Glimpse into our Life - Christmas Trees

Last year we were in the states at this time of year.  It was our first American Christmas since we were married and Eddy's first American Christmas ever.  There are several differences between an American Christmas and a Dominican Christmas.  I will post more about as we continue into the Christmas season but for now I wanted to show you this.

This is a picture of us buying our Christmas tree with my parents last year:

And this is a picture of us buying our Christmas tree this year:

Glimpse into our Life - Christmas traditions

This time of year, in the evenings, Eddy and I like to listen to Christmas music and drink hot chocolate (even though it only drops down to around 70 in the evenings.)  It's one of our Christmas traditions.

In honor of our family members in New York and Chicago.

I also love to bake Christmas cookies.  I plan and make lists and spend hours organizing and baking, and then I make plates of them and give them to everyone that I can think of.  Christmas cookies are not really a thing here in the DR.  (Typical Christmas desserts here are apples and grapes.)  However, everyone really gets excited about my plates of cookies and have so much fun doing it.

Candy cane kiss cookies.  Everyone's favorite.

Glimpse into our Life - Preschool Christmas Program

Today is our annual Preschool Christmas Program.  It is, without a doubt, my favorite day of the school year.  We started doing a nativity play as part of our Christmas program a few years ago and it is so much fun.  The teachers really get into, the kids are so excited about it, and the parents love it.  This year we did a dress rehearsal on Monday so I took some video of the dress rehearsal and made it into video.  Here it is:  (Prepare yourself.  The kids are so cute you might not be able to handle it.)



Christmas Program 2014 from Carrie Ramos on Vimeo.

Glimpse into our Life - sharing the road

If you have visited us in the DR, you know that it is very common to encounter dogs, chickens and cows in the road.  Sometimes you will even have to stop and wait for them to pass before you can continue on your way.  However, you may not know that sometimes you will also encounter other animals, such as turkeys or a small pink pig.  Although it happens less often; it does happen.

This was taken about a block from our school.