor Beach Marriott. All expenses paid for 3 days, ocean-view 10th floor room, wining, dining, and head-swelling, couples massage, Las Olas Boulevard, and best of all, no kids! In one word...Awesome!

I'm so proud of my hubby for being in the top 6% for sales in the company last year. He has worked so hard! This trip helped me to understand what he's doing all the time and why he can't come home sometimes. Besides, I want to go to St. Kitts next year :)

Kindergarten Performance

Alex's Kindergarten Performance was the other night. Before it started, Alex went up on the stage to practice. Anna couldn't resist performing as well:

Alex was awesome as usual singing about bears and bees!

Mali's Baptism

I have really neglected my blog for a long time. Life has just been going along. But, the most important thing that happened is Mali's baptism. I have never seen her pay such attention to a church meeting. The next Sunday, she bore her testimony that being baptized was going to help her to be more like Jesus. My mom came and helped out and even sang a duet with me. It was a very special day!

Construction Work

Franco's mom has been here for the past two weeks and of course, I took advantage of the free babysitting to do some construction projects. Anna so kindly ruined the carpet in the master bathroom by pouring an entire bottle of shampoo on it so I ripped it our and put tile down. I stained the dirty white bathroom cabinets a lovely mahongany. That project took a whole week and then it was on to the laundry room which I painted and re-tiled. Franco helped me hang all new shelves. After a few more touches, it will be a joy to do laundry.

I haven't been doing much singing lately. In fact, I've been skipping rehearsals and haven't sung a note in almost a month. So now that the projects are done, I need a manicure and a lot of rehearsal.

The kids were out of school for spring break last week. We had so much fun with Nanna going to Monkey Joes, Stone Mountain, and the park. We ate out a lot, but my favorite part was that Nanna did the dishes the whole time. I hate that I have to go back to doing it myself now! I will miss her being here.