What a great Thanksgiving we had with our Friends and IMB Family. We ate lots of good food cooked by some really great cooks. I will have those pics for next weeks blog!
For this week I have a variety of pics from different occasions. One of which includes the addition of a Christmas Tree in our home! The girls absolutely love it and think the lights need to be on every moment they are awake... which is fine with me!
I have added a couple videos this week. The first one is of Evie and Aaron and their daily custom when walking to and from school! Evie thinks it is the greatest and when you see the video you will see why. There is also a picture of Mylee(Click on the Christmas Tree below) walking with her little friend, Claire, who will be leaving in a week. Claire lives accross the street from us and the girls get to have a play date about every week where they trade on and off at each others house. Yes, we will really miss Claire!
The other video is of Evie at the Children's museum when their school had a Christmas party. And boy was it a Party! None of the kids had to pay to go and came home with lots of treats. One of us had to go with Evie because she was two, so Aaron went with her. I stayed behind and attended classes because I had already missed a lot a few weeks ago. So this is a little video of Evie playing around at the museum.

Among the pictures below are two pictures of the children that were orphaned when their mother was killed a couple months ago, which was the neice to our House Helper, Yolanda. Yolanda has traveled back to Nicaragua with the kids but at this time is unable to return to Costa Rica. She has been unable to get the proper paper work to return. Please pray for God's hand in this situation because she is missing her son and Fiancee a lot, who are still here in Costa Rica. Please take a few minutes to pray for the children when their pictures come up. I know they will appreciate it. Have a great week!

Oh Christmas Tree!

HSM3 and the Beach!!

Movie and Beach

Right after I returned from the US, I took Mylee to her first movie theater experience to see High School Musical 3. We went with a friend of mine and her two girls as well. It all went really well except I had to keep telling Mylee we couldn't talk during the movie. And then during the one 5-second kissing scene she yelled EEEEEEEW really loud. Oh the 4 year old innocence. So after we recovered from that we were able to get through the movie. Luckily there were only 7 people in the theater and we made up 5 of those 7. You will be interested to see the types of seats in this theater. It is like nothing I have ever seen. I will give you a small hint: the name of the movie theater is The VIP! I will let you look at the pictures to see the rest for your self.

We signed up a couple months ago to go with the school to Punta Leona Resort and Beach. The trip was from Friday 8am to Saturday 6pm. We had a day off on that Friday so that is why we decided it would be a good trip for us. We had a lot of fun and the girls loved the sand. The ocean on the other hand was a different story for them. We tried to push them a little to try the ocean out and all was going well until a huge wave, bigger than Aaron and I, came over us and engulfed us all. Needless to say that was the end of the ocean for both of the girls. So in the sand they stayed and loved every minute. A very common thing in Costa Rica is an all inclusive resort. Which means your meals are included in your price. We really didn't know what to expect, but boy were we surprised. The food was incredible! Some of the best we have had here in Costa Rica yet. It was so good that even the white faced monkeys wanted to get in on the action. The restaurant is in the middle of a rain forest so what do you expect. But these little monkeys had some guts. So much, they actually stole a banana off my plate while Aaron and the girls were sitting at the table! We would look up and see them eating Splenda packets from the table, bananas, hard boiled eggs and once even a box of cereal. It was funny but eventually annoying because you had to guard your food and the girls would scream every time they would come within 10 feet of us which was pretty often. I guess a little later they set off fire crackers in the forest to scare them off. But it was definetly an expierence to eat breakfast with monkeys.

Click on the picture above to see all the fun pictures and more. Check back next week to see the new addition to our house! Look to left to see a poll I have added to the website. Don't forget to put your vote in! Have a Happy Thanksgiving with safe travels!

Chicken Pot Pie from Scratch

We have been getting together with David and Ana(teammates in Puebla) on a weekly basis for dinner and time to hang out. This particular night we made Chicken Pot Pie from scratch. So I had to get pictures of the whole process and the many little helpers we had in the kitchen (two to be exact!) But we had fun making it together and it was very good when we finally sat down to eat it. It was worth all the work that went into it!

One of the assignments in school was to present and demonstrate what we do in our free time. So I took some of my scrapbooking supplies and the necessary pictures to make a two page layout in class. So I had Aaron take pictures of my demonstration. It was a lot of fun. Probably the most fun assignment I have had yet!!

This is the blog update that I wanted to post before my trip back to the States but didn't get done. So I have also included some pics from my trip of my time with my family as well. Click on the picture below to see the album of the week. Coming soon (next Monday): Pictures of our trip to the beach this weekend. We went with the school on a 2 day trip to a close beach. You won't want to miss the stories or the Pics! Have a great week!

Scrapbooking