Some cute pictures

Just wanted to post a few cute pictures of little Maggie.

Maggie at four months.

Baxter's Fourth Birthday

This year Baxter knew he was due for a real party.  He had been asking for a Chuck E Cheese party for months...so that is what he got. He really was so happy every single minute of the party.

Three kids and a blog?

We now have three kids! Blogging has taken a back seat but I am going to try and make it happen again. For friends, family and myself. The kids and I love going back on the blog and reminiscing. 

Blessing day for Maggie:)

So Much Has Happened Since February. Here it is.

March: March wasn't too exciting.  We just spent time enjoying San Diego. OH YEAH...and we found out we are expecting another baby come the first of November.
WE ARE GOING TO LET IT SURPRISE US AND WE ARE NOT FINDING OUT THE SEX.

April: Cedric graduated law school

May: We learned we were moving to Reno, Nevada. To say good bye to Southern California we took a trip to Disneyland.

June: We are adjusting to Reno and Cedric has started working and studying for the Nevada Bar.  The kid and I have been trying to keep busy.

That sums up our last few months:) Hope everyone has a great summer!

3 Years Old! Happy Birthday Baxter

Baxter turned 3 this year.  He really wanted a real party with friends so that is what he got.  We found the perfect park and the weather was cooperative most of the time.  It did get a bit windy toward the end of the party, but that didn't change how special he felt.  He was so happy and had the best time.  We love you Baxter!

Our friends in Mexico

Our very good friends, Ben and Sylvana along with their daughter Mia, move between Mexico and Chile every six months or so.  We had only been in San Diego for a week after returning from Belize when we decided to leave the country again:)  We got in the car and drove to TJ to say good bye to our friends before their departure to Chile.  It was such a nice warm day we decided to head down to Rosarito to enjoy the nice beaches.  We miss our friends already and wish them the best.  We really need some pictures of Mia, guess they better come back soon.

Through these doors pass the most beautiful women in the world.

That is what the words mean:)

Yes, it was this nice out at the end of January.

The past month

We have been up to a lot the past month.  Here are some pictures to let you in on our happenings (they are not in chronological order... but you'd never know if I hadn't said anything, I guess... just disregard this sentence)

Scout's last day of school.

Baxter's last day of school

GiGi came all the way to Belize. We made her ride the public bus, ride a bumpy boat, and buy us  food :)  It was awesome to have my grandma here.

The Grandparents Durand arrived a couple of days after GiGi.

With mom and dad Durand and Gigi our family took a boat to South Water Caye.  Scout is holding an inhabited shell.  Conchs usually live in them but this one came with a crab. She also came in contact with one inhabited by a Jelly Fish. Yes, she got stung (all over her legs). 

Since moving to Belize we have encountered more mosquito than anyone ever should.  They LOVE Baxter and he HATES them.  We used a mosquito net while sleeping in San Ignacio.  San Ignacio is the base camp town of a few Mayan ruin sites.

Scout was the star guest at her surprise birthday party.  She is now  5 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO TO CHURCH! We went to church one Sunday and met the owner of a beautiful vacation rental property.  When he found out we didn't have hot water and we were sleeping on a mattress with pokey metal springs he offered up his place for us to use.  We took him up on the offer and stayed for 4 days and 3 nights.  It was a true Caribbean dream vacation.  

Behind Baxter is a glass bottom kayak. It came with the vacation home along with nice hammock, and serveral snorkeling sets.  Once we got him in the darn thing he really enjoyed it.  We saw coral, flying fish, tons of birds, sea stars and crabs all while kayaking.

I turned 30 :) Kids got me Kool Aid and nail polish.

Mom and Dad Anderson took us on a road trip through central and  some of  southern Belize.  They also braved the border and took us to Tikal (amazing Mayan ruins in Guatemala).

This is a picture of the side of a temple at Xunantunich (another Mayan ruin site).   

While on the trip with the Anderson clan 3 out of 6 managed to get sick.  Here is proof of Cedric and Scouts sick day.
Barf Buddies!

He turned 30 and then came Halloween. Both a little Scary!

Cedric turned 30 on October 21st. To Celebrate we took a boat out to the cayes and snorkeled.  Go down a post to see the video.  We also held a family party for him at home.  It was complete with gifts and cake.  Of course, when you are in Belize things of this nature are a little different.  For example, the cake was cooked in the microwave because we do not have a working oven. His gifts consisted of a small bag of Doritos from Scout, a packet of lime Tang from Baxter and some Old Spice body wash from me:)  The kids were still very excited to pic out gifts and wrap them.  We reused cereal boxes for the gift boxes and decorated them with markers and some of Scouts workbook paper.  It was so sweet to see the kids get excited over it all.  He had 3 candles that were actually matches and every thing worked out perfectly (no house fire). Happy 30th Cedric!!!!!!

The next week brought Halloween with it!  Yay:)  The kids were soooo ready for it to come. Luckily they received a package full of candy, cards and stickers from Grandma Durand and it kept them at bay until Halloween night arrived.   They don't really celebrate Halloween in Dangriga, but we were able to find some face paint at one of the Chinese stores (Chinese people own at least half of the shops in town).  As parents we were determined to give our kids a proper Halloween.  We decided to have a party!  Well as you can guess it got wild, people were passed out drunk all over the place and the clean up in the morning was atrocious;).   Really though, our family party was just the thing.  We played mummy bowling, pin the tail on the cat, make a pumpkin face and a couple of other games.  The kids won their candy instead of trick or treating.  Scout was a black cat, Baxter was a version of Spider Man, Cedric was a wolf with a black nose and hairy face (no pictures:( though) and I was Pipi Longstocking.

Poor Baxter really wanted to be Spider Man, but the best we could do was over-sized super hero undies and shiny bike shorts.

Scouts ears were paper and her tail was made of hair extensions.