Magic Reindeer Food

Hi Nietos!! Grandma and Grandpa have a favor to ask each of you.

You know, Grandma and Grandpa won't be there at Christmas this year so Grandma can't make the reindeer food for you to leave for Rudolph. So, we were wondering if you could please ask your Mommies and Daddies to make it for you or help you to make it. We know they are really busy this time of year but maybe if you ask them really nice they would do this for you. Here is how to make it.

1/4 cup oatmeal
1 teaspoon red and green glitter or whatever glitter you have.
Put the oatmeal and glitter in a small bag and shake it up.

Then, on Christmas Eve
sprinkle this Magic Reindeer Food
on your lawn,
The Magic glitter
sparkling in the moonlight
and the smell of the oats
will guide
Rudolph to your house.

Have fun making the reindeer food. Below you will find some fun Christmas games too. We hope you like them and have fun with them. We love you all and miss you soooooo much.
Love, Grandma and Grandpa

http://www.northpole.com/Clubhouse/Games/Snowman/

http://www.northpole.com/Clubhouse/DancingSanta/

Land of the Giants!

Have you ever seen a rocking chair this big? Grandpa had to lift Grandma up onto it. It's really not the land of the giants. It's a furniture store where they sell lots of rocking chairs but not quite this big.

Love you and miss you all. Grandma and Grandpa

A parade at Grandma and Grandpa's house

Hola Nietos!! (Spanish for "hello grandchildren") Nieto is boy and Nieta is girl. But, we learned when you're talking about all of our grandchildren, boys and girls, it's Nietos.

Hope you're all being good kids for your Mommies and Daddies. Remember it's almost Thanksgiving Day and what comes after that? That's right!! Santa will be watching you, so be really good kids.

Grandma and Grandpa thought you might like to see a parade that came right in front of our house yesterday. We see lots of different parades all the time. We think the parade below had something to do with one of the elementary schools here in Mazatlan because there were lots of little children in it.

So, we hope you like the video clip.

We hope you have a fun Thanksgiving Day too. Hope you like all the good turkey and other yummy food. Here are some games to keep you busy till Turkey Day. Turkey in Spanish is "pavo". Gobble Gobble!!

We love you all, Grandma and Grandpa

http://www.theholidayspot.com/thanksgiving/games/flash1.htm

http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/games/game_thanksgiving_coloring_pages.html

This one might be a little advanced for some of our nietos but Mommies and Daddies might enjoy it. We did. :) Have fun.
http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/thanksgiving/games/game_turkey_flibriks.html

Grandpa and Grandma go to the aquarium & zoo

This is the entry to the aquarium.
Isn't this a cool statue! Can you see what the kids are feeding the dolphin?
The seals (foca in spanish) perform. Billy rolls over and Bony stands up.
Bony dances for us.

Bony splashes the kids.

The trainer holds a fish in his mouth.
Billy jumps and takes it right out of his mouth.

Baby crocodile (cocodrilla in spanish).

Crocodiles come right out of the water.
.
Turtle (tortuga in spanish) with a fish (pescado) head in its mouth.

Doesn't this peacock (pavo in spanish) have beautiful colors on his feathers?
Grandpa feeding the ducks (pato in spanish).


Eagle (aguila in spanish) or Hawk (pregonar)? What do you think?

Isn't this a huge tree (arbol in spanish)? It was in the park at the aquarium.
Wouldn't you just love to climb it with Grandpa?


Grandma thought this was a really interesting tree.


Stingray (raya in spanish)


Some kind of a colorful fish with spots.


Eel (anguila in spanish) with it's mouth open.


How many Seahorses (hipocampo in spanish) can you see?



Dee, dee, dee, dee, dee here comes a Shark!! (tiburon in spanish).



Corbina in spanish.


Grouper (mero in spanish) He's pretty mean looking huh?



Sea Turtle (tortuga in spanish)


Some beautiful fish (pescado in spanish).

There was a diver that put on a show with a shark. diver that performed with a shark.

Tree frogs (rana in spanish).

Silly Grandpa puts his head in the jaws of shark.

Down this path in a fun park really close to our house, is the way to the zoo.

Follow Grandpa down this path to the animals in the zoo.

Deer (venado in spanish)

There was a baby jaguar (tigre in spanish) but the battery on our camera went dead so we didn't get a picture. Sorry.



There was an Ocelot too (Onza in spanish) but we didn't get a picture. Sorry


THE END!
We hope you had fun looking at these pictures. We can't wait to take you to the aquarium and zoo here in Mexico. We love you and miss you all very much. Love, Grandpa and Grandma

For Mommies & Daddies - here are a couple links to some info on the aquarium and zoo. The website I found for the aquarium didn't translate into English but these sites did.

http://www.studyspanish.com/comps/aquarium2.htm
http://www.mexonline.com/acuario.htm

Halloween in Mexico where Grandma and Grandpa live.

Hola Natalie, Serena, Justin, Andrew & Jordyn - well, are you all eating your halloween candy today? Did you get alot of candy? What was your favorite candy?

Natalie, Andrew and Serena, your Mommies and Daddies sent us pictures of you in your halloween costumes. What great costumes!!! Soooooooo cute. Also, Natalie & Andrew and Serena, your pumpkins were very scary and creative too.

Justin & Jordyn, maybe you could please send us pictures of you in your costumes too. We are sure you were really cute.

Here in Mexico, some of the children celebrate Halloween. Here are a few of them in their costumes.

We love you all very much and wish we could have been with you on Halloween.

Love, Grandma and Grandpa