January 2022 - December 2022

Lazar yearly update below:

We started the new year with snow fall on January 16th...... Ella and a couple of friends built a snow man

In February we all went to Beech Mountain in North Carolina to ski and snow board. We had a great time at the cabin...lots of eating and playing games!!

 

Celebrated April birthdays....Danee 4/6, Paul 4/14 and Ella 4/25

Ella's 16th birthday with her friends

In May, Paul and I flew to Minnesota to celebrate our Godson Preston Morton's confirmation

Happy 28th birthday Evan!!

In June, Ella went to Europe with EF Tours through Northview H.S.  The toured Italy (Florence and Rome) and Spain (Barcelona and Madrid) from June 8 to June 17th. 

🎉  JUNE 17TH EVAN PROPOSED TO DANEE MASUR 🎉

Evan's grandparents (Paul's parents) so kindly and generously offered Evan to have one of Grandma's 1 carat diamond stud earrings to be used as part of Danee's engagement ring...WOW. Evan took the diamond and had the engagement ring made with Danee's input of course.  He created a surprise proposal plan with Danee's sister and family involvement.  He kept the secret for few months and proposed to  Danee while visiting her family in Washington DC.  She was completely surprised!!  We are beyond thrilled for Danee joining the family...she's a wonderful addition and we are excited for their future!

July 4th weekend we spent few days with the Sewell family at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain Georgia

Annual visit to South Dakota to visit my sister Lisa, niece Jaden, Uncle Roger and Aunt Dolly....its always a blessing to spend time with my family

Girls trip to Sioux Falls,  SD with long time friends from high school!  It was so fun hanging out with Dawn, Chris and Krista for a long weekend in July.  We talked and laughed nonstop!!!  

First weekend of August, Evan took Ella camping in North Georgia mountains with little to no rain in the forecast.    It started as great trip of bonding but turned into an adventure....they were headed back to the campsite after having a great dinner near the stream when the sky opened up and it started pouring rain.  They got soaked and then couldn't go back into tent with everything dripping wet so they packed up started waking back down the mountain to the car.  At this point it was getting dark so it was hard to navigate etc.  Once they finally made it back to the car completed drenched, they called us.  We got them a hotel nearby.  Unfortunately the weekend didn't end up like they planned but they have lasting memory to cherish!!

   

August 8th first day of 11th grade

Paul and Evan enjoying another year of attending Georgia Falcons football 

Ella's band concerts at the high school etc.

Celebrated Thanksgiving in Los Angeles with family.  Paul's brother David and his wife Nicole coordinated everything!  We had the best time!!! (also, doggies had their own thanksgiving meal at doggie daycare 🐶)

Below is a collaboration of Ella's hobby of baking...yum!

 

We finished out 2022 by putting this puzzle together. Paul gave Ella this QR code 500 piece puzzle with no reference chance to win million dollars...we finally finished and scanned it to only win $1...wow.  Ella and I laughed sooo much putting this together so it was totally worth it 🤣

See you next year...2023

  

 January 2021 - December 2021

January - March highlights including "Sunday Fundays" and lots of snuggles with fur babies 💗💗💗

Happy 15th birthday Ella

In May, Evan and Danee attended a beautiful wedding in Hilton Head, South Carolina. They both look STUNNING!!

Memorial Day weekend we visited the Sewell family in Birmingham, AL -- (welcome to the Sewell family ......"Flynn" he's an adorable Havanese 💙 

Beginning of June, we flew to Palm Beach, Florida and visited Paul's parents, his brother David and his wife Nicole.  Due to the pandemic, we hadn't seen them in 18 months 😒.  We all had a wonderful visit😁

June 17th we left GA and started our journey to SD. We spent three weeks in Watertown, SD at My Place hotel which had kitchen with full refrigerator, two burner stove, desk and ample room for all of our stuff ha ha! Paul was able to work from the hotel most days and Ella took high school chemistry class so she was busy studying etc.  While they were working, I went out most days visiting my sister, niece, aunts, uncles and old friends.  In addition, we attended the Athey Family reunion, boat fishing in Aberdeen, drove by the Schmidt's (my mom's parents) family home, went to Bramble Zoo, toured Redlin Art Center, day trip to Fargo, ND, Canterbury Park Horse Racing, BBQs and much much more !  It was so  fun reconnecting with family and friends !!  After putting over 5,000 miles on the rent-a-car, we made it home July 15th. Below are some highlights of our adventure:

August 9th Ella's first day of 10th Grade

Northview High School Marching Band fun!!

Happy Halloween .... made and decorated a cake to share with friends and carved a "cat" pumpkin

Happy 5th birthday "Biscuit " 🐶🐶🐶🐶

(thank you two sweet neighborhood girl Milee that brought him birthday cookie 💛)

Enjoyed the Sunday before Thanksgiving visiting our wonderful friends the Sewells, that feel like family, in Blue Ridge Georgia

Celebrated Thanksgiving in Florida with Lazar family and friends....so much fun and LOTS of laughs

Evan and Danee came over for lunch with more cake...lol and opened Christmas early because they were headed to Danee's family for the holidays

Mom and Dad Lazar drove up from Florida for a few days during Christmas.  We had a lovely time cooking, playing Quirkle and enjoying the dogs!!

We played shitzuopoly (monopoly) on New Years Eve and Paul bankrupted both Ella and myself...ugh

Wishing everyone a happy and healthy 2022 ....take time to enjoy making memories with family and friends.....see you next year 😍