"June festival"

Here in Brazil, at least in the northeast (I'm not sure about the rest of the country), in the month of June there are parties where everyone dresses up as "hillbillies" and we eat a lot of traditional interior foods and there is also square-dancing. These parties are usually for Saint John, but we always do one at the church and we call it the "Saint Jesus party". It's always a lot of fun seeing everyone all dressed up and just having a good time. Here are a bunch of pictures from our party Saturday night at the church.

Chad and I - my maternity wardrobe didn't allow for many options in looking very 'hillbilly'.Here's the whole fam... you can see my belly a little bit here. I'm 28 weeks along now - almost 3/4 of the way!

Here is a picture of the table of the tradional foods we sold.
Elysia hanging out with the older kids. They are (l-r): Lisandra, Lídia, Christine (from Germany) & Bruno.

Larissa & Christine - she leaves to go back to Germany on July 14th... my girls are going to miss her!!!
Chad and the boys: Adriano & Bruno (standing) and Marcio sitting in front.
This is the food stand.


Larissa was NOT in the mood to have her picture taken!
Vanessa (the daughter of the new pastors), Larissa & Elysia
Chad leading a time of worship.