Sunday, February 24, 2008

We are in Escrow!!!

Last Thursday night, we saw this beautiful property for the first time ... and signed papers within the hour (as there was a counteroffer that fell through at the last minute, thank God) We feel this was very much a providential acquisition and are very excited to share it with all of you!

Our future home has 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, beautiful paint throughout the house, hardwood floors in entry, kitchen and dining area, and hallways, island kitchen with stainless and black appliances, white cabinets and really nice tile. The bedrooms have almost brand-new upgraded carpet. All the window treatments are upgraded. And of course, there is a beautiful fenced-in pool and jacuzzi in the back: a must for this water loving family!


This property sits on a corner and to the right there is a cul-de-sac. We've been to this neighborhood before and it seems quiet, family oriented and kid friendly. We look forward to meeting our neighbors and Brianna looks forward to making new little friends.

More pictures of the inside of the house to come later. We expect to move in around March 20th. It's going to be a very busy time from now until then, but in mid-April we'll take a cruise to the Western Caribbean with Bibi's family and we'll get all the rest we need to recover from the move. We're so blessed!!!!

Monday, February 18, 2008

10th Year Anniversary

It was exactly ten years ago, in February 1998, that Bibi came to the US to study at PUC. Here is a picture of us in 1998, just engaged, with a love that grew through speaking different languages, dating from different continents and overcoming a multitude of obstacles. After an adventure-filled 10 years together here in America, we find ourselves close to the center of God's will for our lives ...
and incredibly blessed by the fruit of our love, our precious princess Brianna, and our loving and supportive family and amazing friends.
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Videos... for your enjoyment...

Here is a quick compilation of footage from Brianna's 2nd B-day!! It was a great time!! (This video is about 10 min long.)


It's been a while since we took this footage, but here is our typical evening routine at home. (This video is about 10 min long.)

Sunday, February 17, 2008

Happy Birthday to Cascade!

Happy Birthday to Cascade. We had great time playing at the party today and singing "Happy Birthday"

Cascade just turned #2!

Yes, that's all we seem to be doing lately, don't you think! Birthday party hopping rules! Today it was Cascade's turn and she had a very laid back, fun-filled lunch party complete with a hay ride, smoothies to order and a fabulous cake and raw truffles (yum, yum!)

Birthday girl is the queen of the day

Great dog put up with toddlers and stay put

Uncle Jaison (Cascade's Dad) serving cake to everyone!
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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Jillian's 4th birthday party

Bibi's friend Lisa Regier had a wonderful birthday party for her daughter Jillian, who turned 4 on February 15th.
There was a pinata, yummy food and lots of little friends for Brianna to play with!

Jillian next to her Mom (to the left) ready to blow the candles

Little monkey

After playing for a while with the girls, Daddy was ready for a nap!
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Sunday, February 10, 2008

Isabella Clark turned 1

Gorgeous Isabella had a beautiful party with lots of friends and family. Here Isa is opening presents and Brianna just doesn't know what to play next ...

Isa loved this activity center and played with it for a while

We had such a great time with Joel and Gisele Clark after the party. The girls played and the parents talked non-stop! What a fun-filled day. For more pictures of Isabella, go to her blog: www.familiaclark.blogspot.com

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

As we sang "happy birthday" ...

Thanks to our friends Victor and Suzana, we have a family picture of Bri's birthday. Here we are all singing to Bri before cutting the cake

Brianna has her own version of the birthday song. It goes something like "a potey you, a potey you, a potey Bianna, a potey you".
It's just TOO CUTE. We've got it on video and will post soon.

Daddy getting into all the songs


Allie & Madeleine

Brianna's FUNtastic day!

A new Italian friend, Patricia, and her daughter Sophia. She talks to Brianna in Italian so I hope it brushes off on her and she'll speak it fluently some day!

Our menu was mostly Argentine food with plenty of snacks, salads, fruits and veggies for everyone to enjoy. Bibi made a wheat-free chocolate cake without animal ingredients. It wasn't the best looking cake ever; but we had little leftover to take back home!

Madeleine with chocolate cake "evidence" in her mouth. Did Mommy see? So cute!

Reading stories with Lolly

We just wanted to say: THANK YOU loves ones, for posting wonderful birthday messages for Brianna. She'll read them all someday!
Thank you for your love and support!!

Brianna's Day!

What a fun day we all had! After all the hard work to get everything ready came ALL the fun of having friends and family come and celebrate Brianna's birthday #2. Here she is sitting with Lolly, a great clown that kept kids entertained with sing-a-longs,

face painting and games. Haven, Cascade and Annie similing for the camera

Ryann is a serious mouse!

The "Imagine U" Museum had a supermarket area where kids could load up on family faves and then take the goods to the register and "pay"