Khloe is 2!

This little girl is 2! I can't believe how grown up she is. She has something to say about everything. We don't understand much of what she's saying but she says it with great expression and animation. She loves chalk, crayons, markers, balls and more balls. She loves to play outside and her dogs. She likes to throw things down the stairs say "weeee" or "uh oh" and then laugh. She has the funniest little laugh. When she laughs I laugh. She likes to feed the fish. She likes all things chocolate, peanut butter and jelly, pasta, rice and strawberries. She is tiny, in the 10th percentile for weight. She has no bum and her 12 month sized pants fall off. 

Khloe did not like everyone singing to her. Usually she likes to blow out the candles but at her party she wasn't having it. She's practiced blowing out candles for months!

Khloe had her party at Discovery Gateway.

Sean doing the news.

Eating her cake. I love that little face!

Khloe loved the balloons. She didn't care about her presents. She just wanted her balloons.

I got her a lawnmower which amused her for a few minutes. It's hard to be two. So many presents and such a short attention span.

Caleb Warehime

Trip home

Such a longgg trip home. We got up at 4 a.m. to drive from Campos to Rio. When we drove from Rio to Campos it took almost 8 hours. The traffic was horrific. The traffic on the way back was not bad so we made it in 4 hours. We had 5 hours to sit around the airport. It was OK because I couldn't deal with the stress of worrying about missing our plane.

Sean's electronics's ran out of batteries and we had checked the adapter so we bought some magnetic marbles for him to play with while we waited. This is in Chile. This is where my credit card was denied.

We ate at a Ruby Tuesday that was really loud and had crappy service. This bill made me laugh. No tip included then they added a tip. It was only 10% and our waiter was one of the few people actually working so it was fine but funny.

Making crazy faces on the plane. This was the plane ride from LAX to SLC. So close to home. I was able to stretch across 3 seats for the long plane ride. I slept about 5 hours then Don and I switched and he slept about 3. Sean slept the 5 I slept.

30 hours of travel to get home. It felt so good to get home and sleep in our own beds and take a bath. Fun trip but getting home was wonderful. About 20 hours after we left the Chile airport they had a massive volcano eruption and airports in Chile, Argentina and Rio were closed. We could still be there!

Bernardo's baptism

Such a beautiful baby!

My favorite picture! Sean isn't a big fan of church and he really doesn't like church in Portuguese. He was quite unhappy about how long the service was.

There was a party at Daisy's afterwards. Daisy's mom's maid came and worked all day. The kitchen was so dang hot and she worked her butt off. I really felt bad for her. Daisy had cooked a lot of stuff in advance but there was still a lot of work the day of. 

The universal language of children, electronics.

The little girl is the niece of the maid. When Daisy asked her if she'd had some cake she said "the English woman gave me some." Cute!

The best black bean's I've ever had.

Campos

We spent an hour on the beach in Campos. I can't remember the name of it. Alice called it the chocolate beach because the water is brown. A river runs through the beach so the water has a lot of mud from the river. The sand is really coarse. It almost doesn't feel like sand. It was almost dark when we got there so we didn't stay long.

Sean and Don had fun playing in the surf.

These are the stairs at Daisy's house. People always come into my house and say how steep my stairs are. Ha, my stairs have nothing on these. The houses are two story and there's not a lot of extra space to waste with a stair case so this works.

Daisy's parents house

We had dinner on Saturday at Daisy's parent's house. Lot's of food. They were cooking up a storm!

Sean wasn't a big fan of the Brazilian food. He was being picky and wouldn't even eat the rice. He's usually pretty open minded about food. We ended up getting him McDonald's and that made him so happy. He said it tasted "exactly the same as home."

A selfie from the balcony on the top floor of their house.

There is so much outdoor living space. It reminds me of Costa Rica. A lot of things reminded me of Costa Rica. Tile floors, no hot water in the sinks, heater's on the shower heads. Brazil was a lot hotter than where we stayed in Costa Rica. It was fall when we were there I can't imagine how miserable it must be in summer. Daisy said it gets up to 100 degrees. She has a couple of window box air conditioners but they are expensive to run. I am glad we went in April.

Sean is really into exercise. He lifts weights at home every day. He was trying to ride the bike but it was too high. He worked out at the gym near the falls in Brazil but they wouldn't let him work out at the gym in Rio and he cried like his heart was broken.

Daisy's mom has this awesome out door kitchen. There aren't a lot of air conditioners in the houses so this is a great way to cook and not heat up the house. They funny thing was Daisy's mom and sister were inside cooking and her brother in law was outside cooking. There was a whole lot of cooking going on.

When we got Daisy's file as an exchange student from AFS in 1979 there was a picture of her taken right on this walk way. I would have never imagined that 35 years later I would be standing in the same spot.