Christmas Letter

December 26 2009
Merry Christmas
( one day late)


This year has been a great year for us. We have been on a journey. Justino and I reflected on the drastic differences in our lives in Mexico now, and three years ago when we arrived.
Something that L. Whitney Clayton said in October Conference 2009 really stuck out to me. He said
Alma and his people “did pour out their hearts to [God]; and he did know the thoughts of their hearts.” Because of their goodness and their obedience to their baptismal covenants,they were delivered in stages.

I feel that we are being delievered in stages. We prayed to be able to be back in the states, but it is not yet his will. However, We have been blessed with a steady job for Justino. We have a car. We were able to buy a little house in July that we love. I have a washer and a dryer. We love our ward. Eva and Sam have started school to learn spanish and their teacher is truly an instrument in the Lords hands for their developement and happininess. We live in a tropical paradise where thosands of people travel from all over the world to visit. We have it’s beauty right at our finger tips. We have enjoyed lots of visits from friends and family and we love having company. Thanks to friends who have visited we have been invited to beautiful resorts and had many fabulous experiences.

We have been abundantly blessed and we are grateful.

We love you and hope your holidays were bright.

p.s. The photo was taken at a villa in Puerto Morelos, where we were invited by Justino's boss to spend Thanksgiving.

IT's not just me

Appartently Sammy didn't inherit his syrup drinking skills just from his brownie batter eating mother. As is shown here, his father is known to drink his spicy chili sauce straight from the bottle. The kid didn't stand a chance.

Brownie Mix for Breakfast

So in light of some Mexican Holiday that is Monday, Eva had a party at school today. I didn't remember that I was supposed to send treats, so I came home and promptly made brownies. Which just goes to show that buying a brownie mix with no specific purpose in mind, is NOT frivolous spending like I thought at the time, because you never know when it is going to be some Mexican Holiday and then have to send treats to school.

Come to find out, raw brownie batter is GOOD. So good in fact that I think I ate somewhere between 5-9 spoonfuls for breakfast this morning. I have a little chocolate buzz, and a slight stomach ache and a probing question in my mind. What kind of a person eats straight brownie mix for breakfast? Should I be alarmed?

Here is my Sammy. He doesn't eat brownie batter for breakfast. He gets naked and drinks straight syrup. Just goes to show the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Yellow Of Course

Once upon a time there was a house,. And we bought it. And this was it...

BEFORE

ANd then one day Justino decided to paint it Yellow

And I didn't care if he did or if he didn't, because I liked the white, but said ok. After all, yellow happens to be the most beautiful color in the whole world.


But as he went, I realized what an amazing oversight I had made for not demanding the house be yellow to start with. I mean LOOK at that color. How could I have departed so far from my very soul as to not realize that no other color would do. Lucky for me, Justino had the idea to paint it.

We let Eva help, but she painted with water.

( note the original colorm,it was PEACH before it was white, gag me)

And even though it's not all the way done, it will be someday, and in the mean time

We lived happily ever after.

Hurricane Ida

This was me Saturday morning when it was raining BUCKETS, I had 12 loads of laundry to take to the laudramat to to be dried, my roof was leaking and my righteous husband had left his wife and small children in a hurricane to attend the temple.

Luckily a few angels showed up to get on the roof and bail water off my roof until it was no longer a swimming pool, and to open up the blocked drain pipe causing the back up.

Some trees went down

and the streets were rivers.


But overall it didn't feel much like a hurricane at all.
More like a really long, very rainy day

HOW HIGH CAN YOU STACK YOUR DISHES?

Just when I was beginning to think that I had no talent at allI did this.

Happy Halloween