December Fun

Here is our life in the month of December through the eye of a lens:

DECEMBER

Emme found a (sad compared to her mimi's) Christmas village display and wanted a picture to show Mimi (Sandy Figel)

Our new bed and bed frame--perfect for reading at night!

Romero block party.  Our Tico family

Bruce and Micah Facetiming

Beautiful sunset overlooking our house

It's a BEARD-TRIFECTA!!

The Christmas wreath I--YES I made!

Our Christmas fireplace with stockings hung with care

Family Make a Cheesecake Day

Emme made a snowman out of the filling of the Oreos

One of the prettiest butterflies I have seen.  Golden, silky--just pretty--in our backyard!

Dinner for the Pastoral Leaders with Steve's famous ribs--YUMMM!

First time making chicken and dumplings--6-thumbs up is a new record!

He is soooo cute!

Emme with her bow and arrow

Emme with her birthday pedi from Tita (Grandma Olga)

Emme and Hannah

Leyton and Boyden--He loved him some Boyden

Me and Dawn-she and her family are off to Nicaragua

Me and Deb

The Myers family and us-They are in Mexico

Baillie and Emme

Skyping with the Sykes family!  Miss them terribly

Leyton's first sunburn....ugh, pastey white boy!

Fun with Chinese lanterns

Rode with the lantern that decided to get stuck in the electrical lines--OOPS!

Batman--A gift from Rode, Eliel and Josué

Our Christmas tree Christmas morning--aww so pretty

This isn`t one of them there trees where all the needles falls off, is it?

Bruce being the Pied Piper with all of the kids from the children's homes.  We were blessed to be a part of their Christmas dinner at the mall and a movie at the Thomas' house! Good times!

We were blessed to have family pictures taken...

Our new family photo

Bruce's FAMOUS cheesecakes--white chocolate raspberry and Nutella

 We were blessed to be part of the annual Romero-Monge family Christmas Tamale making shin-dig! I think I have the basic idea of the recipe!

Bruce cutting the chile dulces

Papi making the masa

This is a Costa Rican tamal

And this is the 'tonto', the last tamal with everything left--I was blessed to be the lucky receiver of this one! YUM!!!!

70+ Piñas (2 tamales together = 1 piña), 1 tonto, and 1 tontito

boiling the tamales--a la leña style (by fire)

Perfect!!

Tying the piñas

Perfect December evening

Block Party!!!!!!

Bruce made his famous Armadillo eggs--in Costa Rica they are called 'bombas'!

We had our first snake encounter, he was little, but no one wanted to touch him!

Leyton swinging like a champ at the piñata!

Emme looking like a baseball star!

Leyton drew his self-portrait

December was a busy, busy month for us--party after party.  December in Costa Rica is a P A R T Y month and we are so blessed to have family and friends to share it with.

Blessings!