Christmas 2009

Christmas Eve, Tom and I spend a beautiful white Christmas at our home in Denver.

Brazil

Petropolis- I moved there when I was about 15. Made many life time friends that we stay in touch till this day ! They had a big pizza cook out at one of our friend beautiful house, by the pool house! It was a blast - We all sing the old Rock and Roll songs from back on our day ! Hilarius Here is the crazy bunch...

By the bridge with Museu Imperial in the background..still so beautiful

Ilha Fiscal on the back- as we took the ferry boat to Ilha de Paqueta.

Of course we cannot pass the Agua de Coco- Every time we walked on the beach, here we were in Ipanema walking back to Copacabana at night.

We made it to the top of Pao de Açucar (Sugar Loaf) and started to rain, it was still fun, I had to share my pao de queijo with the little monkeys that followed us around.

All My Children

These are my most precious possessions, my great kids!!!
We all met at John J's house for dinner earlier December, we had our Grandmother Juanita Dobson all the way from Panguitch, for a short visit- she loved seing all her grandkids and great-grandkids as well- She is 95 years old, still lives on her own and she was so happy to spend a day with us all. What a trooper!