Saturday, March 31, 2012

school days

house demolition
 bea's new uniform

 love the shoes
 on our visits one day

just playin with his shoe 
 love that face


adriano and the kids 
 thanks dad for the valentine straws
 it was her birthday a month ago. i forgot. so exactly one month later, i made a cake to celebrate

 ian turned one! learning to walk!
 and ride a bike
 sunny came to visit with her family for her birthday

 at the feminine institute for a talk by padre guilherme. we put up a snipit of the art exhibition of the kids
one of my favorite ladies 


before mass 





so loving to show off their work 

pati and padre guilherme! 



me and the art! so proud i wanted to cry 
the going away mass of maria ines, renaud, and jose 
my favorite moment of the day. he was in his dad's arm. he got down. walked over to me and lifted his arms. and then fell asleep in my arms.  
mateus and diego! 


 bianca (bea's sister!)
 rose and aparecida


irma and i (we share a room now and take care of our daniel) 
okay he got these shoes from a friend and then he chose to wear them daily.  
love this 
i painted a heart and had everyone there fill the heart with finger prints to show all of the love that fills their heart 


bel and baby 
baby foot! 

 andre and i
lucimari gave diego her purse to watch 
playing american football with a nerf ball my dad sent 



 our new bathroom!

 the living room/kitchen
kitchen 
 daniel's new room

 still have some more work to do
 our kitchen
 at least here's the beautiful view

 FINALLY on vacation with dan, shell, and the kids. it's paradise

 swimming in the ocean. 

 divine and perfect for me as i was dead.dead.dead.



 we told her to put the flowers in her ears to take pictures. this is what we got. 

 out of place pictures. sorry. carol in art class
 the boys and i waiting for the car to come (this is backwards...)
 jose loved chairs. he put stools up to climb into this stack and sat there while i shopped
 yay. then he face plopped


 fun day at the park.




 hair cut for daniel (what kind of mothers let that hair grow so long)


 jose loves kids
 my monkey