a baldwin rendition of feliz navidad

More spontaneous Christmas fun with the whole Baldwin clan...including Memaw!!

feliz navidad from the baldwin clan!

well we made it to NC (after a disappointing airplane ride where we were only offered a bag of peanuts instead of the usual lunch!) and we have been busy having fun doing nothing with the fam ever since! well now i guess we have been busy... i mean we have been busy eating outrageous quantities of food, went to chapel hill for the bball game where tyler hansbrough broke the scoring record, and have been taking funny pictures as well...what else would you expect from this crowd?? merry christmas from the baldwin/bywaters/henriquez crew!

feliz cumpleanos elvis!!!

Guess who is a quarter of a century old today?? ELVIS!!! i love getting to celebrate the life of the absolute most amazing person ive ever met. i think all of you that know him...even if you have only exchanged"Nice to meet you".... can testify to the fact that he radiates peace, love, and joy to all those that are near him. And i can testify to the fact that he is like that 24/7! and what better way to celebrate than to be finished with college classes FOREVER and to be heading to NC in 2 days!! In other news, we have been super busy this week...here are some pictures from a couple of our activities. First of all, these pics are from a Christmas party we had here at the house for the girls from church. Thanks Mom for the christmas dishes!!!

These pictures are from a trip that elvis took with his niece Camila to "Tin Marin", a really cool children's museum here in town. She got to dress up as a doctor, firefighter, make tortillas, go shopping at the grocery store, go to Greece, Taiwan, a butterfly farm, and a gravity house. im not sure which one of them had more fun playing all day!!

tropical fun

This past friday, my school took all of the staff to the beach for our christmas celebration. Oh the advantages of living in a warm climate all year long!! Here are some pics:

Here's a shot from the way to the beach...at the far left is Izalco volcano which naturally has no vegetation, and to the far right is Santa Ana volcano, which is bald halfway down because of the eruption a couple of years ago...we hiked it a few months after it erupted. but thats a whole different story...

Daytime job: preschool teachers. Nighttime: models.

This week, I was sneaky and got Elvis tickets to the Juan Luis Guerra concert for his birthday...i was proud of myself because its not so easy surprising him when i cant exactly move around the city by myself. so thankfully, his family was in on it with me and he was totally surprised! Juan Luis Guerra is from Dominican Republic and is one of the legendary singers of merengue and other tropical music, and so we danced all night long! He became a christian several years ago, and so he sang his old songs but also his newer songs with a christian message but with the same tropical dance beat. i had concerts this past wednesday, thursday, and friday, so it was a nice treat to just get to listen to the music and dance! Here's a video of the song "Ojala que llueve cafe" (Tyler, didn't you have to study this song in spanish class in college?) this video is actually from another of his concerts this year, but it was the same idea. i liked the video they showed behind him singing...

In other news, we are both down to the last week of school!!! and one week until we head to the states!! whoohoo!