Adios 2009

Every New Years Eve for the past, oh I'd say 4 years, we go over to the Alvarez house to join them in their family tradition of making Empanadas to ring in the new year. The kids just love it. I think both of my children would be perfectly happy if I told them one day they were going to go and live with the Alvarezs. No questions asked, they'd just do it. Especially little Izzy. She seems to be quite fond of Dario. She calls him on her plastic phones all the time. She could say his name before she could say Daddy, for crying out loud. :-)

Anyway, it's always fun to join in on this celebration. This year, Dario's parents were in town. They were able to show us how it is really done!

Pre-empanada making. It was finally warm outside so we spent a great deal of the afternoon soaking up the sun on the deck. I just had to laugh at this James face.


The empanada making crew

At some point in the night, James morphed into Spiderman

Meanwhile, Isabel was Clark Kent

This is the empanada James made. We'll spare you the pictures of the ones Daddy made
What a tease!