Happy Birthday Miguel!

Miguel's bday is tomorrow.. but I just wanted to let him know how much I love him and truely appreciate all he does for our family! He is such a sweatheart! Last year I sent him on a trip to Mexico to go on a week outting with his brothers.. I wish I could do that everyyear for him. But I am going next week.. by myself.. go figure.. (for my teeth) So this year I got him gun he has had his eyes on... and making him sopa de mariscos (seafood soup) I wont see him tomorrow since he works at night and me during the day... but I wanted to make him something special so when he wakes up . .he will have a yummy lunch =) I LOVE YOU MIGUELITO!

cartoon of us on our honeymoon 10 years ago =)

Our house =)

Miguel putting the sealant on the fence Our house.. I love it! =)

Finally.. shame on me.. here is a picture of our house =)

Fence being built

After ...

before...

I promised you photos.. here you go... =)

Here are the before and after photos of our fence that Miguel built.. I love him so much! He is soo talented and when he has a project.. he doesn't stop until he is done. He is such a blessing in my life! Thank you Miguel for all you do!

September has come and gone!

Shame on me.... I was trying to be good and post on here.. but It has been a month already. Well.. we have been in our house for almost 2 months now! Wow! Time flies! We finished putting up our fence and now have been painting new colors in the house. I promise I will post pics on here. I have posted them on facebook.. and just need to save them to my computer so I can post them on here.
I am going to down to Mexico City in a couple of weeks... to have my sister in law Susie fix some teeth. I love having a dentist in the family.. much more cheaper to fly down there and get things fixed then using our insurance and doing it here.. crazy I know! While I am down there I am going to be going to the pyramids of the sun and moon to get another aztec mask for my living room... like I said I need to post pics.. which I will do this weekend for sure... (I hope... lol) It is UEA conf. weekend so no school and no work for 4 days.. woo hoo!

Bye!
Dawn

It is school time again!

Well School starts back in two more days.. I am sooo excited to go back and see all the students! Summer is fun.. but I love to work too... lol... maybe some day I will think differantly but I love my job! I got to decorate my classroom and get ready for the students.. Michael is not too keen about the idea that summer is officially over.. but He will get over it. =)

Our Closing day

Tommorow I will have to take pics of our new house =) We closed this morning.. only took about 45 minutes.... and then we were home owners again.. what an awesome feeling... this time we aren't scared.. .just full of excitement and happiness. We got the keys and I even was able to dust.. the window sills.. vacumme (the house is pretty clean.. just some dust) and spray off our front porch of the cob webs... tommorow we can start moving in. Miguel starts his vacation on wed for 12 days so that is when the major moving begins.... but tommorow we can move in the little things.. I am sooo excited!

I need to blog more!

Even if I don't have new pics.. I still need to blog.. shame on me. This blog is like our family journal...
Well.. tommorow we close on our house! Woo hoo! We also get the keys on Tuesday. I am so ready to get our house! Its been 3 years since we have owned so its about time. Too long of a vacation from being home owners. =)
Michael is almost ready to start 3rd grade! He is getting too big.. I found out the other day that his new teacher is the one I requested and I am so excited about that. She is the greatest.. koodos to Mrs. Hopkins =)
I will keep you posted on the move in and school starting. I am really excited about my new position at the school. I will be doing the literacy for the ELL (english language learners). Just up my alley!

I love Tinkerbell =)

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We almost have our house!

We are at the final stretch now! Only 26 more days and counting til closing. We signed the purchase contract in May and now we are almost there! I will keep you all posted and when the time comes and we move in.. I will post photos...

Family pics at Michael's baptism 4-5-09 in Mexico City, Mexico

Everyone at the baptism
Miguel and his bros

Miguel and siblings

The Moya clan =)

More pics at Michael's baptism 4-5-09 in Mexico City

Michael with his cousin Joshua
Our Family

Michael and his Abuelos

Michael the day of his baptism 4-5-09

Michael's baptism pics 4-5-09 in Mexico City

Michael was baptised in Mexico City on Sunday April 5th, 2009. Here are a few pics in the church. (This is the same place Miguel was baptized at too when he was little)

Song for us by our nieces in Mexico City

At Miguel's parent's house with cousins =)

Michael with Joshua playing video games
Ariadna and Lissette singing a song they learned at school in English for us

My nieces Lissette and Ariadna eating their snack.

Our day at the Los Angeles Airport leaving for Mexico City 4-4-09

Michael and I waiting for our plane to leave Los Angeles to Mexico City =)

Michael in the Mexicana Airlines plane waiting for take off =)

Entrance of LAX AIRPORT

Michael asleep at the gate in LAX

Michael and I waiting for our place in Los Angeles

Michael in the paper again!

Wow! My sister-in-law Julie called me today to tell me for the second week in a row... Michael was in the newspaper! COOL! He placed second in the Northlake Science fair in Feb (his cousin Ben placed first ) =) Michael and Ben are both in this pic.. Michael on the left with his "monkey business" shirt and Ben right smack in the middle with the yellow cars shirt. =)
Here is the link to the photo in the paper

http://www.tooeletranscript.com/pages/full_story?page_label=hometown_school_news&id=2064484-TCSD+Science+Fair&article-TCSD%20Science%20Fair%20=&widget=push&instance=secondary_stories_left_column&open=&

We are goin to Mexico and Acapulco!

In just 3 more weeks.. we are off to Mexico City and Acapulco. Michael is getting baptized down there in Miguel's Stake Center where he was baptized. Michael gets to get baptized on Sunday April 5th (the day of general conf.. lol) They don't watch general conf. live like here... they watch a recording the next sunday. and then the next day.. april 6th.. we are off to Acapulco! I can't wait to lay on the beach and relax!

Michael was in the Tooele Newspaper! (And the photos I took!)

Mrs. Bird, the reading specialist at Northlake.. asked if any of us had photos from the Read Across America field trip.. I had my memory card on me.. and gave it to her.. She took it over to the Tooele Transcript Newspaper and they took photos off of it.. Here is the article about the event... Michael is on the right.. (Of course.. lol) and under the photo... "ME!.. courtesy of Dawn Moya.. woo hoo!.. ) =)

http://www.tooeletranscript.com/pages/full_story?article-Northlake%20students%20honored%20for%20exceptional%20reading%20effort%20=&page_label=news&id=2028509-Northlake+students+honored+for+exceptional+reading+effort&widget=push&instance=secondary_stories_left_column&open=&

U of U players rockin out with our students at Read Across America =)

Read Across America 3-4-09

Of course...a pic of the U of U champion rings! woo hoo! Go UTAH! =)

Me.. with... Justin Taplin-Ross #33 (I had just told him that my dad was a HUGE BYU fan and so he told me to pose like this with him.. ha ha dad.. woo hoo! )

Michael with all the other students enjoying the show!

Sylvestor #10 Hamming it up and dancing with the students..

WOW! Michael and I went on a very awesome field trip today! It was to Discovery Gateway for "Read Across America" Sponsored by NEA (National Education Association). It was out of this world! The U of U Football team was there and so was Aaron Nigel Smith from "Between the Lions" on PBS. Also.. the lady from Channel 2 news (can't remember her name.. oops ) read to our students! It was a once in a lifetime experience! All the news channels were there recording too.. so when I get their links tonight or tommorow.. I will post them too! So... I have lots of photos and videos... so enjoy!

Michael and his classmates Brenda and Teja with Thing 2 =)

Michael with #23 Mookie Murphy from the U of U Champions!

Taplin-Ross, JustinJustin Taplin-Ross #33 and Michael =)

At the poster for Read Across America

With Hope (From his class =) )

WOW! Michael and I went on a very awesome field trip today! It was to Discovery Gateway for "Read Across America" Sponsored by NEA (National Education Association). It was out of this world! The U of U Football team was there and so was Aaron Nigel Smith from "Between the Lions" on PBS. Also.. the lady from Channel 2 news (can't remember her name.. oops ) read to our students! It was a once in a lifetime experience! All the news channels were there recording too.. so when I get their links tonight or tommorow.. I will post them too! So... I have lots of photos and videos... so enjoy!

We got a new dog =)

She is so loveable and fun! She is a Maltese and so cute! She had a spa day today and got all pretty.

Tooele Northlake Elementary second graders on KSL news :)

Michael and Ben (his cousin) were on the news (KSL channel 5) last week for participating in the Ken Garf's Road to Success Reading program. Michael is on the last row 8th from the right (red shirt) singing away... Thought we'd post this link for you all to enjoy :)
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=5467470

New Years 2008-2009

This was a crazy new years this year! Miguel had to work until 11pm (in slc) and then rushed home.. but that is a later story... anyways.. my mom and I were shopping for some goodies to ring in the new year... Miguel had called earlier from work and said that he would be getting off around 9pm.. so that was good because we could do a little celebrating.. New Years is a big holiday in Mexico and they eat and party, etc... I wanted to give a little bit of that to Miguel... anyways.. so then we were invited to my mom's friend's house (Sherri and Bill) for a kid's party... for Michael.... so we headed over there thinking... ok.. we can visit until Miguel comes home and have a party at my mom's too :).. Michael had a blast.. they played games, ate goodies and had fun... then I got a phone call from Miguel.... he had to work until 1am... after the new years... I was sad for him.... poor guy.. that had never happened at Sysco before... well.. I thought... ok... we would stay at the kids party and then ring in the new year and then see him afterwards... I was mainly sad for Miguel..... especially since I bought a special surprise for him... grapes... lol..... in Mexico... at the stroke of midnight you eat one grape per strokes (12 strokes.... 12 grapes) and you think of 12 wishes you have for the new year... and this brings luck to all who do this... and I had gotten the grapes for him.... so... I thought we could just do this once he got home.... then at 11pm... a happy call came in.... he was done working... yeah! and he was coming home.. so my mom and Michael and I said our goodbyes and headed home.... where I prepared his grapes and then he arrived.... 10 minutes to midnight... perfect timing... :)
We watched the ball drop.. with Michael too (I can't believe he stayed up that long!) and had our grapes and made our wishes too (my mom too... LOL) It was a fun new years after all.
WE ALL WISH ALL OF YOU A VERY HAPPY NEW YEARS FILLED WITH NEW MEMORIES AND LOTS OF LUCK AND HAPPINESS!
lOVE THE MOYA FAMILY