Maria had a Birthday?

Why yes, Maria did have a birthday. She is officially a TEENAGER!
We worked Saturday morning, so by 2 in the afternoon Maria was pretty discouraged.
But it was all good, she went babysitting, so my Mother, Mara, and I set off on our mission.
It all started with Chocolate Milk...

My Sweet Mother took me grocery shopping with her, which she hates to do. We walked around the store looking for vegetables, chocolate milk, and other things in between. Finally it was my turn, Balloons. We bought 70 Balloons, hurried through the line, and we were on our way.
Chocolate Milk was on a 2 for $1.00 sale. Or something like that... So we both got one. Not thinking about Mara who was at home putting streamers up in mine and Maria's room...

Mara did such a great job with the streamers! When I walked up to the bright bedroom Mara stated "I think I've officially made it so that you can't walk in without having to duck under streamers."

Little did we know, we were in for a rough time. I bought 70 balloons, plus we had quite a few from Mara's collection. I discovered that Mara could blow up, and tie about 3 balloons in the time that it took me to just tie one balloons... Things were not easy. This balloon had a hole in it.

"Where is all the air coming out of?!?!" -Leah Anne
"uhh... THE HOLE?!" -Mara
Two balloons ended up with holes, and I attempted to bandage... Well tape them up. This balloon was successful... The other one wasn't so lucky...

This was the other balloon... It didn't really work out...

Maria got home from babysitting and went straight to her room. She was all like

"Giggle giggle giggle"

After she saw her room. Mara and I made her, that's right, MADE her go to the movies with us. We went and saw Julie and Julia. Ahh! It was too adorable. We all enjoyed it!

We then decided we would get our pictures taken in the Photo booth thingy... Well we didn't have 3 one dollar bills. So it didn't work. We then decided we'd use our camera to take pictures of ourselves in the photo booth... that didn't work out too well either. But it was pretty funny!

Then Maria had a brilliant plan. She decided I should attempt to go up the down escalator. That's right, try to run up, the down escalator.

After I attempted that, we went outside to meet up with my Mother dear. She decided we should be taken to the Fast Food Restraunt Wendys. So, we went to Wendys. And ate food.

Maria was sooooo super happy... You just can't tell in this picture...

Mara was enjoying herself too...

As well as Kaytlyn... Okay... She was really eating a sour orange.

On Sunday Maria had her cake... Well she decided she didn't want a birthday cake, instead she wanted Birthday Brownies. So of course, she got what she wanted.

Gabrielle made the very delicious chocolatey soft brownies. And was really annoyed with Maria when she exclaimed that she was going to cut an "M" into the Brownies.

Gabrielle got pretty upset, and asked if she could just have a normal piece... This was about as normal as it got for Maria's brownie cutting.

As soon as Peter saw, he decided he wasn't that hungry for Brownies anymore. Too bad huh?

Website!

Once again, I have updated my website.
If anyone is interested in looking.
It's nothing real nice yet, hopefully that happens soon!!

leahannephotography.weebly.com

I love my family.

This is to you, your parents, your siblings, younger or older, your adorable children, your noisy neighbor, your cousins, and to the world.

I LOVE MY FAMILY

Tonight my Mother, bless her heart, took another daring quest. She drove Joshua, Emma, and I to her work, to clean.
What an adventure. We had been put in charge of cleaning 3 buildings.
We started with building 3, moved to 2, and then 4.

3 went by fast, I worked in the bathrooms with my sweet little sister Emma.
She told me about school, and her friends.
As we got ready to leave that building, and head for building 2 I could already feel that something would go wrong.

Emma had started to complain about how heavy the bag was that she was carrying.
It was dripping, and too heavy for her, so Joshua carried both heavy bags.
We got the top floor of the second building done and had moved to the bottom.
Joshua was swift, and had finished everything, all he needed to do was clean the main entrance windows.
He asked me to hand him the windex, and some paper towels. I stretched out my burnt brown arm and held it up for him to grab.
He held it by the lid in the air, and swung it a few times, messing around with Emma who was on the stairs below him.

I had walked around the corner to the bathroom to mop the tiled floor, when everything happened too fast.
I heard a high pitched shriek from Emma, I was up off the floor and over to her side in an instant, before I could even ask what had happened I heard Joshua yell at me, telling me to grab it.
Joshua had the top of the bottle in his hand, but the bottom had now fallen down more than half the flight of stairs, and was leaking on every step,
Without thinking I grabbed it as fast as I could and slammed it onto the ground. Running to grab the white paper towels to start dabbing at the stairs.
Joshua was already on it, he was not dabbing though, instead frantically apologizing to Emma, and swiping at the stairs.
I asked Emma to start on the floor, and talked with Joshua for a minute trying to get him to calm down.
I convinced him to go do the main door glass windows, and that I would finish the stairs.
After a moment he agreed to it. I frantically dabbed at the stairs, trying to get rid of as much blue windex as possible before my Mother saw.

After I ran out of paper towels I went over to Emma in the bathroom, I begged her to relax, and told her how sorry Joshua and I were. Letting her know that you could hear the hurt that Joshua felt in his voice.
I asked Emma if the liquid had gotten on her face, she said no, but that the bottle hit her head, and leg, spilling all over her body before it hit the stairs.
I felt awful. We quickly finished up that building before moving onto the last.

The last building, building 4 goes by so fast.
Joshua finished first, and My Mother next. Emma and I were the last to finish.
Well I was, I mopped the bathroom floor by myself.
When I walked out I saw Joshua talking with Emma by the pull up bar.
He had asked her how many she thought he could do.
She responded with 3, he then asked me, I said 7.
As he went to do it it wasn't completely on the top of the door frame, he went to pull up and the bar fell forward, taking my dear little brother Joshua with it.

He scrapped his knee on the carpet, and took some wood chips off the top of the door frame.
We all gasped. My Mother decided we would just set it off to the side. And figure out what to do with it later.
Surprisingly with everything that had happened, finished in about an hour and a half.
It was quite the night.

Rain rain PLEASE come again!

Jeez! It's about time I got on here and updated!
Most might say the sun is what brightens their day and makes them smile.
As for me, it's the gloomy weather, the rains poring, our trees blowing, thunder growling like a fierce tiger, and lighting glowing. While Maria, Gabrielle and I are out taking photos...

Maria was soooo cute!

Yes. I picked out her outfit. Go me!

We laughed so much!

"One, Two... Two... Two... POSE!... Three."

My sisters are so gorgeous!

"Maria pose! No! Right now Girlie POSE!" -Leah
"Fine! I'm ready!" -Maria
"Aw, it's okay, I just took a picture of the clouds." -Leah

Gabrielle is such an angel!

"This is the look Gabrielle gives me every time I say something; 'uh... weirdo..."

Okay seriously? Cutie!

Maria was quite the Model for me.

Yay! Gabrielle took a picture for us... Well... She took about 6, but the first 5 times either me, or Maria... Or the both of us where not paying attention.

Maria was really good.

Flashing a smile.

"Just pretend like your skipping, no one will know you weren't really."

Gabrielle was spacing out most of the time. So we didn't get as many pictures of here.

What a cute little girl! I could just hug her forever!

"Look both ways before crossing the grass!"

I love black and white photos.

Here is my story, I'll keep it as short as I can! I know My brother-in-law Mike doesn't like to read long things! hahah.
Samuels Birthday was August 25.
One of his friends gave him a blue star balloons.
On September 5 Samuel gave it to me.
I decided I'd draw a smile on it, and name it "Charlyn" (Ch-are-lin)
Not being able to decide if it was a boy or a girl.
This balloon loves to wander!
It enjoys being in the bathroom, particularly the shower, and seems to be fond of my mother and Maria.
My Mother woke up Sunday morning with Charlyn right by her head.
She said if it showed up in the room again, she'd have to pop it.
I had to start tying it up so that it wouldn't be popped.
Seems as though Charlyn is getting old and tired.
I don't think it'll last much longer.
I had some great laughs while it lasted though!

Videos!

Here are some random videos from the past three months. I'll update with stories soon. I promise! Just enjoy some videos for now! Thanks for being patient!

Oh dear...

Sigh. I know I need to update the blog when my youngest sister Emma tells me it's been a while. Good grief.

I'll update it more sometime within the next two days. But here are some side stories.
There where about 20-30 hang gliders a few weeks ago.
It was so cool to watch them come from the top of the mountain!
But come to hear, one or two got stuck at the top, with injuries!
They had set up in the park 8 cop cars, an ambulance, and a fire truck.
All in the field by Wasatch Elementary School.
A lot of neighbors gathered around to see what was going on.

What to do memorial day weekend... Swim of course! On Monday, me along with all my little sisters... and Joshua, got to go swimming at Hyrum and Sylvias pool. It was such a blast!
I hadn't been swimming with Hyrum there before, it was extra fun though!

Joshua and Hyrum had some pretty sweet moves!

A few weeks ago, Maria, Gabrielle, Emma and I took our nieces and nephews to the park.
Right as we started we warned them that they would have to hold hands as we crossed the street.
Josh then reached out his hand to hold Mias right away. Josh is adorable.
Mia wasn't quite sure what to do.
So we took an extra 2 minutes at the beginning of our walk up there watching Josh show Mia how to hold his hand.
I love little kids!

Monsivais Family Reunion

The George and Rebecca Monsivais Family Reunion 2009

In a hot dog bun.
(This is the reunion backwards)

The goal was to see who could eat 4 hot dogs, with the bun, and ketchup if you wanted it, the fastest. Samuel got first place. Hyrum second. And Jacob third.

Samuel received a hot dog belt buckle.

Anthony working on finishing up.

It was so nasty, but so much fun to watch the contest.

Even my nephew Josh who just turned five was participating!

Anthony trying to hurry!

Heidi subbed in for David because he had to work. Jacob said she had to do it because we hadn't quite accepted her into the family yet. Now she is officially accepted in.

Everyone was crowding around!

This was at the beginning. When Jacob, of course, was explaining the rules of the contest.

Everyone was getting ready. And laughing like crazy!

"The rule is if your going to hurl you do it to your left. Common courtesy people!" -Jacob

I guess he was trying to figure out the best way to do this.

Lets get ready!

Anthony was the first one to the table.

Emma and Genevieve where setting out the hot dogs.

We went to the Power Tumbling Gym early in the morning.

Everyone had so much fun. A few of us thought it sounded lame. But it was a blast!

Jen and Hyrum.

Anthony and a few of the other older boys climbed to the top of the rope and then dropped!

hahah. This was hilarious. Josh was helping Mike out. He threw the rope in. Told Mike to grab it with both hands. And then he tried to pull mike out. Turns out Mike got out and Josh got stuck in.

Gabrielle and I helping Zoe with the swing.

Just having a blast!

Sam brought his Girl Friend, Paige, to the Reunion. They had a lot of fun. She is a cute girl.