The Da Silva Family

English Class and Hanging out with the neices!

2009-08-06T07:19:00.000-07:00

I have an English Class every Saturday where I help out a friend from church and answer questions about culture and ask the students about their culture.
Last Saturday everybody brought some Brazilian cuisine. There was brigadeiro, ¨sighs¨i dont remember the word in portuguese, 2 types of cake that wasnt made with flour but was good, some kind of lemon mousse, pão de queijo (that was my favorite!), and I brought my chocolate chip cookies and snickerdoodles. It was cool.

When I came home from class, Sarah and Sophia were playing and I guess we decided to be a bunch of fatties! hahahahaha The pictures are the events that followed...

Fake-o chunkers!
Too much coxinha for Sarah! rsrsrsWe did surprised faces...Sad faces...Just weird faces I guess...
I think we´re singing...or tired?
And Sophia had a diet shake and last weight...sell-out! rsrsrsrsSarah, Sophia, and me

Futbol!!!

2009-08-05T06:04:00.000-07:00

Downtown Campina Grande!!

2009-08-05T05:37:00.001-07:00

Downtown!!!

I really don´t remember what the name of this is...but it´s beautiful and it´s kind of a big landmark for the city. It looks like a postcard to me! rsrsrs

Some statues downtown!

Palmtrees! You don´t see that in NY! rsrsrsrs

When we first went to one of these I had no idea what was going on...but now I´m a regular! rsrsrs

One of the many churches downtown...

The Parque de Crianças!!! This is where I go to the library!!!

The Library!!!!! I go here for my interviews and find out more!!

Cool animals next to the park.

Really funny...right before lunch, the roads get really full of kids coming home from school. I was late to take a good picture of the roads really full, but I think it´s really funny because it´s like clockwork. Every day. right after school. home. for...LUNCH!!!! dun dun DUN!!!
Just an awesome picture of houses in Brazil!

My next attempt to post pics...hopefully it works!!!

2009-08-05T05:10:00.001-07:00

COOKING SHOWS!
This was about a week ago...
But it was Sarah´s birthday party! All the girls got dressed up! Sarah turned 7!!!

Me, Sarah, Sue-ellen, e Sophia

I helped make coxinha!!! It doesn´t actually take 5 hours to make...so maybe I´ll make it more often! rsrsrsrs

I made ¨chocolate chip cookies¨ (they didn´t have chips, so we settled for sprinkles rsrssrsrs) and snickerdoodles.

Salgados e doce! Mainha and Danielle!

Chocolate Cake and coconut everything else!

Cleumar e Danielle!!! Com Roberto Carlos!

Deborah was a little attached to the Roberto Carlos dvd she got for her birthday...rsrsrs

Danielle putting the finishing touches on the cake!

Daysi and the birthday girl!

Mainha e Sarah! Bonitinha!

Festa!!

Parabens pra Sarah!

Cutting the cake!

I think Avo got the first slice!!!

2009-07-08T06:41:00.000-07:00

So far, I can´t download any photos. I think it´s because the pictures are too ginormous for blogger to handle...

The Party Bus

2009-06-22T16:07:00.000-07:00

Saturday:

We woke up at 10am and realized we slept really soundly. After having a little breakfast of cheese with bread and some yogurt drink that I really like *super filling and tastes good, two really good things*, we piled into the party bus and went to pick up Danielle and Maeinha from Olinda (they went to a business meeting). After picking them up, we went to Old Olinda and it was amazing!!!! I loved everything!!! As we got into this old downtown where they have Carnival, some guy jumped into our car and told us he´d help us get around. Apparently he noticed what kind of an obvious tourist I was with my head out the window taking pictures of everything I saw because it was all new and exciting and different and in another language. So like any official tour guide, he told us all kinds of crazy stuff about the old city. We saw the first law college of Brazil that was established, big dolls that they use for Carnival, an old hospital, ¨the most beautiful woman in the world, or maybe it was just brazil¨i forget...but we took a picture of her, and little carts selling different knick knacks. Apparently, Dayvisson haggled to lower the price of a pair of earrings and a necklace that we bought. I also tried tapioca for the first time with cheese, butter, and coconut. The tapioca wasn´t like anything I feel like I could describe and the coconut wasn´t sweet, it was just crunchy, but it was good and different. We took lots of pictures there. We also bought little umbrellas from a guy on the street for a good price according to everyone since Dayvisson´s Dad is one of the best world hagglers.

After that, we went back to the temple´s lodge and bought some different church things in portuguese. I really like hanging out with the neices and they seem to like correcting me a lot and it´s pretty funny to understand that my portuguese isn´t good because i´m an american and they only speak the truth. hahahahaha. but I think I´m getting better!!!

After the lodge, we went to a local church that was apparently an old church that the family used to go to when they lived in Recife. It was really awesome to meet so many great people and speak with different people and understand more. I tried my first coxinha in brasil and seafood type coxinha which I forget the name for right now. We also met Dayvisson´s brother Junior and his wife Julianne for the first time for me. They´re all just really nice. After the party or reunion of a few friends, we went outside and I saw an American for the first time since the day before which was kind of weird, so I was really excited. It was an American missionary and I just yelled at him ¨hey you´re an american me too!!!!! Where are u from???!!!¨and talked with him a little bit. I guess he was surrounded by a lot of kids under the age of 8 which I hadn´t realized until a little boy about that age came up to me while I was about to get into the party bus and just stared at me for a good 15 seconds like I was an alien. I asked him how he was in portuguese and english and he barely answered me and then ran away. It was really funny!!!

We piled into the party bus again to go to Campina Grande where Dayvisson´s family is living right now because Dayvisson´s sister´s husband is studying to get a degree there to get a PhD. Anyways, we got in the bus and watched ¨Provo de Fogo¨which was kind of different.
We were on our way there and finally got to his parents house and slept like rocks.

Brasil so far!

2009-06-22T15:24:00.000-07:00

Just some brief updates.

Friday:

The first thing we noticed when we got off the plane was that everyone was wearing masks at the receiving point when Brazilians and ¨others¨. Apparently, Brasil´s airport in Recife is taking all preventative and non-necessary precautions to protect their country.
Next, Kelsi met all of the nieces, and the 3 sisters. Deborah, Dayvisson´s sister who´s had some medical problems in the past was a back-breaker hugger and she´s known for not taking no for an answer...very strong.

We all piled into a party bus and I was given my first taste of juice ¨suco de ova¨which was different and some sweet popcorn called ¨pipoca doce¨ and the nieces are all under the age of 6 and all really awesome to be with because they speak simple things.
Our first stop was at a bunch of houses to meet old friends and places that their family has lived in Recife. It was all very different, and I almost smacked a motorcyclist in the head when I stuck out my hand out the window. The cars drive pretty close together on the roads.

First thing I ate was at a churrasco where the ketchup had a hint of a rum taste and the place had mouthwash in the bathrooms and there were two vendors who just walked into this outdoor restaurant. One vendor sold cds which one dayvisson bought two cds from and lowered the price, and the other was selling belts and demonstrating how cool they were at the table. Really funny! Another thing cool about the food I noticed there was that the flavors were super strong! Nobody beat around the bush to demonstrate that their was salt or that soda was soda or vinagrette was vinagrette. Everything had a kick and it was awesome. We took pictures

After, we went to a friend´s house (Marlene) (*this was very awesome because I tried Dayvisson´s favorite juice suco de caja*) and tried to fix our party bus´s AC because it wasn´t working which was pretty difficult because it was extremely hot and humid. After a few hours that Dayvisson´s Dad and the driver were gone and playing with the neices, we went to the Recife Temple lodge, left all of our huge luggages there, took showers (after the 24 hour trip, so I was way excited), and went to an institute dance nearby to see some old friends of the family and dance. EVERYBODY went, including the neices but apparently it´s common. It was really hot but a lot of fun and we took pictures and met Fred and other friends.

We went back to the temple lodge to sleep and I continued to try to communicate with everybody. Especially the neices and Daysiane who speak slow enough for me to understand things. We played Uno and went to bed. Awesome day!

Summer updates

2009-06-12T17:55:00.000-07:00

So, I'm not even a big fan of country music, but I think there's something about some country songs that make u feel like you grew up there for some reason. I really love that song by Jason Aldean - She's Country.

just a thought.

also...6 days people!!!! 6!!! at this time next week, we will be in BRAZIL!!! It's hard to wait to see so many people who live so far away! Driving me crazy! hahahahahaha

Dayvisson and I are playing in a championship intramural soccer game tonight at 8:15 at the RB outdoor field if anyone is at all interested.

And I finally used my payless gift card. 4 pairs of shoes!!! i love getting deals (and i think dayvisson likes that too hahahaha)!!

AND 2 more finals to go until i'm through for the summer!!!!! yahoooooooooooooooo!!! and really happy about life right now... :)

Swine Flu get the goods

2009-05-04T22:18:00.000-07:00

HEY!!!

Kelsi's great tuition money this semester is going towards an in depth education about the infamous swine flu. More updates will follow on cool stuff...

visit cdc website for other details...

Bountiful e Brasileiros

2009-05-03T22:36:00.000-07:00

Last week we had the opportunity to go to the Brasilian Ward in Orem for the first time! Wow that was a new and different experience!

After, we made our way up to Bountiful to meet Dayvisson's Mission President, President Jones. Not only him...but almost all 100 family members! We loved President Jones Mother who was quick on her feet to get everything in order for all of her hungry guests. Even a flashlight to look at all of her family! A wonderful Sunday!

Just one of those thoughts

2009-04-19T12:36:00.000-07:00

So I know that we post pictures a lot, because it's kind of like a visual time capsule. BUT, I had this thought this morning and just wanted to say, I LOVE being married!! As cheesy as that sounds...but it's true!! Like those times when you wake up in the morning, go to church and just remember how precious life is, and just want to express how much you love somebody. Dayvisson is one of the coolest people on the planet and I can't even explain it because u'd have to spend as much time as I do with him to know I think...and maybe that's one of the reasons why people get married. To really comprehend how awesome their spouse is and help them reach their true potential. Do you ever feel like while you're driving in a car that you want to stick your head out the window and say "YAY we're MARRIED! And it rocks!" hahahahahahaha! okay well marriage can be tough, but i hope everyone i know gets to meet Dayvisson and know him because he's just that cool. Don't mean to be embarrassing or all lovey dovey...just one of those days that you want to express appreciation in words.

From Carotid Saint George, Halloween, Anniversary, Thanksgiving in SF, Christmas Party (Ward & Friends), Kelsi's Birthday, to our Las Vegas Trip!

2009-03-26T23:01:00.000-07:00

The perfect ending to a wonderful vacation in Vegas!

What happens in Vegas? We don't know.

I love this shot of Moroni

Awesome time in Las Vegas

We couldn't decide who was recording who?

A fun picture of our friends at the Las Vegas temple!

Michael and Jack?

Jack Sparrow was a little more tipsy than usual...

We couldn't seem to escape the inevitable visit to Walgreens on the strip!

Ferrari or Viper today?

Harley Davidson bikes in front of the Cafe...the cops didn't seem to mind :)

The Harley Davidson Cafe

It was a beautiful day and we made fun memories!

Aline & Fonseca

Us at Bellagio

Bellagio! One of our favorite spots in Vegas!

At Bellagio looking at the Paris.

LAS VEGAS!: A great spontanious trip in March! With Fonseca and Aline for Aline's BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

Aline, Fonseca, and Rodrigo...faladores! rsrsrsrsrs!

The Freitas Family, Wagner, and Fonseca's foot, Rodrigo

Marionho, Phoenix, and baby Melody inside Mommy Phoenix!!

Hanging out with Rachel and Diana

The set up! YUM! It was grrrreat!

Kelsi's Birthday: Dayvisson the pizzaria chef extraordinare!

Yum-o!

Valentine's Day Dance Stake Activity! We brought the chocolate fountains! Wahoo!

CHRISTMAS!

Setting up for the ward Christmas party!

CHRISTMAS: Kelsi and Dayvisson made all 14 center pieces. A special thanks to Provo City Park for donating the life-like fern branches and the dollar tree!!! :)

Our 2nd place in the girls intramural tourny...ahhh it was a devastating blow...but good times. Thanks to Coach Dayvisson!

A very rare picture. Most of the family that we don't get very often. At Red Lobster celebrating Jill and Kevin's birthdays

Kelsi at the yacht club.

Mom and Kelsi

I LOVE this picture of my Mom. She's so cute!

Us at the pier and the Benicia Bridge!

Pier shots in beautiful Benicia

Thanksgiving on First Street with part of the family. Kevin, Mom, Jill, and Kelsi.

Where we shop often...Sacks Fifth Avenue

Ghiradelli!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pier 39! We saw the pearl people and everything!

After one year, returning to our honeymoon spot! Muito Legal!

View of the Golden Gate

I love hills.

Sears tower?

More from our anniversary. Kelsi was excited to cook all Brazilian food!
Beautiful view of Alcatraz at the tower

He could pass for a Rickshaw Driver?? It looks like the guy in the background's already calling him...

The lanterns were so beautiful! I'd have them everywhere in my home if I could!

At the gates of China Town!

Our funny friends Eddie and Nathalie! Such a CUTE picture!

Thanksgiving w/ famous maccacos in San Francisco!

and Estroganoffe!

Kelsi made Brazilian rice!

Kelsi trying to look domestic...?

The best 1st YEAR!!

Our 1 Year!

A good Halloween summary.

Krystal! Such a perfect picture for this Snow White. Her Dracula Dad won the bobbing for apples contest!

The beautiful princesses playing during our party!

Claudia was a beautiful witch, despite the brew and poison bobbing for apples! :)

A pirate!!

Amelie! She was the talk of all fashion at the costume party!

For Halloween Dayvisson was a boxer! STUD!

Dayvisson and his second companion Elder Calvert!

Dayvisson w/ his friend Eddy from Panama! From the ELC!

At the Senior Games! Got to watch the Brazilian Mens Volleyball team! It was awesome!

We did this from 8am-5pm! It was one of the most popular booths at the Senior Games! Wonderful experience!

So fun! Carotid Artery Screenings! Loved it!!!

Late Fall

2008-12-02T11:02:00.001-08:00

We recently celebrated our one year anniversary!
Kelsi made estroganoffe, brazilian rice, garlic bread, and we had martinellis!
We celebrated our official anniversary at the cheescake factory in draper and it was delicious and best of all it was free (thanks to a few gift cards). Both celebrations were equally enjoyable and it's gone by so fast.

Pictures to follow and more updates will follow since Kelsi will be able to update more after half of her finals are finito!

Kelsi's first 5K

2008-10-11T12:14:00.000-07:00

Our route

Ready to run!

Falling in line

The crowd.

The kick.

The last push.

It's all over!

We got to see Jefferson!

The results.

Kelsi's carotid artery internship at the senior olympic games!

2008-10-11T11:52:00.000-07:00

Brushin those teeth for the big day ahead! We stayed at a member's house and woke up at 6!
Our official name tags with yarn.

Sportin the tags!Our official station at the screenings.The crew gettin ready for the athletes! Rebekah is the blurry runner in the background!The rush!

We think Rebekah got pink eye...and might have scared a few athletes...just kiddin!

Rebekah got some sweet glasses for her "disease". And this is us at our free meal. Yum yum!
So much work, Dr. Hager had to take a nap!
The whole crowd at the end of our two day stay.

To finish it off we got to watch a movie!

Amelie's Anniversario!

2008-10-11T11:48:00.000-07:00

Nossa sobrinha.

We had tons of fun!

The Freitas family! Such a wonderful birthday!

The last days...of camp!

2008-09-12T16:16:00.000-07:00

Carmelo's wedding

2008-08-10T19:11:00.000-07:00

At Carmelo's reception.
We ran into one of our good friends Kattie Hatton!

We're so happy for you Carmelo and Autumn!

Misc.

2008-08-07T14:44:00.001-07:00

BYU Women's football clinic.

Got a haircut.

Hanging out on Sunday with Diana and Rachel.

Our 4th of July

2008-08-07T14:29:00.000-07:00

Dayvisson cooked a mean BBQ! This is Ryan (Todd's rooommate), Todd, Craig, Amelie, and me.

After the fireworks we took some action photos.

Rachel and I after the fireworks.

This was the 3v3 freedom soccer tournament July 5th. Our team took 4th and qualified for a tournament in Vegas January 2009.

California trip

2008-08-07T13:56:00.000-07:00

Jill's graduation from High School.

Almost the whole family. (Not pictured: Dayvisson, Rachel, and Ryan)The Moms watching the game.

Dad took us to an A's baseball game. This player's supposed to be good.

This was the crazy banjo guy who grandma liked.

Our visit to the MTC

2008-08-07T13:11:00.000-07:00

We were lucky and got to visit one of Dayvisson's friends from Brasil!

Our trip to Manti and Aspen Grove

2008-08-07T09:59:00.000-07:00

Dayvisson, Todd, Craig (Todd's roommate at Centennial), Rachel, and Diana at Lotsa Motsa!

Dayvisson and I looking at the lotsa motsa challenge!

Todd, Craig, and I waiting for the Manti Pegeant to start! There were tons of Mosquitos!

This was our view of the Manti temple! My first time there! It was beautiful!

This is a picture of me and Dayvisson's coworker Chelsie. We were surprise guests for the 3-4 year olds. Pirates!

These are pictures of a coworker of mine Jessica at Aspen Grove as we made a costume out of a refrigerator box. It was a ton of fun!

Enjoying the summer from our basement!!

Summer 2008: Our roadtrip

2008-08-06T13:36:00.000-07:00

On our way over to Florida we got a free night in Las Vegas and stopped at the nearest InNout. The next day we took a tour at Hoover Dam, went through Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico. We stayed the night in Navajo, New Mexico (there were a lot of tepees at the side of the road). The next day we woke up and finished New Mexico, Texas, and Louissiana. We stayed the night in Louissiana and we could already tell the difference between Utah and Louissiana in terms of humidity the first night. The next day there was a crazy storm in Louissiana, but we made it through the rest of the trip finishing in Jacksonville. Great trip
This is me at Hoover Dam trying to make enough energy as the Hoover Dam by moving a wheel as fast as I can. I did pretty well considering my massive biceps.

While in Jacksonville, we hit a couple of beaches! Our last beach that we went to was the best. We tried to build a sand castle, but gave up about five minutes into it. It was my first experience with warm salt water and the Atlantic Ocean. I got burned a few times being a white meat, but I think I’m tenderizing well.

Before we left Florida, we decided to make the most out of our experience by going to Disneyworld. We loved Animal Kingdom! The rides were great, the shows were awesome, and the food was good! Epcot was pretty exciting as well, and it was neat to see what was actually in the huge silver ball. We took pictures with Mickey and Goofy, saw the Lion King showcase, went on a safari, road on a ferri to the magic kingdom, ate a big turkey leg, saw the night time show, and oddly enough we didn’t run into any lines. It was great!

They had really awesome hedges that we took pictures with at Epcot.

Us with Mickey!

In front of Animal Kingdom looking ferocious!

Inside Ellen Degeneres's ride of energy!

We were in Florida for about a month and a half, but decided to come back home to Provo to work up at BYU’s Alumni Family Camp Aspen Grove. Our way back, we traveled in two days through Tennessee, Nebraska, Georgia (and saw the baseball stadium), Wyoming, Iowa, not in that order. So we've been working in the mountains! Dayvisson is a cook and Kelsi is a dining hall employee. It's different from last summer, but it's been a great one. What we're up to now? We're coming up on our 8 months tomorrow, and going to Tyler's farewell soon for his mission.

Also this summer, we had our first family BBQ on the 4th of July. Dayvisson made bacon wrapped chicken, pinapple, chicken, pork, and top sirloin. Kelsi made muddie buddies and water balloons! We played soccer, had a waterballoon fight, and watched the fireworks from the Provo temple lawn. Todd, Rachel Stolworthy, Diana Gardner, Fonseca and Ronnie with their wives, Edson, Claudia, Craig Foster, Nate Duncan, Sydney Carter, Matt Gardner, Ryan, and Amelie. It was a ton of fun and Kelsi hopes we have another one soon!!!

More pictures from the road trip

2008-07-16T13:08:00.000-07:00

These are a few pictures from the road trip. We filled up at Costco before we went anywhere. The picture on the right is from Hoover Dam. And the lower left is me at Epcot.