Thanks Kristin!

We being talking about Benjamin doing a sport as an extra activity after school but we just never take the time to go sign him up (awful parents - I know!). We lost AGAIN the sign up for SAY Soccer so when I got the local Community Center paper right the way I started reading and marking the ones I was thinking were a good idea: Soccer - Karate - Gymnastics - Tennis - Golf, Swimming...

Well, after talking to daddy and Ben about it, B was no way to be flexible - he had his heart and mind set into TENNIS! =)
Great!!!  I'm loving it I think it's awesome and at no means I want to be negative I just know how my son works.
He will take the racket and believe he can hit all the balls easily like he does on the WII game. I talked to him about it and explained and explained! It requires lots of work and concentration!

Anyways the classes don't start until April and Ben is a bag full of anxiety waiting for this class to start! I don't want to go out and get him the gears just yet because I want to make sure he is really gonna be into it! I posted a little note on Facebook to see if anyone had an extra one laying around to let us use or for sale. K found a pair at a GW store and got it for him and Noah!

And the rest you can see:


Facebook post looking for raquets:                        Free
Pair of raquets gifted from Kristin:                          $0,50
Ben loveing it so much he felt asleep with it:          Priceless!

the cutest gift I have ever got!...

I forgot to post about this, having guests in the house took me off track for a little while, but now that I'm thinking about it I want to share with you the cutest gift ever!...

This year for my birthday Dan got me a star!
Yeah - a Star!
These is one of those things that I always wanted but never was gonna say anything, ykwIm? It's not fun if you ask for it?! I think it's super romantic too! He read this beautiful poem before he gave it to me, while he was reading I was wondering "hu - lots os love, star and my name in this poem - wonder what he is up to" and sure enough! A star registry!

So - somewhere up in the sky there's a star with my name! =) *so Cool*

Thanks Leslie!!! =)

 For the 2 new playsilks! (They were actually worship flags, what makes them even cooler!) - The boys loved it! God Bless You!!!
  
 This was Benji’s old one - A toy well used! =) -Thank you too Kt.

 

 Esses “pedacos de pano” sao um brinquedo meio hippie que eh bem comum aqui nos EUA, chamamos de “Play-silk” que traduzindo ao pe da letra significa “Brinca com Seda”, pois o material eh uma seda…
 Custa caro aqui, uns 30 reais… e nossa amiga Leslie nos deu 2 pedacos de bandeiras que ela tinha feito para a igreja dela… e funcionou certinho para as criancas! =)
 O nosso velho quem nos deu foi a “Keiry” que eh a mae do meio irmao do Benjamin e do Noah…
 Pela foto da para ver quanto eles brincaram, nao eh mesmo?
 O Ben usa de capa de superheroi, cobertor para os ursos… tenda… tudo aquilo que a imaginacao dele quiser! =)
 Legal, nao?!

I'm SO American

As an “becoming an american citizen” present Marie L got me a subscription to MS Living Magazine!!!

COOL - COOL - COOL

Thanks so much Marie!!!! =)

We got a new mattress!!! FREE!

Dan was always complaining that out mattress sucked that it was falling a part blah blah blah…


He always asked me to call the co. because it had a 10 yrs warranty. I never did… so times goes by and he called. They came out to measure our mattress and let me tell ya: When I took the mattress cover/pad out I was choked! Our mattress really was falling a part!!! The guys measured and got back with us a few days later, the result was that we were approved for a replacement.

Not just that but they didn’t make our mattress anymore (It was only 3 yrs old) so they gave us an upgrade. It was originally $600 and we paid $400 for our mattress on sale and we just got this new one AWESOME $1220 worth for FREE and free delivery and everything!!!

How cool was that???

Kings Island Gold Pass - More than a Nice Surprise…

Salty Dawgs – Dixie Chicks – J’s Squad - called it whatever you want to!!! - It’s a fun group of women who love each other and have each other as sisters and it’s awesome to be part of it! -We rock!


Puppy, Xuxa, Tati and Dary pitched in and got me a KI Gold pass – Can you believe it?

And what makes me so happy it’s not the fact I have one – it’s not the fact they did got me a “gift” and spent the money (I do appreciate it thou)
We could not afford one this year and the he coolest thing for me it’s to think that they all have passes and they did it because they wished I could be there with them!
Now how cool is that?? I guess they do like me! =) LOL

I love you girls! -God bless you all!

Lots of fun time and good food

Samantha came by to watch the kids Friday morning while I went to Shelly’s for the Bible Study. We had a very nice as usual


Benji only wants to be “tataouside” all the time so Saturday Dan had Bill & Jeff helping to get the steps done on our deck so we don’t have to go all the way around the house LOL
It looks great and apparently was more complicated them everyone expected. We left for a couple of hours to the “annual” Brazilian children’s Easter Egg Hunt at GrandMae’s house.

Benji enjoyed his time, and all the candy! Noah ate grass and mud. =)

Later that night the Kilgalons came by and Amy – we grilled out, had some wine and smoked some cigars while the kids played in the basement/outside – Very nice time…
Sunday flew by – we never noticed and the only thing really I accomplished was a little shopping at Michaels, Target and some laundry!

We went to Frank & Dari’s house by Papa’s request and hanged out there way later then we should – lol – it was so good! The kids played wel together and like Dari said: “It felt a little like home”

They gave Benji this awesome train table with a lot of tracks and trains - he played on it al day!
- Thanks so much Dari!

Papa stayed at home today and that is always the best so the boys were all over him, we had Tim & Katie over for dinner, we had sushi, sashimi and the best best best fruit for desert -Yummie!! =)