Please Pray For Your Baby Cousin~Hazel!

Hazie taking Chloe for a ride
when she was feeling better!

I just received word from Aunt Jen that Little Hazie is having some trouble breathing and has been admitted to the hospital. She has had a cold and one of her breathing issues is she can't cough very hard because her backbone is pressing on one of her lungs. She then needs to have her lungs cleaned out with a tiny vacuum called a suction tube. When her lungs fill up with fluid it makes it pretty hard for her to breathe. Then her oxygen level gets too low and that is why they are at the hospital....plus she has a fever! Poor Hazie! I wish she could understand how much we all love her and pray for her, don't you?

It's a Big Bummer but here's a few
teddy bears for you, Hazie!
That big one looks really sad
cuz you are sick right now!

She is just a little girl and doesn't understand and doesn't want that oxygen thing on her face which adds to her problem so Aunt Jen has to stay awake and hold it on for Hazie. So they will be at the hospital until she gets better. So any of your prayers for her would be so wonderful and appreciated. The prayers of good children are very important to our Heavenly Father when someone is sick.

And here's some roses for her Mommy~she need them too!

Hazie has done really well for quite awhile!
Thank goodness she can go to the hospital
when she needs to get a tune up!

Little Women

Life With A Puppy~by Aunt Missy

"So our puppy has changed our lives. It's like having a baby again....it cost more money than you could have imagined, has tons of stuff, causes you to take classes and read books on how to best teach it, wakes you up at night, and can cause disagreements between you and your spouse on how to handle certain situations. Well, here are 3 of our 4 kids enjoying Edison's brand new kennel we got for him in an attempt to have our kitchen once again be our domain and not so much his.

And here's Edison wanting nothing to do with the kennel we bought him. Seeing as he is so much like a baby, I wonder if he would have preferred the box?"

Christmas Cousin Connection~Italy

Spencer and Ross are ready!
You work so hard to get to Christmas Eve, it is just wonderful when it arrives. I know Laura did the Lion's share of it, but we all helped to make some part of the dinner. We have a family tradition that we know goes back at least five generations of making a formal, several course, Italian meal on Christmas Eve. We all agree that the most important part of it is the antipasta course.

Stuffed Zucchini made by Grandma Gloria~to die for!

Jim made the red peppers!
The trick is to eat everything...
just not too much of it.

The antipasta was followed by a pasta course and then a main course of roasted chicken and vegetables and Tiramisu (Mormon style, no coffee no alcohol!) for dessert. After dinner we had a family devotional about the birth of the Savior with a special program that Robert had compiled from Luke 2 and with hymns interspersed between the sections of the scriptures. It was a beautiful and meaningful experience. Here in Italy Christmas is all about the birth of Christ (what a novel idea!) and there are beautiful nativities everywhere. Tomorrow night we are going to one that is in a town near Gaeta and is a living nativity.

Christmas Eve the boys were so anxious for the next morning and opening presents. They were told they could not go downstairs until 7:30 am. By 6:00 am Rossie found his way into our bed where we somehow held him at bay until 7:30. We laid in bed and listened to the Christmas bells at a nearby church ringing out to welcome the Savior! Both boys were awake by about 4:00 but Santa is smart at this house and leaves their stockings in their beds for them to go through so everyone else gets a little more sleep.

Don't you just hate it when someone takes
your picture on Christmas morning?
I like this one it is nice and dark and blurry!

The other rule they have is the parents and grandparents get to be downstairs first and so we could watch them come down. It was pretty cute! They got more Legos than I have ever seen in one place and they played all day long..like 8 hours straight.

Spencer and Ross left Santa a letter.
Here Spencer is reading
Santa's computerized response
Geesh, everything has gone techno!

Some of the loot!

Warms a Gramma's heart!

We have a very nice breakfast and then just lounged around all day. We talked to our other kids and it was a perfect day! Jim's mom said it was the best Christmas she ever had! I am glad she is having so much fun!

So tomorrow, Presepe Viventi; Sunday, church and Laura and Robert's 12th anniversary and I am going to make them an apple pie! Monday we are leaving for our traveling up north to Pisa, Cinque Terra, Venice, Verona and a few other places. There are exciting times to look forward to every day around here! Christmas in Italy is very fun!

Christmas Couisn Connection~Utah!

Catch up photos from the holidays in Utah! Sorry we missed it guys, maybe this year the whole family can be together again for the first time since 2006! That is our hope anyway!

Owen sledding off the deck!

Aynslee enjoying her skates

Zachy and his new Webkins Draggy

Owen getting into Christmas this year!

Chris and Ayn~Christmas morning.
Nice Jammies Uncle Chris!

ChrisMissy, aren't they?

Polar Express ride

Miss Julia Mae with her hat from Venice!

iBaby Hazie!

Snow Bunnies, Piper and Julia at Ski School.

Chloe made you a purple hot dog for lunch!

Hazie being 2 on her hot rod Grampa,
Daddy & Uncle Chris made!

Happy New Year from the hotel!

Piper, such a sweetheart!
Our black and white girl!

Chloe lost her first tooth on New Year's Eve!
Hello...she is 4 and a half.
The earliest tooth lost in the family award
Goes to Chloe Jane!

Connor and his choir teacher

Cute photo of Connor, Anyslee, Zach and Owen

Spence and Ross Try Ice Skating!

We finally figured out how to take a video, transfer it to the computer and make a YouTube of the boys on Ice in Orvieto, Italy. Enjoy your cousins at play!




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