Here I am in downtown Dublin. They really dress up the city for the Holidays and Paddy and I were lucky enough to have a night out without the boys to have dinner and enjoy the Christmas lights.

This is Vishnu enjoying his Christmas dinner. We just let him eat on his own and he made a huge mess, but he thoroughly enjoyed it!

This is Krishna with most of his gifts. He got a bike and spiderman costume. From his aunt and uncle O'Reilly he got those great slippers. Luckily that bike has gotten him outside again as I think the boy has a strong aversion to cold weather and would rather be indoors. Now that he has his bike he has been out a lot more. Thanks God!

Here is me and the boys Christmas morning after opening up presents. Krishna is dressed in his new spiderman costume of which he hardly ever takes it off.

We had a latern ceremony at Krishna's school that was really nice. It was to celebrate the darkest night of the year. The first picture is of Krishna with 2 of his teachers. One is from Germany and the other from Belgium.

There is also a picture of Krishna with a little girl. Her name is Alana and he is quit smitten with her.

Here are the latest pics of the family. The last picture is of Krishna and his Halloween costume that he and Paddy made together. It was his first time trick-or-treating and he lasted about 7 houses before he wanted to go back. Mind you his bag was completely full so he really didn't need to keep going.

We also celebrated Vishnu's first birthday. I forgot to bring the camera, but Paddy's mother had a regular camera so we took pictures with that. Vishnu still isn't walking, but hopefully (or maybe not) that will change soon.

Enjoy!!

These are from Krishna's first day of school. He started last Monday....and yes, he has a uniform.

I recently went to a wedding of Paddy's cousin that was in a castle. Just thought you all would want to see a couple of pictures from that. The first picture is of me (of course), Marian (Paddy's aunt), and Anne (Paddy's sister).

















This is a picture of Paddy's mom with her knight in shining armour :)

The Boys

Here are the boys. These pics were taken just yesterday. The second picture down has Vishnu feeding himself and being quit the funny boy. Love you you all!!!

Here are the boys enjoying a nice summer day in the back yard.


Here is Vishnu enjoying feeding himself. He made the biggest mess, but totally loved it!

Ok. Here is the pics of the house. I didn't take any of the neighborhood, but all the buildings look the same. We are attached to another house by one wall. It is a 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath house. We really are enjoying it.







The last picture is of Krishna and his new friend Rahool who lives a couple doors down. It's weird for me because he goes out to play and we don't see him allllll day. We even have to hunt him down to come in and eat....this is new for me, but nice. :)

Our Day Out

Just a few pics to tide you over until I put the new ones of the house on. I don't have many yet, so I'll put these on first. We went up into the mountains on one of the days that were nice before it turned rainy again. It was a great day out. Krishna and I walk up along a stream and did some hunting for strange things. Needless to say we didn't really find anything, but we did have fun getting our feet wet in the stream. Mind you, they would call this a river. :)

We had a family affair to attend. Paddy's neice was having her first communion. It was time to get dressed up. And, when the Irish have an excuse to party they make it a whole day affair. This event went on from 11 am at the church until 11-12pm at night. Needless to say we headed out early.....but, it was fun!