I love rainy season

I really love rainy season. It's my very favorite season here in Brazil. It rains every day...and everything looks so beautiful and green...so fresh and alive!

Some people complain about not getting their clothes dry...I don't really mind that...I usually wash our clothes and hang them under a porch and they eventually get dry...I just love the rain and the cool weather it brings. It is just my favorite time of the year. It started raining in the beginning of December and it usually lasts until the end of March, the beginning of April at the most, so I am enjoying this beautiful time of the year! It's so nice to cuddle with the lil' prince, or to do some baking.  It's so much nicer than the dry season, where everything is so dry and so hot!

I love going for walks after the rain...the sky looks so beautiful, and the greenery looks so vibrant...God's creation is so beautiful! Check out this gorgeous sky below!!! Isn't is just lovely?!?!

Yesterday when we were coming back home from spending the day out where we're building our house, we saw this beautiful rainbow right close to the mountains. I thought it was so beautiful! I could sit for hours looking at the sky and feeling the soft breeze blowing around me. It's mesmerizing. I love it!

And the beautiful green...no wonder green is one of my favorite colors. I love looking at all the different hues of green around. It's beautiful! You can see some of the gorgeous green in the picture below. I love the grass and the trees in the background of this picture. It makes me want to lay on the grass and look at the sky. I don't think there's anything more relaxing!

So, why worry about getting clothes dry?!?! I am going to enjoy the rainy season until it lasts...the clothes, they will wait :) I only have a couple more weeks to enjoy this and I am determined to enjoy it to the fullest!

The rain is falling outside as I write this post, and yes, I do have laundry to do, but I  just think I will put something in the oven and cuddle with my lil' prince for a while...maybe read him a book for a while.... because I love rainy season, 
because it reminds me of joy...
and it bring me much joy too!


Call me crazy if you want to...I just love rain!!!!!!!!!

Mangos, Mangos, Mangos

It's mango season! On my last post, I posted a picture of the mango flowers. I finally got around to snapping some mango pictures.We've got a ton of them :) Next to my porch is a huge mango tree LOADED with mangos. The ripe ones fall on the ground and on our roof ( scares me when they fall on my roof in the middle of the night and I am awaken by the big THUD!) I pick up the mangos every day, some we just throw away, the better ones, we can eat or we make juice out of them.People walking by on the street also ask for mangos, so I usually fill up a pail of mangos and just put them out of the street so anyone who wants them can take some...someone ended up taking my pail...huh, I don't think that was a good idea...I will have to put it in bags or boxes now :(
   We're still waiting on the rain...It's been along time. I am really looking forward to the rainy season! The forecast says no rain until next month! YIKES! There were a couple nights last week that we had difficulty sleeping...it was just too hot! The temp has been around 94 - 100 degrees Celsius lately, but it has been cooling off in the evenings, so that's been nice!

And of course I have to include a picture of our little man :) This week was a very exciting one for us! Daddy found Josh's first tooth on Saturday :) It has already come through, and it's just so cute  (smile) ...then on Sunday, my mother found another one, it still hasn't come all the way out, but it's in the process :) I tried getting a picture, but they're still too small to really see and the little prince does not like it when we try to mess with his little teethers...so it will have to wait :)  He's sure been much happier after the first tooth broke through!


            Hope you have a lovely day!!!!!!!!!!!!!


                Jessica