THE FAMILY

OK...here are some pictures taken at a first comunion we had at the lake this weekend! You can see the whole PRADO FAMILY as it is!!! (look at Miranda's face...)
JAvier has two older kids, Javi Jr (15) and Veronica (17).... not easy to entertain them all at once!!!! NOT EASY AT ALL!!!!! It is really a challenge....... but they are good kids. And they are wonderful with Isabella & Miranda.
They stay with us every other weekend and come over for dinner twice a week....it's crazy when they are all in the house....but we have a good time.....
and of course I had to send you the picture that Javier took of me! He really likes it!

ISABELLA & MIRANDA

Just some pictures to show you the what the crazy girls were doing this week! Isabella decided she wanted to to run erands with me dressed as a Spanish dancer! The cute 'Sevillana' started itching all in the midle of our errands....not a good idea...
Miranda....no coments.....The pictures speak for themselves.... They have both started summer camp in club very close to our house and they are having a blast!!!!!

FELT LIKE A ROCK STAR!!!!

I have to tell you one more thing that hapened on my trip to Miami.
After my mom wnt back to Guatemala, I stayed one more night waiting for Javier to come back from Canada. We were suposed to spend one night in Miami then fly back to Salvador together. So after I droped my mom off at the Airport I went to check in the hotel where we had our reservations. It is one of the best, if not the best hotel in Miami and we get a very special rate through the bank.... (Normally it's $500 a night and we get it for $170!!!) ....so as soon as I arrived the lady at the front desk says: YOU'RE SO LUCKY! THERE ARE NO MORE ROOMS AVAILABLE.....I'M GOING TO HAVE TO UPGRADE YOU TO A SUITE!!!!!!......so here are the pictures of my $170 suite!!!! wich normally costs $3,000 a night!!! I dont' have to tell you that I did not leave the suite for a long time and watched the sunset in my own balcony with the view of Miami.... It was amazing!!! I felt like a star! When Javier arrived I opened the door and said: 'Welcome.....to our new home!!!!' He totally flipped!

BARMITZVAH!

Ok! I am back.....well I've been back for a week but I've been so busy...also spending lots of time with the girls after I left them for a week!
My trip was wonderful!!!! I spen 4 days with my mom....basically shopping all day....and on the last day we went to her friends grandson 'BARMITZVAH'...wich is the reason why this whole trip started!!! and that was one of the most amazing experiences in my life!!!!!!!! I LOVED THE BARMITZVAH!!!!!!!!!!! I have always loved the jewish culture but now I love it even more!!!! If my familiy was arab I am sure I would CONVERT!!!! (...I seriously believe that I was a jewish woman in the holocaust in one of my past lives.....sorry guys.....but I DO BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION......Sorry.....)..
Ok...coming back to 'this' lifetime.....the event was so inspired and it tought me SO much on how to raise my kids that at the end I went to talk to the RABI and I have to mention it SHE was a woman Rabi!!! The sinagogue is a very reformed sinagogue and the Barmizvah was VERY diferent from the traditional ones.....at least that is what she said at the begining.
I was SO moved that she gave a copy of their service books wich have totaly inspired me to start painting a new series of paintings....one page reads like this:

' Our contract was for nurturing, and we exploited.
Our covenant was with simplicity, and we complicated.
Our actions betray our tue longings.
Not for peace do we labor, but for power.
Not for compasion, but for control.
Not for self, but for selfishness.
Each of us comes into the world with a task all our own,
yet so much of our time is spent imitating others.
Remind us of our uniqueness, chanllenge us with the pash
that only our feet can follow.
Then shall we renew our covenant
and take up the task of redeeming the world.

...and after all that spirituality.....and the amazing party afterwards....we went back to more shopping!
But the message was there...
I also saw my good friend Guillermo and we went to CAlvary on Sunday.....we also went to his nutritionist!!! He's lost 17 pounds in a month!!! So I couldn't pass on that one...Needless to say I was back on the plane carrying all kinds of giant bottles with all kinds of protein shakes in them!!!!!!!! And now my mood is horrible...this diet really sucks....IT IS SOOO HARD.....but it reallyl works! I think I've lost 3 pounds in 4 days! Amazing! But that's another blog entry...

GOODBYE...for a while

ok...this is my goodbye...just for a while since I am returning in a few days..... I have enjoyed bloging with you but tomorrow I leave to Sunny Miami for a few days...I don't think it's too sunny these days dough...
I am going with my mom to a BarMitzvah.....I told a friend who lives in Miami that I was coming and she said: "To what BAR are you guys going??? Maybe I can join you!! :)
How about that??? So for her I am coming to Miami for some good old shopping and to go a Bar with my mom!'
Talk to you soon....keep writting!!!

VIEWS FROM MY TREMBLING VOLCANOE

OK...here they are....I promised to send views from my trembling volcano so you decide for yourselves if it's worth risking it and living here.....The volcanoe is still active but has not errupted in 100 years...(actually I think that make it all worst!)...anyway everytime it has erupted all the lava & stuff goes to the other side of the volcanoe..not to my side.... Mitch saw it.....ask him! So...would you risk it???

MIRANDA/ PART II

OK...these are more pics of Miranda...I really just want you know if you can see her personality through the pictures....PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!! (F.......k!!! I just felt a really ugly tremor!!!!!! this things really freak me OUT!!!!! Too bad you were not here Mitch! I would have loved to see your face!!!!)