This post is dedicated to Mariynn's love of spring flowers in Rome.  Enjoy!

Mike & Tiffany Visit April 2012

Cold & rainy day on the Amalfi coast

 Tiffany in Pompei with a very large lemon

 Two big boys in an even bigger chair

 Mike & Tiffany at the Pompei ruins

 A plaster cast of an actual body preserved in the ruins

 Intricate tile work from 1500 years ago

Florence Italy

 

We climbed to the top of the Duomo

 A happy day in Florence

How about these apartments

One of dozens of Marble sculptures in Florence

January & February 2012

Elder & Sister Krueger join us after Christmas for a trip to the Colosseum

The Collosseum at dusk in late December

Saint Peter's Square with a life size nativity scene and beautiful Christmas tree after Christmas

Looking back into Saint Peter's square through the beautiful colonnade that surrounds the square

An authentic Italian dinner at the Guidara family home with several of our temple and missionary couple friends

These wonderful Italian saints show their love for the foreign couples who are here to serve.  We love and admire them for their love of the gospel.

6 inches of snow in Rome has not been seen here for 32 years.  Not much snow by Colorado standards but truly amazing to see Italians play and drive in the snow

Sister Valentine's "Valentine" lunch for the office missionaries & President & Sister Kelly

Some of our amazing missionaries waiting in the office for Zone Conference to begin.  Their energy and enthusiasm are contagious.

The Assistants bring us some Cannolies from Bari.  This area is famous for the best Cannolies in all of Italy. 

Elder & Sister Fenn visit the Bracciniano Castle with us.  They serve as temple construction missionaries for the Rome Temple.

Bracciano Castle is a 600 year old fortress built high above the shoreline of Lake Bracciano only an hour drive north of Rome.

Christmas 2011 Rome Italy

Elder & Sister Krueger join us in Rome as Senior Missionaries.  We enjoy having another senior couple in Rome.

December Rome zone conference with missionaries singing in the program.  We are grateful to be a part of this incredible experience for all of us.

 

 The Rome Zone in front of the mission home after a Christmas luncheon

We hosted a Christmas Eve luncheon for the Rome missionaries.  The Sister missionaries including Sister Valentine, Sister Krueger, and  Sister Kelly

 These two sister missionaries are native Italians from Northern Italy who are serving their full time mission in the Rome mission.

 Missionaries singing Christmas songs at our luncheon.  When the luncheon was over they went to St. Peters Square at the Vatican and sang too all the tourists!

 The Kellys, Kruegers, Valentines after a Christmas day lunch at the mission home.

 December 26th we visited downtown Rome.  Sister Valentine at the Colosseum.

St. Peters square with a life size nativity scene and very large Christmas tree.  Truly a wonderful day after Christmas.

Our children sent us a Christmas package that included gifts to us from them and gifts they bought for us to give to each other.  No time to shop when you are on a mission.