The Acosta Family life from Mom's perspective

Sunday we officially moved out of our Long Beach house and completely into my parents' house in Chula Vista.  We had a garage sale on Saturday and Sunday and still ended up with what seems like a million boxes of stuff.  My mom was absolutely amazing and served as the business manager of the garage sale, the painter, and cleaner of the house while managing to entertain the kids every now and then!!  She did a spectacular job making my house looking shiny and new.  Meanwhile, I was packing and getting distracted every minute with something new, making me look and feel like a chicken with my head cut off.   It has been so overwhelming, both good and bad.   I started off the weekend great, saying goodbye to our homeschooling group at the park, where my desire to home school was renewed and reassured.  Then we were so blessed with several of our wonderful neighbors coming over to help with the garage sale, clean up, and moving.  As we were fin...

When Leo and I got married over 11 years ago and moved to Carson, CA to the Don Dominguez Apartments, I always thought it was going to be temporary.  I got a job teaching, while Leo finished school and I always said, "As soon as you finish we are moving back [to San Diego], right?".  We ended up buying a house and getting settled in Long Beach.  Leo got his Masters and got a job.  We had Sophia and I quit.  The dream to move back to my hometown of Chula Vista was slowly slipping away.  We found a new church, Epicenter.  We loved it.  We had Dalia.  The market was looking great to sell, but we didn't because Leo had a job here.  So, we made our house bigger.  The dream was fading, but still in the back of my mind.  Yet, I was very happy here with my growing family.  We had Mia.  Then Lincoln.  Then, Leo lost his job.  We knew God had great plans for us but just weren't sure what they were.  After much pr...

We just returned from the most wonderful vacation to Oregon with my parents and the kids. It was definitely an adventure for us and the kids taking the train for over thirty hours to get there! We got to see some beautiful scenery and eat some amazing food but the highlight of the trip was getting to see my Aunt Yoly and Uncle Dan who I hadn't seen in 14 years!! It was great to finally introduce them to my family :)  It was also awesome to hang out with my cousin David, Ashley, and Cambria who we only see about once a year!  I took over 200 pictures but here are a few or the best moments we had while over there.  Enjoy!  Arriving at the LA train station.  We were all so excited about getting on the train!!   Grandpa and the babies waiting to board the train.  Mia and Grandma taking a nap.  Two of the rare moments Lincoln was enjoying the train ride.  We were so desperate to find something for him to do we gave  him ...