-IT IS A DOG-GONE WORLD- OUR CHIQUITA-BONITA (8 YRS OLD IN SEPT)

CHIQUITAS LITTLE FRIEND COMES OVER TO PLAY...WHEN CHIQUITA SEE'S HER OUT THE WINDOW SHE CRYS AND GETS SO EXCITED AND RUNS TO THE DOOR. AFTER THEY SNIFF EACH OTHER, THEY ARE BOTH DONE FOR THE DAY.

CHIQUITA LOVES HER WALKS...AND DASHING AFTER RABBITS WHEN SHE GETS THE CHANCE. (THEY ARE AS BIG AS SHE IS). SHE IS OFF....AND CLOSING IN ON THE RABBITS.

BUT PREFERS RIDING BIKES WITH US....

WALKING TO MY PIANO CLASS

Since you can not be here to see Argentina-I am bringing it to you via video. I am going and coming back from my piano lessons in the city.

My life is kinda like the movie "GROUND HOG DAY"

I do the same thing every day over and over again. I don't have a car so I have to be creative on what I do. First thing in the morning Bill leaves for work at 6:30 am.(remember there is a 4 hour time difference in the states). I get up with Chiquita at around 8:30-9:00am. We eat breakfast and then I take her for a long walk and usually jog back to the house with her. Then on m,w,f I ride my bike about 1.5 miles(one way) and work out at curves. Then when I return home I practice piano, I now know 10 hymns I take lessons from the senior missionarys serving over music. It has been wonderful to learn piano. Then I usually shower, and about that time I have lunch around 2 p.m. Then I work on journaling: scrapebooks for my kids since they started school, or doing work on the computer. Then I fix dinner and Bill comes home around 5 p.m. We usually eat around 6:30p.m. During this time, if Chiquita sees one of her doggie friends outside, then I let her go out a play. Or I take her down the street for an extra walk (she keeps me busy like a 2 year old-sometimes). On Tues and thursdays after Chiquitas long walk in the morning. I ride my bike again another 1.5 (one way) and go to my spanish tutor for 1.5 hours. Then return home again. On Tuesday evenings at 5:30p.m I take the car after Bill gets home and go to the church. I teach English to the sisters till 6:30p.m. Sometimes during the week I will go into the office with Bill and walk to the missionarys apartment and take my piano lessons. So I stay busy with something all the time. I am busy with helping in the Relief Society with the monthly newsletter and pass it out the first sunday of the month. They also asked me to take care and fix up their bulletin boards. So I have taken pictures of all the familys in the ward and put their pictures up. Also, new members of the ward. The members here love it and look at their pictures all the time. They don't do much decorating here in Latin America-so this is a big thing. I am teaching by example how to make things nice. It has been a wonderful experience living here in Argentina for this past 2 years. I have met wonderful people who I will remember the rest of my life-for sure.