First snow of the season

Here is picture I took today from our balcony. Our first snow of the season.

Recent pictures

Suri is just chillin with Grandma. Luis' family says Suri looks just like her grandma.
Isn't our little princess so beautiful!!!!

Saying Bye to Grandma. :-( Q'Orianka was so sad to see grandma leave. Still is still asking for her every morning.

Q'Orianka just can't get enough of holding her little sister. All day long she wants to hold her.

Registering Suri

Well, Luis and I went today to register Suri at the local Health Department, so we could get a birth certificate and a SSN card. They have never had anyone come in to register a homebirth before, so needless to say. They weren't the friendliest of people. I had tried on more than one occasasion to get the paperwork from them before hand, but they wouldn't give it to me. I won't go into details, but they did remember me from my previous visits.

They tried to give us the run around, but I just walked all over the lady and told her we were here to register a homebirth and Luis caught the baby. Registering her wasn't as painful as I thought it would be, based on my previous experience with this particular health department. According to our midwife, other health departments are much better to dealing with this issue since they have dealt with homebirths, (we have several, Amish and Mennonite communities here.) The lady at the health department implied we'd have a problem with the paperwork, but I don't think so. They just haven't moved into the 21st century.

As a side note.. the Health Department was as old if not older then Glenn Edwards in Lincoln. Sad, huh!!

Also, we changed the baby's name to Suri, it seemed to fit her better. I don't remember what it means, I'll have to ask Luis.

Our Homebirth

The newest member of the Palomino Family has FINALLY arrived. Zisary (pronounced 'Sesary') Lucero Sloan Palomino. YAHOOO!!!!

On 11/20 @ 11:06am. She weighed 7 lbs 14 oz and is 19 1/2 inches. It was a wonderful experience having our baby a home. Luis and I are so greatful to our wonderful midwife Wanda and her assistant Crystal. It was such a blessing to be able to meet them and share this wonderful experience with them. We are also so thankful for Aprill's mom who was able to come and share this moment with us. Q'Orianka has be loving having Grandma here, and they have really bonded which is just what we had hoped for, so she would be happy and content during the birth.

Q'Orianka loves her baby sister and wants to smother her and her mom with hugs and kisses. She hasn't quite figured out that there is not a baby in her mom's belly anymore, but having a baby in the house distracts her from kissing and hugging Aprill's belly too much. :-)

The following are pictures from the birth.

Here is Zisary 24 hours old. Isn't she beautiful!!!

Here's Wanda, Zisary and Aprill, moments after Zisary was born.

Zisary's first exam.

Hangin' with Grandma

Grandma and I are designing pretty things on her computer.

I love watching TV with Grandma.

Don't I look so pretty. Grandma is fixing my hair.

Sleep or Eat?

Q'Orianka can't decide if she wants to eat or sleep more. Isn't she so cute!!!!

Obama Wins the Election

Luis is very excited since Obama won the election. I think if will be very interesting to see what happens the next four years.

Voting

We voted did you? Luis voted for the first time. Q'Orianka went with us, and had a grand ol time making friends with everyone.

Baby Shower

This afternoon, the teachers and staff and Luis' school gave us a Baby Shower. It was wonderful and they were very generous. We had a great time. Here are some of the pictures.

Q'Orianka is 2 years old!!!

Well its official, our little sunshine is 2 years old. Its hard to believe. We had the missionaries over last night and decided to make it a little impromptu party. We had another family over that have twin daughters that are 9 months old and a son who is 5 years old. We had a great time. Of course Q'Orianka loved it since instead of one baby their are two. We gave her a little flan for the first time. Boy she was wired, then she just crashed. It was really funny. Good thing we don't feed her like that very often.

Fall Colors

Here are a couple of pictures from our balcony. We wanted to show how beautiful the tree is, that is outside Q'Orianka's bedroom.

Q'Orianka's 2nd Birthday Party

We went up to visit Luis's family this weekend to celebrate his mom and sister's birthday. While we were their his nieces decided to throw a birthday party for Q'Orianka. She won't be two until October 27th. She had not idea what was going on, but she sure liked her presents and the cake, it was the first time I've given her cake.

I love my baby sister!!

This video was taken after our midwife left. Next time I'll get a video of her while the midwives are here. Q'Orianka is so cute. She loves to hug and kiss her sister. She keeps asking to hold the baby. I love it!!!

Back On-Line

We've finally arrive to the 21st Century. Well, at least for know. Our computer crashed not long after we moved here and a friend just gave us another one. I've been dying without it. Here is a picture of Q'Orianka not long after we got here playing outside of Luis' sister's house.

New Beginings

Well, we are finally in touch with the real world again. We moved a couple of weeks ago to Collinsville, Va. It is so beautiful here, the trees almost make you feel that you are living in the country. So far we love it. We arrived about 3 weeks ago. It took us about 5 days to find a place and only because 2 of those days fell on a Saturday and Sunday. And this place shuts down tight on the weekends. Once we were moved in we left for No. Virginia to visit Luis' family for about 5 days. It was a wonderful visit. Q'Orianka had a blast, and his family had so much fun playing with her. All the little things we've gotten used her doing, they were in awe of. It was really cute.

Once we returned we had some trouble getting our water turned on. They are kind of weird about the water. Everyone, including rentals must pay for water/garbage and sewer. And they require you to go in person, pay a cash deposit, and bring your SSN card with you. Needless to say we were without water for about 4 days. Yuck!!! Good thing we do not know anyone here. Because we stunk!!! Once the water was turned on it was easier, it was another day before someone could come and fix the hot water heater. But cold water is better than no water, that's for sure.

Q'Orianka is doing good. She really misses her friends in Provo, especially, Caleb, Lola (the dog across the street) and Marren. Except for nursery there are not many little kids for her to play with. Luckily the weather has cooled enough for us to take morning and evening walks. I'd love to find a park for her but as of yet, I haven't seen one.

Luis started his orientation this week. He really likes the faculty, which is wonderful, since he has heard on numerous occasions that the middle school, he will be teaching at is a tough one. Which makes sense, since this is very poor area. The students start school on Thursday.

We are members of a wonderful branch. Everyone has be so wonderful and friendly to us. On Sunday, they gave us our first calling, Luis will be teaching the 14-18 year olds. and I will be teaching R.S.

Welcome to the Palomino Family Blog!!!

Welcome to the Palomino Family Blog!!

Since our family will be moving soon. I thought this would be a great opportunity for us to start a blog, to share our daily life with our friends and family.

If you haven't heard we are moving to Martinsville, VA on July 21, 2008.
Luis is getting ready to start his first teaching job their. He will be teaching Spanish, in the local Middle School. We are all excited about the move. Martinsville is about 4 hours from D.C. and 2 hours from the N.Carolina border.

During the day, while Luis is working, Aprill is going through cabinets and cupboards, making piles of stuff to sell at their weekly yard sale. We've decided to only take what will fit in our Blazer and 4x8 hitch. So needless to say, everything is going. We still have a couple of weeks left before we leave and we are already sleeping on the floor. FUN!!!
Aprill is trying to make sure she doesn't tire herself out, since she is expecting another baby in November (It's a Girl!!)

Q'Orianka is having good ol' time, going through the piles of stuff looking for things to play with. At our weekly yard sales, she loves playing with the local kids who come over, not to mention all the toys she hasn't seen in quite some time. She has be come quite a talker, most of the time we don't know what she is saying, nevertheless we enjoy listening to her tell all about what ever it is she is talking about.