Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day! Don and I finished closing the box that we are sending to Guatemala with shoes and presents for the families that we met during the summer. We were able to fit 97 pairs of shoes and lots of other presents for the children and their families. Fortunately they only charge by size and not by weight. It was so heavy because we packed it to the max.

We are hoping to send another box in January full of shoes, backpacks and school supplies. The school year is from January to October so they will need lots of supplies in January. Mimi, Luke and Roc already donated towards that box. Mimi found 12 pairs of girls shoes on sale and she bought them for the kids in Guatemala!

We had a great time at Steven and Janie's. The food was delicious, as always, and it was good to see everybody, specially Mema, Grandpa, uncle Izzy and aunt Mary. Carlos and Titi played with the kids and they had fun.

We also went to see Mimi and Luke.

Hannah Montana concert

Thanks to Steven and Janie, Carlos and Titi were able to go to the Hannah Montana and Jonas Brothers concert! Don and I never thought of trying to get tickets because we knew it was going to be difficult to get them but Steven and Janie got tickets for Hailey and Andie and they had 3 extra tickets and they allowed us to use them. We know they could have made a lot of money reselling them so we really appreciate it.

Carlos and Titi loved the concert! Titi especially, she danced a lot and had lots of fun. Carlos had fun too but he thought it was too loud so he spent a lot of time covering his ears!! They are very lucky kids!!

Day of the Death

Don wanted me to post pictures of the altar we put this year. I think it looks the same as last year's. We could not put food out because we have been having a problem with ants. We did put candy, rompope and coffee.

Halloween

The kids had fun at Halloween. Both wanted to be vampires so it was an easy costume. They wore black pants, white shirts and we only had to buy a cape. I wanted to paint their faces but they only wanted to have "blood dripping from their mouths".

We went to downtown's Kiwanis parade and it was good. They love trick or treating at the stores. They don't like walking on the parade as much but they did it. Don was in costume too so it was nice. The had fun at the park.

They also trick or treating at the shopping center and they saw lots of their classmates. They had a magic show.

Their class parties were good. They did nice crafts and ate cookies. Carlos' teacher painted faces, she was good.