More fun with pumpkins

So the other day we carved pumpkins at school with our kids and so I thought since they had a lot of fun with it that I would try it at home with Liliana. We have yet to carve the jack-o-lantern but we have cleaned out the pumpkin and its ready for carving. We shall create a jack-o-lantern on Thursday. Liliana wasn't to sure about touching the inside of the pumpkin, but by the end though she was ready for more. It was so cute because at the beginning of the project she would pretend to fling the seeds into the plate, such a cutie!!

Tavares Family Get together

So Saturday after the festa we drove down to my father in laws. Both Marco's brothers met us at dad's house and we got to hang out for a few hours together. It was actually rather nice to be able to spend time with his family. Marco and his brothers spent time just chating and I got to spend some quality time with my father in law and my nephew. Michael and Liliana were both so funny, every time one of them got close to grandpa the other would get upset, and run towards him. They are both so cute, Michael has grown so much since we last saw him! Here are a few pictures of the grandkids with grandpa:

Festa Fun

This last Saturday Marco, Liliana and I had the opprtunity to go to the Hilmar festa. While we weren't there very long we still had a great time. Liliana enjoyed seeing all the animals and we had an opprtunity to chat with some friends. Here are a few pictures from the festa:
Liliana and mommy getting ready to watch the parade:
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Liliana with Melanie after the parade:


The best part of course was the sweet bread:

More Fun at Grandma's

Here are a few more pictures of Liliana at Grandma and grandpa's house. She gets away with so much here, oh how things are going to change once we get settled into our house and routine, regardless these are still some adorable pictures.
Playing with Padrinho and wearing his hat:

Helping Mommy clean

Eating my first Bowl of popcorn

This is what she does when she gets a hold of keys

She wasn't happy until she was sitting in the drivers side

Helping wit the Laundry

Playing with her toys

From House to Home

Now that we have the keys to our house, we are in the process of making it our home. We have started painting, as the people who owned the house before us were smokers. We will also be getting our ducts cleaned this week and hopefully by the start of next week we will be able to begin the carpet installation.
Family Room

Kitchen

Bedroom 1

Formal Living Room

Dinning Room

Master Bath

Master Bath

Master Bedroom

Guest Bath

Bedroom 3

Future Dancing with the Stars, star

So the other day Liliana was dancing around the house to music from her toy. She picked up the doll and started dancing with her too, it was just too cute not to get on tape!! Hope you can see it once I uploaded it it looked a little dark.

So excited

We will be getting the keys to our house tomorrow, it will officially be ours. Words could not describe the emotion felt behind these words!! We have been looking for a property since March and have found something that fits our family perfectly now and into the future. I will be taking pictures soon!! Thanks to our wonderful agent and mortgage broker, we appreciate everything they did!!

Thoughts

I have been thinking latley that it has been nice living with my parents. They are great with Liliana and its nice to never be home alone :). It has also had its trials though, so its good that while we are moving we will still be close to them. I am sure my parents will enjoy the peace and quite!!Well off to claim our prize and listen to a boring video!!

House Update

As many of you know we are in the process of buying a house. We signed papers on Tuesday October 14. Due to the repairs being completed on the house, the loan is yet to fund. The inspector has to go out there and approve the work that has been completed. We are so excited to be this close. If all goes well we will have the keys by next week. If not we will have to wait another week. We are currently in the process of chossing flooring for the house, we want to do a mix of tile(bathrooms and laundry room) carpet(bedrooms) and wood floor(everywhere else). We are so excited to be this close to the final step. Once we get into the house we would like to update the baths and the kitchen. Maybe try to convience for some friends to come down and help us put in new kitchen cabnets and counter tops to in exchange for a trip to disnleyland lol!!

So smart

My mom was going to walmart and asked if we would like to go. I said I would leave the decision up to Liliana and asked her if she would like to go and her answer was no, but I think I pulled out the camera to late to catch it all lol!!

So I just have to share

I bought a few CD's of kids music the other day at Costco. I placed one in the DVD player and liliana had a great old time "dancing". There was music in the background but you can not hear it over everyone's excitment!!

Too cute to resist

So I just thought I would share some random pictures of Liliana:
Mommy where are you?


There you are:


Helping mommy and Grandma clean


I love my puppies! When we tell Liliana to go see the puppies she stands right by the back door ready to go! In the same way, when we ask her if she wants to play with Sophie she will stand right next to the front door ready to go!!


Coloring is so much fun!


My new puzzle

17 months

It seems like just the other day that I found out that I was pregnant, its hard to believe that Liliana is already 17 months old. She turned 17 months old on the 7th of October. She is learning and growing so much. Some of my favorites include:
Saying "Oh no" when something bad happens.
Learning her body parts (belly, feet, and nose).
Liliana has learned to play mommy she feeds, burps and gives the baby a pacifer.
She follows 1 step instructions.
Sge also speaks a few words.
Over the last month she has learned to dance and play games, its amazing how much their little brain soaks up. Here are a few pictures of her when she turned 17 months old:

Pumpkin Painting Fun!

The other day Marco, Liliana, Sophie, Paula and I all had a great time painting pumpkins. We got a little dirty, but all in all had a fun. Liliana was more interested in dipping her crayon into the paint then painting!
Get Ready, Get Set Paint

Forget the Brush, lets finger paint

Horsing around

Liliana recieved a rocking horse for Christmas and has been having fun with it latley. On Monday the 29th of September Padrinho showed her how to wallk the horse FFA style, she looks so cute. A few days later she asked to ride it. She is just adorable. Just thought I would share.
Future Farmer in training

Here is the video clip:

Riding the Horse

Look at that smile

Pumpkin Patch

Paula, Marco, Liliana, Sophie and I all went to the pumpkin Patch on Sunday September28th we all had a good time.We went on a train ride through the corn. Nothing to interesting, then we did the scarecrow ride were we got to view the scarecrows created by kids in the area. Then we went to pick out pumpkins and see the animals. Here are a few pictures:
Sophie and Liliana

Liliana near the corn field

Too cute:

We bought baby pumpkins


After the pumpkin patch Marco, Liliana and I grabbed a quick bite to eat and headed to Oakdale. We danced the night away to Alcides. Liliana loved the music and playing with the other little ones. I sure missed being thrown around the dance floor by Marco lol!! Maybe we will have to go out dancing more often. It was also especially fun trying to dance with Liliana between us!!
The picture below was of liliana sitting listening to the music!!