Baseball Season Is Here!

Drew started baseball this year and made the cut to the 6+ team!  His team was the Braves and I have one little boy who couldn't be more excited!  Drew had an awesome season and didn't even use the tee!!

Our blog is still crazy and turns the photos the wrong way without the option to turn them the right way.. UGH..

Drew at practice

Andy helped out with the team this year which made it a lot of fun!  (Andy is pitching in this photo to Drew..)

Quick Review

So our blog has gone NUTS!!!  The past month our blog has switched it's server over to an EU address and that has made it insane hard to post photos!! With this, I can not rotate the photos as well.  When I upload them, it looks like it will appear normal and then the photo is turned the wrong way and one can not change it!  UGH!!!  Only a few more weeks with this problem and the blog will be back on a US server in the states and back to normal with frequent posts.  I think this is the one and only thing I can really complain about living here in Spain, so life still is good:)

Feria

The beginning of May kicks off Feria season here in Rota.  Every town here in Spain has it's own Feria which is like one huge county fair only really elegant!  The women are in Feria dresses along with the kiddos and the men are dresses to the nine!

Claire and her friends tearing up the dance floor for Feria!

An example of the men and their outfits, it really is an elegant affair and wonderful tradition here in Spain

Drew's 5th Birthday

On May 9th Drew turned the BIG 5!!  My sister, Allison started the tradition with her kiddos with breakfast in bed on their birthday.  When Drew and Claire saw this on her blog we decided also to start this tradition!  This is the 2nd year and running!  They LOVE it and start planning out their meal a year in advance!

For dinner we went out to our favorite beach restaurant with our friends!

Drew's Preschool Graduation!

The middle of May Drew had his BIG graduation from Preschool!  The graduation was super cute filler with songs, the big hand out of the diploma, and a light lunch!

Drew and his teacher, Mrs. Luisa

And the hat toss!

Happy 3rd Birthday Claire!

All Claire wanted for her Birthday was a doughnut!  She decided not to eat breakfast in bed as the movers had already come and packed up our furniture and she was on loaner furniture and still wasn't to sure about her rental bed!!!

Time to open gifts, with of course help from Drew!

Portugal Group Family Vacation!

                                                                             

This past Memorial Day weekend we took a vacation with seven other families to a resort that we love in Portugal.  All of the families rented condos and spent time together at the resorts six swimming pool.  We left on a Thursday and returned on a Monday.  All of the families are just amazing and the kiddos were on cloud nine the entire vacation with every second spent with their friends.  I couldn't have asked for a better holiday weekend!

The group.. minus eight people!

Our neighbor Matt and his beautiful soft face...

On Friday we rented out a bus that picked the group up at the resort and went wine tasting.. kiddos and all! The place was really nice and actually very child friendly with animals on the site!  We decided to have the guys do their tour first, then the gals, with wine tasting at the end.  We had a great time!

Doing a little wine tasting

Um... so the photos would NOT let me turn them!!  However, I thought they were pretty cute and kept them anyway!

Claire and her two chicas

Andy and I were talking about how much a year can make a difference!  This year Claire is so confident in the water and we can actually relax!!  Yes, we're still there right at the pool side, however it's only getting easier!

More pool time!

The view from our patio... just steps to the pool!

The condo that we rented (the bottom floor)

IT's MOVE TiMe!!

So I have been MIA with the blog as we were getting ready for the movers who arrived here bright and early last Monday!  The movers did an awesome job and now it's starting to feel real that we leave our fantasy life here in SuNNy Spain:(  The good part is when a family lives overseas is that were given loaner furniture on this side for the rest of our duration here in Spain. By shipping our furniture this far out everything should be waiting for us when we arrive in July.

We spent last Sunday cleaning all of our stuff, Drew turned our cooler into an awesome pool!  This kept him busy FOREVER!

He was also sporting Andy's military tags!

Meanwhile Claire was at our neighbors house!!  Our neighbors are HILARIOUS and when the kiddos wake up they go outside yelling "BRANDON" (who is the dad).  So Brandon turned his backyard into a homemade slip n' slide!  Who could resist this!  (They also have a boy Claire's age, Evan).

All of the moving trucks in front of our house:(

Movie Time!

Drew and Claire have their moments however, for the most part they get along SO well!!  The other day we were going to watch a movie on a rainy Friday night and this is how they were watching the show!!  

Birthday Bash

Last night we had Drew and Claire's birthday party out in town in Rota.  Rota has an awesome indoor play area that is huge and the kiddos can run wild!  The area is fenced in and the parents can see the kiddos however, aren't allowed in as the Spanish workers watch and play with them.  I mean how can we complain about this!!!  SOOOOO I was busy talking and having fun as well and this reflected my lack of photos and only cake time!!!  We all had a great time and it's crazy to think that Claire will be three in May and Drew will be five!!!  

While the kiddos had their snacks their was a "clown" to entertain them!

Claire getting ready to blow out her number three candle!!

Drew blowing out his candle!

We had so much fun the kiddos AND the adults as you can tell by the LACK OF photos that I took!!!  Drew and Claire even slept in past 8am they were so tired from their night of fun!

Boy Bonding Day!

Last weekend Andy and eight of his amigos went out for an all day fishing trip in the bay of Cadiz.  They had a cooler packed with drinks and were ready to bring dinner home for the families!

In the van headed to the bay to catch their fishing boat

Getting ready to go out and bring the wives dinner home:)

Um... where are the fishing pulls boys???

Our poor neighbor was a little sea sick during the ENTIRE fishing trip!!!

So they ended up catching NOTHING all day!!  The wives think it was really just a whale watching trip and they didn't want to admit to it.  We never once saw a fishing pole in ANYONE'S hand!!