Christmas 2015

I can't believe it's already been a month since Christmas! Time has gone so fast and January has been a lot busier than I thought! We had a great Christmas though and I really enjoyed our first Christmas in Spain! 

Christmas Sunday!

I wanted to get a pic of them in their matching outfits but Lizzie wasn't having it at all

Andrew and Evelyn had a Christmas Concert which was so so cute!

Christmas Eve we used our fireplace for the first time! It was super cozy and awesome with the tree lit up and the fire crackling...I loved it :)

christmas jammies!

I loooooove my tree setup here! its the perfect spot with the fireplace and stockings and tree all right there!

Christmas Morning! Elizabeth was so fun to watch this year now that she knew what she was doing. :) She is so darn cute!

Andrew waited very patiently for his turn and was SO excited because he had been asking for a fire truck for Christmas for over a month. The first present he opened was one he thought for sure was a fire truck....

but it wasn't...so he was a little unsure of what to think...it was so funny :) 

but he got over it and got excited :) 

he wouldn't make a single reaction to his presents until the last piece of wrapping paper was off the box and then he'd get excited :)

he did get a fire truck though :)

and Evelyn! Well she was just a bit of an exaggerator on her excitement :)

don't they look so happy? :)

And time for my 2nd favorite Christmas morning activity! Fried bread! The kids were excited to help out :) I was so excited to bring our family's favorite christmas tradition back to its original roots of Spain!

this face...oh I love it! she is seriously sooo cute!

I bought this plate set with the main reason of using it at Christmas for Fried bread!

she has some of the silliest faces...She rarely lets me catch them though!

They spent pretty much the whole rest of the day playing with their new toys! we had a pretty quiet happy day at home for the rest of Christmas which was nice.

Adventures in Spain with Carmen {Zoo de Castellar}

Guess I should get back to catching up :) One of the things we did before Carmen left was go to the Zoo de Castellar...it's about an hour and a half away and is an animal rescue center (a lot of animals are rescued from the black market or other places where they were mistreated or not cared for and they nurse them back to health here and take care of them). It's a really cool little zoo and probably the most interactive one I've been to! They have animals out in the open, a lot of baby ones too, (with trainers most of the time) and you can touch them and pet them...it's so cool! 

This is a little baby Ocelot cat that was just chilling near the entrance

we went with a mom from school...her son is in andrew's class 

petting a lemur :) 

Lizzie and her little friend Scarlet

it was pretty dark in here but this is Carmen holding a pretty big snake...

around her neck :/ 

this was the cutest little monkey! he was totally mimicking Carmen 

and he held her hand :) this little pipe/hole here where you can feed the monkeys and they put their hands in to get it

There was a bird area too...Carmen wanted to hold one of the parrots but they wouldn't go to her...someone else got to hold them though

this little bird loved me...it kept following me (scared Lizzie) and kept hanging out on my shoulder. it was pretty funny :) 

feeding the lemurs :)

this white tiger was my fav...he was super playful and kept hiding and pouncing at us

holding a little monkey :)

and my second favorite...a baby white tiger! SO CUTE

he was kinda cranky though...

so they gave him a bottle and he calmed down :) 

he was pretty cute :)

It was a lot of fun to go to and the kids keep asking to go back. :)