Fourth of July Holiday!

We spent a relaxing day today with our family friend Maria Helena. Jonny cooked a wonderful evening meal - we joined most American families today by having a "cook-out", just before the thunderstorm came.




Maezinha, you will be very happy to know that I took advantage of Maria Helena's visit today to finally clean out and organize our storage closet in the living room! We've been in this house now for almost a year and have been using the closet to hide all our mess and at the same time lose everything. I'm so relieved that we finally got it organized because every time we've had guests over and I've had to "find" something, I would get embarrassed of the mess and the fact that I could never find what I was looking for! Here is the evidence of the organized closet - there is so much space now that Jonny can even sit inside!