Joana's first 10k

This morning we all got up to cheer on Mamae on her first 10 kilometer race ... she finished in 1 hour and 1 minute ... Whoohoo!

Merry Christmas!

The tree is lit. We are almost in December.  And Christmas is only 4 weeks away ...
We had lunch with the Vovos and Tio Pedro & Tia Paula ... then spent the afternoon resting so that we could party at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony ...
Action packed fun!

Couple more from Saturday

What a Saturday

Busy day ... here is the proof ...

Papai was gone

A day after I came home Robert had a two day business trip to Aracaju. While he was gone my mission was to keep him up with what Clara was up to.

Here's what happened:

Drawing 

Reading on the pooper (I guess she learned that from Daddy while mommy was gone) Hahaha

Playing on the beach with her friend Alex

Wearing mommy's sunglasses inside.

As you can see we had some crazy couple of days!! :)

Thursday afternoon

Today was Black Awareness day - a local holiday in the state of Rio de Janeiro - and given that Papai had to travel all of last night, he worked from home and we were all able to spend the afternoon together.

Mommy's trip part II

After a great weekend with the girls, I got to do a yoga training with my wonderful teacher, Pedro Kupfer. Mariscal is the beach he lives in and it's only one hour away from Florianopolis.

Here are a few pics from those days of yoga, beach and hiking.

The yoga room

The teacher (with crazy long beard)

Ganesha- the God remover of obstacles

My roommates, Julia and Aleta from Argentina

The view half way on the hike to the top of Mount Monkey

The view from the top

My new friend, Priscila and I at the top

And finally, my good old friend Paula Saboya and I enjoying our last night at Paradise.

It was great to treat myself to some time for my training but coming home was wonderful. I really missed my loving husband and beautiful daughter and being back in Rio isn't that bad for the eyes either :)

Papai, I want a cat

As I was sitting at the airport at 01:00hrs returning home from a work trip, I was trying to kill my "saudades" by looking at pictures of Joana and Clara in my phone and I stumbled across these here from a couple of weeks ago ...