6 Years Ago...

6 years ago I took this picture...
Wilson was just a 3 year old lovely baby...
You girls know I don't like to be photographed, but I just love this pic...

Summer 2002

THURSDAY THIRTEEN--1st edition

Thirteen places to visit in: Portugal DIANA'S ROMAN TEMPLE MARVAO CASTLEOCEANARIO-LISBON(the biggest aquarium representing the 5 continents in Europe)PALMELA CASTLEQUELUZ PALACEJERONIMO'S MONASTERYBELEM TOWERCONIMBRIGA'S RUINSGUIMARAES CASTLESAINT GEORGE'S CASTLESANTIAGO DO CACEM MOURISH CASTLEBATALHA MONASTERYALCOBAÇA MONASTERY


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Maddie -- What a disclosure...

Maddie McCann

I bet you all have heard this sad story of little Maddie McCann....
In case you haven't :3rd of May of 2007-- 4 year old Madeleine McCann disappeared from "Praia da Luz"Resort in Algarve, south of Portugal...A couple of hours later the parents showed up on every news channels claiming that their daughter had been abducted from the room where she was sleeping with her 2 baby brother and sister...Both of them were calm and talked to the journalists...(How weird is that?I would be devastated,crying my guts out!) It all happened when the parents were having dinner with their friends in a restaurant 50 meters(or so) away...(Do you leave your kids alone to have dinner with your beer buddies?I don't leave my kids home alone!Specially if they're just babies!)
I never saw during this all process that mother crying!...Each time she was on Tv, she had make up on!Ok, now you might be saying that different people act different...But my heart as a mom says that SOMETHING IS WRONG about that!
One year went by...The parents became "arguidos", which means that maybe they had something to do with the little girl's disppearence.Once they're british I thought Portuguese Police would work together with their british fellows to work it out...Nop...They started blaming each other for all that was wrong in this investigation.
Specialized dogs were brought to help the police finding any blood traces in the McCann's appartment and car....The dogs actually found blood odor and death odor in both...The police found it to be not conclusive evidence...
One of the main police investigators was dismissed before the case was filled...Why?Well, I guess he just knew too much.After all if your spokesman is someone who has been the UK prime minister's spokesman, it's because you must be someone really powerful, right?...This police investigator (Gonçalo Amaral) wrote a book about what he saw and think...Boy, I really wanna read it!
Anyway...The parents say they're innocent...The case was filled...And probably they'll get some more money out of it...
My opinion: they're guilty as hell!
What's yours??

NKOTB-Back then and Now

When I was a teen I was such a huge NKOTB fan!That kind of fan that scream and cry and faint just by looking at them!LOL!I'm still a huge fan but I gave up on the fainting part!

On the other day I was going through of my old stuff and I found some of my drawings I use to do back then.
I decided to go search on Google what a heck had happen to them, and found out that they got together again.I was thrilled!
I took a look at some tv shows and realized that my MIL is right...Men are like a Porto Wine...They get better with the aging process!

Step by Step - New Kids on the Block

NKOTB - Summertime (OFFICIAL MIX)

(noticed the year??1992!)

Daddy's vacations are over (for now)!!!

My hubby's vacations are over.Well at least for now...By the end of this year he'll have another couple of weeks, but then the weather will be cooler and we'll take that time to go and visit some spots that we didin't visit now cause it's TOO HOT! Anyway, the kids sure had a great time once we took them out almost every day to the beach and to the pool. Last weekend we went over my mom's and brought along some of my hubby relatives. Once again the kids were who had all the fun cause my mom has a swimming pool in her backyard. We (the adults) were more into another sort of fun and cool down!Beers and snacks!LOL! We had a particulary one that I'm pretty sure will amaze you all: Snails (or as the French people say :«Escargots»)!Yep!That's right! My mom does it like no one!

So here goes some of our vacations pics.

Boys Having a Blast!

This one was shot yesterday at the only (nice and proper!) swimming pool in the city.
Eric was feeling much better but in this video he doesn't show up as usually!
Filipe and Wilson had a blast and truely enjoyed daddy's last vacations day.
The weather was so damn hot that the sky looked purple instead of blue!

The gown, again...

Here's another pic that my MIL took at her place in that day.
That's not a very good pic, but at least I'm standing so you girls can have a better look on the gown!...
I think my mom read my thoughts and figured out what colour was I wearing in that day!Dunno how, but she always manage to do that!LOL!

ITS ALL ABOUT ME MEME

My BBF Tina tagged me this cute meme about ourselves (yeah...I know what you're thinking...Again about me!)
So here it goes!...

I am: a daydreamer
I think: a lot!
I know:I never get to know all that I need to know
I have: a lovely family

I wish:I was working and living in the US
I hate: racism and fawny people
I miss: my dad
I fear: for my kids
I hear: lots and lots of music
I smell: fresh made coffee

I crave: chocolate ice cream
I search: for full filling my dreams
I wonder: what the future has for me
I regret: some things I've said to my mom when I was a teen
I love: my family
I ache: each time I receive a "no can do" answer from a job application in the US or AUS
I am not: A vain person
I believe: In Angels
I dance: The whole time
I sing: the whole time as well!
I cry: Geeez!When I'm happy,when I'm down, when I read a nice book or watch a romantic movie...
I fight: against feeling down
I win: playing word games
I lose: playing PS2 with my kids
I never: will feel home as long as I live here
I always: have my kids around
I confuse: my hubby sometimes
I listen: what people have to say
I can usually be found: home
I am scared: of spiders
I need: a tummy tuck!
I am happy about: having a lovely family and the fact that I have healthy children

I imagine: the day I'll step in the US for the first time

I'm not tagging anyone cause I guess you all have been tagged before...
Just in case you haven't, please feel free to grab it!

Feeding his buddy

This weekend Eric thought it was too hot...Even for his special buddy!!!LOL!

Back on Track

You girls thought by any chance that you'd get rid of me that easy!?Nope!
If you haven't heard from me in this past days, it's because it's vacations time!Yep, hubby's home and we've taken the kids out almost every day in this past week.And it's not over yet!So don't worry if I'm not around till next Thursday!
I'm just taking some time out!
A huge kiss to all my girlfriends!!!