Day 1

It's finally here! We all made it safely to Santo Domingo today

and are all geared up and ready to start our first clinic tomorrow.

We arrived in a few separate groups and all met up tonight at dinner

with our friends from Esperanza. It was a great night for everyone

to meet and learn more about what we will be doing. I can tell this

group will be fabulous and everyone is so ready to get started.

Meet our September 2011 Group

Dr. Chris Hoyal and his darling family are back for their third

trip. He has his two daughters, Christa and Tayva, and then three

of his granchildren, Tyler, Jenna, and Melanie.

The wonderful Dr. Maria Ambrosio from New Jersey

Our predental Student Brett Rappleye who is currently

going to school at BYU Idaho.

Our adorable friends from Logan, Utah. Justin and Jocelyn Hamilton.

Jocelyn is a Hygienist and Justin is a fluent Spanish speaker.

Monique Henderson and her son Conner. Conner will be leaving on

an LDS mission to Washington State the week we get home. We are glad

he is spending his last few days with us

The darling Webb family. Angel is Roy Hammond's daughter and

this is her family. She has been on several trips and so has her family.

I can't remember the exact amount. Matt is her husband, along

with Ellie, Coleman, Josie, and Collin

Dr. Amy Horton and her wonderful team from Dallas Texas.

This is their first trip and they raised a lot of Smiles for Life money

to be here. In no particular order, Dr. Amy, Rosa Fuentes, Sandi

Herrera, Alissia Taylor, Brittiny Trevino, Kristina Cogburn, and

Allison Prather

Back for I'm pretty sure his third trip maybe fourth is Dr. Charlie

Schneider. He has brought his two daughters Mackenzie and Lindsay,

and our friend Austin Tess. Austin came last year with his Spanish class

as a translator so we are happy to have them all back again.

Annie and Juston Puchar and the beautiful Pam Peterson. Excited

to be back.