September 2016

After our Tarifa outing, the kids started the new school year! Elizabeth is still going to the guarderia, she can't go to the big school til she's 3. She and her little bestie, Scarlet go together though and they are so darn adorable!!! Scarlet's big brother, Dalton, is Andrew's best friend. They are in the same class together (they were together last year too). Consequently....their momma is one of my best friends here ;) Works out well :) :) :) Anyway, Andrew is in the Cuatro Anos class. Evelyn is now in 2nd grade....so crazy!!! But she is doing so well! Andrew and Lizzie rarely speak Spanish so I can't tell how well they are doing but Evelyn is doing so great. I love hearing her speak to people in Spanish. It's so adorable and awesome :)

The first day of school WORE them all out! Although Elizabeth is totally faking here...she is the funniest little thing at faking sleep!

They all had dental check ups the first day of school too....they did so good! especially Elizabeth! She is like an angel for the dentist...it's kinda funny. The pediatric dentist here is amazing though- so nice and sweet! They do a great job with the kids.

September is one of my favorite times of year...it was still fairly warm this year for September but finally started to get more pleasant than August was. September/October are just gorgeous though...beautiful, beautiful days of blue skies and fluffy clouds. The sunsets are GORGEOUS...it's still light out fairly late but not tooo late. I love it :) I also love that no matter what time of year it is here, there is always something pretty growing! Always flowers or pretty fields...September had the cotton fields blooming, which I loooove!

A few random pics from my phone :)

Lizzie and Scarlet! I got them these matching shirts :) 

little stinker won't take naps anymore but will fall asleep in the car....and no he won't stay like that when we get home :(

September was Mark's birthday! 

I got these Mermaid tails to take pics of the girls in...they looooove them. 

as you can tell from Elizabeth's reaction after I took it off :) she was so mad!

 Oh, back tracking here but I am too lazy to go back and add this to the ones I've already done :) In July Dalton and Scarlet had a combined birthday party at a local horse stable where they take riding lessons. The owner, Jesus, puts on quite the party for the kiddos...carriage rides, pony rides, horse rides, donkey races, sack races, water balloon fights, a pinata....it was pretty amazing!!!! The kids had so much fun!!!! Such a fun day :) We are so blessed to have met such amazing people here! As seriously amazing as Spain and Europe is, it would pretty much suck if you had no friends. This fam is pretty awesome and we will be so sad when the day comes to leave!

Andrew and Dalton

birthday girl on her pony! 

donkey races...this was super funny

this was funny too :)