Quiet week

Last Friday we found out Brianna had the flu and through the course of the weekend we all wound up with it in various degrees. So we are at home enjoying the rain today and trying to keep occupied. Thanks to Auntie Lauriene, Brianna has been enjoying some Geography classes with the Argentina map. She now nows many facts about Bibi's family and childhood. She loves hearing the stories about each province and family & friends living there.

Sweet Kiara is always happy, even when sick!

Baby K sure loves to jump!

Adoring sisters!

Baby Gianfranco

On October 6th, gorgeous baby Gianfranco made his grand entrance into the world. Proud parents Cris and Jenniss (Bibi's best friend) are doing great. Baby Gian is a little angel that loves to eat and sleep very well. Cris & Je feel incredibly blessed!

Baby Gian weighed 3,200 kg and measured 51 cm. long.

Congratulations guys!!!! We are so very excited for you and can't wait to meet sweet Baby Gian soon!!!!

Brianna's NEW look!

Brianna had her first major hair cut on Wednesday. Her long hair was becoming too much of a chore to comb and keep out of her face. So she got a new doo!

Very stylish and easy to take care of...





Ay, pero que coqueta con su nuevo look! Estrella total!

Hapy Bear Surgery Center - Ground breaking Ceremony

Monday, September 22nd was a memorable day for our family and business. A ground breaking ceremony took place in Tulare that started the building process of our state-of-the-art surgery center due to be finished sometime in the early part of 2010. Congratulations to Ken & Jeremy for all the hard work leading up to this day!

Once in a lifetime type weekend

We had a terrific time camping up at Sequoia National Park this weekend along with three other Argentine families. We were quite a tribe! Six adults, nine kids and two birthdays!
The Cairus Family stayed with us on Thursday night and the kids had a great time playing dress up and other games on Friday morning before heading up the mountains. Here are Andrew, Victoria and Brianna ...

Happy Birthday, Henry! Henry turned 36 on Friday and Isabella (the baby to the left of Kiara turned 1 on Sunday!!!) The girls attempted to share the trailer but Kiara kept "caressing" Isabella and she didn't like it too much so the sharing plan didn't work out.

Naty's turn to make supper on Friday evening. Her hot dogs were very popular!

Birthday girl Isabella and Kiara (Look closely, they are almost the same weight!)

More pictures to come later. Bibi took a camera with two charged batteries but no memory card so we don't have any more pics to share. However, we had two professional photographers and two other photography aficionados that took care of taking the best pictures for us with great cameras. Bibi will be making a photo book of this memorable weekend sometime soon!

Camping with Amee & Ampee at Shaver Lake - Sequoia National Park

Last weekend Brianna went on her first camping experience and first weekend getaway with Ampee & Amee to Shaver Lake inside the Sequoia National Park. They had a really good time. Here are some of the pics ...

Labor Day with Clarks

On Monday we made a short trip to Stockton to visit our great friends Joel, Gisele and Isabella

The girls played so well together. They love each other!

Healthy and happy girl

Good food, good times

Bibi's first time making a finger licking version of Eggs Benedict

Yes, Jeremy finished the whole tray for breakfast

Although unassuming looking, this spelt crepe rocks! Bibi had it with almond butter and jam.

Our princess requested her fave egg sandwich. She loved it!

Our Labor LABOR INTENSIVE weekend! It was so much FUN!

Hitting the tracks on Saturday night. What a blast!

It'd been a really long time since Bibi had "raced." It was lots of fun!

Homemade popsicles of almond chocolate milk. Yum!

Life is good!

Happy Labor Day Weekend Everyone!

Our little fish turned 5 months this past week (where did time go, we wonder??) Here she is in the water, loving every minute of it

Brianna, also at 5 months of age, loving the water too.