Wednesday New Recipe!

Today I made a homemade pizza with my friend Genevieve's recipe.

I made mine with some good old sausage :)

I know my pizza does not look good but it tasted really yummy!!

My pizza and the boys having fun...I love when I hear that all of the screaming is because they are actually having fun and not fighting! :)

Easter Egg Hunt and New Recipe

After our exercise class today we had a Easter egg hunt

for the kids. Isaac and Sam had a lot of fun.

For my Wednesday New Recipe I tried my friend's Janine

recipe for Brazilian Flan Ice Cream.

The recipe is really easy and I have to tell you that this "Pudim"

is really YUMMY! (Recipe here)

We are from Curitiba!!

Today the girls and I went to the North Shore

to spend the day with Brazilians and Half Brazilians...

Aline, my friend that is from the same city I am

organized a huge Barbecue with all of the Brazilians, spouses and

Brazilian missions returned missionaries.

I did not know that the party would be so big or that even
had so many of us living on the Island but it was really fun to

eat food from Brazil, speak Portuguese all day long and meet so many "cool" people!

 

I was responsible for making  the beans, so I made my version of "Feijoada" (I do not put the pig ears, tale, nose, etc...you get it right? and sorry but my recipe is with a pressure cooker and 

I advise you to have someone with you 

teaching you how to use one first)  and some Feijao Tropeiro. ( my recipe here)

Three out of FOUR

Three out of my FOUR kids had fever this morning.

Hannah stayed home from school and both the boys were
just burning up when they woke up.

I took all of the Motrin and Tylenol out and administered
just as I did when I was a nurse,

meaning: making the math and preparing different doses.

I had them in different rooms and they were all complaining of some kind of pain 

at the same time... very familiar huh?

I almost got my scrubs out of the attic :)

By 10 am they were all feeling better and I realized that Hannah didn't need 

to miss school because she was just playing or fighting with Isaac about

who would hold the TV remote or what show to watch.

My boy is turning 3 in a week, I know I am supposed to teach him to use the bathroom

so here it is a proof that he is ready but I am not!

He has been asking to go "xixi" (Portuguese) in the potty.

So I got him some new underwear

(he begged me to take a picture of Buzz :)

and a jar with some M&M's for each time he goes...

Do they look "sick" enough for you?

They were having a fever but they were also having a party!!

My Belle comes home from school and while I am cooking in the kitchen

She brings Sam downstairs all bathed and smelling good...

off course I freaked out and told her that she was not allowed

to put her brother inside the tub without telling me, it was a huge NO NO

and it was dangerous,bla,bla,bla

but to tell you the true, I was very thankful for her help.

PS: the crying happens every time Belle puts him down and goes outside without him.

PS: Belle, almost had more water on her clothes than in the tub! :)

I made my "chocolate pizza" today because my friend Aline from Brazil is visiting us

from Boston. (Recipe here)

Wednesday New Recipe!

Have you ever heard of a "garbage can"?

or about asking your mom for help?

If you did please tell my Isaac about it because it was very clear this morning that he needs help with that...

I can't tell him because I am very busy telling Sam for the 1.000th time

to do not play with the DVDs.

Hannah came home very happy because she swapped old books at school.

I love how they come bursting into the door yelling "moooooom",

because I am glad that I can always answer: I am heeeeeere...

Today is Wednesday and that means that I get to try a new recipe!

The recipe was my friend Leiliane's (from Bahia) Brazilian Chicken Pie.

Sam being the taster and my version of the pie.

It was yummy! 

Happy: I made another dinner tonight for my friend Foeata and her family, Foe had her cute new baby boy after having three girls. He is a cutie. I prepared a Taco bar with hamburger taco meat, pork Barbacoa, Mexican rice, guacamole, sour cream, lettuce, tomatoes, olives, taco salsa, tortillas, hard taco shells and cheese. Drinks and triple chocolate cake for dessert. After making all of that I remembered that she is half Tongan AND half Mexican!! I am pretty sure it was a big mistake that I have chosen to make Mexican food for someone that knows a lot more about it than I do! :) hahahahaha