Time Flies

My sister Alma just sent me pictures of my little neices, and I can't believe how big they are, especially Rebekah. Alma is the only one out of five siblings to have kids in our family. My brother will have his first (a boy) at the end of May. I'm so excited.
This is Aprl, my sister-in-law with her big belly.

So when I left California in January to come back to Puerto Rico, Rebekah looked like this:

And now she looks like this:


I can't believe how big she's gotten. And she already has four teeth, two on top and two on the bottom. She is so adorable, I wish I was there to see her grow.
This is her big sister Victoria, she's so smart and loves to play card games with her grandpa I hear.

Where does the time go? I guess it feels that way because I've never been away from my family for so long.

Old School, New School

Seeing that we're almost done with school, I wanted to remember some of the crazy things we've experienced while living in Puerto Rico. One of those things is Matthew's old Optometry school...yeah, it's that bad. When Matthew first arrived with his dad to look for an apartment/furniture and check out the school he would be attending for the next 4 years, he couldn't believe what he saw. It was so bad that he passed by it a few times and totally missed it. Boy were we ever grateful that they built the new campus in Bayamon, but the first two and a half years were dreadfully spent at this tiny, rundown, "optometry school". Things usually look worse in pictures, but the school actually looks better in these pictures.




This was their cafeteria! Luckily Matthew never touched the food, he said he saw cockroaches in there.

This is one of only two spots where the students could "hang out" during breaks and lunches on campus.
...and this is a distant picture of his new school, so much better in every way possible. I'll have to take more pictures of this new building and add them later.

Finally!

This is way late, but I finally decided to blog again, also I've been trying to use my blog as an online second hand store, so please forgive me. I'm glad I did though because I was able to get rid of a lot of stuff. Thanks for those of you who bought a few things.

Well, our friends David and Lemsy have been wanting to get together with us for the past year or so. Everytime we had set a date, something always came up or one of us was just unable to make it for some reason or another. We met David and Lemsy while serving in the yw/ym stake presidency with them and we became the best of friends. I call Lemsy my sister. They are one of those couples you meet and feel like you've known all your lives. Well we finally got together at a beach called Piñones and had a little BBQ.
As you can see Matthew did the honors of cooking our hamburgers. He cracks me up because he won't step foot near a kitchen but he'll grill all day long. Bobby Flay is one of his heros and is always repeating his saying, "there's two kinds of men in this world, those who know how to grill and those who think they know how to grill." LOL, I'm just glad I get break from cooking ;)

This is Matthew and David Aguayo

...and Lemsy, baby David, and me. We always tell eachother that our kids should marry eachother. I guess I better hurry huh? Little david's getting big.

This was during spring break so there was a lot of vigilance around the beaches, but this helicopter flew so close to us that it made currents in the ocean. And then it got so close to this little hill near the water that it blew off a bunch of leaves and branches onto the ocean. I couldn't believe how close it was. Thank goodness no one got hurt. We had a good time though and I'm glad we finally got together.