hum, nothing exciting is happening in the good ‘ol month of January. We did get a week full of sickness, that’s about it! haha. I got some weird bacterial infection in my eye, which I thought was pink eye but quickly realized something more was going on. Jackson got the flu, followed by Brody, then Ryan and myself. Leah and Ayden got lucky and missed out on that one!

Oh, our toilets and bath tub backed up and we had to pay 400 bucks to get that fixed, which didn’t really fix it, to really fix it we are gonna have to pay 500 bucks more-which I love since we are made of money!

It sure is rainy here and I’m wondering(and waiting)when spring is gonna show up, though I shouldn’t complain too much cause I’m just grateful it’s not snow.

I’ve been working my butt off running and walking on the treadmill and doing Jillian Micheal’s 30 day shred video, have yet to see any results, but I’m in the best shape I’ve been in since being pregnant w/Jackson!

Brody has started signing! He can sign milk, more and eat! It sure is cute, kinda pisses Leah off, which is cute too! The other day he attempted to climb out of his crib, which I don’t like, but I won’t think about dealing with that until it really happens.

Jackson’s first tooth is almost ready to come out. It’s so gross wiggling and moving so much, soon it will really happen!

Sorry for all who read this post, man it was super boring! But that’s been January for us! Hopefully February brings in some fun!

Since we have moved to Oregon(July ’05) we haven’t been able to enjoy the holiday’s due to Ryan’s work being crazy. With Ry’s new job we have experienced what the holiday’s are suppose to be like! Man it was awesome!! Ry had Christmas eve Day to Jan.4th off work. It was so great to have him around! We spent so much time playing games w/good friends, hanging out with the kids, watching movies and just enjoying each other. Ry’s mom came in town 2 days after Christmas and stayed with us for 5 days. The kids had a blasts going to see movies, bowling and Chuck E. Cheese with her. It was a really fun visit.

The kids got the Wii for Christmas and were STOKED!! They’ve been playing the New Mario Bros game none stop and have already beat the game! LOL. Ry and I have been enjoying the game also, brings back good memories of old school nintendo. Here are a few pics from our Christmas fun. Again, our camera sucks so sorry if some are blurry, we are working on that.

Opening pj’s on Christmas Eve

The Wii

Lego Rock Band, yes! More good times!

Leah showing off her new signing time dvd’s.

Bowling w/Nonna

Dad and the boys

Me and my boys

Thanks Tawny for watching the babies for us so we could do some fun things with the boys!

The waiting is over and Ryan finally gave into my requests for a kitty! We gave it to the kids for Christmas, though Ryan says it was really my present, which is so true! We named her Yoshi, my boys are obsessed with Mario Bros, so we are just happy that’s it’s not Mario or Luigi. She pretty much hides under whatever she can while the kids are around and becomes a crazy cat at night, when she’s knows she won’t be killed! LOL. You can’t say that she isn’t loved-just might not be the way she wants, hahaha!

Brody has become obsessed with his green fleece blanket. He gets it out of his bed and carries it EVERYWHERE he goes and along with the blanket goes his thumb in his mouth! He was only sucking his thumb during naptime and bedtime, but now since he’s carrying around his blanket the thumb has become his new best friend! LOL. Sorry our camera is taking blurry pictures,which it’s new, so that’s sucks! 

To our Friends and Family that I don’t have e-mail addresses for or in contact w/on FB,

We are going cheap oops I mean “green” this year on our Christmas cards, well actually we didn’t do a Christmas card either, just a letter!

Merry Christmas and Happy New year!!! Now that that’s out of the way…….holy crap this year went fast! Not only that but the fact that we have been out of Utah for 4 1/2 years just blows my mind! I know that time moves fast for me, but shouldn’t it stand still for everyone else that I’m not around?! If only, right?

2009 Started out with a whole lot of noise in our house, yeah you heard me right NOISE! My parents bought us Rock Band2 for Christmas and our family just couldn’t get enough of it!! Even Leah and Brody want to jam with us! We made a big MOVE and JOB change and it landed us in Eugene, Oregon!!! We spent the summer doing daily bike rides, LOTS of swimming and house hunting. We found a house we had to have and bought it! Since then we’ve pretty much been working on getting into the groove of our new life here.

Ryan is working for Palo-Alto Software. What a great company, I could go on and on about them but I won’t, I will say that Ryan is so happy and loves what he does! He still enjoys running and is planning to sign up for some races this coming spring. He did get some biking in this summer, not as much as he’d like but enough for me that I didn’t despise biking, he biked Black Rock(many times over), some trail in Bend, Post Canyon(a few times) and tried a few local trails with his new biking buddy Ayden! Our kids love Ryan so much. The boys especially love it when he plays Halo 3 with them, Leah loves to give him big hugs and of course could spend hours jumping on the trampoline w/him and Brody figured out that daddy needs kisses when he leaves for work and screams of joy when he returns home!

Jackson turned the big 7 this Sept. and started 1st grade. He finally learned to ride a 2 wheeler this Spring, it took him about 5 minutes to get it and once he did it was like he had been riding for years. He also learned to swim, after 2 years of me teaching him and not getting it I put him in lessons w/out me and BAM he’s swimming-lame for me awesome for him! He’s getting so big and I have to laugh at some of the things he says, “Mom I’m not wearing that shirt, it’s so NOT my style”, another was “I like Meg cause she dresses way cute”. The other day we found him, Ayden and a friend in the bedroom talking about how many girls they have kissed! Most would be worried, me I just thinks it’s funny!

Ayden my little big 6 year old, started Kindergarten and the teacher says that he has the kindest heart in the class. He loves to help with Brody and Leah and helps me around the house. Ayden found his love of mountian biking this summer w/Ryan, though he pretty much will do anything if it’s with Ryan, he is for sure a daddy’s boy! I wonder about his safety though cause he’s so crazy going off jumps and cruising around like a maniac. He also learned to swim this summer and jump in the deep end all by himself! He is learning to read and sound words out and walks around telling me that this word starts with that and what not. He talked me into taking care of his class mice for Christmas break, seriously if he would have asked you, you wouldn’t have been able to say no either!

What to say about Miss Leah?! She just turned 3 and we can hardly believe it. Last spring she all the sudden started picking up on all the signing I’ve been doing with her. Though she doesn’t understand that they mean things, she’s still good at doing them when asked. Some of her favorites are: cracker, bird, apple, more, bath and milk. She loves to watch signing time and in the car can sign most of the words to the signing time CD. She loves to say “Hi” to anybody she sees and loves to wave. She could jump on the trampoline ALL day if I let her. She has just started interacting w/other little kids, she’s actually starting to tolerate Brody more and more each day. She started a mommy and me pre-school class this fall and we go every Friday morning and she LOVES it! Coloring is her new obsession, but not in a coloring book, only on blank pages, when we leave pre-school she’s done 5 art projects when the other kids have only done 1! She gives the best hugs, hands down.

Brody started the year out as a winey, fussy, sad little thing of a baby. He’s had a big year adjusting to this world he has come into, crawling at 7 1/2 months, tubes in his ears at 8 months, turned 1 in July, started walking at 14 months and got his first tooth at 14 months! Finally being a toddler he has shed his fussiness and we are finally enjoying him! He loves to jabber: dooooo, deahhhhhhhhh and yeahhhh all day long. He is so full of energy and excitement, you can see it in his face and some times you think he’s gonna burst!

What a year this has been for me. Lots of changes, lots of growing. Again I left a place that I called home, friends that I loved and people that were so wonderful! Moving to a place where we knew no one, I learned that going to the Doctor or grocery store w/all 4 of my kids isn’t that big of a deal, living by a Kohl’s and Target can get me into trouble, walking around a mall is NOT overrated, being deprived of fast food for nearly 4 years and then going on a fast food binge isn’t always a good thing, running on the treadmill is a great stress reliever though it won’t necessarily make you skinny, having 3 boys isn’t that bad, happiness is what you make it and I think I’ve finally got it figured out, good friends don’t go away because you move they just adapt to the new situation, my husband is my best friend, my children are my reason to get up in the morning and making new friends is something that I really enjoy doing. As much as I hate leaving people behind, I love being taken out of my comfort zone and seeing who I really am, it’s very refreshing!

I swear it’s impossible for us to get a picture of our whole family together, so you’ll just have to check out our recent posts here on our blog!

We are thinking of our friends and families that we miss so much this year! Have a great Holiday season!

The Campbell Family

Leah was sick today, so only Ryan and the older boys went to church. They were lookin’ so good I just had to get some pics. 

Santa came to our ward Christmas party and Ayden was the only one in our family who wanted to see him. He was sooooooooo very excited and was the 2nd one in line-he moves fast! Who knows what he told him, let’s just hope nothing embaressing, though he’s my kid so I wouldn’t be surprised! Jackson hates people dressed-up in costumes, so he didn’t even want to be in the same room as Santa!

While living Hood River our friends started a fun Christmas tradition, “The Ugly Christmas Sweater Party”. Since we no longer live in the Hood, we decided to start it here!! We had a great night of looking “hot” in our Christmas sweaters and playing games. It’s been awhile since I’ve laughed so much.  I’m grateful for new friends that embrace just plain awesomeness! Our camera is messed up, so the pics are very blurry, but you’ll get the idea.

Ryan and Myself

Tawny and Lydon

Cam and Kristy

Dan and Gena

Brody and Leah share a bedroom. I put them both down for their nap today. I did some house cleaning, folding laundry and catching up on my dvr’d shows and about 2 hours into it I hear Leah crying. I go in to check on her. She had un-dressed herself, diaper and all and then put her dress panties back on and took a nap, well of course she peed while she was sleeping, so she’s was pretty upset about being all wet-who wouldn’t be, right?!!  Brody is screaming so I take him to the toy room, so I can take care of Leah. When I was done with her I went to put her in the toy room and there was Brody laying on his blanket sucking his thumb. I’m sure most would think this is stupid, but not me, it’s a rare occasion that Brody will sit or chill for any amount of time. He must not have been done with his nap cause he stayed like that for a good half hour!

P.S. Leah has pooped in the bathtub and her toy room(w/out a diaper) all in 2 weeks. It’s sooooooooooooo gross! I was grateful today it was pee and NOT poop, now that’s sad!

We did home made gingerbread houses. I thought is was lots of fun. Ry printed off all these instructions on how to make them and decorate them, I just went on my creativity alone! LOL. Which we were talking earlier in the day how I am soooooooooooo not creative, which I’m not, I am aware of the situation!  Ryan and Ayden’s house turned out really cute and Jackson and mine turned out, how should I say it, very unique. The Langworthy’s house was cute to, though Kristy wasn’t a fan of being all messy and she keep adding more frosting in hopes that it would stay up better that way. hahaha.

Our finished product!

P.S. They didn’t last very long about 3 days. Leah and Brody couldn’t keep their little hands off of them! I am finding slimmy candy all over the house.

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