Christmas...Henriquez Style

To kick off the Christmas celebration we started Christmas Eve at my parent's house. As usual, we had a variety show. Here's the highlights.

Sebastian, Noah, and Tyler put on an awesome sing/dance.

Guitars, fake mustaches...

and jumping beans. Yes, I said jumping beans!

mom and dad sang a spanish rendition of "santa clause is coming to town"...

and they sorda danced too. They are so dang cute.

Candi and I spiced up the night with a Mean Girls Jingle Bell Rock performance.

 

Then it was on to the Nativity performance.

Lina was supposed to be Mary. She ditched the role half way through.

So I ended up stepping in. Everyone else did a fabulous job!! I was so impressed with everyone's wardrobe. Can't wait to see this tradition continue next year. Hopefully Lina will do a better job.

And although not pictured, we had a tamale feast! Mmmm....

So....what have you guys been up to?

This was the question of the month it seemed as I met up with friends who were in town over the holidays as we made an attempt to catch up and keep our kids well behaved.

(Yes, I did get a camera for my birthday...but left it at my in-law's on Christmas so this update will be absent of any pictures....sorry.)

I didn't get to meet up with everyone who was in town so for those of you I missed....here's our update.

Clint is in nursing school at ASU. He goes to the campus at the Mayo Clinic in north Scottsdale. He will graduate in May with his BSN. He wants to go on to do a master’s program for CRNA (nurse anesthetist). He’ll need to get a couple of years of ICU experience before he can do that so we’ve got a few years before we delve into that. He’s been working while going to school. He works at Ford Credit so between those two schedules, and homework, we hardly ever get to see him. But it will soon be over in May.

I’m still working for State Farm agent, Scott Frindell. I work four 10’s so I get Wednesday (and weekends) off. I am one of the teachers in RS. We are in the Citrus Heights Stake- Parkcrest ward. We just sold my car this week! No more car payments…yay!!

Lina is now 18 months old. She just went to nursery for the first time last week. When I picked her up the teacher said she was “Excellent!” I guess she cried for a minute when I left but then was fine after that. I have a friend from the Spanish branch who watches her 3 days a week and my mom or younger sister, Candi, watch her one day a week.

We are still cloth diapering and still LOVE IT! We use a disposable for night time because we haven’t found a system that will hold up all night. We are still attempting to teach Lina to speak Spanish. We mostly speak Spanish to her at home and switch to English when we are out with people who don’t speak Spanish. Both of my MIL’s speak Spanish so they are on board with it and of course my parents only speak Spanish to her. She is pretty bilingual up to this point and she is so dang smart (of course I think that, right?) that she learns new things every day!  

And lastly, it will be a while before we try for another. Probably, maybe, possibly when Lina is three. (She is a handful, I’m still trying to figure her out).

So yah, that’s pretty much what we have been up to. I know, not all that exciting!

Merry Christmas!!

Bday 2010

This year I turned the big 2-7! I am kinda okay with it really. Clint of course splurged and got me a camera for my bday and couldn't wait until my bday to give it to me so I got it like a week early. But then on the weekend of my bday (also Thanksgiving weekend) he made it a point to treat me to a nice sushi dinner and a chic flick. Not to mention all the sweet things he did for me throughout the day. He tried his hardest to let me have a "day off" and tried to handle Lina's needs as best he could.

Thanks honey for a great Birthday!!

Thanksgiving 2010

We started our Thanksgiving day with the Turkey Trot. Lina was pooped from all of her cheering from the sideline.

Then headed over to my parent's house for lunch. We hadn't seen Charlie in forever. She has gotten so big! It was so funny to see her and Lina play together. Lina would try to pick Charlie up to help her walk, Charlie would let her, so they would end up tumbling down and rolling all over each other.

After lunch and all the excitement that came with it Lina was exhausted...again.

We headed out to Scottsdale to see Grandpa Alan and the gang. More food. More exhaustion.

We had a good time with good company and good food. Can't complain!

We are still alive...

I got a new camera for my bday (an early present) so when I went through it and was choosing what to blog about as proof that I am still around I accidentaly downloaded this picture. As my coworker Melisa would say "it's a sign". So I decided I should post it.

We are selling my car. It's a 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer. I'm sad to see it go because I really love it...but won't be sad to see the payment go.

First Race

I did my first race! Alexis, my coworker, and I signed up for it 6 months ago and the day finally came. We didn't have any high expectations. We just wanted to finish it.

Ernest was our babysitter/photographer. Lina was our cheerleader. She got tired apparently.

And we did it! We finished!

And felt great afterwards! In fact we signed up for another race once we got back to work on Monday.

FYI- The Shun the Sun 10k is a great event! We even got a few more coworkers in on it for next year.