Albu-quirky!

Over the 4th of July weekend Jorge and I flew with Lori to visit his mom in Albuquerque New Mexico. While there we were able to visit with the majority of Jorge's family, which as some of you know is very unique. Not the individual people necessarily but just the family in general... we had A BLAST!




Lori was surprisingly well behaved for her plane ride!
She ate and slept, like a good baby!

Lori and Jorge's mom meet for the first time!

We were able to visit with Jorge's mom, brother & sister-in-law, Jorge's niece and nephews and THEIR kids. This is where is gets somewhat quirky... Jorge's brother is 56 and has 3 kids (the oldest of which is 38 and the youngest is 32.) So Jorge has nephews that are older than him. (making them significantly older than me :) ) All of them have kids. (the oldest is 18 and the youngest is 1 month) So I am 7 years older than my great nephew! :) (are you confused yet?)

Lori and her cousin Vicky

(Jorge's sister's daughter)

Lori meets Chris, her 1st cousin...

top: Lori and her Abuela bottom: Abuela and Vicky try to figure out who Lori looks like.

Vicky and her son Giovanni (our great nephew)


The day after our 4th of July party (the 5th of July) all of us "kids" drove an hour and a half to a lake for a swim. Jorge, Lori and I did not swim but we had enjoyed hanging out, catching up and getting to know everybody better. Vicky lived with Jorge and his mom for about 7 years when they were growing up so they were able to catch up. We never really knew the rest of the "niece and nephews" all that well, if at all, so we were able to get to know them better over this long weekend.

Lori sleeping at the lake

Chris and his son, also named
Chris rough housing at the lake.

The boys at the lake
"waiting for Chuck Norris" (he never showed.)

After the lake we all went to dinner an Outback Steak house (very yummy) While we were there Lori fell asleep and then became the center of attention for our Great nieces Lola and Alexa. While Staring at her Alexa said to Lola, "She's just so pretty I can't stop looking at her." I just thought that was the cutest sweetest thing I'd heard! Those girls were so precious. (... even if Lola seemed somewhat afraid of me.)

Lola, left and Alexa, right



Lori and our nephew's baby Alea, they are 2 months apart

Our family

Back Row: Elliot (Vicky's husband), Jorge, Franky (Chris' son), Paquito (Jorge's oldest brother), Chris (Chris' oldest son), Eric (Paquito's son), Alyssa (Eric's oldest daughter) and Essence (Alyssa's friend)

Front Row: Vicky (Jorge's niece) Dana - holding Lori, Claudia (Eric's wife) - holding Alea, Helen (Paquito's wife) -holding Alexa (Eric's daughter)