President's Day Camping Trip

Baby Schnauzers!!

Birthday Bash

My sweet husband, with help from my friends, arranged for my big surprise birthday party! A great time was had by all!

Happy New Year!!

MySpace Layouts!It has not been a great "posting" year. I've not posted as much information as in the past. I blame it on my school blog and Facebook!! ;-)

We are blessed to have had such a great year. Our family has been well, with the exception of minor surgery on Angel's shoulder. God is good to us.

The theme for our new year is growth. We hope to grow closer as a family. We also pray for spiritual growth. Angel is planning on retirement this year. Matthew will finish off his final year at school with Mom and will start MIDDLE SCHOOL in the Fall! Lots of changes will hit this year. We hope that through the changes we can grow closer as a family. Friendships throughout the years will grow to be more important. Your prayers are requested in reaching our goal.

Our prayer is that we will have many more blessing and be blessings to others throughout the new year.

Hope all of our friends and family members have made many memories this year as we have and look forward to many more wonderful days ahead. Happy New Year!!
Love,
The Soto Family

Savannah Family Visit

Matthew's Orff Concert- Nov. 1 and Halloween Activities

Final Days of September

Here it is...the final days of September and we've not posted once the entire month! Can you believe how crazy school makes our lives? We're hoping life begins to settle down to a happy routine soon.

Friends, we hope you remember us in your prayers. We miss spending time having fun with our friends. We hope to reconnect soon with many of you.

Back to School

It is that bitter-sweet time of year. Time to say goodbye to late nights and even later mornings! It seems that just when we are able to sleep in, we have to retrain our sleeping patterns to get up at the crack of dawn and go to bed while the sun is still shining outside. (If you have children, you know that this is no unusual feat!)

Our oldest child will be starting MIDDLE SCHOOL! Where have the years gone? She will be in school, for the FIRST time, without her Momma right down the hallway. I feel like that parent who is dropping their first child off at Kindergarten. I've never experienced that feeling of non-control since for all of these years she has skipped right down to the end of the hall, leaving me with the knowledge that I could peek through her classroom door to make sure she is doing her best. Please send prayers our way so I can not be such an emotional WRECK during this time of gradual release.

I can take relief in the fact that our youngest continues to be right down the hall for one more year. He will be able to enjoy some quality Momma time each morning and afternoon. It will be just the two of us! What a blessing to be able to spend this time with this child who I've studied and read ALL of Dobson's books in reference to his STRONG WILL. This time will be treasured in understanding his heart and soul more deeply, which we hope will releave his stubborn streak toward that bend in behavior.

I've heard that being strong willed is a GOOD thing, especially later on in life. Raising kids is NOT easy, but time sure flies when it comes to kids growing up! We ask for God's blessings in abundance in our lives and our children's.

Gratitude Campaign

One of our friends sent us this movie.

Morgan's DVD