Allie in the South of Spain

This post is coming late because as you might know from my last post, things have been a bit crazy around here this month. Now that we are back home from the hospital and I have some more free time I am going to try to write more on the blog, especially since I feel like the girls are growing so fast! This entry is important since it chronicles their first Christmas. Enjoy! Noonie came to visit! I like the Christmas season but I have to say that this year was super special since it was Laura and Vera's first. Jose and I tried to do all the fun stuff associated with the holidays and over the past month and a half we have had a blast. From shopping for gifts, to spending time with family and friends, to visiting Seville and our town´s city center, everything has been wonderful.  Downtown Sevilla We kicked off Christmas by heading into Seville to see the lights. We went after work one afternoon early enough that it wasn't too cold and before there were too many people...

These last two weeks have been awful and I am just now starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel of crapiness. It all started on a Sunday night in mid January when I myself started to feel terrible and began to get sick. I woke up probably every hour from 2am until Jose went to work throwing up. When I was still feeling like death in the morning, still getting sick, I called off work. Jose took the girls to daycare and I stayed home between the bed and the bathroom. I know that I am a big baby but being nauseous is one of the worst things. That and migraines. Just gross. I was seriously ill until mid-afternoon when I was able to fall asleep for a while. When I woke up I was feeling slightly better, Jose brought the girls home from daycare since they called saying both had a slight fever and so we had a low key afternoon and evening after Jose took them to the urgent care. This type of visit to the doctor has become sort of routine for us (since the girls started daycare). U...

Christmas Eve I just re-read my monthly update for November and I am happy to say that December was much easier on all of us. Laura had a lot of congestion and both babies got new teeth but we all got a lot more rest. So yay! Plus this last month was a lot of fun with the girls´first Christmas (which I will write another blog post about soon). Jose and I were off work for the last week of December for the holidays and we did all kinds of fun activities to celebrate the season. Plus Jose´s sister came with our niece and my mom arrived right at the end of the month so things have been busy, thus the late monthly update. Ready for a visit to Jose´s village We had a few days off at the beginning of December and we spent them trying a new restaurant close to our apartment and meeting up with friends. We also went to see Jose´s family in their village before the madness of Christmas began. The month went by very quickly and most of it was spent getting ready for the holidays, de...