I have this weird assumption that people think that because I haven't blogged in over a month I must be doing nothing. After all, we are always so good at keeping others informed and writing in our journals, right? Haha, well, it's just the opposite. So here's a quick post just so I can remind myself of how incredibly;y busy life's been. Oh, and the order of the pictures is totally messed up. It's way to late to try to figure out how to properly arrange them.
During this past month I've:
Gotten addicted to pinterest. I have a love/hate relationship with it. I think it's the coolest thing, but I hate how I spend so much time on it!!
Became a US citizen!!! Yea me!!! I got sworn in November 18th. It was a rather emotional ceremony for me. I know I'm dumb, but I cried through it. Cory took pictures on his phone of me, but he's dead asleep right now, and I can't get to them. I'll post them some day (maybe).
We had a little celebration at our house afterwards. The food was great and the theme was Red, White, and Blue (duh, you could probably have guessed it yourself). Here's the invite I was very proud of myself for designing (minus the very personal details like my address).
Clarissa learned how to roll over. She did it this week actually, so this should be the last picture. Oh well. my life's is far from being perfect! I love her fat tummy hanging out. She is soo chubby.
Played dress up with the baby about a million times. Girls are so much fun!! Here she's wearing 2 pig tails. Cory hates it when I do this to her hair, but I think she looks cute.
grandma bought her this dress, and I think she looks adorable in purple (but I guess I am a little biased).
Hosted a pirate themed baby shower. "Ahoy, It's a Boy!". The decorations turned out really cute, the food was excellent, and I think (hope) everyone had a good time. Well, at least I did. I also hosted Thanksgiving dinner this year. The Jessica, Kyle and their cute boys came and feasted with us. My best friend since I was 10, was also in town and we had a great time catching up.
We celebrated Halloween!! Wow, that seems like forever ago and I never wrote about it. We were Super Heroes this year. I have a picture of the whole family dressed up somewhere, but here are the kids. Christopher was Spider man (and he was in heaven). Drew was Superman, and all he cared about was CANDY. Clarissa was Wonder women, and she was totally clueless. Cory was Batman and I was Cat women, but if you ask Christopher he thinks I was a kitty cat. We celebrated Halloween over 3 days, and the kids definitely got a sugar high from all the sweets.
We also got our Christmas pictures taken for Christmas cards, you can see them on the right side. I got them mailed today. Very proud of myself for doing it early this year. Oh, and I also got 15 Christmas gifts done for our friends and people we home/visit teach.
Ok, I think I convinced myself I've been busy!!
Just as a quick update on the boys.
Drew is in love with superhero movies. He begs to watch Spider man or Iron man daily. I don't give in (these movies are PG13 and the kid is only 2), but daddy (and grandpa) sure love an excuse to watch them again. Oh, he's got those two men wrapped around his fingers.
Christopher has been coming up with the funniest sentences lately. Here are just a few:
Cory went to put the boys down one night. After about 30 minutes I could still hear the kids talking so I walked into their room to see what was going on. I found Cory dead asleep on the bed. Christopher sitting next to him, and Drew sitting on the ground. Christopher looks at me and says:
"Shhh, daddy's sleeping."
The other morning I came downstairs to find both boys awake and quietly eating candy.
Me: "Christopher, go upstairs and wake up your dad."
Christopher: "Drew we have to be quiet. Daddy is sleeping and if he wakes up he'll take away our candy."
He knew I was too tired to do it myself. Stinker little kid!!
Yesterday Christopher was tormenting us to go take him to see Christmas lights. After about 15 minutes of nagging, Cory finally told him he would take them after dinner.
Christopher: "Yeppy, I'm so happy!" (opening the cutest and widest grin). "Thanks daddy, that makes me happy!"
