another new granddaughter and spring into summer

Dad celebrated his 91st birthday in June.

Alan, Dad, Glen, and Kathy

Kyle and Melissa came at the end of June! It was Melissa's first time here and it had been a very long time since Kyle was here. It was a great visit. Once again, we managed to forget to get a good photo of us together.

 

Kyle and Melissa just arriving

Alex came home from college in between semesters. Lots of games were played.

Alex, me, and Eric playing Terra Mystica

now we are Terrforming Mars

Glen and I were able to go to Mesa in July for Henry's baptism and Kyrie's baby blessing!

Andrew and Henry waiting for the service to begin

Glen, Kyrie, and me

Heather, Henry, Joy, and Kyrie

Ryan and Angeles became parents in August! We thought it was so cool that Melody's cousin, Theodore, was born in the same hospital just a few hours after she was!

introducing Melody de la Luz Perazzo Castaneda!

momma and baby

The funniest text regarding photos of Melody is from Andrew:

"So cute! She looks like a mix between Ryan and Angeles, as if Ryan and Angeles got married and had a bab--wait a second." 

My mother had her 88th birthday in August. We celebrated both here and at my sister's.

Denise and mom

Hannah invited us and some of her friends to a murder mystery dinner (of which, I really didn't get a good picture). It was on the train the European Belle. I correctly guessed that I was the murderer! I had never done one before and I thought it was a blast.

Glen dressed up as a doctor and Hannah as the guide

And here is a photo taken while I was on my bike ride the other day. 

And school has started again. Glen and I are both subbing again this year.

new granddaughter and Winter into Spring

We'll start with the most important thing, and then jump back to January.

Welcome baby Kyrie! She was born on April 25th, her parents' 10th wedding anniversary. We are so glad that she arrived safe and sound!

Kyrie Mia Perazzo 7 lbs 13 oz 19 3/4" long

Glen really retired from the school district in December. I say "really" because he has retired twice before only to be hired back part time two different times. He now subs occasionally, still helps out at the movie theatre, and also helps to take care of his dad. I found this sign in a thrift store...not worth buying, but worth taking a picture of, I thought.

Winter: it was very snowy.

3 January 2023

we had to take a walk in a winter wonderland

Eric heading off to work 1-19-23

We lucked out in that the weather was good (if not a bit cold) for the Valentine's Day 5K that was sponsored by the movie theatre. Hannah and Lucas each came in first in their age/gender categories!

Glen working at the registration desk

Hannah, Eric, and Lucas striking a pose beforehand

a selfie to show I participated

In March, I got to spend a week with Deni in Vegas when I flew down to take my mom there. Mom will be coming back here in about a month, just in time to avoid some famous Vegas heat.

After 2 years serving as Senior Service Missionaries, Glen and I were released from our mission on April 1st. We had been serving in the temple laundry one day a week. We loved our mission, but are looking forward to more time being patrons in the temple.

Glen and I attended the county museum's Mad Hatter Luncheon. In the silent auction, Glen was the highest bidder for 2 swim passes and I paid $5 to bring home this centerpiece.

While working online to fill in some details for my personal history, I came across a photo from 4th grade! Our class was an experimental open classroom with 120 students, so this is only half the class.

my 4th grade class-I'm front row 6th from the right

December

My mom came to stay with us just after Thanksgiving and Alex came home from college for Christmas break. Hannah pops in from Reno every once in a while.

Glen, Eric, Ryan, and our nephew Brent did a lot of swimming back in 2007.  There was a grant given to the pool, and if you brought youth with you to swim, you all got to swim for free. There is still a plaque commemorating it on the wall at the pool and we still have the little trophy they gave Glen. 

Back then, Glen used to go before school to swim laps. I never went. Then Glen stopped going and at the beginning of this school year he decided to start swimming laps again, and I started attending different water exercise classes 2-3 times/week. I now stick to the water jogging class. I really love it. Besides working your legs, there are also exercises that strengthen the stomach and arms.

At the beginning of December, Glen and Eric participated in the Live Nativity again. Poured rain on them their last night. Didn't get a clear photo of Eric, but here's the whole scene from a distance.

Hannah had her 27th birthday and I had my 61st. Glen got me Star Trek socks, which I love, but to me the Captain Picard socks look more like Elder Renlund, one of our Apostles, than like Captain Picard. It makes me laugh. Here's a photo of the socks next to a photo of Elder Renlund.

Every year the town puts up a Christmas tree, of course. This year's tree seemed to have more lights than usual. I love it. 

We put up our trees, too, of course.

Glen retired from teaching for the 3rd and last time.

doesn't he look SO happy to be done?

Caroling has been a Perazzo family tradition since before I married Glen. We went again this year...and it was probably the best caroling weather I remember having. It was great.

the cookies we made didn't only go to the neighbors-we got some, too

On Christmas Eve, we went over to Dad Perazzo's and had him open the presents Glen got for him. Before he opened his gifts, he shared with us some of his memories. Here is Hannah listening to him (and somehow it turned out to be the only photo I took during Christmas that she was in--Sorry, Hannah).

Christmas was a quiet affair. I guess that's typical when the youngest person in your house is 22.

We followed the Jervis tradition (a New England tradition) of lighting a bayberry candle at sunset Christmas Eve and letting it burn all the way out to bring good luck in the new year. Usually it goes out in the middle if the night, but ours kept burning this year...16 hours later, it was still burning!

the picture I took around 5:15 am and it still burned for 3 more hours

We didn't open any gifts until church was over and Hannah had arrived from Reno. Ryan and Angeles joined us with a video chat. We started off with Eric, Hannah, and Alex looking for the paper mache pickle Eric made in 2nd grade. Eric found it first, so he got to be the first to pass out a present from under the tree.

Alex and Eric (and Hannah is behind Eric)

Glen with a gift...and Ryan is there through the miracle of technology

Mom opening one of her gifts

Ryan and Angeles got me this awesome shirt!

New Year's Eve was a bit quiet too. We had LOTS of rain Friday night/Saturday morning (there was some flooding in town) which turned to snow Saturday afternoon. The electricity went out that night so we got to play games using flashlights for a while. 

New Year's Eve also meant the end of a 5 year project that took me 6 years to complete. Six years ago my sister had given me a book where each day there was a different question to answer...and you did that for 5 years. I started it in 2017, but half-way through the year I stopped for some reason. I didn't pick it up again until 2019...totally missing out on 2018, but I completed 2020, 2021, and 2022. Some questions got the same answers year after year, but some didn't. It was a fun project. Thanks, Deni! 

At our house we just had (have) mud, but there was flooding in town

games at the Jamieson's is a favorite

New Year's Day the sun came out and was very bright against the snow...which mostly melted here in Fallon. It had snowed so much in Reno that Hannah's church was actually canceled. The picture doesn't do the snow justice as snow had already started melting.