Traveling Nurses

Florida trip

Happy New Years!!

Well a new year has started, amazing how fast the last year went by! Sofia is now 3 and talking fully in Spanish and in English. She knows who to speak what to, it's amazing to see how much she learns!! We're blessed! This year, Sofia will be going to preschool in august! which is just crazy!!! Maybe we'll be taking one more travel assignment to Florida, I miss the ocean!!! I love the ocean!!! So, we'll see what happens. This will be an exciting year! lots of new babies (from friends) coming this spring and summer ;) We're praying for guidance on what to do in regards to a brother or sister for Sofia, we want to adopt; so it's a process, and one that we need to start soon! We'll see what happens...it's exciting and a little scary! but we're trusting God to really guide us through this whole thing!

Visit from Grandpa Mike

We're enjoying our time with my father-in-law. We went to Elephant Butte; Aaron and Mike caught lots of fish!! as you can see! and Sofia of course loves her new abuelo, or Papa Mike as she calls him. She loves the lake! We've also visited the Aquarium and gardens. It's been such nice weather, not too hot and with rain!!!

more pics of Pecos/hiking

The hiking was great! beautiful! Sofia is getting too big for her backpack, but it still works. She did walk a good portion of it too, on the way back though she was so tired she would just sit on the ground, and say, "aqui mami". So we finally convinced her to sit back in the backpack so we can go back to the campsite and build a fire! When it came time to go to sleep she fell asleep so fast!! 2 minutes and she was out!! thank God she slept pretty good at night!

First Camping Trip Pecos, NM

We went camping this Monday, we were planning on visiting Jacks Creek, but the road ended up being closed. We were left with great choices though. We ended up in Panchuela Campground. It was a great place, we were right next to the river, hiking trail and they had nice shelters with picnic tables and a fireplace with a chimney. Sofia had such a good time!!! she ran behind lulu and fell about 100 times! but she was ready to go again, keep running!! The hike was beautiful!! I'll have to post more pics! At night it ended up getting quite chilly!! but as soon as the sun came up over the mountain, it got warm almost immediately! Sofia was so excited to sleep outside! and to have her own sleeping bag! She also loves, loves, hair fishing rod!! Aaron bought it for her and it was $10 well spent!!! she was so entertained with it, and was so excited to use it in the river! Can't wait to go again! It's nicer now that Sofia is really enjoying these activities!

A fun day at the aquarium :)

Here's a couple of pictures of our last visit to the aquarium. Sofia enjoys it, and it was nice and empty ;-) Also this is the day before Aaron left to mexico, thank goodness he comes back monday! We're missing him!

Our last trip in Costa Rica

We made it home! thank God we had a good trip, tired, but we made it! Sofia does so good in the plane, that makes a huge difference ;) this past monday we went near the volcano Arenal in La Fortuna. We went to thermal pools from a hotel, it was sooo nice! all the pools had different temperatures. Sofia loved the warm water, she would dunk herself under water. She's very brave in the water, maybe she'll learn to swim this summer. (we'll see). anyways, we're back to work, trying now to catch up again from our time off. :) It was worth it though!