Grandma Galante turns 89 years old!

On January 15th, we took Grandma Galante out for a nice lunch on her 89th birthday. We also had Sabbath lunch at her house and she wore her favorite Hawaiian dress we gifted her. She really enjoyed the girls, especially meeting her third great grandchild, Kiara

GREAT times ...

Walter, Patricia's fiance, teaching violin to Brianna and then performing her favorite Christmas songs. Great Vespers!

We stayed at Patricia's cute little house during our time in La Villa. She was out nanny for almost a year when Brianna was about 2 years old. Their bond continues to this day. We had such a great time enjoying each other's company, drinking mate, going to the pool and just hanging out

BFFs with babies

La Villa with family & friends

Great time with Martina & Agustina Simi

Fearless Brianna at the local public pool

Mid afternoon terere and chipas with friends

Buenos Aires Part I - Piro Family

We spent the first four days of our trip with the Piro family. Elbio is one of my Dad's best friends from Peru. We just had the BEST times together, long talks, great food, fun in the pool and an AMAZING private music concert by Amanecer Vocal Group. Can't beat that!

Princesses Paulina & Brianna

The gang enjoying asado on a typical Sunday early afternoon

Kiara, Paulina & Juanita at the kiddie pool

We're back!!!

This past Sunday we got back home and right into Daddy's arms! We had a fantastic time with family and friends in Argentina and can't wait to upload more pics in the coming days. In the meantime, Happy Sabbath to all of you!

Happy New Year & off to Argentina!

Bibi and the girls will be heading down to Argentina in just two more days. They'll be there for three weeks, enjoying summer with Bibi's family and friends. We're so very excited about all the fun times & great memories they'll get to create while down there. Please keep them in your prayers, that they may have safe travels and a great trip overall.

second Annual Veiss Christmas

This year we were so blessed, most of all, by the love & friendship from the Veiss Family. We planned to have a post-Christmas celebration dinner and open gifts together but the Veiss girls got sick the day before so we decided to open gifts separately this year (bummer!) in hopes that we could spare our little ones from the same malady. Gifts were placed under the tree and all of us loved our gifts. Here are some pics. Thank you Victor, Suzana, Lea & Mia. Love you guys!!!!

More Christmas day memories

Christmas Day at the Hanson's

We had a great Christmas day at the Hanson's & Co. home. There were lots of people, a great meal, good times & conversation, terrific stocking stuffers and more! We enjoyed seeing the Trautwein, Ratzcliff, Hanson & Bieber families and additional guests as well. Brianna & Kiara got showered with toys & games and all in all we had a wonderful celebration of Jesus' birth.

Christmas Eve at our home

Ampee & Amee joined us for a Christmas Eve dinner and gazillion gifts to open, especially for the girls. What a great time we had! Here's the table setting (though the tulips were quickly ushered out of the table after this picture was taken). We enjoyed vegetarian chicken with cream sauce, spelt pilaf with vegetables, green salad, and chocolate pie & coconut pie for dessert. Yum!