Rio's 12th Birthday Interview

  1.  Who is your favorite person in the world?  I don't have one.  I like all people equally unless they're super annoying.

2.  What is your favorite color?  Blue

3.  What's your favorite show? Narutu

4.  What is your favorite outfit? I don't care about clothes.

5.  What activity do you like best?  Playing video games like Undertale, High Pixel, Among Us, and Super Mario

6.  What are you good at?  Math, biking, watching babies like Cozy, snuggles, and making waffles.

7.  Where do you wish you could go on vacation?  Ziplining anywhere

8.  What would you buy if you had $1000?  Save it for college

9.  What's your favorite food?  Pizza & Chipped beef on toast which I can't eat because I'm vegetarian.

10.  What's your favorite dessert?  Chocolate cake

11.  If you had one wish, what would it be?  World peace or Covid not to exist

12.  What do you like to do with your friends?  Video games, table tennis

13.  What do you hope you'll get to do before your next birthday?  ?

14.  What are the negative impacts of coronavirus on your life?  Everything, can't go out in public with out a mask

15.  What's a good thing about doing school at home?  Get it done in 2 hours

16.  What's the biggest change you've experienced in the last year?  Having to deal with covid

17.  What was your favorite summer adventure? When Nana and Grandpa moved to Moses Lake.

Mayan's 9th Birthday Interview

 1.  Who is your favorite person in the world?  Benton.

2.  What is your favorite color?  Black

3.  What's your favorite show?  Pokemon

4.  What is your favorite outfit?  Aztec shorts & a soccer jersey

5.  What activity do you like best?  Soccer, going to grandparents, going to the cabin & my friend's houses.

6.  What are you good at?  Soccer, art, making friends, biking

7.  Where do you wish you could go on vacation?  A spa in Hawaii.

8.  What would you buy if you had $1000?  All the Pokemon in the world including the Dinamax and a house, and a few Pokemon beds for sleepovers, Roblox

9.  What's your favorite food?  Steak, ice cream, and beef top Ramen.

10.  What's your favorite dessert?  Ice cream sandwiches, pineapple ice cream that Nana makes

11.  If you had one wish, what would it be?  For Coronavirus to go away.  Usually I would wish for a caticorn.

12.  What do you like to do with your friends?  Play pretend, swimming, play on giant dirt hills (in Grandpa's yard).

13.  What do you hope you'll get to do before your next birthday?  Go to Abuelo and Abuela's.

14.  What are the negative impacts of coronavirus on your life?  School, wearing masks, not going to friend's houses, and can't go grocery shopping very often because I like to buy nerds and sour spray.

15.  What's a good thing about doing school at home?  I don't have bossy teachers or a loud class.

16.  What's the biggest change you've experienced in the last year?  Nothing.

17.  What was your favorite summer adventure?  Going to the cabin (Hood Canal)

Here's Belize's 11th Birthday Interview:

What is your favorite food? Salmon

favorite thing to help cook or fix by yourself? desserts

favorite color? purple

favorite thing to do when you're bored? read

favorite place to go on vacation? Mexico and the cabin

 favorite holiday? Christmas

favorite thing to watch? action comedy movies

favorite thing to do with Dad? watch movies with him

favorite thing to do with Mom? shop

favorite book?  FableHaven series

What are you really good at? soccer

What's the most interesting thing you've learned this year? 

What are some of your goals for school? get all As

What's your favorite sport? soccer

What are some of your goals in life as an 11-year old? Yell less, be kinder to my siblings

What's the best thing that happened to you this last year? When we went to mexico

 Where would you like to go on vacation the most? Belize

What is your best memory? spending quality time with my family

Who is your biggest hero? mom and dad

What do you like to do best with your friends? Chat and make desserts

What does Mom want the most?obedient children

What does Dad want the most? I don't know

What do you want the most? A horse

Where is your favorite place to swim? Surf and slide water park

what do you want to study in college? marine biology

what do you want to be when you grow up?a marine biologist

best memory from your birthday? haven't had it yet

what do you like to dream about? animals

what are you scared of?  people dying young

What makes you really happy?  my family, the cabin and camping

Here's Cruz's 4th Birthday Interview:

What is your favorite food? Broccoli

favorite thing to help cook or fix by yourself? cookies

favorite color? red

favorite thing to do when you're bored? play

favorite place to go on vacation? go with mom

 favorite holiday? i don't know

favorite thing to watch? Little Einsteins

favorite thing to do with Dad? play in the hot tub

favorite thing to do with Mom? play hide and seek

favorite book?  Chikka Boom Boom

What are you really good at? reading books 

What's the most interesting thing you've learned this year? reading books (he can't read)

What are some of your goals for school? write my name

What's your favorite sport? swimming

What are some of your goals in life as an 4-year old? play

What's the best thing that happened to you this last year? playing

 Where would you like to go on vacation the most? vacation

What is your best memory? watching football

Who is your biggest hero? Dadda

What do you like to do best with your friends? play jumprope

What does Mom want the most? a present

What does Dad want the most? a present

What do you want the most? a present

Where is your favorite place to swim? lake

what do you want to study in college? medicine

what do you want to be when you grow up? catch bugs

best memory from your birthday? i got presents

what do you like to dream about? cookies

what are you scared of?  bad guys

What  makes you really happy?  you

Here's Rios 9th Birthday Interview:

What is your favorite food? Strawberries

favorite thing to help cook or fix by yourself? cereal

favorite color? baby blue

favorite thing to do when you're bored? play with my toys

favorite place to go on vacation? Disneyland

 favorite holiday? Christmas

favorite thing to watch?  pokemon xy

favorite thing to do with Dad? play Zelda

favorite thing to do with Mom? snuggle

favorite book?  Trapped inside a video game

What are you really good at? gymnastics 

What's the most interesting thing you've learned this year? learned how to do a front handspring

What are some of your goals for school? getting good grades

What's your favorite sport? soccer and gymnastics

What are some of your goals in life as an 9-year old? ??????

What's the best thing that happened to you this last year? summer

 Where would you like to go on vacation the most? ??????

What is your best memory? getting a nintendo switch

Who is your biggest hero? My mom and dad

What do you like to do best with your friends? Jump on the trampoline with Drostan

What does Mom want the most? A clean house

What does Dad want the most? Mario Oblicity

What do you want the most? Mario Oblicity

Where is your favorite place to swim? Surf and slide water park

what do you want to study in college?  beinga doctor

what do you want to be when you grow up? a doctor, an orthopedic surgeon

best memory from your birthday? getting nintendo switch

what do you like to dream about? I don't really dream

what are you scared of?  my mom and dad dying

What  makes you really happy?  playing with my family

Here's Mayan’s 6th Birthday Interview:

What is your favorite food? Chicken

favorite thing to help cook or fix by yourself? Toast

favorite color? Blue

favorite thing to do when you're bored? play with my palace pets

favorite place to go on vacation? Silverwood Theme park

 favorite holiday? Christmas

favorite thing to watch?  Pokemon

favorite thing to do with Dad? going to the hospital

favorite thing to do with Mom? play

favorite book?  Secret Garden

What are you really good at? Hanging upside down on the swingset

What's the most interesting thing you've learned this year? I learned how to do a front flip underwater

What are some of your goals for school? making friends

What's your favorite sport? american ninja warrier

What are some of your goals in life as an 6-year old? collecting all the palace pets

What's the best thing that happened to you this last year? playing with Caitlin

 Where would you like to go on vacation the most? Mexico

What is your best memory? playing with Caitlin, Sydney and the kitten

Who is your biggest hero? I don't have one

What do you like to do best with your friends? Play with Caitlin's kitten

What does Mom want the most? A clean house

What does Dad want the most? To earn  more money at work

What do you want the most? All the pokemon

Where is your favorite place to swim? Caitlin's hottub

what do you want to study in college?  i have no idea

what do you want to be when you grow up? A horse trainer & a chicken trainer

what are you looking forward to in Kindergarten? Making new friends

best memory from your birthday? Getting presents

what do you like to dream about? palace pets

what are you scared of?  mom and dad dying

What makes you happy? When I get some family time

•What is your name? Cruz
•How old are you? 3 
•When is your birthday? I can't remember
•How old is mommy? (holds up 5 fingers)
•What is your favorite color?Green.
•What is your favorite food? Broccoli
•Who is your best friend? Rowen (our neighbor)
•What is your favorite animal? Giraffe
•What are you scared of? Tigers
•What makes you happy?  Kisses
•Where is your favorite place to go? In the forest
•What do you want to be when you grow up? play
•What does love mean? Loving you.

Double digits!

Here's Belize’s 10th Birthday Interview:

What is your favorite food? Salmon

favorite thing to help cook or fix by yourself? Desserts and Hawaiian haystacks

favorite color? Aqua Marine

favorite thing to do when you're bored? Color

favorite place to go on vacation? Mexico, Utah and California

favorite holiday? Christmas

favorite thing to watch?  Pirates of the Caribbean, Pokemon and animal documentaries.

favorite thing to do with Dad? Watch football games

favorite thing to do with Mom? Read together

favorite book?  Charlie & the chocolate factory

What are you really good at? Cooking, coloring, & School

What's the most interesting thing you've learned this year?Rat snakes have blue tongues

What are some of your goals for school?  Get better at math and stop blurting

What's your favorite sport? Soccer and dancing

What are some of your goals in life as a 10-year old? Get better at dancing, be responsible enough to get a pet of my own.

What's the best thing that happened to you this last year? I got to see Cierra & Brighton

Where would you like to go on vacation the most? The tropics and the great barrier reef

What is your best memory? Spending time with my family and my parents

Who is your biggest hero? My parents because they have persevered through a life of raising 4 unruly children and keeping the house clean and hardships.

What do you like to do best with your friends? Make crafts, ride on 4-wheelers, and swim.

What does Mom want the most? Me to be kinder to my younger siblings and be a successful woman.

What does successful mean?  That you have achieved your goals and persevered and done your best.

What does Dad want the most? Me to become a successful woman and get better at soccer and be more responsible and safe.

What do you want the most? I want my family to be happy and be able to become a marine biologist when I grow up and for my siblings to be safe.

Where is your favorite place to swim? At the aquatic center

what do you want to study in college?  Marine Biology and zoology and spanish

what do you want to be when you grow up? A marine biologist

what are you looking forward to in 4th grade? My 5 paragraph essay

best memory from your birthday? Getting to hangout and have fun with my friends.

what do you like to dream about? Weird things

what are you scared of?  My family getting hurt

What makes you happy? Candy, my family and my pet and studying and reading

Rio turns 8

Here's Rio’s 8th Birthday Interview:

What is your favorite food? Strawberries

favorite thing to help cook or fix by yourself? pancakes

favorite color? Baby blue

favorite thing to do when you're bored? Eat

favorite place to go on vacation? Mexico & Hawaii

 favorite holiday? Christmas

favorite thing to watch?  Phineas and Ferb

favorite thing to do with Dad? wrestling

favorite thing to do with Mom? snuggle

favorite book?  Harry Potter & the Sorcerers Stone

What are you really good at? Running, playing soccer

What's the most interesting thing you've learned this year? that chickens come from the moon and that reading is fun

What are some of your goals for school? To keep my desk neat

What's your favorite sport? soccer

What are some of your goals in life as an 8-year old? Get better at soccer, to be nice to my siblings

What's the best thing that happened to you this last year? turning 8

 Where would you like to go on vacation the most? Hawaii

What is your best memory? Going to SeaWorld

Who is your biggest hero? Heavenly Father

What do you like to do best with your friends? Play on the trampoline

What does Mom want the most? For the house to be clean every day

What does Dad want the most? Peace in Syria

What do you want the most? Candy

Where is your favorite place to swim? Waterpark

what do you want to study in college?  building

what do you want to be when you grow up? Doctor

what are you looking forward to in 2nd grade? Tasty Tuesdays (the day they get to cook)

best memory from your birthday? Getting all my presents

what do you like to dream about? Pokemon

what are you scared of?  The dark

What makes you happy? Stuffed animals