It has been busy here at home.....No time to post and little time on the computer....I thought I would lose touch with my computer when Julio arrived.....But that will be remedied soon!

Andre and I had Julio totally in the dark about Andre flying to MN for the Holidays! It was fun to surprise Julio! When we were at the airport to pick up Andre, Julio thought that we were there to get a bag that was damaged by the airlines. I kept going in to see if Andre was in baggage claim yet, then to see if his bag had arrived yet.....And when we finally had Andre and his bag, I went to the car and told Julio that the airline guy was coming with my new bag and could he please help him get it in the truck...........lol......Julio looked at me like "what are you talking about?" He did not know why I was asking him to help someone put an empty bag into my car.......lol! Julio got out, asked me where the guy was, I told him he was on the other side of this pillar and to go get the bag please.........When he saw Andre..He shoved him and told him to "get out of here!" Julio told me in the car to "talk to the hand"...... It was fun and Julio is happy to have his brother here. But the fun will end soon and work and school will be here before he can say Happy New Year!

I will post some pictures soon. I am getting the hang of kicking these guys off my computer so I can log a little time! They need to go to computer addiction help groups I think.

Sophie was so happy to have her Julio back! She gave him a BIG hug and would hardly share Julio with anyone the rest of the evening! Lots of love there! Julio was just as thrilled to see Sophie and loved the attention she gave him!

They are so happy to see each other

Concentrating on her next move in checkers with Julio. Of course she won.....

Sophie was just told that Julio will be back Friday! She is oh so happy. She also sends her smiles and love to Raquel and Bruna! Beijos girls!

Sophie talking to me about Julio

Seth's Birthday Celebration at Grandma and Grandpa's Tuesday night.

Seth!

Florida was great! I wish Julio had been with us on the trip but....The Embassy had other ideas. See you in a few days Sweet Rebel!

I loved spending time with Andre even though we did not do anything terribly exciting. It was just nice to be with him. I think the most exciting thing for me was Busch Gardens and the fear that I hid so well from Andre about going on the roller coasters. I am not sure if I went on them for Andre or Felipe.....Felipe gave me some BS about not coming home ever again if I did not go on Kumba.......Yeah right! I didn't believe that merda for a minute but I think I wanted to show Phils that I would go because I want him here at home always... or at least when he has a break from his exhausting schedule! I went on the rides for Andre because I did not want him to go alone....He fed the Giraffe with me...(pretty tame compared to Kumba) even though I don't think he wanted too....So I sucked it up and went on the rides with him, basically cause I adore him and and it is about having fun.......For at least one of us! lol Fun for me is not turning green!

A little more information about Evan....Evan would not go on the rides with us! (actually, I am grateful for that) Andre was begging and pleading with Evan to go (in a really insincere way, but oh so cute way), Evan stood strong and said, "what? do I look like and idiot"? So when it came time to go on the ride that Evan wanted to go on ~The Congo River Rapids~ Andre would not go.....You see, Andre is too Sweet and all the water splashed on him would have melted him....lol That's my story and I am stickin to it.... So it is left to me once again to go on a ride at Busch Gardens...I guess I am not sweet enough to melt! I am smart enough though to buy a poncho to keep me dry...So off we went into the screaming rapids....Staying quite dry despite that merdas putting quarters into squirt guns to intentionally soak us!

We had fun in Florida! We got to spend time with Grandpa Grout and the rest of our family. We spent Saturday at River Ranch where Grandma and Grandpa have their Motorhome. Went on a pontoon ride looking for alligators and saw two. Went to the Rodeo Saturday night which was fun! Went shopping at the outlet mall on "Black Friday" and got into a car accident when a little old lady hit my rental. Had a fun Thanksgiving making breakfast in the morning in the condo and going to Thanksgiving dinner at the restaurant later that day. We have much to be thankful for all year long, I have a new family of wonderful men that I adore and get to see fairly often... That is a great gift to me as well as a blessing! I would go to the moon and back for Evan, Julio, Andre, Felipe, Gui and Gustavo! You are my family, I would be lost without all of you! Beijos

Having Lunch At Busch Garden...

Andre's first Morning in Tampa!

At some restaurant.....

Our last night with Andre.......Evan does not want me to take his picture.....We played "Bloody Knuckles" with Andre I think I got the worst of it

Evan and the Lorikeet

At Circles restaurant celebrating Grandpa Grouts 94th Birthday

Father and Daughter

Tyler, Andre and Evan

I don't give Andre much time to smile.....I just call his name and click.....

Andre and Evan

Andre, you can't be mean or grumpy....your too nice.......nice try though

Relaxing outside the motorhome waiting for dinner and watching footbal last Saturday...Grandpa has everything on the motorhome

Andre helping me try to figure out my camera....... I'm too blonde....lol

Out on the Pontoon with Grandpa, Grandma, Amy, Me and Tyler........ Evan was off 4 wheelin with a cute girl

Grandpa and Andre at the Rodeo

Tyler.......pickin his nose

Rodeo

Andre and I on Montu.........Yes Phils, I am actually there!!

Safari Sunday Morning......meeting the staff at Busch Gardens...lol

Tango

Andre Feeding Tango

Evan and Tango

Kumba.......My head spins just looking at the pictures!

Sloppy John's on the beach.....must be a local hang out cause visitors sure get the message not to stop.....lol

The view of the Don Cesar from the beach. This is where Evan and I stayed our last 2 nights....yeap it was very nice

Nice place to sit and relax for the day....ahh

Inside the Don Cesar......Ready for Christmas

The view from our room at the Don Cesar

Yeap.....The Don Cesar makes great frozen Mojitos! Nice on the beach soaken up the sun

Our last day in Florida......the Beach was very nice

Blog Problems

We're back and just when I had time to post my pictures......I run into a road block.
I am working on the technical difficulty...... Hopefully I will have a solution today!

We had a great time with Andre......Although I don't know that he got as much sleep as he would have liked! It was fun to spend the long weekend with him even though on Sunday at Busch Gardens I did feel a little green and woozy....... lol. I just couldn't let Andre ride on Montu and Kumba alone (someone save me from myself....PLEASE).........Montu is tolerable, Kumba I will never go on again. Andre is worth it....I will recover before the next trip to Busch........Where I will definitely not go on ANY ROLLER COASTERS!