New York- Day 1

Wednesday we landed in New York!!! (well actually, Newark) We got to the hotel bright and early, ate breakfast, got ready, and left for an awesome day in New York! We went to Gap, the American Girl Store, MACY'S, Starbucks, etc. Here are some pictures below, enjoy!

Here Sydney and I are getting ready for the day..it was really cold. (duh) 

This is the view from our window, you can see all the way down the street! 

We are at the American Girl Store here. It was really cool to see all the stuff in person (not just on a magazine) and Syd liked it because it was "organized"...?

As we were walking, we saw this old church. I thought it was pretty so I took a picture! (of course) 

This is the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center (not lit up, there is a pic further down) 

Huddy saw the lion at the Library here so we took a picture! He was all like "I wanna picture with da wion!" 

As you can see, here I am with the tree when it IS lit! It was really cool! 

I am so glad that we got to go to New York with our parents! It is so cool and I can't wait for tomorrow! :) 

Some New "Improvements" (and other interesting things)

This weekend Joilsen (our driver), his step dad, and his step dad's friend came to paint some rooms in our house. They painted SJ and my room, Sydney's room, and the pool house. We also had Thanksgiving (of course) and finished organizing some boxes. Here are some pics that are much more interesting than they sound up here! :) Enjoy!

This is the wonderful apple pie that I made for Thanksgiving. Surprisingly, it tastes better than it looks! :) 

While going through our stuff, we found a little elf costume and put it on Benny. I don't think he liked it but it was REALLY cute. :) 

Here you can see the pretty blue paint that we used in our room. It looks better in person. Hopefully all of you who read this could come visit sometime. :)  

Another great paint job, in the small hallway connecting our room with a "hangout" as SJ likes to call it. It is supposed to be orange but the computer faded it a bit. 

Something(s) New

This weekend is a 6 day weekend because of different holidays here in Brazil. During the weekend my dad and I made a play house for my little brother, Hudson, and it looks really cool. Here are some pictures below. 

This is a picture when we were almost finished, we just needed to add the slide and swings. 

Another picture, but from the SIDE view "Ooooo" 

Another wonderful activity that we enjoyed this weekend is putting up our Christmas tree. Our tree is originally too tall for the house so we took of the bottom, biggest section and it still scraped the ceiling! It was so much fun getting to decorate with everyone and have Huddy excited by every ornament. Below there are some more pictures. :) Enjoy!

Sarah Jane just being her crazy self. 

Me hanging up ornaments. :D

The tree as a finished product. YAY! It was tons of fun :) 

Little 8 Soccer Tournament

This Wednesday (October 31) Sydney, me, and the rest of the JV soccer team went to NR for a soccer tournament. The camp we went to was about 4 hours away and in the mountains. We stayed there for 3 nights and played at least 2 games per day. This year the boys got 1st place and the girls got 3rd! YAY!  Here are some pictures of our time there though I'm probably not in most of them. :) 

This is Nina, our strongest kicker who is making a foul kick. 

For this game we were white (as you can see). 

Another good game that got us to 3rd place! :) 

 Here are some pics when I wasn't playing soccer. :) 

Here I am just relaxing on my bed while one of my teammates insisted on taking my picture.. ;) 

For some reason or another, the camp had A LOT of ducks and geese and other assortments of birds, so I thought I would take some photos. :)

Havaianas!!!

This Monday, Sydney, Sarah Jane, my mom, and I went to go shopping at some outdoor shops. There were lots of cool (expensive) places to look but then we found a havaianas! For those that might not know, that is the name a famous flip-flop shop in Brazil that has mountains of cheap flip flops. We all got a pair after looking for a long, long time! I love this place and it is so cool, so here are some pics. Enjoy :)

This is the entrance to the glorious flip flop heaven!!!!

As you can see, this in only a small section of the store where the flip flops are in color order (Sydney Heaven)!

This is me in front of the sign but there is a lady in the background...hmmmm

This man was putting a little charm button thing on my flip flop strap so that it was beautiful. 

This is another picture from that same view as before...ahhh :) 

This table may look like t-shirts but actually they are baskets and baskets full with shoes!!!! YAY!

YUM!

Saturday And Sunday we tried out some new things, at home and at restaurants. We went to this AMAZING steak-house place where they bring the meat on a stick and cut it for you. It was so good. Then on Sunday night, we tried out our pizza oven that is at our house and made delicious pizzas. I am loving food right now!

Sarah Jane walking to the pizza oven, with Benny accompanying her (probably looking for scraps)  

THE PIZZA OVEN....yeah

We moved the table outside because it was nice and warm. 

One confused dad, coming up. He didn't know I was taking the picture until, well, I did. :) 

Here's Huddy enjoying some of his special pizza. 

Here we are at the meat house after our meal, SJ was having trouble staying awake cause she was so stuffed! 

Here you can see what I mean about them bringing the meat to us. Sydney is a bit excited...hehe :) 

Just About Anything!

I haven't had much time for my blog recently so I thought that I should post some little things until I an get some of the photos I wanted. Enjoy! :) 

Me and Huddy in his little bed in Texas, fun... :) 

Sasha Kitten was sleeping so I thought that I would nag the one chance of her being still then. Its a good thing I did because she is so cute! :)

This is my favorite, SJ took most of these pics though. 

I was running through some of my pictures and I found this one of Huddy. He was feeling a bit slap-happy right after his nap.