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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Dear Readers

We are home now from our Hawaii vacation. We had a blast over there and I will post the 1200 pics right after TT gets better. Yesterday she caught a virus in the airport on our way back to Cali. As soon as she is in good health I will work on updating our blog.

Lexues te dashur, kemi bere mungesa ne blog pasi kemi qene me pushime ne Hawaii. Protagosnistja e blogut na eshte semurur dje keshtu qe do presim pak per fotot. Do filloj te shkruaj perseri sapo te behet TT me mire.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Video Time







Sunday, April 17, 2011

Nena Nazo

Rest in Peace!



Keto dite nuk kam pasur deshire te shkruaj ne blog pasi gjyshja qe me rriti ose sic e therrasim ne Nena Nazo nderroi jete te premten me date 15 Prill. Kur e keqja te kap papritur gjendja behet akoma edhe me e veshtire. Megjithese dhimbja eshte e njejte, do ishte me e lehte per njerezit qe jane lene prapa, te dinin sec i priste. Une do te doja te isha afer familjes time, por ishte e pamundur per mua te arrija ne kohe per funeralin.

Kur njerezit largohen nga kjo jete te vetmet gjera qe na lejne ne jane kujtimet e tyre. Kujtimet e mia me Nena Nazon jane ato te femijerise, nder me te bukurat per cdo njeri. Po mos te ishte per te une do isha nje femi i dobet ne trup, nje dordolece e vertete. Vetem tani qe jam nene vet e kuptoj sesa stresuese eshte te ushqesh nje femije. Po i'ua them eshte nje tmerr i veretete kur ato shpirtra te vegjel jane kokeforte dhe kunder futjes se luges ne goje. Une kisha fatin e mire qe nena ime ishte me kokeforte se mua kur vinte puna tek ushqimi.

Nena Nazo mbante nje thuper te holle poshte krevatit. U tmerruat ju? Po jo ore njerez se nuk e perdorte asnjehere [tek ne femijet te pakten]. Kur e kishim kaluar kufirin [une dhe tim vella] apo derdhur kupen aty ku s'mbante me, nena nxirrte thupren, qendronte ne maje te shkalleve me nje veshtrim friksues dhe mbas dy minutave buciste me te qeshura. Nga aparenca te gjithe e kishin frike dhe i thoshte gjerat ashtu sic i mendonte. Grua me karakter te forte, kolonjare kaluar kolonjareje!

Nuk lente sebepe pa gjemuar. Diten e pare te shkolles do e kishe aty se s'ben, diten e lindjes po aty [sidomos per mua se ndanim te njejten ditelindje], kur semureshim nuk na ndahej nga krevati. Si mbese e pare qe isha me kishte kujdes ne cdo qe beja. Kur fillova te hidhja hapat e para i therriste gjyshit : " Me shiko cupen Elmaz!", e njejta thirrje e gjemonte gjyshin e shkrete edhe kur fillova te luaja neper lagje. Une, cupa nenes, isha bere nje mjeshtre e vertete e manipulimit. Kur erdhi koha per kopesht nuk e leshoja fustanellen e nenes. Sa shkoja tek dera e kopeshtit me gjyshin perdore filloja dhe qaja pastaj thoja : "O lele barku!" Kete detyre i kisha vene vetes dhe e vazhdova per 2 jave derisa nuk me derguan me ne kopesht. C'te benin te shkretet, i dhimbte zemra per mua. Une deren e kopeshtit nuk e pashe me, sepse dera e nenes ishte gjithmone e hapur per mua! Me kuptuat tani pse them me rriti nena?

Nena me e mrekullueshme ne bote do mbetesh gjithmone ne zemren time dhe mos kujto se jam e merzitur. Ja iken koha... ne do takohemi perseri!!!

General Conference

It's palm Sunday today. The Sunday before Easter Sunday. This is why I'm emphasizing this post to my religion today. Two weeks ago we [Mormons] had General Conference. If you are interested to learn more about this term check it out at Mormons ... and you can change the language on the upper right side of the website. For my Albanian folks the website is Mormonet .

Here is Tatiana, in her pajamas, watching the GC for the first time [I don't count the times she was a little baby.] She let me watch it in peace too by napping for a long time. She continues to nap for 2 hours in the afternoon. At night I put her down at 8 PM and all I need to do is tuck her in and leave the room.

TT turns everything into horses. The shopping cart demonstrates it perfectly.

Cinnamon Rolls

YW learning how to make cinnamon rolls.





Got to teach 'em young!!!

Thursday, April 14, 2011

First car


Myrna and TT.

This is the twins car which TT borrows it from time to time or should I say, every time we go see them.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Oakland Zoo [Part I]

U kenaqem shume tek kopeshti zoologjik. Do i bejme prap vizite se s'ben.

iiii kjo xhirafa qenka nje perverse...

Po te pati afer te ngacmon.

Ka raste qe ben edhe sikur nuk e ka mendjen, dal me natyrshem thote.




Ketu po e pyesja ku syri bretkoses edhe ma tregonte me gishtin e vogel.

Po puth princin, me fal bretkosen.

Ngjajne tamam sikur duan te na bejne pucin. Jane duke ndertuar planet e se ardhmes.

Friday, April 8, 2011

Oakland Zoo [Part II]

Then we met Aaliyah & Alyssah.



Lina and her kids.

2 Monkeys climbing the tree.


You want see what are they staring at?

This monkey was like an energizer bunny. He was showing off to us.

Ohhh how fun!

Waiting in the line for the train ride.



We have front row seats, lucky!!!

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Young Women Activity

This was a combined Young Women [YW] and Young Men [YM] activity. We were going to work on Evalyn Burnham's garden/backyard. Below is a picture of her with TT.


Allison & everyone else working hard.






And this is the main reason why daughters aren't allowed to be in the work area. Daddy needs to refocus.


Getting dark doesn't stop us from accomplishing our mission.

And this is when we know we should stop our work because people are getting insane.

Normal group picture.

Not so normal group picture.