gone west...
  • daily scoop
  • connections
    • san diego
    • texas
    • europa
    • vietnam
  • birthdays
  • school years
  • soccer seasons
  • Christmas cards
  • daily scoop
  • connections
    • san diego
    • texas
    • europa
    • vietnam
  • birthdays
  • school years
  • soccer seasons
  • Christmas cards
Search by typing & pressing enter

YOUR CART

3/24/2014 0 Comments

*

Did you watch "the bachelor - season 16"?  Of course you didn't.  P and I did.  Bachelor "Ben" is a wine maker from San Francisco.  He was signing his wine bottles at the grocery store that I go to every other day.  Lisa wouldn't go with me so I dragged P instead..who was glad to go (remember she wanted to apply to be the next bachelorette?)  He checked my ID to make sure I was old enough to taste his wine (ha!).....it was actually good.  He asked who he should make it out to...I hesitated (cause I couldn't think of anyone who I could give the bottle to), so he said, "maybe I should just sign it"....then we talked about the drought that didn't affect his crop this year.  I asked if he was still single....he said he is with a "normal" girl who is not in the limelight and he is VERY happy.   


P:  "He kinda looks like Nadal!"
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
0 Comments

3/17/2014 1 Comment

metal mouth

Picture
1 Comment

3/17/2014 2 Comments

LUCKIEST DAY

Picture
Thank you St. Patrick's for bringing us the BEST NEWS today!!!  Adrian received a notice to go to the post office to pick up an international letter.  This was the best gift for all of us today!
We received a letter from Cristina --- Paula and Nic's oldest sister!!!!!!!!

For the past 5 years, I've been sending a small package to their sisters, Cristina and Melania with pictures and updates on P and Nic...every year, I hoped they received the package with the understanding of my intentions.  This is the first time that they have written back!  The girls live with different foster families but are in the same village.  From the pictures, it looks like they are very much in each others' lives which makes me feel so HAPPY!  There are many times I wished I was younger and could have adopted all 4 children.  
I am so thrilled that the sisters are open to having a relationship with P and Nic.  This is so nice.

When I showed the letter to Paula, she had some tears.  Nic was indifferent. 

Picture
I'll have to translate.....
Picture
5 years ago when they last saw each other:
Cristina (8) , Melania (7), Paula (5), Niculai (3)

** Nic saw this picture and said, "See Mom, look at how annoyed I was to have 3 sisters."

Picture
Picture
Picture
And here they are today:  Cristina (13) and Melania (12)
Picture
Picture
This looks like a younger picture of Cristina.  I have to send them Easter dresses!!!  I am so excited!!!
Picture
I don't know who this man is.....Foster Dad?  Birth Dad???  I think the birth Dad is younger than Adrian and me, so I don't think it's him....hmmmmm....look at his smile and Cristina's smile and the crinkle between the eyes....similar?
The more I think about it, the more I think he might be their birth Dad....she only sent us a handful of pictures, why did she include this one?  I'll just have to find out....
Picture
Picture
2 Comments

3/9/2014 2 Comments

Tennis at Indian Wells, California

Picture
Picture
Picture
Lisa and Mike went to the day session and saw more players....we only bought the night game...but luck would have it that Nadal was playing the night game!  I am not a huge fan, but he is the number 1 player and we have never seen him play before.  (** after reading David's comments, I can see why David thought I might not have liked Nadal by saying that I am not a huge fan....but in fact, what I meant to say was that I like him like a normal person...not obsessed with him like I have been in the past with other players....but now I have to read more about him :)

We also watched a Romanian player named
Sorana Cîrstea (ranked #25).  She's the one in the orange skirt in the pictures below.    She left the stadium too fast for Paula to get her ball signed :(
2 Comments

3/2/2014 1 Comment

a new brew

Adrian's new hobby....brewing his own beer! 

                                                    Day 1 (check back in 90 days)
Picture
Day 10:
Picture
1 Comment

3/2/2014 1 Comment

rainy day excursion

Big rainy weekend...got the kids together at the Children's Museum:
1 Comment

3/2/2014 0 Comments

matchpoint

Practice makes perfect...
0 Comments
    Bertisan Family
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Picture
    Friday
    Picture
    Oliver
    Picture
    Faux Hawk (bird heaven)
    Picture
    Rebecca (moved to farm)
    Picture
    Maleficent (moved to new family)
    Picture
    Ruby (bird heaven)
    Picture
    Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana (moved to new family)
    Picture
    Rose (moved to new family)
    Picture
    Frankie (bird heaven)

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

    Archives

    December 2022
    October 2022
    August 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    September 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    September 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    November 2011
    October 2011
    September 2011
    August 2011
    July 2011
    June 2011
    May 2011
    April 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010
    October 2010
    September 2010
    August 2010
    July 2010
    June 2010
    May 2010
    April 2010
    March 2010
    January 2010
    December 2009