2016

     WOW! Has it really been almost three years since we last posted? Ahem, well, why, yes it has been! We won't bother explaining why we dropped off the face of cyberspace, other than life was happening and we just didn't pause to document its happenings! Thank goodness for new beginnings. 
   And this is what we hope this will be for the Aranas Clan. This time around there will be more contributors -- more members of the family will be learning how to maneuver around this bit of technology while practicing their prose. We can't guarantee lots of literary flair, but they say pictures are worth a thousand words, right? 
   So, here we are again - the Aranas Clan at the start of Summer 2016.

Edna (21), Angel (12), Meemz (18), Twitter (14), Little Man (10), Coco (8), and Big Bro (23)
The camel isn't part of the clan; he was on loan from the San Diego Zoo which we visited in May (one more item scratched off Mom's bucket list!). 
With the older kids newly arrived from college and their summer jobs soon to start, we threw together some clothes and our cell phones and headed south for a week before obligations took us our separate ways. More on the trip later, as well as some other events as the children see fit to post. Knowing that this blog can be a way to look back on our lives, they thought it would be good to go back and post some of the highlights that previously were unrecorded, so some things may be old for us, but new for you. 
   That's it for now. Re-entry accomplished ... pretty smooth!