Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Picture Montage

We have watched this building get plastered...by people standing on rickety boards. We can see it from our window. You can see maybe how high it actually is in the next picture. They are now almost finished.
Last week Tuesday Seth and Edjackson went to the beach to play futebol, so we went to pick him up way down the beach.
One of Hazel's preferred method of traveling the streets. She is the slowest walker in the world. Kind of like she is the slowest eater. So this is helpful for both her and us to actually get anywhere.

Oh...she decided to run. She loves the ocean.

Very helpful, I'm sure.

The most gorgeous evening. Around twenty minutes later it was pretty much pitch black. It gets dark really quickly here and at around 5:30 at night. Every night.

Another way of getting to our destination a little quicker.

There's Seth with a big kick.

Fun for boys = kicking ball into water and retrieving it.

Later that evening we went out for dinner. Now that people at church have seen Mom, I've heard multiple times about how Lyla and Hazel look just like her. Such beautiful girls :)

And apparently my handsome boy looks like me...hopefully not because of masculine features!

Notice Dad in the background :)

He's pretty handsome, too, I must say.


It is nice to have some time with Grandma and Grandpa Raap in Brazil!

4 comments:

  1. Kaz & Kay LevandoskiJuly 27, 2010 at 6:59 PM

    Wow, how time has flown! We have very much enjoyed (and will continue to enjoy, I'm sure) your blogs!!
    Thanks so much for keeping us 'up to date' with your lives, even the smallest details - sometimes we feel as though we are right there with you all :)
    Take care, can't wait to hear about the rest of your adventure!

    Love, the Levandoski's

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  2. ohh i really loved all those pictures. keep em coming

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  3. So, it sounds like you have decided to go back long-term in January!! That's exciting!

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  4. Shaun thinks one of the only reasons we wouldn't go back is if the company that has expressed immense interest in the product backs out. This business is based in Holland, so he is hoping to visit there in September, also to meet with our potential business partner and another potential distributor. I am debating whether to go with him...he is hoping to go for a week. The only thing that would hold me back is Lyla, as I am still nursing her and hope to until she is a year, like the other two. Makes it easier for moving here as well, not having to worry about their water, formula, this and that. Anyways, the business partner and his wife have a baby only 1 month older than Lyla, so I may take her. Then I won't have to worry about going out her and there and everywhere with her, because the two of us would be in the same boat with little babies, working around naps and such.

    The other thing we are thinking about is waiting to return to here until March, as January and February are their summer holidays and Carnival is at the beginning of March next year, which means we probably wouldn't get a whole lot of business done until then anyways. Shaun may have to return before them to figure out paperwork stuff and whatnot.

    So there is a short update on where we are and what we are thinking in regards to the business. We all are really enjoying life here and truly the only thing that really bothers me is not having my mom and a few of my English speaking friends, particularly when there is stuff going on you really want to talk to someone about.

    The other thing we have to discuss is how long....but we don't have anything set in stone and I think we both have an idea of less than 5 years (Shaun has even said less than two).

    And of course, as always, we know that our plans may not be the Lord's plans, and unless "He decides to bless, the workers toil in vain." So we place all our plans before our Heavenly Father, as we do not know what will happen in the coming year, and we pray that He gives us wisdom in all the decisions that we make.

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