David and Pri

I wanted to share with you that David bough me in Portland a gorgeous pair to substitute the original. I feel really happy with the new ones, but…

Maybe we’ ll have 2 pairs now! (if we are lucky enough…)

I was playing with one of the pictures in close up and saw the earring there, on the snow, near my footprints!

Check this out here.

So David and I will go back to the tree again as soon as the snow sublimes/melts…

I’m extremely excited about it. Let’s see if we find it for real!!

Look how our deck is now!

Meanwhile, you can see 2 delicious things we baked last week here. (what a sudden change of subject, isn’t it?)

I can’t really believe… this is such a great story…

I think that David and I are doing a great job taking very good care of our relationship…  The year was very busy and full of events… but also really full of happy and important moments. See here if you need a review of what we did together…

This Friday January 16 was our first Anniversary! Despite the earring episode, it was all great!

Well… We went back to “our”  tree in Karst Farm Park around 5pm (I got the afternoon off work because I wasn’t feeling well), and climbed it (well, I asked myself many times why I had this idea, since it’s not easy at all for me to climb a tree…) but after a lot of frustration, and even tears, I MADE it!!!

David and I reviewed our vows and our ceremony (I really liked it). It was very cold, but I guess with all the exercise I did to be able to get up the tree I was feeling fine. David was colder than me this time! We went to Dunn In, a new restaurant Downtown, and we had a pretty good dinner. It was there, after we ate, that I realized that I had just one earring… Yes, somehow one of the earrings that David gave me when he proposed to me in Portland was lost at some point in the day. Where? I don’t know… anywhere from the car, or my office, the tree, to Aldi (we were near by and decided to buy some food), or the restaurant. We did come back to all these places in the morning. Zero earrings found.

Well, after a period of real sadness and frustration, I stopped crying and moved on. I asked David to try to find the same earrings in the store where he bought the pair. It’s in Portland and he is leaving there to visit Sue, Michael and Verl on Thursday, so quite convenient… I am not super confident they will have the same pair, but I will be fine anyway. (I guess)

What a coincidence that this earring decided to disappear exactly in our 1 year anniversary. Well, anyway, it became a story… Click in the image to see some pictures!

I made it!

And life goes on! (Oh, yes, I got a new beautiful pair of blue earrings  – this time bought in Bloomington – with an additional butterfly for my third hole!)

:)

Finally uploaded it all!

Pictures of:

Moving party, picking up blueberries for the wedding/housewarming party, some Brazilian trip pictures (Joao Victor music lesson, pingpong), cheries, gifts, old countertop, pictures of new house, etc are HERE.

Brazilian trip (most of them) are HERE

New Kitchen, Wedding/housewarming/dance party, Cedar Bluffs etc are HERE
Hope you have fun! At some point we’ll add captions, but I can’t promise when…

This is our annual celebration activity since we got together. My left knee wasn’t bad getting there, but in the way back it started hurting. Well… It took us 1:15 minutes each way, and 3 very hard hills (each way). One of them I had to walk the bike, but all the rest I biked!

Esta eh nossa atividade de comemoracao desde quecomecamos a namorar, dois anos atras: ir de bicicleta para esta reserva natural, onde tem um riacho e um penhasco que da na agua. Muito bonito. Meu joelho esquerdo aguentou ate 3/4 do caminho, e dai eu tive que empurrar a bicicleta nas subidas. Bom, tudo bem. Um dia ainda vou resolver este probleminha...

Cedar Bluffs is here. And we played Cribbage, played in the delicious creek and ate the very flavorful pesto pasta that David made for us, and walked up to the bluffs. Very beautiful!

Cedar Bluffs eh aqui. Nos jogamos cartas, brincamos na agua e comemos um spaguetti ao pesto delicioso que o David fez pra nos! Fomos tbm pro topo das rochas. Muito bonito!

SO we went to Casa Blanca and to Contradance.

The food was delcious, and the dance very exciting! Check the video of the dance!