Showing posts with label the girls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the girls. Show all posts

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Puerto Rico

I love Puerto Rico. I pretty much want to stay here forever....we'll see.

San Juan has this crazy cool culture that's completely spanglish. Most of the people I know are bilingual. This is super fun but my spanish suffers because I often am not forced to speak spanish.

I'm generally intimidated by puertorricans and definitely feel like an outsider/foreigner but I have made a lot of really cool puertorrican friends. My soccer team has been super fun. The girls accept me despite my weirdness. I have so much fun with them. We're the best team in the league for sure.

I love church. I seriously look forward to it every week. It's always so encouraging and challenging and I love being with our community. We are small but it doesn't even phase me. I love church.

I have several close friends now which is a huge answer to prayer. Every week people come over and watch Glee on Tuesdays. We usually spend the first hour or so listening to our current favorite songs while dancing and singing our hearts out. It's a blast. Sometimes I make grilled cheese.

I love my family here. The babies are so cute and sweet and my affection for them grows daily. I'm learning so much and always having fun with R and A. Doing life with them is awesome but challenging because I'm generally more selfish than living with 6 people allows for. I'm growing though.

The youngest and I listen to the LOVE Song often and I wanted her to sing it for the camera but that didn't happen. This is two minutes of us just hanging out and her not singing the song.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

Nanny Skills

The parents were gone for the weekend so me and Abby(the nanny before me) took care of the kids. It was fun and went as well as one could hope. We had a great time and I think I really got closer to some of the kids because they needed me for so much. But I'm really glad the parents are back because it has been stressful. Taking care of kids is hard and I'm glad I'm normally just the nanny alongside of parents!

The number one activity for the girls is playing dress-up. When my other friend Abbie Riley visited she noticed that the most-often asked question in our house was, "Can you put this on me?" They have tons of princess dresses, ballerina tutus etc. So I fashioned some costco sized cereal boxes into robot costumes for the twins then tried to teach them the robot. This is the outcome:

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Peggy Poppins Vlog 2


Here's a pic of me in my cool new shirt from Ronnie:

Then me and the kids, please note the headband:

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Today

Today we went to Krispie Kream!

Today we got good work done.

Today the girls danced...

Today Brother hurt his eye(no harm, don't worry) and one of the girls loved on him really sweetly and wanted to care for her brother. It was so cute.

Tomorrow we are having a girls night with some of the chicas from church.

Friday, June 25, 2010

Hangueando con las chicas

Tonight the girls hung out in my room while I straightened my hair and got ready. We had a party with the church for the Burch's, a missionary couple who are moving home :(

Here's them singing the ABCs...kind of.