Summer Baseball 2008

Jake Dionne
all star game
2008








Adam Santana
all star game
2008











Alexander Santana
First Year T-Ball
2008












Miguel Paramo
2008

Southern Cousins

Laura and Joshua came to Douglasville, GA last night. So we got together with Carl, Suzanne and the girls and we all went out to eat. It was a great time of reminiscing, laughing at the crazy things our kids do and making more memories. We learned that the capital of Georgia is in fact Atlanta. It was wonderful to get together and can't wait until they visit again.

Madres, Hijas, Hermanas, Amigas

Hi everyone, this is Olivia, (aunt to many of you), I had Angie set up this slideshow showing an album I had made up to depict the females in the family. Many of you have not seen it and I thought this would be a great way to give everyone a chance to see what it was all about. I hope you enjoy it. It was a lot of work, took a long time but it was truly a joy to do.

I have been in the process since I did this album, to do another one depecting the males in the family. I have been working on it off and on since 2004 and still have not finished. I am unable to get many pictures from family. I still need some of Antonio Contreras (Debbie's son), Brian Chojnacki and his children, Jessica and her family and Ethan Santana.

If you want to have these pictures in the albums for future generations to look at. Please send me copies (I am not computer literate so I do not want them e-mailed to me). I will make copies for the albums and have Angie add them to the blog.

Hope you enjoy everything.

Olivia

Madres, Hijas, Hermanas, Amigas

something new

hey everyone! I added music to our page!
I thought it would be fun! Any songs you'd
like to add, let me know and I'll see if I
can find them!

30th Bday

<-this is what they did to me! I know the rest of you will appreciate this!




It was the Big 30 yesterday. I can't
believe that I am 30 years old! We
went to dinner at Sagebrush Cantina
and had Mojito's!YUM! We are going
out tomorrow for more drinks! I guess
turning 30 isn't that bad! LOL

Antonio's Open House and Aftermath

(Left) Suzanne, Carl, Bailey & Jessica (Center) Katie, BJ & Rene' (Right) Antonio, David & Mari

Mandy, Dakota, Chloe & Elisha (Daniel's family)
Greg, Terri, Aunt Joyce, & Uncle Lefty

Lisa, Michael, Miguel & Mariano
Uncle Rey & Carl
Suzanne & Uncle Rey

Angelina, Will, Nathaniel, William, Jonathan, & Maddie
Angela, Steven, Adam, Alex & Ethan
Alicia, Tom, Diego, Jake & Francisco
Aunt Pat & Uncle Popeye

Uncle Nacho & Aunt Lupe
View from the carport looking at tent, less than 30 minutes after everyone left the Open House. Praise GOD you had all left and were safe!!
That's all the debris I had flying at me while trying to make sure BJ got inside safe during the storm. I'm pointing to the cake I threw, no it didn't make me any faster. Believe it or not, I ran thru all that with only a few bruises.
Yes, this is the tent that we'd all been under. That storm was a doozy!!
The backyard tent we had up as well. Now that you've seen this, go back up and look at the pictures with the Blue Spruce trees in the background. They are NO MORE!! Both fell across the street and were completely uprooted. Needless to say, Daddy has a lot of damage to his house, and garage. Toni's truck suffered a little bit but will be fine. Again, we are all so very thankful nobody was seriously injured. BJ, Mari, Sue and I all got a bruise or two, but nothing near what it could have been. Our GOD is so good to have taken you all home safely. I love you!!

Rene'

U-S-A, All the Way!!!!!

Joshua attended a soccer camp this week and was on team USA. On Friday, they were supposed to paint their faces and have crazy hair. Since Joshua doesn't have much hair to make "crazy"(see our blog for more details on that story), he opted for the painted face and biker bandana look for his head.

Happy Birthday Madelyn!

Maddie Moo turned 4 on Sunday. The family came over for dinner and had some cake and ice cream. I worked really hard on that cake so I thought i'd show it off!!

Info

Just wanted to let you all know that Will and I have a Travel Website.
Its comparable to Expedia.... you can also find flowers and sporting event tickets.
And alot of other things as well. Hope all is doing well and we'll see you this summer!!
www.itsanewdaytravel.com

-Angelina

Happy 13th Birthday Nathaniel!!!!

My not so baby is turning 13 today!!! I can't believe how the time has gone by!!!

We had the family over for dinner and icecream cake a couple of weeks ago! We took

him and some of his cousins to Zap Zone this past weekend. And he spent all of his birthday money on the PSP.

Antonio's Open House

Hey y'all!! My not-so-baby brother is graduating this year. Our parents will be hosting his open house on Sunday, June 8th from 12 noon until 4pm. Suzanne and her family as well as me and my family will be coming up for the festivities.

Hope to see you all there.

Love,
Rene'

Miguel's 1st Communion

So Miguel made his 1st Communion yesterday. We went to

dinner afterwards and Miguel stuffed his face cake. It was a great day!! Mariano was being a stinker and wouldn't take any pics for me. The priest told the kids that he got approval from the pope to let them have grape juice instead of wine!!

I can't believe how quick these kids grow!!

Isn't she lovely?

My "son" always the nut of the group. He spent the night with his Aunt Suzanne last night and the girls made him up. Isn't he lovely? This was just so funny, I had to share it with all of you.

maddie moo

Mimi and Madelyn. We went

up north for a long weekend and

mimi made her the cutest hat!!

Disneyland Birthday

For his ninth birthday, Joshua's awesome mother took him to California. On Friday, we went to the San Diego Zoo and for his actual birthday day, we went to Disneyland. He met Mickey and went on all the rides in the park. Maybe for his tenth birthday, I'll take him to get a haircut!!!

Love,
Laura C.

Aunt Eileen

I want to thank each of you for your prayers and apologize for not getting an update to you all sooner. This past week has been so totally draining and I've not been in the office much at all to send an e-mail.

Momma had her heart catheter on Wednesday. That took about an hour and they brought her back to the room to wait for her cardiologist, who was at another hospital. They told us she had 2 blockages. One in the bottom back that was about 80% and the position it was in could cause more damage than good if he messed with it. They told us the other "suspicious area" was at the top front of her heart and this one would need to be looked at closer with an ultrasound to measure called an IVIS. But they needed him to look at her pictures to decide how to proceed next. He decided to come straight over and work on Momma. So about 4pm they took her back in the heart cath lab and told us they would be doing an IVIS (which is an ultrasound in the artery) to measure the blockage in the front. After 1-1/2 hours, Suzanne and I started getting REALLY nervous. It shouldn't have taken that long. The nurse came out to tell us they were still working on her and were having some difficulty getting stints in the bottom back blockage. This totally floored us, as that's NOT what they told us they were going in to do to her. To make a long story short, she had some arm pain in her right arm during the procedure that we found out 2 days later was a heart attack during the procedure they weren't even suppose to do. Yeah, I'm a little upset, can you tell?

They ended up keeping her there until Friday afternoon and we brought her home. She is still tires rather easily and will have go undergo another procedure in the very near future to repair the top front part of her heart. I'm praying she gets a referral to a different doctor who will perform her surgery at St. Joseph's here in Atlanta. I'm afraid of this previous group that caused more damage. Please keep us in your prayers for strength, healing and wisdom from our heavenly father.

Love you all,
Cousin Rene'

Elijah Born 8/1/07

From: Cousion Daniel

Hi everyone hope all is doing well. My, mom been bugging me to get some pic's going, so here they are. Who would of knew I'd have 2 kids with red hair.?????

Here's Clo,Clo

4 yrs. old. - going on 10

And This is my big guy, cousion Dakota

5yrs. old.

Will send more recent pic soon !!!!

Much Love Daniel

hi

wanted to drop a line while i have a free min!!
im here kicking it in LA now its fun! but it defintly gets cold here!!!
well thats about it here really im workin at the LA Equestrian Center so if u ever want to check out my works webpage, i work at Traditional Equatation School.
Also im in a jumper show in April so i have to start now conditionin my pony but thats it!
email me who ever!! ChrisDCervantes@hotmail.com

and lisa did u get my post card??

thanks, Chris

Birthday Dinner

Here are a few more from mom's birthday
dinner. We had dinner at my house this past
sunday. Dinner was excellent and the kids had
a blast just hanging out together.

p.s. doesen't Miguel look just like Gabe???

Happy Birthday Olivia!!

Happy 67th Birthday Mimi from all the monkeys!!
Jake couldn't be with us that day but i'll be sure to
get another picture soon!!