Xmas morning pictures! (I just can't help myself!)

Lana and her dollhouse!

Backpack and Rescue Pack!

Rescue Pack!

Chicken Race!

More Xmas pictures will be posted soon! =)

Here is some more pictures!

Rachael and Lana......the thumbs up! haha

Robert and Nicole

The Newly Engaged, Heather and Abe

Charlie and Taylor

I guess this means I'm cool now! =)

Hello all!

I'm excited to finally be a part of this blog! Well, Merry Christmas to everyone! I hope your holiday was as special as mine and Lanas! She had a GREAT day opening presents and running around! I got to talk to JJ for a bit too!!! He's doing good, he just misses being home! But he will be back for a visit for two weeks in Feb.! The only thing he ever asks for is letters from you all! So, please take a moment and email him or send him a card! He really misses everyone! If you need his address just email me and I'll send it to you! Well, I guess I leave you all with some of my favorite pictures I recently took! Luv yas!!! =)

I made it to the 21st century

Hi everyone,
It's Charlie !! For all those that don't know me or don't remember me, I'm the one after Leo and before Nikki. I've missed seeing and talking to everyone(I don't have a phone) If you want to ever drop me a line my e-mail is chachj75@yahoo.com. I'll have more when I know this works.
I love you all

A little bit of everything...Merry Christmas

I have been so busy lately that I haven't had an opportunity to update the blog. This is going to be a little bit of everything that has been going on.

First, Papi is out of the hospital and doing well. His surgery went great and he is staying with Oscar and Sanalis in Augusta, GA. He has a lot of people visiting him but a phone call to see how he is doing is always appreciated.

Patrick is also doing much better. He had an infection that was the reason for the lumps that he found. He is on medication to help with that. He also has a new car to drive so he isn't walking anymore. Patrick is working hard as always and loves to hear from everyone.

With everything going on I didn't mention Robert's birthday that was on Nov. 25th. It was his Golden Birthday...25 on the 25th.

I remember mine back on Christmas of 1997. I was in the Navy standing duty watch because we were in the Persian Gulf. I also was working on an emergency project for SEAL Team 6 (called Dev Group) making some motor mounts for them because they were stranded on shore and needed to get their boats back to the ship.

As today is my birthday I am just hanging out at Dusty's house (Wendy's brother) as we spent most of the morning opening up presents.

I hope everyone has a great Christmas and don't forget to call Mami and Papi.

-Michael

Patrick's Life

As I spoke with Patrick earlier this week I found out some interesting things going on in his life...

First he is without a car since the camshaft broke about a month ago. He told me he has been walking everywhere.

Is he crazy!!

Let's think about this for a second.

• It's winter in Indiana
• he just had surgery
  
• It's WINTER!! (I get cold just thinking about it)

Ok so I put winter twice, but really I have been watching the news and it's really cold up there right now.

On a more important note...I know what can be more important than walking around in the winter, well...

Patrick found 4 more lumps last week end under his arm. Hopefully they can be removed and not cause a problem. Patrick only has his cell number right now if you need it give me a call and I will pass it on to you.

A Quadruple Bypass!

Sorry for the delay in updating the blog. The military hospital didn't have an internet connection that I could use and the internet was down were I was staying.

Papi went into the hospital on Monday 12/10 and had the surgery on 12/11. He was in the operating room from about 6:30am until almost 5pm. The only issue that the doctors had was stopping the bleeding once the surgery was complete. He is now out of ICU and in a private room. You can reach him on his cell phone or call the nurse's station at (706) 787-9225. You will need a password to find out anything about him. The word is "Christmas" (I thought I would make it easy for everyone to remember.)

He does have a direct phone line to the room but I don't know what it is since I didn't write it down. He's in room 1105-A at Eisenhower hospital in Fort Gordon. Dr. Cooper, his surgeon, said if everything continues to go well he will be released on Monday 12/17.

I know he will enjoy hearing from everyone so don't hesitate to call.

Surgery Update

Papi's surgery has been rescheduled to next Monday Dec. 10th. He will be in the hospital all week.

-Michael

Papi Health goes down hill

I've been really busy lately going back and forth from Florida and Georgia because Papi is going to have open heart surgery this Friday Dec 7th. He will actually go into the hospital on Dec 6th so they can do prep work for a 3-5 bypass surgery.

The surgery will be at the Eisenhower hospital on Fort Gordon in Augusta, GA. It will begin at 6:30 am. I will try and give out updates as I get them. I will be at the hospital with him and in GA for about a week following the surgery.

If you would like to get a hold of Papi before the surgery his new cell number is (706) 339-6069. You will be able to reach me on my cell as well.

-Michael

From Tio Manny

Dearest Patrick,

I've been following the blog about your surgery. God Bless you and get well soon! Call me when you can. 619-339-5936 I want to hear from you.

LoveYa,

Tio Manny

Update on Patrick

I spoke with Patrick today and he told me that they did the biopsy on the tumor and it's not malignant! Great News!

He will still be out of work recovering for the next couple of weeks so hopefully he gets better soon so he can get back to work soon (I know he needs the money from work)

Get Well Soon, Patrick!

-Michael

Patrick's Surgery

Just thought I would put an update on the site since Patrick has been down and out. He had his surgery on this past Thursday and had a tumor removed that was about the size of a baseball. It was out patient surgery so he was out of the hospital the same day. He will be out of work for about the next two week. If you have a chance please call him on his cell (house phone is no longer active) and give him your support.

-Michael

Patrick's Birthday

It was Patrick's Birthday yesterday and he turned 36! Where has the time gone? Even though I called him yesterday I haven't been able to speak with him yet. I thought I would post a little note and encourage everyone to contact him if you haven't already.

Happy Birthday Patrick!

-Michael

Home Phone Change for Michael

Hey everyone,

I wanted to let you know that next week I will be changing the home phone number. I will email everyone with that new number. The old one (813) 988-1080 is getting way to many telemarketing calls even though we are on the Do Not Call list.

Hope everyone is have a great summer.

-Michael

Abuelo's 90th Birthday

Hey Everyone,

Mom called me the other day and wanted me to pass on the word that her family is having a special birthday party celebration for Abuelo's 90th birthday. They will be having the party at Roberto's house.

She wanted everyone to start calling about 3pm. Mom will be able to translate for the one's of us who are not fluent in Spanish.

The one oversight on my part is that I don't have Roberto's phone number. I have been trying to reach Mom today to get it. If anyone has the number please send it to me.

Make sure to celebrate Abuelo's 90th birthday in your own way if you are not able to make it to Puerto Rico.

Have a great day.

Happy 90th Birthday Abuelo!!

-Michael

New Look and Features

Hey everyone!

After a lot of downtime over the last year I have finally decided to updated the blog. It now has a new look and a couple of new features.

Here are the new features...

If you look on the top left you will see a subscriber box. You can enter in your name and email to receive all the updates via your email. Now you won't have to come back and check out if the blog has been updated.

The other thing I did was add all the links that I know of to our families different website and blogs. I tracked down as many as I could and put links to them here. So If you for get you can just come here and check them out.

If you are feeling left out just send me an email and I will add your website(s) to the list.

Also...

If you think of something that you would like me to ad to the blog just say the word and I will work on it. Just send me an email and I will get right on it.

That's it for now...

Michael

My first Post from PR

Here are just a few of the pictures from my outing to Old San Juan. I toured both of the forts and walked the city. It was beautiful!!

The World of Coke and Six Flags Over GA

Here are some of the other pictures from the World of Coke. It ended up being an interesting tour. It was self-guided so you didn't have to worry about being borded by a tour guide.

Joey and I got prizes for being visitors from the western states.




These are some of the pictures from Six Flags

Update from Nicolle

So much has happened since my last post in April 2006! I only worked for the University of Utah for a few months and then decided that I really should follow my dream and go to cooking school. So, within two weeks I found a family to nanny for in Atlanta GA. I chose this family because they lived near two of the schools that I wanted to attend. Financial Aid ended up not working out for the school of my choice, Le Cordon Bleu, and the schedule didn't really work out for the family, so I didn't attend any classes while I was there. And at the beginning of Nov. the family decided that they really needed to get a French speaking nanny since the girls wouldn't speak in French, not even to grandparents, who only speak French. And right around that same time, I decided that I really missed my life back in Utah, so I really wanted to go back.

Here are some of the pictures of my adventures while in GA. In my free time I tried to get in as many of the sites as possible. And thankfully my old roommate from UT was also a nanny in the area so we did everything together. Our first outing was Six Flags Over GA on Labor Day, but we also went to the World of Coke, CNN Atlanta, a Thrashers Hockey game, and a Falcons vs. NY Giants football game. Richard also came down from Charlotte, NC to visit for a weekend and we went to the GA Aquarium, the largest indoor aquarium in the world! It was fantastic. I think I must have taken over a thousand pictures in my 7 months in GA. I won't bore you with all of them, so here are just a few.

Richard at the Aquarium
Lily Marie while we were in Destin FL on Vacation in July
Olivia on the same trip
Here was my family in GA, minus the baby Sophie (I'll add an entire section just for her). Thierry (dad from Corsica France), Shannon (mom) and Olivia and Lily Marie.
Our little Mermaids
Me with Lily Marie and Olivia after dinner.
These pictures where taken in October when Richard came to visit. The baby on my lap is Sophie.
Here I am trying to get Olivia to stay still long enough for us to get a nice picture. She has more energy then most of the boys I know.
This is my old roommate Joey and I at Six Flags over GA on Labor day. It was great there were no lines!
Here we are visiting the World of Coke
This is the largest glass of Coke I have ever seen.

And both of these pictures were taken at CNN Atlanta.

I'll have to add some of the other pics later.