Saturday, December 31, 2016

2016 RECAP

         

JANUARY

Had a cold all month. Lots of rain.

          Lizzie was here the 2^nd weekend

          Sandy & Marty Caribbean Cruise

          Tristan accepted at the University of Utah

FEBRUARY

          Still not feeling too well

51^st Wedding Anniversary. To Black Angus with Marv and Norbert to celebrate ours and N’s 60^th birthday.

Lizzie came over the weekend with my favorite chocolate cake.

MARCH

Nice weather. Gardening

Lizzie over the weekend of the 11

M blood transfusions

San Diego to see Lizzie’s new place

Tristan turns 18 years old!

San Jose. Acapulco with N

N over for dinner for Easter

APRIL

Regent Theater in LA with Lizzie

Sandy to San Diego & to visit us

Lizzie over the weekend

Marv’s birthday 76. To Fuddruckers –his choice-

MAY

Mother’s Day. Surprise visit from Lizzie.

To doctor about my leg

Leaving to Utah the 25^th

Tristan’s graduation from HS the 27^th J

Red Butte gardens. Celebrate Sandy’s Birthdays.

Marv to ER in Utah

JUNE

Not a great month health wise

M had to have lots of transfusions

I was diagnosed with venous insufficiency (lipodermatosclerosis)

$2700 transmission problems

Tons of tomatoes in the garden

Sandy’s Birthday 50!

Lizzie over with the portrait of my mother and sister and me.

JULY

M feeling better. Wound nurses around.

Tried some new restaurants

Tristan came to visit us for a week. Very nice.

AUGUST

Watching the Olympics

Lots of reading

          Lizzie and Jeff split. Not unhappy about it.

SEPTEMBER

To San Diego to see Lizzie’s new home. Great condo in downtown SD

Thinking of last year in Spain at this time

OCTOBER

Pacific City

Fix the AC

Pay off house mortgage

New dishwasher

#$%@ Frontier

T's problems

NOVEMBER

N clean up Jacuzzi and patio

Happy Birthday Lizzie 45!

Lizzie and Sandy to New Orleans. Lizzie to Utah.

Thanksgiving meal from Mimi’s

Election Day. Trump was elected President.

Nuri broke her leg

DECEMBER

My 73 birthday

Busy month

Sonia and Nicole over for the holidays.

The Thompson’s and Lizzie too!

Wonderful to have everybody here.

Rain

Sonia and Nicole to San Diego for New Year’s Eve.

Read 100 books this year.

Wishing my readers, friends and family all the very best for a very happy year 2017

DNA

I find genealogy  interesting. 

My brother in law is very interested, he has compiled a family history of the Wann's and Moore's.

He researched and worked on it for a long time, he found pictures and asked family for pictures. He went to the Genealogical Library in Salt Lake City (The Mecca for geneologists the world over) and also searched in San Francisco. He wrote to members of the family and asked for pictures, and looked for birth and death certificates. And all without even once checking things online since he doesn't have Internet.

A few years ago, looking for things to do, I started putting family names in Google. I started with my father. Out of it, I connected with my half sister Mia. She had posted about looking for her half siblings and mentioned my father's name as hers as well. Thus I found a side of my father that I didn't know about and it was so nice meeting her (she's traveled to California from Sweden a few times).

When I put my mother's name, among other things I found a picture of hers that I had not seen before. I kept on clicking links and I found out somebody that had a family tree with her on it. A niece of my cousin Ferran, Gloria,  who was a nun at the time, had started the tree for the families Garcia del Arbol (her mother's side) and Herrera  (her father's side) and my mother was a part of it because she was the sister of her grandmother Herrera (nee Garcia). She invited me to her family tree site and it was fun looking at pictures and dates of my grandparents and great grandparents in my mother's side. Sadly she didn't renew her subscription.

My sister Mia also has a site with her  Almstrom family tree, my father is in it, she also invited me to be in it.

Lately I've been watching in Facebook and also on TV, ads about finding out where you come from and who your family is going back several generations thru DNA. So I send for 2 kits, one for Marv and one for myself ( they were on sale because of Black Friday)

We are going to do it tomorrow and send it in the mail, it takes about 6 to 8 weeks to get the results.

It was funny because the package  comes from West Valley City :)

I am excited to see the results. It will complement (on Marvin's side) Dewey's research and hopefully will find out more about his ancestors in US and Europe.  I am very excited about mine too, even though my mom and dad were born in Barcelona, a branch in my maternal grandmother's side are not Catalan, so it'll be interesting to find out more about it.

After I get the results, I'll let you know , of course, and then I will subscribe to Ancestry.com and start our very own Family Tree :)

November Recap

There were lots of things happening this month...

Nov. 4  Lulu had a haircut, looking perky

Nov. 5  N came over to clean the Jacuzzi and patio. I planted flowers.

Nov. 8  Election Day. Donald Trump won. Bye bye Hillary . 

Nov.11 Ultra sound procedure at Kaiser Downey  (for me)

Nov. 12  Lizzie visited this weekend. 

Nov. 13  Super moon.

Nov 16  Lizzie to Utah

Nov. 17 Sandy and Lizzie to New Orleans

Nov 19  Lizzie's Birthday in NOLA

Sandy and Lizzie back to Utah

Nov. 24  Thanksgiving. Dinner from Mimi's

Nov  25  Nuri fell down some steps and broke her tibia and fibula.

Nov  27 Lizzie back to San Diego

Marv felt pretty good all month and we went out to eat several times. Baja Cabo, Sizzler, El Cholo, Zumaya, Off the Hook... 

BOOKS I READ

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MOVIES I WATCHED

~Looking forward to the Holidays with the family~