Cecilia & Celso's Anniversary

Our friends Cecilia and Celso celebrated their anniversary in July and invited us over for Celso's famous barbeque to celebrate.  Julia enjoyed playing with Tici and we had a good time eating barbeque, cooling off in the pool, and eating the cake made to celebrate.

Congratulations!!!

 Here is a shot of the group after all of the fun.  From left to right, Renato, Tici, Julia, Celso, Natalia, Cecilia, Raquel, Emilia, and Neil.

Sesame Street at Sea World

For Raquel's birthday, we went to Sea World in San Antonio for the day.  One change for this year is they've added an area for the Sesame Street characters around the water play area.  We happened on the characters as they were taking pictures with people.  Julia really liked that.  I think it really ended up being more of a Julia day than a day for Raquel, but we all had a lot of fun.

Emilia's Eating

Emilia started eating food a while back.  Normally she eats pretty good, but in June she had a spell of not wanting to eat.  This made meals kind of messy.

 

Valentina's 2nd Birthday Party Part 2

Now for some shots of the party itself.

Here is the birthday girl with her cousin.

 Group shot of the children.

 Some closeups.

 

 

Proud Father and Mother with Valentina.

 Renata and Valentina after Valentina took over the presentation.

Valentina's 2nd Birthday Party Part 1

Renata's daughter Valentina's birthday is June 16th, but Renata moved the party up we could be there for it. Renata, Raquel, and a couple of their aunts worked tirelessly to prepare treats and decorations for the party.  Below are some shots of the treats and decorations set up at the church before the bash started.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some Pictures from Brazil

Raquel and the girls spent 3 weeks with Pedro, Renata, Valberth and Valentina, and Neil joined them for about a week and a half.  Some pictures from our time there.

Here's Valentina watching her dad in one of his favorite poses.

 And Pedro with 3 of his 4 grandchildren in the hammock with him.

Julia and Valentina both enjoyed spending time together.  Slurping frosty sticks . . . 

Or just walking around in circles together.

We spent a few days at Raquel's Uncle Marcos' house by the ocean and got down to the beach the last day.  Julia really enjoyed being at the beach.

 

 

 The place where we had lunch had a nice little pool for the girls to play in.

Photos at the Beach

While Raquel and the girls were in Brazil, they spent some time at the beach and Renata had a photographer shoot some pictures of everyone.

Here are all of the cousins together.  On the left is Sara, Eduardo's daughter, and on the right is Valentina, Renata's daughter.

 

 Some closeups . . . of Sara . . .

 Julia . . .

 Emilia and Valentina . . .

 Two cousins hugging . . . 

Then the girls changed clothes and spend some time on the beach.