We are soo happy to announce that we have been expecting a baby girl since December 2013. She is expected to come to this earth on September 7th. We have been extremely excited and scared at the same time, I guess its part of the journey. Anyways, I am not sure if I have a picture from each month or week of the belly growth. Right now I am 33 weeks along and feeling great, I really didn't expect to feel this good at this stage of pregnancy. The hardest part of being pregnant was the first trimester when I felt sick all the time, and couldn't eat a lot at all. That was good and bad - good because it made me loose all the unhealthy weight that I was carrying for a while; bad because I didn't have any energy to cook, to smell or to eat anything. I remember crying almost everyday as I looked out the window, praying and hoping that everything was going to be okay and I really wished I had my mom closer so she could make me feel that this too would pass and maybe cook some delicious, homemade comfort food. I am really grateful though for the blessings Heavenly Father sent my way with a wonderful mother in law and sister in law who helped me find things that I could eat, who helped me get out of the house and go for a walk and who helped me most when I needed help moving - because we moved in February to the cutest house on the block (which I will have to dedicate a special post for it). Anyways, after so many blessings, I had the blessing that I was looking for since I left Brazil the last time, which was to be able to come back again and this time, Pregnantttttttttttttttttttt!!! hahah I remember how much I was looking for to it and Heavenly Father blessed me againnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn and I bought my tickets for a price we had the money to pay at the time and sure enough I went to Brazil to spend a month with my sweeeeeeeeetttttt, wonderful family, my mom and my dad and all my cousins and grandparents, ohhhhh I cant tell you how happy that blessing made me feel. It was a bittersweet one though because I had to leave the best of me - My lovely husband - behind. I also went through a lotttttttttttttttttttttttt of trouble to get to Brazil, it was supposed to be a 18 hours flight/ trip to get there and it ended up being a threeee longgggest days of my life, especially being pregnant and alone. I stayed in New York overnight because of one of the flights that was canceled. Anyways, got over that, I guessed Heavenly Father wanted me to learn to be reallyyyyyyyyy patient - or something like that. Well, it was worth it and I had the best days with my family and being able to hug them and look at them in the eyes, and hear them, observe the way they did things, that was priceless. I loved just being able to feel their love for me and for each other. I chose them to be my family when I was in Heaven for a reason and for that reason I am who I am today. I owe it all to them, who influenced me to be the best I could be. I have no words to explain how Heavenly Father's plan for each of His children is absolutely PERFECT. I really want to be able to go back with our daughter and teach her about her mother's genealogy. I am sure she knows them better than me when she chose me to be her mother, but since she will forget everything when she passes through the veil, it will be worth it to do it all over again hahaha. My hope is to go back next year for when my sister gets off of her mission in Natal, and also be able to go through Fortaleza where Stirling - My lovely husband- served his mission. Also, I woullddd loveeee to meet all the people they served and especially the city - I am brazilian but have never been to the northeast part - so lets keep on praying and see what Heavenly Father's will will be by then- I sure hope we are on the same page - hehehehe. Well I think I could go on and on about how life changed in the last couple of years or so but I will put some pictures here and hopefully I will be able to keep updating our life - Oh I just remembered there is one last update but I will ask my amazing husband to write about this one, Right husband?!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| cha de bebe |
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| Eu e o Lindo fazendo smores pra reuniao familiar |
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| from the 4th of July |
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| 4th of July |
