Busy Summer...Finally!!! :-)

Marcio and I were talking the other day about the fact that we are finally having the chance to spend quality time as a family on the weekends, with company of great friends.

It has been Oliver's first summer and Noah's first summer in the suburbs (his first summer was at the house downtown Indy, not much we could do there with him...and second one, patient Noah spent mostly inside a 3-bedroom apartment, while mommy took care of his baby brother who had just joined the family!).

I am just so glad we decided to hire our guardian angel (aka Connie, our cleaning assistant, who is also my laundry assistant, my closet organization assistant) before the summer started. I finally feel like we can spend the weekends without the pressure of "Oh, my gosh, we have to clean the house" or even "Oh, my gosh, we did not clean the house!!!"

This past weekend was fun and full of things to do. Mommy and Oliver ended up catching some sort of bug, but we are feeling much better now.

On Thursday we took the boys to the pool. They love the water! Oliver does not want to stay in his little floater in the shape of a boat. He wants to be like his big brother and jump to the pool!

On Friday we had Keri and Claire over for dinner and the boys had an absolute blast!
Oliver's eyes just light up with joy when he saw them coming in!
Noah was so anxious that he kept asking all week whether that was the day that they were coming!
They ran around the house and played until the boys were pooped out and ready to go to bed!

Miss Claire and Oliver
















Miss Keri and Oliver
















These two angels who took such good care of both our boys and helped shape their personalities have also become really good friends, and are here to stay!

We feel blessed to have such great people cross our ways here in the US. We have slowly been building our family away from home.

On Saturday we went to the Marion County Fair with our friends Lori, Greg, Sara, Kelly and Lori's mom ("borrowed" grandma Sally). We had a great time. I can't believe in 8 years+ that we have been here in Indianapolis, this was the FIRST time we went to a county fair! For the ones who don't know, both Marcio and I come from a small town in Brazil, in the middle of nowhere, to be considered a country girl, you need to be a little bit closer to the "big city" than where we were! :-) Here you call such people rednecks...there you call them red feet (because of the color of the soil)...but at the end of the day, we are all the same "type" of people, if you know what I mean!

So, needless to say, both Marcio and I felt at home (more Marcio than me, of course! I never wore Wranglers and boots). We got home late and both boys were already asleep! They were both exhausted!




























On Sunday we went to a "Brazilian style" barbecue (churrasco) at our friends Karla, Andy, Aiden and Connor's house, and got to spend time with some other Brazilians, speak some Portuguese and have a good time! Noah had a chance to play in their HUGE Banzai pool, one of those with a huge slide! He had a blast! It was really hot outside, so both boys fell asleep before we even got out of their subdivision! All four of us were able to take a great 2 hour nap that afternoon. (Oliver was already not feeling too well at this point, poor little guy took two 2,5 hour naps this day!)






















We ended the day with a visit from Aunt Fabi and some siliness from both Fabi and Noah, while poor sick Oliver went night-night a little earlier. (For the ones wondering about the pics below, Noah is trying really hard to coordinate a peace and love, and the other one is Fabi and him playing horse - we are glad Fabi brings such energy to the house!!!)


















Really, what a great weekend!!!
Looking forward to the coming one. We have two birthday parties! Samantha's 4th b-day and Kelly's 1st!!! More pictures to come!!!