Hello all. Margarita, Monica and Skz wish you a Happy New Year!
We are celebrating that we are together this year. Well Skz and I are going out to dinner and then a party. Abuela Donna is staying home with Margarita and they will be watching Sleeping Beauty. Skz and I have missed being together the past 2 new years so it will be nice to go out on a date.
Margarita enjoyed Christmas, along with our new adopted cat Amaya. She showed up two months ago with 3 kittens. We fostered the kittens for one month until a permanent foster was found.
Abuela Donna arrived in December and Skz's sister LeAnn came down from Utah. Margarita got to hike to the top of Piestewa Peak Mountain. She did a great job.
We got invited to a Christmas party at the Ritz Calrton, which was a treat. Margarita got her picture taken with Santa and they served macaroni and cheese, her favorite.
Christmas eve we went to candlelight service and on Christmas day my sister came over and we all went out for Indian food.
In 2008, we are looking forward to my very good friend and her son visiting. Chris and Gregorio will be here for 10 days in January. Chris is the reason I met Margarita in 2001. Margarita was the third child that came to live at the home where Chris was the director. Gregorio and Margarita have grown up together and they have a very special bond that spans from brother/sister to statements, mostly from Margarita that they will be husband and wife one day. They even have their own language and understand each other completely. It will be fun to have them visit and do activities here in Arizona that we could never do in Honduras. Part of me misses Honduras terribly. It is never far from my mind.
I start on-site freelancing in January at an agency that I worked at previously and also have a few clients to keep me busy.
Skz is still hoping to sell or rent out the loft space. Here is the link of the site
I hope everyone has a fabulous New Year and wishing you all the best for 2008.
Love,
Monica and family
(Picture is Margarita on the path at the Ranch)
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Leo Tolstoy
