Happy Birthday Mommy and Daddy!

So I am now offically 36! Ughhhh! This means I am no longer in my mid thirties. I have moved on to my LATE thirties. Though this scares and mortifies me, I feel younger and better than I ever have. There must be some great, cosmic irony in this. Juan will turn 34 on July 20th. So he is NOT in his late thirties yet! :)
We had a blast with our friends from Denver last Friday. We went to downtown Denver to celebrate our combined birthdays. It is crazy how many people are on the streets at 2 am! Denver is basically an all night, full on party! We are so grateful for the many wonderful people we have in our lives. They are so generous and loving. And a little bit off their rockers...... just like us!

Happy Birthday Kian!

All the Albalate Atencio kids are another year older! Mom actually made two out of the four cakes..... even if it was from a box! :)

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!