Hapy Bear staff, HAPY to be in Hawaii!!!

Our Hapy Bear Staff (pictured below) enjoyed a day at the Polynesian Cultural Center. A fun day of learning, playing, talking and enjoying ourselves!


Luau Dinner

Very delicious food! (We all loved the taro dinner rolls and steamed taro root)

Oahu Times (September 28th - October 4th)

After five and a half ours of flying time ... a lei reception was in order! Great to be back in Hawaii after six years!

Tio Ken & Brianna bonding at the beach

Princess Bri

Aidan & Elisya Watkins playing with Brianna at the hotel pool

Disneyland, September 27th!

Moving right along, after Jeremy's Elder Dedication we headed down south to Disneyland and the next day to LAX to head out to Hawaii for the ADA Convention (American Dental Association). Yep, we're always on the move!
Here Baby K & Daddy at the California Park. Had an amazing day with the Veiss and Jacobsen families! (All Disney fans!!!)

Brianna LOVED chatting with Pocahontas ...

Our favorite ride, Small World

All the girls love the tea cups ride!

Jeremy's Elder Dedication - September 26th, 2009

In a beautiful ceremony, Pastor Chad dedicated Jeremy as a church Elder on September 26th. It was a great milestone for Jeremy and for our family as well. We are so very thankful for God's calling to this new ministry opportunity and are seeing Him at work already in new ways within our family, church and comunity. He's moving in amazing ways manifested through incredible church growth even in this trying economic times.

Our closes friends were there to support Jeremy and we all went to dinner afterward to celebrate. Thank you Jacobsen's, Miller's, Shekoyan's, Veiss' and Bouit's!!!

Gorgeous Mommy look-alike, Mia Veiss!

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 ...