Showing posts with label mexico. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mexico. Show all posts

Sunday, October 13, 2013

"Auto-Awesome" Pics

So my Android phone uploads the photos I take automatically, and recently they started sometimes automatically converting into animations, many of which are pretty cool. Here is a collection of some of these automatically-generated images.

Climbing At Park By Tia Evis' House

Relaxin' At Wal-Mart

Playing With Nana Near Tia Evis' House

It's Raining, It's Pouring,
The Old Man Is Snoring ...

Park Time At, Like, 6am-In-The-
Way-Too-Early-Why-Does-Stephen-
Wake-Up-So-Early, Morning

Playing In A Basket At Grandma
& Grandpa's House, Christmas '12?

Work, Work, Work

With Aunt Anne, Christmas '12

Eating Delicious Play-Doh Watermelon,
Christmas '12

Can't Remember Where This Was

Silly Monkeys Christmas 2012


Riding The Bread-Seller's Bike,
Bacerac, Sonora, Spring 2013

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Hablando Espanol (Talking Spanish)

We came down to visit Nana and celebrate her birthday. We missed the date by a few days as we waited for Sarah to finish her last week of classes.

Papa: Sarita, ahora vamos a hablar solamente en espanol, porque vamos a Mexico, donde todos hablan espanol. No quieremos hablar ingles aqui, porque vamos a hacer sentir mal a nuestros familiares, quienes todos hablan espanol, y no saben hablar ingles.

So after that, Sarah kept catching Mama talking in English instead of Spanish.

Sarah: Mama! Habla en espanol!

Mama: Ok, gracias Sarita!

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Park Photos

After visiting Tata, we went to the park next door to play on the equipment. There is a nice view there of some fields below with some cattle and horses.


(Stairs To The "Big Mountain" In Background)
Drinking Water With Nana's Little Cup



Little Monkey #1 And Little Monkey In Training

(He Had Some Help Getting Up There)
Two other posts from this visit: Nana Swings With The Kids On The Swingset and Sarah Running Home

Tata

We visited Tata in the cemetery in Bacerac...



Sarah and Nana

Sarah had a bit of a bumpy relationship with Nana. She preferred to go spend time with her aunts and uncles rather than spend much with Nana. It probably has something to do with Nana correcting her and the other people not.

Nana told me the following story:

Tu suegro me decia, Elvia, si disciplinas a los ninos, no te van a querer. Si les das todo lo que quieren, te van a querer. Y asi fue, el no les pegaba, y yo si. Y todos me dicen, mi papa fue bueno conmigo, pero mi mama no. Pero ves, todos, todos crecieron derechitos, gracias a mi Tata Dios.

(Your father-in-law used to say to me, Elvia, if you discipline the kids, they are not going to like you. If you give them whatever they want, they'll love you. And it was like that, he didn't hit them, and I did. And they all tell me, my dad was good to me, but not my mom. But look, each and every one of them all grew up honest, thanks to my Grandpappy God.)

Leaving Nana's

Yes, Some Peanut Butter Did Make It
Past The Face And Into The Mouth
Another Picture That Completely Fails To Capture
The Awesomeness of "La Cruz  Del Diablo"
The Ladies
Sarah: Says It's A School, Wants To Go To School Here
(Huasabas, Mexico)
Visiting Loreto And Pregnant Lorena In Moctezuma,
Where We Picked Up Some Huge Bags Of Beans
Made It To A.P.
Playing Nice With The Toy Sarah Always Asks For
Now Stephen's Turn

Then a trip to Walmart before hitting the road again.

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Tortillas

Nana makes delicious, home-made flour tortillas. Sarah helped her one time. Or should I say, Nana let her carry around a dough ball in her hands. A very black, dirty dough ball by the time I saw it.

Mmmm. Delicious.

Early Mornings

In Mexico we were so tired from so much activity every day that we ended up going to sleep several hours earlier than usual. The kids went down at 7pm or even earlier. That was nice but that meant that they woke up starting at 4am. Every morning. Rrrrrr.

Ride Back from Mexico

The kids, moments after getting in the car to leave Mexico for home:

Zzzzzzz....
Mmmmffffffzzzzz...

We made a peepeepoopoo stop in Benson, AZ.

Running Laps Around A Train Car
Sarita Clean And Dry!

Got gas at the cheap place in Tucson ($3.12/gal)
Running More Laps
Luckily, entering Phoenix, we were able to stop by one of our favorite places:

Historic In-N-Out From Drive Back From Mexico
"Aaaahh!"

Moments Later, Outside In-N-Out

Siii!

In Nana's kitchen, Stephen hides behind kitchen door.

Papa: Ramoncito, estas atras de esta puerta? (Stephen, are you behind that door?)

Stephen, from behind the door, shouts gleefully: SIII!!! (YES!!!)

(Then comes out from behind the door, beaming)

Saturday, December 1, 2012

Crushing Cans

One of Tio Guero's several businesses is collecting cans for recycling. Here he flattens them to prepare to take them to the recycler. We left breakfast to come out and watch.

Building Big Mountain

Sarah got the shovel and started building a "big mountain" in the dirt behind the house.

Love That Hairdo! By Mama


Hairdo

Stephen's slick rich boy hairdo, by Mama


Bike Ride

Adilene Helps Fill The Tires With Air
Mama Goes For A Spin
Video of the bike ride here

Cutting Firewood





Stephen came over and wanted to help Papa take care of the woodsplitting duties. (Papa was not too much better at splitting wood than Stephen was).