PLAYING CATCH UP: A QUICK MONTHLY REVIEW

When I decided to do a monthly post I knew it would be a challenge but I didn´t think it would be impossible, but it has been harder to keep up than I thought. And now that I am a mother of 3, I think it will be even harder (At this moment I am trying to feed Avery while Clark is standing next to me asking to sit in my chair). No matter the obstacles, I am determined to keep up the blog, but I am so behind now I must resort to just a quick review of the past several months.

SEPTEMBER:

Celebrated Charlie´s Superhero 5th birthday

School started and Clark wanted to go too.

One Sunday afternoon we picked up 3 young Belgian girl tourists who were going to sleep in a not so nice park so following the Spirt we brought them home and let them sleep in our living room. (They couldn´t have been too bad because they watched High School Musical with us.)

OCTOBER:

After trying to convince myself not to, I finally decided to organize once again the ward Halloween Carnival party. This year was much less stressful and I didn´t yell at my husband once. I was very proud of myself. Charlie was a vampire and Clark was Spiderman.

We also went to a friend´s halloween party at their house.

See pictures below.

NOVEMBER:

The biggest highlight for November was that we attended a Stake Marriage Conference at a 4 Star Hotel with an all you can eat buffett and swimming pool. We brought the kids along and had a very good time.

My kids know about Thanksgiving but we still have not celebrated the holiday properly since both Leo and I work that day. Some day soon my children will eat turkey and stuffing.

DECEMBER:

This month was very busy. We first celebrated Clark´s birthday, then our anniversary and then on the 13th, Avery Susana was born, not to mention Christmas and New Years and all the happenings that go along with these holidays.

On Sunday the 12th, I woke up and I thought that my water had broken but I was in charge of the primary program that day so we went to church and then later we went to the hospital. At the hospital they determined that I had a small leak so they admitted me but since I did not start having strong contractions on my own, they induced me Monday morning and by early afternoon, Avery was with us. It has been such a blessing to have her with us. She is such a good baby and the delivery was the best of all three. The only problem is that I have had a stubborn cold for almost a month now, that just won´t go away and now Avery has it too.

Pictures from decorating the house for Christmas and Clark´s birthday.



Random pictures from December including pictures of the cool book Grandma and Grandpa sent of G & G reading ´Twas the night before Christmas.

Christmas morning opening presents.

Fun at the park during the Christmas break.

LETTER TO SANTA

Although we didn´t get Christmas cards out this year, Charlie did send out his letter to Santa, pictures included. The card read: Dear Santa, I love you. I have been a very good boy. Please bring me these gifts. Charlie.

Charlie really enjoyed cutting out the pictures of the toys he wanted and also the toys that he thought Clark and his cousin Javi would like and then he pasted them on the back of the letter. Leo helped Charlie compose the letter and wrote it out and then Charlie copied the words by himself. This year Santa had a change of address and instead of the north pole, we sent the letter to Colton, Oregon, but don´t tell Charlie that. Charlie really enjoyed Christmas this year and was so amazed by the whole Santa Claus story. Everyday he would want me to show him on a map or globe where the North Pole was and everyday he asked if we could go there.

Charlie proud of his letter to Santa

Charlie excited to mail his letter. We went to a store near our house to drop off the letter in the mailbox AKA the lion´s mouth. Even Clark was amazed by the experience as you can tell in the picture.