God blessed Flagstaff with some snow today.

You will be surprised how fast the weather changes in Arizona. You drive from Phoenix to Flagstaff and the tempurature changes from high to low in the 140 miles distance that you drive. Today we drove back home, and we had quite an adventure. Snow, crazy winds, as you can see this falg almost blowing away. The roads were covered with snow for quite a few miles. We thanked God for protecting us and helping us to get home safe. It was nice to get home and Cassandra was so excited to see Yia-Yia and Pa-Pa. We had such a great time in Phoenix with our family and friends. Thank you all for this.



Somebody was taking a nap while it was snowing. I think it is a great time to snuggle with your blanket with the heat on and a little music. She took a great nap of almost 2-1/2 hours. By the time she woke up, we were half way home.

Old Town Scottsdale

We also visited Old Town Scottsdale with Alina and Tudor. It is such a beautiful place. We really love all of the palm trees and all of the flowers, and the beautiful green grass. It is weird to come from Colorado Springs where the nature is so different right now (there is definitly no green grass or flowers in Colorado Springs right now.)

I just got a new hairstyle a week ago.

A happy family. We are outside a libary here and the pictures above at the fountains.

This reminded Corneliu about downtown Brasov, Romania with all the pigeons, where people give them food.

Great friend and cousin.

Visiting Phoenix atractions

First we walked by the Cardinal's stadium with an outdoor mall right by it. Cassandra was amazed at the size of the Christmas tree. Of course we wanted a picture of it, and then Cassandra said, "Can I see it, can I see it?"

Corneliu said he never saw such a big stadium in his life. He said that it looked like a bitg marshmellow in the valley of Phoenix. It was just being built when we were living in Phoenix for the Superbowl.

Which car would you choose, 2011 Corvette or 1930s car. In the corvette you might have a hard time opening the doors at first, but you will figure it out. We went to this car show, and we were pretty impressed with all these old and new models. And this technology advanced a lot since the 1930s.

Corneliu's campfire

Cornel's property is so big, that they built this cool campfire place, and they use it quite often. Last night, we came home from our friend's Aimen and Arwa's house, and we made a big fire and hung out at the fire for a few hours. Cornel drove to Walmart real quick and bought some corn to throw on the fire. That is kind of a Romanian thing to do.



That corn was so good, num, num, num!!!!!!!!!!!!





The 2 Corneliu's, they look kind of the same, don't they?

Our good friends

This is Aimen, Arwa, and little Sara. It was good to see them again. Aimen lived next door to us when we lived here in Phoenix and we got to see this family get started. Sarah is 14 months old and loved to play with Cassandra. We got together with them yesterday and had dinner over at their house.

Here are the 2 girls together. There were some problems with sharing, but for the most part, the got along. Cassandra is loving all of the kids that she is getting to play with here. It it always fun seeing her react to younger kids. Cassandra is doing really good.

Isn't she cute!!!

Thankgiving dinner with Rus family.

So we are staying with Cornel family and this is the house that Cornel built by himself. It is such beautiful house and has so much space.The land scaping is so great,all of the flowers are so nice.It is great place to live.





Aunt Monica making the food and of course the turkey.



Yum,yum.



We also celebrating our cousin Alina's birthday. A lot of things happened today,very busy but nice day.

I love my cousins. They are so cute and lovely.

Reading a story

My cousin Miriam is so cute, she wants to read me a story. So I snuggle on her and just listen.Thank you Miriam for being so kind with me! I love stories!!!

A hike before Thanksgiving Dinner

We spent so much time being in Uncle Cornel's house, we got tired of eating, so we got up this morning and after breakfast some of us took an hour hike on the Phoenix "mountains."

This are our good friends Tudor and Alina.

This is the Phoenix landscape. It is so cool to see all of these big cactus again. Cornel's mom tried to grow them, but they are 2 inches tall. Do you miss it Noelle?

The girls, happy to be done with our hike.

We made it to the top of the "mountain,"but....

Someone was very exhausted at the top. I think she said this was her first hike in her life, you can see it. She likes running on flat ground better than hiking.



Johnny being so happy at the bottom. He did not know how long the trail was.

Seh complained about her feet hurting. She just wore the wrong shoes for hiking on rocks.

This is for Corneliu's mom. I hope that Ica will show her these pictures because she would love this cactus.