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My brother-in-law Lionel's, and sister-in-law Marbella's birthdays were a couple of weeks ago. The in-laws came to town. We had a get together and Omar and I decided to get a few things before we stopped by to help Lionel celebrate his birthday. He truly was the princess of the party. Check out the pics. It was hilarious. We had a great time. For those that haven't seen what the in-laws (women) look like check out the pics.

A few days ago my sister-in-law Marbella gave us some news. Her and Kort are having a baby. YEAH!!! Another nephew/niece. How exciting. She's only about a month or two along. We are all excited.

Camren's Birthday

Camren't birthday was on the 30th of January. We celebrated his birthday at Chuck e cheese's with family. I can't believe that he is 2 already. He's been in those terrible two's for some time now. I'm at least grateful he's stopped his bad habit of biting. I think being out of daycare for 3 weeks during Christmas did him some good. He's still pinching and hitting, but one thing at a time. He's good at throwing tantrums at the worst times. He's also a charmer. He will look at you and smile and you forget that you were mad at him. Lately he's been trying to sing and it's so cute. He's been singing parts of ring around the rosie for a while but now he tries to sing a lot. He's also a talker. Granted, I can't understand about half of it, but he tries. As far as potty training goes...it's not. At least he's not scared of the toilet anymore but he just sits there and plays with the toilet paper. It's cute but he's just not ready yet. Maybe this summer I can put underwear on him and let him run around outside and if he dirties himself I'll just spray him off with the hose. Hmmm...that sounds fun to me. I'm not sure he'll like it too much though. Don't think I'll do that but it does sound fun and funny.

Sorry I haven't posted in a while...

A quick update for everyone. Christmas was a lot of fun. We went to California and spent Christmas with Cat and Cory. We were in for a big surprise on Christmas Day. Cat and Cory's gift to everyone was a folder. Inside the folder, much to everyone's surprise, was a copy of their marriage certificate. WHAT!! You read correctly. They were married in November and kept it a secret. Rude right?!? Nah...they just wanted it to be a surprise. I was/am happy for them. I think it's about time. Camren and Anthony had a great time there. They both spent a lot of time playing Guitar Hero World Tour. Ok, I admit it, they weren't the only ones. We all played that game. I think Rufus and Keely were happy when we left. (Rufus and Keely are their dogs/kids). Camren kept chasing them and grabbing their short tails. They weren't too impressed, but they never hurt Camren. Always a good thing. We always love visiting. It's just too bad they didn't live closer. Oh well. We came home safely and we missed all the snow that the valley received while we were gone. I'm not sorry that I didn't have to drive in that.

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.