Saturday, December 27, 2008

A new member of our family


Cambria, Cecilee and Paula helping mom make goodies to take to friends and neighbors. Teaching Paula all about baking during the holidays.

Paula made her very first Gingerbread house. She had so much fun decorating and picking out all of her candy for her house.


We took Paula Christmas Caroling with my family. She thought we were a little weird and she most definately didn't know the song we sang, "Mele Kalikimaka" our Hawaiian Christmas song that we sing every year.
We have a new member to our family till the end of the school year. Her name is Paula and she is a foreign exchange student from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She has been here in the states for 5 months, she was living with another family, but they moved to LaVerkin and she wanted to stay at Snow Canyon High School so she asked our family if she could live with us. We were so excited to have her here with us. There are so many things that she has never experienced and we are very excited to help her experience life here in the United States and learn all about her culture. She is a very sweet girl and fits right into our family. Our family is a little wild for her but she will catch on, I'm sure.

2 comments:

Marion said...

My brother in law came back from his mission in Brazil this past July. I'll have to tell him. He'll be excited. He misses the Brazilian people.

mariann and Tory said...

That is awesome that you guys took her in! Awesome! I bet it would be a ton of fun at your house!