Welcome Michelle

At 12:00 we walked over to Ashanti for lunch.  We were meeting Michelle, Maddy, and Hailey.  They are a new family to TEDA.  They came from Kansas.  Erica Orr set this luncheon up.  When we walked out of our building we were met by Ileana and the kids, Stine, Rosemary, and one of her daughters.  As we continued down our driveway we picked up Liz, Erica, Mavis, Annie, and Piper.  We were all headed the same direction. 

Once into Ashanti there were many more people.  It was such a great time.  It's always fun when we all get together.  Good food and good friends.  What more can we ask for?  And it is official...Annie is pregnant.  She is due March 6 which is her daughter, Piper's birthday.

Alfredo, Cameron, Alejandro, Marcela, and Carter waiting for lunch.

If you ask Anthony to take a picture you can bet he will take
one of himself.  Silly man.

Hailey, Michelle, Annie, Stine, Luz, Ileana, Me, Erica, Neil's mom, Amor, and Cecilia.

Liz, Becky, Andrea, Keaton, Erica, Rosemary's daughter, Rosemary, and Sybil's daughter.

After lunch we headed home.  The kids played outside for awhile. Then they were all back in our apartment having a Nerf war again.  That can entertain them for hours.  At 4:00 we headed over to the hotel so the kids could go swimming. Us and Carrasco's are the only ones that ended up going.  They swam for a little over an hour and then we headed back home.  Kids showered and Alfredo was back up playing.  He ended up spending the night.  The kids played all night and then settled in to watch Rise of the Planet of the Apes movie at 9:30.  It was over around 11 and then they went to bed.  Fun night.

The boys swimming.

Alejandro and Cameron having some under water fun.

The 4 kids playing.

Alfredo...is your suit on backwards?

Sharing a bowl of popcorn while watching a movie.