What is Brandi's web site? It would be nice to check it out.
Our fun news is that we got our new car yesterday. It's a 2006 Nissan Pathfinder with all the bells and whistles. They took our old car back (Nissan Terrano) which was a relief. We were happy to have made it through three years with it without any major repairs needed. Heavenly Father knew we would not enjoy finding a mechanic in Germany so he spared us that trial! Whew! The fun feature on the new car is the rear camera which shows up on the GPS display screen. It'll come in handy when trying to parallel park downtown!
Tomorrow we head to Paris for a last minute family reunion to celebrate the 60th birthday of my mother-in-law. She has spent the week there with a friend, and her sister and daughter Anouck who lives there. We are all coming for the surprise birthday party part. We are hanging out to surprise her in the bathrooms of the Institut du monde Arabe (Arab world Institute) which should be interesting. Sounds bizarre but apparently the bathroom is magnificent (indoor plumbing?! just kidding) with columns, etc. I'll tell you how it goes and what the bathrooms look like!! Getting away for the weekend is actually a real vacation because I don't have to worry about Primary for Sunday!
Have a great weekend.
We send our love from Luxembourg!
Jocelyn
PS Thank you Cindi for the cards for the kids. Alienor loved getting mail. Just curious, was Perceval's card a little late for his birthday last year, or a little early for his birthday this year?!!

MRI Status

I took the images of my MRI in to the doctor today. They concluded that I will once again go under the knife. The MRI explained that the ACL is still in tact and the Meniscus may have re toarn (10% chance). There is a lot of cartiledge (spell check) around my acl and he believes I will walk out of surgery...yes, walk out. The 10% chance basicaly means that there is a 10% chance that i will be on crutches for 4-6 weeks. With technology today, he will not even have to create a new inscision...so no extra ugly scars. I chose next Friday so i could r & r over the weekend.

I am excited..maybe after this, I can get my cavities fixed up and get a cleaning.

All is well, I am happy and pressing forward.

I will not comment on the growing pains of starting a club, just know that I am learning a lot and using deligation to my advantage big time.

I viewed Brandi's web site today and saw th bag I gave to her as a Christmas gift on display...that made me smile.

Love you all!

I have been having a difficult time getting on here at work. I finaly figured it out.

I am busier than I have ever been before. It is crazy trying to coach four college sports and run a soccer club. Exciting, but very time consuming. I finaly got some pictures from when I went to texas so I thought I would throw the one of me on here. As you can see from the two coats, it was very cold our last day in texas. Sadly, as cold as it was in Texas that day, we flew into a bitter Omaha airport at 13 degrees and 30 mph winds. The two days of warmth in texas were worth it though!

Hope you are all smiling and happy!

Just another update on the BGINN house. This was one days worth of Framing. We should be in by March 15th!






I was there for 1 hour the first pic is when I got there- a picture of the front of the house. The second pic is of the back of the house 1 hour after I took the first pic.




(If you click on the pic it should get bigger)

The Hillmans and Ginns up Provo Canyon for a fun Sled day on MLK Day!!!

Landon

hi all,
It is so good to see all of your entries. We love to see what is going on
in all of your families. Keep it up. Dont have any good photos right now.
Hope to see new posts from everyone.
Love Ed and Marie

I have just changed jobs. I passed my Loan Officer Test and start doing loans on Monday the 16th. I can do loans anywhere in the US so if you are looking to refinance to lower your rates or purchase a house, let me know. I need some practice and will have a veteran helping me for the first few months. He said we should be able to get the best rates possible. Thanks

It is so nice to see how everyone is doing. I feel closer to everybody because we can all keep in touch so easily.

Keep Smiling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Love Bobby

Here's one of Perceval enjoying the beach in Capistrano. What is it about kids that they love to throw rocks and sand? All the kids had a great time even though it was cold that afternoon. You could tell we were tourists because no local would've been there at that hour given the weather!

Poor Perceval fell off the curb at Gramma Cass's house - and onto his nose!

Since he skipped his nap to go play at the beach, he ended up skipping dinner at Olemendi's too!

I thought I'd go searching for a few existing pictures to post. Just for fun. Here's one where we all look decent. Mrs. Santini still looks as good as ever.

Jocelyn - your comments made me laugh out loud. How scary that I have become New Jerseyfied. The even scarier thing is that my children say things like wooter instead of water and drop the word with and say things like "I'm done my homework." We might as well be living in a foreign country.

Oh, no, Marion! You say 'Jersey' now!! Just remember you are from SOUTHERN California but currently live in SOUTH Jersey. And you guys think I live in a foreign country! Try visiting the Nortons!
We love you all and will post some pictures once we get our battery charger which is waiting for us at a friend's house in Germany. One of these days...
Love Jocelyn and family.

I haven't been too good about putting any pictures up since finally getting on the blog, but I wanted to say thank you to all of you who have. It is so great to see you all (since I haven't in ages) and your beautiful children. I hope everyone has a great day. Love to you all from all of us here in Jersey.

Stacia in moms boots

Package from Auntie Nenka-- For Serbian Christmas.

Thanks for the markers, cookies, and dvd.

We love our Auntie Nenka(Gina's Aunt)

B Ginn Family House Building Update


We have our pre construction meeting 1/11 then the house gets framed starting next Tuesday!!!!

This is our Crawl space that will be about 5 feet tall to the floor of our first floor. We will use it for storage. We are too close(1.5 mi) to the lake to have a basement.

Hello Everyone!
Happy New Year. We haven't been doing much blogging lately, so sorry. Gramma Cass got Shawnna a mattress set today for her birthday. We had the headboard and just put it all together. Shawnna was so excited! She said that she feels like she's growing up so much more now.
We'll put more pictures of Christmas and New Years soon. Sending our love to all of you, have a wonderful new year!
The Normands

a.c. who did barca beat...who went...we want info...did you have fun? etc.

Kick off!
The two teams coming out.
David loving it!
Warm up.

We had a great time and Barça won...OF COURSE!

Skiing with Brinley. We go up for a couple of hours. the lift is free after 3 pm. It only takes about 45 min. to get to Eldora. The girls are doing really good.

Happy new year from Spain. I just got off the webcam with Bobby and family and he was giving me a hard time because i never "blog". So I thought I´d let you all know that the holiday season is going well. We are eating a lot (and things you would NEVER imagine eating for the holidays) and spending lots of time with Davids parents. We love you all and hope you have a wonderful new year.

P.S. Don´t worry Nathan, some "fun" pictures will be coming soon!!