Happy Birthday Eve

We have a tradition in our family that each person can open one of their gifts the night before their birthday.
Sam is so excited to turn FIVE tomorrow!! Happy Birthday cute boy...Mom loves you!

We watched "Meet the Mormons" for our Family Home Evening tonight. I loved the movie and if you didn't see it, please do it :)
http://meetthemormons.com/#/filter-all/page-1

Happy Mothers' Day!!

I had a wonderful Mothers' Day. The kids made me gifts (my famorite), gave me some shoes (it makes me really really happy), David cooked and cleaned and I even took a nap! David made me a really yummy hamburger with all of the sides that I love. I was the one that asked him for it since I don't eat a hamburger for almost a year. It was divine!
I feel loved and very blessed for all that I have in my life. Lets choose to look into the good and be thankful, very thankful...

Sam and I ditched all of our house work and responsilities and went to the mall for some shopping, lunch and play time for him. Sam is pretty bored at home since the end of pre school. I feel bad for him that he does not have any more friends to play with every day.

Today I volunteered at Isaac's school as I do every Thursday and also watched their "Famous Americans Show"
I also fed the missionaries.

Piano Recital

Tonight we went to Sister Snedegar to listen to our kids to play piano. She invited all of her students and their families for a special FHE and wonderful music.
I always dreamed to play the piano and I know one day I will have the time to take lessons but I am living my dream through Yochabelle. She touches my heart everytime that she sits to play. All three children did a wonderful job. I am a proud momma!

Utah to California

I drove back home by myself today. I talked to David for 2 hours on the phone and called some friends too. I drove without stopping because I wanted to get home as soon as possible. I only stopped for gas.
The sad thing was that 30 minutes before getting home, I got stuck on the freeway because of a horrible accident. I was anxious to get home but I also was glad I was not involved in the accident. I am pretty sure the people from one of the cars died :(
I was happy when I got home and slept on my own bed and hugged my family. I love to travel and have fun with friends but I always love to go back home the most.
I loved my trip to Utah, every time that I get home from BYU Women Conference, I always realize how glad I am that I went. I will definitely go back next year :)

Brazilian Food and the Payson Temple

Today I visited the new Payson Temple, ate at the Sweet Spot Brazilian restaurant and slept at my sister Marisa's home.

 

BYU Women's Conference

I am in Provo, Utah for another BYU Women Conference. I had so many great classes and it was really fun to sleep in the dorms with mom Barlow, Casey and Karen.
Michela came to spend the day with me, I love talking to her and having her friendship. Good friends are essential for me.

Happy Birthday Isaac!

Isaac is SEVEN years old today. He is sweet, friendly, loves to help, build legos and ask questions, a lot of questions...He also gives me the best hugs and kisses!
Isaac, mom loves you so much. You are my own Isaac that I prayed so much for it too.

Sabath Day

Today I went to Church and had a great time learning from wonderful
people. Brother and Sister Bradley taught us about the Priesthood, David
taught our Temple Preparation class and Sister Garcia gave a wonderful
lesson at the Relief Society. I cried buckets as always.

Did you know I cry a lot? I am probably one of the woman in the world that cries
more than anybody else. I cry when I am sad, hurt, scared, happy,
surprised, when someone tells me a great joke and I laugh really hard
and especially when I feel the Holy Ghost. I cry almost every single
Sunday at Church.

I had a RS meeting after the meetings and got home at 2pm, since I had to feed the missionaries, I took an one hour nap and got up to cook.

I made Brazilian strognoff, jasmine rice, green salad and Coconut pie and passion fruit mousse for dessert. I love feeding the missionaries because they always eat anything I make and
they tell me that it was really yummy. We have sisters and Elders in our
ward right now. They are wonderful, the sisters are so sweet and they
all work really hard. We have been having a lot of baptisms lately.

Before going home, the missionaries shared this video with us, I think you NEED to watch it!!

I am going to relax and rest for the week. My week will be crazy and
super busy, I leave to Europe on Saturday and I didn't even started to
pack.

Have a great Sunday!

San Diego Trip

Since the kids have Spring Break we decided to take a road trip to San Diego. I am really happy to be able to drive everywhere and especially long distances.
We stopped at the Redlands Temple on our way. The Temple is really beautiful and it brings me peace, even tough I didn't get to go in.
When we arrived in Sand Diego we stopped at (Uncle) Dieter's home.  I love his house, he has one of the best kitchens I have seen. Dieter has always been nice to us and I like to spend time with him.
Later in the day he took us to dinner to Outback Steak House and we had a great time. We said our good byes and spent a relaxing night at our hotel.
I have been feeling so tired lately. I have to see my doctor and see if something is wrong with me. I don't have a lot of energy at all.

It is never to late...

...to start updating your blog again!

I have been very overwhelmed about my blog. I always feel like that when I take to long to post something. Since I have been missing writing in it, I am taking advantage of a very rainy rain day here in Brazil to upgrade my blog. The date is 10/23/2012 but I will have to go back as far as May/2012...

 The end of May it got very busy for me, I knew we were going to spend the Summer in Utah and then off to Brazil for 4 months so it was pretty crazy trying to pack 10 suitcases, get the house clean for David, kids school's graduations, ballet show, end of another soccer season, piano recital, etc...
Let the pictures speak for themselves!

 Ballet Show (Hannah and Lucy go to the same Ballet School) and Piano Recital

 Mr Mike is one of the smartest teacher I have ever met. He was great with Isaac and I was very emotional and happy that day because my little Ike is not in special education anymore. He caught up!

 Both my daughters made in the "Principal's List" award,received the "Bee Glow" Awards for their grades and won Olympics of math (Belle) and reading (Hannah). I wanted to get up and shout when their name was called but I didn't. Embarrassment alert! :)

Have you ever hurt your child? Probably not but I can tell you how it feels. You feel plain horrible, you feel stupid (sorry for the bad word, I will wash my mind with soap later) and you fall asleep crying when you go to bed late that night. When I was a little girl, my mom used to ride her bike with me sitting just like that (pic 1) and I loved it. I would always tell her to go faster..It was one of my favorite things to do with my mom. I loved the feeling of the wind on my face and I tough it was pretty cool. I tried to do the same with Hannah that night, she loved at first but when it was time for me to stop she forgot to hold it tight and she fell on the floor with her face down. (explains her nose in the pic 2). I felt horrible.Just plain horrible. and I am also sure I won;t be doing that again.

 The Barlows took over Primary that day. Belle and Hannah had talks and Isaac had a prayer. It was nice to be there for all of them at the same time. I sometimes forget that they are doing something there and I think it was possible to forget in a day like this.

Less is More!?

We were always wondering what to do with Sam's hair...

His hair grows super fast and it is all over the place.

David had the idea to cut it very short and I think I like it better.

The smile doesn't mean that he liked it...he is always happy anyway.

Happenings:

1) Mr Mike (Isaac's teacher) asked me to come in to school for a meeting today and he gave me the good news that Ike is being discharged of the "Special needs" program. He exceeded his goals and is ready for Kindergarden. He is not going back to full time school next year. I just hope I can survive with two BOYS at home together all day again...We were invited for Isaac's GRADUATION" next Tuesday :)

2) Hannah is already packing to Brazil. First thing she put inside her suitcase was a pair of dusty boots. She told me about how excited she is to be able to wear her boots again. I know another girl that it is feeling the same :)

3) David is loving his new app that speaks Portuguese. After telling him that he speaks Portuguese well enough, he tells me that he wants to get better. PS: It made my day.

4) Belle made me feel like a good mom today, I listened to her playing "LDS hymns" on the piano while relaxing with the boys and it was nice to know that all of the times I had to "make" her practice, take her to lessons, recitals, etc is paying off. And made me very happy.

Happy Birthday Samuel

My baby Sam turned two years old yesterday.

Sam is my crazy baby. He is always making sure I listen to him,

where, when and how he wants to.

I always know where, how and what he is doing.

The dude is loud and I L.O.V.E. him.

Sam's top two:

1- Cars

2- Balls

I know you may think that every boy is the same but I never

met a boy that loves cars and balls SO MUCH...

I feel horrible about Sam's cake. Have you ever forgotten to pick it up your son's birthday cake?

            I know, I know...this things always happen just with me...

I ordered a beautiful "Cars" cake in your local groceries store

and forgot to pick it up on Saturday,

since we do not go to the store on Sundays, I had to buy this cake today so

we could celebrate his birthday.

I really hope you will forgive me Sam...

He didn't want to be the center of the attention

Starting to open his presents: Cars and Balls...what else? :)