Maria Kao Un Tungú

I think it was Carol Guerrero who posted the YouTube link on the SVS75 chat and according to Lou, on their NDHS78 chat, of a Chamorro Christmas video song, Maria Kao Un Tungú. Lou liked it and wanted a copy of it. So I captured it from the YouTube link and extracted the .mp3 for her.

Music by Mark Lowry, translation by Mick Celis; Performed by Eric Falig – Maria Kao Un Tungú

Christmas cookie painting for the grandkids

Loula always has some festive activity for the grandkids for the holidays. These will be the memories of their grandmother when they all grow up. We set up for Google Meet with Peaches, Michael Stephan, and Mia so we could do it as a family. It was nice, albeit with much technical issue aggravations throughout the 2 hours video meet (my laptop connection frequently dropping out).

Annual Christmas party 2013

Our annual family Christmas party… it was fairly large with, according to Darryl/Bryant, quite a few new faces this year. Some of the new faces were Lou’s niece on the Mariano side (Nate’s mother’s sister) Kevin and Norma Mariano Rios and family. Lina’s best friends, the Torres twins, came and their parents both came too.…

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‘Tis the season 2011 ~ Thoughts

Two things jump out at a person signaling the start of the Christmas holidays…. One is when you find yourself eating leftover turkey, turkey soup, turkey sandwiches, turkey casserole, etc., which obviously indicates the days after Thanksgiving and into December when the family is trying desperately to finish all the leftover turkey!…

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