Scooter Fun!!

This winter in southern Spain has been AMAZING!!! The weather really couldn't be any better with only one day of rain so far!  The temps have been near 70 and everyone is outside!  Yesterday we headed into Rota and hit the board walk with a group of friends.  The kiddos had a blat and we ened up saying out on our scooters for over three hours!!

Claire has watched Drew on his Razor for the past year.  As soon as Drew would put his razor down Claire would grab it and did really well on it.  So last week we turned in her Radio Flyer scooter and she is now an owner of a Razor!  She loves being able to keep up with Drew!

And Drew found a perfect size ramp!

Can our scooter area have a better view!!! 

We needed a little fuel...so a little ice cream hit the spot!!

After ice cream we hit the board walk.  We notied these boyzzz doing flips on the beach, so we stopped to watch.

Clarie taking a photo of us:)

The kiddos were staying SO busy in the sand.  So the two other mom's and I stood on the board walk and just visited.  It was really nice to visit as they were SO busy!

So come to find out (parents of the year)  they kiddos were finding TRASH on the beach , picking it up and burying it!!!!  We cleaned everyone's hands and if anything it will build their immune system!

Photo Shoot!

We were trying to do the jump on three, kind of worked.... We had fun with it!

I kind of liked this photo with the wash out of the sun

Claire and her friend Catalina

Ship Tour

This past week we had three amphibious ships pulll into our port.  A freind of ours knew one of the men on the ship and hooked Drew and his friend Zeppelin up with a tour!  Drew was SOOOOOOOO excited and had his childhood dream come true!  The ship has close to 4,000 troops on it and has been deployed for ten moths and is headed home after this port.  Needless to say our base is VERY busy, however the energy with the troops almost home is really neat. 

On the tour the boys ate cookies given out by "navy guys" that they met on the ship, climed all the narrow ladders on the ship, sat on top of tanks, and were in awe with all the air craft! 

The boys thought they may have spotted a shark!

Drew in total AWE!

Sitting in the captains chair!

You can't really see it, however behind them are tanks!

So what did they do next... took a photo on top of a tank!

What an amazing day for the boys!

Claire's First Ballet Practice!!

Tuesday Claire had her first practice for ballet!!  This is very exciting for Claire as she is now in the three year old class!!  Claire can listen, follow directions, is potty trained, and she made the cut! 

The classes are on Monday and Wednesday for an hour.

 There will be thirteen little girls from 3-5 in this dance class and the big performance is in May!   She loved her first day and can't wait for Wednesday!  Heopfully she will be able to teach this mom some dance moves!

New Years In Espana

For the first time since Drew has been born, we had a sitter for New Years!!  We went out with a group of friends and hit New Years Spanish style!  The spanish have a tradition of eating a grape every  twelve seconds up to midnight.  Each bell ring indicates eat a grape and a month is represented.  If the grape is sour on that second then it means that month might be a bad month!  We had a lot of laughs and 2012 is looking good!

So at the grocery store here they sell the grapes in a can!  Just pop it open at go!!

My good freind and neighbor, Trisitn

The town square was also handing out "real" grapes, not in a can...

                                                      Here's Andy and our neighbor Matt, trying to eat all of the grapes!

SANTA CAME!!!

Christmas day we decorated all of the cookies for Santa!

Picking out which cookies they wanted to leave out for Santa

Ready for Santa (and the reindeer/!!

Um... Andy holding up Drew's new pajama pants and 3D glasses that go with them. Andy was very thrilled with them!

After opening a few gifts they took a break and what did they play with... bubble wrap!

Concentrating VERY hard with her new dolly and hair accessories!  Thank you grandma and grandpa!

A bow and arrow and target!! 

Claire's big gift was a doll house!  It was so cute as she screamed when she saw it! 

Soooo Claire loves babies and where does she carry her babies.. under her shirt!  Santa was able to bring Claire a baby bjorn!!  Mom  and dad were very excited about this as we would be walking in stores and Claire would always have a baby under her shirt!

The bow and arrow was a HUGE hit and he caught right on

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!