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.

How To Lose Your Concentration During A Talk 101

Here are 5 easy steps you should follow if you want to insure the bishopric NEVER calls you to give a talk again.

1. Have you 3 year old run through the chapel calling out for you as your giving a talk.
2. Have no one stop him, but you (remind you are at the stand). Stop talking, take him to his father.
3. Have the 2 year old run with with dad to get big brother and have the two kids refuse to leave the stand.
4. Have the bishop get up and help your hubby with the kids.
5. Since both men can't quietly get the kids down, just have them sit with your kids behind you for the remainder of your talk.


For some odd reason it is just much easier to focus on what you are saying when your kids are in front of you (even if making faces) instead of behind you.

(In case you are wondering, this really did happen on Sunday. To put the icing on the cake, Drew threw up in the car on the way home. Yea for being a mom!!!)

Here are the little "angels" right before church. Boy, I had no idead what was about to unfold within the next hour. Haha

Ward Halloween Party. The Super Family

Busy, Busy, Busy

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!"

Hodge Podge

I was looking through my pictures today and realized I have a whole bunch of pictures I've been meaning to post. So here's to an attempt to getting caught up!

This was a little project I did last week. I was feeling a little crafty and came up with this Halloween wreath. I love the outcome, did not like spending 3 hours cutting and tying tulle!

My poor neighbor, Miss Ruth, gets harassed by Christopher. He loves to push his car over to the wall, climb on it and bug her anytime she is outside. She been hiding inside her house more often lately. I wonder why?! Haha

Every once in a while we open Christopher's door at night to check on him. This night, this is what we found. Couldn't help but to take a picture. This kid cracks me up.

Like father

Like son (The first picture is Cory when he was a baby - already addicted to video games. And when I took this picture of Drew, it just totally reminded me of his daddy)

Drew got his first dental cleaning way back in July. He did a great job!!

This was one of my first shots of her smiling. She's been smiling since 4 weeks, she was around 7 weeks old here.

Clarissa has the chubbiest cheeks. Look at my little princess sleeping.

She is so cute and sweet!! I LOVE this baby girl!