Baby Owen is born a month early

On December 29th Rachael went in for a C section. It looked like she needed to have this baby right away or she and the baby would not make it. I remember in the old days women dying from child birth and she would have been one of those women. So thankful for modern medicine. Cute baby Owen is here now enjoying the love of wonderful parents and extended family!

Christmas 2014 in Uruguay

Good times, a lot of yummy food and wonderful company! It does not get better than that, except I was a little upset Analia never came after she begged us to buy her the most expensive tickets ever!! but that is life. Live and learn! However I must say, it was great for Daniel to see his mom and brothers.  Roberto and Sandra are so sweet, and so are Ceci and Miguel Angel and Daniel's mom is so cute!! Vale came to be with us as always. so it made up for a fun trip after all!

Activity Day

My December last activity day was about the true meaning of Christmas and what a better way than to think of His gift to us. I had the children do this activity, decorated cookies and made some bookmarks to give away. It was so fun!

Dreams

This is a seminar and convention work not a vacation but it is so nice to go to the one and only all inclusive Dreams Palm Beach in Punta Cana. It is a $300 to 500 per person a night to stay here but the Church has managed to get a discounted rate of $90 and that is why some of the meetings are held there. This same meeting if it was held in Santo Domingo and had to pay for the food alone would be that much so its smart to do the all-inclusive. We were there twice in November of 2014 one for the Seminary and Institute Convention with the coordinators and their wives and the other with all the directors and their respective wives from Daniel's office. Nice!

October 2014 trip to Salt Lake

October has become my favorite month because we always get to go to General Conference and get to see family. Two of our children live there, Andres and Mandy four grandchildren live there and  my cousins and their kids. Christi usually comes over unless she is pregnant or something. On Saturday after the afternoon Conference My cousins,had a little reunion to Corbelly's while all the men went to Priesthood and that was a blast. In the picture above you got Nixon, Jude, Skyler, Beckett and  Manu. All boys!! It's also the time we go to all our doctors: Starting with Peterson our family doctor;  Dr. Bye our Dentist; Dr. Hansen our Dermatologist, Dr. Crandall, our optometrist and I even see mine Dr. Chichester,That is probably the only thing I don't like about this trip but so necessary. We really go,go go all the time while we are there for those few days.

New York and more!!

The highlight of our vacation was to go to New York to visit Bianca and Joseph. We went not knowing that they would soon be moving away. The Sacred Grove and the Joseph Smith's parents home was probably the one historic site that truly touched our hears. We also so happened to be there during the Pylmira Pagent. It was a trip I will always treasure. I stayed a week longer with Bianca and Joseph and then went to Miami for another week. A vacation I will always remember forever because it was also the last time Mari and my mom would live in that home in Miami so I went to help out with the move as much as I could. We even got to see our cousins, Eric and Albert. Priceless!!

Elder Holland followed by home leave

Nothing can ever compare to a visit from an Apostle and is even better and I shouldn't say this but when is elder Holland visiting you. He is the best! He told Daniel, that in the 30 years he has known him, he has never seen him so happy and he thanked me. That was probably the highlight of his visit. We only waited for him to leave when we headed back to Utah as well for our home leave.

As  we were in Utah, we got a call from Ani who was about to give birth a few weeks earlier than expected. I was also scheduled to have surgery on both hands for my carpel tunnel but somehow we managed to buy a plane ticket to come over as quickly as we could to meet the new grandson. Christopher Krone. He was born on June 29th 2014. e went back for the blessing which was a miracle that Daniel even got to be in the circle as we came one second before Spencer was about to pronounce the blessing. We left that morning with just enough time to get there it was an hour and a half drive from Papillos to Beatrice and that was exactly how much time we had but Pablo had to stop to get gas and those extra ten minutes made us late. The meeting had started and only because we were hoping and wishing and praying Daniel wouldn't miss the chance to be in the prayer circle we managed to come right when they were all gathered to give him the blessing. We are so blessed Chris is a beautiful healthy baby and this picture is proof of it. Somehow we managed to do a few fun things like going to the zoo for Danielitos birthday and to see Somehow we managed to do a few fun things like going to the zoo for Danielitos birthday and to seethe play Wicked!