Food From Peru!

As you know, Rafael and his family went to Peru in January. I think they had a great time. Here is Raf at Machu Picchu. Can you believe there are llamas walking around? I was so surprised!

They visited lots of family members including Rafael's Great Aunt Victoria and a sweet little one. :)

Rafael brought back beautiful decorations and lots of delicious food including tamales made by Aunt Victoria! They were super delicious. I couldn't believe I got to eat homemade food from Peru! Have you ever had tamales? I love them. The Peruvian kind have meat, eggs, and olives.
Yummy!

Goodbye February!

Hi! Did you have a nice February? I did! The best part was Valentines Day. Rafael bought me these beautiful flowers! I couldn't stop looking at them. :)

We made delicious ravioli!

And celebrated at home. It was fun!

The Prudential was red for the day. :) Now I am ready for Spring! I made these springy brownies with this recipe yesterday.I love sprinkles! :)

Family Fotos

I have to admit, I'm glad the holidays are over. Sometimes they're just too much! For example, look what happened to Raf: So dramatic! (Just kidding, he really just likes how his new indoor sweater soccer ball feels on his head.) Now that we're past New Years, there's plenty of time to do fun winter activities like getting cozy on the couch! (Unless you're like Sarah and need a pillow barrier.)And eating delicious Florida grapefruits! Yummy!

¡Pixa!

Mom gave me a really nice pizza making set for my birthday in November. I used it the other night to make a pizza for Raf and me! It was really fun. I forgot how easy pizza is to make! We bought our crust at the grocery store but I want to try making my own sometime. Our pizza had chicken sausage, tomato sauce, mozzarella, ricotta, and fresh pineapple. Raf's favorite kind of pizza is sausage and pineapple, and my favorite has ricotta so it was a compromise. :)It was beautiful and delicious! I might have used a little too much sauce. And it had a really big bubble! Here is a close-up:Thanks Mommy for the pizza set! In other news, the sun came out! I can't believe it. :)

Happy Snowy New Year

Happy 2010! I'm excited for the new year, are you? I have about 30 resolutions, but I like all of them. :) Rafael and I moved to a new apartment this fall on the 3rd floor with a super cool view! We love it, especially when we can watch fireworks like New Years Eve! Here's what it looked like this Fall: In the distance, from left to right, we can see the old Hancock building (with the weather beacon), the new John Hancock building, and the Prudential! Out another window we see this: The little light in the middle is the Zakim Bridge. We can also see the Science Museum and the Cambridgeside Galleria. Out other windows we can see the TD Banknorth Garden, State Street Financial, the Schrafts Building, and Route 93 (how exciting haha). And today, here is what I see:Lots of snow! Blur!!!! (As Raf would say :).) Unfortunately for me, Raf is on his way to Peru today. :( Where, fortunately for him, he will be enjoying Summer weather!But he left me with a beautiful snowflake! (See the cutie d-dog?) Happy Winter everyone! xoxo

Merry Christmas

I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas! We did lots of fun holiday activities this year, but I was bad and barely too any pictures, except for when we went to the Christmas tree farm. We don't have a Christmas tree, but I love to go to the farm to look at the trees and smell them. Isn't that the best smell? Mom and Raf were very nice and went with me. We all had fun! Mom got a wreath. It was really sunny. We had to take this picture like, "One, two, three... OPEN YOUR EYES!!!!" haha The Christmas trees are really pretty and so is the farm.It also has a beautiful view!Happy Holidays everyone!!!! xoxo

Happy Birthday to ME! :)

I had a super fun birthday celebration at Mom's house this weekend. Everyone gave me really cool presents, including this beautiful afghan made by Sarah and Mom! We ate enchiladas and Grandma Estelle's chocolate cake!
We even had mini sparklers! So cool :)

Rafael's Pumpkin

Rafael carved a pumpkin for a competition at his office. It was fun! He drew a few designs. The first one has diodes for eyes and a resistor for a mouth. :0 I like the mustache on the second one. He went with the bottom one. He drew his design on the pumpkin very carefully. It was a big pumpkin! Then he scooped out the inside very neatly. :) I like the blurry spoon.
I think the pumpkin came out super cool! I love the big toothy smile! Raf's favorite part is the wink.Spiky (the aloe) liked it too.It looks really cool lit up! Great job Raf!!!!!

Martha's Vineyard :)

We went on a mini vacation to Martha's Vineyard last weekend. It was really fun and Rafael was really sweet! He's good at kissing and taking pictures of us at the same time. :) haha Here we are on the ferry:

We stayed in this beautiful room. It was very relaxing and cool.

It had a sink! We liked it. Here is the best part of the room, the ocean view! So beautiful. The coolest part of the bed and breakfast was this: The widows walk! Don't worry, Raf didn't fall off. :) So dramatic. It had great views like this:
I took a lot of pictures up there. Maybe I'll post some more later.

:) I still have a lot more pictures to post, like of us at the beach! I hope everyone is having a nice week.

Afternoon Park Time

Raf likes to play soccer in the park. He hurt his knee last Fall but he's getting better and better. Now he can kick!I like to go with him, even on cold days. I read books and watch him play.It's fun. :)

Happy Birthday Rafael!

Mr. Cruz came to visit for Rafael's birthday! He gave Raf a soccer ball. Raf LOVES it and he's playing with it in the living room right now! He brought a delicious cake! Raf always does this::) It was a fun birthday party. We're having lots of fun with Mr. Cruz!

There are more birthday celebrations to come! Yay!

We got a Wii!!!

After months of searching we finally found a Nintendo Wii at the Gamestop in Coolidge Corner today. I'm so excited!!!! I hope everyone will come over and play with us. :) Here is Raf boxing (so cute):

He won!

Mom got a home run:

It's really fun! yayayay!

Apple Crisp

I got some cool new baking dishes at the Crate & Barrel outlet in Kittery this weekend. Mom and I made apple crisp in one this weekend. I love apple crisp and so does Mom and especially Rafael. Here it is before we cooked it:
And after!It came out really well! I love the new dishes! I also got a small one and a rectangular one. I hope Raf's ready for some casseroles! :)