The boys birthday party

Since Mario and Rio's birthday's are 10 days apart we do a birthday party for them together. Which at Rio's age doesn't mean much because most of our friends have kids his age or close enough for him to tag along.
The party started at 4PM Sunday the 23rd and didn't get over until 2:30AM the 24th...it was a loooong party, but LOTS of fun. It's times like that that remind me how many great friends and family members we do have, even if we can't get together as often as we'd like.
Rio got a ton of gifts and loved opening each one of them as they came in the door...there was no "gift time" it was: The party goers came in, he saw the gift, he opened the paper, and we opened the gift. No time to say "Lets wait to open this one to make sure we don't get duplicates"...which we did get a few items super close to each other. But hey a boy can never have too many bath balls right??

We have been eating off of the left over food since Monday...and honestly probably could eat off of it until next Monday. I do need to clean the carpets, our house smells like a brewery to those with a sensitive nose...and its not pleasant.

Other than that not much has happened this week. School, homework, and cleaning the house. School is going well. CNA is zooming by, 25% done! We are done with hand washing, bed making (occupied and unoccupied), bed baths, and the vitals (temperature, pulse respiration and blood pressure.) So far so good. Not sure actually working in the field as a CNA though...hopefully just a stepping stone to bigger and better things.

I guess its all a learning process that no one has the answers to.

I'm terrible

So clearly by now you realize that I am an awful blogger. But let me give you a summary of what has happened in the past 8 months.

In July I turned 21. And Rio got his Big boy bed.
In September we ventured out to visit Bill and Sue again and helped them sell things at their garage sale before moving.
In October we welcomed a new cousin to the family, Baby Marcel was born. Rio was a cow for Halloween.
In November we moved yet again, spent quite a bit of time visiting family and celebrating birthdays and Thanksgiving.
In December we finally got family pictures taken! (Previous post) And celebrated Christmas.

NOW it is January and Mario's birthday is today! Rio and I made him a birthday cake, vanilla with a strawberry buttercream frosting. Rio is getting a very big attitude as he approaches the 2 year mark. And I am preparing for his birthday party, this Saturday by cleaning the house and cooking like crazy. Also, I started school again! My first CNA class starts this afternoon at 4. 7.5 weeks of craziness!

Here's to updating a bit more often ;)