Turning 2!

2 years ago today I was born into the blogging world! I had only been in Mexico just under a year and I felt like it was time to start documenting, so here was my very first blog post ever.

Feb 7th 2009
I have so much I want to say about living in Mexico. But I suddenly have writers block. I can be a bore and talk about the weather, but who really cares about that. I live next door to the equator, its hot. My kids play in the background. Leah, my 10 year old daughter, is having her first sleep over since we moved down here a year ago. She is playing in her " club house" made of sheets that her Dad helped her with earlier.
We have so much more time to do things like that now. Building club houses, having sleep overs or whatever. Jeff and I talked about going to one of the many beaches here in Puerto Vallarta today. Nothing set in stone. But the fact that we can just go if we feel the urge. I love it! The girls are having a concert on the Terrace. I think I'm going to join them ...... because I can.

I'm still really good frineds with the little girls mother and family who is mentioned above.  They can be found over atThe Vaca Family blog! I went back into my photo archives and found these photos from that night I wrote about...look at these adorable girls in their pretty awesome fort!

New Peeps for Momma Pretty Please

My week has been full of introductions and hand-shakings. I think I have probably explained why I am in Mexcio and what I do here over a half dozen times. I know I have been in Merida for 6 months now, but it really feels like its only been a few months. I have been telling people all week "we just arrived a few months ago", and then later realizing we arrived on August 6th 2010, exactly 6 months ago today.

I'v have gotten into a routine, that involves nothing new. I know Merida is all new but I have neglected to take time for me, which is really important if you dont want to turn into super bitch! I think I have been displaying a bit of that to my dear family and they may be starting to plot an escape from me soon if I don't shape'n up. In other words I've been on the hunt for some outer estrogen influence!

So thank the heavens for bloggers and facebook, I got out and met up with some really wonderful people here in Merida. I've been a busy little bee and met a wonderful girl for coffee one afternoon and I think I may have met the entire expat community one night when I was invited to meet up with some other gals at a monthly comedy show and yes, it was in English, hosted by Mel with talentedbitches.com 

Oh and the introductions didnt stop there. Friday night our daughter Leah was spending the night at her bff's and her parents asked if we would like to come over Saturday night for dinner party. We were on that like flies on poop! We had a great time, plus we got to practice our Spanish.

The Finger

Not the middle finger, the bird or flipping someone off. No, none of those you potty mouths!  I'm talking about the Mexican chica finger. That's what I call it anyway. You know when your talking to your gal pal and she agrees with you about something and that pointer finger shoots up then begins the up and down motion as if saying yes with that finger. And then there's the side to side motion with that same finger which indicates "no, I don't think so". 

I love this, and have only seen it used since living here in Mexico. Or maybe I just never noticed it before. My daughter and I do it all the time now. My son tells me that men in Mexico think it's rude for a girl to do that to them and it should stay among the girls...???? Whatever the case, its cute. Do you do this? 

Date Night = Irish Pub, Beer and Pool

After a night of pre-teen girls in the house my love'a and I were able to take some time away for us. Theres a new Hennessys Irish Pub that opened up recently and so we were off to check it out. Of course I tried to order the darkest beer on the menu , because to me dark beer is like dark chocolate, but they were out of Guinness. WTF is all I thought for a second. Thats almost like going to McDonalds and being told "Sorry, we are all out of hamburgers today".  Growing up in the Northwest, was like growing up in the beer capital of the world.  Im reminded of one of my favorite places for a good fix of pub food and unique beers was McMenamins They have beers with names like Sleepy Hallow and Hammerhead and the best pub food ever!

Other then that little detour the rest of the place was great! The decor, staff and the POOL TABLE was free! After sharing a plate of awesome fish-n-chips we headed to the Billiard Room and wrapped up our night with a couple games...Jeff 2 wins y Yo solo uno! And I only won because he accidentally sunk the 8 ball. I never win against Jeff because hes a monster when it comes to playing pool, I mean geez he did practically grow up on one, it is sort of our lifes blood.