Grandma would be proud

Some of my fondest memories growing up are of my Grandma Foley.  My grandma was the perfect hostess.  Always nicely dressed & hair perfect with an apron on, entertaining visitors.  We spent many hours in her kitchen, and I still miss her every day.  Unfortunately, Penny was never able to meet her, but I’ve been able to keep some of her things to pass on to Penny when she is older.  I found one of her aprons the other day, so I decided to put it on Penny and she loved it!  She went running into my bedroom and found a pair of my shoes to wear with it.  I know Grandma would have loved seeing Penny play dress up!

“Go Papa!!”

Penny and I went and cheered on Steve at his first football game on Tuesday.  Steve’s team won, and Steve did great!

New Friends

As many of you know, the life here in La Serena is always changing.  We’ve posted many times about our friends leaving, but today we wanted to introduce you to some new friends.  Sandra and Jeff moved here at the end of December and we are happy to have them in our lives!  We spent the day together awhile ago and can’t wait for all the adventures we will share together!  Welcome to Chile guys!!

We went to Astroday-

to our friends ranch for an artshow-

then dinner at Jeff and Sandra’s-

More park photos

We try to go to the park as much as possible.  Penny loves going and playing with her friends and Leyna loves to go and play with the frisbees.  We went yesterday, and I was amazed to see how big Penny is getting.  She is interacting more and more with the other kids, she’s able to climb the jungle gym all by herself and is learning to throw the frisbee to Leyna.

(look how long her hair is getting!)

Catch Leyna!!

Yum!!

Penny helped me do the shopping this week.  On Monday we went to the fish market and Penny helped me pick out some fresh Reineta and then today went to La Feria for our fruit and veggies.  Penny is now enjoying a dinner of fresh fish, broccoli and spinach pasta with homemade pesto.  The only thing not fresh is the pasta!  Fresh food is the best!

On the way to the market-

Enjoying our finds!

Water baby!!

Penny is following in her mom and dad’s footsteps, and loves swimming.  She is able to swim with the floaties all by herself.  She kicks her legs and moves her hands and can swim!  She also like to put her face in the water and blow bubbles and likes to climb in and out of the pool on the ladder.  Yesterday we practiced jumping in, she did it a few times, but seemed to prefer using the ladder.  We can’t wait to go again soon!

Penny on the way to the pool-

Penny waiting to enter the pool-

Showering off before swimming-

Floaties on and ready to go!-

Swimming is awesome!!

Time to go-

Watch and see!

Nothing says summer

like sitting outside after dinner eating watermelon!!

Last week

Penny and I went to the waterpark with some friends.  Penny had a blast swimming and playing and is looking forward to going back soon!!

Good Morning!!!

The La Serena Zoo

After living here for 4 1/2 years, Penny and I finally made it to the La Serena Zoo.  We’ve been to the zoo in the valley, but never to the small zoo here in town.  This morning seemed like the perfect time to go, and much to my delight when we arrived we found out it’s free!  Some of the highlights included-

I’m sure you will all be seeing more pics from the zoo in the future.  It may become a weekly outing!