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:
2 comments:
I love your stories about Christmas in Costa Rica. I'm not sure what we are going to tell our children about Christmas and Santa. But it looks like they can't avoid Santa!
In Ecuador, New Years is MUCH bigger then Christmas. I am sad that my kids won't be able to experience a real Ecuadorian New Year here in the USA. I guess that means Christmas in Ecuador more often!!
Looks like tons of fun! We love your new car, too. Congratulations.
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