Walters- de Abiega go South 2013

I'm a sucker for family vacations and since pre-baby have been dying to plan some trips with our friends and families. Since I was little my family always planned our summer and easter vacations and bowl game trips with my parents friends. Such wonderful memories. So despite the push-back =), I am bound and determined to make this happen!

Let me introduce to you the Walters. Our first joint holiday and the first of many more to come. Liz and Chris flew over from Los Angeles so we could all head South for an Andalucian adventure. We stopped at Arcos de la Frontera for a few nights in one of the "pueblos blancos", staying in an amazing Parador in the middle of this village. We went around to the beaches and nearby pueblos of Cadiz before heading over to Sevilla. How fun to squish the 5 of us in a car, stopping off for Tapas and Tinto along the way, mixed cd and all. and don't forget the nocilla- never forget the nocilla! Can't wait to plan our next destination with them!!

so who's our next taker?

enjoying a nice Moroccan lunch in Vejer

Riches go to la Playa

los pueblos blancos

Isabel y Cristobal



Sevilla in the Spring



Love her!



the typical white walls and bright flowers of Andalucia

2 years ago today...

Once upon a time..... 

6 months old

Who is this big girl? This month has flown by! Half a year old and you are just the most precious thing I could ever imagine. You are sitting up all by yourself, rolling over anytime we put you down, pulling yourself up in the bath and in your chair and grabbing at everything in sight. I love it when you hold tight around my neck. You love to grab and hold your bottle at night time and of course you are still chewing on your and my fingers like crazy. After a few nights of training.... you are the sleep champion and in your own room! You hold tight to your little lamb and off you go. We put you down around 9pm, feed once and I patiently wait on you to wake up around 9:30am, sometimes later. There go our morning playdates! I love it when you wake up these days. Happy as can be, blabbering and all. You've just started making some baba, wawa and dada sounds as well. It happened overnight and once you get going- usually last a few hours. You now weigh 15.98 pounds and are 25.6 inches tall. Growing like a weed! I guess everyone says this- but every moment is just absolutely the best.

Mountain getaway

One last chance to hit the slopes before it all melts away..... Carolina must be in climate shock. From Panama to the Pyrenees in just 3 weeks.

Playground fun

Spring is here! We took advantage of it by heading over to Retiro park for the morning and coffee afterwards. Love this pic- since most of our little ones are way too young for the playground. We had fun watching atleast. I adore Madrid in the springtime!!

Back to work.... in a way.... .

Starting in March I agreed to go back to work 1 week a month to help out with some of our workshops for the year. Grammy will come along for the first few trips this spring, we're off for the summer and then let's see this fall- not sure baby Carolina will make it all the way to Asia! A nice little welcome back though...... off to Panama we go. Carolina and Grammy in tote!

before the week started we headed to visit the Panama Canal- Miraflores locks (there is 1 set of locks on each end of the canal that the vessels must pass thru 1 by 1)

traveling like a champ!

We absolutely adore our traveling Nanny

and over a drink at the cafe we got to see a Maersk vessel go thru- really such a cool experience to see how the canal functions

Fast forward 5 days..... of which I have no work pictures of course..... and we celebrated Mommy's back to work with a few days at Playa Bonita. Here is Carolina's first time swimming- she seemed pretty tranquil for someone just getting in the water for time.



Big sunglasses for the little girl



The Westin Playa Bonita

Dinner at the beach before heading home from a great week in Panama with C-Lo and Grammy

5 months old

Carolina, Carolina Lola, Caracola (snail), Pumpkin, Monkey, Carino- you are 5 months old (March 22)! You lived it up big time celebrating in Panama. You've now been in 3 countries in just 5 short months! My little travel companion. Again, you did amazing on the flights. Sleeping..... well you're a little bit crazy in that area. I thought we had won the battle in month 3 when you were sleeping thru the night. Hmmmm you're back to your 2 and 3 hour wake-ups. Napping? No time for that. You are way too interested in the world around you. You weigh 15.12 pounds and are 2 ft 1inch tall. You LOVE LOVE LOVE to hold hands. It gets you to sleep and keeps you company on long car rides. You are talking up a storm, playing and sucking on your sweet toes and if there is a finger anywhere around- it ends up in your mouth. You hold yourself up so straight, almost sitting and are just 1 small kick away from rolling over. You like your voice, screams, blabbers, slobbers, all of it. Once you make one noise, you just keep on going..... You found your ears and grab them sometimes- and they might be somewhat noticeably larger =). Your hair is getting blonder and so much longer on top. Whoooweee this is getting fun. Love love love you in our lives.