Temple Square

I love the fact that my mom's birthday is in December just for the fact that it's always during Christmas break and that I never have to miss it! This year my dad arranged for us all the meet in Salt Lake to walk through the temple square lights, my mom had no clue and thought that's all we were doing until, we said our goodbye's and she and my dad went to the roof for dinner.
We took the front runner and tracks, which Xander was way excited about although he doesn't really look like it in the pictures, but he calls it a choo choo train! He especially loved the ride back since he got to sit with his cousin Gunnar, those two are definitely partners in crime! We went back our parents house and they destroyed the place... I was still picking up the loot they had chucked down the stairs the next day! And that was after the laundry detergent all over the laundry room/bathroom floor, and mass of toys in the living room. They always get into trouble together but it's so much fun to see what mischievous adventures they come up with. They were lot's of help with opening grandma's presents and Xander couldn't believe the sweater we got my mom, he helped open it and said, "WOW!" and started hugging it, it was hilarious!

09 SUU Football Season wrap up!

SUU had a very good season and the program is improving every year with the new coaching staff. We had a 5 and 6 season, defeating Dixie state, North Dakota, UC Davis, San Diego University and Texas State. The losses were all pretty close calls! Nick had an amazing year and has made great strides at improving his obviously heaven sent talent every season, anyone who knows him, (or at least has seen him) knows that he was born to play the game of football! I was so proud to see my beaten up husband return from games with numerous bumps and bruises and other more outstanding injuries like a hyper extended elbow, sprained arm muscle, sprained ankle, bruised knee bursa, and horrible looking field turf burn (I'm sure I'm forgetting some too)! But he never skipped a beat and never let it stop him, he gives it his all and leaves it all on the field with no regrets! Xander loves to watch and imitate his daddy on the field, he gets down in his stance and you have to say, "down, set, hike!" and he'll take off to tackle someone or
something, or to retrieve a ball. He can already catch and throw a football like a pro, and surprises many people by his drop kick! We love to support Nick, and can't wait for one more year to be there in the stands cheering him on! GARCIA #79!!!

Cal Poly Trip

Every year I planned to go to the Cal Poly game in San Luis Obispo, and every year plans fell through until this year... Cyd and I flew to see our men play and I was in for an even bigger surprise. My big brother Ben and sister in law Yuki decided to drive up and join us for the weekend, I was ecstatic to see them. We had a blast. We went to this Castle and although we walked around forever and our tour guide was totally lame, we managed to have some fun of our own, we thought we were hilarious copying the statues! You can't go to Cali and

not visit a beach, so of course we went! We were amazed with the star fish we found, I don't think it appreciated us detaching it from it's rock and poking at it, but we returned it to a safe nook.







The game was totally nerve racking but we ended up losing by ONE stinkin point! By the end of the trip I was ready to be home with my hubby and little Xander man, but was so happy for the experience and memories!

The BIG 2!

Xander was born 7-29-2007, and although it feels like just yesterday we were going to the hospital two years have flown by! Our little baby boy has grown up into a rough and tumble toddler! We have enjoyed every second of being Xander's parents, he has filled our lives with so much love, joy, and laughter. There's nothing that can explain the love we have for our little X-man!

For his big day we celebrated by having a pool party and barbeque at my Aunt's! Xander is like a fish in water and has no fears! Our brave little guy has no second thought about jumping off the diving board and going down the slide into the pool.

He loves every minute he spends splishing and splashing in the water. When we were all water logged we busted out the presents and when I say busted I mean it, Nick was so excited to give Xander our present he brought the best out first instead of last! Xander was extatic to see his big boy tonka bike!

And had no plans on getting off it to open his other gifts, so when i tried to put him in his chair you can only imagine how he reacted.....

so long story short he ended up opening the rest of the loot while sitting on his bike. We finished with the good ol' cake and ice cream!

Bye Bye Shag... Hello MULLET!

Well we finally decided to get rid of Xander's long hair a week or so into July. Nick was begging to give Xander a mullet and of course my first response was "NO WAY!" But after some pleading and pouting I made a deal with Nick that if we did give our poor son a mullet that it would only last ONE day... Nick tried to negotiate but I stood my ground and he promised, so don't judge, we did it!


We had the perfect timing because we did it the night just before Nick's grandparent's 50th wedding anniversary! So he sported it for the dinner with the family and then had it completely cut for the big celebration at the park. It was so funny because you could actually tell that he enjoyed having it because of all the attention he got, of course it was mainly everyone laughing at him but that didn't matter to him, he just smiled and laughed along with, he's so funny!

Just Like Papa!

Grandpa's biggest fan!

So my dad has recently came back to his great hall of memories and got a Harley Davidson Sportster, it scares my mom to death that he is driving it now in his latter years but since it makes him happy she's willing to allow it (as long as he wears his helmet), but she hasn't been brave enough to bust open her brand new helmet and climb onto the back of it yet.

But one person who isn't scared is our little rugrat, first thing he did when he escaped into grandpa's garage was climb up onto the bike all by himself and immediately try to figure out how to get it on and now any time he sees a motorcylce driving around he yells "bike! bike!". So the other morning my dad walked into the kitchen while getting ready to leave with his helmet under his arm, when Xander spotted it and called it a hat and insisted on wearing it! And soon enough he put two and two together and put it on his head on and staggered down the stairs in the over sized helmet into the garage and climbed back up on the motorcylce! Any time we aren't quite sure where he's at the first place to check is the garage and we usually find him sitting on the Harley. He's too funny and I'm sure makes his papa proud!

Yesterday my dad had his first passenger in years, my sister in law Yuki went for a ride to antelope island with him. Xander was reluctant to get off and upset to see them drive off without him. My mom was just happy to have them both happy to return in safety... maybe she'll be riding with him soon!