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life has been good to us lately. our weekend was a blast, the weather is turning brazilian fall, i gave henry his second hair cut, daniel and i started saving for our dream, brown leather sofa, i have been dancing, and charles and henry are becoming the best of buds.

i just feel happy, ya know? i love it.

 hope your week is off to a good start!

xo

Foz do Iguaçu

after rio com sam and kaori we headed to foz do iguaçu. but this time we traveled with daniel.

yes.

highlights included:

checked into a really nice hotel, realized it wasn't our hotel, checked into a much less nice hotel, hated that we weren't at the first hotel, explored the city, visited the falls, ate really delicious food, met my friend for life, tammy, went to paraguay, and swam in a kiddie pool. it was a success. but the favorite of the trip was certainly the foz.

the waterfalls were absolutely breathtaking.

oh sam, kaori and wil. please come back. we really miss you guys.

like, really.

xo

dear grandma....

dearest grandma,

i just wanted to let you know how much my little heart wants to be with you right now. i may be far, but my thoughts and feelings are close.

thank you for being you.
thank you for having my dad and raising him to be the best father in the world.
thank you for always making me laugh.
thank you for loving grandpa so deeply.
thank you for loving the gospel.
thank you for your hugs, your wrinkled noses, your kisses and hand holds.

oh i wish i could squeeze you right now.

love you so much.

Rio! PART 2

dear people.
lets talk about our last day in rio.

we ate breakfast in our hotel, the most amazing continental breakfast you have ever had. lots of tropical fruit, cheese balls and even raw fish. when the fish isn't cooked, you know you're in a fancy place, am i right?

we then realized that none of us had cash for the taxi ride to the christos redentor statue, so sam and i sprinted down the streets of rio in hopes for an atm. we finally found one and got back to kaori right in the nick of time. she was had all 3 kids, in strollers, at nap time. and for some reason the boys didn't like the strollers at nap time. of course.

we packed in the taxi and off we went.

once we got to our destination, we took little red cable trains up the mountain to get to the statue. it was steep. a reeeeaaally steep ride through the amazonian forest. (well, is wasn't really the amazon, but sam liked to call everything green "the amazonian forest") so through the deep, thick, beautiful amazon forest we went, to the very tippy top of the mountain.

i am sure everyone thought sam had two wives. he kept posing with these two different women with 3 little boys basically all the sam age. and then if anyone asked where we were from we would say "utah". speculations confirmed. daniel, we missed you!

and charles slept through it all. after our mango smoothie, we headed back down the amazonian mountain. we walked the streets and ate a great lunch and then caught a flight back to campinas.

 

we had a blast, rio.

so glad we left before carnival.

xx

Rio! PART 1

hey blog, hey!

sheesh.

there is so much to write about. my brother sam, his wife kaori and their handsome son wil were here last week during carnival. it.was.a.blast. we first went to rio on tuesday and stayed for two days. daniel had to work til friday which made it three on three. having three little ones in a crazy city like rio was insane. but really fun insane. coordinating naps, nursing, meals, snacks, throw up, heat stroke, tantrums, crazy almost two year old cousins, giant cameras, two strollers, and big waves was a full time ordeal. but completely worth it.

we pulled up to our hotel and checked into the most beautiful suite facing copacabana beach. our view was breathtaking. we threw our bags down and all went out to the balcony to soak it in.

the weather. well, it was dreamy. something about the ocean breeze feels totally right. we immediately put our swim gear on and walked across the street and sat our little bums on the beach. (that rymes).

rio was such a fun city. huge. just the way i like cities. the energy of it made me miss new york.

the second day we were there we headed to pão de açúcar (sugar loaf mountain). we took cable cars to the top and saw an incredible view of rio.

wil and henry were quite the duo on the trip. we would come home for the night, throw them in the tub and then they run and giggle till the very last bit of energy was used up. they were very cute together. 

the view from our room at night.

dear cpoa, you never got old.

love us. 

xxx