Bela Sião

We've been enjoying each other a lot these days. Mostly because I haven't gone back to work yet, so I'm kinda having an extending vacation ;) yesterday we went to the Manti temple to witness a sealing of my friends Carolina and Chris and it was my first time there. What a beautiful temple that is! I was so amazed by the design of the building.. Looking at its singular beauty brought me even more peace.

We did have a lot of fun trying to get there though. First, we thought we were not gonna make it because we were running late and since we were running late we didn't stop to put gas in the car. Now, one neat feature our car has is a display that shows how many miles we have left before we run out of gas. About halfway between Spanish Fork and Fairview, in the middle of nowhere, that display showed that we had officially ran out of gas. Without a gas station around for miles and no cell phone reception, the Lord was definitely with us and we made it about 15 more miles into Fairview and were able to fill our tank.

Now that we were back on track we were starting to worry that our gas problem slowed us down too mug to make it to the sealing on time. In the end it all worked out perfectly. Just as we started to think that we were still miles away, like a mirage we saw the temple appear in the distance. We felt that the Lord had helped us to get there as we arrived just in time for the sealing.

Home Sweet Home!

It's been wonderful to be back home this week. We are all enjoying each other so much. Here's a video of Sophia with daddy playing in the park this week. Enjoy!

For those who haven't seen Sophia for a while, here are a few things that are new about her:
 

1. She has grown several more teeth, including two top teeth that have grown mostly in and more that are starting to show, and four bottom teeth.
2.  She has become quite that talker now. Even if she doesn't say a lot of real words, she is always rambling on. She can say a few real words though. They are:  "babou" (Acabou/All done), "duck," "uh-oh," "painho" (daddy), "bobó" (vovó/grandma, grandpa), "mamae" (momma), among others.
3. She loves to dance and dances to all kinds of music, but especially to Xuxa dvd's and "Eu Quero tchu tcha tcha" (Brazilian music).
4. She can now run like never before and climbs up the stairs, on and off the couch and everything else she can get to.
5. Lastly, she can copy everything she sees, like the "paper, rock, scissors" game for example, and everything she sees us doing and she thinks that everything is funny.

She is such a happy camper.  We couldn't be more proud.