Lucas' parents' neighborhood has two lakes and LOOOOOTS of geese!  We had a great time riding the bikes around the neighborhood and feeding the "ducks" everyday with our left over bread.  Lara wasn't quite sure what to think of the ducks, but she definitely LOVEd riding on the bike.  Too bad we can't find a bike seat like this one here...

As excited as we were to get to Brazil and enjoy the summer heat, we weren't quite ready for it yet!  It had been really cold here in Huntsville before we left, so it took some adjusting.  I have to say I'm ready to be back in the warmth though... summer can't get here fast enough!

Lara spent a lot of time without her shirt on during this trip!  ha!  I'm sure she'll really enjoy all of these pictures when she gets older!  I kept getting worried that she was getting too hot since there wasn't any air conditioning.  You'll see in later posts that we spent a lot of time in the pool as well!

We took TONS of pictures in Brazil this time around, so I tried to group them a bit.  Most of these posts are in no particular order!  Hope you enjoy!

For those of you who know Lara, you know that her hair is pretty crazy, and keeps getting crazier the longer it gets!  She has some seriously curly hair, which I don't know quite what to do with, since my hair is board staight!  Anyways, we say a new level of craziness while we were in Brazil.  The humidity mixed with constant sweating = crazy curly, beautiful hair!  Ha!  I loved every minute of it, and I KNOW that Lucas did since he is always trying to convince me to leave her hair crazy rather than try to fix it in the morning. As you will be able to see from most of our pictures, I just kind of let her hair go while we were there.  With the humidity there wasn't a whole lot that I could do!  Love it though!  I hope that her hair keeps these curls.  I think they are so cute!

The day after Lara's 1st Birthday, we set off for our long adventure to get to Brazil.  This was our second time traveling to Brazil with Lara, but I knew it would be completely different traveling with a 1 year old compared to a 3 month old, and boy was it!!! 

My parents and grandparents were still in town from Lara's birthday party, so dad took us to the airport so we wouldn't have to pay for parking while we were gone.  We learned from our last trip that we would just pay a little extra to fly directly out of Huntsville rather than drive to Nashville.  Two more hours added on to the trip was just too much!