Christmas pictures

So this year I decided to try and and do the kids pictures myself in front of our christmas tree. 

 This is the result, pretty good if I don't say so myself but I think this next year a good camera

is top of my list. =)

Cookie Bake

Every year for the last 15 years or so we have gone to the Safeway cookie bake where you buy the dough and cut and bake it all there.  Its so nice to have all the mess some where else.  We go with Reina and her family every year its a wonderful tradition.

A cada ano durante os últimos 15 anos ou mais, temos ido para o cookie Safeway assar onde você compra a massa e corte e asse tudo lá. Sua tão bom ter toda a confusão alguns onde mais. Vamos com Reina e sua família a cada ano sua tradição maravilhosa.

 Andrew, Lainey, and Cooper making cookies. (Andrew, Lainey e Cooper fazendo cookies.)

 Lainey cutting cookies and working hard. (Lainey corte os cookies e trabalhando duro.)

 Cooper rolling out his dough.  (Cooper lançando sua massa.)

 Andrew cutting cookies. (Andrew corte cookies.)

What a fun day with my babies.  (Que dia divertido com os meus bebês.)

Kid's tree

The kids decorating Lainey's tree.  They all have their own trees and help each other decorate...so sweet.  As crianças árvore Lainey decorar o. Todos eles têm suas próprias árvores e ajudar uns aos outros decorar ... tão doce.

 Starting the tree. (Começando a árvore.)

All finished and of course Lainey won't smile. (Tudo acabado e, claro, Lainey não sorrir.)

Cooper's Accident

So Cooper had a little fall into the fire place well on the marble surrounding the fire place and we really thought he broke his arm. We went to the urgent care and they said no brake but still put him in a splint and said it should be better in 2-3 days if not come back so after 3 days he was fine which I wasn't sure he was in a lot of pain still on day two. But yeah he is better and playing and running around and still jumping off everything.
Então, Cooper teve uma pequena queda na lareira bem sobre o mármore ao redor da lareira e nós realmente pensou que ele quebrou o braço. Fomos para o atendimento de urgência e eles disseram que não freio, mas ainda colocá-lo em uma tala e disse que deveria ser melhor em 2-3 dias, se não voltar assim depois de três dias ele estava bem, que eu não estava certo de que ele estava em um muita dor ainda no segundo dia. Mas sim, ele é melhor e jogando e correndo por aí e ainda pulando tudo.

 

Our Trip Home and Black Friday

So sorry everyone in Brazil that it has taken me so long to post but here is goes.  The flight was well really really long but it went pretty well, the kids were great which is the only reason that flight is even possible.  Then the next few days was jsut for rest and to try and get ready for shopping. =)
Black Friday was wonderful like always and all my stressing was for not because all my planning came through and we got everything on the list. YEAH!!! Here are some picture from the shopping day.
Todos tão triste no Brasil que me levou tanto tempo para postar mas aqui está vai. O vôo foi bem realmente muito longo, mas ele foi muito bem, as crianças eram grandes, que é a única razão que o vôo é ainda possível. Em seguida, nos próximos dias era apenas para descansar e tentar se preparar para fazer compras. =)

Black Friday foi maravilhoso como sempre e todos os meus sublinhando era para não porque todo o planejamento a minha chegou e tivemos tudo na lista. YEAH!! Aqui estão algumas fotos do dia de compras.

 Stop one this is our walmart take.(Parar um este é o nosso walmart tomar)

 Stop two disney store. (Parar dois Disney Store)

And the final take home Wal-Mart, Disney, Target, Fred Meyers, and Toysrus. (Ea final levar para casa Wal-Mart, Disney, Target, Fred Meyers, e ToysRUs.)

Cooper swimming

Cooper is getting so brave and really starting to swim.  I can't believe the difference in 2 months!!!

Andrew's Swim Competition

So today was Andrew's first swim competition and he did so wonderful.  The first heat he did was the back stroke and we were sure what to expect in any of them especially this one.  When it was finally his turn he killed it he beat everyone by a lot and won the GOLD medal!!!  Then more waiting and then he swam the front stoke.  He did so good in this one as well he got the silver medal and only lost out of the gold by a fraction of a second.  We will get his offical scores Tuesday at swimming but no matter what he did excellent.  The way this competition worked was if you got a certain time in your age group that got you the gold, silver, or bronze medals so it wasn't one on one so to say but personal goals.  I thought this was great because it allows the kids to still be competitive but maybe not so much pressure with the other competitors.  Anyway we are so proud of him I cried but whats new there. =)  Here are the pics and the videos are on youtube I will post the link once they are done downloading.

Here is the youtube post: http://www.youtube.com/user/reenaday1213

 Just arriving at 8am.

 Getting in the mood with a little tunes.

 Focus, Focus, Focus!

 All six schools were announced and walked around the pool.

Getting ready to get in the water and warm up.

 GOLD!!!

Silver medal for the front stroke.

 Getting ready to dive in for the front stroke.  That has been the hardest part is getting that dive down.

Gold and silver how awesome on his first competition ever.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

We celebrated Halloween a couple days late but still had a party.  It was a blast we did trick or treating with all the rooms in our apartment and had face painting.  I baked a ton of stuff we had brownies, sugar cookie pumpkins, witches fingers cookies, and chocolate cupcakes...Sugar overload.  Here are some pics of the day.

 Treat table

 Vanessa getting Andrew ready

 Nightmare before Christmas scary.

 Vampire Cooper.

 Creepy zombie hand punch.

 Kitty cat Lainey

 What a cute and scary bunch.

Trick or treat rewards.

Swimming Update

Here is an update of the kids swimming.  Andrew is one week from his swim competition that he will be doing the front stroke and back stroke.  He is doing really well and we are going to do a couple extra days with him to help get his breathing down.  Nov 5th 8am is the competition wish him luck.

Lainey now diving down to pick stuff off the bottom of the floor.  She doesn't ever want arm

 floaties anymore she is a swimmer.

Cooper is finally putting his head under the water, he is not quite getting the swimming part down but I'm just excited he is getting more comfortable with the water.

Kid's Day

In Brazil they celebrate Kid's Day like we do Mother's and Father's Day its a big day the kids don't have school that day and some schools for the whole week.  Anyway we went to the club for the day and swam.  Here is a couple videos from the day, the kids had so much fun.  I wish that I knew about kids day because I would have brought presents but stuff is so expensive here I didn't really want to buy anything.  The rest of the kids here got big present like DS's but the kids were fine with the small things they got and we had such a good time at the club I don't think they knew any different.

Costume Party (Brazil Halloween)

So this last weekend we went to Franca which is about 3 hours away and stayed the weekend for Dani's birthday. It was a blast it was a costume party which was nice since they don't really have halloween here it was nice for the kids to dress up. Andrew was Bam Bam and Lainey was Pebbles, and Cooper was a vampire. Cooper fell asleep about 8pm and the party didn't even start until 930 so he missed the whole thing but he was at least dressed up for a picture. Lainey then fell asleep about 1030 so she missed all the dancing but Andrew stayed up with us like a rock star until about 3am. Its crazy how late everything is here but we had such a good time. The place we stayed slept all of the people that came from Uberlandia and was also the place that the party was at so it was huge. Anyway here are some pics of the weekend. FUN times oh Happy Birthday Dani!!!