My two carebears...

Just recently we got a toy pick-up in which there was also some dress up costumes...they both looked so cute....

My birthday photos

So here I am on my birthday, in front of the cake and opening one of the presents that I recieved...just a note of the last pic with these "necklaces" and very pink fake nails, I did not want to wear these things, but was "forced" by two of the younger girls, as they gave me a very "cute and fake" set of jewellery for kids of course, to replace my stolen stuff..so foolish..so to make them happy, I posted the pic of me with the nails and necklaces..tsk tsk..

Pics

Here I am in Porto, Portugal, by the river..
....instead here I'm by the sea in the town where we had the PEP...

The Tale of My Trip

So since today I'm on W&R and and it's also my birthday, I have a moment to tell you all of my trip to the PEP in Portugal. Well, it all started out with me and the other 2 moms of the home taking the first flight from Italy to Barcelona, Spain in the evening, were we then had to wait almost a full day before catching our next flight to Portugal...that's the price you pay when taking cheaper flights: long waiting hours! Anyhow, we get to Spain 40 minutes ahead of time, at about 10:00 pm so we decide to look into sleeping at a cheap youth hostel, which we manage to call and ask if we could come at that time; the place said it was ok, so we go to buy our bus tickets....it was just a time frame of about 2 minutes when it actually happened and I'm still amazed at how good they were...as soon as start heading off to the bus, I realize my handbag is gone! I start looking everywhere to see if I had left it somewhere or something, dropped it..nothing, I start getting panic stricken as the truth of the situation hits me right in the face: MY BAG JUST GOT STOLEN WITH LOTS OF IMPORTANT THINGS IN IT!!!!!....we had been careful and protected our things but I guess this somebody had been studying us and took his chance...well, at this point we could not do much about it, as we did tell the security of the airport but the official police was not there at that hour to get a police report, so we headed of to the youth hostel and decided we would take care of it in the morning. I cannot even begin to describe what I was feeling in that moment, as I had just lost: all my documents, money, camera, mp3 player, cell phones, jewellery, costly sunglasses and other minor stuff..I know, you're probably thinking: "My Lord, how much stuff can you have in one bag?!", but I guess in my mind that was the safest place to keep it all...anyhow, we head off to the hostel, were I pass a very sleepless night, and then first thing in the morning we went back to the airport to get an official police report of the stolen goods. The police was sweet but was not very positive of being able to find any of my documents that day, and without those the only thing I could do was go back to my country. God bless dear Mercy on our team, who never lost faith and was the only one who believed that the Lord wanted me to come to the PEP and would have the documents found that very day, cause' probably the thief only wanted the valuables and would leave the documents in some trash by the airport. Well, at this point since I could not go anywhere but back to Italy, we book another flight for me to go back the next day, while the other girls would continue on in their trip. So after saying goodbye to them, I take a bus back to the hostel where I would spend the night and then catch the flight the next day......as soon as I step out of the bus, the cell phone in my pocket rings(Mercy decided to lend me hers in case of emergency), and it's someone from my home telling me to run back to the airport cause all my documents had just been found!!!!!! I could hardly believe it, it was too good to be true, but when I went to look if there was another bus heading back to the airport, there was none, only one in half hour! What to do...well, the Lord was in total control, and in that moment a bus driver saw me and between english and spanish I told him I needed to get back to the airport very quick or I would miss my flight, so he said he would take me but he was just waiting for one more person..so here I was, having basically an entire bus to myself, that was not supposed to take me, heading to the airport just one hour before my flight to Portugal!! Talk about miracles, this was a major one and so encouraging, as I really had little or no faith that I was actually going to make it there. As soon as I got to the airport, Mercy told me that she and the other girl had been casually walking in front of the police office, when the guys fromthe morning saw them and told them about the documents..of course all the valuables where gone, but in that moment the fact that I was gonna be able to head off to Portugal was such a victory that the stolen stuff was not such a mjor trial anymore and anyhow with time can be replaced. So we finally get on the plane and head out, and I'm so thankful that the Lord worked it all out for good as it was really awesome and not something I would have wanted to miss. Of course this whole thing really did teach me quite a few lessons, especially having faith, as I tend to worry alot and not put my complete trust in the Lord. Also the fact of having put all that stuff in one bag was not the wisest thing to, but I guess expirience is a great teacher. Well, that's about it, will put up a couple of pics of me in Portugal....bye you all...

Finally Home

So here I am finally back at home and returning to my usual home life....going to the PEP was quite an expirience, starting from the quite adventurous trip, to the classes, to meeting old friends I had not seen in years...got home Saturday night actually, but of course had to get ahead in all those things that did not get done when I was gone...plus the kids of couse were jumping all over me for joy so in the end I've only managed to to post something now, but stay tuned for the real story soon...

Hi there, just a quick post to tell you all that on Saturday I will be leaving to the PEP for a week so that means no updating...will be leaving the 3 kids with my hubby, so please pray for that, that he will manage especially with the baby and all and that the lord will help me not to worry..wanted to write about it just before I left but seeing the million things I have to do, I don't have much time..well, keep me in your prayers an I'll be catching you at the end of October right in time for my birthday...toodles...

Kiddos

the 3 of them...
Bianca showing her love...
Trying to take a pic of him standing up, mission nigh to impossible because of him moving every second..and here they are my three "creatures", getting bigger by the day..a novelty for the grandparents, Matthias finally got his first two teeth!!!...they are coming out in the lower gum but are not completly out yet..wil try to get a good pic when they are..

Christmas cards

These are a couple of Christmas cards the twins made for a contest...posted mainly for the grandparents..

Tsk tsk....

This is what happens when I leave my son for a few minutes with our darling 17 and 14 year old girls...they dressed him up like an old lady...he was just too cute though...

Well, hello world, haven't written anything lately just because haven't really anything to blog about..ppl are still away at the XD so we are not that many in the house which in a way is nice cause it means a little less cleaning..I haven't even taken many pics lately of my kids so don't have any to post right now...missing diffrent ppl right now, such as my hubby who also left at the same time as everyone else on a business trip and won't be back for another while then of course friends and family who I have not seen in awhile..oh well, don't want to be all malinconic, so I'll just close here..catch you all soon..