Ginger Bread "Skype" Houses

I don't get tired of saying over and over how much I love Skype!!!!. This time because we were able to do Ginger Bread Houses with my mom via Skype.
My dad has been in the hospital for a couple of days now. He suffered intense bleeding while he was at home. Thanks Heavens that my brothers, Claudio and Fernando were there to help him and take him to emergency room right away!. He fainted a couple of times in the car, because of the bleeding but at the hospital they were able to stabilized him, however he kept bleeding, he was not doing good at that time. I'm glad they kept him there 'cause at the hospital they have everything he needs in case of another emergency not the same situation if he would be home alone with my mom. They still don't know at this point what happened, they did some test but all of them came back normal so now they have to do some more and an endoscopy too, but he is not ready for those test yet. I called early today to check how is he doing and he is doing way better. He is not in danger anymore, but He is gonna have to stay in the hospital for a while. The doctors want to be sure he is 100% ok to go home, They don't want to take any chance that he will have a relapse. They don't think he would make it next time.
So, he wasn't there to do Ginger Bread Houses with us, that made me sad because he was so eager to do this with our girls this year. He was so excited to see them on line and share this fun activity with them.
My mom, Fernando, Claudio and David were there though. It was so fun. We laughed and teased the whole entire time!. They teased me about my silly design. My house looked more like an outhouse hahaha. Kyle, Dominique and Kayla's houses were so cute buildt and decorated...I guess I'm not the talented one in our family, haha!. My mom had a blast looking at Dominique and Kayla, how into the design and decorations they were. They couldn't even talk to my mom because of the intensity of the concentration on what they were doing. They didn't dare to be distracted. Fernando, Claudio and David were teasing me for my terrible work on my little house but of course cheering Mimi and Kayla for their wonderful work!. Skype is so cool that I even were able to take really clear pictures of my mom and my girls together!...HOW COOL IS THAT!!!. Well, The only one more thing I have to say is...MERRY MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!.

The Night Before Christmas

Its the night before Christmas Day...We decided to spend Christmas at home just the 4 of us...then, we changed plans and invited Ina to have dinner with us. Ina is my chilean friend who is a single mom with 2 kids. We had a good time, good food, and short with them, they left early so...then the girls wanted to open one present before they went to bed. This year we didn't have too much time decorating our home, planing activities, shopping or else. We did the best we can each one of us in keeping the Christmas Spirit in our home. My Dad was still at the hospital and the doctor said he is gonna stay there for one more week. I was sad because I knew he didn't want that in the first place and now he is stuck there. We did a little bit of skype with my mom. She was kind of sad because my dad wasn't home but at least talking to my girls made her a little bit happier. We told her we will call her tomorrow early morning right when the girls got up to see what Santa brought for them. Love the peace at home during Christmas...love the smell, love the movies and the cozy feeling inside our home. Merry Christmas to all!

We bought a House!!!...Our Home!

Last summer, Kyle and me started to check into everything we needed to buy a house this year. We have been renting since we got married so we think its time to buy now. The market and our credit situation looked perfect this time...besides, we are moving from the place we are renting no matter what at the end of the year because the landlord is gonna raise the rent price again from $1.200 to $1.400 there's no way we will pay that much money just for rent!...With that much money we can pay a nice house of our own! It was a lot last time he raised the rent and at that time it was impossible for us to moved so he got stuck with it so this time...$1.400 it will be ridiculous!. We are tired of renting and not been able to do any improvement, change or whatever we want the way we wanted... in a few words...WE ARE DONE RENTING!
We found the perfect home just 2 blocks from where we were before and we love it!. The girls would stay in their school, I would keep my job...Kyle would have no problems changing anything either about bus and all that stuff for his commute to work, etc,etc,etc, It looked that everything was gonna be an easy move... I hope!
We decided to moved on Saturday the 17 right before Christmas.

NEW HOME....NEW LIFE!!!...What Blessings!

Baptisim Day, Moving Day, GREAT DAY!!!!
We woke up super early. Kyle went to get the moving truck and at 10am we were ready to star moving all our stuff to our new home!. WE were ready but just one brother showed up on time...so poor Kyle and brother Hutching had to move a lot of stuff all by themself for a little while. Peter called more people and maybe at 12pm we had 6 brothers helping. We moved most of the big stuff in the morning but we had tons of little stuff than it felt they never ended. We knew we had to finish before 3pm because at that time we needed to connect with the Elders in Chile so we could see my aunt's baptism on Skype. Elder family was coming to see it with us. I was so excited and happy I couldn't even think straight. We clean and put away the most we could before the time for the baptism. Right on time we and Elder's were sitting watching all the preparations at the Church in Chile. We were able to talk to my aunt Amanda and my cousin Mirtha, my mom and 2 aunts, Minerva, my mom's younger sister and Aida, my mom's older sister were there too supporting my aunt Amanda. Amanda's son, my cousins Pedro and Alfredo were there,I was able to talk with them. My aunt Minerva and Aida were talking with us too. It was such a happy momment for everybody, specially for me!!!...finally somebody in my family got baptized!. It was such an amazing feeling when they got in the water and were baptized by the Elder. I was so happy! I felt the spirit so strong, I know my uncle Alfredo was there in spirit too!. I translated the talks for the Elders family. They were really touched to see their son baptizing two of his investigators and been able to meet them not just to read about them but see them!. It was the sweetest blessing ever to see and be there for such and important momment for my family!.
Kyle and me were so tired at the end of the day but we couldn't be more happy for such an important things that happended today in our life! Literally...NEW HOME...NEW LIFE!!!!

The Czirrs Family Christmas Party 2011

We had so much fun, as always, at The Czirrs Christmas Family Party. Rachel was the host this year and she did awesome!. The food, games, talent show...everything went perfect. Almost everybody came. Grandma and Grandpa came dressing up as a "who". grandpa even color his hair green!. They looked funny and cool at the same time. We took pictures, talked, had fun, ate and at the end of the party, as always again...I was dead! The great thing of the day was that on the way to Mapleton the traffic was perfect, it took us just 30 minutes to get there!...loved it!.
We went to visit Shelley for a little while before the party. I told her about my 86 year old aunt, Amanda and my cousin who are getting baptized tomorrow and we are gonna be able to see it on skype, how cool is that!?.
I forgot to mention that Kyle and me went to the Timpanogo's Temple today. We did baptisms for all my dad's family. I felt the spirit so strong!. We had lunch at the Temple as a date. It was a really fun and busy day!

Love You Forever!

Dear Mr. Santa...