Valentine's Day 2011

Did I warn you that the blog might be random and out of order for a little while... I am enjoying the new computer so much, being able to organize my photos, make slideshows...

I couldn't miss posting about V-day because Bria was SO excited about it this year. She started planning and making cards weeks ahead of time. She planned the dinner, made cards and presents for everyone, did a show for us... it was SO cute! We all had a sweet day together:)

Prague

Last month Mark and I had a meeting in beautiful Prague, Czech Republic. We left the girlies in Lisbon with sweet friends, it was a whole week so we were a little nervous but they had a WONDERFUL time. Thank you friends!

Mark and I loved the seeing Prague, being with friends, going to dinner, seeing snow, going to the OPERA... and just having some time together! It was a fabulous week! And on top of all the fun it was a helpful and encouraging meeting. We did FREEZE, we are NOT used to that kind of cold, bbrrrrrrr! It was alright for the first few days and waking up to beautiful snowflakes falling was great. But we were happy to come home to sunshine and 3 sweet little girls!

Carnaval 2011

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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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