Christmas Party at our House

Cesar won the game move the cottonballs from one bowl to the other the fastest with your nose.

Handsome Hyrum

Room for all

Our Sunshine Couches

Isaac about to go to his Violin Concert

Before the Party

We moved to our new house 6 weeks ago. We hosted the floor party for Cesar's work.
Many of the nurses he works with came and we had a great time.
About 5 minutes after the party was over my right ear started hurting like crazy. I hope it will get better soon.

New House

Miriam happy about her room.

We've been greatly blessed. Thank you Heavenly Father.

The back of the house. It has a large deck and patio for all our friends and family to come over and visit and play with us. :)

This is the first picture we took on Jan. 1, 2010. 10 months later to the day we signed papers to buy it.


October 5, 2010 This is our first trip to the new house. Our Sailboat with the canoe on top of the van.---Just the way we moved to Rochester and back to Utah- however, before, it was our only trip. This time it was the first.

Up For Sale

I finally planted flowers where I thought there should be flowers the first day I saw this house and tomorrow it may snow.

Our NEW old house! I'm excited for the people who buy it.

The kitchen with new flooring that my friend Sheri helped me install. My friend Tiffany helped me with the countertop.


Remember the bathroom Cesar was remodeling?
My dad helped a ton on the bathtub. He tore out the old tile and did all the sheetrock work.

We'll see how the selling process goes. If it's anything like buying we're in for another lesson on patience.

Getting our house ready to sell

We installed a new tub and surround wall. My dad helped a lot too. Doesn't that look fun!

Still waiting!

A lesson in patience. We are still waiting to find out if the loan will go through. The children are really enjoying their new school. Cesar finished one test and now has only 5 weeks until he takes the pediatric boards test. We practically tore apart our house last week trying to prepare it for sale but we didn't finish putting it back together so now we are in a torn apart house waiting. We had fun painting the house, replacing the tub and tearing up the living room carpet and the kitchen linoleum. Now we have to finish all of those things. Probably won't happen until Cesar is "off-track again" So that's the update.

Just 2 Days til the Big Test

Three moms -15 children-all friends
On day 28 of 30 days straight of at least 12 hour days followed by the internal medicine boards exam. That is how Cesar is finishing. We've also gone under contract on 2 houses in the past 28 days. Still waiting. "Patience" I'm trying to tell myself. Be patient. Yes, yes, but I have been driving the boys to their new school for the past 3 weeks. Now they have three weeks until they start again. Could it be possible for us to move before they start again? I don't know. I hope so.

Looking for another house

The sellers of that house thought the appraisal was too low and don't want to sell. So now we're looking for another house. "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways, acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths. " Prov. 3:5-6 I have to wait and trust. No problem, right? In theory.
We put an offer on another house but we have to wait 30 days for that one so we'll see what happens. At the moment we are still in our house and Cesar has begun working at his new job. He likes it!! :) Now we just have to move closer once he takes the boards test.

Had a beautiful surprise today. My friend from Rochester with 5 boys called and came over. So great! I called Tiffany and she came too. Between the three of us we had 15 children. 5 each. Sooooo cool.

Isaac and Hyrum play soccer!

Isaac and Hyrum are both playing Summer Select soccer. My grandparents,dad and sister who sometimes came to my track meets when I was in junior high (flew from Provo to Tucson just to see me compete) stopped by on their way to a family reunion to watch my boys compete. Talk about showing support. I love feeling supported like that! Thank you family.:)

We're So Close Yet Still in The Air

Saturday we will visit with the sellers of the house to discuss if and when they will sell it. The appraisal came back today and at least it is above what they owe. It is 3:14 am. Hot. Sweaty. Can't sleep wondering what and when things are going to happen. Cesar has not been able to relax much even though he finished residency over a week ago and was released as branch president on Sunday. He has been transitioning ever since. He's getting closer to having the transition over and starts working at his new job on Tuesday. He had wanted to study for the boards he's taking on Aug. 16 more but every time he turns around there is more to do to transition. Last night when we went to bed I asked, "What are you doing now?" I'm going to read a few questions," came the reply. "Goodnight, then." and I fell asleep. So, will the intense stress ever end? I don't know. Maybe not. Just seems like part of life.

Hyrum the Runner

For Hyrum's 9th Birthday he asked to run a 5k. We found one called "Live Your Dream" down in Provo. Hyrum came in 5th out of 100. It was sooo cool. My family went and cheered us on. Cesar was working so he couldn't be there but along the way were people in my family. It really helped me when I saw my dad and his big smile. I just ran on that smile for about half mile then I passed the halfway mark and was getting tired and feeling like slowing down and there was Tiana to cheer me on. I picked up my heart and my feet and her being there helped move me past the difficult part. This is kind of how life is. People come help us just when you want to slow down and give up. I love running. Other runners also say positive things. Keep it up, Hyrum.

Just 2 months of Residency Left

I really like this little quote I saw at one of my "cousin once removed" or something like that's house. I went to my grandma's sister's funeral near Oakland, CA last week. It was an impressive trip. To start it was the first time I have been on a trip without at least one child in nearly 11 years. The beauty of CA-the grape vines, olive trees, wow! It felt sooo good to get a little refreshing air. Stay in a beautiful place and just get a little bit of heaven by being with extended family again. Yesterday my husband signed his contract for his first "JOB". In 2 months our lives will change. Today as my husband was about to leave for work he said something that is classical of the past four years. "The race-tonight get to work (by 6 p.m. it was 5:38), end at 2 a.m. come home, sleep a little, prepare for my presentation in clinic tomorrow at 1, come home from work, prepare for church meetings at 7. But, I got a lot done today!" I don't know if he will ever not be sleep deprived. Little moments.

Isaac's violin Solo

Isaac is "out of here" after finishing his solo performance.

Look up cesarbriganti on YouTube and you can watch his performance of Caterpillar Caterpillar.

Sara turned 2

Did you know princess/fairies brush their teeth?
She doesn't like to smile for pictures much.

Happy 2nd birthday Sara!

She has been so cute. Since her birthday when she gets the blocks out that she got for her birthday she says, "Sara birthday" and she wants everyone to remember that.

Offer Accepted

Moving forward. They replied with a slightly higher price than we offered. We figure that's fine. Cesar meets with his new boss this weekend to discuss up coming schedules. He's also going to spend two weeks of his residency working at his new hospital to learn the ropes since he's never worked in their system. This is exciting! :) We're getting closer. I'll post more pictures later.

A house

Today was a blustery day but my heart felt good. We made a counter offer on this house. We shall see how it all works out but I feel really peaceful about this and though it does not seem to make the most sense. We were praying about this house and what to do about it and a few neat things happened that helped us decide to go for it. One was that as we walked up the street, I recognized that we had been there before a couple of years ago when we went looking for Arabian horse breeders. These people live 2 houses over across the street. We had visited them and their neighbors and really liked them both. And as we were heading toward our car three children came walking up the street with three lambs on lead ropes. We walked over to them and talked to them. The lambs are for 4H and they are starting to get them ready. Cesar was sooo thrilled to have the thought of having neighbors like that--where the kids walk their lambs down the street and almost everybody has horses. Then we drove to the hospital where he has gotten a job and it was less than 10 minutes away. It took us 10 minutes to get to the Oquirr Mountain Temple. Can you believe that? For Cesar to be able to have animals and be less than 10 minutes from work and be 10 minutes from the temple. For me, the house is nice and it is plenty big. Thank you, Heavenly Father. What a blessing and a miracle if we get this house. It has been four years since we came out to Utah from Rochester to look for a house. Now we are once again about to have big major changes. The past four years have been quite challenging but just 2 months and 3 weeks and residency will be over. Cesar is still the branch president of our little branch. He is now studying for the boards every time he is not working or doing branch stuff. Yesterday was his first day off in a month--if you count the one day off that he had every Sunday at the church as work (which I do because I don't see him). Conference was wonderful and difficult for me. I felt like I was not measuring up but there is still time to do better. Today I was able to be with my husband for more than a couple of hours and it was so wonderful---Making big decisions.

Spring break

Today we had an amazing experience. Last December my mom found her real dad and met him. Today I met her dad's brother, Javier, his wife son and daughter and my mom's new aunt. In this picture you see my children, my mom, my sister Veronica in pink and the new family we met.

Reed and Hyrum, twins?

Reed turned 7 on Wednesday. I can't believe it. He is a fun boy. He plays well by himself. He can imagine with his toys for hours. I took the children and Reed's friend Zack to the Discovery Gateway for a few hours. The next day when I took Reed to his annual doctor's appointment the doctor asked him what he did for his birthday, "I played, and played and played."

President's day fun

The boys built snow forts in the snow.

The squares I cut in about 13 hours.

Sara in the pretty dress nana gave her for Christmas.

I haven't posted in a while. I felt too stressed. But, this weekend Cesar didn't have to go to work from Friday evening til tomorrow morning. Wow. What a difference it makes to have a husband around. I can't wait until residency is over. Just four and a half months. We also got to go with my dad's family up to Snowbird today. Didn't ski 'cause that's too expensive but we visited and took the kids to the outdoor pool that was 94 degrees while it was snowing on top of our heads. Isaac was throwing snow at people and then getting it back from Jason. I was so much more relaxed having my husband around to help me. Yes. So Cesar has been offered a job as a hospitalist in internal medicine at a brand new hospital in Riverton Utah and as soon as he has time he will sign the contract. He was going to spend today doing important stuff like that but then he decided to spend some time with the family and now still has important stuff to do he says about a weeks worth. O boy.







My grandma's 83rd birthday was on Friday. She has made a quilt for each of her grandchildren when they were babies and then again when they get married so I had the idea to make her a quilt from the grandchildren but then I felt like I had too many other things to do to be in charge of that. A few weeks ago while sitting in Relief Society with my grandma in Wallsburg I felt I should do it and do it now. So I asked my Aunt Denice to help me. She designed a simple pattern and last Friday we went and bought the material. I spent most of the night cutting the squares. Today I got 14 of the 33 cousins to personalize their square. The other cousins should have their squares by the end of this week and I hope to have them all back by the first week in March. When the spirit tells you to do something--JUST DO IT! That is what I've learned over the years and then the help to be able to do it comes as you do what you're told to do. I'm so glad to be working on this quilt for my grandma. She has done so much for me over the years and I know she will appreciate this gift.