As usual most of us met at Oma/Opas house the afternoon of Christmas.  This year we had Diana.  Also we were missing Oma & Opa.  This year Opa met Oma in Heaven.  We will miss them a lot.  Thanks to the Gospel we will all be with them some day.

Downtown Seattle

 One of the good things that came out of the bad situation is that Diana, the oldest sibling was able to come to town.  She lives with her husband Frank Tove's in Guam.  We took her to Seattle.  It's always fun going to downtown.  Here we are at Pikes Place Market & they have a GUM WALL.  It was interesting.  Our daughter wanted to put her gum there, leave her mark.

Our son-in-law  Landi loves going there.  They have food from all over the world there.  He feels right at home eating food from Albania and region.  Our daughter-in-law Celsie loved the city, you can't blame here, it's beautiful!!!!  We walked the piers.  Pam who had eerends to do met us there. 

Christmas 2012

Since 1995, 5 siblings have been living in the Seattle area.  Our Christmas time were a time we charished together.  For the 1st time since then we had to spen it without Oma, Opa, & Grandma.  They were missed by all.  We now have Adrian there son read the Christmas story that was done by Opa.  They were very proud of their family & loved to be with them.

Instead of having the family party on Christmas Eve, we had it the night before.  There were kids who had to leave.  Some kids had to get back home.  We had a very good time, fun games, great food.

Can Cun again

Just when we got back from Can Cun again we brought other members of the machine with us.  We you can tell love going to Mexico.  We took them to Explor.  Nothing like going on a zip line that started on a tower 72 meters high!  We rode quads, Senates, canoes.  The Zip lines were fun, all 16.  We stayed at the Grand Velas.  It was ok.  I think we will go back to the Barcelo.  After 6 years of not going to Mexico, we went 2 times in 4 months.  We had Pam, myself, Jeff and Val, Bob and Karen. 

Goodbye Opa

Today I wood like to announce the passing of our Opa.  Adrianu VanderHoeven passed away at our home to return to our Heavenly Father & to be reunited with Oma.  We will miss hime greatly.  Our Oma died in April of 2005.