The Christmas play starring Keana and Keylan!

The children at Obed's parents church did a little play this year. The theme was Christmas around the world. All the children wore hats representing different countries and they talked about Christmas traditions around the world, while decorating a tree with things that symbolized all the different cultures and how we celebrate the same story, the birth of Jesus. They also sang Christmas songs throughout the play. At one point a little boy from the crowd climbed up on the stage to sit with his older brother. As his mother was trying to keep him off the stage, Keylan loudly announced, "Listen to your mother! You can't be up here, you're not old enough." ... Keylan is 3. It was so funny! All the kids in the play. Keana and Keylan singing Christmas carols. Decorating the tree. "Keylan you have to be quiet." We can see you Keana. All the kids singing. Their Sunday School teacher narrating the story. (Hi Keylan! ... he keeps looking at the camera) Keana and Keylan Ruth and Keana - so cute! . Wito prays for everyone and thanks God for Christmas. Wita announces that there are bags of Christmas goodies for all the children. Keylan gets some help from grandma ... thanks grandma.

Merry Christmas!

Hope all our family and friends are having a great Christmas Day! We wish you all the best. Here's some pics from our Christmas morning... there weren't too many gifts to unwrap as we were not very good at wrapping them this year... we kept giving them to each other as soon as we bought them! ... but we had a lot of fun. This was a gift from Doby ... an ornament of a puppy in a stocking to commemorate his first Christmas (...actually from Wita y Wito Castillo) ... =) Doby opened his present from Wita and Wito Castillo (Obed's parents... their grandkids call them Wita + Wito) ... a toy with 3 squeekers! We're sure to hear that some more today! Presents for Wito ... look at that "Kiwi" Tea! Presents for Wita... Doby gets some doggy treats from some of his new friends ... gingerbread doggy treat cookies shaped like snowmen and santa! Yum yum.... ... mmmm, that was good ... are there any more? ... it's a paper shredder! Just what we needed for all those important papers that were pilling up. Smile Honey! ... look at the camera Ooops! We're taking a picture? ... New shoes... sweet!

It's snowing in MO

Well, here I am at the office in MO... it's pretty cold up here right now. My parents have this little ... thing ... that tells you the temp. inside and outside... well, this morning is said 24 degrees!!!

Yard Time

Doby loves playing in the backyard with the other dogs (Lolita, Hurrican, and Canela)... he loves digging holes, running around, barking at whoever walks by (learned that from the other dogs - but he's a great guard dog now)... eating pecans from the pecan tree, tossing oranges around and chasing them... This is Canela ... she was terrified of Doby at first because he's so big compared to her .. and he's so a 50lb. puppy! Canela is much braver now and actually tries to get Doby to chase her and then she chases him ... so cute! Here, Doby was digging this hole and then found something else to chew on. Canela ran over dug in his hole, then ran off, looking back as if to say, "I touched your hole, aren't you gonna chase me?" ... then she would creep forward, dig in the hole and run off again ... she kept doing it til Doby looked up from his bone. On Friday night Obed and I went over to the church because our friends were recording a Christmas album. Outside is that spongy TX grass ... the really thick stuff. Doby had his nose plastered to the grass and was trying to catch something ... after watching him for a few minutes we figured out what he was after ... every time he moved his foot the grass would start to stand back up (very spongy grass) ... so he would stick his nose in the grass as if there was something in there pushing the grass back up ... then he'd move his other foot and to the same thing, back and forth trying to figure out how the grass was moving. He was so funny!

Doby saying goodbye to some of our MO friends