Summer Vacation 2008

Grandma Theo

My dad and his wife Cheryl

My Mom

Great Grandma and Grandpa Christensen

Madellyn was the only one that had ever met these Grandparents. As you can see Aubree wasn't too happy to be meeting them!!!

Had to get a picture of me with Bill's Grandma. Because this is who Sydnee will get her middle name "Lorraine" from!

Bill's Mom and Dad


Aubree got her ears pierced while we were in Ogden. Madellyn talked her into getting them done, and she didn't even cry!!


Thanks to a wonderful husband I got the anniversary band I wanted for our 10 year anniversary! Somehow I talked him into letting me wear it before our actual anniversary!!!

So we visited 6 different grandparents, stayed in 4 different hotels, attended 2 family reunions, saw 2 movies, ate at Cafe Rio once, drove a million miles, (ok maybe not a million, but when your 8 months pregnant it feels that way!! ) only had someone get carsick twice, so all in all I think we had a pretty good vacation!!!

Showtime....

Madellyn's class put on a darling play called "Save the Plants". Madellyn played the part of "Mary" in the play. We were so proud of her, she did an awesome job, especially since she had so many lines to memorize!!

IN LOVING MEMORY.........

After nearly 10 years as part of our family it was finally time to say goodbye to the old reliable car! I really think we got our money's worth out of that poor car, it only had 262,000 miles, and the only thing we had ever done to the thing was oil changes and a new battery! You can tell by looking at it that we didn't even pay to get the hood painted the right color!! I think the most depressing part was taking it to the salvage yard and only getting $150.00 for it! Now all that car is good for is parts!?!?!? The salvage yard must not have known that it was close to being an actual family member!!

It's Field Trip time!!

Aubree's little preschool took a very fun field trip to the pet store! Aubree will tell you that we went to the "very stinky" pet store. I will agree with her on that!!



They had huge turtles that they just let wander around the store. Aubree thought that was pretty cool.


Here's the whole group at the end of a great field trip!!



Luckily we made it out of the store without Aubree wanting any sort of new animal! Score for mom and dad!!!

Let's play catch up..............

Yahoo, Easter pictures are finally up! The kids had a great Easter. Of course everyone had a blast coloring Easter eggs. I only have one stain on my floor to show for the fun we had while coloring!!


Last Saturday was Dallin's last soccer game of the season. He LOVED playing, he was on a fun team with a coach that he really liked. So of course he wants us to sign him up again for next season!




Aubree and her friends from preschool had a field trip to Safeway. Now everytime we drive by, she has to remind me that's where her field trip was. Just in case I forget!! Her favorite part of the field trip was the big trash compactor!




The kids have been asking us for quite some time to take them to fly kites. We kept waiting for it to get warm......but finally gave up waiting for warmth. We dressed them all in there nice big winter coats and headed to the park to fly kites. Aubree and Breggan only lasted long enough for me to take pictures, then we waited in the car because it was FREEZING! No it wasn't February when we took them to the park, it was the last day of APRIL!!

Plus sides of pregnancy!

As I have layed in bed for the last four days, with the flu. I decided to challenge myself to come up with 10 things that I enjoy about pregnant. Because I know it's so easy to find reasons that I don't enjoy being pregnant. Especially when I know this is probably the last, I'm trying much harder to enjoy this pregnancy! So here's what I came up.........


#1 I love the close parking spots reserved for expectant mothers!
#2 Hearing the baby's heartbeat for the first time.
#3 Seeing the baby on an ultrasound, and finding out the sex!
#4 Fast growing nails.
#5 Fast growing hair.
#6 Laying in bed and "watching" my stomach dance all around.
#7 Seeing the excitement of a growing baby through the eyes of my kids.
#8 Feeling the baby moving all around.
#9 Hearing the giggles of my kids as they get to feel the baby move.
#10 Knowing that after 9 months I will finally get to hold this baby!!



And this picture shows how I feel about the other 99% of the time!

Aubree

I took Aubree to the park to get a few pictures and wanted to share them because she's just so dang cute!!