The Barbosa's went camping...

Friday afternoon around 4:00, Gil called me and said "Jodie,get the boys stuff ready and our stiff ready because we are going camping!" So I stopped folding clothes and started packing enough for one night and one day. We also took the three dogs with us.

After stopping at Walmart for some necessities we were off to TOSOHATCHEE STATE PARK. The only things that are provided for you are: port a potty, bbq grill and a fire pit.

We had an awesome time setting up camp. We had about 45 minutes to set up the tent and start a fire to last the evening. We bought a propane lantern, but some genius opened the box and took out a specific piece that was needed to keep the lantern lit. After our fire was going, we roasted marshmallows and listened to Gil tell some stories. Scrappy slept in the tent with us, but Bianca and Marina were our watch dogs.

The next morning we made breakfast and then went on a 2 1/2 mile nature walk. We saw A LOT of Banana Spiders, which by the way are not poisonous. After our nature walk, we made another fire to cook lunch. After we relaxed we noticed that it was only 1:30pm, so I started to pack up camp because it looked like it was going to rain hard. So while I was putting everything in the car, Gil and the kids made our last big fire. We waited around for the rain, and it came down HARD! The fire went out, then we ran to the car with the dogs and jumped in.

Here are some pics....

Garfield

Sunday night I came home from buying something to eat and when the boys and I got out of the car there was a cat on top of Gil's car. when I got out of the car, he did not run. So I know that he wasn't a street cat because you can't even look at a street cat without it running off.

So I called Gil outside and then I gave it a lot of food, because the cat was so skinny that when you would touch his waist (closer to the tail end) it was maybe one inch thick. He was SOOOOOO skinny. I felt so bad for the cat, but we could not let it in because MJ would not get along with him and we weren't sure how aggressive he was. Well the boys fell in love with him instantly, but we told them that we would continue to feed it as long as it would come around and he would be our "outside" cat.

Needless to say he was back every day this week and we would sit outside with him and feed him and play with him. So when the boys asked me if they could name him I said "of course" so his name is GARFIELD!

Here are some pictures of Garfield. OH! by the way his waist is at least 2 - 4 inches thick now. He is getting healthy!

Happy Birthday Rick

We want to wish Rick a Happy Birthday. We hope you have a wonderfuly day. You are a great father, brother, tio, brother-in-law and friend.

Love,
The Barbosa Family

(I will post a video once Esai wakes up from his nap!)

What we learned today....

The boys found some of Gil's ties that he used to have to wear to work. And of course they ask ME how to tie a tie?!?!?!?!?! So I turned my trusty ol' computer and off we went to learn how to tie a tie.

http://www.tie-a-tie.net/halfwindsor.html

This is the result.... A Half Windsor Tie

We are going to Colombia!!!!

I am so excited because we are finally travelling to Colombia, South America! Gil has not been to Colombia since the beginning of 1994 so he has been past due on his travels to Colombia.



We are going with the boys and they are even more excited than I am. they get to fly in an airplane for the first time and get to meet their great-grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins for the first time!



I will take many pictures so I can post when we get back. We leave the morning of the 9th of August and come back on the 18th. Just in time for the first day of school for Erico and Elkin on the 20th of August!

Family update

Well I have not posted in almost one month. I did something to my blog and sort of messed it up and couldn't get it back to the way I wanted it. So I was able to copy some of my old posts to this new blog (the link is on the right side of the screen).

Next time I play with the layout, I will backup my template first!

So we have done alot in the past few weeks.

We went to visit my dad and step-mom in cape coral with my brother and his family. we stayed for four nights. The kids love visiting their abuelo and nana. Also since we did not have a birthday party back home, we had a "fake" birthday party for Erico.

Erico and Elkin spent one week in soccer camp from 9-12. They had a lot of fun their also.

See the slideshow below of our activities: