May was a busy month as always with graduations and school over for the summer. Our granddaughter, Anni, graduated from Gilbert High School in the top 15% and earned AIMS Excellence and 4 Year Golden Scholar honors. She will attend ASU this fall on scholarship majoring in elementary education.
Also... our grandson, Adam, visited from San Diego where he was stationed in the Navy. He has since been deployed to Bahrain where he is assigned to serve on a minesweeper ship. To the left is Anni Sezate and below are Gabriel 2, Gabriel 1, Gabriel 3, Adam, Kelly, Kyrstin, Anna and Athen, enjoying an afternoon in Gabriel and Anna's backyard in Las Sendas (Mesa, AZ).

Hola Rosa, como estan todos. We hope you have a wonderful time visiting Shirley and Joanne. Mandamos muchos abrazos a tu familia. No hablo espanol muy bien pero si puedo leer bien si gustas me puedes escribir en espanol. Porfavor de mandarnos fotos. Gracias.
Saludos a todos.

hello family how is it going........

Has anyone had any problems signing on or posting comments??? I'm so new at this that I'm really not sure what I'm doing, yet. Someone said they couldn't post a comment. I hope I learn how to do this soon.

Hi Rosa, welcome to Nuestra familia. Please let us know all about our relatives in Puerto Rico. We're looking forward to hearing from you. Mandamos muchos saludos y abrazos.

Osama Bin Laden was finally erased from the face of the earth 4/1/11. This may bring closure for many people but it will never bring back their loved ones who perished 9/11/01. I hope the world can move on now and become a more caring and peaceful world.

We had a fun visit with Shirley Pagan Hansen and her beautiful daughter, Kristina and handsome son, Karl, on Saturday, the day before Easter Sunday as they were here visiting Shirley's in-laws for the weekend. A few members of the family (who were able to come on the spur of the moment) met at the Olive Garden and had lunch and visited and briefly shared some genealogy. I'm sorry to say that I took my camera with me and then totally forgot to take pictures. But it was so good to see the family get together as we so seldom meet anymore. This is mainly the purpose for having this blog. We have some very special young family members in the family who are growing up and doing fun and interesting and great things with their lives and we need to be aware of their accomplishments and support them with our love and attention. And also, our young cousins need to know each other. With so many of them living in different states, they don't know each other and they are like total strangers to each other. Please share whatever you can about your family so that none of us are strangers to each other. Please send all the pictures you can so that we can watch our families grow and be able to keep up with everyone.

Margarita, glad you're on as well as everyone who has signed on. Hope eventually many more of la familia will sign on. Have you checked Joanne's blog? She has lots of pictures of the quads since they were babies and of her growing family.

Eva, I am on this Post web! Let me know if you get it.

Family Update

Hi everyone ! Welcome to our new "Nuestrafamilia" Blog. This blog is created for the purpose of keeping in touch with one another as we each travel through the mazes of our hectic, daily schedules.
Nuestrafamilia is about our family and whatever goes on in our lives - good, bad, or anything that we care to share with one another.
Papa's greatest wish was to keep our family together and united and with the help of all the amazing modern technology available to us, we can honor his wish and keep tabs with each other and stay united and together if not in person, through the services of the Internet.
There's more to come!  Stay tuned.

This is a picture of my granddaughter, Anni Sezate, (John's daughter) who recently played the part of Anita, in a musical play, Westside Story. Anni is 17 and a senior at Gilbert High School in Gilbert, AZ.

Anni loves to perform in plays and has had several leading parts. She will be graduating this year and is still trying to decide which college she will attend.