Woohoo!

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Remember that immigration paperwork we were worried about last week? Well, it arrived in the mail yesterday. It's so nice to have that hurdle out of the way.

Because of my poor computer being completely full, I spent HOURS last night backing up my pictures and files on CD/DVD. I thought I was fairly caught up, but I guess not! Also spent lots of time researching external hard drives, online storage options, etc.

Tomorrow is our big travel day. Camden and I are flying to Tulsa to be with Micah, Becky, and the boys for a couple of days. I'm very excited about it! Camden is thrilled to be going on an airplane. Of course, he's quite the seasoned traveler - Korea, Japan, France, Utah, Colorado, Illinois, but all before the age of 2 so he doesn't really remember it. Hopefully, all will go well. We bought him a Leapster and a Cars game which I plan to surprise him with when we board. I've also loaded up on candy and snacks to help keep us busy.

Here are 4 layouts I finished over the weekend. Some of them need a description so I'll describe each.

Camden's Korean name is KimMin Shik, and we've always talked to him about that trying to make sure he was familiar with it. Well, in his little toddler head Kim Min Shik became Chicken Nick and the nick name kinda stuck! Of course, now that he's older, he gets mad when we say Chicken Nick.
Pictures of all of us riding the train at the St. Louis Zoo - definitely Camden's favorite part of the trip.
I soooo should not be doing this, but I've gone back and picked out some of his baby pictures that I'm going to scrap (or rescrap). This picture is when he was 10 months old and obviously a little unhappy about whatever he was eating. Or, honestly, he was a bit OCD and could just be upset at the mess!
Picture of Camden right after he turned 2 - he had the "cheese" smile down already.

Comments

Anonymous said…
I can hear the woohoo! What a relief. Loved the pages as always.
3:02 PM
Karen said…
Congrats on getting the COC!! It took 6 MONTHS after we mailed our paperwork in to get ours!! Great LOs...
9:36 PM
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