JEN'S VISIT

The guest room has been ready for months and finally we have a visitor!

My sister came for almost two weeks.

She served a mission for our church here in Brazil 20 years ago, so she knew a little of what to expect. She also knows the language and was very helpful to me because I was much braver about venturing out of my comfort zone while she was here.

We went to the Feira and bought all our fruits and veggies. This is an outdoor market I go to each Saturday.

Jen keep Lindssei (my maid) busy with daily cooking lessons.

Coxinahs are a favorite in our house!

All our friends loved Jen. This is Jen, Andrea, and I at a Churrascaria in Tatui.

One afternoon we fed the missionaries an American lunch. We have been able to have the missionaries over many times. I even spent an afternoon going door to door with them. They love taking me with them because everyone wants to listen when they have a crazy American who speaks very little Portuguese.

Pamela, Alison, and Jen at our weekly pizza night with friends.

The entire gang!

We ate hot dogs from a weenie cart on the side of the road. This is very common here and I was just hoping no one would get sick!

We spent an entire day visiting friends in Sao Paulo, but it really is not conducive to tourism. Very difficult to get around and we got lost several times!

We did find our way to the temple in Sao Paulo. Amazingly beautiful!!!

As always her stay went way too fast and good byes are so sad, but we hope she will be able to come back real soon!!!

SPRING

Today is October 27th and the weather here in Brazil is just beautiful!!!

I haven't done any decorating for Halloween. It's so strange to have the seasons mixed up and I have to keep reminding myself that the Holidays will soon be here. Maybe we will be decorating a palm tree by the pool this year!

DAY OF BIEBER FEVER

All Alison wanted for her birthday this year were Justin Bieber tickets. She was freaking out about it for weeks. Almost drove me crazy!

The day finally arrived and we all drove to Sao Paulo. We have some good friends that live there and we have been wanting to see them so it worked out perfectly. We had lunch with Vinas family and then Gabby, Jen (my sister was in town), and I drove Alison and Tim to the concert.

I was so glad we were with Gabby. I never could have driven there. It was so nuts!!! We were laughing so hard because Gabby was driving and trying to help us buy souvenirs off the street. She was yelling and men were chasing after our car trying to make a sale. We got some great deals as long as I didn't try to speak!

I think Tim was just as excited as Alison (maybe more).

Her camera ran out of Battery during the concert so she didn't get a lot of pics, but that's okay she has not stopped talking about it.

And Tim has promised another Bieber concert soon!!!

WE LOVE YOU JUSTIN!!!!

WINTER BREAK 2011

PART TWO

After our week of fun in St. Louis Tim headed back to Brazil for work and the kids and I went to Salt Lake City to spend some time with my family.

We arrived in Utah on the 14th of July which is Tyler's birthday. We celebrated with a dinner of mexican food. It is very hard to find any mexican food in Brazil and we so miss it!

Happy Birthday T-bone!!!

Alison, Josh, Dani and Kai at the Zoo.

Grandpa Richard and Kyle

Tyler and Kyle love the Zoo. Can't you tell?

We also went to a Salt Lake Bee's baseball game

and also did tons of shopping at our favorite place GATEWAY!!!

Kyle at the waterpark:)

Jake and Ashlyn

We spent several days on temple square. We had our friend Pamela with us from Brazil so we tried to show her as many things as possible.

Love seeing the cousins together!

Pamela, Jen's four kids, Rogers four girls and the Bishop kids at Temple square.

Kiley and Kyle were just the very best of friends. He will miss her lots!!!

All good things must come to an end!:( We arrived in Brazil after a very long flight. Tired, hungry and very sad. Our days of sleeping in, eating Mc Donalds everyday and Jake driving are over for another year. We are enjoying our time in Brazil, but there is no place like home!!!