Sunday

one of the many awesome things about where we live is that we are about a 7 minute walk to our chapel. church starts at 9am so we really have to get the ball rollin' early, but that sunday morning walk together is quite great. if i'm completely dressed and ready to go by 8'am sharp, then we can usually get the kids fed, dressed and out the door by 8:50. we're sweating, but we're out the door. and when i say fed i mean their eating there waffles in the stroller on the way. (but like, they are eating waffles so i get some points for that).

henry graduated nursery! it was quite the ordeal, they brought him a cap and sunbeam necklace, the primary president gave a speech and invited us in, but he wasn't having any of it. poor henry, he hates goodbyes. he sat with his head buried the whole time. afterwards he and i went and checked out the "big boy class" and when he saw that they had oreos, it was like "nurery who?!" 

on the way home i asked daniel to take a family picture (we needed a break before we hiked the last hill to our house ;)) he turned around took this ridiculous picture basically of himself and said "ok! took it!" in his defense, I guess we are all in it... can we talk about that curl though, and the sexy beard, and yeah, insert a million heart eye emojis here!

later in the day we had the sunday crew over, victoria (daniel's sister) alex and liam. we are so grateful to have them close. 

it was/is carnival weekend here in brazil, so we ate chicken alfredo and played blocks with the boys. 

things are gettin' craaaaa! 

selfie with george.

sometimes when i need to put mascara on for the day (usually around 6pm, right before daniel gets home) i put george on the floor and let him play in my makeup basket. then we take selfies on the ground because it's just so fun to hear him squeek with excitement when he sees his little face on the screen!

happy weekend! 

crafting!

the last few days we have found ourselves doing a lot of crafts. most outcomes look about like this (see picture above). but the best things in life (or raising small children) are (always) messy so the boys and i are counting them as a complete success! we live in somewhat of a forest and one of our giant trees fell down in our backyard, we are painting on wood from the tree, it worked awesome. 

buuut sometimes when charles and george are napping, henry and i pull out the big guns and paint tigers, pandas and ladybugs. henry was so proud of his tiger. he named him daniel. so we now have daniel tiger in our playroom. 

when we were all outside painting, of course darcy and lizzy showed up. our goats. they started licking all the paint, stepping in it, tracking it on the tiles, tormenting george etc,. henry immediately strated whacking them with his paint brush so that everyone and everything was in complete paint chaos. we quickly pinned up the goats, put away the paint and got the hose out. we gave everything a good spray down. the boys may have liked this part more than the actual painting!

so cheers to brazil where everyday we have perfect weather for outdoor paint chaos (crafts)!

Xo 

Long hair i care

we are in desperate need of a hair trim over here, things are out of control. whenever i threaten to chop it all off daniel replies " no you won't! i'm the hair coordinator, you go through me for any decisions."  BUT "honey, it's a mop! i never do it anyway, it's always in a side braid!  george pulls 

chunks of it out daily! it's so hot and in brazil it's always summer! you fell in love with me with short 

hair! the shoulder length bob is totally innnnn!" no. he just won't have any of it. 

the things we do for love;)

this weekend we took lots of bike rides with the boys. they are getting quite daring and ride up the hill, almost to the top, then zoom down holding their little legs out to the side while screaming and laughing. it's some of my favorite time during the day. 

we also spent a lot of time chasing the goats, feeding the goats and cleaning up goat poop. ahem. yesterday we gave them apples and laughed so hard watching them try to eat it with their little mouths. it was rolling all over, it was like head hockey. muito funny! 

happy tuesday!  

The thick of it.

first of all, thank you henry for the picture above. i look [pretty] good and at least you got dad's sexy beard.

secondly, lets update the heck out of it! january has been a month from the demons. really, just quite terrible. we got back from our (month long + amazing) christmas vacation on the third, and we have been battling every sickness on the planet for the past 25 days. i caught pneumonia to start the marathon off then i gave it to charles then henry got it, and now he has a parasite just to make sure we are nice and almost dead.

today was the first day that we could see light at the end of the tunnel, we're still in the tunnel mind you, but i did see some light in the distance, and honestly, that's all I need right now!

its not all bad though, through every trail you learn. sometimes the harder things are the harder you pray, and plead and weep, begging God to spare this fragil life of yours so that you can be with those you love for just another day. i really felt like i was fighting for my life for those three weeks i was battling pneumonia. and i feel so grateful and joyful that i'm here today with my four men.

one thing that's been keeping us happy is bbq. every night. the boys chase the goats, george practices his crawling by our feet, daniel mans fire and i get the food. thank you, brazil for always having perfect weather.

Xo