SpenJen

Great to be 28!

2011-11-13T16:56:00.000-08:00

I have to admit that getting older freaks me out, so I wasn't really looking forward to turning 28 this year. Luckily, Spencer made it one of the best birthdays I've ever had. He planned for us to spend a night alone in San Francisco while my parents watched the kids. We spent our time doing what I love: eating! It was a blast and I am so grateful for my wonderful husband for planning my special day.

This is me before I scarfed down richest, most chocolaty desert I could find at Ghirardelli Square.

Halloween

2011-11-13T15:31:00.000-08:00

Halloween was so much fun this year. Noah and Leila were old enough to be really excited about their costumes and they had so much fun trick-or-treating and dressing up.

Noah had a field trip at the pumpkin patch with his preschool. Ezra and Leila were lucky enough to tag along too. Ezra loved the pumpkins.

I thought it would be hilarious for Spencer to dress up as Edward from Twilight. He actually did it and I still can't stop laughing about it!

Here is Ezra in his parrot costume. He absolutely hated it, but it was so cute!

Here is Noah as Captain America and Leila as Batman. Leila is hilarious. I took her to Target and told her that she could have any costume, and she had to have Batman. The smallest Batman costume they had was about five sizes to big, so she went around in an oversized Batman costume. Everyone that saw her sure got a kick out of it. She is a little girl with a really big personality.

Daddy Daycare

2011-09-24T09:55:00.000-07:00

This is what happens when Spencer watches the kids while I am at Activity Day.

Yes, that is nine month old baby Ezra chowing down on a huge pile of whipped cream. If this was my first kid, I would have totally freaked out and came home from whatever I was doing. If this was my second kid, I would have freaked out a little bit and probably gotten over it after a few hours. Since this is the third kid that I've had in four years, I thought it was pretty funny and was just glad that he was so full from eating garbage that he actually slept through the night.

Noah's Photography

2011-09-16T14:49:00.000-07:00

When my old iPhone died, I let Noah have it to play with. The camera on it still works and he learned how to use it to take pictures. He likes to take pictures of everything. I'm not sure if it is because I have my mom goggles on, but I think his pictures are really cool and I am impressed with how well they turn out. I think it is fascinating to look at life through the eyes of my four year old.

Noah's First Day of School

2011-09-16T14:32:00.000-07:00

Noah was able to start preschool this year.

This is his bag that we got to decorate for preschool.

Here he is on his way out the door. Leila was really excited an happy too, until she found out that she doesn't get to go to preschool yet.

Papa Jim was in town and able to see Noah on his first day.

Noah was extremely nervous and scared when we got there. I think his first day was a little rough. He told me that he wanted me to stay and take care of him and he was really sad when he learned that I would not be going to school with him. He seemed happy when I picked him up that day and he really enjoys school now. His teacher, Mrs. Fowler, is awesome and he is learning so many neat things!

Birthday Boys

2011-09-16T14:20:00.000-07:00

We had two birthdays in July to celebrate this year. Spencer's 30th and Noah's 4th.

We were able to get together with the family California and throw Spencer a party for his big 3-0. It was a lot of fun.

We took the kids to the Oakland temple so they could see where we got married. We went to the visitor's center as well.

After visiting the temple, we had a fat fest at Fenton's after the temple. I had a crab salad sandwich and we all had massive ice cream sundaes. It was totally delicious and we enjoyed every bite!

We took Noah to the Carson City Railroad Museum for his birthday.

Ezra loved the train ride.

Here is the train cake I made for Noah's birthday. It was make of cupcakes. You can't tell it is supposed to be a train in this picture and it looks like an 8 year old made it, but it was fun and the kids liked it.

Having fun with the train table at the Railroad Museum.

Summer Fun 2011

2011-09-16T12:32:00.000-07:00

We have been able to do a lot of fun things this summer and time flew by so quickly.

I was able to take the kids to Hot August Nights with my parents this year. We saw a lot of neat stuff, but this was the best. Noah thought it was the real Bat Mobile and thought Batman was coming to Reno to visit him. He was really sad that he couldn't meet Batman, so he drew him a picture of the Joker and wrote a letter telling him he needs to come back to Reno next year.

We told Leila that if she would poop on the potty and help clean up dog poop in the backyard that we would get her a slide. She still isn't potty trained, but she does help with the dog poop. She loves to help find the poop and helps me put it in the bag. It is sort of like a sick Easter egg hunt. The kids love the slide, especially when we put the baby pool under it. It is amazing at how fast they can go down that little slide when it is wet!

We went to repticon a few weeks ago. They had tons of cool things there: snakes, lizards, spiders, newts, frogs, and turtles. Leila was able to pet a huge lizard and we were able to take a picture with this huge snake named Princess. It was a blast!

Noah's 3rd Birthday

2010-08-21T14:49:00.000-07:00

Noah turned 3 on July 31st. To celebrate, we took him to the train museum in Portola. Noah and Leila had a blast seeing all of the trains and going on a train ride. He loved it so much that we may just take him for his birthday again next year.

Back to Bloggin

2010-02-26T14:07:00.000-08:00

Okay, I haven't been updating our blog at all. I've decided to do a better job and will try to update this blog at least once a week. Both of my kids woke up early from their naps today, so I don't have any time for a new post today, but I will be updating everything some time this week. I'm sorry to anyone who actually looks at this because it has been seven months since I last updated it.
I have also started a new blog, cornycampbell.blogspot.com, that is more like my own journal and might be kind of boring but you can check it out if you wish.

Our Kids

2009-07-19T18:18:00.000-07:00

I can't believe how big our kids are getting! Leila is already four months old and Noah will be turning two on the 31st. Leila's hair is getting really long. I tried to put it into pigtails before church today and it turned out so cute. Noah is a good big brother and loves trying to take care of his little sister. I feel very blessed to be the mother of two wonderful kids!

Sweet Updates

2009-07-02T16:53:00.000-07:00

Life has been very crazy since the last time we posted. The kids have been keeping us busy and I have dedicated all of my extra time to finishing shool. I've been feeling pretty guilty for not keeping track of our lives, so I am going to try to update this blog once a week.

Noah loves being a big brother. He really enjoys hanging out with Leila.
This is Leila in her Easter dress.

Noah loves to look like dad. Here he is wearing Spencer's glasses.

Long Time no Blog

2009-04-11T21:35:00.001-07:00

It has been such a long time since we wrote in a blog that I thought I would update with a bunch of pictures....

This is the first semi family photo. Jen is missing cause she was conducting the photo shoot.

Our little princess. I am pretty sure that this is the picture that we sent out in the birth announcements.

Just Noah an me goofing around having him pretend to be flying.

Noah just being happy.

One of the first pictures of baby Leila. She was born March 6, 2009. 3.6.09 is a pretty cool birthday if you ask me. She was six lbs. seven oz. and twenty in.

Puerto Rico

2008-11-29T14:58:00.001-08:00

Jen and I were able to go to Puerto Rico in September. I had to go for two weeks for business and luckily Jen was able to tag along for the first week. She couldn't stay for two weeks because of school and because she would have missed Noah too much. We took a bunch of pictures so I am just going to show them and put a little description above them. Unfortunately they are all out of order because I still don't have a grasp on this blogging thing.

This is a picture of us leaving Culebra. It truly was a beautiful place.

This picture was taken after we realized that we got fried on the island. We applied our sunblock twice, but it didn't seem to help. Take a close look at Jen's arms and neck. Yikes!
More pictures of the beach at Culebra.

On Saturday we took an hour ferry ride to the island of culebra. The island used to be an old marine/navy/army base. Not sure which branch. The island had the most beautiful beach I have ever seen hands down. The water was so clear and warm it was surreal. Here is a picture of one of the abandoned tanks on the beach.

Here is Jen looking for the cheese at the end of the maze.
This is the waterfall at the rain forest. Again this was one of Jen's excursions that I did not get to go on. It looks really nice though.
Here is a picture of the rain forest.
This is a picture of the second hotel we stayed at. It was a big resort with a golf course.
This is Jen sampling some of the native cuisine.Buen Provecho!
Jen went out on a little adventure with the girlfriend of one of my coworkers. They went through the most poor area in San Juan. I guess Jen thought it would be a good idea to take a picture of a family playing in the fire hydrant. Notice the mothers outfit.....
This is at the fort at old San Juan.

This is the first hotel we stayed at. It was the Marriott in San Juan. The beach here was beautiful. Both of us having grown up in Northern California had never experienced such warm clear water.

This is me in Old San Juan. I guess this is the place where the Pina Colada was invented. I have yet to verify that statement on Wikipedia. I must say they had the most delicious VIRGIN Pina Coladas I have ever had.

In Old San Juan there is a street that is nothing but high end stores. Here is a picture of the Burberry store. All of the stores had apartments above them with really pretty flowers.

The second hotel we stayed at did not have a beach. Instead it had it's own private island and had a ferry running back and forth all day. Here is a picture of the island. Only Jen was able to go because I had to work.

This is another picture of Old San Juan it was really neat because a lot of the streets are still the original cobble stone.

We had a blast and can't wait to go back next year!

Sunday Morning

2008-11-16T20:34:00.003-08:00

Today was Sunday and I thought that we should do a little photo shoot with Noah. He was in a really good mood, so we took advantage of it. This is Noah climbing into his little recliner that Grandma Gardner bought him. He loves to just relax in it after a long day of scooting around like a gorilla.I tried to take a picture of Noah wearing my suit jacket, but I could not get one with his eyes open. He quickly ripped it off to show off his manly chest.

Happy Birthday to Jen!

2008-11-07T19:23:00.001-08:00

It was Jen's birthday on Wednesday. She is now a quarter century old. She had to go to school, so I decided to bake her a yummy cake. As you can see from the picture above it turned out pretty good. It is a triple layer chocolate cream cheese cake with sprinkles :) Now would be a great opportunity for you to wipe the drool off of your chin and your keyboard.
I think Noah was more excited than all of us for the cake. I think it gave him flash backs of his first birthday party. What a blast he had that day.....

Jen is happier than ever posing with her best friend....... Chocolate! All she wanted for her birthday was a clean house and a yummy cake and that is what she got. We all sat and chowed on cake until we felt like that it was going to come back up.

Trick or Treat!

2008-11-01T19:57:00.001-07:00

I was in Ventura all week, and the minute I got back, little Noah was ready to go get some sweet candy. He was all smiles as we got him dressed in his scary monkey outfit. It was well passed his bed time, but he was in an excellent mood and had a great time saying hi to all of our neighbors and friends in the neighborhood. The most surprising thing of all was that he did not mind wearing his traditional monkey culture head dress. He normally does not like to have things on his head so you could tell he was totally feeling the spirit of Halloween!

2008-10-27T19:30:00.000-07:00

Jen and I were watching TV one night, and apparently little Noah had had a pretty rough day. As we were getting ready to put him to bed we looked over at him in his seat, and he was starting to catch some z's. He was losing the battle with Mr. Sandman.

It's a pumpkin!

2008-10-26T19:07:00.000-07:00

As you can see from the picture, Jen gave birth to our second child. I think we will name her Pumpkin!

We were able to go to Lattin Farms in Fallon this Saturday. We had a really good time. They had a lot of fun activities for the family, but Noah was a tad bit too young to enjoy them all. This is a picture of the pumpkin patch. We had to take a hay ride to get there which Noah really enjoyed. They had a corn maze, a train for the kids to ride on, a pygmee goat petting area, face painting, and of course the farm fresh bakery. Jen and I of course went there first and partook of home made pumpkin butter and strawberry preserves. Very tasty!

We all got ourselves a pumpkin, and we will be sure to put up a post when we get pictures carving those bad boys!

Baby Number 2!

2008-10-19T20:47:00.001-07:00

Jen had her ultrasound appointment on Friday to find out the sex of baby number 2. Both Noah and I thought that he was going to have a little brother, but it turns out he is going to have a little sister! All of us are really excited. We have started to pick out names. The ones at the top of my list are "Falcon" or "Bird of Prey". "Bird" being the first name and "of Prey" being the middle name. Jen is leading more towards Leila. If you turn your head to the left, you can see the face of the newest Campbell baby. It is pretty scary so reader beware!