Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Funny Twins-


The messes are a daily occurrence here.  These cute babies are sure giving me a run for my money.  As you can see the climbing has begun.  Spencer is pretty quick getting up.  We have learned to put the chairs down on their side to keep them from climbing and potentially falling.  The spilling of cereal is going to be the death of me.  My cute older boys forget to keep their food out of their reach.  Oh, I love these guys.     










New Years


New years was another fun party with the Dubons, the Cuadrados, and the missionaries.  We played spoons for a VERY long time.  Lots of fun.  As we got close to midnight, we watched (in Spanish) the events happening up in Madrid on the internet.  The tradition here in Spain during the countdown is to be able to eat 10 grapes during the last ten seconds for good luck.  You have to be done chewing and swallowing at the stroke of midnight.  As you can in the pictures many big cheeks trying to get them down. Max was the last child to survive the late party.  He made it until 2:30 am.  A great way to welcome 2011!  










Saturday, January 8, 2011

Christmas Eve, Day and Night

On Christmas Eve, Tanner started our holiday events with the flu.  We had plans to go to our friends the Phillips for dinner, but with Tanner not feeling well, I stayed home with the babies and Nick went with the older boys for the fun.  They had a great time and came home excited already from the ton of gifts the Phillips got for them.  My evening was quiet and low key taking care of the sick baby.  Our tradition is to open new pjs every year.  The babies opened up their pjs and then went to bed.  Then when the older boys got home they opened their gifts, left out cookies for santa, and went to bed.  Surprisingly, they stayed in their room all night and came in right at 7:00 like we told them.  It was a great morning with excitement to open their presents and give to each other.  I love that they are just as excited to give to others as they are to open their own.  After the busy morning, we cleaned up and prepared for friends to come over.  Thank goodness Tanner was feeling better.  We had fun playing games, with the Cuadrados, the Dubons, Tim James, David Stubbs, (they are two guys that just got here on a deployment away from their families) and the missionaries from our church Elder Ferguson, and Elder Wells.  It was fun to have them here for the holidays.  We have one more Christmas in Spain!