!Los Ontiveros!: Lots o'Fun

Summing up the month of April in this post (although it's only the 19th).

First week we went to Tucson to visit family and have Jacobs 9month doc apt. Little man is in the 24th percentile for weight, 97th for height and 57th for head...lean and tall with a perfect head. They'd be concerned about his weight but he has been consistent from the start (kind of like lily, but on the opposite side of the spectrum). We had fun celebrating my moms birthday with her, and going on picnics with Grammy. It was a fun week.

Mom got some serious bling from Ricardo, he's a smart man.

It was a good day to fly her kite with Grammy

Second Week, my sister decided to drive from Utah to surprise my mom in Tucson...so we went to Tucson again. They surprised lily at Costco, hopefully I can upload the video...she was shocked when she saw Ben that she did not know how to react. It was sad when we had to go back home, she loves her cousins so much! We then came back home and we got to watch little Shane Gardner, which was fun for lily to have a friend over to play. Hopefully we can get into a house soon and invite more little friends over to play with Lily.

Third week, we enjoyed the nice weather here and went on a daily picnic in the park. The parks are so great here, lots of trees and grass, makes it feel cooler. Then, we went to Tucson, again. This time Mark had be given Friday off due to end of tax season (something his work does for their employees regardless if you dealt with tax or not). We went to the Pima county fair on Friday, I went to time out for women with Tina on Saturday and then spent the day with Family on Sunday. Time out for women was wonderful, had some really uplifting speakers and others that were just depressing. One of the speakers had a 6 yr old daughter that was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary incident...her daughter sounded a lot like Lily in personality...so yeah, depressing. I left with a major headache from crying so much but also a lot of good notes for life. Some of the key things I noted:

One of the great gifts of the gospel is the ability to recognize truth, in all its forms religious or not.
Creation started with the lowest life forms to the greatest (eve being the final creation. lol)
The greater choice is always to choose the greater good for others over self.
Thru temple work, we can help God in his work to save ALL of his children.
Don't base your opinion on imperfect people.
What if my only motive is love? You don't need a motive to be a friend.
The only thing that will never change is God, cling to him.

Just a couple things that hit me harder then others, but all very good messages.

The Pima County Fair was lots of fun, Lily enjoyed all the rides and is actually turning out to be quite the dare devil. I cannot wait till she is old enough to go on all the rides a Disneyland, we are going to have so much fun!

We found out yesterday that our Ward has split and we are now in a new Stake, which apparently happens a lot here in Gilbert. So, I had a calling as a relief society teacher, taught one lesson and am not calling-less. It's all good as we are planning to move in two months anyways...but it'll be nice to be grounded in a ward for once and all. We are reaching out to a realtor to see if we can get a house in a couple months, we have found a couple houses in Gilbert and Chandler that we like and are within our price range...but we'll see how realistic that is. I hate moving.