Happy Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday and enjoyed celebrating with a few friends here in Costa Rica. Our family has many things to be thankful for this year 2008: God's provision for us through our financial and prayer supporters, cultural adjustment, language acquisition, Ellie, beautiful Costa Rican weather, and new friends just to name a few. When we asked Lucy throughout the week here is what she said: Gannie, Mac, Necy, Dabo, KK, B, Caleb, Curly, Ms. Gloria and Stephi (her teachers), Elmo, Ellie, and potatoes (which she doesn't even like so I am not sure where that one came from).

We had school in the morning but afterwards the guys went to play American football while the girls cooked and prepared the food.


The chefs. The children are in the picture because they helped too, both Ellie and Lucy took a 4 hour nap which allowed me to do all the cooking that needed to be done.


Our spread. We had soooo much food. Some of the ingredients you can not find down here so we had to be creative but since both of our parents just came down to help with Ellie we had them bring lots of stuff to help us have a more American thanksgiving. We did not buy a turkey because they are incredibly expensive down here and none of us like turkey that much to spend the money and time preparing it so we had rotisserie chicken instead. Also our sweet potato casserole is made out a special kind of potatoes they have here that are slightly sweet because you can not find yams here, but it turned out good nevertheless.


Ellie slept through most of the post dinner activities which included watching football, playing guitar and singing, and playing Settlers of Catan.


Our family shot at dinner. I think overall Ellie enjoyed her first thanksgiving, and Lucy enjoyed having all of these people in her house to play with.


Lucy loved watching a little of the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving special before bed. This was the first cartoon she has ever watched on T.V. in English and she was completely enthralled.