Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!!

Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord.

Luke 2:11 (New International Version)

Wordless Wednesday

Maternity Photo Shoot

Last Sunday, I did my Maternity Photo Shoot. Ever since, I found out I was pregnant, I just knew I HAD to do a photo shoot.

I have only two of my childhood friends who are from my hometown and live in São Paulo. One of them happens to be one amazing photographer.

When I told her I was pregnant, one of the first things she told me was: “When are we going to do your photo shoot?”

We had scheduled previously for January. After all I am only 28 weeks pregnant. But when all that “Paulo, you have to go to France in January” happened, we had to rearrange everything.

She closes her schedule on some weekends, so she can enjoy her family. And last Sunday was one these weekends. She was kind enough to open her schedule to do our photo shoot. We chose our own house, so it would look more natural and more like us. And to top it all, her husband made an amazing lunch for us back in their apartment. I guess that is one of the side benefits to be good friends with photographer.

Here is a sneak peek of the photo shoot.

Needless to say, we love it.

Thank you Karim for being such a good friend and an amazing photographer.

If you want to take a look at her work, go to her web site. It is written in Portuguese, but it is worth a look on her beautiful pictures.

29 weeks

PS: Stop by tomorrow and I will share sneak peek of my Maternity Photo Shoot.

28 weeks

A baby shower debate

In Brazil, we don’t have the tradition to someone else host a baby shower or a bridal shower for someone. In some cases, the mom of the bride or the soon to be grandma will host it.

Since, I live far away from my family and I cannot travel to go and see them, I have to take the matter in my own hands.

On the other hand, there are two types of Baby Showers. You can do a traditional baby shower with a registry in one or more stores or you can do a Diaper Shower.

When you do a Diaper Shower, you only ask for diapers in different sizes and brands.

Most people choose a Diaper Shower, because baby items are EXTREMELY expensive down here and people don’t feel comfortable to ask for expensive items.

So, I am going with the flow and I am hosting my own Diaper Shower. I don’t have too many people to invite, since most of my friends live in my hometown or in Bahia.

I am still trying to figure out if I will host it in a tea room or if I will host it in my own house.

I have a really specific idea of what I want as a baby shower in my own house, but I don’t want to feel overwhelmed with all the party planning.

I will have to decide no later than next week, if I want to do at our house, because I will have a lot of things to plan. I already have a specific board on Pinterest with shower ideas and I can assure you it will be all Pink and Brown ; )

What are your thoughts???

Show us your life - Holiday Recipes

Today, I am participating on the Show us your life - Holiday Recipes.

Kelly from Kelly's Korner hosts some different topic every Friday and today the chosen topic is Holiday Recipes.

I alread publish those three recipes before. So if you want to see the pictures of the final products, go to the orignal post or if you only want to see the recipe.... here they are:

Mousse au Chocolate

200grs of semi-sweet chocolate (good quality)

4 yolks

4 whites

6 tablespoons of sugar

300 ml of Heavy Cream or 1 can of Crème de Leite

Melt the chocolate in water bath or in the microwave

Wisk the yolks with 4 tablespoons of sugar until you get a light yellow cream

When the chocolate is already melted, put the heavy cream and fold it together

Fold the yolk and chocolate mixture together

Beat the whites with the last 2 tablespoons of sugar into snow picks.

Fold the whites with the chocolate mixture together.

Wrap in plastic film and put in the fridge for at least 12 hours. If you want to fancy it up, you could chill them in tall wine glasses and cover with some strawberry to show off.

Olives Pate

1 cup of Green Olives – pitted (The original recipe call for Black Olive, but I don’t like it)

1/2 can of Crème de Leite (Heavy Cream can be used as a substitute)

200gr of Ricotta Cheese

Salt

Black Pepper

Chopp the olives in small bites (real small), mix with ricotta and Crème de Leite.

Seasoning as you like it (salt, pepper, a little of Fondor). You can put all the ingredients in the blender. But I like the taste of the small olive bites on my crackers. Wrap in a plastic and put in the fridge for at least 6 hours or preferably over night. Serve with Crackers and Appetizers Size Toasts.

This recipe feeds a crowd.

Gorgonzola Pate or Blue Cheese Pate

Ingredients:

250 gr of Blue Cheese (Gorgonzola)

1 can of Crème de Leite (Heavy Cream can be used as a substitute)

1 can of Requeijão (it is kind of a softer and saltier cream cheese)

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

2 cloves of garlic

Black Pepper

Mash the Gorgonzola Cheese with a fork until you get really small bites. Put the Crème de Leite, the Requeijão and black pepper. Mix all together and put the Olive Oil until you get a Pate consistency. Wrap in a plastic and put in the fridge for at least 6 hours or preferably over night. Serve with Crackers and Appetizers Size Toasts.

PS: I am not posting the pictures again, because I couldn't find them ; )

Mid-week random’s

I am having another crazy week at work.

I had a three hours conference call yesterday. And it was completely useless for my part of the job on the project.

After I reached viability week, I am finally sleeping through the night.

Hubby and I are counting down the days for his trip.

We need to get everything done for Heloisa’s arrival before he leaves on the first week of January.

I still haven’t decorated my house for Christmas.

II took a hard decision. I won’t assembly my tree this year.

My belly will be too big in January by the time to put it down.

Hubby was really sad, but I need to be practical.

We could get a sweet picture of Heloisa in 3D.

I bought Heloisa her first pair of shoes.

My co-worker is doing some towels for Heloisa with her name in cross stiches.

I guess that is it. I will really need to survive until the end of this work week.

27 weeks