Angelina "Nonnie" Garioto 1913-2009

I am sad to post that Nonnie (my father's mother) passed away on Tuesday (6/16). We are heading to California with my brother and his family on Saturday to spend time with our family and celebrate her long life. Nonnie turned 96 in March.

You may recall Nonnie and her sister, Marge, cutting a rug at our wedding reception. :) Her last few weeks were more painful then we would have liked, but we now have a spunky, beautiful angel, or Angelina, watching over us.

Should you care to read it, click here for her obituary.

Vi amiamo, bella Nonnie
We love you, beautiful Nonnie
We took this photo with Nonnie about a month ago when we visited her after our Hawaii trip.

Taken at our wedding.

Severe weather!

We drove home from the mountains today to see this (taken from our back deck)....YIKES!I know, it is a "small" one, which is good since we were on the deck and not in the basement...

We have kept busy since the Maui trip. We celebrated Chuck, Alex, and Brady's birthday at a bbq here last weekend which was great fun.

This weekend we went to Annie at the Boulder Dinner Theater with Mom and Dick. My childhood was well defined by Annie, as I frequently would belt out the tunes from my window accompanied by my Annie record. :) Dick cooked up some yummy breakfast for us and then we headed up to Vail/Beaver Creek for the night. My good friend Natanee and her family live up that way, so we got to spend lots of time with them, which was great!!

Ok, now to the chores....cheers!