Fashion Show!

Fashion Show!!!! A couple of weeks ago my sis in law and I had the opportunity to go to a fashion show that was put on for charity by two very big designers her in Peru, and can I just say how beautiful the clothes were. We had a great time and had fun dreaming of having a closet full of these gorgeous clothes.

My good friend Lis and I.

My sis in law Christina and I after the show.

The gang of expats here in Peru closing down the party. Free gift bags, dinner, show and a night out with the girls, what more can you ask for right???

Easter 2011

This year for easter we spent it the beach house with some great friends and family. Chris's brother and his family are here staying with us before they make their move to Columbia, so they were there as well as two other family friends. Benjamin and Mariela and their baby, and Jessica and her husband and 3 boys. Yes thats right, 16 people plus two employees. It was a blast, lots of food and laughs. It was a great Easter.

Cutest Easter bunny ever!

Everybody hop! We had an egg hunt, and the Easter bunny even found us at the beach. It was fun to share some traditions with the peruvian families here.

Beach fun!!! Alejandro, Brock and Zander.

Chris and Benjamin!

We turned puruvian!!!!

In March Gano Excel, the company Chris works for, had a big event where we were asked to dress up in Peruvian garb. We walked the cat walk and the boys actually loved it. Cooper started dancing and the boys felt like super stars. I have never worn a dress that weighed so much in my entire life. Oh the things we do for our husbands. The boys look cute though.

Zander's 1st day of school 2011

My big man Z on his first day of school. He is the big man on campus now and can not wait to go to big boy school next year. In Peru you have to take an exam to get into your school of choice, so he is getting ready for his on May 21. It is like trying to get your child into college, but luckily we have the advantage because Brock already goes to the school, so hopefully all will go well.

Zander is my comic relief. He is always making me laugh and the kids at school gravitate to him. He is super energetic and learns so quickly. He loves his Nido, preschool, which makes each and every day easy as we get everyone off to school for the day.

Brock's 1st Day 2011

I still have a hard time with the way the school year is here, having school start in March, Christmas in the summer, easter in the fall, it gets my internal calendar all confused. So yes the school year has just started for us, and Brock was so excited. He wakes up every morning by himself at 6:45 and gets dressed and most of the time makes his bed, and comes down stairs for breakfast. If I try to go in his room to help him I ever so gently get told to "get out I can do it by myself." It is amazing to me how fast they grow up and how fast they learn and process everything that goes on around them. The other day I was helping Brock make sentences with some word strips he has for reading homework, when Chris walks in and asks if he can make a sentence for Brock to read with the strips. Brock replies yes and Chris proceeds to make his sentence. Brock reads the sentence out loud and says "Dad that was not a very intelligent sentence." I could not help but bust out in laughter as my poor husbands face looked at me in shock as if to say "did he really say what I think he said?" Oh you gotta love the little stinker.

Summer

I am just going to give a few highlights of our summer 2011, and all the fun stuff we did. We had family visit, beach house, and lots of playing. Stay posted as I am almost up to date.


Lima just opened this place called Divercity, that is really fun for kids. They have stations where the kids can go and learn about natural gas, vets office, chef school, hospital, firefighting where they get to get in a small fire truck with uniforms and put out a pretend fire. They even get to go to driving school to get their license and test drive cars for Toyota. So here is Zander and his friend Lilly getting ready to go change gas on the gas truck. It is basically like a mini city where the kids participate in everything. We had a blast and the boys can't wait to go again.

Lilly and Zander waiting so patiently to drive after going to driving school.

Z man driving, but had to stop for some gas!

Here is the Coopster with Iris and Sara. Iris is the girl that has been with me for the last 2 years helping in my home, she is the best, but has just left because she had her baby a couple of weeks ago.(She will be back though yupeee!) Sara, the other girl is new to our home and we love her as well. She is super sweet and really good with the boys. What a team I will have when Iris gets back. I am so grateful for the help that we are able to have in our home, and that we were able to find such magnificent women to be a part of our family.

Just a shot of Cooper checking out these goats. In Peru they have Granja's(farms)everywhere. This one is at the mall, they have a bunch of animals the kids can pet and feed, and Cooper was just mesmorized with all the animals. Brock and Z love to feed the baby pigs bottles they just go crazy when they see them walking over with the bottles.

As I had mentioned in another post we rented a beach house for the summer. (Summer here is Dec-march) So here are the boys playing with Iris and Lucy digging holes.

To top off the summer we got the chance to have uncle Joe come and stay with us for 3 months while he did his internship here in Peru. I can't even begin to tell you how much fun my 3 guys had with uncle Joe. In this picture uncle Joe is letting the boys draw all over him with markers. What a trooper right? The funny thing is it was his idea. He is so good with my boys and it was so much fun to have him here with us. In fact one day Zander thought it would be nice to make a special drink for unlce Joe for lunch that consisted of: limon, water, sugar, chunks of bananas and Ice cubes. It looked so disgusting but Z was so proud of what he had made and so when Joe got home he was presented with this drink. Much to my delight Joe drank it and made a big deal about it and Z was so excited. His own dad would not drink it, so big props to Uncle Joe.