Familia

The last few days we've had the opportunity to spend lots of time with my family. We've had several gatherings, since some cousins were in town for my Uncle Travis's memorial service. I'm very lucky to have such a neat family. I constantly marvel at how much fun we can have just hanging out together talking & enjoying food and / or music. I'm already looking forward to the next gathering, in a few months, when we remember "the four brothers", or "los hnos" -- my dad and his 3 brothers. It's hard to believe that they're all gone now.


We met for dinner at Midway Molina, one of my Aunt Patty's favorite Mexican restaurants. When we got there, Steven said "Patty's in the emergency room. She's not going to make it." Matt said "At all?? Or just for dinner?" Pretty funny. Not funny that she broke her ankle, though. At least Steven & Judy took some food home for her.

Neil & Debbie were so nice to offer their house for 2 impromptu gatherings. Muchas gracias to the hosts with the most!

Judy taking the picture instead of Matt this time. Bummer that Cody & Tori left before we got around to taking a group photo. And Happy 4th Anniversary to Dani & Josh! They were excused from the gathering to celebrate their day.

Unplugged

We recently had a wonderful vacation in New Orleans. We got to spend lots of time with family, eat too much good food, listen to music, smell the flowers, and generally soak up all the good things about New Orleans. What we didn't do was watch TV, surf the web, blog, twitter, text, or any of those things that seem to consume so much time these days. It was great. I'm having a hard time getting back to those things, and I'm not sure that I even want to.