Airplane Ride to Guatemala

Last month, on October 1st, Isabelle and I went to Guatemala. We were so excited for our trip!
This is Isy going to the airport.

She is a small creature and only weights 27 pounds so they allowed her to go with the carry-on baggage.

This girl was so sweet and tried to make Isabelle smile, but it didn't happen... Nice try pretty girl!

She was such a good traveler.While at the Airport you have to "have" the experience of buying something in there. She picked tic-tacs. I asked her to eat one at a time to avoid ear ache. She was pretty good about it and did as I asked. No ear aches :o)
She wanted to talk to Daddy :o( ... come on Isy, we just saw him 1 hour ago!Behind Isabelle is the airplane to go to Atlanta.

We departed at 10:55 PM. Good bye Seattle!

Almost midnight! of course she is tired. Do you think I was able to sleep?
NO! How can you sleep in an airplane?
Four and a half hours later we arrived to Atlanta. What? Morning already! We had a layover for 3 hours and 20 minutes. Isabelle took another nap.

Okay, this is her 3rd nap... Flight from Atlanta to Guatemala. Lucky her!

Time to do some coloring before landing!
Aerial view of Guatemala
(sorry, the window was dirty and didn't notice until the pictures were taken)

More posting of our trip coming soon!

Sunset at Redondo

We took the kids for a walk at Redondo Beach. It was a beautiful summer day in the afternoon.

I love my two little girls!

The love of my life (sigh)

Water is pretty cold but, kids don't really care :o)

Filming MultiCare Commercial

Jer's employer, MultiCare, is a health care organization that owns 4 hospitals and multiple clinics, including the Mary Bridge Hospital in Tacoma. They were looking for models for an upcoming commercial and Andre fit the bill (gotta love the boy's "diversity"). He was invited to the video shoot where he had his own wardrobe, make-up and Hair person, and about 20 crew and directors who were producing the commercial.

Andre was placed at a table in front of a massive green screen (like you see in movie production), and surrounded by lights and diffusers. There were cameras set up to catch his every move. Only the art directors sat out front with him. Everyone else was hidden behind the screens watching the shoot on the monitors. Andre just had to play games the whole time. For an hour and a half they made jokes to him while he played with remote control cars, blew bubbles, etc.

When they finally got the perfect shot they used it at the end of their new commercial. It is airing all over the Seattle/Tacoma region. Here's the final product:

Just in Case We Forget...

Here is a copy of the Assembly Instructions for our Tent :o)

Long Beach Weekend

Last month Aunt Jill invited to Long Beach for a couple of days. The weather was perfect! We had so much fun and they kids enjoyed playing at the beach, window shopping and they also rode a horse. We had the opportunity to see the cousins and their kids. It was a wonderful weekend.
El mes pasado la tia Jill nos invito a ir a Long Beach. Estuvimos alla solamente por dos dias y una noche. El resort era muy bonito y comodo. El clima estuvo perfecto! Nos divertimos mucho y los chicos disfrutaron jugando en la playa, iendo a las tiendas y tambien montaron un caballo. Tuvimos la oportunidad de ver a los primos y sus hijitos. Fue un fin de semana fabuloso.

Amazing sand sculptures

Isabelle was so excited for the horses but when her turn came she got scared and didn't want to ride the little horse anymore.

Isabelle estaba tan emocionada for los caballos pero cuando fue su turno ella se asusto y no quiso montar el caballo.

Okay, I have to explain something about this picture... I asked Isy (a few times) to turn so I could take a picture of her; she said... "wait" every time until she turned and said... "okay, I'm ready" and this is what she did:

Bueno, tengo que explicar algo sobre de esta foto... Le pedi a Isy (varias veces) que volteara para tomarle una foto; ella dijo... "espera" cada vez hasta que volteo y dijo... "esta bien, estoy lista" y esto es lo que ella hizo:

Isy and her tiny body :o)

John and Jeremy visiting

Anthony flying a kite

Isy believes she can swim under water.

Isy cree que puede nadar debajo de agua.After playing at the beach Jill had plan a pinata and a mexican dinner.

Despues de jugar en la playa Jill tenia planeado una pinata y una cena mexicana.Trying to break this huge pitana!

My kids thanked Aunt Jill for the fun pinata.

We enjoyed this moon on our way home.

Disfrutamos esta luna en camino a casa.