It's Snowing... In Louisiana
It must be the end of the world because THIS is what my father is seeing outside his window at work - IN LOUISIANA!!!
4 weeks ago
11 December 2008
09 December 2008
And Christmas Begins...
We bought this tiniest of manger scenes while we were in Utah for Thanksgiving. Both Diego and I want to invest in a hard-core nativity - you know, the kind you have to buy piece by piece and usually from anohter country. I haven't been able to find anything worth investing in. Please, please if you know of a maker that I can research, we would greatly appreciate it. For now, this will do. We don't have much space anyway. (BTW, I added the "Joy" and the moss and the lights... Christmas presents are care of my mom and dad.)
01 December 2008
Utah for Thanksgiving
Diego and I went to Utah for Thanksgiving. We wanted to go last year but Van Halen won out... We stayed with my friend Jenny and had Thanksgiving dinner at her parents house. It just so happens that her dad was my Stake President for a bazillion years and her mom taught my seminary class. This pictures shows 3 of Jenny's for kids - 4 boys and eventually a
We had lunch at The Pie and Christy and Scott Porter met us there with their spouses.
Diego and I did a bunch of touristy stuff - although we've both done them before.
We had dinner with some of Diego's friends at an Argentine restaurant in Clearfield. We were there for 3 hours and didn't even know it. It was good food too, straight from Argentina!
The next night we had dinner with some of my friends. Below is Jenny (who we stayed with) and her husband Robert. **Incidentally, she's the one who bought me Twilight" and got me hooked.**
Neither of us have family there but we both have lots of friends. I spent 6 years in college in Utah and Diego considers it his home away from Argentina. We got Diego's friends in one shot but mine left at different times so from top left we have: Dara - from my freshman year at BYU, Frank - Diego's friend that couldn't meet us the previous day, Christy - a roommate from Atlanta and Daniel - a friend from my stake back in Louisiana. Talk about a time warp. Much fun. Although, we both say we're not going back until we forget how long the drive is!
24 November 2008
I've created a monster - a.k.a. Diego goes skydiving
So Diego has this short list of things he wants to accomplish and they are all very manageable. Things like learning to swim, playing the harmonica and solving the Rubik's cube. It makes me happy that I can help him accomplish those things for his birthday I crossed one off his list and bought him a jump out of an airplane. Skydiving. I my effort to please the love of my life, I've created a monster... He ABSOLUTELY loved it. And I can't blame him - I loved it to when I went. He's already scheduled the date for his second jump and when I ask him what he wants for Christmas, his reply is "a parachute." I can't buy him a parachute! I thought it was a lovely gesture to shave some things off his short list... I have, indeed, created a skydiving monster!
10 November 2008
The Parentials Came To Town
So my parents came to town, they say, for my father's 40th high school reunion. I prefer to think it was just an excuse to see me and my new husband (this was the 2nd time they've met him - the 1st being the wedding). The whole time, I never took out my camera. I'm totally slipping. So I must rely on my dad's pictures... Although, this 1st one is really quite nice.
While Diego was at work, my folks and I went to the Natural History Museum. This is me panning for gold. It was taken with my dad's cell phone.
We had a, sort of, mini-family reunion while they were here. All of my mother's immediate family lives here although there a few that I still don't know. I took this as an opportunity to make contact with them. Hopefully, I can be a better niece in the future. Again, I didn't pull out my camera. Stupid!
22 October 2008
HOV San Antonio 2008
Okay, ladies, here is the slide show from our HOV trip to San Antonio. Most of you should have your recipe books by now and now we have even more fun - with pictures.
I missed all those who were not able to be there (Heidi, Stacie, Elizabeth, Lisa, Lisa, Laura, Nicole). We had fun and laughed A TON! I totally forgot how funny I was... (Really?)
We went to the Natural Bridge Caverns, the Alamo, ate Mexican food, Katherine made a cake, April made pancakes, we watched a movie, went to Fredricksburg, ate German food, had a birthday party, April had HOV survival kits waiting for us when we got there and laughed and laughed and laughed.
It was just a PHAT party. Shall I rub it in more or was that enough to make you want to come next time?...
5 of 12
I'm still working on the HOV San Antonio slideshow but here's a picture of girls who were able to make the weekend trip. There is a total of 12 of us, all friends from Atlanta. 8 of us are married and a solid HALF of those met their husbands on ldssingles.com - IMPRESSIVE! So, go shopping girls!
21 October 2008
The Boys Go Camping
So when I went out of town for my girls trip, Diego got out of town for some guys camping. Ah, no girls... They can grill meat till their hearts desire and swear in Spanish all they want.
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