so do you still wanna get married?

that's basically how my argument with michael ended today. we love each other, we wanna be together, but the person that said relationships are not hard work, lied. in my case, we are two completely different people, with different beliefs, very, very stubborn and if all those reasons weren't enough to make us have arguments, insert the fact that we also have completely different cultural background.

yes, i love michael but i won't come here and say our relationship is perfect, because it's not. i am a person that tend to give up on hard things easily, so to say that i work hard not to let things affect me daily, is very true.

little things that for me are common, for him are not. some things he says that are completely natural to him, i think it's extremely offensive. he feels the same about some things i say. no, i'm not saying we argue everyday. not even close. in over a year that we've been together, we only had three our four major arguments. we compromise most of the time, but some times i find myself saying "man, this is too hard, too much work" and then i sit down, and re-think and tell myself that not everything in life is going to be easy. that although i've had things fairly easy all my life, relationships involve people, feelings and emotions. Not only me, but two people. And you're supposed to work with your partner, and be less judgmental and open to differences.

i don't really believe people that say they have perfect relationships and never argue. i don't believe people that say they never have bad days when all they think about is saying screw it all, i'm done. how would that be possible to have a perfect relationship when there's no perfect person? yeah, i thought relationships would be easy to deal with because when there's love involved, nothing can be too hard, huh? but i was wrong. love is, sometimes, not enough. you gotta have love, you gotta compromise, you gotta be patient and be persistent. it's hard work. and it makes you change attitudes you've had your whole life and changing is scary and difficult.

but you know what? it's worth it. he is worth it. what we have together is worth it.
and that's why i keep working on it. day after day.

what does your phone say about you?

okay, so i missed the project last week, so i figured i'd just post whatever i had in my phone today! (yes, i'm trying to get used to posting always!) it's funny because a phone can say so much about a person... mine just tells me that i am SOOOO boring lol! my pictures make no sense, but hey, it's who i am! i am not extremely fun and my life is not a movie... it can be pretty boring sometimes, but it's my life and i like it!

this week has been crazy so far... school started with the homework, my mom has left to brazil to get my baby sis (i'll make sure i take a video of them coming back on sunday! my sis is totally a drama queen lol!) and i've shopped like there was no tomorrow yesterday because my older sister (that lives in brazil) gives me long, long lists of things to buy every time we go there... for someone that doesn't like shopping much like me (i know, weird!) it's hell lol!

on a happier note, i am sooo close to getting the venue i want for the wedding! michael and i have decided that we wanna do the wedding in brazil, because basically he is too sweet and said he is willing to do the wedding there so i wouldn't complain about it in 10 years i would be completely happy on my special day lol! the place looks great and i am sooo very excited for it! i will post more info on the wedding as soon as we get an ok from the place!

now, to the picturesssss....

1- chick-fil-a date with my mommy!
2- packing my books.. i have sooo many!
3- grocery shopping, yes.. weekly.
4- lost in school, looking for the right class.. campus is huge and i still get lost sometimes, lol
5- oreo ice cream! yum!
6&7- shopping for my sister, ha.

8- found this picture of me and my sister "finding" santa's huge bag of gifts just for us! i was probably 3-4 in this picture, my sister 5... cute, cute. love the big eyes and smiles!

and just because she is the cutest and i'm so in love, my niece again!

pretty baby girl!

Project 365 : Week 2

{Linking up with Laura for my second week of Project 365}

I cannot believe that I'm posting two weeks in a row! And I actually took pictures all week just so I could post here, lol. Project 365 FTW! I hope I can keep up with it now that school is starting again! By the way, I am SO DONE with school... I seriously am so tired of it already, lol. And the classes seem to multiply! When I think I have so little left, bam! more appear.. ugh! >.<

Anyways, let's go to the good part... my week!

Day 1 - Sunday: I am a member of the LDS church, aka, a Mormon and my religion is really important to me. My cousin was giving her farewell talk last Sunday since she is going on her mission to Lisbon, Portugal and we drove to her ward to see her. After that we went to a little party at my aunt's house and ate awesome sandwiches! Unfortunately, I have no pictures of that because I forgot my phone in the car, lol!

Day 2 - Monday: Four Cheese croissants for breakfast!

Day 3 - Tuesday: Doctor's appointment in the morning! I will have to be there again in 3 weeks, so I'm sure you'll see other pictures like this soon, lol! 

 Day 4 - Wednesday: Fortune Cookie! Yes, I know Panda Express, I should say I love you more often. Working on that! ;) 

Day 5 - Thursday: My daily Bible studies! I read a chapter a night, and do this awesome little prayer in the beginning that I may open the book in a chapter I need to read/ or will be helpful for me that day. Always works!

Day 6 - Friday: Grocery shopping... but wait, am I shopping for grocery or toys? both lol

Day 7 - Saturday: Talking with this pretty little lady online! Sophia is my niece and I talked about her before on the blog, and now she's 4 months old and has just discovered her little hands, lol! She keeps them in her mouth all day long, but I also noticed that she is getting aware she has feet too, hahaha! I love, love, love her, and can't wait to meet her in person. That is the part that sucks about living in another country.... but oh well, I hope she will love her aunt Mari as much as I love her! Oh, and by the way, yes, the toy is for her, lol!

So, I'm going back to packing, since my family and I will be moving very, very soon... so far I have one box with not even half of my books in, so gotta figure out a way to take it all with me... maybe donate some as well.. I don't know. Anyways, hope y'all have a great Sunday!

Project 365 : Week 1

{Linking up with Laura for my first week of Project 365}

This whole a photo a day thing sounded so interesting that I wanted to try as well! I am now an Apple girl (got a Macbook and an Iphone for xmas!) so I figured why not give it a try! Maybe this project will help me focus on my blog a little more! At least forgetting the camera cannot be an excuse anymore, since my Iphone camera is so awesome!

My past week was filled with good times with Mr. Michael, who happened to be here since Christmas! Still can't believe the army let him come for that long, woo hoo! Anyways... here is my week :)

Day 1 - Sunday: Michael and I went to the Cardinals game! They won and I ate churros,
cinnamon almonds and we got in a little argument about filling the tank of the car or not. According to him, my car would drive another 20 miles if the empty light was on, but I don't trust my car. We ended up stopping for gas before the car stopped working. Win win!

Day 2 - Monday: We went to Fogo de Chao! Like I mentioned before, I'm Brazilian and have been living here for a year and a half and one of the things I miss the most (apart from my family, of course) is the Brazilian food! So we decided we'd go to FDC Steakhouse to eat lots of bbq! It's all you can eat and they bring fried bananas and cheese bread all the time! And I can assure anyone that goes there that it is authentic Brazilian barbecue! Oh, and it's always good to speak Portuguese with the waiters too! ;)

Day 3 - Tuesday: Playing with Instagram! Love this app!

Day 4 - Wednesday: We took a day trip to Michael's old address in Ft. Huachuca, Arizona. Pretty place, nothing to do though. It's literally in the middle of nowhere... about 15 miles from the border of Mexico. Definitely interesting, lol!

Day 5 - Thursday: Happy birthday, mommy! My beautiful ma is officially 48!

Day 6 - Friday: Michael and I got dressed up and went out for dinner with his buddy that was in Iraq with him in '09. Heard lovely things about the great leader my fiancee is while eating a delicious Chicken Parmesan! Yum!

Day 7 - Saturday: Michael left in the morning! Only God knows when I'll see him next... Long distance relationships suck. BIG TIME.

So that was my week! Looking forward to Week 2 of the Project! Woohoo!

i'm heartbroken

source:

xfactor won't be the same without her! i will miss you, rachel crow!

can't wait to get married

really -- that handsome guy in the picture can't wait to get married! and i thought girls would be the ones dying to do it, but my guy is seriously one of a kind! i love him so much and i ALSO can't wait to get married and spend the rest of my life with him!

so far, we have been thinking of marrying december '12 because he has family in germany that would like to attend and i have my family in brazil that i want to come as well... we don't want a big party, but my husband-to-be has many, many friends, so we're thinking 100... and we're thinking of going with navy blue& white theme... ahhh i never thought planning a wedding would be that hard... any tips on how to keep my sanity? lol

what matters the most is that when the party is over, i get to go home with this gorgeous guy:

and he'll be mine for eternity!

breaking dawn

 
i just watched breaking dawn and in my opinion it was the best movie in the saga so far! plus, bella and edward going to their honeymoon in rio de janeiro, my hometown?? PU-LEASE!! feeling important here, lol! i almost yelled to everybody "hey, that's where i'm from" but i figured that 1) they wouldn't care & 2) that would probably get me in trouble with the teenagers that wanted to watch the action in their honeymoon... oh well, at least i was able to recognize my beautiful rio and now i am really missing it! need to totally go visit the fam!

is anyone there also a fan of the twilight saga? i kinda am, i read the books, i watch the movies, my ex bishop is the father of the author of the book, so yeah... not completely hardcore fan though! if you guys haven't seen the movie yet, give it a try... it is really cool and much better than i thought it would be! 

PS: jacob is looking even better! YUMM-EYYY!

this past weekend...

i was surprised with this...

and we're SO happy! 

  

OMG! i can't believe i'm engaged!!!  

and my ring is g-o-r-g-e-o-u-s <3

reason i was mia...

spending time with this handsome guy: it's so funny cause we're in a ldr and this month i've seen him almost every weekend and i gotta thank football for that! my guy is addicted to the cardinals and has season tickets, so although football is not my thing, i'm glad i can see him almost every weekend during football season, lol!

becoming completely addicted to this precious little girl: my first niece SOPHIA was born two weeks ago and i'm totally in love! she is the prettiest, most intelligent two weeks old baby ever! we love her so much! it's a shame she is in brazil and i can't hold her right now, but i'm working on that! :)





homework: i have never done soooo much homework in my life and i've always been full time student! what's up with teachers nowadays? all they do is give us more and more homework! it's endless! so can't wait for this semester to be overrrrrr.


life is busy at the moment, but oh so good! i just gotta make sure i blog about it hahaha!

a-z of me!

this is so much fun that i wanted to try! :)

A. Age: 24
B. Bed size: at the moment, queen size – my room is not that big :(
C. Chore that you hate: doing the dishes.. haaaate it! thank you very much whoever invented the dishwasher!
D. Dogs: a beautiful golden retriever named duda =)
E. Essential start to your day: gotta shower and have breakfast! so, so important!
F. Favorite color: purple and blue... and i'm into yellow lately? lol
G. Gold or Silver: definitely silver.. i tend to think gold is for old people lol go figure!
H. Height: 5'8
I. Instruments you play: hmmm... nothing?
J. Job title: just a full time student atm!
K. Kids: not yet, but want 4 one day
L. Live: scottsdale, arizona
M. Mother’s name: sonia
N. Nicknames: may, mari, marimari, mah and so on
O. Overnight hospital stays: i can't remember.. my memory always sucked lol
P. Pet peeves: people that need to touch to speak ugggh..
Q. Quote from a movie: "i came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with someone, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible." - when harry met sally
R. Right or left handed: righty
S. Siblings: two sisters
U. Underwear: yep, always use them lol
V. Vegetable you hate: tomatoes
W. What makes you run late: i'm usually on time.. i'm proud of that, come on!
X. X-Rays you’ve had: soooo many.. left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg, one hand and the list is endless
Y. Yummy food that you make: i do an awesome chocolate coconut cake and my spaghetti is tast-eeeey
Z. Zoo animal: lions, lions, lions, lions rawrrr... oooh i like pandas and polar bears too.. of course, they're not in every zoo lol!


so yeah.. nice to meet you :]

linking up with scenic glory :)

a post about guy friends.

my brother once told me that guys and girls were never meant to be friends, only when they were couples said thing could happen. i mocked him and told him he was overreacting.

a few years later, i have come to the conclusion that he wasn't exaggerating. guys have proved me that they won't be your friend if you're not single. that happened many times with me, and they always made me feel like crap for thinking my friendship wasn't worth anything to these guys, but now i see the problem isn't me.

true friends will be there for you if you're single or you're not.

more than once i've met guys, became friends with them and when they found out i wasn't single, they told me that they weren't looking for friendship only.

what the heck, dude! you're only going to be friends with people that are not committed to someone? when did they invent that rule? sounds crazy to me, because friends are never too much, so what's the point of stop talking with someone JUST because they're not on the market anymore?

geez i will never understand. what happened with the old type of friendship? that didn't matter relationship status, but only the things you had in common?

 i guess my only guy friends will be my boyfriend's mates and i should accept that already lol.

now, question. did you ever lose a guy friend because you weren't single?

enlighten me, please.

pray for duda?

this is duda. she is going to be ten years old this month and has been my lovely dog since i was 14. i love duda, she is the best dog a girl can have, and has been one of my bestest friends since teen years...

duda is unfortunately very sick, and has been bleeding like crazy. her vet said that this 48 hours of her treatment are gonna be crucial, and she has to stop bleeding after 48 hours or else, it's gonna get hard for my little friend.

please keep duda in your prayers if you're fond of praying.. if not, i will thank you as well if you can think positive for her and about her, for we are believers in the law of attraction here! :)

thank you all!

flagstaff and sedona!

my mom, me and my stepdad went to flagstaff and sedona this weekend! cute places, especially in the winter! will definitely go back there and hopefully take my lovely there with me... :)

isn't my mama pretty?? :) i love her... and love any time i spend with her... :)