We really enjoyed the beach in Spain. It was really beautiful, but very different from beaches in California. The beach looks sandy, but it is really tiny pebbles. The first day was a lot of fun but the second day was the end of our trips to the beach. It hurt my feet just to think about walking on those pebbles.
Also, the sea floor dropped to about 5 feet just 10 feet into the water. That was sort of fun because we could be in the water and really close to the kids at the same time. Spencer made a funny little snail trail sliding down toward the water. He actually scooted into the water and cried when the cold water touched him. It's not as cold as the water in California, but it's still a shock.
Our house
The kids slid down the slide and the slope in our yard.
Brayden's lips are still blue from the push pop he ate while we watched the movie High School Musical 3. The color is still there even today because he bites and picks at his lips, so they are always extremely chapped.
Kayla loved throwing snowballs!
Spencer experienced many new technical difficulties with snow. We only had boots that were 4 sizes too large, so we stuffed them with 2 pairs of my wool socks, but still discovered that those absolutely wouldn't work because they went up past his knees and he couldn't get up. We then put my wool socks over his normal tennis shoes and amazingly that worked and his shoes stayed pretty dry, even after an hour of playing in the snow. He then had the problem that his snow gloves kept falling off, and he would cry every time his bare hand touched the cold snow. Allen finally tightened the strap of the gloves over his coat and they stopped falling off. The snow usually melts really fast here so we made sure we went out and played in it, but it hasn't melted much, and it's still snowing!
