Play Date!!!

We had a BLAST! We really had a lot of fun having Emma, jack and Luke over for play day!


We had Pizza for lunch and Emma baked cookies for dessert ( we miss her cookies so much she make the best cookies in the world!, when we lived in the duplex she baked all the time and shared with us!)

I love this picture! You can tell the cookies were a huge Succes!

I told Chris that Emma, Jack and Luke were comming over to play and since he woke up this morning he is been asking: Mom is Emma here yet? and around 10:30 He sat on the window waiting for them!

Chris was so happy to have a boy to share his cars and Trucks with! and Abby was so fascinated by Baby Luke she was asking if she could hold him ,,, and I sat her next to me and I let her hold Luke ( i was holding him too ) Baby Luke look bigger than Abby! LOL

They played tag and pick-a-boo,cars and more! The 3 kids were sad when it was time to go! But We'll get together soon!

Here they are Hiding behing the couch!

Thanks Emma you made our day!

Abby´s First Haircut!

Finally!! We went to the hair salon today, Abby needed a haircut so bad! Her bangs were too long and her fine hair was just too messy. She was so good! The lady who cut her hair was really nice and sweet and Abby love the whole experience!!! I really like her new hairstyle; I have to say it was inspired by my dear supervisor at work Mary Kate who have a similar haircut!
Here ...some pics The before and after LOL
I know its not the best picture of my girl!! but its the onlyone showing her hair in a regular day before the haircut.:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !!!

Hello everybody!! sorry I haven't post in forever. We've being bussy, but I'll try to resume the last 2 months.

Thanksgiving: We had Lunch with a wonderful family from the ward: The McDonals, they are just such loving people, they new that we don't have family here so they invited us for lunch,That made my week! because i felt so much love and being around their family made me remember the hollidays with my family. Any way .. after that, we had dinner at home with Will and Marce and their kids, they are costaricans too and they don't have family around neither so we got together and that was fun Will is just hilarious, and we had a wonderful time! The kids play and play and play all night long!

Next morning we went to see Santa arriving to the mall in a helicopter, the kids where amazed by how cool and modern santa is getting! LOL It was freezing! { I still have a hard time during winter, my body miss 75 degrees all year COSTA RICAAAAAA BUAHHHH! :( }

After watching Santa arriving ( that was it) at the mall we went inside and had Ice Cream and walked around( I love to see the decorations in the stores! )Then we went home for a nap! We had a lot of fun!Christmas Eve: In Costa Rica we celebrate Christmas Eve and not Christmas Morning so we tried to do the same this year. We invite Will and Marce over and have a yummy yummy dinner and dance salsa and merengue and talked and laugh a lot waiting for midnight. At midnight ( the kids were still awake playing and running around) we gather around the christmas tree and brought Baby Jesus to the nativity set and we said a prayer and then the kids got their presents. When I was growing up ( in CR of course) our parents never tough us about Santa and I'll dare to say that Santa Clause is not a Costarican tradition, at least not when I was growing up maybe now ( because of the comercialization and the opening of american companies and stores in my country).... SO our parents tough us that baby Jesus brings the presents when he is born and that with the presents he brought the most important of all gifts: Salvation to the world!.

But living in USA... is almost imposible to tell that to the kids because Santa Clause is everywhere and no mater what...they believe in santa( because they are 4 and 2 ) So we went with the santa version of christmas this year and probably will keep it! But we also try to keep in their minds that is Jesus' birthday.

We had a really great christmas, I think this is the first year that I don't get depresed by the holidays ( YAYYYY) cause every year for the last 7 years I got Homesick SOOOOO BAD!

Thanks to all of our friends that care about us and that love us so much!!

Santa gave Abby her first bike and the rescue pack ( she is obsesed with Diego) , to Chris Ben 10 alien creation set ( Chris loves this show and some days he is not Chris ...he is Ben Tennyson..), and some cars.

Santa was really really generous this year to Chris and I, he gave us a new car. ( It's not new but is new for us LOL) a Mitsubishi Montero 2002 limited edition: