after spending a couple days in bed, i am feeling much better. i'm not sure what got me down, but i hope that my family doesn't get it.
halloween ... the kids are so excited. lexi is going to be a METS baseball player, jackson is going to be boba fett from star wars (or a ninja ... he'll probably change his mind once he gets home from school) and tony is woody from toy story. tony was the only one of the three that could dress up for school (and that was only for the first 20 minutes of school.) they had a cute little parade around in a circle to show off their costumes to parents and the other kinder classes. i'll post pics when i can. once again, i am having problems downloading pics. i need to get a certain program in order to do it.
aunt anna, uncle damien, and kiara are on their way over to spend halloween with us. we will carve pumpkins and trick or treat together. our church is having a trunk or treat event with games and jumper's, so we will probably stop by there as well. fun fun fun!
many have asked about our first sunday. it was good! it was fun playing all of my new instruments. carlos did a very good job preaching in spanish. the worship team consists of carlos and myself. (sort of an unplugged set) that was cool, but i miss our team from LCC.
...i just looked at the time, i have to go get the kiddos from school ...
nic
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
fires
HEY, i just wanted to quickly let you all know that we are fine. so far no fires are real close to us. our air quality is poor and we can smell them. in school, the kids are staying in for recess and PE. carlos and i will not be running for a few days (maybe longer.)
now for the fun stuff ...
we are very excited that the bilingual service is starting this sunday! i will be part of carlos' worship team. the church doesn't have any auxiliary percussion so guess what we did yesterday ... we went out and got me some!! now that's exciting! i got a set of congas (black) and an auxiliary kit that includes a tambourine, triangle, an egg shaker, another shaker, and a cowbell. to that i already have a set of claves and a couple wood blocks. (can you tell i'm excited?) the cool thing is that they are ours. i will have to lug them to and from church each week, but at least i will be able to practice and play throughout the week. YEAH!!
some quick news about the kids ... lex and tony are 'citizen of the month' at school. they will be part of an assembly thursday morning and get their pic with the principle on the wall (in the office, i think.)
i've got to run and get tony to school.
nic
now for the fun stuff ...
we are very excited that the bilingual service is starting this sunday! i will be part of carlos' worship team. the church doesn't have any auxiliary percussion so guess what we did yesterday ... we went out and got me some!! now that's exciting! i got a set of congas (black) and an auxiliary kit that includes a tambourine, triangle, an egg shaker, another shaker, and a cowbell. to that i already have a set of claves and a couple wood blocks. (can you tell i'm excited?) the cool thing is that they are ours. i will have to lug them to and from church each week, but at least i will be able to practice and play throughout the week. YEAH!!
some quick news about the kids ... lex and tony are 'citizen of the month' at school. they will be part of an assembly thursday morning and get their pic with the principle on the wall (in the office, i think.)
i've got to run and get tony to school.
nic
Monday, October 15, 2007
here i sit, a full 11 days since the last entry. not only have i not been doing well with keeping the blog up but i have 30 emails sitting in my inbox that need to be responded to. WOW! ... do i feel the love. (not to mention the comments i have to answer on myspace and facebook) ... i know, wah wah. i'm not whining, i guess i'm just apologizing.
last week was a good week for team cueva ...
los and i found out that we did, in fact, get the money from the conference. they will be supplementing his income for the next 2 years. PRAISE GOD!!
tony had his first play date. not only that, but the mom (jackie) and i get a long really well. they are a christian family and have 3 kids as well. the oldest is tony's age, then there is a 4 yr old and a 1 yr old (that i just adore). i am definitely getting my baby fill from her.
i went to our new churches women's retreat a weekend ago. it was a great experience for me. i met a lot of women from the church and God really spoke to me through the speakers (who were amazing). i came home a new mom and wife.
so that's the low down on last week and this one is starting off pretty well. lex actually found out last week that a girl from her class lives just down the street from us. she is very excited about that. the girl, hannah, came over today after school for a homework date and stayed for dinner. lex really needs this. hannah comes from a christian family and seems to be someone that lex will get along very well with. exciting for both her and me. ... now we just need to find a friend for jackson ... he seems to get along well with everyone but i haven't found him talking about just one kid individually. we'll see.
carlos and i got out today for a bike ride together. my legs are aching as i write. i think i actually had an anxiety attack while on the ride. we had to stop so i could relax a bit. not sure what that was all about, but i'm alive and recuperating. we (carlos and i) are trying to get out for lunch at least once a week. we don't have a lot of time alone but we are trying to make the best of what we do have.
'til next time, thanks for reading,
nic
last week was a good week for team cueva ...
los and i found out that we did, in fact, get the money from the conference. they will be supplementing his income for the next 2 years. PRAISE GOD!!
tony had his first play date. not only that, but the mom (jackie) and i get a long really well. they are a christian family and have 3 kids as well. the oldest is tony's age, then there is a 4 yr old and a 1 yr old (that i just adore). i am definitely getting my baby fill from her.
i went to our new churches women's retreat a weekend ago. it was a great experience for me. i met a lot of women from the church and God really spoke to me through the speakers (who were amazing). i came home a new mom and wife.
so that's the low down on last week and this one is starting off pretty well. lex actually found out last week that a girl from her class lives just down the street from us. she is very excited about that. the girl, hannah, came over today after school for a homework date and stayed for dinner. lex really needs this. hannah comes from a christian family and seems to be someone that lex will get along very well with. exciting for both her and me. ... now we just need to find a friend for jackson ... he seems to get along well with everyone but i haven't found him talking about just one kid individually. we'll see.
carlos and i got out today for a bike ride together. my legs are aching as i write. i think i actually had an anxiety attack while on the ride. we had to stop so i could relax a bit. not sure what that was all about, but i'm alive and recuperating. we (carlos and i) are trying to get out for lunch at least once a week. we don't have a lot of time alone but we are trying to make the best of what we do have.
'til next time, thanks for reading,
nic
Thursday, October 4, 2007
quick update
i just wanted to let those of you that have been praying for our assessment today to know that it went very well. we won't find out for at least 10 days what the next step is, but there are at least 2 more groups of people that have to get their hands on our 'case' before we find out how much money we will get. it went so well, that the two guys that were assessing us offered us a job if this one didn't work out.
gotta run for now,
nic
gotta run for now,
nic
Monday, October 1, 2007
finally ...
really now, how long has it been? i am afraid that i've lost many readers ... so this better be good, huh?
well, we got our computer back - THANK YOU DAMIEN! you are our computer MASTER! actually, it is a new refurbished one. we no longer have to run ours in 'safe mode' (which we were doing for about 4 years.) i can't believe how fast it is. all this to say, that i should be able to keep you updated more efficiently.
the kids are doing well in school. lexi has really adjusted well. she was the one i worried about the most. she has made many friends. she seems to have been very smart about her selections. we'll see. she starts trumpet tomorrow. she is so excited.
jackson, well, he loves school but doesn't like the decrease in playtime at home. a battle i am sure we'll be fighting awhile. he is doing very well academically. and really enjoys his class.
tony is doing extremely well. he loves going to school and gets more and more excited everyday. he is 'star of the week' this week. he had to make a picture timeline and tell what he wanted to be when he grows up. he also had to tell other facts about himself. i forgot to take a picture of it but will when he brings it home and i'll post it on here. he gets to be helper in the classroom, which he loves. and gets to bring in his favorite toy. can you believe he isn't picking LAMBY. he actually hasn't decided yet, but last i check lamby wasn't making the cut. could this be a sign of growing apart from lamby. doubt it.
i am really enjoying the walking back and forth from school with the kids. it gives us time to talk about their day.
carlos and i have decided to eat more healthy. i've wanted to do this for years but getting him to get on board wasn't easy. i won't go into details of what we eat but i will let you know that we are eating seaweed every morning and drinking soy milk. carlos actually wants to plant our own garden. (that just makes me giggle)
i would love your prayers this thursday. carlos and i are going under the microscope in front of the conference board. we are trying to get a grant to help plant the hispanic church. we'll be there from 9:30a until 4 to 6 hours later (west coast time, of course) ...
emotionally, everyone seems to be doing well (except me). actually, i am doing much better than when we first got out here. but in those moments that i allow myself to think, it can get pretty bad. there was one sunday that i cried all day. the morning started with a call home to some family. after some tears on the phone ... they just wouldn't stop. when the kids and i showed up at church, carlos took one look at me and said, "what's wrong?" i just said, "not a good day." well, he proceeded to tell me that there was someone that was waiting to meet me. so i tried the best i could to suck it up and went over to meet him. then this man asked the question ... "how are you adjusting?" well, that was it. tears started steaming down my face. i felt so badly for this guy. he had no idea what he was getting into when he asked that question. he was very gracious. and we both made it thru alive. the rest of that day wasn't much different. i was just a basket case the entire day and it spilled into the next. that day wasn't as bad as the previous. but i guess i needed to grieve. i know that the holidays coming up will be another grieving process and another mountain i'll have to conquer. stay tuned ...
i actually started that last paragraph because i wanted to tell you about tony's meltdown, but i got into me ... sorry. so ... tony and i were walking home from school. he was telling me that he wants to have a play date with everyone in his class. i tried to get him to narrow it down by asking questions like "who would be the first one you'd like to play with," all of a sudden, he got very quiet and then started bawling. and those of you that know tony, he has two volumes, low and EXTREMELY LOUD and this was EXTREMELY LOUD. i didn't know what happened. we stopped and i hugged him and he said all he wanted to do was play with JOSHUA (his best friend from NY) oh, my heart just sank. i think it finally hit him that he couldn't just play with josh anytime he wanted. he cried all the way home, as i carried him. when we got to our house, lex was outside because she heard him crying from the corner. ... (yeah, he's that loud) ... he must have sobbed for another 5 minutes at home. needless to say, he really misses joshua (as i do his mom, veronica) ...
so, does that make up for lost time?
thanks for reading,
nic
well, we got our computer back - THANK YOU DAMIEN! you are our computer MASTER! actually, it is a new refurbished one. we no longer have to run ours in 'safe mode' (which we were doing for about 4 years.) i can't believe how fast it is. all this to say, that i should be able to keep you updated more efficiently.
the kids are doing well in school. lexi has really adjusted well. she was the one i worried about the most. she has made many friends. she seems to have been very smart about her selections. we'll see. she starts trumpet tomorrow. she is so excited.
jackson, well, he loves school but doesn't like the decrease in playtime at home. a battle i am sure we'll be fighting awhile. he is doing very well academically. and really enjoys his class.
tony is doing extremely well. he loves going to school and gets more and more excited everyday. he is 'star of the week' this week. he had to make a picture timeline and tell what he wanted to be when he grows up. he also had to tell other facts about himself. i forgot to take a picture of it but will when he brings it home and i'll post it on here. he gets to be helper in the classroom, which he loves. and gets to bring in his favorite toy. can you believe he isn't picking LAMBY. he actually hasn't decided yet, but last i check lamby wasn't making the cut. could this be a sign of growing apart from lamby. doubt it.
i am really enjoying the walking back and forth from school with the kids. it gives us time to talk about their day.
carlos and i have decided to eat more healthy. i've wanted to do this for years but getting him to get on board wasn't easy. i won't go into details of what we eat but i will let you know that we are eating seaweed every morning and drinking soy milk. carlos actually wants to plant our own garden. (that just makes me giggle)
i would love your prayers this thursday. carlos and i are going under the microscope in front of the conference board. we are trying to get a grant to help plant the hispanic church. we'll be there from 9:30a until 4 to 6 hours later (west coast time, of course) ...
emotionally, everyone seems to be doing well (except me). actually, i am doing much better than when we first got out here. but in those moments that i allow myself to think, it can get pretty bad. there was one sunday that i cried all day. the morning started with a call home to some family. after some tears on the phone ... they just wouldn't stop. when the kids and i showed up at church, carlos took one look at me and said, "what's wrong?" i just said, "not a good day." well, he proceeded to tell me that there was someone that was waiting to meet me. so i tried the best i could to suck it up and went over to meet him. then this man asked the question ... "how are you adjusting?" well, that was it. tears started steaming down my face. i felt so badly for this guy. he had no idea what he was getting into when he asked that question. he was very gracious. and we both made it thru alive. the rest of that day wasn't much different. i was just a basket case the entire day and it spilled into the next. that day wasn't as bad as the previous. but i guess i needed to grieve. i know that the holidays coming up will be another grieving process and another mountain i'll have to conquer. stay tuned ...
i actually started that last paragraph because i wanted to tell you about tony's meltdown, but i got into me ... sorry. so ... tony and i were walking home from school. he was telling me that he wants to have a play date with everyone in his class. i tried to get him to narrow it down by asking questions like "who would be the first one you'd like to play with," all of a sudden, he got very quiet and then started bawling. and those of you that know tony, he has two volumes, low and EXTREMELY LOUD and this was EXTREMELY LOUD. i didn't know what happened. we stopped and i hugged him and he said all he wanted to do was play with JOSHUA (his best friend from NY) oh, my heart just sank. i think it finally hit him that he couldn't just play with josh anytime he wanted. he cried all the way home, as i carried him. when we got to our house, lex was outside because she heard him crying from the corner. ... (yeah, he's that loud) ... he must have sobbed for another 5 minutes at home. needless to say, he really misses joshua (as i do his mom, veronica) ...
so, does that make up for lost time?
thanks for reading,
nic
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