Happy Birthday Daniela!!!

Happy 11th Birthday Daniela! 

I love your gentleness and sweet sweet spirit!!!

Boys Building

Bryan and Jackson love to build things. Fernando and Antonio like to help too. Jackson and Bryan are very creative and have big imaginations.
While the groups were here they left a ping pong set for Bryan. He along with Denis built a small table to play ping pong on out of some old wood. Last week Jackson took some wheels that were laying around along with scrap wood and built a skateboard.
Yesterday Bryan, Jackson, and Fernando were working on making the skateboard into a scooter. Bryan was awful proud of the scooter. Bryan currently is the only one who can steer the scooter. Let's hope the others learn quickly so that there are no crashes. Although with 23 kids there is always accidents.
Poor baby Josue was taking a ride on the skateboard with Jackson and planted his face into the concrete. His poor little face his all scraped up. Let's hope no one else gets hurt but I think that is wishful thinking.

Birthday girls!!!

Rosy and Nohemy share a birthday!!!

Yesterday Rosy was extra excited as she got to wear regular clothes to school for her birthday. She did have a bit of a crisis looking for clothes to wear, but that is just part of being a teenager and girl. She usually has to wear her school uniform every day to school. She came home with cake and goodies she had got through out the day.

Nohemy had a bad start to the day as she was finishing up her homework. Working on writing her numbers 5,000 - 10,000. There was only a small problem it was suppose to by 10's. She was a long ways from 10,000 but that was because she was doing every single number. She took her homework incomplete. Although once she got home she got busy and quickly got her numbers done, correctly. She also got cake and goodies for her special day!!!!

Happy 9th birthday Nohemy! Happy 14th birthday Rosy!

Santa Ana Fair

For the past two weeks the Santa Ana fair has been going on. Which means lots noise and chaos with fireworks and music through out the night. The kids have always wanted to go to the fair but due to not being able to have adult/child ratio we have never took them. 

Well this year a group from England took the kids to the fair. They each got to spend about $5 and pick out fair goodies. It was only a short hour the kids were in the fair but they all loved getting to go. They were all so proud of the their goodies.

 Guadalupe 

 Maryuri ~ yum yum Cotton Candy!!!!

Rosy, Cindy, Sisi, and Nohemy very proud of their new purses/bookbags

I have a feeling this is going to be a tradition now to take the kids to the fair every year with a group. Although we are happy to see things going back to normal here in Santa Ana as all of the vendors start packing up their stuff today. 

Pavilion Party

 Long at last we have a pavilion. We have wanted a covered area for as long as I can remember. It is hard with 23 kids on rainy days to find something for all of them to do. They need to run and jump and get their energy out and it isn't so easy to do with so many kids inside the house.
There are three ladies here from Borger Church of Christ who brought the funds from their church to build the pavilion.The ladies along with many others worked a good hard week to get the pavilion done. Once the pavilion was built they all worked hard to get the concrete work done. Steve did a great job over seeing the pavilion and making sure it was built before he had to leave.
On Wednesday the ladies wanted to have a pavilion party! Games, hot dogs, balloons, coke floats, pinatas, water fights and lots of candy!!!!! The kids loved it! Thank you to all of you who have worked hard on the pavilion. You can be sure we will use the pavilion for shade daily and we hope to get to use it on rainy days too. I am already looking for someone to make us some nice picnic tables and get us a grill to have for cookouts. If anyone is interested with helping out let me know.

 The finished pavilion

 Olman

Sisi and Cindy racing to see who can get their balloon blew up the fastest.

 CASA kiddos

 Any, Nohemy, and Cris enjoying their hotdogs and chips.

Doris enjoying her coke float (thanks Pat and Kim)

Some how I missed out on taking pictures of all of the hard work the kids and groups put into working on the pavilion. Check out Terri Tindalls blog for more pictures.

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