Hope's Birthday

Parabens pra voce (Happy Birthday)...to Hope

Happy Birthday to Hope. She's now 4 years old! Amazing how time flies. Thankfully, God granted us with a wonderful family that shared with us in the joy of Hope's special day. This family goes to the church we've been attending. They were very gracious to invite us for lunch and swimming at their house. The girls had a grand time swimming, eating, and blowing out the candles. They helped to make Hope feel special today! What a blessing.

Please continue to pray that God would bless us with special friends that will help us:
1) Practice our language
2) Understand the culture
3) Step in as "surrogate" family

Gracie's Baby Shower

Santos Exploration Trip

Pictures from our first real "Exploration" of the Baixada Santista region, right on the coast of the State of Sao Paulo, Brasil. This is where we'll eventually end up after language school. Guy Key, another IMB missionary graciously spent his day showing us around the cities of Santos and Sao Vicente.

Check out our slide show below. Put your cursor over each picture to get more info about it.

Daddy & the Girls

Pregnant Belly

Allison at 8 months pregnant with 3rd little girl. We think we'll call her Isabella Grace. Due mid-October. If I was even better at the computer, I'd airbrush out my stretch marks!!!

Holombra Flower Festival

We journeyed about an hour outside of Campinas to a city named Holombra last week. Their annual flower festival is the "big thing". There were a lot of Dutch settlers that held true to tradition. The girls had a great time. It was nice, beautiful flowers, but wore 8 month pregnant Allison out!

Abby very much enjoys the water, which is a good thing, seeing that we're moving to the coast in a few months.


Abby liked to circle the water fountain after lunch!


I tried to get a close-up shot of each girl, I'm not sure what this look is about from Hope! She had a great time too.


One of the workers gave Abigail a rose from one of the exhibits. She quickly smelled it's wonderful aroma.


Chuck and Hope had a free pass to slide down the slide on a carpet. (But as you can see, it didn't go as well as planned.)