Brianna The Photographer

This is one of many shots Bri took of her Daddy, ALL by herself. Bravo Bri!

Two weeks ago, Daddy & Bri went on a date to the Springville Apple Festival and Fair and had lots of fun eating yummy food (Bri ate a whole apple by herself!), feeding a pony and seeing many other animals Bri already knows and loves

On the way back from the mountains, Daddy had to stop so that Bri could play with Cascade, her best buddy

These two really like each other! Cascade is two weeks younger than Brianna. Her parents, Jaison & Laurienne as our really good friends here. We get together whenever we can and the girls love it!

Because I'm The Mom...

This video was too good to not share!

Enjoy!

Learning with Brianna

Well, it's been a while since these videos were taken, but it's taken me a while to edit them down to the highlights.

Here's some footage of Brianna learning words and reading at almost 19 months.

New Look for our Blog

Technology has changed so much in the past 2 years with what you can do in blogging we decided to update the look and features of our blog. Let us know what you think.

Debido a que la tecnología mejoró tanto para los sitos web en los últimos 2 años, decidimos cambiar el estilo de nuestro blog. Esperamos que les guste más.

San Francisco Weekend

Last weekend we went to San Francisco for the ADA and NASDAD conventions and had an absolute blast. Jeremy attended some ADA management classes and Bibi enjoyed learning more about nutrition and health.

We also made time to go to the San Francisco Zoo and Brianna loved learning about all the different animals she'd only seen in picture books up to this point. She especially enjoyed the gorilla, the bears, lions and a roaring tiger (he was not a happy camper that day!)

Bri also enjoyed "playing" with the lion and lion cubs.

Enjoying a treat ... Bri's favorite snack

Going to the zoo was such a neat experience, but what our princess enjoyed the most (still to this day) was watching the sea lions on Pier 39. She learned all about "las focas" and asks about them everyday now. Luckily, Daddy made a little video of them and we watch it almost daily. Auntie Anne also gave Bri a "Frosty Friends" book with a sea lion on the cover. She's having fun reading it!

Gardening playdate with Grammy

Like Grammy, Brianna loves to play in the garden

Not only does she run around and play, she always helps pick "momatoes" (aka tomatoes) from the garden and feed the fishies. Grammy loves to have these precious helping hands around!!

Beautiful Niagara Falls

This past weekend, Jeremy traveled to New York for a speaking engagement, and also found some precious free time to visit Niagara Falls

Breathtaking views ...

Who is this handsome guy??

Look at the "little boat" at the bottom

All in all we think that Iguazu Falls are quite more impressive, but maybe (for sure) we are biased!!! Argentina rocks!!

Aprendiendo el abecedario

Con la ayuda de Mozart y de mi mami, estoy aprendiendo todas las letras del abecedario. Como me gusta aprender!!!

Hasta ahora digo: a, k, m, n, o, p, q, u, y asi de a poquito voy agregando mas vocales y consonantes. Si me preguntas, tambien te puedo decir donde esta mi cabeza, pelo, ojos, nariz, boca, lengua, manos y pies. Estoy cada dia mas locuaz y simpatica, saludando a todo el mundo en todos lados y siempre con una sonrisa a flor de piel.

El otro dia, mi papa me dijo que traiga el librito del "tio Noni" y yo fui, busque el librito correcto, y con mi dedito senale al "Tio Noni." Hoy tambien aprendi a decir "Abu" para mi Abu Daniel y Abu Ivon. La verdad, que a mis padres tengo que regalarles un babero grandotote!!!!

Mexican Fiesta at the Cutts home

Dr. and Mrs. Cutts had the best kind of party on Saturday evening ...

a "let's have a party" party.

It was great to hang with friends and meet new ones.

And Brianna was just the life of the party, as usual.

Bible Study Blessings

On Tuesday night, I had the privilege of hosting my Bible Study friends and treating them to a Spanish style dinner to celebrate the end of our six weeks study of the book The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. It was such an impact full and powerful journey for all 5 of us that we wanted to celebrate the end of this particular series and the beginning of long lasting friendships and many more series to come!

Here we have a traditional cold Gazpacho soup with all the toppings, some veggies, tapas, tortilla de papa (potato fritatta), canelones de verdura (a traditional Argentinian delicacy), fruit and cookies and a delicious vegan chocolate cake to celebrate Stephanie's birthday next week... all in all, it was a very delicious and refreshing summer dinner. Kudos to Jeremy for helping me so much with food prep, and clean up!!!

A smiling Terry is ready to try a cold soup for the first time.

Terry, Stephanie, Laurienne, Delaney and Jessica (not pictured)... Bibi's Bible Study friends.

You guys are amazing!!!