Christmas card out takes

Hamming it up for the camera.


Ellie posed herself on this shot.


Ellie suck it up, don't you know its Christmas card photo time.


This took bribery.


"Seriously mom"


More candy corn PLEASE


All done!


"No, really ALL DONE"


At last enjoying the reward.


I promise your Christmas card from our family will be better than this last shot.

Photo Fun

I am trying to play around with my camera a little more and use some of things I learned in my photography lesson, Sean gave me as a gift while we were in the States in October. So here is a few pictures I have gotten over the past month while not shooting on automatic :)

Traditions

My family has a tradition every year to make sugar cookies, so this year Lucy and I decided to carry on the tradition in our house.


She loved cutting out the shapes and since we use the cookie cutters on play dough she was very good at it.


Although I never have baked Christmas sugar cookies in a sleeveless shirt, I guess there is always a first for everything

Guess What we Ate for Dinner

Gringo Friends in a Honduran World

Here are our kids closest friends here in Honduras. If you have been following my blog then you have seen lots of pictures of our girls with these friends, but here is a picture of them all together at last.

Here is one attempt at trying to get all 6 kids under 4 to look at the camera:


And at last, after about 30 pictures, here is what we came up with:



We have been so blessed with these friendships over the past year. Being a missionary can be very lonely at times and having two American women in the same life stage as me has helped me get through some of the harder days. I am sad that one of the families is leaving next week to go back to the States for good, but I trust the Lord will continue to provide relationships like these in my life.

Its Beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

The Christmas tree decorating morning started with some fun festive Dunkin Donuts to celebrate.


Then we had to learn how to put together our fake tree. You can not find a real tree down here so we decided to buy the cheapest fake tree we could find :)


Wonder and Amazement


Lucy loved putting all the ornaments on this year and it was fun to tell her the stories of the ones we collected over the years.


The finished product.


To most of you this just looks like a bad picture of a mom snuggling with her daughter But we have a blanket on top of us because it was actually cold in Honduras, well it really was about 68 degrees, but it felt freezing.

Our Thanksgiving

We have so much to be thankful for, and these are just a few of them.


As part of the McCann tradition, we started the morning with a hike. We were able to hike up in the jungle, which is just a few miles from where we live. It was beautiful and very tiring while caring two girls.


To get to the trail you had to walk over this big cable bridge over the river, kind of freaky.


You can't tell but these were some pretty cool waterfalls we saw on our hike.


Lucy loved her ride, well at least for the first 1 and a half.


Then we were able to join our teammates for a thanksgiving feast.


This pretty much sums up our girls view of food these days :)

Squirrels in Honduras?

Well not really, but don't our little girls look cute in the squirrel outfits Aunt KK made?!

La Finca

Translated is the farm. On Sunday our family spent the day on the farm, with some new friends in our neighborhood. We met these friends through our new ministry called, Sauce Stories, which is basically a bi-lingual library time.


This is my friend, Mariana, teaching Ellie how to ride.


Rebekah is 3 and Santiago is 18 months.


I had fun riding a horse, but these horses were not quiet "tamed" like I am used to.




The girls loved playing in the sandbox, especially Ellie, but I should have expected that since she loves to get dirty.



There were so many animals there including ducks, chickens, bunnies, and turtles. It was a very pleasant way to spend Sunday afternoon, relaxing outside the city.

Our Pretty Dresses

One of our family friends made these beautiful dresses for the girls for their birthdays. I tried to get some pictures of them together but failed. All I could manage to capture were the girls having fun in poor lighting.