Weekly Jerry and I mention how much we have been blessed in Spain.   How much we love it here and love our neighbors, our school, teachers, other moms, our landlord.  And that's even with our limited Spanish! Then I started thinking about how much we have been sick.  Ok, so maybe Spain...

Hi friends!  I'm linking up with Kelly's Korner to share our story of adoption. We had always been open to adoption.  After a few years of infertility we felt led to look into adoption in Prague, Czech Republic where we had been living for the past couple of years. We had a Czech colleague...

A day off from school to celebrate Fiestas de la Virgen de la Paz of Alcobendas. What did we do to for the day?  Slept late, played games, went the park    Not sure what Reegan is doing.  Ha! baked cookies, (Spiderman, he's my big baker) peanut...

This past Friday I learned about the famous Brazilian football (soccer for you US folks) player, Kaká.  Currently he plays for Madrid's football team, Real (pronounced Ree-al) Madrid. Some of our colleagues were together in Madrid for a meeting and one of them has connections to Kaká's wife, Caroline....

Madrid has it's fair share of street performers.  My favorite, El Gordo Spiderman!   We took Jerry's parents into Madrid for a bit of shopping.  While eating a street performer set up outside the restaurant where we were eating. Take a look at this! He had some great...

Aris (pronounced like Ah-reece, but ya gotta get a good, but light rolling "r" in there!  Ha!) is a kind of mascot for Karis' class.  There are pictures of Aris in their workbooks taking the kids through their lessons.  Each weekend one of the kids gets to take the stuffed Aris home...

Could it be bullfighting?  photo courtesy of sxc Or the running of the bulls in Pamplona?   photo courtesy of sxc Could it be the beautiful Spanish fans? Or flamenco dancing? photo courtesy of sxc Olive groves? By the way, did you know that Spain is the...

A colleague of ours was celebrating his birthday and invited everyone to come bowling.  It has been months since we've been able to hang out with colleague friends due to Jerry's insane schedule and the sickness our family has experienced.  Jerry was actually sick, but was determined to go. ...

It's taken me some time to write this post due to the lose of such expense.  A 6 year old Nikon D80 camera and a 6 month old gps.  I'm slowly getting over it and moving past it. A beautiful city with an amazing Roman aqueduct, a gorgeous castle and cathedral.  However, it is marred...