Happy New Year- We love you all!

Below is a video we made before heading out to Alexis and Maritza’s NYE party. The party was at Maritza’s brother in law’s house and it was one of our favorite NYE to date! They had family, food, music, fireworks, and dancing galore…oh and of course a pinata! I think every single family member from all over Costa Rica showed up for the party. It was def. the most happening party on the block. There were people of all ages and only one person spoke english so we kicked off 2012 really sharpening up on our spanish skills. Sophie fell asleep about an hour after we arrived and slept through all the noise and people until we went to leave at 10:30 and she woke up in the car on the way home- lol. She stayed up through the New Year and we all slept in late on New Years day. The Ticos really know how to throw a party and we were so thankful we went and got to share the holiday with them. Their entire family was so gracious and fun, I wish i had free hands to get some video and pics but i had a sleeping log laying on me for most of the night so we’ll just have to store it in the memory bank. Happy New Year! Ly all!

Merry Xmas 2011!

We hope everyone had a Merry Xmas! Sophie’s 2nd Xmas was a great success and Santa filled the tree with presents. She loved opening them and we made it last all day long by playing with each gift after we opened it. The weather was beautiful and sunny and it was just a perfect day. On Xmas eve we watched some Polar Express, daddy read our Xmas eve book, and we made brownies for Santa. It was strange to have a sunny 80 degree day on Xmas, but eh, we adapted just fine (lol). Below is a slideshow from the day with captions :). Both Maritza’s family and Pablo’s family made Xmas tamales for us (a costa rican tradition). Love you all!

The Good Ole Water hose

It is no secret that we have a little water baby on our hands. She just totally geeks out at all water whether in a bucket, shower, sink, pool, rain, or water hose. Here are some pics from the water hose today. She liked to just stand there and get squirted. She even tried to stick her whole face in it. Ugh these pics just make me crack up…only Iggs.

Sum Sum Summa Time!

Well I just noticed Daddy did a perfect post about our day below, so I am just going to supplement with some photos. When I was on the phone with PaPa today I said we didn’t really do much, just hung around the house. Well after going through the photos, it appears we were quite busy around this house- lol. I think we soaked up all the sun today. I’m putting some pics below and then will do a separate post with just the water hose photos b/c they deserve a post of their own. Summmmma time in Costa Rica!

swing!!

weeeeee!!!

Scream face!

Precioso! Que Linda!

Very busy bringing her dollys outside and placing them in the rocking chair- one by one.

Just a girl and her dollys

Sosi's new game where she screams "DA-DA" and he turns and comes running!

Oh the blue bucket...never gets old

It was only a matter of time..we are now going for a dip in the blue bucket. Look at that devious smirk.

Blue bucket pool

 

Putting up the Xmas tree

Well, we bought our first Xmas tree in CR and it is actually bigger than our one in Chicago. It was 1/2 the price and even rotates…brilliant…though not so brilliant this year when we don’t have a  bunch of ornaments yet and can’t get away with decorating one side-lol. Anyway, I went around snapping some pics of what our weirdo family was doing while daddy was setting up the tree…not normal.

Da tree

Daddy setting it up

Chitta keepin busy

Bethhhy exercising as usual

Sosi fake sleeping under bubblewrap

Sosi fake waking up under bubblewrap

Voila! Finito!