Family Pictures

Just wanted to post some family pictures.

Our pictures were done by Heritage Photography. I'm so happy with the results. These are just a few of the pictures.

Update

Well, it has definitely been a long time since my last post. So...here's a quick overview of what has been going on in our lives since the last post in May.

CAMREN: Camren's leg is now fully healed. He had his cast on for a total of 2 and a half weeks. He had a limp for a couple of weeks afterward but he is now running around as if nothing happened. He is currently 21 months old. He has the fit throwing down pat. Camren dressed up as superman for Halloween and was adorable. He had so much fun. He wasn't sure about it at first but after we went to the first house and saw they were putting candy in his bucket he was eager to go to the next house.

ANTHONY: Anthony is now in 3rd grade. I can't believe it! We just had parent teacher conferences and his teacher just had nice things to say about him. He is very smart and is a good writer. Maybe he'll be an author when he grows up....hmmm. We'll see. We bought a Wii this summer and Anthony has been playing guitar hero and loving it. He's decided that he wants to play the guitar, so for his birthday we bought him an electric guitar and he is now taking lessons from his uncle Kort. He's actually getting pretty good.

CHRISTINA: What can I say about myself??? I've been actively trying to lose the baby fat and have lost 10 pounds since June. YEAH!!! I try to go to the gym before work (yes that is 5 am). I've also been working more. Can you believe it?!? I now work about 24 hours a week. I also chopped my hair...got an A line haircut. My sister-in-law Marbella did a wonderful job. I love it. I also darkened it with some reddish color in it. It's fun. We just took family pics today so hopefully they turn out great. Can't wait to see them. I haven't taken a picture with my new haircut yet. I'll post some family pics once I get them.

OMAR: Omar is still going to school. He is scheduled to graduate in May. Can't wait. His job has not been affected by all the layoffs going on....yet....hopefully never but I guess we'll see what the future brings. I guess that's it for Omar. He's pretty busy with all that.

We took a family trip to California in June and visited my twin sis Cat and her boyfriend Cory. We went to Pacifica (it was cold) and Anthony did some body surfing. We also buried Cat in the sand and buried Anthony in the sand. It was so much fun. Omar and I spent a night in Tiburon without the kids and we had a lot of fun. We plan on going back for the holidays. Well, that's it for now. I will try harder to keep you updated.

Friday evening

Friday evening as I'm cooking dinner, Omar and the kids were outside and Omar thought it would be a good idea to put Camren on the trampoline with Anthony while he mowed the lawn. Camren started to cry so Omar brought him inside to me so I comforted him. When I tried to put him down he wouldn't stand up. I just figured he wanted to cuddle some more until I tried to put him down again but wouldn't stand on his right leg. We decided to take him to the ED. Before going decided to call a friend of mine who works in the pediatrician's office who later called the pediatrician. The doctor in the ED didn't even look at Camren's leg...just ordered the xrays. He later came in and said that we could go home because there was no break. We were relieved. He told us that Camren would be back to normal in no time. The next day called that friend of mine back to update her. She then called the pediatrician and she called me. His doctor was worried because Camren was still not bearing weight on his right leg by Saturday morning. She went in to the office on Saturday just for us. She wrote an order for more xrays on Monday if he still was not bearing any weight on that leg. All weekend he didn't walk. He finally started crawling on Sunday. So Monday morning we went in for the xrays. Later that morning the pediatrician's office called and the radiologist didn't see a break. Since he was still not bearing weight on his leg she wanted us to go to an orthopaedic. We went and he looked at the xrays taken that morning and he saw a fracture in his tibia. Camren now has a cast from his toes to his thigh. He was such a trooper when getting the cast on. He was all smiles. He even has a little boot for when he's walking. It's so cute. He gets really mad because he can't move around as fast as before. He barely started to walk this evening. When he crawls he has to drag is right leg. He's so cute but oh boy has he been moody. We love him still.

Storytime

I wanted to share a story with you all. It was August 1995. My favorite Mexican band, Los Tigres del Norte, came to the town I lived in. I went with my twin sis and younger sis along with my parents. I met up with my boyfriend there. My boyfriend and I got into an argument there so I didn't have a good time with him but I had fun anyways cuz I had a guy friend there and he made it fun. We danced so much to such an awesome band. That night a boy, who was 15, met my twin sis and he asked to be able to visit her sometime. She agreed. Well, this boy lived in St. Anthony which is over an hour away from our town. He begged his cousin who was 16 and had his night license to drive him because he didn't have a night license. His cousin agreed to drive him. That cousin put off a date with his girlfriend at the time named Christina. I was in a bad mood when they came over to the house and I was rude to him. When he asked me if we had a garbage can, I responded sarcastically "no, we live like animals." Apparently, that didn't thwart him cuz he asked to call me. My boyfriend and I broke up and he and the other Christina broke up. We became boyfriend and girlfriend and this July we will be married for 10 years. Well, I wanted to share this story because in March that same band came to the Idaho Center. Omar bought us tickets. It was so much fun. My sister-in-law and brother-in-law went as well as Omar's parents. It was amazing! There were other bands there too, butThe best one of those was the singer Graciela Beltran. She was great. I can't wait for Los Tigres to come again. I've included a picture of Los Tigres and of Graciela Beltran. If you are able to play video check out this little clip of Los Tigres playing. Hope you enjoy it.

A lot has been...

A lot has been going on since the last time I wrote. Anthony started his spring season of soccer. Omar is his team's coach again. Anthony has definitely shown improvement in his game and is doing very well. We are very proud of him.

Anthony is also doing very well in school. His progress report states that he is at a 5th grade reading level which is awesome since he's only in 2nd grade. He will be getting an accelerated reading award later this month. We are proud parents.

For spring break we decided to get out of the valley and went to Portland for a few days. The weather sucked while we were there, but we still had a lot of fun. We went to Newport for a couple days. It was cold and windy but you better believe that we still went to the beach. We also went into a lighthouse. It was cool to see how people used to live in lighthouses. We visited my aunt and uncle in Salem also. It's always nice to see them. We did some shopping at the Woodburn outlet mall. It was so much fun shopping for the kids. Not as much fun shopping for me but oh well. We visited the OMSI before we left the Portland area. That place is amazing. There is so much to see. I recommend visiting the OMSI if in the area. We wanted to go to the zoo but the weather did not permit that, but that's ok cuz we had fun. Camren did pretty good in the car.

For all those of you that knew Camren hadn't been doing well at daycare, he is now happy at daycare. He was moved from the infant room to the one year olds room and is doing great. He gets to play in the jungle room, play with older toddlers, and gets to go outside when the weather is nice. He has his days when he's not as happy but we all have those days once in a while. I'm just happy to not hear that he is crying for hours in a row at daycare anymore. I feel better about working.
Well that's a little update. More to come.

1st Birthday

Today is Camren's 1st birthday. I can't believe it! It's been a year. It seems like it was just yesterday he was born. Anthony didn't have school today because of the weather/driving conditions so Anthony and I were able to spend all day with Camren. We spent some time playing in the snow today. Camren was curious about the snow and was kicking it. It was cute. After Omar got off of work and was done with school we went out to dinner at Red Robin. Anthony chose the place because he wanted them to sing happy birthday to Camren. The food was good. I think Anthony was a little dissapointed because the waiter didn't sing to Camren because he was "only 1 and would not even know why they were singing to him and it might scare him." Oh well. Camren still got a sundae and Anthony enjoyed sharing that with Camren. We had a good time. We decided to celebrate with just a dinner since we had the cake and ice cream when we had family visit.

Walking???

I've been hoping that Camren would walk around the same time that Anthony did when he was that age. I know, I know I shouldn't compare. When he didn't walk at nine months I was hoping he would walk before his first birthday. As his birthday was getting closer and closer I didn't think it was going to happen. My sis Jolie tried to make me feel better about it by telling me Camren can be lazy like her kids and walk at about 15 months. Her words not mine. So then I was hoping he would walk before 15 months. Camren had taken a few steps back and forth between Omar and me, but Camren has been having a hard time at daycare and has been refuusing to take any steps on his own for about a week and a half. During the family visit Camren took a few steps with encouragment. On Monday, Jan 21st Camren all of a sudden got up all by himself without holding on to anything and walked towards a ball. It was so exciting. Catrina was still here visiting from California so it was especially exciting for her to see it. I was excited that he walked before his 1st birthday. YEAH!!! He is pretty much only walking, hardly crawling anymore. He even tried running the other day. He's so cute. He loves to clap at himself and loves it when we clap at him. He's so funny. The picture I've uploaded is of Catrina and Camren bonding. Cute.