Madrid Vacation

Vacation pictures from our time in Madrid, Spain!

After our company meeting we stayed in Madrid for a few days with some friends that live in Italy. We had a blast!!! It was so nice to just relax, laugh, do some site seeing and to enjoy some fun foods that we don't get all the time. It was SOOO hot while we were there but we did enjoy running the AC at the hotel without having to worry about how much it would cost us:)

We saw several plazas, the palace (which is still used today by the Spanish royalty, how cool is that!?), ate tapas and went to the zoo. I think the day we went to the zoo was the hottest of all the days. We met some other friends, that also live in Portugal, there and we all attempted to enjoy the animals despite the heat. It was fun to be with all our friends... and if you have facebook be sure to check out the shots one of them got of Mark fishing Tirza's hat out of the penguin display... crazy! Funny now, it wasn't then...

A big highlight for me was free refills of Vanilla Coke Zero at TGI Fridays... oh wow!

I could go on and on it was a great trip... enjoy "seeing" a little of it!

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World Cup

If you know us at all you know we love SOCCER and therefore the World Cup is an extremely ENORMOUS event for us! Getting to be in Madrid while Spain was playing in the final- WOW! Being in Spain when Spain won the World Cup- there are no words, PRICELESS!

Cheering Spain on, as the game when on and on... don't ming that little bit of orange in the corner there, they really live in Holland so they were allowed.

WHOOHOO! Spain WON! Time to CELEBRATE!

Out on the streets joining in the festivities. And the Spaniards did not disappoint, they brought the celebrations like I have never seen... we enjoyed celebrating with them and then when the traffic stopped, the sprinklers got broken and the clothes started coming off we decided to it was time to head back to the hotel:) What a night!

There was really no way to capture the fun in a picture so I will post a few videos too!

Well done Spain, good game! And thanks for winning while we were there but next time... Portugal is gonna take you down!!!

Sahara is 10 years old!

Sahara's birthday was actually before Tirza's but we had Tirza's party first. Sahara wanted to have a big girl party this year and just invite a few girlfriends to go to the movies with her. It was so much fun and she got to enjoy celebrating with her 5 sweet friend. We got up that morning and let her open presents and enjoy the day. Then one of her friends and I rode the bus to the movie theater (the girls still think public transportation is a blast, wish I shared their enthusiasm). We meet her other friends at the theater and after loading up on popcorn and soda we enjoyed the new Nannie McPhee movie. After the movie Mark and the other girl met us with snacks and CUPCAKES!

Sahara's 5 friends are all from different places, one friend is from school, one was our neighbor at our old apartment, one is American from our team here and the other little girl we met through another friend. Just goes to show that my little social butterfly can make friends anywhere and everywhere she goes!

I can't believe that Sahara is 10 years old, time has flown by since she was born! Double didgets, crazy I remember turning 10 and what a big deal it was for me. Now my baby is double didgets too! Happy Birthday Sahara Marie!

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Tirza turns 5!

We had Tirza's party the Saturday before her birthday. She had tons of sweet little friends over for a big celebration! They played and ate and got face painting done and did a craft and sang and played some more! It was a super fun day! On Tuesday, the 29th, Tirza woke up to a package from Umma and Babu and Auntie Letha (great timing)! And then presents from Mom, Dad, Sahara and Bria. Bria went shopping with me and picked out her own present for Tirza. Then we all headed out the the beach to enjoy the sunshine with the teachers and kids from the girl's school. On the way home we picked up Tirza's melhor amiga, Beatriz and her sister and the girls played all afternoon. Tirza insisted that we sing Happy Birthday to her again so we had more cupcakes:)

It was a super fun day (weekend) of celebrating. I can't believe that my baby is 5 years old! It doesn't seem possible!

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Beginning the birthdays

Before anything else happens we have to get the birthday fun posted:) We started the fun a couple days early with a package from Grandma and Grandpa Bustrum. The girls were super excited to open everything and have had even more fun with all the goodies!

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Happy Birthday Tirza

Happy 5th Birthday Tirza Joy!

Happy Birthday Sahara

Happy 10th Birthday Sahara Marie!