Been way too long

Well, as everyone knows we moved into our house in December. It has been lovely.
I started a new job, and got lucky enough to go to Italy with them. We went to Florence. The dentist I work for teaches other dentist's to place dental implants. We use a C02 laser, and the parent company is in Florence. He wanted us to go along to see the "vision". The vision was seen. Now we can tell all the dentist's who come through how cool the laser is, pretty cool hu?
We went to Sienna, which was one of my favorite days. It's just a cute, old little city. My sister Michelle served her mission in Italy, Florence being one of the cities. She told me of some places to see, and yummy things to try:) I must admit, trips without Matt are pretty much not near as cool as they could be.

Our choices

OK, we need everyone's honest opinion. These are the colors we chose for our house. Its a little confusing, but our hardy plank siding stuff was already chosen for us. Its the 2nd one in on the top row, and the 1st one on the 2nd row. so.... They are both very neutral, but similar. I can't decide yet if that is a good thing or not. anyway, we put all these colors together, its the window colors, soffit and facia, garage color, and the shingles. What do you think. Are they all too similar, or what.... We both think maybe the rock is a little too yellow, because we saw it on another house, and it looked super yellow, ill upload that photo so you can kindof see. There other colors are all different than the ones we are getting so for me its just hard to picture what it is all going to look like on ours.

Family Fun

The Sproul family!!!! It's so good to have Mom and Dad back.


Funny Kenzie, a little blurry, pretending it's Christmas. Thanks for keeping me laughing, always!!!



Park and Ole, playing Where's Waldo in the leaves!!!!

One quickly learns in Spain, that in order to make a left turn one must turn right. A right turn is made into a roundabout and it is followed until one can make a right turn into the appropriate street.
When we entered the roundabout of our mission here in Spain, we were working with young adult members. As we traveled down the road a little further, we came to have responsibilities in the Missionary Training Center(MTC). The picture is of four young adult members from the Madrid Institute who are now receiving their training in the MTC. We feel like we have almost traveled the full circle in our roundabout in Spain seeing these young adults now dedicating their lives in service to the Lord and His children.
We are excited to see you all after we return home March 23.

Post card #2

Maddy is the winner of post card #2. She is the second grandchild and granddaughter that is why she got post card #2. I can't believe we are to post card #2 already.

I wonder who will get post card #1??????

Postcards #4 and #3

Sorry, I've been a huge slacker. Lily recieved postcard #4in November. I never did take her picture with it so here's a recent photo of her after she got back from a "girly girl" birthday party where they got their hair and makeup done. She slept with this hair do for 2 nights and it actually still looked pretty good on the third day for church.

Allie just got postcard #3 on Wednesday. She was very excited. Abby, you finally got it right!

See you all in 2 months!!!!

At Christmas time, we will have lived here in Spain 19 months. There have been many lessons learned, but one of the most important is to be grateful. We have met many, many people who have less to be grateful for and yet they are.
For Thanksgiving we helped cook a turkey dinner for a Young Adult activity. No one had a roasting pan, so I cooked a turkey in a cake pan. It miraculously turned out nice and juicy.
We will spend Christmas in the Missionary Training Center. There are 5 Spanish missionaries who will be there until the 29th. We will fix them waffles, bacon and eggs for breakfast and have special activities planned all day.
May you be filled with joy as you celebrate the wondrous birth of Jesus.
Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous 2010. We will see you then.
Love,
Bob and Susan