Happy Birthday to Me!!

Today's my Birthday, and I can't believe I'm turning 28. AHHH, 2 more years until 30 (that's scary)!!!

Anyway, I'm not writing to brag about myself, but I just need to do a quick little post about my "AWESOME" dinner celebration with Cory.

Saturday Cory took me to Olive Garden for dinner. Making a long story short, I got home that night with what seemed to be really bad heartburn, that soon turned into bathroom problems, and finally at midnight I threw up everything that was left inside. I was so sad, because this was supposed to be my birthday dinner, and I'm not supposed to get sick from it. Yes, I had MAJOR food poisoning. Not fun.

While I was feeling really sick, I asked Cory to give me a blessing, and as he's blessing me, he says, "I bless you that you may expel and purge all that which is causing you harm." Seriously, expel and purge?!! I was hoping to be cured from the purging and expelling, not to be blessed with more.

Well, the celebrations got better from there. Last night we celebrated with the Garretts with a yummy dinner, and today we are getting take out (that hopefully won't make me sick). I also threw myself a kid party at the park with all our playgroup friends. I brought my childhood favorite cupcakes and a delicious bean dip from Costco. It actually was a lot of fun. (Those are the cupcakes I made!!)

Happy Birthday to Me!!! And here's to a year with hopefully no more food poisoning.

Old Photos

I was looking through my computer and found some "old" photos that I never posted. Here they are in no particular order (which means, very out of order).

Clarissa's baby blessing. (Really bad picture of Cory, sorry hun, but I need to record the moment).

My friend Marina came to visit us back in November. The kids LOVED her and we miss not having her around!! Come back Ma!!!

Temple lights

It's been a tradition for my mom to give my kids their first bath. So here's little Bel (that's her middle name and nickname) after it.

Drew is such a good big brother. He LOVES his baby sister. He's constantly getting down and rolling around with her on the floor. She's the only one allowed to touch his blankets and take away his toys. Here he is laying next to Clarissa just admiring her when she was a couple weeks old. He totally just did this on his own.

As a quick side note, we took Clarissa in for her 6 months check up last week. Little chunk weighed 21 lbs 4 oz (110%). Her height was only on the 75%. The doctor said she eats too much, and she's officially on a diet. Haha

Can't figure out how to turn off the underline. Ahh, it's driving me crazy!!

Quick Catch Up

It's been way too long since I last posted anything, and now it seems like an enormous task. Ahhh, why do I always do that?

Christmas
We had my whole family come down here again this year. It's always a blast to have all the cousins over. The boys love all the noise and attention. And it's a very sad day at this house when they are all gone. Drew still asks for David (my sister's son) to come over and play. Oh, we can't wait until this summer when they move down here. Christopher, on the other hand, really likes his older girl cousins, so he's constantly talking about Laura, Niki and Julia. We miss you guys!!!
We did the Polar Express train ride up in Williams this year with my family. The kids LOVED it. The boys still talk about it and every once in a while they ask to go to the North Pole again. I think we will be taking that trip a few times until they have grown out of it.

Camargo Family picture

Granddaughters and

Outside the Polar Express train

Sedona (we also took my family to Sedona when they were here)

Clarissa
I can't believe my baby will be 6 months this week. It's gone by way too fast!!!! She's SUPER chunky. We started her on baby food a couple weeks ago and she's doing really good. She rolls all over the house and is getting quite mobile.

First time eating carrots

This was her today. First time with pig tails. I LOVE it!!

Christopher
He had a 2 month break from preschool. It was an interesting time for me (to put it in nice words). He was so excited to go back to school, and as usual is loving it.
He comes up with the cutest things. The day my parents were leaving, going back to Brazil, he kept asking to go with my mom. I explained he didn't have a passport (a paper with your name and picture so the policeman can let you in the plane) and that we had to go get it done before he could fly. Well, a couple minutes later he comes to me, with the most "perfect" picture he has ever drawn. It was him, complete with eyes, nose, a smile, and hair. "Look mom," he said, "it's a picture of Christopher. My passport, now I can go with grandma." VERY cute, but it broke my heart.

Christopher's Passport

Drew
I don't even know where to begin. He's cute, sweet, and tough. He loves to tease and wrestle. His new thing is wanting to fly. He's constantly climbing on something and jumping off saying he's flying. He's talking a lot lately. We are working on the potty training thing. He's potty trained for poop, I know, weird kid, but not for pee yet. He tells me his diaper is full and that he needs a diaper change. I tell him he needs to wear underwear, but he refuses and begs for a diaper.

Got to go. The boys have been awake for 10 minutes now, and it's no longer quiet and peaceful around here.