An Evening with Corina

We visited Corina for Dinner on Wednesday night. We sat around and enjoyed her company. We also took a look at all her pictures taken while she visited us in Seattle, Victoria, Canada, etc. She also had a lot of pictures of her vacation in San Juan,Puerto Rico and the surrounding area. What a beautiful area!

Corina has done a great job decorating her home. She sits at her fireplace.

Manuel and I used to make ceramics in the late 70's and she displays the Santa, Mrs.. Claus and the snowman we made back then. She displays the Christmas figurines on her dining table.

Corina and Manuel pose for me. Corina and Quincy, her Yorkie.

Corina and I.....

Manuel and I really enjoyed our time with Corina.

We had a great evening. She was on call so we left her early so she could get some rest in case they call her during the night....Corina is a RN at a Transplant Hospital. We are very proud of her.

Lunch with Lari

This past weekend, we made plans to join Lari for lunch on Tuesday,at her school.   We went by to pick up Arianna.  The trees that line Manuel and Veronica's yard look beautiful at this time of the year. 

We arrive at Wilderness Oak Elementary School, get our pass and wait for Lari to get to the Cafeteria.

Arianna makes funny faces as we take picture after picture.....

Manuel sets the timer and now we are all in the picture.

Finally Lari arrives.  Her order is just as she wanted.   She and Arianna had chicken nuggets, fries, fruit cup and chocolate milk.  They also had a fruit rollup.   They both enjoyed their lunch.

Grandpa and I had a Southwest salad which was also very good.

Lari's classmates: Juliana and Nicole.  Cute girls!

After lunch, they line up to go back to the classroom....

Ms. Armstrong, Lari's teacher.

This picture poster is right outside Ms. Armstrong's classroom.   Lari is right below the "e".

After we took Arianna back at home, we headed to the mall for some Christmas shopping.

Today, Wednesday, Manuel had a doctor's appointment and after he was done there, we had lunch and then headed to finish our Christmas shopping.   We are now done!!

Tonight, we will go visit with Corina after she gets out of work.  We will have dinner with her.

More to come!   Until then.....

Elissa's Graduation Weekend

We had a fun weekend.   My sister Josie and her husband, Ram and their daughter, Beatrice and husband, Roland arrived at about 5 pm on Friday.  I had fixed dinner for them so we visited for a while then ate dinner.   After dinner, we decided to play a game of dominos, Cajun Train.  While we played, we also prepared the food for Saturday's Graduation Party.

Elissa, The Graduate, was not able to make come tonight because her husband, Gil had to work until 8 pm so they decided to drive here from Corpus in the morning.

Josie and Ramiro Garcia are from Driscoll.

Roland & Bea Hernandez; Josie & Ramiro; Manuel

We had fun playing Cajun Train and we played until 1 a.m.  We had to get up at 6 a.m. the next morning. 

The graduation ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m.   We made it here to the University by 10 a.m.

Elissa and Gil arrive.   They had the tickets required to attend the graduation.  It was cold and wet out and it was really cold in the auditorium.....

I take pictures before Elissa leaves to get ready for the ceremony...

Her mom and dad.

Her sister and brother in law.

the stage before anyone arrives....

Manuel takes a picture of me as I take pictures of the stage....

She spots us and lets Nancy, her friend who is also graduating, know where we are.

There were only six students from the Corpus Christi UOTIW graduating with the San Antonio group.

One of the Guest Speakers.....

Nancy seems to be falling asleep!

Elissa looks so happy....I am sure she is glad this is almost over.   She will  go on for her Masters....

Oh, Nancy is awake!  She looks happy, too.

Elissa is next in line....she is by the podium.

Congratulations Elissa and Nancy!  Great job, Girls!!

The stage was beautifully decorated.

The Girls had to sit together after they walked down the aisle. 

So many graduates....

Nancy came out blurry but Elissa came out clear.

Elissa will continue school and hopes to receive her Masters Degree soon.  She got her Bachelors in Business Administration/Management.   She is the Office Manager for a Physician's Office in Corpus Christi.

We are all so proud of her....

 

Elissa and Gil have been married about a month now....

We got home and we are all hungry so we prepare things....

Elissa's uncle, Toby and aunt, Minnie came down from Kingsville, TX.

Everyone has eaten and we are playing a game of cards now.....

 

Lari and Arianna play while the adults play cards....

They were watching a movie but Arianna fell asleep and Lari looks sleepy, too.

Everyone had a really enjoyable time!

We had a wonderful weekend with family.....Congratulations, Elissa!

Sunday evening, after a good nap, Manuel and I decided to go to the movies.   We chose to watch "Blind Side".  The movie got started and about 5 minutes into the movie, the manager came in and said that there was something wrong with the screen and said they would take a while to work on it.   He gave everyone 2 movie tickets and popcorn tickets and said we could go watch any movie we wanted.   We went into see "Twilight-New Moon".   It was a vampire movie and I am was not too interested in it.  Manuel also thought this was not a very good movie.  

After that movie, we went in to see "Blind Side" and we really liked that movie.   We recommend it highly.

Today, I just spent the afternoon with my mom.   She is not feeling well; she has either a cold or sinus...

Until next time!  Have a great week!