Today I’m turning 27

I went to the Y with Dani & kids – we had a great time!  Noah is amazing in the water – he impressed me! Diving and “swimming” just like a fish! Very different then Benji that still doesn’t like to get his head wet!

 
 

Dan got me a bunch of yummies for my birthday, all my favorites: Cocktail Shrimp, Turtle cheese cake, a regular cake (more for the boys) and my favorite Ice cream! =)

It was a very sweet birthday! =)

He gave the funniest card ever and he managed to get the kids to “sign” another card for me too! So cute!! We had a great family birthday night thing just the four of us! Hmmm I’m so happy! I love my 3 boys so much!

  

We are SO under the weather…!

Man, I hate being sick!

We were in bed the past 3 days – Dan & I with freaking strap!

That is the nastiest thing an adult can have! I can’t remember when was the last time I felt this way! I thought it was never gonna end! Amy drove me to the Dr because I was so “passing out” and she took care of me, took me to pharmacy, and her mom sent us food. She was incredible! Dani too took Benjamin for the day on my worst day so Dan & I could rest! It’s good to have friends like family!
Thanks so much girls!!! =)

Everyday they look more alike

Noah looks more like Benjamin!!!
They do but they don’t! They are so different but look alike at the same time! Funny
Everyonce in a while Benjamin looks a lot like Fynn (their older brother that unfurtunally we don’t see anymore…)
Cute Noah, his works are much better now! We actually can understand things like:
baba - byebye
te te - cheese
dada - dad
i may sound little yet but the progress has being very noticeble! =) And I’m glad to report!

He felt off the chair the other day - playing pee-ka-boo and hit this month on the table – his little front teeth cut thru his bottom lip! It gace me the goose bumps to take it out - lots of blood!

LOST

I talked to Angela last week about TV shows and she mentioned about Lost – it got me curious so Dan & I decided to give it a try…

Within 3 days we were done with season 1 – We watched over 1000 minutes of TV (Our wuote for the whole year - lol)

Everytime an episode would end Benjamin ran out to us and said :Yeahhh! It’s over!

Then a new one would start and he shouted : Oh noooooo another one!!! LOL

Poor kids! 

So we are gonna give it a break before starting season 2 (Even thou we are dieing to see) but the kids need family time!

So we had a date…

After ages without  going out alone yesterday Mie & Kristen came over to watch the boys so Dan & I could go out alone.

Man! Isn’t that good!?

To know that they are with family is like if they were with Dani or Tati. We really don’t get to relax if they are with a baby sitter!! I’m SO ready to do this in a regular basis! And I absolutelly love that my kids are bonding more and more with family!  

We had a nice dinner, and had all kinds of time to talk! And apparently the boys did very good with M + K. =)

Thanks again guys!

A hair cut & a chocolate doughnut

Benjamin did so good during his hair cut so I thought he deserved a chocolate doughnut! A Mc Donalds with chocolate on top - that is how he calls it!

Anways… We showered and there was still little pieces of hair here and there so I got the powder and put a little on his back, inside his shirt so they would slip right out.
He turns to me as asks: -Mom, why are you putting sugar on me????

Bwahahahahahaha

Of course I aswered “To make you sweeter honey!”   (as if the doughnut wasen’t enought!)

And I was thinking would take long before I had this “kind” of posts!

About the hair cut – I’ll give myself a 7 – For someone with no training or experience I think I’m doing a pretty good job on their hair – this was my best so far (makes sense)

A new year already

New years was a blessing! Surrounded by our brothers n sisters IC, in such a connection with our Lord!
Connie and her family received us with so much love and care – So did everyone else too. We were there for like 5 days and it was more and more blessings everyday! =)

The drive was good both ways and we came back today because it’s supposed to snow more tomorrow, so we cut it short! still was all worth it!

Food 24/7 – all kinds of yummy! I eat *SO* much. The kids had a blast! It was a awesome relaxing trip! We didn’t sleep a whole lot but still, after Noah was anointed we absolutely feel the difference in him and Thank God we being able to sleep better every night…
I’m so mad I forgot my camera – it’s like the 3rd or 4th place I go and I forget my camera! Can’t believe it! This time I couldn’t pass it by so I got 2 disposable ones – now I need to develop them! So – pic are coming soon!

Look who came to visit

Mary & baby Jesus (pretty in pink! - lol!!!) Grace cracks me up!!!

Festival of Lights

I went there with the boys and we met the “Fair - Ponds” there and I forgot my cameraaaaa =(
(Amy, if you have any pics, can you send them to me??? Txs!!!)

Anyways, We got this one to register the day:

It was sooo cold but we manage ok, the boys loved and they were great! We didn’t get to see a lot of animals but we saw an ice sculpture and rided the train - as usual! lo

Chirstmas was…

Fun!

X-mas eve was good. I feel like not everyone that was over here had a good time, but I won’t stress out about it! I did! So did Dan & the boys!

It was us, F+S - The Worleys, K+M , The Pascuals, J+B and Kip, Dani + Kids came later…

It was SO awesome to see Beth! We had too much to catch up… 3 am was early for us!

X-mas day we had a brunch at F’s house very low key.

The kids got waaaay more gifts then we expected – they LOVED it!

70% of the gifts they got on x-mas eve were from K+M so K helped Benjamin open his packages – Every gift he opened he said:

-         This is my favorite! I loved it! It’s all I wanted!

Cute, hu? He said that for EVERY gift! lol

 
 
They REALLY enjoyed their present! I’m SO glad we got noah that Diego Riding thingy… he loves it!
 
 
 

Brazilian X-mas Brunch

As you can see bellow my kids did NOT like Santa! (If they only knew it’s their uncle!)
We had a very good time and pretty good food too. We missed some people - Sm was in Fl and so forth… (is that right? so forth?)
Anyways…I don’t have time to write details but we all had a great time! =)
Check out some pics!  
 
Those are my favorite:
 
After that Linda & I scraped until like close to midnight. It was awesome to spend sometime with her alone, Dan had the kids so we worked and laught a lot! (laught? laughted?) whatever - my brain is not working today!

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!!!! =)

It’s not easy!

Mara’s dad passed away last week -so yesterday we went to Columbus to cry with our friend - Not just a visit it was healing all over the place. God filled her house with His angels; we had a blessed time with happiness, peace, answers to our questions, reconciliation and lots of love.

It’s had being almost 2 years since I saw/talked to her. So it was great.  Half away of our visit we hear this beautiful music coming from the outside, we go check it was Daleth, Connie & Ze + another 2 families came to visit too. What a blessed time. The 2 families I met there were so much fun! =)

We all had a bunch of good laughs! Hopefully it was good to Mara too (Looked like it was!)
I can’t imagine how hard it is to loose a loving one. But as the brother said during the prayer – he was ready – he even said good bye to his animals! :~(

I was so “in heaven” that my 2-hour drive back home felt like a 15 minutes. The boys were so awesome and this will be just a trip to remember…

Art by the Golan boys

Noah drawing with ketchup and french fries…  (Click here for the video)
And Benjamin insists that the hangers look great and belong to the x-mas tree


Double check

Perfect! he was proud of his job!

Benji’s Gingerbread Train

Benji’s Gingerbread Train

While we wait for the “making off” pictures from Linda I got a few of the final product!
Our CrazyAboutTrains guy had SO MUCH fun with this project! It’s all he talks about the past couple of days!

And he went nuts on the “gum” balls

The nice weather today

Gave us a chance to be on a diaper cover only! =)

How can you resist that heart????  Yuuumie legs!

The weekend

We had a lot of fun this past couple of days while we were out of town.
A road trip can sure bring a family together! Even thou it was a “business” trip we had a good time. The kids were amazing in the car and everything went smooth – All was good… I’m a pile of exhaustion; it looks like I got punched in the eye; tired as can be but I would do it all over again.

Saturday while we where driving thru Indy we stopped at the Cruz’s house – had some awesome food and the boys had a bunch of fun! I think we may be going out there for new years!

We had a chance to drive-thru doughnut shop; and the whole time after that Benjamin kept on asking for “Mc Donald’s with chocolate on top”


Today we went to Linda’s for a “baking day” and it was a blast! Besides putting on #s & #s with all the yummies I also had a great time with Ben, Noah & Monica. Linda got Benjamin a gingerbread “train” and he loved it! (Linda – send me the pictures when you have a chance please!)

When we got home he was so excited to show daddy. Their conversation went:

B “Look daddy – the train I did all by myself”
D “Oh Benjamin, it’s awesome – I’m so proud of you buddy.”
B “I’m so proud of you too daddy”

=oP

This last time my batch of lip balm SUCK!

Me, Myself & Lilian

I’m just gonna have to accept the fact I’ll be overweight for now on!
Only 3 days not watching what I ate and I put in over 5#s – believe me or not! =(

My face is more broken out then the teenagers on my street and I’m getting full of “worry lines”.

BLAH!

I guess I need to “LET GO & HAVE FUN!”

It’s just *so* freaking hard 4 me to look in the mirror and feel like crap, ugly & very unattractive.!

T said my “insides” make me pretty - Mike T said it’s all about my “Inner Beauty”

* bullshit! *
That is ugly people talk!
I do believe in Inner Beauty -I’m just angry right now!

Angela has a great thinking and attitude about it – I wish I had just a tinny bit of it!
I have to change my attitude! It’s hard….
I talked to Dan about changing our relationship in 30 days – it’s being a week and so far we haven’t done anything, I’m loosing hope here…

APF & Ben’s Concert + things we are into to

Yesterday we went to see the Aussie Pink Floyd concert @ Taft Theater, it was insanely good! I was very impressed.

I post a few videos on my You Tube account. My camera is a piece of crap but still did a ok job – I wasn’t really concentrated on the camera – I was enjoying the show while recording so they are not good however it can give you a little taste of it! =)

Next year I want to go again!

And this is the Show Benjamin put up for us the other day – I forgot to post this video! Funny guy! He just waited their for applause! =) lol

The boys now love:

B - “Spider’s going up your back – spider’s going down your back…”

N - “Serra, Serra, Serrador…”

Dan is totally out FF – he is so upset! (I’m not! Lol)

And I? I love this Slim-Fast Optima Muffin Bar, I don’t do Slim fast diet or anything – I’m just a muffin maniac! Nutrition is not that great – lots of sugar, but better then a regular muffin! They have like a Blueberry, Banana Nut & Chocolate Chip

So this is the one thing I found to indulge in the mornings! Mmm with a spice pumpkin coffee! =)