The blessings in our lives

Looking back, 6 years ago we couldn't have imagined how full our lives would be with love. Today is our 6 yr anniversary, and we've been truly blessed. We have so much fun with our girls. Both of them are into everything. I hope you enjoy the little video clips of what they're doing now. Abby's in a tumbling class that she just loves. Robert went today, since he's off for a couple weeks .... and I think he was doing more tumbling than Abby. It was so fun to see Robert jump around with Abby. Tuesday Lanie tasted a gourmet meal of rice cereal. Yummmmm..... her expressions are priceless. She has her two bottom teeth and rolls all around the livingroom. Watch out Abby... Lanie's coming!

It's a merry happy half birthday to you... to you Lanie 6 months old

Holiday cheer .... starring you

Funny Tim 1
Funny Tim 2
Funny Pinedas
Funny Montejanos
Funny Arroyos
funny mom & Cathy
Check these out these performances.....and see which is the funniest!

Traditions...Traditions (you know the songs so sing along)

It begins with the normal marshmellow... and ends up a sticky nightmare....We call it CHRISTMAS SALAD...

This year was Abby's initiation. It came sooner than later in life. It was inevitable. We have handed down the ancient secrets of those that have gone before us. We tried to stall by seeing how many marshmellows would fit into our mouths, but that only made us sick. It did leave a few less marshmellows to cut up though.
This beautiful Christmas salad with it's marshmellows, walnuts, pineapples, whipped cream, and pineapple sauce has delighted crowds for years..... and the Powers' family dinners for as long as I can recall. When making it you can't cut corners. No, you have to cut the big marshmellows into small pieces, since Mom believes using small marshmellows sabatoges the whole recipe.

Abby and I were sticky for hours... okay actually Abby only got through 1 whole marshmellow before she ditched out and made me cut the entire 2 bottomless bag fulls... before we went on to the rest of the preparations.
It was really fun measuring, chopping, and watching her taste the new tradition we created on Thanksgiving morning.
Later that day we ended up at the Pineda home for the feast. Talk about THANKSeatalotoffoodGIVING! It was great. We also celebrated Kati's bday (it was her bday that day) and Joey's bday (earlier in the month). We had a blast and missed all of you that weren't there. Mandy, your sweet potatoes rocked!

Cathy, the big winner!!

Cathy scored some Disneyland tickets from a contest on KOST radio. She won 4 tickets to the 25th celebration of the station at D-land, and happily shared them. The crazy 4 some (Cathy, Mom, Robert & Abby) ran around the happiest place on earth from 9-1 am. They had a blast! Abby's been once to D-land, but not at night. I think her eyes were as big as grandma's as they check out the beautiful Christmas decorations. Grandma hadn't been there for many...many years. ....seeing D-land through Abby's eyes made even Robert enjoy it. Thanks Cathy for a great time!

Smith days...

• Halloween dress for Amelia & Sydneys 2 parties (on the same day)
• Amelia & her friends after the mummy wrap (toilet paper)... lots of fun
• Ian realized that when you clapp your hands while swinging on the swings, it's very important to remember to hold back on or your face meets the ground!
• We had a crazy hair & make-up day. Declan doesn't have to work on the attitude... it comes naturally!

Fun-a-plenty

We had a great Halloween season this year. We actually went to a farm for the pumpkins and apples. Abby loved the farm. She got to feed the animals and stomp around in the fields. She's definitely a cowgirl at heart.




You see Robert's been busy acquiring new skills.... I don't know if I should be worried....



Halloween was fun! Robert had to work, so I did my part and dressed like a crazy rocker for Abby's entertainmet. Lanie was the littlest fairy and Abby was a rah-rah cheerleader. We treated this year.... no tricks...except for our pumpkins. We painted them instead of cutting them since there's too many lights around the apartments to let the pumpkin really glow. Abby's pumpkin is the scary daddy longleg spider!!! ooooohhhh....creepy...

LA COUNTY FAIR

Wow, look at us! We placed second at the fair for our apple-guava jelly. I had a great time teaching Michael how to make jam & jelly. Let's see how we do next year! = )

Here we are, Sarah, age 4 and me 74! Aren't we cuties!!!? This is my birthday and we were trying out my camera.

Love to all of you, love Mom

An awww... moment

Check out my rocker girls! Abby was jealous that Kati gets to be Hannah Montana for Halloween and wanted a wig to wear so I broke out my clown wigs for some fun.



Doesn't Lanie look like the dude from Wayne's World? Funny, huh.
I guess it's time to change Lanie to the crib. = ) She's 4 1/2 months now.... getting big.

The other day turned into one of those cool moments you cherish. Abby and I were having some mom/daughter time baking some cookies for friends. I started telling her that when she grew up she could be a chef, or a doctor, or a lawyer, or artist or dancer or whatever she wanted to be. Then she looked at me and said, "Or I could be a mom."

I loved that.

Happy Halloween

From Ian: What kind of music do mummys like? wrap! ha ha

From Mia: Why doesn't the vampire have many friends? Because he's a pain in the neck! ha ha

Can you tell Halloween has come early to our house?

Up and Running

Wow!

Way to go Cece.

This will be great until Sean has time to get the family website finalized.



Hope everyone has a wonderful, productive week!

Love to all.

Mar

Family fun for Mom's bday

Here's the deal

Okay, this blog is for the family..... Super Powers 12 and add ons.... all families and kids who want to share. = )
That's who we are. This is the blog site to get us connected while Sean works on the real webpage for our family info.
Use this site to post happenings with your families I want to see what everyone is up to. I need the kids emails if that's okay with the parents so they can post comments and pictures, too.

I can limit this site to just our family too, but right now anyone can see it and only our family can post pics and post posts. )

Let me know what you think.

Love ya all Super Powers Family
CeCe

Happy Birthday to Mom!

The world stopped revolving for a moment so we could revolve around Mom for her 74th birthday on Friday! She looked beautiful in her floral dress and radiant smile. Check out the photos for yourself.

Look out Hollywood! There's another Paparazzi on the loose. Mom's got a new camera and she's out to make a name for herself. She'll be staked out infront of Hollywood's hottest clubs waiting to capture the moment.... okay, maybe she'll be staked out at the grandkids games catching the action with her new camera. Which ever it is she'll be out there with her new gadget having fun.