My brother and sister-in-law visiting us from Brazil!

In the middle of March my younger brother Israelson and his wife Kristy came to visit us from Brazil. They left their kids with my mom and their other grandma so they could travel around a little bit. I was so excited to have them here, especially because it was the first time they came here to visit me. We had such a fun time with them... Leah and Claire loved their tia and tio, especially because they got extra attention from them.

While they were here I got to show them around Dallas. I took them to the Dallas Aquarium which I think is pretty cool and they liked it a lot.

Here is a leopard just taking a little nap.

Here they are surrounded by sharks.

Here we are at the Dallas Arboretum. I just love going there specially during the spring when all the tulips are out. They had Binny the Bull around. Very cute!

By brother was amazed at how many Texas flags he saw around the city. Go TEXAS!!!

My beautiful Leah. Every time we go to the Arboretum we take a picture with this dear.

Happy brother and happy sister.

Eating out at Leah's favorite restaurant " Olive Garden".

As you can see Claire had some desert, yummy!

I totally look pregnant here, it is the shirt people!

One of Dallas most famous sites, where President Kennedy was assassinated (how sad is that).

Tia Kristy and the girls!

They look so cute and relaxed!

I love this picture!!!

This is our new pet puppy, it is the best dog ever. He is quiet and you don't have to fee him.

Claire is 2 years old!

My baby girl is getting big. She is no longer a baby, she is officially a toddler now. She turned 2 a the end of February. She is super cute but has a mind of her own. She loves to provoke her older sister and she likes things her way. What am I going to to with this little stinker!
Claire's favorite things at the moment are playing dress up with her sister, watching movies (the princess kind), eating cookies, cake, candy or anything else that starts with the letter C. Her favorite song is "Jesus wants me to be a Sunbeam", and the popcorn song. She loves going to nursery and playing with her little friends. She is a daddy's or papai's girl. She just loves to be with her papai. She is talking a lot more but still needs translation for some of her words. She is very independent and I love her little personality. She does makes me laugh a lot with her cute ways of doing things. Love you my Claire Bear.

So for her birthday I decided it would be fun to take her to the Rain Forest Cafe. I know she loves animals and that would be a good way to celebrate her birthday. Here she is all happy looking at the fish in the aquarium with her papai.

Here she is not happy at all, this is when we are inside the restaurant, she got so scared and she kept saying "go home". Poor thing, she hated the whole thing. It was dark in the restaurant and she got frightened by the gorillas that were right by our table. The lighting was the last straw for her. She didn't eat anything and we had to take our food to go. Sorry Claire, happy birthday!

Now she is happy, after we left the restaurant.

Look, this crocodile is rich, lets get him!!!

Once we got home she was happy, especially when it was cake time.

Here she is playing with her presents.

We didn't have a party for her this year, but I still got her some balloons and a cake of course.

Look how she devours that cake, yummy!

Happy second Birthday my sweet girl!!! We love you so much.

Big Snow Day in Texas!

So on February 11th of this year 2010, we got a huge snow storm here in the Dallas area. At least it was huge for this area. We got about 4 to 5 inches of snow and it was a blast. The schools closed and kids were all over the place making snow man and snow angels. My girls loved, except after a few minutes they gave up playing in the snow and decided it was a lot more fun to play inside.

It hadn't snow like this here since the late 1970's.
Marching trough the backyard.
My girls finally got to wear they snow suites and hats, they looked so cute!

Snow fight!!!

White Christmas /2009

Christmas of 2009 was definitely one of the most memorable Christmas I ever had. Many of you already heard our family trip to Albuquerque on Dec 24th. What a day! I will briefly describe so I wont take so much time.
So we get ready to drive to my in-laws to spend Christmas. We leave on the 24th a little beat later in the day thinking that we should be save from the storm that was coming. I thought to myself how bad snow storms can be in Texas,apparently they can be bad or at least this one was. We were about 1 1/2 hours from Dallas when we couldn't move anymore and the whole highway was shut down. We thought great we are going to be late for Christmas Eve. Little did we know that we wouldn't make there until late evening of the 25th. Anyway we had to stay in the car for hours in the middle of a huge blizzard. Eventually our car battery died around 8:00P.M. and we didn't have any heat. We were freezing. We decided to leave the car and walk about a mile back to a gas station and spend the night there. Luckily a police officer was going around trying to take people to shelters. He took us in his jeep (in a very wild ride) back to a church that was getting people that were stuck in the highway as well. We spend the night there with many strangers, but I was so glad to no have to be in the freezing cold. The members of the that church were really kind. They woke up early on Christmas day and came to make breakfast for us and hundred's of other people. I was really touched by their love. From there we were able to get our car back and fix it and drive to Albuquerque. Once we got there (exhausted) we were so grateful to see everyone. I know they all prayed for us and I'm grateful for that little Christmas miracle.

We had a marvelous time for the rest of the week we were there. We went to birthday parties, meet the newest member of the family, Maddie and the kids play together for hours and hours. Christmas is a time to be together as families and most important of all to remember our Savior and celebrate His birth. This is what is important everything else is just a plus. At the end we can't complain about the snow it made us have a very white Christmas.

Catching up/ Halloween 2009

So I haven't updated my blogg for over 7 months. How sad, I'm really bad at keeping this up. My family is asking for pictures of my kids so I will do many entries trying to catch up the last couple of months.

Let start with Halloween of last year. Leah and Claire were so excited about Halloween. Leah decided that she wanted to be Tinkerbell, not a surprise at all since she loves those kind of movies. Claire was Snow Shite and a Dalmatian puppy. During the fall we had fun going to our favorite pumpkin patch and decorating our house for Halloween. Leah had a party in her school, where she sang songs and was able to do some crafts. Claire had her play group party, with her little friends. They were all so cute! We also had a church party and them of course the big night of Halloween. Brad was the one that took Leah out trick or treating. Claire wasn't feeling so well that day. It was a busy time with all the parties and activities, but this is what fall is about at the Hunter's home.