First Day of Fall! temperatures under 100F! Niko and Chloe started school, Niko turned 12 and now has a cell phone. My kids are growing fast and I'm having a hard time catching up with them, homeworks, driving to sports practices and games, teaching manners, cooking nutritional meals, and being a loving wife...is something wrong with me? I want more time with my husband, quality time, I need to loose 15 pounds, I want to run a 1/2 marathon, I want to learn how to knitt well, and do ceramics, besides time for working and making money, friends time, sleep more, well...I need a business plan for my life I think!

Rachel's birthday! 2 years old! And the girl's party at Troon Park. Chloe invited all her friends and they played from 11 am until 2 pm! John got pizza and cup cakes at costco and I set the table, did the party favors, painted all their faces, and we forgot in the car all the 200 brigadeiros taht Niko and I did!!! I need some ginko biloba...

Aniversario da Chloe de 5 anos! Nem acredito! Ja vai para o kindergarten!!

Spring Break in Flagstaff

Petting Zoo at Marley Farms this saturday

Salmon Chowder em 30 minutos (delicia!!)

Our new fountain (from a garage sale) that I installed in front of the house

Chloe and I have been working on our ceramics wind chaims and they are turning out great! We hung them outside in the trees! I'll try to take them to the Desert Bontanical GArden with some pots to sell this next weeked!

I apologize for not writing for a long time. This weekend the kids had basketball games, soccer practice and the weather can't be better than this! And....today is our anniversary, technically not, because we got married the 29th of February, so we're supposed to celebrate only every 4 years... I got 3 new plants for the house for present. I still didn't take pictures of them, but will post soon. I'm getting ready for participationf the a ceramic sale at the Desert Botanical Garden. I'll have to take my ceramics to sell this next thursday and we'll take turns watching the table and the sales. We'll donate 30% to the Botanical Garden and they don't charge us fot the stand.

Soccer

Sports Weekend

Altar and Atelier

Today I was inspired to cook. Probably because I slept for 11 hours and cought-up all my lack of sleep! John bought these weird looking pink oranges (Chloe loved them because they are pink) and I put them choped in one of the bowls I made. Everything tastes better in a bowl or plate we make! Hahaha. I cooked tilapia with herbs, pepper lemon and butter and it was great and light. We are going to have guests from Salt Lake City for dinner, so I started dinner already. I made cookies to drink with coffee (resquicios de Uberaba), a healthy recipe though with Flax seed, cranberries, dehidrated cherries, less butter, walnuts, nhummy! And for dinner dessert I'm making Manjar Branco, my mom's recipe that was my grandfather's favorite! And a chicken bake with cheese and plain white rice. I just realised today that my kitchen is a mixture between an altar with my Virgen Mary and Arcanjo Miguel images, candles for prayers, my bags of clay everywhere, and food! And I almost forgot, my computer is now in the kitchen too, because John kicked me out of the officce.

Ceramic Plates

My ceramic plates. I loved this glaze and need to make more!

We've been busy since Valentine's Day. Niko made a Cd with his favorite songs to all his classmates. Chloe and I baked heart shaped sugar cookies to her friends. We went to the Rio Verde River to get rocks for my fountain project, and John filled up all his truck bed with small rocks for Jeff's driveway drainage system. Niko has his science project to finish today and take to school tomorrow, so we'll be very busy. They don't have school today. It's president's day. Saturday we got a box from my friend Cristina, from Brazil, full of goodies and gifts for all! WEEEEEEEEEEEEE! We loved it! I want to find some time to do my ceramics at home...sniff, sniff, NO class today...