who's sixteen........

 
 
 
August 26 which is tomorrow Rico will be turning 16. How in the world did that happen that he is going to be that old.
You know the saying "where does the time go?" Sixteen years just flew by. Not sure what we are going to do tomorrow for Rico's birthday. I know we will definitely watch the Steeler/Eagle matchup cause Rico loves the EAGLES. That's my boy!!
Rico is a hard one to buy gifts for so we usually just take him out and let him pick what he would like (with in reason).
Burger King is his favorite place to eat so we will probably end up there at some point. If you would like to pray for Rico you can pray that he will have more of an understanding of who Jesus is and what he did for him on the cross. I'm not sure what comprehension he has of church and why we go and prayer and all that goes along with following God. And you could pray that he will speak more words and communicate better his thoughts and feelings with us. Thanks! The pictures were taken this year at the Eagles training camp.

makeup review...........

The last time I bought mascara I bought Revlon 3D Extreme. My rating is a C-
Not worth the money or effort. No 3D effect here on my eyes that's for sure.

Yesterday I bought Loreal Volume Shocking Mascara. I only used it once mind you. But I think it is a really great mascara. It's a two part system. One side has a white primer that you apply first and then you flip it over and apply the actual mascara. The white side has a really great fluffy brush. And the mascara side has a brush like a comb. I really like how when you pull out the brush it really takes off the excess mascara. It made my lashes look longer. For now I will give this mascara a B+. This grade might go higher as I use it more. I'll let you know.

I bought lipstick as well. In recent months I've gotten away from wearing lipstick and just have been wearing lip balm or a gloss. But lipstick is making a come back.
And let me tell you girls lipstick pulls your whole look together. Anyway I bought Revlon Renewist. This lipstick has a really nice feel too it. I do not like to feel like I have lipstick on. This Renewist glides on and feels light. It's a matte look but not to matte where your lips look dehydrated. This lipstick has a moisture core in the middle of it that definitely hydrates. I give this lipstick a B+.

Not the Eagles.......

 

 

This past Saturday night I had the opportunity to go with my husband to a Steelers game at the Redskins. We had a fun time together and it was a cool experience to be at the Redskins Stadium. It wasn't the greatest game but it was a close one and the Steelers scraped one out at the very end and won.

yellowed leaves...............

Confession of sin is a good thing. It's not something that I have often done but last caregroup I felt compelled to confess to my ladies at caregroup of one of my struggles which is regular quiet time. Thank you ladies my friends for listening to me that night. Even though I haven't experienced an overwhelming desire to spend countless hours in fellowship with God it has helped me to make it a point to put time with God on the agenda. I've been lazy but it's time to stop. I was reminded of what God can do in your life when you look to his word regularly when I was looking at my flowers. I have flower bags that hang on the back porch of our house. In the beginning when I put them there they looked nice and fresh and started growing and then got to the point where you couldn't see the bag very much just a nice bunch of flowers providing much delight to the eye. But as time went on they started to deteriorate. There started to be gaps in places and you could see the bag again and leaves started to turn yellow as well as beetles started to feast on the flowers. I couldn't figure out the yellow leaves I tried watering more and watering less. Finally I thought I need to fertilize these beauties. So I did I miracle growed and then added some long term fertilizer to them and wow what a difference in just a few days they are looking beautiful once again. The Holy Spirit brought me that thought. When I allow God to fertilize me when I look to the word to sustain me and encourage me it will produce good growth with in me. It will be life to me. God extended his mercy to me once again. Hallelujah what a Savior.

There is a great new version of "What a Savior" for your downloading pleasure at this website.
http://worshipmatters.blogs.com:80/bobkauflin/2007/06/what-a-savior-m.html
Check it out it's a good one.

4 generations........

 
 

Buddies.........

 
 
Elijah and Rico are good buddies they like to hang out together. The pic of them in the car I think was right after I heard the horn blowing in our car Edwin went to investigate and found these two. Rico was pointing at Elijah blaming him for blowing the horn but I think it was the other way around.

Jazelyn's birthday.....

 

 

Jazelyn turned 1 year old Aug. 4th. Erika and Hector had a birthday party for her at Lancaster County Park.

pride....

I have to tell you all a humbling but funny story. I needed sunglasses so Rico and I headed to Marshall's. I found a pair bought them and headed out to the car. Of course I wanted to wear them right away so I took the sticky label off of the side. This took me awhile but I was determined and eventually got the label off. But then I realized I have no way to get the plastic ring that has the big price tag on that stores always strategically place right in the middle of the sunglasses so that when you try them on you can never truly see what you look like. I didn't have Edwin with me whose teeth can just chomp right through that plastic. Last time I tried that I chipped my tooth so no way was I going to attempt to dislocate the ring. So I just tore off the label and thought oh well I'm just going home no one will see the big ole plastic thing in the middle of my sunglasses and off I went. Meanwhile I decided to treat Rico to his fave place "Burger King". I drive up to the window and I notice the lady looking at me a little longer then normal as if what I thought was her admiring how my new sunglasses looked on me. Of course in my mind I'm thinking oh yeah I must look pretty cool in my new shades. I get the food and the change and drive off. As I'm driving off I a steal a little look in my rear view mirror to assure myself once again that I "look good" in my sunglasses. That's when I started to laugh cause I forgot that the plastic thingy was still hanging in the middle of my shades. Bam! humbled just like that. The lady was probably thinking doesn't that lady realize she has the plastic thingy hanging on her glasses. Or maybe she was thinking.."did she steal those glasses". God is good to remind us that we need to be humble in all things.

Matthew 23:12
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

dinner........

 
 
As you can see I'm making up for lost time here with my posting. I think with this one I'm all up to date.
Last night we had Erika and Hector and the kids over for dinner. I made Chinese at Hector's request. Didn't turn out the greatest I thought but everyone seemed to like it anyway. After dinner we all went outside and played a game called Taps.
Jazelyn and Elijah got so dirty outside that we gave them a bath before they left. Jazelyn is a handful she is what you would call high maintenance. We topped the evening off with cheese cake and icecream.

Binns Park........

My husband is such a good grandfather or should I say Abuelo. He loves to be with our grandkids. We had them overnight this past Sat. Edwin took the kids to see his mom and then after that took them to Binns Park to the fountain and here's the pictures from that. Edwin and Bella took these pictures. Our gkids are so cute it's just fun to watch them.

icecream contest.........

Since Turkey Hill was sponsoring this event there was of course icecream there. Bella wanted to enter the icecream eating contest. First prize was an IPod, second place a signed Dawkins jersey, and third was a signed football by Takeo Spikes. All the kids who entered looked older, bigger, and were boys. But that didn't phase Bella she sat in the mix with everyone and prepared herself mentally for the challenge. The challenge was to eat as much icecream as you could in 3 minutes I think it was. The timer started and they were off eating. We are cheering her on and she's doing great really holding her own. I'm waffling back and forth between yeah go Bella go eat eat eat I want you to win the IPod to oh girl don't eat all that icecream it's not good for you and then back again ohhh it's just little cups of icecream come on move it Bella you got to eat more. Anyway Bella came in third she did great. She ate 9 cups of icecream so she got the football. It's pretty cool. Three cheers for Bella. Oh and sorry about the first two pics I know I already showed you them but they got in the slideshow by mistake and I didn't know how to take them out.