The CUP!

 brazil is so fun right now. there is so much energy here because of the world cup...and well, we're totally feelin it. saturday brazil had a game so daniel got the yellow shirts on the boys and made us all hot dogs. the game was intense. like double overtime, very last penalty kick intense. but thanks to naymar- we are still enjoying fireworks all over the country. its really quite spectacular to feel the passion from a whole nation.

anyways, i write all that because we scored tickets to the USA vs. Belgium game tomorrow! we are stoked to the max.

its going to be insane taking both babies to salvador brazil to a flippin world cup game, but i've said it before and i'll say it again, it's always better when we're together.

xxx

UTAH

oh, utah. the land of my fathers. well father and mother, actually.

we weren't sure if/when we would make it to utah this summer, but when we heard that all 9 kids (on the wright side) were getting together, and all 29 grandkids (or 30?)...we bought our tickets and packed our bags! like, hello! we can't miss that.

you guys, the trip to springville, utah from campinas, brazil is not an easy trek. twennnnttttyyyy three hours from start to finish. luckily the flight there was almost completely empty. we each took a row and slept. dreamy. but with the time change, traveling, lack of sleep etc, henry was a sick little mess the whole time in utah. biggest bummer.

BUT...

highlights included(:

• the art city days parade (!!!) every year my parents flower shops walks the route with all the kids (and offspring) and hands out carnations. but only to "mom's and grandma's!"
• chick-fil-a 
• the mountains
• picnic in the park
• chick-fil-a 
• my parents new property and huge yard. it's tucked away behind their shop/soon-to-be home. we loved just sitting on the lawn and socking the utah summer afternoons up. it was beautiful.
• family party at micka's house
• chick-fil-a (yes, we managed to go 3 times in 5 days). the beeest. 

we had such a good time, wright family. we sure wish utah wasn't so far away.

 what is that on my face?! a wrinkle?

 these are my favorite pictures of the trip.^^

until next time, utah. miss you already.

xo
p.s. thanks kaori for some of the pictures!

another birthday.

 yesterday we had a little get together with the american vigzul clan. why you ask, well because it is my birthday this week.

party!

we were the first ones at the park so daniel and parked the car, rolled down the windows and watched two little monkeys in the tree above us. how cool is that? monkeys?! they were kinda notty tho, eating the cute little birds eggs right out of her nest. she was furious.

anyways. the boys slept through the whole fiesta, victoria's famous tres leches cake and everything. when they woke up, everyone was packing up. but we pulled them out and made an afternoon at the park. we had such a nice time. here are some pictures to prove it.

 we took about 500 pictures, so you're lucky you only got these.

happenings around here:
we went to utah and are stiiiiiil trying to recover from the two flights in 5 days. but it was totally worth it.
charles is the best bear crawler around.
henry is talking so much now. in english and portuguese. but he asked if he could nurse again last night, so he is still my baby.
and the world cup in crazy. brazilians have so much spirit. flags on every car, curbs painted green and yellow, and when the game is on- brazil is empty! everyone is either at home watching it- or at the game. seriously, the world stops. and we love the fireworks that go off after every goal.

xx

iLove

charles is crawling, daniel turned 26, and we are going to utah next week for the shortest 5 days of my life ( i am sure of it ). we are happy little pumpkins over here.

xo