Tiff always liked this cabinet, but now she loves to get in there and close the doors. She can do that for the longest time and cracks up every time she opens them! I love that smile!

Every week I try to make a trip to the library with her. She won't let me sit and read to her, but she LOVES to just flip through the books and she aways find a favorite one that she will look through for the longest time.

The other day I finally took her to the pool. I had some really long days at work and the house was a mess, but I just needed to get out and do something fun. I knew she wasn't going to like it at first, but I was surprised by how quickly she warmed up to it and started actually enjoying the whole thing. I couldn't hold her anymore, she just wanted to wonder around and didn't even freak out when she fell in a couple of times! I seriously had the BEST of times with her that day!
But it was cold when we got out, which made her a little sick the next day...so now I feel bad about taking her back, but I need to do it! The pool is so close to our house and it's so much fun!
Daddy's early Father's Day gift! Our old TV got messed up during our last move, so it was really a necessity!
Brazil's first game! Tiff and I stayed home because I thought we would be able to watch it online...
Well, it didn't work out so well! I did watch most of it (especially the goals!) but it really wasn't the best...still it was fun to dress up and cheer for our country!

Temple Square

This Monday I had to go to SLC to do some fingerprinting for my new job...I got hired as a part-time Teller at the Wells Fargo in Heber (which means Bryan was transfered to Kimball Junction since we can't work in the same branch-it was really the other way around, because he transfered they offered me the job, but anyways!). The whole thing only took about 2 minutes, so I decided not to waste a PERFECT SUNNY day and drive right back to cold, too windy Kamas! We stopped at a few places to shop, but I really wanted to take Tiff to the Temple Square. As you can see in the pics, she LOVED it...it was such a nice weather and there were so many pretty flowers and things to look at that she never looked at the camera. She would only smile like that when someone was walking by.

I can't get over how big she is! Sometimes I just look at her and can't believe she can do all these things...This week she finally started to say more words again...she's repeating the ones she already knew, and she is starting to say new ones like ovo, obrigada (it sounds more like igada), she also says thank you perfectly and she uses both depending on what we say to her, which makes me think she will be bilingual from the beginning. She also says uva, suco, nite nite, and I can't think of more...anyways, I know she's behind on that department, but I can understand how confusing it all seems to her, and in her own time she will figure it all out!

As for my job situation, those of you who were wondering...I'm still going to try and keep my GAP job for as long as I can possibly do it without being too stressful for me and my family because the discounts are too good...I went shopping for clothes for my new job and couldn't believe how much I saved at both GAP and Banana Republic! So I'll still be part-time, even with both jobs, but with the traveling back and forth, it might get a little crazy! I'm also working with this wedding planner in Park City and helping her out with a couple of weddings this summer which then really adds up and makes me a full-time, but at least the weddings are few and far in between.

I always saw myself as a stay-at-home mom, but after starting work again, I realized that I really don't like to be home so much...DON"T GET ME WRONG, I know my priorities, and being a mom is at the TOP of my list, and I also know that I might be working too much right now for that, but once things calm down and I have the option of being home, I'll always want to have something to keep me busy. I'm really hoping to get enough experience that I can start doing my own Wedding Planning and flowers, which then will allow me to stay home, choose my hours and be productive...I just feel like I need to have some sort of commitment so that I spend my time wisely. If I just stay home then I kinda get lazy and don't really know how to prioritize my time. And I can also see the benefit of it for Tiff...she was always so attached to me, but now she plays so much better and seems so much happier because she doesn't revolve around me anymore.

All I can say is that even though everything is not perfect, life is good right now! I feel like we're really going somewhere now and we're settled in a nice place where Tiff can grow and we can have lots of good family time. We enjoy every moment we have together and help each other out a lot more because we're both so busy. I know Bryan wishes things were slower and we had more time to travel and relax, but I think I wasn't doing anything for so long, that I really don't mind it....we'll see in a few months when everything becomes a routine!

Tiff and Thomas

It had been a while since these two got to hang out together. Anna had her baby shower last weekend, so the cousins got to spend some time together! Tiff was a lot more shy when we were out, but when they came to our house she totally loosened up with him. It's so funny to see how much of a girly girl she is and how Thomas is very much a boy as well...he loves to play rough and doesn't really care who is around, he just does his own thing, and Tiff is all shy and delicate! But at the end they found some common ground and got to have a lot of fun!

Before Patty left with the girls, I hurried and took a picture of Tiffany with her friends Aubrey and Naomi (don't ask me in which order cuz I haven't seen them in too long to be able to tell them apart!) I wish they could play together more, Tiff loves older friends, we just need to try and get together more!

I feel bad for Thomas, he will only have girls to play with once his twin sisters arrive, but I'm sure he'll handle it just fine!

Who knows what goes on in their little heads...I think they still recognized each other, but who knows?!
They LOVED when I taught them how to play "Roda cutia de noite de dia, o galo cantou e a casa caiu!" Thomas just kept asking for more! And both kept trying to show off to Vovo e Vov'o on the webcam! It's so cute how both of them know how Skype works and both interact with their grandparents that way.
She finally warmed up to her uncle...she is a hard one to win over!

By the time Thomas left, they were best buddies already!

I wish they had more opportunities to hang out like this day...if only our lives weren't so crazy that we don't have time for anything anymore...

Last week I interviewed for the bank job and actually got offered the position. I can't accept it yet because I don't know if Bryan wants to switch branches or not (we can't work in the same branch, so he'll have to be transfered if I take it), I'm leaving the decision up to him since him being happy at work is much more important. But if it works out that way, than I'm gonna try and work both jobs for a while, until I decide which one I like better ( I'm really not ready to give up my job with GAP yet, and the discounts is really what's holding me back!). I'm still going to work part time, but I'll have more hours than I have now, so we'll see if the family will be able to handle it. The crazy thing is that I'm also working with a wedding planner and doing a couple of weddings this summer, so technically I'll have three jobs...isn't that crazy?! We'll see if I'll survive... don't mind if I show up even less around here, I really have a million other things to do whenever I'm home, and the most important one is making up for the time I leave Tiff with the babysitter!

Happy Easter!

No, I haven't given up on my blog...I'm just trying to put my priorities straight, and with my part-time job, when I am home I try to focus on getting things done around the house and spending time with Tiff, to make up for the time she has to spend at the babysitter!

But we did have fun this Easter weekend...I had to work on Saturday (again...) so I didn't get to watch Conference, but Sunday we stayed home all day, and if felt nice to just hang out with my little family!

The Easter bunny didn't come by our house until Tiff's nap, but when he came, he left a trail of eggs from Tiff's room all the way to the living room where hers and Bryan's baskets were (my Bunnie's car broke down during the week, so I didn't get anything, but that's OK cuz I really don't crave chocolate or candy all that much!)
Bryan's basket was inside that door...
And Tiff's was by the couch...
She woke up kinda whiny but when she saw the eggs in front of her room, she hurried out of her crib, grabbed her little basket and went straight to get the eggs...I knew that she would become obsessed with getting them because she can't stand having anything laying on the floor like that!
Tiff and daddy had a great time picking all the eggs...her face was so funny when she would see that there was more and more eggs as she went, until she started to get a little frustrated and just skip a few...

This really was the best part for her, and she wouldn't let go of her little egg basket. We made her follow the trail all the way to her basket, and her face was priceless when she saw it. Of course I thought that I was recording the whole thing when I really wasn't, but she just looked so surprised!
She didn't really know what to think of it at first, until I showed her all that was in it. Again she didn't know what all the candy was until she saw us eating it, so I let her have a few...
After she was done going through hers, she helped daddy find his basket...
On Monday though, I did get something from the Easter bunny...my friends Tiago and Flavia from Brazil, came to the outlets to go shopping so I met them over there and they gave me a Brazilian chocolate egg and it made my day! I was finally able to do some shopping over there, since I just go to work and straight home to pick Tiff up, and I found some really good deals!

Now I'm in the biggest indecision...the Bank where Bryan works just offered me a job as a teller and I guess the best thing about it is that I would be making more money there...but I'm really enjoying working at the store, it's not hard work and we actually have a lot of fun! Plus the discounts I get really make it worth it...AHHHH, I really don't like to make decisions where both things are good...we'll see what happens!

Tiff and the snow!

I finally took courage to take Tiff outside to experiment with the snow...I bundled her up really good and there we went! There was a lot of ice, so she was very careful walking, but we told her to kick the snow and she apparently enjoyed that! I think she was just happy to be outside...we spent 40 days in the middle of the summer, going out ALL the time, and then we come home and we're stuck home because the other car isn't working!
We sat her on the still too huge pile of snow in front of our house and she was very skeptical about it. Here is the sequence of what happens next: she touches the snow...
She doesn't like to have ANYTHING stuck to her hands and feet (like sand, dirt, food, and now snow!) so she complains about the snow in her hands...
Then we tell her to wipe it off herself... looks at the disgusted look on her face! Oh, how I love my daughter and her many little obsessions!

But all in all it was a good experience...her cheecks were really cold but she didn't want to go inside...I need to try and do it again now that it snowed another foot last night! (no, that's NOT a good thing, but she might as well enjoy it while it's here!