More pictures from Mercedes y Lucas

Lucas Trent Benites!

Lucas Trent Benites was born April 29th at 8:15 p.m. He was 8 lbs 1 oz and 20 inches long. He is healthy and a very happy baby! He doesn't have the dark features that Mercedes has so we call him our "gringo baby".

Sorry it has taken so long to post these new pics. We have just been enjoying Lucas so much that it has been hard to do anything else. I could hold him 24/7 and if I am not holding him, I am enjoying Mercedes. She loves her new little brother. She frequently gets angry with me because I won't let her do everything for him. She would smother him with love if she could! He is a great baby. If I wasn't so old, I think a could have a billion little babies....and Roy has been such a great help! I am really glad that he has been around so much to help!

A little more...

A little more from Mercedes two years birthday...

Tracie is nervious becouse I'm thinking in her Sweet 16 already...I have a few cool ideas from the TV show...

The funny think is when Mercedes want something, and her mama sey NO... she turn in me with her cute face ... guys I can't resist ... I think we have a problem here...ups. ROY

Two years birthday

Thinking in Mercedes and her Latin side, I make everything posible to turn her two years bithday the most colorfully and fun party for my girl, with a litle time of sleep and a lot of paiper in my hands... here It is my decoration... Mercedes was sleeping the prevous night with Sherrie, and my job was make a big sorprice for her, so I put everywere something from ELMO her favorite guy, after her daddy of course. and here it is... Happy Birthday Mercedes... ROY

ELMO's party for Mercedes

Mercedes ELMO's party, I can't belive it, my litle girl is two years older now... ROY

Sherrie and Me

Here the other woman in my life.. my mother-in-law Sherrie.. after married with Tracie. also I married with her jajaja. Tracie and she, are the best friends forever ...The nice thinks that I love, is her suport and love for Mercedes and also the FREE babysitter... that's great. I love Sherrie she's a perfect mom the 99.9% , and in the other 0.01% some times I want to live her for a couple weeks in a Native tribe in the midle of the Amazon jungle...jajaja only for a couple weeks ...

What do you think guys, you have the same feelings with your mother-in-low...come in is only for a couple weeks...!!! I LOVE YOU SHERRIE... you know that ...Thanks for everything. and the Jungle it's not realy bad...ROY

Gateway Mall

Nice picture... from our local adventure to Gateway Mall in Salt Lake. So much to do ...jejeje

I think Mercedes was more happy with the Children museum. ROY

Fiesta time in Park City

Fiesta time...

Great company party for closing the ski season at Stein Eriksen Lodge, in Park City the last April 7th, I enjoy so much this party....everything in the caribbean style... OHHHH for one moment I was in home. Music, nice place, geat food, nice decoration, nice people...real party in Utah. so fun. VIVA LA FIESTA ... ROY

Family Easter

Here we are... My cute wife, super hot and sexy wit her 8 months 3 weeks of love for our second baby... Mi princess with her big smile, Lucas my guy in the picture also, and ELMO, part of our family alredy ... ROY

Mercesdes and Easter

Our Mercedes was really happy with all Easter idea.

in this time she's really mama and papa's girl ... I belive she's more papa's girl but please don't tell Tracie..jejeje.. ROY

Easter in grandma's house

Ready to Easter, also ELMO's basquet for Mercedes. she love ELMO and we believe ELMO love Mercedes... We wach ELMO's videos two or three times a day ...! I can't belive it ... ROY

Everybody will know who is writing this time, because my English is not really good yet. My apologies if I wrote something not right. But with a little time I put a few pictures together from Tracie and I, my favorite song, imagination and all my love to make this video, and here it is.
I met Tracie in 2004 in Peru and all the time I was feeling I knew her from another place. After all these years and through these lines I want say to her “I Love You Sweet Heart” thank you for being a wonderful mother, good friend, lovely wife and my beautiful eternal companion. Please forgive me if sometimes I’m a Jerk, but Peruvians are not perfect, I will be do my best to some day become a person like you. With love … your husband
Thank you guys for always reading our Blog and writing to us. My best wishes to all.

Mercedes July 2009 Magazine

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Swimming!

Last night we took Mercedes swimming and she loved it! What can I say, my kid is an animal. She seriously had out-of-control fun! She didn't even care if she got her face wet! When we took her out of the water she was so cold and hungry! What a great way to get a fussy eater to eat! Needless to say she is worn out today. Note: there are no pictures of me, I was worried someone would yell, "Free Willey!" if I put myself in a swimsuit.

Our latest battle has been getting Mercedes to take her iron. She is iron deficient again and therefore required to take a massive amount of iron on a daily basis. She hates it. It is a battle everyday for us. She sees me coming with it and instantly begins to cry. Does anyone have any suggestions for getting your kids to take medicine that they don't like? I have tried hiding it in food and drinks and bribery and just about everything else you can imagine. I even had the pharmacy flavor it for me. She is just too smart for all of it. So I pretty much just have to force it down her. I have a new Iron supplement on the way and I am praying that it will work, but for now, morning times are no fun at our house:(

Lucas is also doing well (the baby on the way). He is growing well and improving with each ultrasound. As some of you know he has a very small mass in his lung. We are watching it very carefully and the past few ultrasounds have shown that it is actually getting smaller. There is a small chance that it will just disappear before birth. If not he will require surgery at some point down the road (3 to 6 months after birth) to remove it. For now we are just counting our blessings and are very hopeful that things will turn out okay! We are mostly just excited for his arrival. We can't wait for him to join our family!

The holidays

Here are a few of our holiday photos. I thought I should post them before we hit the next holiday! Mercedes got a little kitchen of her own, which she loves.


On New Years Day we went sledding with my nephew.





Other than that excitement, our life has been pretty boring. Roy works nights now and so he is pretty much a zombie all the time. (I only laugh, because he always told me night shift wasn't that bad). Mercedes is getting more and more busy, she keeps me on my toes. She loves to wear my clothes and shoes and do anything girl!Lucas (our boy on the way) is doing well. I think that he is going to be a big baby. I don't remember being so big with Mercedes, and I still have 3 months to go!