Boston Brazilian Style

Ted and I went to Boston for his uncle, Wade's, wedding.  It was fun to see family and to get to see Boston.  It was a quick trip but we had a great time!

His new wife, Rosalia, is Brazilian.  Ted served his mission for our church in Brazil and now speaks Portuguese.  I have gotten to know Rosalia during Easter and Christamas and family get togethers throughout the last year and with my broken spanish (Spanish and Portuguese are very similar) and with Ted's help we got to know each other.  We were asked to be in the wedding party and were flattered!

We flew from LAX airport  straight to Boston and met Ted's family who flew in from Phx.  There were a total of 15 of us!

Rosalia told us we were going on a tour Saturday morning, we came down to find it was a tour in limos!  

Ted's grandparents haven't been east of the Mississippi so it was exciting to be in the limo with them and see how much they loved the old buildings and architecture of Boston.  It was a lot of fun!

Rosalia didn't come with us, she has some last minute wedding details to tie down, but here she is with Grandma in the limo before the tour.

Grandma seeing the sights, looking out every window, taking it all in.  

 

The limos caravanned through the city of Boston for 2 hours but it seemed like just a few minutes!  

Fenway Park.  The limo had thick windows so none of those pictures turned out very well.

Grandma, Grandpa and the Groom in our limo. 

One side of the other limo

And the other view....

Yes they had the larger hipper limo, but Ted and I are old at heart :)

Ted and his Grandpa

The Bride and Groom just hours before becoming husband and wife!

We were then taking to an authentic Brazilian Restaurant for lunch...YUMM!

Ted and I (it uploaded weird sorry)

We are on the plane now going home, 7 hour flight!  Once home I will be able to download the wedding pictures!  

Alley Pickin'

Today was the start of a new tradition in the Cross home....alley pickin'!  We have seen stuff around our neighborhood people have just put on the curb or in the alley for the trash or for others to take (the bennifits to living in a beach town: nice alley give aways!)  We decided to go for a Saturday afternoon drive.....good thing we have a truck!

An hour later we ended up with a truck load of wood.  You ask what was the best find of the day was?  An old carriage house door (at least 50 years old) just sitting in a trash pile.  You should have seen Ted trying to direct his side kick (little 5'3'' and a buck o' 5)  to load this huge door in to the truck on top of the huge pile of wood already in the bed of the truck.....there might have been some choice words said....

Ted has wanted to make part of the garage into his home office, so we started today!  He used the door to make a hug desk.

I forgot to take a true before picture.  Here he has already put the legs on (ones we saved when we refurbed a antique table I inherited this last summer from my Grandma) and de-assebled the door as well as scraped it.

  

Ted painting the table black 

(and everything in the garage moved out onto our lawn)

We already had half the paint.  Total cost?  $5 for the entire desk!

The finished project, it was already dark, so more pictures to come.

Ted posing for a picture and smiling, but saying in his head:

 "enough pictures already!"

Other free updates we did today:

Found pictures I had taken of the beach near our house and refurbed some old frames to make a cool collage above our bed.  

Took apart awedding picture, printed out one I took from Mexico (on top of the bookshelf) and started to create a "studio" for me :0  YEA!  We both get offices!

Made Lola's eating corner better with a few frames (one of her, one of our wedding, and one I made from our Chinese fortunes).

All the food storage from the garage came inside to its new home under the bed. That was my job while Ted was working on his desk.  Bad picture but it is organized by variety and kind (my perfectionist coming out....)

Even found the tuna its own home in the legs to our bed: cinder blocks.  

Hope you enjoyed seeing our fun packed productive day.  

We are going alley pickin' every Saturday now!  

Coming soon to an alley near you!

Ted's Class Pepperdine Project: I AM

Ted and his class have worked on this video for their program.  I think it is turning out amazing.  It is neat to see the variety of people in his class.  It was fun to watch :)  Enjoy!

Our Going Ons

Well nothing too exciting here at the Cross home.  We have had some busy weeks but nothing much to document mostly just school, school and more school.  I am almost done with my school!  I graduate on December 17th after 8.5 years of college at 5 different universities....it's about time ha ha!

We were sick around here for awhile.  Ted got a virus that gave him cold sores down his throat.  The above picture is what his "medication" was.  He kept working out straight through the virus.  Lola and I are trying to stop him at this point.  

Made a few Trader Joe trips for REAL black licorice (it's suppose to heal the cold sores) This car was in the parking lot.  I love it.  I want it. 

Missed the anual Brannon and Amanda Halloween party.  Ted's sister throws a great party!  Her husband loves Halloween so it is fun to celebrate with them, but we were in Cali this year.  

This is the picture from last year's pary, the cross family with baby truman in Julie's (mustard) tummy still.  The hosts of the party are Snow White and Prince Charming.  

I dressed up like a Pirate to hand out handy to the kids (in hopes of not missing AZ way too much).  This is my ARRRRR.  Ted was trying to get me to do it right, it never worked.  

We gave out all that candy in less than 10 minutes!  I hear you have to buy 20+ big bags if you want to last all night.  No one warned us!

Ted's contribution was putting the candy in the bowl.  He didn't dress up....maybe next year.

It is a little weird since we don't have kiddos yet.....maybe next year on that one too!  

Our adoption papers are being filled out as we speak :)

Full shot of the Pirate outfit, it was my little sisters from a few years ago.  My mom even sent me huge gold hoop earrings to wear (you can't tell but they are on) thanks mom!