Since the beginning of this year I think we’ve been to church for the full 3 hours once. Sometimes because we woke up late, misses the bus or had a cold etc.
But I was determined to go the whole time today. I prayed for help, and I got it. I actually woke up late, 7:30. [...]
It’s a new year so I wanted to put a new theme on our family blog. I found a few that I liked a little bit, but none of them had all of the things I wanted. So I redid all the graphics on one that had a good basic format.
Before:
After:
I always change the themes [...]
Today was a lot of fun. James and the boys gave me a big bag of chocolate bars. So of course I ate chocolate all day…heaven!
We watched some of my favorite movies, The Princess and the Frog (I love all the fun songs) and Avatar (the kids got a kick out of that one).
All afternoon [...]
James and I have been married 6 years! That’s more than half a decade.
I must say, it’s been some of the most fun, learning, growing, changing, exciting, adventuress years of my life.
Last year we made a big to do about our anniversary. This year we decided to just spend some time together. We didn’t do [...]
I’ve been really good this year, Santa came early to our house.
The boys think it’s really cool to watch the clothes spin around.
I got a cute little, gently used, front loading, washing machine. It’s so great! The clothes came out so clean and almost dry. I’m used to having the clothes dripping as I hang [...]
Today was one of those days where the kids were crying about everything, the sink has a bottom-less amount of dirty dishes and nothing goes right. At the end of the day I just wanted to curl up in a ball and cry. We decided to watch a movie instead. I had just downloaded It’s A [...]
I did three loads of laundry today…by hand. I have carpel tunnel and at the end of the day my hands and wrists were sore.
I was about to say my prayers and I thought, “I should pray for a washing machine.”
But then I looked down at my hands and thought, “no, I should thank God [...]
Thanksgiving was great! It was my first time cooking thanksgiving dinner, it turned out pretty good. Mom, thanks for the gravy help. …I’m still full…I love Stove Top Stuffing!
I actually made a Thanksgiving casserole. Mashed potatoes, corn, green beans, chicken (turkey is really expensive here), stuffing and gravy all layered. It was so yummy! I’m [...]
A big piece of chocolate birthday cake and a tall glass of milk make the world a better place!
Right now I’m eating crackers with mayo, mustard, cheese and pickles. It totally reminds me of when me and Jen would sneak into the kitchen at night and eat all the balony and cheese on crackers. Or even one time when we ran out of balony and cheese and just ate crackers with mustard. We [...]
I just cooked up some zucchini and it reminded me of my Mom. I remember all the times we would eat zucchini together. Love ya, miss you!
My boys let me sleep-in ’til 9:00 this morning!! For about the last month they’ve been waking up at the crack of dawn, around 5:30 or 6:00 it was driving me nuts. I finally put cardboard on the top half of there windows and doubled up their curtains. Over the last week they’ve been sleeping [...]
It normally rains every day from April to November in Costa Rica…sometimes a little…sometimes a lot. But it hasn’t rained for the last few days. It’s been kinda nice.
This is our new little doggie Lluvia (jew-via or you-via). She’s so sweet and mellow. The boys love taking her to the park.
I remember out first week here in Nicaragua. It was so hot. I remember thinking we were crazy to have moved to a place so hot. But after that first week it wasn’t so bad. I think it had cooled down a little, but really we had adjusted to our new climate.
It’s amazing, a few [...]
A little over a month ago our landlord brought over a bicycle, (it was actually on my birthday that he brought it over.) just out of the blue.
I had been wanting a bicycle so it worked out great.
We live on a hill, not a really steep hill, but steep enough that I couldn’t ride my [...]
I commented to James as we were walking home from preschool with the boys, “it’s nice to have little boys now instead of little babies.”
My boys are so great! They feed them selves. Only one is still in diapers…Peter’s not far off from being potty trained though. They go to preschool. They’re getting so [...]
I love nap time! I don’t know what I’ll do when they stop taking naps….I’ll probably start screaming and pull my hair out which will scare them enough to spend a few hours in their rooms ;-)
For my birthday I got a pair of wide-leg yoga capris from Old Navy. I have to say they are now my favorite pair of shorts!! They are so comfortable (as I’m sure you could have guessed by the name) but they also look really nice. A BONUS…they are slimming! I would buy 5 more [...]
When we first moved to Nicaragua (we live on the beach) I agreed to come here because James LOVES the beach and the ocean. He’s always wanted to live at the beach. I grew up in Utah swimming in lakes. I hated the ocean; all the sand, the icky salt water and I always got [...]
Today was our 5th wedding anniversary. It’s weird sometimes to think back on the last five years, it feels like such a short time, but a long time all at once. Thinking about who I am now and who I was before I married James…it’s hard to express, but it feels like I’ve lived more [...]
As I’m sure most of you can imagine a 3 year old and a 2 year old can be quite a handful. James has been so great helping me with the boys! He takes them for walks, takes them to the park and gets them ice cream. Last week he even gave me some money [...]
There’s a little place in town that we go to often and have pitas and salads. The last time we went we brought home a little cup of their greek dressing, it’s really good. Then James said “Greek dressing has to be pretty easy, I should look up a recipe and make some.”
So the next [...]
The last two weeks Jimmy has been such a little stinker about taking naps. It’s been making me crazy!
When as I was laying in bed last night I remembered my sister telling me what she did when her son stopped taking naps. She started playing one of those read-along CDs that came with one of [...]
This last week my Dad and his wife Robin were down here visiting us. It was so nice. I never thought anyone would ever come down here for a visit. It was so cool to have them come!
We met them in Costa Rica and went ziplining near the Arenal Volcano. Then we tried to see [...]
