We're back...

We're back in computer land again... and I have SO many pictures to share! Here is just a teaser of Carnaval. Friday the girls all dressed up and had parties at school. The little girls paraded to the park and had a little fashion show there. It was a SUPER fun day! More pictures of Carnaval and many others to come!

Bria's Ear Piercing Adventure

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Palaces, Cookies and Lights

All my cookie decorating girls!!! :)

Back to the beginning of Mom and Dad's visit... we went to the Mafra Palace just North of Lisbon. None of us had been there before so it was fun for all of us to see a new place. Later that week our friends came over and made us a wonderful Portuguese dinner, arroz de camarão (Shrimp rice), it was SOOO good! After dinner we made Christmas cookies and all the girls helped decorate them. There were sprinkles everywhere:) and lots of really cute and yummy cookies!

The next few days we did lots of Christmas shopping and took one evening to head down to the Baixa for more shopping, seeing the sights and all the lights. Thankfully the rain stayed away long enough to let us enjoy the evening. And yes, there are several camera contributing...

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I do realize how far behind I am, again, but Lindsey took these of the girls for me one day while I was sick and they are just too good not to have posted somewhere... so here they are! I guess I am just a backwards blogger now, maybe I will do better now that it's 2011... vamos ver!

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Bria's Christmas Pictures

Bria got a REAL camera for Christmas so she has become the new family photographer! Here are her pictures from Christmas day...

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Christmas Time

Our first Christmas present arrived a week early... Umma and Babu are here!!!

We are SO happy to see them, to celebrate Christmas with them here with us and to show them around! Here we are down in the Baixa doing some last minute Christmas shopping.

More Christmas fun soon!!!

Thankful

Since I missed Thanksgiving completely I think I will start December with a Thankful list...

I am Thankful...

1. It is December which means my Mom and Dad arrive THIS MONTH! 16 days!

2. For better or worse, my language test is OVER!

3. Friends, they are here there and everywhere but I am so thankful for the women I call friends!

4. My apartment, this is our first winter in our new apartment and it is SO much easier to get and keep this house warm!

5. Bon Jovi. Yes you read that correctly! If there is ever a movie made of my life Bon Jovi will have to make several appearances on the soundtrack AND I have tickets to see them live this summer.

6. My girls... they keep life exciting, they challenge me and inspire me.

7. My Mark, my soulmate. I love the life we have built and look forward to the adventures yet to come...

8. Lisbon, I LOVE living in this city! The people, the charm the beauty... so many things I love about living here!

9. Airplanes, well really who they will bring to me and who and where they will take me to... hopefully we will have several airplane encounters before this time next year!

10. Christmas. Focusing on Jesus coming to this earth to save us from ourselves, arriving as an innocent baby... our HOPE!