My mom and dad ( buni Gaby si bunicu Dodo) purchased
four airplane tickets for us to go to Spain for the holidays
this year.We are so excited to spend a month in Spain
with family and friends. I can't wait to taste the food and
enjoy the beautiful architecture.We will try to see most of
Spain this time including Barcelona and maybe a little of France.
Thank you very much mom & dad for everything! We love you very much!

(Romanian)

Mama mea si tatal meu ne-au cumparat patru bilete de avion pentru
a merge de sarbatori.Suntem foarte bucurosi sa petrecem o luna in
Spania si sa putem sa fim impreuna cu famila noastra.Abea astept sa
gust din mancarea delicioasa pregatita de mama si binenteles sa vad
locurile minunate de acolo.O sa incercam sa vizitam toata Spania in
special Barcelona si daca se va putea am vrea sa mergem un pic si sa
vede Franta.
Ii multumim foarte mult mamei si tatalui meu pentru tot ce au facut ei
pentru noi! Va iubim foarte mult!!!

Friday Jasmine hosted her first movie party. She invited four
of her friends for the movie premier The Cheetah Girls 2 on
Disney channel. She has been looking forward to this movie. There
was almost two hours of dancing, popcorn eating and singing. I think
this is so much better for Jasmine then having her go to sleepovers.
We have not allowed that yet and I don't think we will for a long time!
The movie party was a big success and I think we will have a lot more
in the future!

Several days ago I was busy folding laundry when the phone rang
and by the time I grabbed the phone and returned to the laundry
basket I had a big surprise in front of my eyes. My little helper Andrew
was standing holding onto the basket. He is amazing and he sure does
not want to be a baby for too long. I guess we need to prepare for walking
in the next couple of months.
Also we had his 6 months well checkup last week and his weight is almost 21lbs
and height is 28 1/2 in. Very healthy baby !!!

Big boy standing!

Our sweet little girl started kindergarten today! Jeremy,
Andrew and I escorted her to her new classroom and I have
to say it was a little harder on me then it was for her. She did
wonderful and when I picked her up at 11:00 in the morning
all she could talk about was how great her new teacher is and
how many friends she has made. Jasmine can't wait for Monday
to come so she can have fun at kindergarten again. She said:
"Having fun" is one of the school rules!

We are so proud and happy to have such a wonderful girl!

For more than six months now we have been looking
for the best minivan for our family. We test-drove
several and we decided we liked the Town and Country
from Chrysler. It was in our budget and everybody in the
family loves something about it. Jasmine loves the huge space;
Jeremy likes the ac vents all through out the van. I like the low
mileage and Andrew always falls asleep when we put him in it so
I assume he likes it because of the smooth ride.

Who knew that getting one child ready for kindergarten
was going to take a week of shopping! I thought we could
tackle the clothes shopping in one day and the school supplies
in another day. We have searched many stores for the perfect
backpack of course "Princess Style" and the required pencils called
"Hand Huggers" took many trips to different office supply stores.
Jasmine is so excited for kindergarten to start this Friday. She has
many friends from our street and our ward that are going to be in
the same kindergarten.

This is the first year when we tried to grow cantaloupe.
They are growing nicely and we think that by next week
maybe we can eat one. We also planted watermelon and
we hope that it will grow here better then it did in Utah.

Melons are nutritious and delicious!


We love watermelon!

This Saturday we took Jasmine and Andrew to the fair.
The weather was very hot for our baby Andrew to be in
for too long so we decided that I would stay with Jasmine
so she could enjoy some carnival rides and Jeremy would
take Andrew home where it was nice and cool. It worked out
great and Jasmine enjoyed the carnival rides and the petting
farm was a favorite for both of us.

Happy six months Andrew!
Andrew started crawling soon after he was able to sit well
without support (close to 5 months). He can hold his head up
to look around, and his arms, legs, and back muscles are strong
enough to keep him from falling on the floor when he gets up on
his hands and knees. He also learned to go from a crawling position
back into a sitting position.

Great job Andrew!!!


Look out world


Here I come!