A day at the Denver Zoo!

Albalate Atencio Kids Birthdays 2009!

Gabriel 2 yrs on June 11

Kian 7 yrs on June 18th

Sophia 9 yrs on May 22nd

Jacob 16 yrs on June 5th

Happy Birthday to our beautiful, smart, funny children! You make our lives an adventure every day!

More pics.....

Check out Gabe's new do!

Gabe LOVVVESSSS Jake!

Mom and gabe get new haircuts!

His new do!

His BEFORE pic!

Mom, lookin' like an Atencio

Well, as you can see, Gabe got his first haircut. It was less traumatizing then we thought it would be. He cried but not toooo much. Then Mom decided it was time to go back to her roots....literally. So my Stylist says this is my REAL hair color. Who knew? And I decided since I was going for a change I might as well go whole hog, so to speak. So I got a new do too!

Gabe looks like a new man.....no more severe bed head. No more "look at that cute little girl!" It was a bit sad to see it go but he looks like a little boy now. HE was more shocked with my hair than anything else.

Mommy and Daddy finally went out by themselves! Woohoo! Unfortunatly Daddy was tired from working and we had to call it an early night! But oh well, it was fun anyway!

The kids are all doing really well and looking forward to the end of school. Except for maybe Jake who is, as usual, trying to pull his grades up at the last minute. If he does not, he will be working full time this summer and will not be able to visit his cousins in Utah over the summer.

As you can see from our pic, we got stuck with our 19 inch TV for about 4 weeks because of Gabriel. He has this amazing throwing arm and he threw something at our flat screen and cracked the screen! We just got a new one but it cost a lot of money..... Gabriel!!!!

All of our birthdays are fast approaching and we are planning on going to Utah to visit after Aunt Katie's new baby makes his/her entrance into the world. We are REALLY excited for our new baby and just to see our family. We love you all!

Gabe has a bad hair day!

Juan won't let me cut Gabe's hair until he is two! So, we tried some gel today! YIKES! Check out that fro!Do I looke shocked???? I am! He has crazy hair!

Gabe suffers through a visit from Eli

Aunt Katie and Eli came to visit this last weekend. We had a great time seeing them and playing. It was a shocker for Gabe because he is used to people being gentle and sweet with him. He IS the baby of four and he gets pretty much whatever he wants. Eli was lots of fun and reminds me very much of Jake at that age. Gabe looks like he suffered through a UFC fight though. Everytime Eli and Katie would get in the car with us Gabe would look over and start crying! He kept hoping we were going to be leaving them somewhere else! It was good for him to have someone his own age to play with since he has never even been to daycare once! And he picked up on quite a few of Eli's vocab and such.... he know howls like a dog and then kicks our dogs! :( THANKS ELI! And happy 2nd birthday! We love you! (p.s. we tried to get a pic of Eli and gabe together but they were constantly in motion and the pics came out fuzzy!)