Road Trip to Portland Oregon & Seattle Washington

Below is a photoshow of our recent road trip to Portland Oregon & Seattle Washington, including Cassie, Lexie & Roscoe. We traveled nearly 1,500 miles in 4 days! It was great to see the Pacific Northwest area.

In Portland we enjoyed a doughnut place highlighted on the food network channel called Voodoo Dounuts where one can find treats unimaginable, such as:

Captain Crunch Topped
Dirt (vanilla glaze and oreo cookies)
Arnold Palmer(lemon and tea powder)
Butter Fingering(Devils food, vanilla, and crushed Butterfinger)
The Memphis Mafia(chocolate chips/banana/ peanutbutter/glaze big!)
Portland Creme(raised doughnut filled with creme and covered in chocolate with two eyes)
Nyquil Glazed and pepto-bismol

And many more! Check out their web-site at: http://voodoodoughnut.com/menu.php

In Seattle we drove our car onto a ferry & rode it to Bainbridge Island. I experienced "Ferry Sickness" which is bizarre because I'm usually the one known with the stomache of steal in the family- go figure! While on Bainbridge Island we visited a Diner highlighted on the show: Diners, Drive-ins and Dives by Guy Fieri , where we had a sample of Apple Pie & Chocolate Cake!

Apart from eating our way up & down the Pacific Northwest, we experienced beautiful scenery & a wonderful opportunity for quality family time together. Not to mention- Mommy completed an entire novel!

Lexie's Slumber Party

So why is a Slumber Party called a "Slumber" Party? Why not call it ; an all night shrieking, laughing, dancing, talking, singing, bouncing off the wall party? Because Mother's like myself, who have earned & enjoy the act of SLUMBERING, would never in a million years go for the idea!

Slumber parties are like childbirth- you remember it is a painful event- but yet we do it all over again- why? To make our little girls happy- that's why! So- when Jon was 10 we had an all night- sweaty boy- wrestle contest- fart fest- boy "SLUMBER" party. When Cassie turned 10- we did the same- minus the sweaty boy- wrestle...fart stuff (at least to my knowledge!) Not to be left out of ANYTHING- Lexie received the same... A slumber party.

The girls had a blast- I enjoyed watching them all do what girls do....the morning was less enjoyable I'll admit- but I plastered a smile on my face & when it was all over: Took a 3 hour NAP! Here is a PhotoShow of the party...

A Day in the Life of Roscoe!

1:30 p.m. on a Friday afternoon; He is a BARRAGAN!

Barragan Family Visit to Florida

Liz created this photshow of memories, including many video clips of our puppies playing together! We all had a beautiful time together- especially watching Roscoe-Mia & Buster playing.

The "OTHERSIDERS"

The "OTHERSIDERS"

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/theothersiders/

Last night we had a great time with our friend Hugo in Downtown Sacramento, who is also a camera operator for various shows and channels.. Along with the opportunity to spend some time with a longtime friend- he also introduced the girls to the cast and crew of a show called

"The OTHERSIDERS" on Cartoon Network! They are filming this week in the Sacramento area.

K.C. is on the left in the white shorts next to Lexie, then Jackie between Cassie & Lexie, Sam in the black pants next to Cassie & the Zack at the end. And last, but certaily not least, Hugo in the back behind the group of kids. We met Riley later that evening. We spent the night walking around Downtown Sacramento- having ice-cream & hanging out by the Sacramento River. The cast was really nice to the girls & their parents hung out with us too.

Cassie & Lexie were super excited & had a great night to remember. Thank you Uncle Hugo- You Rock! : )

Orlando Photos

So here are more pix from our recent trip to South Florida. Jeanette & Carlos invited us all to join them at their Hilton timeshare in Orlando Florida. It was beautiful. Each family had their own "condo style" apt. With full kitchens and anything we could ever need or want to make the trip as relaxing as possible.

We all walked away with our tummies full of good food- prepared by our in house cooks ; ) beautiful memories & a few SUNBURNS! Here is our "Side Trip to Orlando" including lots of video clips!

A Visit to South Florida

Here is the 1st to many more photoshows to

come from our recent visit to South Florida with the

Escalante, Rodriguez & Toledo Families...

Baby Diego Growing

Photos of our "Great GodSon" Baby Diego Luca, during our recent trip to L.A. His Daddy, Christian is our GodSon.

Slideshow also includes pics of the girls with their cousins Sebastian & Samantha Gonzalez & their Auntie Susie

(Luis' Sister) in North Hollywood.

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Allison & Jennifer's Baptism

On Sunday June 28th 2009 our family was invited to attend Allison's Holy Baptism. Allison is my cousin Gregg & his wife Jennifer's daughter.

We were blessed not only to witness Allison's Baptism, but her Mom Jen was also baptized! I don't think there was a dry eye in the house!

What a beautiful & special occasion.

Moments such as these are what life is truly about....

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The Aispuro Family

We spent a beautiful weekend last week celebrating life with our extended family. We were honored to attend Carter & Kylie's birthday at the Aispuro Family home. I can't think of anything better than watching children & a family grow!

Love & blessings, Missy

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