LAMONI'S 35TH B-DAY

I know I'm a little late posting but what can you do. Lamoni's birthday was Last Saturday the 18th, and we all got together at a restaurant, Trophy's Steakhouse, for dinner in Queen Creek. I know it was a long trip for the "West Siders" and we are so grateful that you did! It means a lot to us when you make that sacrifice for us and we love you for it! Well I hope Lamoni had a great time because he deserves it and I love him very much!!
Any ways enough of the mushy stuff but I wanted to show off Lamoni's hard work and how talented he his because he is! For those of you who don't know we did all the finish carpentry in the restaurant and if I say so myself our guys did an awesome job! I hope this showcases our work and are able to get more work from it because as you all know work is hard to come by in our line of business. Well the food was great and the atmosphere with the animals staring at us was great also. Lamoni ate buffalo steak which was gross, I couldn't even swallow it, but he liked it and that's all that counts. My dad had antelope sausage which was surprisingly good. Everyone else had some type of beef steak, I had shrimp. Everything was awesome. Thanks again for coming!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAMONI!

Lamoni with his mom, brother & sisters

EASTER AT THE MORA'S

The Mora Grand kids with Abuela.

from top:

Dallin, Joshy, Olivia, Oops Lamoni, Nelly

L.J. & Nicolas, Christian, Abuela Maly, Kenyon

Gaby & Hudson, Mikaela, Sebastian, Ammon, Triston

Haydan, Seth, Jyselle, Benjamin, Eric

Angela, Kiana, Trey & Houston

(not in the pic Colton)

Please excuse any misspelled names!

Well my house is still a little messy and the chairs, tables & confetti is evidence to that, but it's all good. It's always fun having family over, I love it! And I'm not being sarcastic I really do. I think everyone had a good time especially the kids, even the older kids (over 14), they tend to hang out in Olivia's room. Sometimes Lamoni makes them come out for fresh air.
The food is always great and this year we tried something new, I made BBQ ribs & chicken. Everyone brought the rest, it was delicious!
Hope to see you all next year for Easter!

;) Dyna

City Wrestling Tournament

LJ competed in the City Championship Tournament today. This was his first tournament. His weight class was 120lbs. There was 15 boys & 1 girl in his division. And yes he wrestled the girl and pinned her. but all in all I guess he did good. He took 6th place. Lamoni was there to yell out pointers and what moves to do, when he listened he won, good job dad!

Pinewood Derby Time!

Sebastian loves this time of year, Lamoni on the other hand does even more! I think this activity is meant for the bigger kid! Well, like always Dad is very busy and says he's going to work on it with him but as we all know it all gets completed the night before the races, until 11:30pm on a school night, I might add. Any ways it gets done and father & son are proud of their creation. Sebastian won I guess 3/4 of his races. Check out one of his wins! (his is the green one)

;) Dyna

Update on Olivia's team

WINS = 6

LOSS = 0

Olivia has started her last 5 games and I believe has only struck out once! She been playing outfield and looks very comfortable out there. She's been hitting Awesome too!

A Wonderful Day!

On Saturday we had a pretty full day! We started out with Gaby's first softball game which she did AWESOME! She's really coming into her own. Gaby has so much potential, she tries very hard an wants to get better all the time. Good job Gaby!
Then we headed home with additional family, Andy & Esteban, Benjamin & Kiana! (Thanks for coming to the game!) And since it was a beautiful day, the kids wanted to go swimming. But as we all know the water is still very cold and do you think that detoured them? Not at all! They had fun until they got cold and turned blue.
Then we all went to the movies and watched Monsters VS. Aliens 3D, Awesome flick a must see!
But if that wasn't enough, we stopped by a little carnival by the mall. By this time I think we were quite exhausted.
It was a wonderful day :)

NO WATER, thanks to LJ

Well, again Lamoni asked LJ to put some water into the pool, because it's below the water level to run the pump. We have to do this manually until Lamoni fixes a leak (who knows when that will be!) I noticed this morning around 6am that there was no water. I then ran outside a saw the pool full to the rim and water running forming a nice big puddle. I called Lamoni told him the news and said he had told LJ to let it run for 10-15 minutes then to turn it off last night. I woke LJ nicely, YEAH RIGHT!! Lamoni said I needed to call someone to fill our tank. Of course I called my father and he came to our rescue again. He said he will have someone over in 1-2 hrs. AWESOME! I then made LJ go tell our neighbors, that it was his fault they are out of water.
I met up with the water truck driver and helped him not before I got all wet from the hose. So to satisfy my revenge on being wet I made LJ jump into the cold pool. We have had an eventful day. Check out LJ getting wet!