Tata and one of his great grand-daughters...
Mom and Dad with their two oldest grandsons.
Cousins.
Tata and the other three great grand-daughters...

Ed, Dad, Anthony and Jenn and their children and Mom.
Michael and Emily with their youngest and Dad with with Anthony's and Jenn's youngest.
Anthony and Jenn and family with mom enjoying her family so much!!
so happy! Mom with Michael and Emily and their children.

Happy Birthday to youuuu...

We made mom a yummy cake and celebrated her birthday early, we are so glad we did, she passed away 11 days before her b-day.
Singing ..."Happy Birthday Dear... Maria Ines, Mom, Nani... Happy Birthday to youuuu..." we love you.

Family Pictures.

Mom and Dad and their 7 great grandchildren.
Mom and Dad, Bryan and Ana Maria with all their children and grandchildren, and Ed and me.
and of course the funny picture, we couldn't forget that... mom was having so much fun.

Time to go say good bye...

Maria Ines, Mom, Grandma, Great Grandma, We love you with all of our Hearts.

Mom passed away this morning about 2:50am after being in a coma for over 24 hours. I called my sister Ana Maria and she drove here right away, so Mom had her husband, her girls and her son in law by her side until the very last.
We will miss her so very much, but are so grateful she's not longer in pain.
We love you so much Mom!


This picture was taken on March 26th
when we all got together to celebrate Mom's life, and her b-day early, she was going to be 81 on April 19th. We have many more pictures of that love filled day, that I will be posting later.

MOM

Mom has been having a lot of pain from bed sores, last Monday we started giving her something for the pain, it has helped, she sleeps a lot more but at least she doesn't have to hurt all the time.
Thank you for all your good wishes and prayers on her behalf, Dad and all of us really appreciate it. We feel so much love from visitors, people that call to see how she's doing and from messages via internet, thank you for all your love, it means so much to us. We had all the family (all the ones in the U.S.) come on March 26 It was such an incredible day, there was so much love, and I know it meant so much to mom and dad. I will be posting some pics soon. : )
It's hard to see her hurt and to see this little weak body laying in bed, it makes me want to tell everyone, all about this now "weak little body"...there was never anything weak about MOM she has always been the strongest, most loving and wonderful woman in my world! Always sassy and full of life, and so funny too, so even though her body is sick and weak now, she'll always be my strong, wonderful, beautiful mommy, always thinking of everyone else first, always enriching my life, my HERO. I just kissed her goodnight, she was already sleeping... no pain, we like that.