A Cuban-Finnish-Irish (huh?) Clan in Powder Springs, GA

Christmas at the Rockefeller Center, New York City (forgot my selfie stick!)
From left to right: Max, Orrin, Arlene, Aedan, and Anika

Highlights of 20+ Years Growing Up in Georgia:

Our first big trip was Mom and Dad only! London for several days of castle roaming and pub crawling.

As a family our biggest trips have been to California (drove the whole coast), Costa Rica, Italy, and England (yes...again!).

(Bad) parenting tip: keep your young kids going with regular doses of gelato in Italy!
Most stressful moment: not getting our luggage from Air Italia in Rome, Italy for 3 whole days (>__<)

These kids were home-schooled for several years, but eventually they wanted to try going to school.

Aedan Miguel has completed four years of college (KSU), and will be enlisting in the army soon.

Aedan is a gun enthusiast, an excellent bowman, a fisherman, and a very hard worker.
He loves being outdoors. This summer he was hired as supervisor at a pool monitoring company.

Maxwell Sebastian is majoring in electrical engineering (also at KSU). He seems to really be hooked on STEM classes!

Max is passionate about his video games, but is also very active working out and getting outside.
He enjoys doing metalwork and other projects with his buddy Alex.

Anika Maria will be a junior in high school after this summer. She just got her first job at Publix!

Anika (but Dad will always call her Cha) has been an incredibly dedicated dancer for an amazing 12 years.
This year she auditioned and won the role of Dewdrop in the Christmas Nutcracker performance!

After years of raising these kids and homeschooling, Mom is back at working teaching in McCall Primary School.

Dad keeps pluggin away at the Wellstar Cobb, Douglas, and Paulding Emergency Departments.

The Aholas have also taken trips to meet up with our cousins (the Golderbergs and Considines) in Washington DC and the Outer Banks, NC.
Another trip is planned for this fall in the NC mountains!

We're grateful for our life here in Georgia, but we also miss our family spread out all over the country.
(Florida, North Carolina, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle)

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