A Visit From the States

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that some of my family was going to be coming to Roatan on their cruise and immedietly took a personal day to make sure that I could meet up with them for some crazy Honduras adventures.

Even though they didn't come until Wednesday, Owen and I decided to fly out on Tuesday and stay the night in West Bay so we could make sure to meet up and not have anything (aka rain) spoil our plans.  We ended up staying at Fosters and had a great time.  I was able to rent Sky Cabin 3 and everyone was super nice because I was a woman traveling alone with my baby.  Holla!  Owen and had a great dinner and they even made my margarita to go.

We woke up the next morning and drove to the dock and met up with Uncle Ralph, Aunt Lace, Scott, Michael, Lauren and Brett and headed off to adventure.

We ended up booking a zip lining tour because they allowed 6 months old to go.  Being the mother of the year (cough cough) I was very excited for Owen to head on this adventure with me.  All of us had a great time until it started pouring rain on us for the last half of the tour.  Owen handled it like a champ and by the end of the tour, we all looked like wet rats.  :)

After that we went to lunch at Gio's so they could all get a taste of the giant seafood platter they have to offer!

We ended the day with some light shopping in West End and I was pretty sad to say goodbye. 

Overall, it was a great trip and awesome to see them!

Tis the Season

Luke and I are both obsessed with Christmas and as soon as we returned from Roatan made it a point to decorate the house and blast Christmas music.  Well, the stockings are hung, the tree is up and the lights are on and we couldn't be happier.

Here are a couple shots of Owen by the tree as we are trying to capture this kids first Christmas!

Don't worry - we haven't forgotten about our other babies.

Halloween Ceibeño Style

Sorry this is out of order but I realized I didn't post about Owen's first Halloween!

Halloween isn't really celebrated here in Honduras but that didn't stop me from going all out for my kiddos.  Some of our fun projects included making some awesome pumpkins and hand puppets.  We had a really fun day of Halloween themed activities and the third grade teacher and I played games like mummy wrap with the kids and 4 corners.  All of them had fun and we wrapped it up with the Halloween parade for the whole school.

When we were searching for Owen's costume, we didn't have a huge selection to go through and found a cute one that we settled on.

He is the best little pumpkin.  :)

Owen made his appearance at school and was not put down by any of the students.  Overall, it was a great day.