Since this is the last of Sienna's first holidays we had to go big! I cannot believe she will be 1 years old on December 12th! It seems like only yesterday she was our lil bundle of joy and now she's a walking, talking and giggling machine!! She brings joy to our lives every second of the day and that is what we are thankful for, among plenty of other things.
Our health, our family's and friend's health is a blessing in itself. We are so greatful to have such supportive families. We do not know what we would do without you guys. Our friend's are dear to us as well as we miss you guys too! We are thankful for being able to live in such a beautiful island and can't wait to share with EVERYONE. It is an amazing feeling to know that we are loved and everyday people want to see what we are up to. I hope everyone had a great day and ate as much as they could. YUM YUM. I always love a good Thanksgiving meal.
Our meal was fabulous. We cooked with our neighbors downstairs, Shannon and James. They are from Florida and are engaged! They are awesome and we are stoked we are neighbors. They have a blog too so check it out! http://www.shanjamespr.blogspot.com/ They both work at Rincon Surf School, Shannon teaches yoga and James gives surf lessons. Way cool.
Jacques drove up north on Thanksgiving early in the AM. (He will be blogging all about it later). And James went out for a surf. Shan and myself took Coop (their doggie) and Sienna for a walk down our street (up and down hills, it's a work-out!) and did some Roxy excersizes (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=55D729FACA7E5789&search_query=roxy+athletix). After a rinse we got to cooking! We made green bean/broccoli casserole (PR doesn't have those crunchy onion things so we used plaintain chips instead), mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (I tried but burnt them 4 times, so they were nixed), stuffing, salad, mac-n-cheese and roasted chickens! There is a little story behind the chickens...we wanted to originally get road side chickens. These guys set up shop on the side of the highway and roast chickens all day out of their vans. For about $7 bucks you get a tender, delicious, greasy chicken. We were like screw the turkey! We'll buy some PR chickens. When we went to buy them the guy was done for the day. A lot of people must think the same cause he was sold out and closed! We decided "ok, we'll cook a turkey, no big deal" jumped into the car headed back to town to the supermarcado. A PACKED PACKED supermarcado. NO TURKEYS. SOLD OUT. Ok, so we buy our own fresh chickens and roast them ourselves! The men handled the birds because we are not into performing surgery on poultry. Shannon and I went out for a fun surf session, Maria's was chest high on sets and clean. We came back to the men in the kitchen, bird in the oven and empty bellies ready to fill up!! Everything turned out delicious and thanks to both our Mom's (Shannon and I's) we had beautiful decorations! All we were missing was pumpkin rolls. Mmmmm, hopefully I will get my pumpkin roll fill on Christmas...
Here are some pics of Thanksgiving. Hope everyone had a good one!!
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