Memorial Day Picnic Pics I

This is the Perez Motto

I saw this and had to take a pic for you guys! It's great.

More Pic's from Uncle Paul's wedding from Pop.

Join US to Celebrate This Perfect Couple

Jinnie, Carlos, and I are planning a 50th Wedding Anniversary for our great parents next year. We are planning a 2 night and 3 day Family Reunion at a resort in the Pocono Mountains. It will take place the weekend os April 18, 2009. Possibly Fri, Sat, Sun. (April 17-19). We will be providing details by the end of the Summer. We want to celebrate by spending time together as we did last year on the Cruise. The cost will be much less. PLEASE CONSIDER JOINING US IN 2009. Your presence will help make it a great anniversary for Manuel & Emma (Papi & Mami).

A marital example to all of us!

I just love this picture. I had to post it!

Hope you all agree.

Mr & Mrs Paul Hymovitz

As you all know, Uncle Paul got married this past weekend.

Mom, Tio Liche and Tio Tito went to P.R. to attend the wedding.

Mom and Tio Manuel were the madrina and padrino.
Mom asked me to post these pictures of the event for the family.

God Bless Uncle Paul and his new bride.

You Say It's Your Birthday

20 seven year olds
150 water balloons
10 water pistols
1 slip and slide
1 pirate ship
1 tired grandfather

Happy Birthday to the little guy.

Link: sevenload.com

Happy Mother's Day!!!

To my mom and all the other wonderful moms that help keep us together. (note: if i don't have your mom up it's because I don't have a picture so feel free to add any that I missed!)

Happy Anniversary Jimmy & Iris!

A couple days late, but last Wednesday May 7th was Jimmy & Iris’ 25th Wedding Anniversary. Congratulations on a most excellent celebration and God’s blessing on the next 25 years.

Conditions that affect "Puertorriquenos"

Monga:
Mysterious body temperature, not high enough to be considered fever, but serious enough to miss school and work. Illness is unknown by the American Medical Association (AMA) and only understood by doctors of Puerto Rican origin.

Patatú:
Attack of obscure origin that can strike at any time. Could be serious enough to require hospitalization, yet is undetected by medical technology. Victims tend to be males and females over the age of 50 years.

Sereno:
Occurs when someone steps outdoors suddenly at night and is sprinkled by a mysterious substance produced by the night air. There are no physical symptoms and it can only be detected by the Puerto Rican elderly. The effect of having this disease is unknown. Children must not be taken out atnight without proper headgear or risk of contamination is certain.

Empache:
Digestive disorder which occurs after the consumption of a large Puerto Rican meal. The only known cure for this disease is "una buena criolla" or "tirarse un buen peo". (Alka-Seltzer is completely ineffective)

Coltao:
Frequent and mild condition of unknown etiology. Symptoms include but are not limited to fatigue, lack of energy and chronic whining.

Moño Parao:
Psychological imbalance of short duration that causes strange mood swings, violent irritating behavior as well as general unpleasantness.

Cocotazo:
Also referred to as the "Fuácata". A clenched /closed cripple! Caused by left or right fingers flexed to not quite make a fist with middle finger slightly raised higher than the rest and delivered to a child's headwith a quick snap to the wrist (my father's favorite).

Chichón:
Elevated cranial protrusion usually caused by the fall after a patatú. Can also be caused by the sudden or unexpected encounter with a cocotazo.

Happy Birthday, Christina Rolon!

Holy Cow, my baby girl is 14-years old.
She’s become quite the young lady and truly the pride & joy of her parents, sister, brother, aunts, cousins, uncles, grandparents, friends, neighbors and gas station attendants. (No kidding, there’s a story there.)

"Kike"

I am taking the liberty of being a surrogate blogger for Gringy.

Here are picture of her new baby boy; affectionately know as, Kike.

The Three Stooges

Just a warning:
I just bought a device that allows me to rip my old VHS tapes to DVD.
Whet your pallet on this little gem.
As Banya said to Jerry Seinfeld, "That's gold, Jerry! Gold!"
4 minutes of gold.

For Tony...

Another shot without make-up....I'm not ashamed!

:-) My latest shot at 20 weeks.

It's a Girl!!

It's a Girl!

Check out my blog for more pictures and details!

Best Game Ever

Dedicated to the number 1 baseball fan in the world.
Yeah, you know who you are...

Happy Birthday Ricoboy

And a Happy Birthday to Jacob Rolon. Although Jimmy doesn't check this family Blog too often, he is very proud of his son. Jacob turns 20-years old and is still faithfully studying Sports Medicine at West Chester University. If you don't know Jacob, it's really your loss. He's a good friend, loves the family and has a great sense of humor.

Happy Birthday Adam

Oh my Lord. Here it is almost 11:00 and I forgot to wish my #1 son a happy 27th birthday on the fam blog. Thanks for the reminder Tonz.

Happy Birthday, my boy. You've made me proud.

My Boy is a Man

Manny is 18 years old! He can vote this November!! (Of course, for McCain)

Anyway, he is a great son. We are proud and thankful to God for our Manny.

Mark & Clarissa and Jinnie & Irving

Tired Mom, Sleeping Son, & Proud Grandmom

Introducing Adiel Davis Gibson

Welcome Jinnie's and Irving's first grandson to the Cardona family. He was born on Sunday, March 23. He weighed 8.5 lbs and 19 inches long.

Manuel & Emma have a GREAT GRANDSON!

We would do anything for her . . .

... because she has done everything for us.

This past Saturday (March 15th), a couple of us met at a local restaurant to celebrate Mom’s birthday. We had a great time eating too much food and singing “Happy Birthday, Patria” with an accordion accompanist. We sat at three different tables because they couldn’t find a table for a party of 28.

Mom cried tears of joy when she saw Carlos, Tito, Tony, & Ray (with their loved ones) and she cried from laughing too much when we tried to take this picture.

Thanks to everyone who made the trip to Lancaster’s Shady Maple. This list is too long to mention so next time, just plan of being there.

Two Wheels

I have always had a love for vehicles with two wheels. My first bike was given to me by Papa Oro. I remember it was small and red. As I grew and moved on to other bikes my love of bicycles grew as well. We use to cannibalize old bikes and reassemble them in our garage. Some of my fondest memories were taking long bike rides all over Lansdale with my brothers and friends like Vince and Bob It seemed like such a big place way back then. A different place too. We use take these long trips, be out for hours at a time unsupervised. You can't do that now. Times are different.

And we would do some crazy shinola too! We use to race toward these homemade ramps that would throw us high in the air and come down with a bang. On concrete. And no helmets. X games had nothin' on us. And don't get me started on helmets. Helmets were for... well, back then even girls didn't wear helmets. I still have to stifle a laugh when I see grown men riding bikes with a helmet on. Dude. It's a bike.

I got my first ten speed when I was 16. I use to sneak out of the house at midnight and ride over to Blue Eyes' house for some smoochy-smoochy. Good times. This was about the time I started hankerin' for a motorcycle. Mom and Pop say "don't even think about it". Shinola.

Then I got married and Blue Eyes says "don't even think about it". Shazbot.
Then I turned 40 something and I says " Honey, I love you but I'm getting a motorcycle".
SCHWING.



There's just something about being outside on two wheels and have the wind blowin' in your face. Anyway, where was I? Oh yeah. A few weeks ago I taught the little guy how to ride his bike. He's had it for almost a year but he never was interested until I was in need of a riding partner. I had him riding in one day. He'll be 7 in May.
7!
The years... don't they go by in a blink?


Link: sevenload.com

Introducing . . . ENRIQUE!

Enrique was born on February 29, 2008 at 3:00pm to (Marta) Gringy Hymovitz at Northside Hospital in Alpharetta GA. He was 7lbs 2oz and 20-inches long at birth and he’s home with Gringy & Julio now.

Gringy couldn’t be happier. She was giddy when we last spoke and said, “Everything everyone has ever told me about being a mother is nothing compared to the joy I’m feeling right now!”

A Growing Rosi

Here's me very first pipa picture for everyone who's been asking. I'm at 15 weeks now so hopefully I will get to find out the sex in just 5 more weeks. Feel free to check out my blog if you want some more detailed info.

Idiota!

Preguntame otra...

Pray for Stephanie

Last week, Kim and I received a call that our niece, Stephanie, 16, was diagnosed with Leukemia. She is currently at the Philadelphia Children's Hospital. Please pray for Stephanie and her family. (Steve and Linda, Kim's sister)

As most of you know, we experienced a healing miracle with Sophia (Israel's daughter). We ask you all to pray for another healing miracle.


Linda has began a blog from Children's hospital that she write's update. Anyone that is interested see link below.

http://www.carepages.com/ServeCarePage?cpn=stephanielin&ipc=pinviteemailtemplate

Oh, Sweet Jesus

KS, were you in on this?

Over 200 New Yorkers recently walked into one of the busiest train stations in the world, New York's Grand Central Station, and at exactly 2:30 pm, all froze in place.

My how times change....

As young boys, we admire the “Monkey” that Tom referenced in his previous blog posting, Michael Nesmith.

As an adult we admire this monkey!!

Do You Know This Man?