Monday, January 12, 2009
Funny little story...
The other day Abbey got up early and was dressed right away for school. When she came in to show me her outfit it looked really cute on her. It took me a minute to realize that she didn't have any capris like the ones that she was wearing and I asked her if she had on Braxton's jeans and she defiantely said "NO!" I let it go for a minute thinking that she would calm down and change her pants on her own but that didn't happen. It took almost a 1/2 an hour and showing her the tag in the jeans that said "5T" to convince her that the jeans were Braxton's. She still didn't want to take them off cause they looked so cute on her. Finally when Braxton went to get dressed and realized he had no pants to wear, she melted and gave him back his pants. I wished that I would have taken a picture of it but nothing much would have looked out of the ordinary if you didn't know she was wearing "capris" in the middle of January!
Juggling January
January has started off on the right foot! On New Year's Day we were able to take the kids and Grandma and Grandpa Christenen miniature golfing at Trafalga and then to dinner at KFC. We had a BLAST!!!
After the holidays were over it was time to get back to work. This last week I spent the entire week (mostly in my pj's and no make-up) cleaning the house. It was nice to spend some time at home (after we have had a crazy December with a million fun activities) and get a few things cleaned up. It is a good thing that I spent some time doing some deep cleaning cause everything else looks back to normal today with laundry to fold and dishes to do! Such is life! :)
In all of my efforts to clean up... I worked up a little bit of an appetite and I didn't want to be wasteful with any of the Christmas treats that were sitting around so I had to take care of those myself. Man.. chocolate is so FABULOUS!!! I guess I am just making sure that I stay motivated to use the elliptical so that we didn't waste our money and I don't have to dust one more thing!! I do want to blame Braxton a little bit for the sugar binge cause he kept begging me all day to open the treats that we hadn't eaten yet so that he could have "just a taste" and I fell for it. It probably wasn't too hard to talk me into it though.
I am neck deep in Primary stuff and it is tuff to balance everything that needs attention in my life. Hopefully it will all work out and the kids and Bryce won't feel neglected too much. I love being in primary though and absolutely love to hear the songs! Nothing could be more precious!
Our nerves have been on edge all day while we were waiting to hear back from BYU-Idaho to see if Bryce won the deal to be their cell phone provider. Things aren't looking good since we were supposed to hear back this afternoon and no phone call came. It would be one of the biggest deals done at once w/ T-Mobile. He has spent so much time getting all of the details together for the proposal so I hope that his efforts will be rewarded... but if it doesn't work out... such is the life of sales! :(
Can I just say how much I love seeing the sun! It was so nice to have it come out for a bit today and the snow is melted off of most of the driveway. It makes me have spring fever and if winter is going to stick around for a while, I wish it would just keep snowing so that I don't get my hopes up to have them dashed. I need to remember that it is Utah and I can't expect spring in the month of January! (I haven't minded the break from shoveling the snow though!!!)
After the holidays were over it was time to get back to work. This last week I spent the entire week (mostly in my pj's and no make-up) cleaning the house. It was nice to spend some time at home (after we have had a crazy December with a million fun activities) and get a few things cleaned up. It is a good thing that I spent some time doing some deep cleaning cause everything else looks back to normal today with laundry to fold and dishes to do! Such is life! :)
In all of my efforts to clean up... I worked up a little bit of an appetite and I didn't want to be wasteful with any of the Christmas treats that were sitting around so I had to take care of those myself. Man.. chocolate is so FABULOUS!!! I guess I am just making sure that I stay motivated to use the elliptical so that we didn't waste our money and I don't have to dust one more thing!! I do want to blame Braxton a little bit for the sugar binge cause he kept begging me all day to open the treats that we hadn't eaten yet so that he could have "just a taste" and I fell for it. It probably wasn't too hard to talk me into it though.
I am neck deep in Primary stuff and it is tuff to balance everything that needs attention in my life. Hopefully it will all work out and the kids and Bryce won't feel neglected too much. I love being in primary though and absolutely love to hear the songs! Nothing could be more precious!
Our nerves have been on edge all day while we were waiting to hear back from BYU-Idaho to see if Bryce won the deal to be their cell phone provider. Things aren't looking good since we were supposed to hear back this afternoon and no phone call came. It would be one of the biggest deals done at once w/ T-Mobile. He has spent so much time getting all of the details together for the proposal so I hope that his efforts will be rewarded... but if it doesn't work out... such is the life of sales! :(
Can I just say how much I love seeing the sun! It was so nice to have it come out for a bit today and the snow is melted off of most of the driveway. It makes me have spring fever and if winter is going to stick around for a while, I wish it would just keep snowing so that I don't get my hopes up to have them dashed. I need to remember that it is Utah and I can't expect spring in the month of January! (I haven't minded the break from shoveling the snow though!!!)
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
My Elliptical Works!!!
After getting a faulty elliptical for Christmas and a lengthy and pain in the rear troubleshooting session with Nordic Track (which poor Bryce had to do), 2 hours return process at Sears and another week of waiting... I picked up my new elliptical today and Bryce has it all put together!!! He is downstairs trying it out right now and it doesn't make any horrible grinding noises or start acting possessed while you use it! YEAH!!!! I can't wait to use it! ... I just need to get Bryce off of it now! :) I guess I can share.
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Still figuring out this whole blogging thing... computer details....
I am going to try and change up my blog a little so be patient as I figure things out. I want to make it a little cuter and have things stand out more so we will see what happens. :)
Wow! So much has happened!
Where do I begin? I have gotten so behind on my blog! Life has been a little bit crazy around our house. I am going to start where I left off on my blog... At the beginning of November (right where my blog dropped off the face of the earth) I found out that I was going to be the Primary President for our ward (again). I guess I have lots more lessons to learn and LOTS more FUN to have! I really love being in Primary and the kids in the ward are great. I have a fantastic presidency that is so helpful and it has been really fun to work with them. We just had our first activity and that went really well. We did a "Meet Your Teacher Breakfast" and it was a lot of fun.
On November 17th Bryce had his 34th birthday! We went to dinner at the Pizza Factory with our little family and then had birthday treats at our house. I forgot to bring my camera to dinner (of course... it takes about all I have to get the 3 kids ready and out the door with my keys and my phone... let alone remembering to bring the camera.) We had a good time and I will have to post a photo of him blowing out a few candles. We took it easy on him with the candles cause we didn't want him to cry when he saw what 34 candles really looks like! ;)
Thanksgiving came around the corner shortly after Bryce's birthday and we loaded up the car and headed to Idaho. We stayed with his brother, Trent, and his wife, Alisa, and their baby girl, Lucy. It was a lot of fun! Bryce's sister, Celeste, hosted the Thanskgiving dinner and worked her guts out to make it such a fantastic event. We left our camera out in the freezing cold car and when we brought it in to take some pictures of Thanksgiving it wouldn't stop fogging up from the warm house so not much to show you there. We did manage to stop by the Snake River and get a quick snapshot of our family. Braxton loves to see the snake river and is convinced that it is full of snakes even though we have told him that it is just the shape of the river that gave it it's name. He obviously doesn't really care what we think on the subject cause he points out a thousand snakes that he thinks he sees that the rest of us never can.
Christmas came and went in a crazy bustle. Every day seemed to be booked with all sorts of things to do and we tried to enjoy each event. Bryce went shopping with me to the black friday sales for the first time in our married lives. His eyes were opened to the madness of sales and but we managed to have a really good time and get the things that were on our list for the sales. We also had a great time going sledding with the kids, decorating the gingerbread house, drinking hot chocolate, watching Christmas movies and checking our door to see if Santa's Elves had dropped off a bell as a sign that they were keeping their eye out on our kids. Abbey had her first concert for the school choir and that was fun to go to. We had a good laugh when the first song started and I look up to see Abbey picking her nose with one finger and then just seconds later another finger needed to help out. It took about the entire 1st song to get whatever it was out of her nose and when I asked her about it after the concert just just looked at me and said," My nose was stuffed up and it was hard to sing," ... in a very matter of fact tone. At least she didn't eat it too.
Christmas Day was a blast! Abbey was the first one up and came in to see if she could go look at the presents if she PROMISED not to touch or open any of them. It wasn't too long later that she came up to our room again with full details on what she had observed. We finally let her wake up the boys and Braxton went from a dead sleep to complete hyped up Christmas energy. He was ready to tear the paper off of each gift to see what was in side and we had to teach him to read the tags first to make sure the gifts were for him first. Landen didn't care one bit about opening any presents but wanted to play with each toy that was opened. Finally later that day we opened his stuff to show him what he got so he would quit stealing Braxton's nerf gun or terrorizing Abbey's cash register. I think that Landen's favorite toy was the Radio Flyer Horse that he could ride on and it only took him a few minutes to get comfortable on it before he started standing up and trying it with one foot.
We broke tradition this year and didn't go up to Idaho on Christmas afternoon. The weather and roads were bad and we had a relaxing day in Utah. We let the kids have a sleepover with their cousins, Porter (4), Hannah (8) and Tyson (14). We had a great time! They played and played and played and finally slept a little bit... it was a blast! The roads finally cleared up the next day and in the matter of 30 minutes we decided that we were going to head up to Idaho and see Grandma and Grandpa Christensen for Christmas. It was fun to go up and it wouldn't have been Christmas if we hadn' t gone up. It made the season complete.
I am going to try and post a few pictures later to match up with my blog but for now I am going to see if I can catch a nap (one of the joys of having 9 am church!)
On November 17th Bryce had his 34th birthday! We went to dinner at the Pizza Factory with our little family and then had birthday treats at our house. I forgot to bring my camera to dinner (of course... it takes about all I have to get the 3 kids ready and out the door with my keys and my phone... let alone remembering to bring the camera.) We had a good time and I will have to post a photo of him blowing out a few candles. We took it easy on him with the candles cause we didn't want him to cry when he saw what 34 candles really looks like! ;)
Thanksgiving came around the corner shortly after Bryce's birthday and we loaded up the car and headed to Idaho. We stayed with his brother, Trent, and his wife, Alisa, and their baby girl, Lucy. It was a lot of fun! Bryce's sister, Celeste, hosted the Thanskgiving dinner and worked her guts out to make it such a fantastic event. We left our camera out in the freezing cold car and when we brought it in to take some pictures of Thanksgiving it wouldn't stop fogging up from the warm house so not much to show you there. We did manage to stop by the Snake River and get a quick snapshot of our family. Braxton loves to see the snake river and is convinced that it is full of snakes even though we have told him that it is just the shape of the river that gave it it's name. He obviously doesn't really care what we think on the subject cause he points out a thousand snakes that he thinks he sees that the rest of us never can.
Christmas came and went in a crazy bustle. Every day seemed to be booked with all sorts of things to do and we tried to enjoy each event. Bryce went shopping with me to the black friday sales for the first time in our married lives. His eyes were opened to the madness of sales and but we managed to have a really good time and get the things that were on our list for the sales. We also had a great time going sledding with the kids, decorating the gingerbread house, drinking hot chocolate, watching Christmas movies and checking our door to see if Santa's Elves had dropped off a bell as a sign that they were keeping their eye out on our kids. Abbey had her first concert for the school choir and that was fun to go to. We had a good laugh when the first song started and I look up to see Abbey picking her nose with one finger and then just seconds later another finger needed to help out. It took about the entire 1st song to get whatever it was out of her nose and when I asked her about it after the concert just just looked at me and said," My nose was stuffed up and it was hard to sing," ... in a very matter of fact tone. At least she didn't eat it too.
Christmas Day was a blast! Abbey was the first one up and came in to see if she could go look at the presents if she PROMISED not to touch or open any of them. It wasn't too long later that she came up to our room again with full details on what she had observed. We finally let her wake up the boys and Braxton went from a dead sleep to complete hyped up Christmas energy. He was ready to tear the paper off of each gift to see what was in side and we had to teach him to read the tags first to make sure the gifts were for him first. Landen didn't care one bit about opening any presents but wanted to play with each toy that was opened. Finally later that day we opened his stuff to show him what he got so he would quit stealing Braxton's nerf gun or terrorizing Abbey's cash register. I think that Landen's favorite toy was the Radio Flyer Horse that he could ride on and it only took him a few minutes to get comfortable on it before he started standing up and trying it with one foot.
We broke tradition this year and didn't go up to Idaho on Christmas afternoon. The weather and roads were bad and we had a relaxing day in Utah. We let the kids have a sleepover with their cousins, Porter (4), Hannah (8) and Tyson (14). We had a great time! They played and played and played and finally slept a little bit... it was a blast! The roads finally cleared up the next day and in the matter of 30 minutes we decided that we were going to head up to Idaho and see Grandma and Grandpa Christensen for Christmas. It was fun to go up and it wouldn't have been Christmas if we hadn' t gone up. It made the season complete.
I am going to try and post a few pictures later to match up with my blog but for now I am going to see if I can catch a nap (one of the joys of having 9 am church!)
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Tuesday Tidbits
Bryce and Joe are a dangerous two-some as they are drilling holes in the walls to install Bryce's surround sound speakers in the family room. These kind of processes are not good for me to witness so I am here in the office trying to catch up on my virtual "to do" list that I seemed to have created for myself. I just keep telling myself that blogging is like keeping a journal and the church is always telling us to write in our journals!!! :) Anyway- I am sure that Bryce will get everything to work out nicely. He seems to care about this stuff and I think that the volume that comes from the massive tv is just fine.
I don't have anything dramatic or new to add so I will just tell you a few things that I have loved about this week!
Landen came up to me and gave me such a big tight hug around my neck this week! He hasn't really given good tight hugs before (besides the ones that he does to not be put down or given to the babysitter... but those aren't the same.)
Braxton's Sunbeam teacher always comments on how he is the MOST reverent kid in their class! I am impressed cause he is even one of the youngest sunbeams! He did a great job on his part for the Sacrament Meeting Primary Program on Sunday!
Abbey is such a great singer! She is always singing some sort of song in the morning. She doesn't enjoy getting up for choir but seems to really like learning the songs. I think that we know the words to the Grinch song pretty well now! It is her facial expressions that make everything else come alive too. We were just laughing with Bryce and I about how our kids are sucked into the infommercials on tv. They are completely sold and give us the sales pitch with exactness. They still can't figure out why we don't own a "pancake puff pan," a pasta bowl that you can microwave, some sort of storage bag that vacuums out the air to conserve space, etc... They keep working on us each Saturday morning.
Bryce will be heading out to "5 Miles of Hell" on Friday morning. It will just be me and the kids this weekend! Not exactly sure what we are going to do besides the usual chores. We will have to come up with something special for being ditched!!! :)
I survived another orthodontist appointment. I got some new rubberbands to wear and they are not fun. I can barely open my mouth to to fit a ritz cracker sized piece if I am lucky. I guess this takes care of me sneaking the kid's halloween candy during the day! How do people survive this? I guess more milkshakes will have to replace my healthy eating of fruits and veggies that are hard to chew! :)
I don't have anything dramatic or new to add so I will just tell you a few things that I have loved about this week!
Landen came up to me and gave me such a big tight hug around my neck this week! He hasn't really given good tight hugs before (besides the ones that he does to not be put down or given to the babysitter... but those aren't the same.)
Braxton's Sunbeam teacher always comments on how he is the MOST reverent kid in their class! I am impressed cause he is even one of the youngest sunbeams! He did a great job on his part for the Sacrament Meeting Primary Program on Sunday!
Abbey is such a great singer! She is always singing some sort of song in the morning. She doesn't enjoy getting up for choir but seems to really like learning the songs. I think that we know the words to the Grinch song pretty well now! It is her facial expressions that make everything else come alive too. We were just laughing with Bryce and I about how our kids are sucked into the infommercials on tv. They are completely sold and give us the sales pitch with exactness. They still can't figure out why we don't own a "pancake puff pan," a pasta bowl that you can microwave, some sort of storage bag that vacuums out the air to conserve space, etc... They keep working on us each Saturday morning.
Bryce will be heading out to "5 Miles of Hell" on Friday morning. It will just be me and the kids this weekend! Not exactly sure what we are going to do besides the usual chores. We will have to come up with something special for being ditched!!! :)
I survived another orthodontist appointment. I got some new rubberbands to wear and they are not fun. I can barely open my mouth to to fit a ritz cracker sized piece if I am lucky. I guess this takes care of me sneaking the kid's halloween candy during the day! How do people survive this? I guess more milkshakes will have to replace my healthy eating of fruits and veggies that are hard to chew! :)
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Some Halloween FUN!
Halloween was a BLAST! The day started out early trying to help Bryce get dressed up for work! It took a few tries to get his chest of balloons at just the right size. He has some sexy legs in my heels too! We then got the other kids ready and headed off to Abbey's school to see the Halloween parade. Abbey dressed up as an elegant princess and was almost late for school since the kids just wanted to watch their dad transform into a woman! (Landen wasn't too sure about the idea and kept running away when he would see Bryce. Braxton kept telling me all day that he didn't like dad's new hair-- the blonde wig.) Braxton had several costumes for the day..l He started out in the batman costume and was all set to go to Abbey's parade until about 3 minutes before we were to leave and he decided that he wanted to be "Blackbeard the pirate!" We quickly changed and painted on facial hair and rushed out the door. That costume didn't last long and he was on to the next one when we got home. I dressed Landen up in one of Abbey's old dresses and did his hair to look like a girl and he was sooooooo CUTE!!!! We took him to the school and to the grocery store like that. We did finally change him into his lion costume to go trick or treating. He was adorable all day! Braxton finally settled on being "Indiana Jones" about 2 minutes before we were supposed to leave to do Abbey's little class party. Since we had no official costume for this one we had to make a mad dash around the house. I am not sure why I didn't just tell him to get one of his other costumes on... probably cause he has asked me 20 times to be Indiana Jones and I told him "no" cause we already had 3 other costumes for him to wear! He was a happy camper though with his make shift outfit and was more than thrilled to have a whip!!! (and he was really good to be careful with it the entire time!) The kids had a blast trick or treating. It only took 2 houses for Landen to catch on to the idea that you just have to go to the door and they give you candy! He wanted to hold each piece in his hand and finally gave in to putting the treats in his bucket-- which NOBODY was allowed to touch to help him up and down the stairs. Somebody was a little posessive of their candy! A few houses into trick or treating he realized that he could eat a sucker with the wrapper still on and was a sticky mess! We all had a great time. Bryce was a good sport to go around our street in his costume and then manned the door all night. I bet some trick or treaters got quite the surprise as by the time we came back home most of his costume had been ditched and he just looked like a man in women's clothing with eye makeup! Definately not somebody you would want your kids around!
Today I made a HUGE breakthrough! I went to an all day "crop" with a neighbor and organized my 2 rubbermaid bins full of pictures into each seperate year! WOW for me!!! Now they are hounding me to scrapbook it all and that is a bit of an overload! As for now... I can at least have a better idea of where to find a photo when I need it! I do want to get more photo albums to put my favorites in so that we can see them often. While I was gone Bryce went on a ride with his friend Brook Monroe down in Spanish Fork and Brook's wife watched our 3 kids! WOW! Bryce really owes her big! (It was actually Brook her volunteered her... he might be in deep trouble.) Then Bryce brought the kids home and made them "camper's special" for dinner and did the dishes!!! WAY TO GO BRYCE! I am impressed... so much so that he is gone again for a "night ride" with Brook and Rich. Let's hope that Bryce doesn't come back with another huge scrape on his body again like last time! I can't handle any more scabs showing up on my pillow case! GROSS! Anyway- I must not get out much cause Bryce just kept telling me how glad he was that I went and had fun today. Maybe it doesn't make him feel so guilty for going riding! :) Who knows.
Well- that's about it for our update. We are keeping our fingers crossed that Kristie's little baby, Whitney, will get to come home from the hospital soon! Keep Kristie, Travis and Whitney in your prayers! She is such a little doll and we can't wait for her to get off oxygen so we can hold her!
Today I made a HUGE breakthrough! I went to an all day "crop" with a neighbor and organized my 2 rubbermaid bins full of pictures into each seperate year! WOW for me!!! Now they are hounding me to scrapbook it all and that is a bit of an overload! As for now... I can at least have a better idea of where to find a photo when I need it! I do want to get more photo albums to put my favorites in so that we can see them often. While I was gone Bryce went on a ride with his friend Brook Monroe down in Spanish Fork and Brook's wife watched our 3 kids! WOW! Bryce really owes her big! (It was actually Brook her volunteered her... he might be in deep trouble.) Then Bryce brought the kids home and made them "camper's special" for dinner and did the dishes!!! WAY TO GO BRYCE! I am impressed... so much so that he is gone again for a "night ride" with Brook and Rich. Let's hope that Bryce doesn't come back with another huge scrape on his body again like last time! I can't handle any more scabs showing up on my pillow case! GROSS! Anyway- I must not get out much cause Bryce just kept telling me how glad he was that I went and had fun today. Maybe it doesn't make him feel so guilty for going riding! :) Who knows.
Well- that's about it for our update. We are keeping our fingers crossed that Kristie's little baby, Whitney, will get to come home from the hospital soon! Keep Kristie, Travis and Whitney in your prayers! She is such a little doll and we can't wait for her to get off oxygen so we can hold her!
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