Christmas 2010

I am a little behind here, but I am trying to catch up!! :)  Christmas this year was pretty fun.  We got to stay home and have Christmas with both the boys, and we celebrated it a day early so we could run up to Reno and have some Christmas time with my family as well.  We got to see Auntie Robin and Uncle Dave who we haven't seen in a while, and the kids had a blast.  We even got to spend some time with Mike's brother Bryan, his wife Carly, and their little girl Emma.  It is so great being able to spend time with family!

Christmas Eve we had a big dinner over at Mike's sister Emily's house.  When we got home we read the story of the birth of Jesus in Luke, read "The Night Before Christmas" and had Noah frost some cookies to leave for Santa.  The boys got their traditional Christmas Eve Jammies, and they sure looked cute!!

Christmas morning the boys got up around 7:30 and they were so excited to go see what Santa had brought them!

They got quite the haul this year of toys, and games, and movies...I had to rearrange their bedroom to get everything to fit!! :P  And Noah was so excited that Santa had eaten the cookies he left for him!!

I had some trouble with Mike's presents this year.  He wouldn't tell me what he wanted other than "new thermals" and a beard trimmer.  So I decided I would go online and look at some tools for him for skinning his critters from his traps.  He said he needed a fleshing knife, so I ordered one from Cabela's and another little sharp skinning knife.  I had it shipped to the store in Reno figuring Mike's sister Kim could bring it home when she came down for Christmas, since she works at Cabela's. Well, she didn't end up coming down until Christmas Day which is when we went up to Reno, so I wrapped a box with a picture of both knives, so he could know what he was getting.

As it turned out, Mike already had the EXACT knife I had ordered for him, what he really needed was a "fleshing rod."  He was still happy though because he could tell I did my research and ordered him a good knife, but we will have to exchange it for something else!

The second problem I ran up against was getting Mike's new thermals.  I was planning on getting them from his Dad's store here in town, but he didn't have the right sizes in stock.  He had a shipment of them coming in that was due any day before Christmas, but they didn't get there in time.  I wasn't sure what to do, so I took a pair of Mike's "Crusty Old Thermals" (a direct quote from Mike, I might add) folded them up and stuck them in a box with a note that said, "I owe you a new pair of thermals." Everyone thought it was quite hysterical.

My favorite gift from Mike was the heated mattress pad he bought me.  Our room has a door behind our bed that is not sealed well at all and it makes our room freezing and our sheets like ice!! The heated mattress pad solves that problem nicely...and it couldn't have come at a better time.  I got super sick with strep throat (for the second time in 3 months!!) on Christmas Day, and I was feverish and freezing and it helped me feel toasty warm!

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Last night we had our ward Christmas party dinner, and the boys got to meet Santa Clause.  Noah was so excited, he didn't even know what to say to him.  We kept telling him to tell Santa what he wanted for Christmas and all he could do was grin.  He even mentioned the "party with Santa" in his prayer last night. :)

Ammon on the other hand, was not impressed!! He was ok standing near santa, but don't you dare try to put him in his lap!!

This morning we woke up to snow!  I opened up the window and it was white everywhere!! Noah and Ammon couldn't keep themselves out of the window.  I brought some snow inside for them to play with:

Its going to be a LONG December

As time is going by, I am getting more and more behind on my blog, and I am finding it hard to find things to write about!!  With the stress of court coming up on the 14th for Noah it seems my mind is consumed with one thing!

We did get around to putting up a tree and some Christmas decorations.  Noah is excited, he asks me everyday when the "Christmas Guy" is coming.  My mom gave us an advent calendar with little goodies everyday until Christmas for the boys, and it is the only thing he can think of, he asks me at least 10 times a day if he can have whatever is in the next day's pocket.  Ammon seems to have a different excitement than Noah, he wants to tear EVERYTHING apart.  I am constantly chasing him away from the Christmas tree while he tries to pull off every ornament he can, smack them together, pull the tinsel down and destroy the nativity.  He doesn't take "no" for an answer nowadays, and all these extra fun things to get into lately make it all the worse. :P

Mike got his first cat of the season, the first day he checked his traps, on the very first trap.  He has been using all his will power to hold out until Friday to check them again, he is certain he has more cats.  Its funny to watch him, because it is like watching a kid waiting to open his Christmas presents. :)

Other than that there isn't much to report on, just trying to survive day to day, and figure out how to balance my life with kids, babysitting, primary and scouts!!

Falling Behind

I haven't been able to get on the computer much lately, and my blog is falling behind a little.  Things have been pretty crazy around the Campos house lately.

Ammon just went in to get his one year shots last Monday. (he was sick when we were originally supposed to get it done, so it has been put of for a while)  He has been very cranky the last few weeks because of teething, and now on top of it he has a fever as a reaction from one of his shots.  One of his molars is half way through though, so at least we are seeing some progress.  He has been very clingy, will not nap and has a very hard time sleeping at night, making his mother into a very cranky tired mom.  I really hope the rest of his molars make a quick appearance and soon!

Noah has been very helpful lately, I have been babysitting one of our friends' daughters and he likes to give her hugs when she is upset, brings her her bottle, and keeps Ammon entertained.  He is still really enjoying preschool, and all the kids at his school really like him too.  He is such a friendly and loving little boy, and an awesome big brother!!  Ammon loves his big brother so much, the other day Noah decided to take a nap on his own in the late afternoon, Mike walked in to find Ammon laying in Noah's bed with his arm around Noah, rubbing and patting his back.  He called me in to go look and it was the sweetest thing I had ever seen!  I wish I had gotten a picture.

Mike is very excited in preparing for trapping season this year.  He says he is a lot more prepared this year then last year, and is hoping to have more success.  I just hope I don't have to deal with dead animal skins drying out on stretchers in my living room this year!! :P

I have been a little stressed out lately, last Monday I had mediation with Noah's dad and it did not go well.  We have another mediation next Monday, which I am trying very hard not to stress about.  The fact of the matter is if we don't agree, we don't agree and it goes to court, nothing in the mediation other than the outcome gets shared with the court.  I just have to suck it up and keep my emotions in check, I did pretty well last time considering what went on.  On top of all the stress from court I had my very first sharing time lesson on Sunday, and our stake primary president and her counselor were there!! I was nervous even before I knew they were coming! But it turned out pretty well.  I had made these "secret service" heart necklaces for the kids to take home, and the stake primary president told me she thought that was a very cute idea. :)

Halloween

This is a little late in coming, but things have been a little crazy and busy lately.  We took the boys to a pumpkin patch the saturday before Halloween, and they got to do a little bit of trick-or-treating.  They looked so cute in their costumes!! :)

Wax Lips

A couple days ago I was reminiscing on Halloweens we had as kids, and I asked Mike if he remembered having wax lips as a kid.  I was in the grocery store yesterday picking up some power aid for Ammon (he is sick yet again!) and I saw one of those cardboard stands they use for promos filled with wax lips...I didn't even think they made those any more!! Needless to say I had to pick some up, I thought Noah would have fun with them and Mike would get a kick out of them.  Last night we had a lot of fun with them, laughing and taking pictures, and even Ammon got in on the fun.

I wish I could sleep like a Kid

After school on Monday Noah was watching his 30 minutes of cartoons before we did his homework.  I looked up and saw him laying his head down on the counter and asked "Are you tired Noah?" to which I got no response, I walked around to look at his face, and this is what I saw:

He had fallen asleep sitting up on a stool.  Guess school wore him out.  I wish it was as easy for me to fall asleep anywhere!!