Summer time!!!

Yeah, I think I decided to post and post today!!! Summer has been great. We are having a lot of fun with our cute daughter. She loves going outside and play, she loves to play with other kids. She loves the water.

Last Saturday we went to the Idaho Falls Zoo, we had a great time there. Cici loved all the animals and had a lot of fun.

Everyday Cecilia wakes up and asks to go outside. Sometimes she stops in front of the door just waiting for us to take her out. She likes to play at the playground right behind us.

We also went to the Spray Park a couple of times. She looks soooo cute in her swimsuit! She loved it. We had a few picnics there too.

We still want to go to Yellowstone this year, it will be our last here in Idaho so we have to enjoy! We love Idaho so much that we are going to miss it here!


O verão tem sido ótimo. Estamos nos divertindo bastante com nossa filha. Ela adora sair pra brincar, brincar com outras crianças e fazer bagunça na água.

No sábado passado fomos ao Zoológico de Idaho Falls, foi muito legal. A Cecilia adorou todos os animais e se divertiu bastante.

Todo o dia a Cici acorda e pede para ir para rua. As vezes ela fica na frente na porta só esperando alguém levar ela. Ela adora brincar na pracinha que tem atrás do nosso prédio.

Nós fomos ao Spray Park algumas vezes. A Cici fica tão linda de maiô! Ela adorou. Nós fizemos alguns picnics lá também.

Ainda queremos ir ao Yellowstone esse ano. É nosso último ano em Idaho então temos que aproveitar. Adoramos aqui e vamos sentir muita saudade.

Hooded Towel

Cecilia had outgrown her hooded towels so I looked for a bigger one and found at Kmart for $16.00. I didn't like the price so I decided to make my own. It's soooooo easy, you only need 1 bath towel and 1 hand towel. All it takes it's 2 seems and it is done, and you can customize it the way you want it!! Cecilia love it by the way!

Cecilia está maior que suas toalhas com capuz então eu procurei uma maior e encontrei no Kmart por $16,00. Eu não gostei do preço então decidi fazer uma. É muito fácil, tudo que tu precisa é uma toalha de banho e uma de rosto. Com duas costuras está tudo pronto e você pode customizar como quiser. Cecilia adorou!!!

Cici is walking!!

I think it's been about a month that she really started walking...she still has some ups and downs but she is doing great! She walks around the apartment by her self all day long...she is a cutie! As you can see when Luiz is studying in the bedroom she keeps knocking on the door all the time.. She speaks a lot and dances and does everything else...she says Amen after the prayer, she puts her hands together to pray...

Acho que já faz mais ou menos um mês que a Cici tá realmente caminhando...ela ainda tem uns altos e baixos mas está indo super bem! Ela caminha por todo o apartamento o dia inteiro...ela é linda! Como dá pra ver quando o Luiz está estudando no quarto ela fica batendo na porta o tempo todo...Ela conversa bastante e dança e faz tudo mais. Ela diz Amen depois da oração, junta as mãos pra orar...

Uptading...

Well I got 1 year older this week. I am 28 years old now! But can you tell? Hahah! My gray hair certainly can!

Luiz has just finished one more semester at school. Wow, only 2 more to go! He will be graduating April 2011. We still don't know what we are going to do from there. Maybe Master's, maybe Brazil...We will see...

Cecilia and I had a wonderful time back at home in Porto Alegre. She got to know a lot of new people. She learned a lot. She loved hanging out with grandma and grandpa. She is crazy about dogs now! Actually every animal she sees now it's a "uauau". She loved playing with her cute little cousin Caio. He is just adorable. She wanted to hold him and kiss him. We had her One Year birthday party there. It was great! We had a lot of friends and family over. She had a lot of fun. She did pretty good during all the flights. But it is good to be back home. Home is where the heart is, right? And right now my heart is here in Rexburg, Idaho. I missed my hubby so much.

Cici is almost walking now. She (we) spent the whole day walking around the apartament, she holds my hand everywhere she goes. Sometimes she just goes and doesn't care if I am holding here or not until she falls down. She is trying to say some words. She likes to copy everything we do.

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Bem, eu fiquei um ano mais velha essa semana. Tenho 28 anos agora! Mas dá pra perceber??? Pelos cabelos brancos dá. hahaha!

Luiz acabou mais um semestre da faculdade. Só faltam mais 2 agora. Ele se forma em abril de 2011. Ainda não sabemos o que vamos fazer a partir de lá. Talvez MBA, talvez voltar para o Brasil. Vamos ver...

Cecilia e eu passamos por ótimos momentos em Porto Alegre. Ela conheceu muitas pessoas. Aprendeu bastante. Ela adorava brincar com a vovó e o vovô. Ela adora cachorros agora. Na realidade qualquer animal que ela vê é um "auau". Ela adorou brincar com seu priminho lindo o Caio. Ela queria abraçar ele e beijar. Fizemos sua festa de 1 ano lá. Foi muito legal, teve bastante família e amigos. Ela se divertiu bastante. Ela se comportou muito bem durante todos os vôos. mas é bom estar de volta em casa. Afinal, o lar é onde o coração está né? E agora meu coração está em Rexburg, Idaho. Senti muitas saudades do meu maridinho.

A Cici está quase caminhando. Ela (nós) passamos o dia inteiro caminhando pelo apartamento segurando a minha mão por tudo que é lugar que vai. As vezes ela não quer saber se eu to segurando ela ou não, ela só sai andando. Ela já está tentando falar algumas coisas e adora copiar tudo que fazemos.

Trip to Brazil with Cici

Cecilia and I are in Porto Alegre, Brasil visiting family and friends. We had a very long airplane trip that it actually started with a car trip to Salt Lake City last thursday. Our flight to NYC left Abril 16th at 8:30 am. We were at the airport around 7. Thankfully they allowed Luiz to pass through security with us. It was a great help and we could kiss goodbye on the last minute.

Cecilia was a joy to travel with. She slept through the first take off and first landing in NY. She had a lot of fun in the airplane and was very successfull with the flight attendants.

We arrived in NYC about 4 hours before our next flight. I thought it was going t be plenty of time but it wasn´t. That airport is huge!!!! And to help there are no signs, people were just telling me where to go. After going down in the elivator the door opened and I am outside with a hungry, tired and crying baby, it was cold and very windy. There was no sign showing where I should go next. I was getting so frustraded and just wanted to go back home and a man shows up from nowhere and ask me where I needed to go. I told him and he said: Okay, I´ll take you take. He had no name tag on him, no uniforn, I didn´t see where he came from...I was so nervous he was taking me and my daughter some place else I just started do pray....I was in NYC....He took me to the right place where I needed to take the train and go the terminal I had to. I was so grateful!

After that, another long line to check in. After one and a half hour I think I finally got to go to the boarding area and it was almost time to board. I still needed to call my hubby to let him know we were okay. He was getting nervous with no news from us he called the airline company and they told him it was time to start the boarding process right when I called him.

Cecilia was a joy to travel with. So sweet and calm.

We finally arrived in Rio where people were not very friendly with a mom traveling alone with a 9 months old baby! Not even the flight attendants! I was already so tired and sore that anything was driving me crazy and I needed to stay calm for my daughter.

We finally arrived in Porto Alegre and saw all the family there waiting for us! I was happy to be there but already missing my hubby!!

Preparando-se para Páscoa - Getting ready for Easter

It might be too early but I am so excited for Cecilia's first Easter, that we had just started on a few Easter projects! Yesterday we (me) made a wreath that I think it's so cute and super easy to make! I am still thinking about the next project...I think I am going to make some chocolate eggs later for Luiz and I. Cici also loved to play with the plastic eggs! Any other suggestion?

Pode ser meio cedo mas eu estou tão animada para primeira Páscoa da Cecilia que já começamos alguns projetos! Ontem nós (eu) fiz uma guirlanda que é muito linda e fácil de fazer. Ainda estou pensando no próximo projeto... Acho que mais tarde vou fazer uns ovos de chocolate pra mim e pro Luiz. A Cici adorou brincar com os ovos de plástico. Alguma outra sugestão?

What's for dinner?? O que tem de janta??

I have decided to make a meal plan!! Anna gave me the idea! Sometimes I spend the whole day thinking about what I am going to make for dinner and nothing comes to my mind! So, I am writing down everything I like to make and new recipes I want to cook and I chose one recipe for each day! I hope it is going to make my life easier because I always have a hard time deciding what to do!!

Eu decidi fazer um cardápio! Anna me deu a idéia! Algumas vezes passo o dia inteiro pensando no que fazer de janta e nada me vem na cabeça! Então, estou escrevendo tudo que gosto de fazer e receitas novas que quero tentar e escolho uma receita pra cada dia! Espero que vá facilitar minha vida porque sou muito enrolada pra decidir o que fazer!

**The picture is Cecilia eating beans for the first time! She loved it! Na foto é a Cecilia comento feijão pela primeira vez! Ela adorou!