The Michael & Lluvia Campbell Family

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Michael's sister, Charity, had a master's vocal recital at the University of Utah.

These two pictures are Charity with her accompanist.

November 2009

On Saturday, November 28th,

the family headed to Salt Lake to use some gift certificates.

Aunt Aurora gave these as gifts at Christmas 2008.

We thought we had better use them before Christmas rolled around again!

These pics are of JoElle, Christian, Montgomery and Sammy

doing some Rock Climbing.

The picture of the table is our "After-Thanksgiving" dinner.

Thanksgiving was spent with Lluvia's family.

On Sunday, November 29th, the Campbell side of the family came to our house

for their Thanksgiving celebration!

This tree is called Lluvia's tree!

For the second year in a row we've put up a real pine smelling tree!! We love it!!

This tree is in the entrance to our house.

The pictures of Sammy with Santa are taken on December 5th

at a Church Family Breakfast Party.

The wish list included "BEN 10" action figures.

Montgomery had a Christmas Chorus Concert on December 10th.

Then both Montgomery and Christian had a Christmas Band Concert on December 15th. Pictured above is Montgomery's Choir and Christian with his friend Sam and Band Director, Dr. Fullmer.

We have a funny story about Sam and our Sammy. One day Sam was visiting our house. It was time for him to go home so Tish provided transportation. Tish, Sam, Christian and Sammy were in the car on the way to Sam's house. Out of the clear blue, Sammy looks at Sam and says, "To me..... you look Chinese!" Sam replies, "Yeah, I get that alot!"

The day after Christmas, the kids decided they wanted to use some of the gift cards they received. We headed to OLD NAVY. At the entrance of the store was this diplay. Sammy decided to be a part of the Old Navy Family. Can you find him?

BELOW: We celebrated Christian's birthday (#15) by doing more gift card shopping!! This time, we headed to IN & OUT BURGER for dinner! We've decided gift cards are the way to go as you can get tons more stuff after the holidays!!

Monday, November 9, 2009

SILVERMAN TRIATHLON in Las Vegas

Lluvia's sister, Aurora, entered the Half Silverman Triathlon.

The family gathered together to support, cheer, cry and celebrate the event.

The Campbell's and Efrian Villalobos Family came from Utah along with Mom.

Ligiah flew in from LA and Jorge and Jenna flew in from NYC.

On Friday all the family started arriving.

Ligiah arrived on Saturday.

Photo taken at Hilton Grand Vacations!

AND THEIR OFF!!

Sunday morning, November 8th,

the whistle blew at 8:30am sharp.

First event of the day - the swimming!

Took Aurora about an hour to swim 1.2 miles.

The poster making committee!

Aurora's #1 fan & supporter!

This is Aurora just after finishing her swim.

She runs up the runway and...

...and lies on her back

while volunteers help her take off the rubber suit

and head to the tent to dress

for the biker portion of the race.

The family anxiously waits for Aurora to exit

the dressing tent and pick up her bike.

Coming down the gold carpeted runway,

here is contestant #601, Aurora Rojas,

running to locate her bike!

Aurora has mounted her bike.

Notice she has grabbed a bite to eat.

She must eat & drink about

every 20 minutes to keep going.

She will burn about 6000 calories during the race.

The poster making committee

is now the cheering committee!!

At one of our stops along the side of the road,

we found this vehicle with a Nevada license plate.

It just happened to have Aurora's number of 601 on it.

Seems like a good luck sign!

Lluvia and her Mom by the finish line.

It looks like Michael Jackson behind them,

but it's really the Silverman logo!

Aurora coming to the finish line for the bike race portion.

She was concentrating so hard,

she went right over the line without stopping.

After 56 miles, what's another few feet and seconds, right?

It took her over 4 hours to bike this.

Aurora has changed clothes once again

and is now ready for the running portion.

Run, eat and drink.

Not much else to do for 4 more hours!

Only 13.1 miles of total running.

"You can do it" yells the family.

So far so good.

The spirits are high!

The calf muscle is holding out!

Better hurry up! The sun is setting!

Aurora crossing the finish line! Yeah!!

She made it!!!

The entire family.

From L to R is Ligiah, Aurora, Mom Olivia,

Efrain, Lluvia & Jorge.

Aurora gives her coach a huge hug!

Aurora standing in front of the publicity stage

for a pic with her medal.

Her response to doing it again?

"Don't even talk to me about that right now!!!"

Way to go girl. We're so proud of you!!

HALLOWEEN

The Trick or Treating portion of the family is getting smaller. Just Sammy and JoElle went door to door this year. Bato and Orito were off on a Timpview Marching Band Trip. Tish had her own party to attend with freinds.