School 2012 Uberlandia, Brazil

 Cooper he wants to be a "clean up the world guy" when he grows up

 Lainey wants to be a Artist

 Andrew goes back and forth between a video game designer and a doctor...totally opposite ;)

 Cooper in his class

 Lainey on her way to her class

 Day two... the kids are so cute

I think I was way more nervous then any of the kids, I thought for sure Andrew would be nervous being the oldest he would know the most about what is happening and how hard it is to not be able to talk to anyone but he wasn't nervous at all.  Once we got to school we took a tour of all the kids class rooms so they all knew where each of them would be.  Then as school started we took each one of them to their rooms and one of the English teachers introduced the kids and for Andrew and Cooper that is all it took and they were off.  For Lainey she needed us to stay for a while but 2 hours later Robert and I were home with the kids in school.  Weird feeling that moment was.  Well its the end of the first week and Cooper came home once and Lainey and Andrew have a ton of friends and the people at school say that the kids love our kids so much and Cooper they call "super".  They are all happy and I just feel like in two months they will be fluent in another language and just really able to learn and grow.  Anyway here are a couple pics from the first day.

Our Trip to Brazil

Well this time was a little different there are some things that every time we go to Brazil we can count on, like the time we spend in Sao Paulo is horrible, the flight from Portland is good etc.  Well none of that happened this time, Portland was horrible we were late and the flight attendants were so rude that I was crying and it was my actual 30th birthday which probably made me more emotional and then when we got to Dallas Lainey got really sick and throw up everywhere and Cooper had diarrhea.  To say the least it wasn't fun.  But then normally this would be the point that things get bad but this is actually where things started to turn around we got the row with 5 seats and no one was in that last one so we had a whole row and at one point Andrew and cooper were sleeping on the floor and Lainey and I had the whole row to completely lay out in.  Again right now as we land in Sao Paulo life would suck but we had some one pick us up right from customs (which someone helped us push the carts with 10 bags through) and then we got on a 14 passenger van and took all 4 of us and 12 bags to the national airport to make our final flight.  Not with out one more bout of throwing up, this time all over her clothes, so she had coopers extra set of clothes on from that point on.  In the new airport we had sometime which let us sit and eat and just relax a second which was really nice to do.  The last and final flight was short and smooth and we were here final spot Uberlanida Brazil.  I think this was probably the worst set of flights of all of them with two of the kids getting sick I don't know what I would have done without Andrew he is my solid I can always count on him.  Anyway we are here and life is settling into a great routine and the next post will be about school. YEAH!!!

Lainey in Dallas, TX

Random Summer Pics

 St. Lucia just Robert and I.  It was so wonderful and relaxing we couldn't have asked for a better trip.

 One of our dinner spots, it was on the water and served seafood which was actually very good.

 Lainey holding our new family addition Jackson Patrick, we all love our new cousin.

 Happy Father's Day Daddy, Granddad, and Uncle Eric

 Happy Birthday Lainey...a new leotard for gymnastics

 What a great pic of three of my favorite people

 Cooper learning to shave

 Robert with his best friend Ryan helping them move to Texas :(.

 Lainey and Cooper coloring

 Abigail and Ryan got our care package in their new home in Texas

 Lainey and her cousin Maya.  According to Lainey they are best friends.

 Best picture of the summer by far.  GG throwing the football and the family picnic.

 1st time I made the fruit baby for a baby shower this summer pretty cute =)

 Cooper's new hair cut

 Lainey and I with a camera and being silly...I love her!

 The newest addition to our little family.  Rodrigo is from Brazil and we are so happy to have him with us.  Oh and we are at the Portland Timbers game.

 Andrew exploring the woods with Jay and Cooper

 Rodrigo, Robert, and Eric.  We took Rodrigo to the beach for the first time in America.  It was sunny but cold water.

 Me with Abigail and Eden on my trip to Texas.  What a wonderful weekend with one of my best friends.  Love you Abigail!

 Captain Judah!!!

 Abigail and I

 Happy 30th me!  80's night out with my best friends, couldn't have asked for a better night.

 The next morning was such a great breakfast the whole restaurant sang happy birthday to me.

 And to cap off the already wonderful weekend Tea with the girls.  Love you all very much

 Lainey

 Lainey is such a little model

 Ninja Cooper

My Bestie and I... Love her more than life!

Andrew's Angry Party

 Angry birds Party

 Team one

 Team two

 The goal...pop all your balloons.

 The whole game

 The food

 Getting ready for game time

 Loaded and ready to go

 Did they get it?

 You got to pull hard Robert gave a little help

 Bird food

 The winning team

 The cake!

 11 candles, he's getting so big!

 Decor

 Thank you Momma

 Thank you Aunt Reena and Uncle G

What a handsome crew!