The garland that my Dad brought back from the US in a duffel bag to replace the wreath tradition. So festive, is it Christmas yet?
One night we had dinner with some of my parents friends from church and they made a dish for us called Paella. He brought his own skillet and set everything up right on the patio. The skillet was huge, you can't really tell from the picture but he even had a special spatula so that he could stir everything without burning his arm. He started with the rice and then added sea food after sea food...fish, clams, OCTOPUS, calamari and tons of other stuff and salt, tons of salt! We tried a little bit of everything and the octupus was pretty good. It took awhile to cook so we would go out there and see what he was doing, ask questions and then cover it up and stand around and talk and then check it again and then talk some more, it was a really fun evening. I think by that point Preston had his mission call to Spain and Paella is a Spanish dish, actually I think that is the whole reason why they were cooking the Paella for us in the first place!
One of my favorite things was when the Aunties and Uncles would whisk Zara away with them to a room to hangout and I would find them all just lounging around talking, Zara crawling all around them.
Umm, Yes. This is Zara in the kitchen sink after she pooped in my parents bathtub. Oops!
New Years Eve! We hung out all night with the Obando's, they are the ying to our yang. We love seeing them. They have three girls and they are all so fun and sweet! We played lots of games and ended the night with a rousing game of white elephant right before ringing in the New Year.
The daughter of the guy that made the Paella brought my mom this centerpiece with the flowers and candle as a hostess gift. It was amazing.
The highlight of the night was when Sarah and Doug received Isaac's white elephant gift. A little red kids chair, Sarah sat in it and we all just busted up laughing, it was pretty late at night.... We thought Isaac was going to DIE. It was hilarious. I think we were all laughing/crying.
We saw Walter Mitty and had the place to ourselves, turned out to be one of my favorite movies.
It is so hard to get pictures of Zara that aren't fuzzy because she is always moving around, but It thought this was a cute picture of Isaac :)
Zara dancing with dad in her new bear slippers from Abuelita.
Preston and Zara playing with some new toys.
I really wish the second picture wasn't fuzzy!
Puzzle time!
Out and about for a little architecture tour. There are some crazy cool building down there!
Tacos, soup and fried cheese with the fam. So yummy!
Preston trying to teach me how to use the settings on my camera while we were driving in the car. Kasey was doing a great job entertaining Miss Z.
Zara, budding photographer.
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