Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

This is our first Christmas away from California. It was definately different. We did miss our friends and those of our family who is not with us, but we had many blessings. We were blessed to find some friends here. We have a wonderful ward that has been very kind and very helpful. Some things are just a little too private to mention on a blog, but know that we are being well cared for and well loved.

Sara has two wonderful teachers in primary. They love her and she LOVES going to church. She has some good friends up the street. Her two best friends here (so far) are Kyle and Levi. They are older than her, but they are very nice kids and love to play in the snow with her. Sara still talks about her two best friends from California (Ashley & Caden) and hopes to visit them in the spring or summer. Santa gave her a beautiful long dress. She looks like a princess!

Piero is a talker. He surprises us all the time with all the new words and phrases he comes up with. It makes us all careful how we talk. Sometimes he gets it a little off though. Waterpops (Otterpops), Washmellows (marshmellows) & Watermins (Vitamins). We don't have a boosterseat for him to eat at the table, so we use a very large dictionary instead. He saw it on the coffee table the other day and was trying to move it to the chair. It dropped to the floor and he started to cry, "I dropped my booster seat."

Giampiero is still searching for a job that will stick. He has been fortunate to get temporary work to sustain us. He is doing well, but it's very frustrating for him not to be working regularly.

I am enjoying cooking, cleaning and caring for the family. Right now we are lucky enough to have my neice, Evy, visiting. I am excited to have my brother and his wife come to visit in a few days. I had my 30th birthday last Thursday! It seems like I am supposed to be upset about being 30, but I just don't feel like it's a big thing. I do think it's pretty funny that we had a blackout (due to bad weather) on my birthday. What a way to end Christmas! We played "Apples 2 Apples" by candle/flashlight.

Love ya'll.

Not the greatest news

December 10th Giampiero's grandfather, Nestor (Teto) passed away. Cause of death was kidney failure. They discovered as well that his spinal tumor had returned and started to attack the surrounding organs. We are glad that he is now able to be released from the body that has been holding him back for so long. The family seems to be taking it all pretty well.

We have also found that Giampiero's grandmother (Nona) does not have very long. She has been diagnosed with Lymphoma. We don't know what stage. The doctor has estimated 2 weeks to 6 months.

We will miss them very much, but are happy that they will be living in a better place.

Our first BIG snow.