family and friends

"La Abuela" enjoying some time with her littlest grandchild, Lorcan :)

Chubby-cheeked Nora looking thoughtful

Squeezing the most into our last day in Vizcaya, we had a little family get-together in Gallarta in the afternoon and a lovely dinner party at Marije's in Algorta that night. Here you can see: Jaime and his mum chatting over lunch, colouring pencils for little hands, Malachy enthralled by Uncle Nach'os aquarium, Lorcan and Uncle Nacho getting along just fine, beaming Liam with Abuela and Lorcan, me fooling around with my own reflection, Luis looking serious whilst Liam digs for gold, cousins Leire and Nora and cousin Jon hanging out with Jaime and the boys.

And here we have Abuela (granny) again and some ornaments in her home, Liam looking like he's meditating, tiny cousins Lorcan and Nora, Auntie Vanessa trying to get a grin out of Nora and Uncle Juanra doing same, Javi and Lorcan (ready for bedtime) and cousin Jon being laid back, which is what he does best ;)

And here, for some reason, Jon managed to reappear... beside Javi and the lads and then there's Marije feeding some supper to her darling Malachy. We had a lovely dinner party at Marije's and her big boys Jorge, Miguel and Jaime entertained our little boys while we had dinner and chatted with our friends: Marije, Javi, Lola, Anabel, Marta...

Lola, pictured here kissing Lorcan's sleepy head was heavily pregnant when that photo was taken. She thought she had about two weeks left to go but ended up running overdue and having her baby almost a month later!!! Ignacio, who we still haven't met yet :( was born on January 8th in Bilbao! Congratulations Javi and Lola! The newborn baby pictured here in black and white is actually a photo of a photo of our lovely Liam when he was born! And the last pic, well that's me and him messing around :)))