New car

On Wednesday, It was Kristy’s birthday. We got our new van but it feels weird driving because it is big and here in Italy the parking spaces are really small. It is a nice van and has 2 DVD players which the kids love. Now as soon as we get in the car, Jonah wants to watch a movie.









Kristy & Jonah.


kristy smiling


Jonah.

Lago di Fimon

Lago di Fimon.

The days here in Italy have been really nice so last week we went to lago di Fimon for a walk. The kids love walking around and throwing rocks at the water. Then another day we went again to el lago and fished. Gordon spent the day with Jonah and I went fishing with the girls. It was a nice sunny day until some cloud came and rained for 40 minutes. We almost left but we felt bad we hadn’t caught any fish so we stayed and when the rain stopped, we started catching fish. The fish we caught were so good. I came home and Gordon prepared and cooked them. It was the best fish I have eaten in a while.



Lago di Fimon.


Lago di Fimon.


Lago di Fimon.


Jonah & Kimberly.


The dog wanted to eat Jonah's ice cream.


Kristy always with her silly faces.







Fishing in the lago.


Girls.


Aurora & girls.


Fiorella.


Aurora y la cabeza de pescado.


Cortando la cabeza.

Home

What we’ve been doing the last weeks: We’ve been enjoying our beautiful yard and trees, Gordon had been working in our Garden. We planted peas, beans, squash, peppers, and tomatoes. The girls love to help. Even Jonah helps but he likes to destroy it. He loves watering the flowers but gets all wet.


In our house we have so many varieties of trees. Recojiendo cerezas, en casa.


Cherries are expensive here in Italy, it is nice having them for free
Las cerezas son muy caras aqui en Italia, el kilo cuesta como 80 pesos!


Se ven ricas, ah.


Jonah disfrutando de las cerezas.


The girls love eating the cherries.


Jonah & Kimberly on the trampoline, usually jonah doesn't let any one jump with him.
Jonah salta solo es muy divertido verlo brincar:)


Kristina in our garden. Kristina en el gardin siempre queriendo ayudar.


Kimberly helping with the garden.

Regalo

Que rapido pasa el tiempo, no puedo creer que ya estemos a mitad del a~o. Pues, este mes hemos estado muy ocupados parese como si fuera ayer cuando empezo, ojala las horas fueran segundos o que el reloj se detuviera y asi descansar mas :) al inicio de este mes empeze a ser una quilt para regalo a mi mama en el dia de las madres, pero no lo termine a tiempo entonces se lo dare en Navidad.


My first quilt, I like sewing but I had never quilted before. It is quite fun!


It is a gift to my mother, she loves Venezia.


I think it looks good.


It is funny when I came home so proud of my quilt my dear husband told me “I thought you were making a big one” well, a big one would have taken me a long time. I finished this one in a couple days.

We are already into May and our little princes (Kristina) will be 5 on May 26th. I can’t believe how big she is. She is been going to the asilo (Italian preschool). She likes going there even though she doesn’t understand or speak much Italian. It is funny the other day I asked her if she knows her friends names and she answered, piccola and piccolo are the two names that she knows. Well in Italian, piccola means a little boy and piccola a little girl. Kimberly is doing great at school. She had a little play on May 13. It was really nice seeing her sing. Her teacher, Ms. Rogers, told me that she loves the stage. She will also be in second grade this coming year and her birthday is coming soon in June. We plan on taking her to Disneyland in Paris for her birthday since her last two birthdays; we have been in the middle of moving so she hasn’t had a party. My little baby boy, Jonah, is growing fast. He acts like a two year old and is so funny. He loves to wear his sister’s dresses all the time and dance and sing like he was a princess. We hope he grows out of it soon. It looks like all of my kids love to sing. Gordon started a new job to work for AFRICOM so he has been going to Africa. I am still having morning sickness at 21 weeks. I read in a magazine that morning sickness is considered a good sign of a healthy pregnancy. Some guy must have written that article! just know is not fun. We are not finding out the gender of the baby. I think that will be nice not knowing and wondering until the baby is born. I thought I was having a baby boy because of the way my belly feels and looks. Now I think is a girl because I had almost the same symptoms I felt with Kim. That means either way I am right. We truly don’t know, as longer the baby is healthy. Whatever our Heavenly Father has decided for us we are more than happy. Oh, I almost forgot Mother’s Day was a great day. The kids got me a new camera since my sister mysteriously made me forgot the one in her car when we were on vacation. Also, Jonah sings a serenata con todo y guitarra a mano, nice!

Easter

On Easter we had some friends coming over. Gordon did a barbecue, cooked some steaks and hotdogs and I make some frijoles charros. We all had a great time.

Vacation

Wow! This year is flying by. In February, we flew to Mexico to see our family. It was a great trip and was nice seeing everyone. We were there for three weeks but weren’t able to go many places because of the situation in Juarez, sad :(. We did go to the markets and to a really nice park just next to the temple (Parque Borunda) and it was so much fun! The park has lots of goodies and delicious Mexican food. My favorite is corn and the kids love it. We also made a party with piñatas and kids love hitting the piñatas.

Vicenza

Nanto

Austria

England

Landstuhl, Germany

Making a blog is harder than it looks; I thought we had one….. Now I can’t sign in, anyway here we go again.

For the last two years we have been living in Europe, Gordon deployed to Ramstein AB working for the C-17 stage. On May 2008, the family joined him. We arrived in Frankfurt on June 24, Kim’s Birthday. It was a long flight but the girls did really well. Gordon was so excited to show us Germany and France since he had been all over the world thanks to the Military now we have the opportunity to travel together, awesome! On Sep 11 2008 we add a new member to our beautiful family, our handsome boy born at Landstuhl, Germany. We lived in Rheinland Pfalz until June 26 2009. Gordon got hired to work for the Army starting in May and it was a great blessing to us since his job in Germany was done and because the company he worked at the time in the states BNSF was cutting jobs. First time ever to work with the Army was quite a change, especially when he doesn’t get to play golf :). After a great year in Germany and traveling to all of the beautiful castles and having picnics at them, I think one of the things we all miss of Germany is going to the fields and picking blumen. Also, the markets in Germany are great compared to the ones in Italy and the food is so yummy it makes me miss them more writing about it…. Well, we are living in Italy now, in a little town named Bosco di Nanto. It is 18 Km to Vicenza. Nanto is a really small town with a population just over 2500 located in the Colli Berici hills. When the area is cloaked in mist, the sunny hills’ emerge, almost floating in the sky and creating a dream world of vineyards and woods. The view from our balcony is gorgeous. The lake fimon is nearby so we can walk to it but it is a long walk. Nanto is full of art and history when the town first started about 1023 AD. It has beautiful Venetian Villas all over the area. Art is hinted by the famous yellow stone quarries, dug out of the Colli Berci hills and used for centuries for many buildings and sculptures, way back from the XV century so you can appreciate art everywhere you look. All around our town are statues made of that stone. You truly know you are in the old world, just thought I would let everyone know a little about our city and since we love Art and History we will be writing a lot about it since there is so much to share and see.
We love living in Italy, it has been a great experience and is so fun going to see cool places for free, yes free! Just a camera in hand is all we need.