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Raegon's Birthday...Our Party :)

2009-06-11T09:28:00.000-07:00

Sorry guys, I don't know how to use this blog thing well and I wasn't able to move this picture. It supposed to start with my story and not with the picture of my Funniest, cutest, good looking, gossip helper :/

Anyway, here we go...

It was Raegon's birthday (Happy Birthday Raegon :) ) and me and Mariana stopped by to give him a little gift. Then my sweet Chase decided that we should come to my home and make a cake to Raegon. So Wesley decided to come too but before we left he let Raegon knows that we were gonna have a Surprise party to him (what, actually, made him very happy). Raegon didn't want to come with us because he wanted to wait for the surprise :)

Desculpa gente,~esse q ta na foto é o Wesley e não o Raegon. Eu não sei mexer nisso direito e não consegui mudar a foto de lugar.

Bem a história é a seguinte:

Eu e Mariana fomos levar um presentinho pro Raegon e o fofo do Chase decidiu q nós devíamos vir pra minha casa e fazer um bolo pro Raegon. O fofoqueiro do Wesley veio junto mas antes de sair de casa ele correu pra avisar ao raegon q nós iríamos fazer uma festa surpresa pra ele ( o q o deixou muito feliz). O Raegon não quis vir com a gente pq ele queria esperar pela festa surpresa (acho q ele nao quis estragar a surpresa :) ).

Thanks to Wesley and Chase help we were able to make a delicious cake to Raegon :)

Com a ajuda do Chase e do Wesley nós fizemos um bolo delicioso!!!

Wow look at that cake mixer!!! Really, how fun can it be???? I don't know but they were very interested on it.

Uau olha essa batedeira!!! Sério, não sei quão divertido é olhar a batedeira mas eles adoraram!!!

Yum The best part!!!
Delicia, a melhor parte :)

I couldn't miss it. Look at Mariana's face. "I want some mom"
Eu não podia perder essa. Olha a cara da Mariana, tipo "Eu tb quero".

We had more fun than Raegon, but don't tell him that.

Nós nos divertimos mais q o Raegon, mas não vamos dizer isso pra ele.

"It looks messy"
"Que bagunça!"

"Lets make cookies, Renata". That was Wesley's idea. I gotta tell you I love making cookies with them for a few reasons:

1) I just need to get a tray.

2) They love it and it is not messy

3) you just need to wait for 15 minutes

4) Raegon told me it is the best cookie he ever had :) He thinks it is a "homemade" cookie. I bought it from him but we will not tell him that

"Vamos fazer biscoitos, Renata". Idéia do Wesley. Eu adoro fazer biscoito com eles por algumas razões:

1) Tudo q eu preciso é uma travessa

2) Eles se divertem muito e não sujam nada

3) A gente só precisa esperar 15 minutos pra ficar pronto

4) O Raegon me disse q é o melhor biscoito q ele já comeu em toda a vida dele. Ele acha q eu fiz em casa. Ele não sabe q esse é o bisoito congelado q eu comprei dele :)

A little more...

Um pouco mais...

And more... I think we need another tray

E mais... Eu acho q precisamos de outra travessa

Well the cake is not ready and they were getting impatient. (see why I like making cookies better?) So, lets plant some floweres guys!!!!

O bolo ainda não tava pronto e eles tavam ficando impacientes. (Viu pq eu prefiro fazer biscoito?). Vamos plantar flores!!!

We did a good job!!!

Muito bem!!!

Now the cake is done!

Agora o bolo tá pronto!

So is Mariana...

"I am wondering how she got so tired"

Mariana tb tava pronta... pra ir pra cama.

Olha a cara do Chase, tipo: Pq ela ta tão cansada?

Before we got there I called them and told raegon we didn't have time to make him a cake and he really believed on me. I don't know what is wrong with those boys but thy believe anything I tell them...

Antes da gente chegar lá eu liguei e disse ao raegon q não haviamos tido tempo de fazer o bolo dele... e ele ACREDITOU!!!

SURPRISE!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAEGON!!!

Happy Birthday Dear Raegon, Happy Birthday to you!!!!!

Raegon trying to cut his cake starting down and going up, a brazilian tradition :)

Raegon tantando cortar o bolo de baixo pra cima :)

I had tons of fun!!! I love my boys!!!

Me diverti muitissimo!!! Eu amo meus meninos!!!

Summer Sweet Summer - Verão Doce Verão...

2009-05-22T11:07:00.001-07:00

Finally I decided to make a little time to let you know how much fun we are having during Mariana 1st Summer!!! I apologize for not keeping up with my blog. I will try to be better...

Finalmente eu consegui arrumar um tempinho pra dizer a vocês como eu e Mariana estamos nos divertindo durante o 1.o verão dela!!! Me desculpem por eu ser tão relaxada qto ao meu Blog. Eu tentarei ser melhor :/

I couldn't wait for summer get here. It seems like it took FOREVER but it finally arrived and summer brought wit it tons of fun!!!

Eu não aguentava mais esperar pelo verão, parecia que nunca ia chegar, mas finalmente ele chegou cheio de diversão!!!!

Carolynne has just moved close to us and we have done tons of activities together.

Leo has included Mariana in his "Best friends" list and he also was able to be friend of my sweet nephews Chase and Wesley :)

Carolynne se mudou pra bem pertinho da gente e a nós temos feito muitas coisas juntos. O Léo inclusive incluiu a Mariana na lista dele de "Melhores Amigos" e já fez amizade com os meus doces sobrinhos, Chase e Wesley :)

We have gone to parks...

Nós temos ido a parques...

We have gone to Jungle Jim...

Fomos ao Jungle Jim

We have gone to swimming classes

Nós temos ido à aulas de natação...

Mariana has helped mom to cook...

Mariana tem ajudado a mamãe a cozinhar...

And helped daddy with the yard

E ajudado o papai com o jardim

And we even had my birthday party

E nós tb tivemos meu aniversário

This has been one of the best summers of my life! Full of joy and love!!! I just miss one big thing... The ones who are not here. But I want to let you know that you are in my heart :)

Este tem sido um dos melhores verões da minha vida. Cheio de amor e alegria!!! Eu só sinto saudade de uma coisa... Dos que não estão presentes... MAs vcs estão no meu coração :)

My Sweet, Loved Little boys!

2009-03-31T20:30:00.000-07:00

As soon Dede left to New York, New York I tried to still my sweet nephews and keep them with me, to me and for me.

I went to check on them saturday morning after talking to Raegon on the phone and having he telling me that they were by themselves and he had no idea where his dad was and what time he would be back. Well as soon as I got there with Mariana I discovered Bill was at the neighbor's house, just few doors away and he was checking on them every 15 min or so. It was a relieve knowing men are not as irresponsible as we think they are :) But... WHY BOYS CAN NOT GIVE US A FULL INFORMATION ABOUT ANYTHING????????????? They never know what is going on, EVER!!!

Well after been there for a while and making sure Bill had everything cleaned up ( the house was chaotic when I got there) and under control I asked if the boys wanted to come to my house to keep playing with Mariana. My sweet Chase and Wesley loved the idea and were ready in 30 sec, Wesley even had his booster seat with him. I tried to bring Cameron and Reagon but they are too cool and big to be playing with the little kids. They decided they prefer stay in home with their dad and far away of the little boys.

After playing puzzles, matching cards, seeking and hide, making some cookies they decided it was time to play outside. Wesley though it was stupid I don't have XBOX or a trampolim but he found out other ways to have fun.

See how much fun you can have with a 6 month old baby??? Does anyone recognizes this little butt???

The fastest boy EVER!!!

Poor Chase tried to keep up with Wesley.

THIS IS WHY THEY LOVE ME...

AND THIS IS WHY I LOVE THEM...

THE BEST BABYSITTER ON TOWN!!!

THE SWEETEST BOY IN THE WHOLE WORLD...

AREN'T THEY ADORABLE???

AVOS, GRANDPAS, GRANDMAS, GREATS

2009-01-29T10:54:00.000-08:00

Some people like to say that the best thing about grandpa an grandma's house are Grandpa and Grandma. I am woundering why!!!

Algumas pessoas gostam de dizer q a coisa mais divertida na casa dos avos sao os avos. As vezes eu me pergunto o por que!!!

Maybe it is because they are the ones who protect us from everything and everyone even when our mom abandon us on some bad, weird, freak people's hand...

Talvez seja porque eles nos protegem contra tudo e contra todos mesmo qdo a mamae nos abandona nas maos dessa gente ma...

Or because their arms is the best place in the whole world for a good nap...

Ou porque o colo deles eh o melhor lugar do mundo pra tirar uma soneca...

Maybe it is because they are always very proud of us...

Talvez seja porque eles estao sempre orgulhosos da gente...

Or just cause they never get tired of giving us a good time...

Ou talvez seja soh pq eles nunca se cansam de brincar com a gente...

May be it is because they think we are cute even when we look like a cow...

Talvez seja porque eles acham a gente linda mesmo qdo a gente ta parecendo uma vaquinha...

Or it is because they sing for us...

Ou porque eles cantam pra gente...

Maybe it is because they rock us so lovely...

Talvez seja porque eles nos balancam com muito amor...

Whatever the reason is... THEY ARE THE GREATEST!!!

Seja qual for a razao... ELES SAO OS MELHORES!!!

Bye Beanbag, welcome mamasano

2009-01-04T11:56:00.000-08:00

Bye bye Beanbag, Welcome Confortable chair

After many complaines, crys, prayers and the help of my adorable sweet nephews and Juliana's kids, Rob finally gave up on his totally destroyed beanbag. I still can't believe that now I have a living room without an elephant on it. I didn't know how big my living room is!

He was sad in the beggining and I almost felt sorry for him. He spent lots of time on the internet trying to see how to replace his beanbag for something I wouldn't be complaining about and where we could lay together and confortably (isn't he sweet?)

We finally got a double sit mamasamo. I am very happy! It is cute, confortable and looks nice on our living room. Rob loves it, so does Mariana. His own words: "It is very confortable honey, way better than the beanbag".

The best part? I was able to save a lot of money on it so I got a new furniture to my kitchen where I can put my "Crystal glasses" from Ikea. I am so happy!!!

And if the kids even think about jumping on my mamasamo, I will be the one who will kick their little bump :)

Don't worry I am not that mean. They still have the coach to do their jumps and rolls on it. And if they miss the beanbag they can go to Juliana's house to play on it. She is having it on her basement for her kids finish destroying it :) Thanks Ju.

Happy New Year

2009-01-01T12:57:00.001-08:00

NO MATTER WHAT, I WILL BE HAPPY :)

It was around 6pm on December 31st, and I received a call from my mom. She was at my aunt's house, who lives at the beach, in Rio. My aunt lives about 10 feet from the beach, you can see the ocean from her living room. Her living room has a glass wall that goes from the floor to the roof. She lives on the 9th floor so you have the impression that you are in the beach when you look outside. You gotta see to understand how beautiful her view is.

I need to tell you about New year's evening in Brasil before I continue my story.

In Brasil it is a hugh deal. It is as important as Christmas. We have a big dinner, with turkey, ham, pork, cobb fish, fruits, deserts, you name it, we have it. The way you start the year dictates how your year will be like. So everyone gets new clothes. Each color means a different thing you want to attract to your life. Example: Red attracts passion, yellow money, green hope, white peace, pink love, etc. We eat grapes and throw the seeds up and make wishes. People eat lentilha (a kind of soup) with money under the plate to attract money. We jump the first 3 waves and make wishes (this is my favorite one). We open champagne and have at least a gulp of it and spray it around. People do all kind of superticious things to attract luck and happiness.

My mom told me they have so much food that she didn't have room on the table for everything. They went to a special mass celebrated on the beach and they were waiting for the fire works that starts at midnight. She told me it was very hot there and she would jump the 3 waves for me. My mom is not a superticious woman, she is VERY religious, but she told me she would do it for me, it doesn't hurt to try it, right? And I don't think it is a sin so my mom is safe and so am I.

Then she asked me if I was ready and what I was gonna do. Well I looked around and I noticed that I had Nothing cooked, I had no plans, Rob didn't want to go anywhere (of course) and it was 31 F degrees. It made me miss Rio even more than I was already missing it. Everyone knows I love partys and my hubby loves our beanbag (it is right the opposits attractseach other, we are ions and protons, and I love him anyway). I didn't want to fight with him about going to anywhere and I actually was miserably tired. Mariana hasn't slept well latelly, neither have I.

While I was thinking about my life I decided my 1st resolution for this year:

No matter what, I will be happy!!!

So I took a shower and put a new outfit on. Clara and Ana Paula had gave a red blouse. I love it because it attracts passion and I need to have passion on my life to keep me moving on happily.

I remembered Rob had a Champagne in the refrigerated for years. He told me once it was there for 5 years, he was waiting for a great moment to open it. Well honey, your great moment has finally arrived. I told him that we were gonna have a party. We had everything we needed. We had each other, we had Mariana, we had peace, love and we even had a good, expansive champagne and we were gonna jump the piles of snow instead of the waves. I became so excited that I was able to make him excited too.

So we got all ready, I put 3 cute new outfits on Mariana but she spit on all of them and it didn't do thru midnight, so I gave up and put a new pjs on her (it is white so she is gonna be just fine). We watched some funny comedy shows, we openned our champagne at midnight, I jumped the 3 piles of snow while I was thinking about my wishes, I made us grilled cheese and ham sandwiches and we fall asleep on the bean bag.

We had a great time!!! I love my new resolution and I am confident that it is gonna be a wonderful year!!! :)

I hope you all had a good time!

2008...

2008-12-30T06:36:00.000-08:00

2008 - The miracle year in my life...

2008 was a great year. It was the year I will never forget in my life.It was when I experienced the most beautiful miracle of life. I became a mom. Not anyone's mom, I became my sweet heart Mariana's mom.

I felt for the first time this little thing growing in my belly, changing my body and my emotions in crazy ways (poor Rob, he needed to deal with it) and I still can't believe it became this gorgeous, sweet baby girl.

For the first time in my life I understood why some people like my own mom, my sisters in law and Tracie are able to have 3, 4 or 5 kids and don't care that they don't have time to spend the whole day watching tv with their hubbys or shopping with their girl friends. And they actually think their life, even been so crazy and messy is great. Even worse, they will recomend it to everyone, and now, I will too. I used to think tey were totally crazy and had no way I would want to change my peaceful, free and party life style.

I am starting to understand that I can be exausted, I can get crazy, I can be mad but even if I feel all that in the same time, I feel happy still.

I will never feel like my life makes no sense anymore. And I will never truly understand the miracle of love and mercy of God that creates a new life. I will always be the most grateful person that God trusts me to take care of His, and now mine, beloved little girl.

I know that no matter how many books I read, I will never be a perfect mom but I will have to try my best every single day. And no matter how good I think I am and Rob is, we will have to pray with all our heart to God guide her life and her heart to the right path and protect her from all this millions of things we can't control.

And I finally understand that having a baby is the closest way to love someone as God loves us. And finally I Corynthians,13 sounds possible, besides beautiful, to me.

I will never be able to explain how my love for my Hubby became way deeper and bigger when we finally became a FAMILY...

JESSE

Jesse will finish High School on June of 2009. We are very happy for him and I am very excited for he going to College. Specially now that he decide to take 3 classes of math (wich ones he will receive credit for) after me and Rob get very mad at him and talk without stoping about his crazy idea of not taking math cause he is "Too" tired and he doesn't need to.

But what really got me very excited was the picture Dede took of him smiling. The first one since I've knowing him (3 years!)

We still not knowing much about his "social" life and dates cause he is still "too cool" to let us know about it. He just told me he hates women (obs: "WOMEN" not girls).When I said "Thanks" he told me I am the coolest (It makes me feel better and think that hopefully I am not part of the hated women's list). Well even hating them he decided to grow a bear so he gets 2 years on age and he can hang out with those awful, hateful, older women.

He loves wakeboarding and snowboarding and he is very good on both sports.

MARIANA

Mariana is growing very fast. Everyday she learns something new and we estimulate and reward her with tons of kisses, hugs and congratulations in all languages. She is very smiley and sweet. She just discovered her feet and doesn't loose the opportunity of holding them. She "talks" a lot and loves been held by her Daddy. They walk all over the house with their heads up looking all around. They have the same expression on their faces when they look at me, it is very funny, but sometimes makes me worry if I will have to deal with 2 Robs! She is starting to roll over and she always pulls her head up trying to get up. I think she is very strong and alert for her age, but I am her mom so what I think doesn't really count cause I will always be amazed for ANYTHING she does.

She also loves to play with her sweet cousins. Wesley and Chase are so sweet with her, makes me very emotional seen them taking such a good care of their little new cousin. I guess Chase is not sure she is not a boy yet (he always tells me he (Mariana) needs his (her) diaper changed). Maybe Dede is right, maybe he just thinks she is broken cause she does not have a peepee.

They are Adorable!!! :)

Christmas

2008-12-27T21:26:00.000-08:00

My first time Blogging...

"Though I speak the tongues of men and angels, and have not love, I am nothing" (I Corinthians 13,1-2)

Well, I finally decided to sit and start my blog while my baby is sleeping and my hubby is watching tv.

This is my christmas gift for myself and our family. I am always showing Rob Dede's, Carin's and Becky's blog and he always tells me that I HAVE to make one so everyone can know about our kids.

(OBS1: He himself NEVER looks at the blogs but he thinks it is just great to have it. OBS2: My writting is still very bad so, probably, I will not be able to express myself half of the time and people will wounder what I mean. But I think it is worth to try it anyway)

The story behind our christma's card...

I think I should let you know that the pretty card you have received from us wouldn't exist without the help of Mariana's loved aunt Dede. We have received so many compliments about it and I have to follow all of them to Dede.

As you can see, we had a hard time trying to take a good picture of Mariana for the Christma's card.

On the other hand, aunt Dede had no problem at all, as you can see as well.

So, the result was this wonderfull job!!! Which I would love to get the credits for but I can't, since I did absolutely NOTHING else but say "I love it Dede, it is the prettiest card ever!!" Not kidding, it IS the PRETTIEST card EVER!!!

CHRISTMAS PARTY! FESTA!!!

(I had to "still" this picture from Dede's blog because after the party was over I remembered I had took none pictures. Yes, I know, pretty dumb!)

We had a great time on the 24th on Dede's and Bill's home. It is wonderful having a family to be with, specially when you love them so much, like I do. Christmas is my favorite holiday ever and I can't wait for Mariana grow a little more and enjoy her fun and funny cousins opening gifts and asking me every 5 minutes if she can open her gifts, just like Wesley did (Poor little boy, we made him wait 4 long hours!!! I hope it was worth it).

Dede was able to take a picture of Jesse smiling for the first time ever!!! Which one I really need to save. We had a very hard time trying to find a nice picture of him to put in our Christmas card. Dede is the best, don't you all agree?!

My girly girl and her girly gifts :)

She loves her new toys, and I love her new chair and CDs!

Thanks Dede and Kristy.

Thank you all of you who sent us cards and pictures we love it!

I hope you all had a great time during Christmas.

And I promisse I will try to keep up with this new, fun project :)

Love,
Renata