Happy Birthday Tirza

Happy 5th Birthday Tirza Joy!

Happy Birthday Sahara

Happy 10th Birthday Sahara Marie!

Mark Simão

A few months ago when Mark went and got his hair cut the lady gave him the Simão haircut. Let me explain two things about why this is blog worthy.

1. Simão is one of Portugal's best soccer players.

2. Mark has had the same haircut for YEARS now, years. Over the years it has not varied, maybe a little shorter when he was in the military but really the same do.

So a new-do was kinda a big deal for him, and the first time around he just couldn't take it, by the next day he was back to styling it same-o same-o.

So when we went back the hairdresser was a little disappointed but wasn't deterred. She tried again and this time we convinced him to give it a real try, and over month later we still have the new-do! I think Mark looks very handsome with the new-do!!!

Oh and while we are mentioning soccer I just have to say...

Força Portugal!!!

Catching up...

Last month the pope visited Portugal and his first stop was Lisbon. We were in language school at the time and our school was close to where he was going to be later that night giving a city wide mass, so we went and checked it out. And I have no idea why this is underlined but I can't make it go away!

Crowds watching him arrive, this was several hours before the mass and people were already there waiting, watching the visit on the big screen.

Papamovel:)

It was interesting for us, since we are not catholic, to see the preparations and reactions of people before and during the Pope's visit.

Little funny story for ya... here the Pope is called Papa Bento. Mark and I had a little conversation while we were on our way home about how Americans would pronounce the name Bento... it wasn't until later that day that we realized that Americans would not be saying Bento just Benedict, LOL!

Festa da Escola 2010

The girls had their end of year program yesterday afternoon. It was a BLAST! Cute, hilarious and fun from start to finish. The teachers do such a good job making up the programs and teaching the kids the songs, dances and their parts. So well done so sweet!!!

This year's theme was basically stories with a twist, they rewrote old famous stories, very cute!

Tirza's class did Peter Pan and Tirza was a dancing fairy, she was SO proud of her pretty little self. Bria's class did a story about a little beetle (Carochinha) that gets rich and looks for husband, Bria is one of the Carochinha. I didn't know she was going to be singing part of her lines, she did so good!!! Sahara is a finalista this year, big stuff!!! Their school only goes through 4th grade so she is graduating from O'Poeta this year. So her class had several parts in the program... they started it off with a song and dance about being at O'Poeta, then they received diplomas, then sang the O'Poeta song for us and then later in the program redid several old fairy tales. Sahara is Little Red Riding Hood's Mother, she did great at her part.

It was just an adorable program start to finish!!! Unfortunately our camera is refusing to actually take a normal picture anymore (donations welcome) but we managed a few shots and some video so you can get a good idea of all the fun!

Enjoy!!!

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School's Out for Summer

It is hard to believe but another school year has come and gone. The girls had their last day of classes today, last day of 4th grade, 2nd grade and 4 years. This has been a wonderful year for all 3 girls. They have WONDERFUL teachers, sweet friends and have learned SO much! Tomarrow is their end of year program and I can't wait. At our school we just have this one program each year and they go ALL out for it... singing, dancing, costumes. Last year was so fun and so cute. We don't really know what their little parts are but all 3 are super excited for us to see them. I am sure there will be LOTS of pictures to share. This year Sahara is a finalista (graduating from this school, it only goes through 4th grade) so she get a special graduation as a part of the program.

Now we get to enjoy my favorite season of the year, SUMMER! We just need the weather to get the memo that every day should be sunny and hot!

Zoo day

I am back and I hope to be a better blogger now. Life has been busy lately but I think things are slowing down and getting back to normal. Well normal as life seems to get for us:) This is the girls last week of school. Can you believe it, last week of 4th grade for Sahara, 2nd for Bria and the 4 year old class for Tirza, crazy!

Enjoy the pics of our trip to the zoo with our neighbors. More to come, AND once we get a few more things arranged I will take some pics of the new apartment. Especially Bria and Tirza's new BUNKBED!

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Bad Blogger

I have been a really bad blogger lately... the sad thing is that there have been SO many things to blog about, so many things going on that I just have't had time to sit down and blog.

Right now I am sitting in our new apartment... I have grabbed just a second on the computer before I head back to unpack and trying to organize the new place. But I will get updates on here soon and I will get caught up from the last month.

I have a zoo trip, party at a quinta, the move and so many other things to blog about... Soon, I hope soon! This week we have a team from Virginia coming in to help us and I gotta keep getting the house put together not to mention finishing up at the old apartment... so SOON!