MI MAMA

My Mother was born in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas on December 27, 1927 and was named Maria Alicia Mansur Guevara.

Her father, Abraham Mansur was 36, and her mother, Praxedis Guevara de Mansur was 19.

My Maternal Grandparents also had 10 children, 5 girls and 5 boys. My mother was the oldest of the girls.

My BEAUTIFUL Mother passed away 14 years ago.

FAMILY TREE

Familia,

My cousin Luis Felipe, who lives in Reynosa, Mexico sent these pictures to me a while back. They were taken in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, where my brothers and I were born.

MY FATHER

He passed away about 5 years ago in Monterrey, Mexico, where he lived with his second family half of his life.




The following picture was taken on My Grandparents 50th Wedding Anniversary (On my father's side) Las Bodas de Oro. My Grandparents, Felipe Sr. and Abigail, (in the middle) had 10 children, 2 boys and 8 girls.

My father is the second one on the last row, right to left . His wife, Adriana, is sitting in front of him holding their first baby, Adrianita. My father and Adriana had three children, Adriana, Enrique and Gabriela, all in their 30's and 40's now. They look VERY much like us.

My brother, Armando, is in the second row (boys kneeling). He is the second one right to left in the white shirt, no jacket.

My oldest brother, Felipe, is the fifth one, right to left, on the same row.

I am in the first row (girls sitting), the third one , left to right, with the bowl hair cut.

My brothers and I were living with my Mom in Mexico City already, but my Mom drove us to Ciudad Victoria (a 12 hour mountain drive back then) so we could attend the Bodas De Oro.

My sister, Jessica, was born in Mexico City on May 13, 1964. I was 10 years old .

I have a picture of my Mom that I'm having trouble scanning , so I'll post it a bit later. She was/ is the COOLEST, most generous, most loving person in the world. I love her with ALL my heart.

Sushi Party

Julie and I went up to the City (San Fran) last night to have dinner with our friends John and Jasmine. They live about 2 blocks from Japan town so we walked to a Japanese supermarket and got all the stuff to make home sushi. We were skeptical but it was a remarkable success! Fish was very fresh and we were actually able to make the rolls without creating messy rice balls destined for the trashcan. I suspect this was largely due to Jasmine's father's recipe for sushi rice. It made the rice surprisingly easy to work with.

Look how legit we look :) The most fun part was making up our own rolls and naming them.

Master Sushi Chef John Reeves preparing to make his signature "Last Samurai Roll"

Master Chefs Jasmine, John and Julie

Julie's "Snapdragon" Roll.
Signature Rolls:

John: "The Last Saumrai" and "Sushi School"

Julie: "Snapdragon" and "Snapdragon II"

Jasmine: Rice architect - but I forgot her roll name :(

Joe: "The Mountain of Power" and "Jomomaki"

and more from Greg and Amy....

Hi everyone,

I was reading the daily Avocado and I tried (for the first time) looking at the video clips located on the right side of the page.....and Amy and I laughed and laughed at Joe and Julie on the Magic Carpet ride in Las Vegas. After watching...I was wondering if the video clips I take on my little digital camera would work on the Avocado....so I uploaded a short clip from our trip to Austria last summer. I simply opened the window of our hotel room and took a short clip. If this works....I'll add more video in later posting.

Love to you all......

Greg

PS---> Sue, I also went to "your my space" page.....it is great and YOU are an amazing talent!!!

December 2007 news from Greg and Amy

Hello family,

Amy and I worked the first few weeks of December and so we were not able to start getting ready for the holidays until a few days before family began arriving on December 19th. We had just finished getting the Christmas lights, the tree, and house decorations up …..when Barbara, Lance, and Tia (their dog) arrived from Florida.

Hours later… Julie and Joe arrived from California.

The next day, we took Barbara and Lance on a quick 24 hour tour of Salida, then we rushed back to Parker as Amber was having her foot operated on and needed to stay with us while she recuperated. Joe and Julie took Amber to the hospital for the operation….then brought her to our house so we could help her during her recovery period.

By Christmas day (four days after the operation) Amber was feeling well enough to share all the commotion of a large family Christmas meal.

We were also lucky enough to have Josh join us during the holidays and it was a pleasure having both of the Morales brothers in our home. Another unexpected but welcome visitor was Amber's boyfriend Brig who stopped in to check on Amber and share in the holiday celebrations. Having grandparents, parents, children, and friends all together to share in the joys of the season was the best Christmas present of all!!!

Several days after Christmas everyone had to get back to their lives........so Amy and I were alone and we decided to run off to the mountains and enjoy bringing in the new year in our home away from home....Salida. We watched firew0rks going off on Monarch Ski Mountain on New Year's eve (it was -10 degrees)....then we headed back into town for a great News Years dinner....followed by joining much of the rest of Salida in dancing in the new year to a great blues band at the "Old Vic" bar in downtown Salida. The next day we started 2008 by snowshoeing along Cottonwood Pass. It was a wonderful way to end the old year and start the new year!

Amy and I hope that 2008 is a year filled with peace, good health, and love to everyone in our wonderful families.

Love, Amy and Greg