Sea World

While my family were here we decided that it would be fun to drive down to San Antonio and go to Sea World. The kids were all so excited and we had a really fun time. The Shammu show was excellent and the water rides were fun to cool off. That day was Leah's real birthday so what better way to spend your birthday then in Sea World? What a lucky girl. Plus her cousins, Kyle Kayla, Kyler and Grace were there with her too. Happy Birthday my sweet Leah, Love you!

Oregon Trip

Our Tip to Oregon was awesome! We visited one of Brad's best friend Aaron. Him and his family lives 45 minutes of Portland Oregon. They own a few acres of land, and they have cows, chickens, cats, dogs, etc. The view of their house is amazing, when you step outside in their huge backyard what you see is " Mount Hood" right in front of you. It is just gorgeous! The weather was perfect while we were there. We were able to flee the 100 degrees heat of Texas for a few days. Leah and Claire were in heaven, they had so much space to run around and play. Everyday they woke up and went straight outside to play with the cats and dogs. One of their cats had kitten just the day before we got there, so you can imagine how happy my girls were when they got to see those little kittens. I was afraid that Claire was going to squeeze one of the poor kittens, but luckily they survived. Leah also got to feed the chickens and cows with Sid (our friend). We also visited Portland one day and had great sandwiches. Our friends have 3 boys that were a few years older them my girls and a teenage girl. They were all so sweet and I'm glad we got to see them and spend some time with them.

Claire's 1st Birthday!

Claire's 1st Birthday

Leah having fun her cousins.

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Vovo and Claire, don't they look alike?

Claire's 1st Birthday!

We celebrated her birthday in Brazil with my family. It was more like a family reunion them a birthday but the kids had fun. Claire loved running around and looking at all the balloons and decorations.

The birthday theme was "Moranguinho" Strawberry short cake".

Disneyland Fun!!!

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   For our big family vacation this year we picked Disneyland! We decide that it would be fun to take my niece there. It was also my first time in Disneyland. I bent to Disneyworld but not Disneyland, I have to say is all the same, except that Disneyworld is a lot bigger and the main castle is a lot prettier. We had a great time! the best part was looking at Leah's face when she saw the princess. She was so happy and could not stop shouting all the princess names, Cinderella! Snow White! she loved the pared and was absolutely exasted by 9:00. We stay until 11:00 p.M. and it was a very long day. The bad part is that Leah will not even remember anything, oh well at least we had fun.

What did you think about Disneyland?

• Claire's point of view.
• I think I liked but I kept falling asleep all those people made me tired, but I did like my milk.

• Leah's point of view.
• I just loved all the princess specially Cinderella, she was nice. I liked Mickey mouse too and all the rides.

• Daphynne points of view. ( my niece)
• A world where you dreams can come true. Just awesome!

• Danielle point of view.
• I liked because everybody else liked and were happy. Now of course I had a good time who wouldn't have a good time at Disneyland?

• Brad's point of view.
• There was a lot of standing in line. Very expensive! Dads beware I don't recommend taking your family there! ( just kidding).

Chicago my kind of town!

I just love Chicago during the summer. Brad's is working in a project down in Chicago so we decide to come and visit the family. We had such a great time. My niece Daphynne is here visiting us from Brazil. She is 15 and she is a lot of fun. This is her first time in the U.S. and I'm glad that she could come and spend the summer with us. She loved Chicago!. We visit the main sites such as Navy Pier, Buchkinghan fountain, Sears Tower, Millennium Park and saw the 4th of July fire works downtown. That was absolutely crazy! Just so you know a couple of people got shot that day. Thankfully nothing happen to us but I have to say it was kind of scary. There were thousand of people at the place trying to find one little spot to see the fire works. When it was over it was like a flood of people trough out the streets of Chicago and we could barely move. However we still had a great time with our cousins and their kids.

We also celebrated Leah's birthday there with our family down in Chicago. Thank you Cibe for preparing everything, Leah was so excited that we sang happy birthday to her again, is like the never ending birthday.

I also have to thank you Gizelle for the great barbecue at you house and for the trip to the zoo.

Well over all Chicago is my kind of town. It has great food, great sites to see, great people and during the summer it has the perfect weather. I'm glad I got to experience Chicago again. So long!

Below are some of our pictures.

Brad's family reunion!

Brad's grandmother turned 85 years old on July 4th. So a couple of weeks earlier we all gather in South Boston for a family reunion, where we celebrated her birthday plus grandma Hunter's birthday and four other granddaughters birthdayas including Leah's. It was a lot fun to get together with everybody. We also went to Maya's baptism, (she is one of our nieces) in Nor Fork. Her little brother Iam was blessed on Sunday.

1. Us with Grandma Phillips who turned 85 years old! We just love her so much...
2. Claire 4 months, Molly 6 months and Iam 2 months. Cute cousins just laying around.
3. These are all the Hunter grandchildren, 17 kids. They are sitting with aunt Heidi.
4. Leah with her cousins waiting for a turn to hit the pinata. What a troop!
   

Trip to San Antonio

During the month of April we took a short trip to San Antonio. Brad had a conference there for work but we went there to play and have fun. We visit the River Walk, it is in down town San Antonio. It was so nice, we took the ferry boat and loved to whole ride. During the month of April there are lots of different celebrations happening in San Antonio, we watched some of the parades. Is was great. We also got to see some of Brad's friends.