Trash Day

Trash men in front of our home

Going through the trash behind our home

I've been waiting for today to come! Today is trash day and i've been watching the trash guys come every time.  They come twice a week- pick up all the trash in the neighborhood and then they park behind our house and literally cut through each of the bags looking for aluminum, plasticos, and anything else that might be salvageable.  As most of you know, I drink quite a bit of diet coke and the boys have been guzzling Fresca so we tend to have several cans for them.


 I've decided to separate them in the house just as if we were recycling - cans and plastic items.  You can imagine my disappointment when this morning I went out to add to the trash pile and to my dismay someone had already scoured our trash pile and had taken the items meant for the trash men!  I was so disappointed and I bet they were too to find that we had nothing good for the taking!  Next trash day I will be doing things a little different!





Yesterday was a fun day in our house - we got a couch, a rug, 19 boxes from home and some Christmas boxes!  It feels so good to have some of our things!  The boys were super excited to see some of their toys and to get some new ones for Christmas!

19 boxes!

Our new couch and super contemporary  rug

Boys LOVE Tech Decks!

Christmas from the Albright's!  Thanks friends!

Jordan says: FINALLY Nana! His birthday game

Christmas from the Torres'

I am thankful that Jose is so outgoing and that he speaks Spanish!  Yesterday after work he met a local Honduran man, also named Jose, that lives is our neighborhood. Jose has two boys - one is 10 and the other is 3.  Yay! He invited my Jose and the boys to meet up to play soccer.  There is a big group that plays every day at 5pm right behind our house.  Jordan had to be coaxed to go out.  He is a little uneasy sometimes about the language barrier and even though he is learning some Spanish words, he doesn't like to use them.  Everett and Sancho went along too.  They had an absolute blast!  Every one of them.  Turns out the 10yr old boy (don't know his name) goes to the same school that Jordan will start on Monday.  He knows English but wont usually speak it because he is not so confident in his ability - you see where I am going with this......