Tag I'm it- again, and again, and again

So I have been “tagged” by numerous people over the last few months, and have yet to comply. It’s not because I have a lack of desire (well, partly that’s true) but it’s more that I seriously can’t think of anything to say… When I try to think of interesting or fun facts about me all I hear are the sound of crickets chirping.

Well, I’ve been “tagged” yet again and I will try to comply for this and all of the other times that I haven’t done it. I figured, if my own sister can think of 50 things about herself, then I can at least think of 10!
And, by no means do you have to read this. Just skip it if you so wish. (This is Michelle by-the-way)

1. I love grapefruit with salt on it. I blame this on my mother. I remember the first time I saw someone put sugar on a grapefruit, I thought, how gross! And then there are those people who don’t even like grapefruit… well, don’t get me started on them!

2. I cut my own hair. It seems that one of the advantages of having curly hair is that it doesn’t have to be cut straight.

3. I hate being pregnant. You always feel tired, sore, gross, fat and any other word that describes this horrible condition. Those people who say they love being pregnant are smoking something, and they really shouldn’t be, because we know what smoking does to the baby. Honestly, being pregnant is not that fun for me. So why get pregnant you ask? Well, I guess it’s the getting there that’s fun. HA you can throw up now, if you need to. Okay, so having kids is pretty dang cool, most of the time, until they talk back or roll their eyes at you, but that’s another post for another time.

4. I love cooked carrots. (You can throw up now too, if you need to.) I also blame this on my parents who grew carrots in our garden every year and then bottled them. Mmm… my mouth is watering just thinking of it. When I was in highschool, I could just eat cooked carrots for a meal and be happy… actually I could do that now and be happy.

5. I am constantly checking my rearview mirror for someone following me. I am afraid to take walks with the kids. And I wake up numerous times at night to make sure no one is outside my window… Paranoid? Yes. That’s what happens when you watch one too many America’s Most Wanted or the News for that matter.

6. I really need to stop watching the news.

7. I play volleyball every week trying to relive the glory days and just found out that I’m the oldest one that plays. How’s THAT for your self esteem? Well, I can keep up with those young girls pretty good AND I’m pregnant! Not too bad for an almost thirty-year-old.

8. Speaking of being old, I am totally going gray!

9. My least favorite chore is laundry.

10. When I was in high-school, I broke my tailbone by ice-blocking down an abandoned waterslide. Ah, those were the good old days.

Well, that's it folks.

V-Day overview

Carly, as we've mentioned before, loves shoes like any other little girl. She is constantly trying on mom and dad's shoes and strewing (is that a word?) them around the house.

Valentines Day was a success. The kids had a lot of fun. They got heart-shaped pancakes in the morning, Spencer had a party at preschool, and then they got to decorate heart shaped sugar cookies. This is them during the cookie decorating. Obviously, Carly is really excited. They also had some valentines delivered to them from friends and dad gave each of them their own special bag of presents. They loved it!
This is Carly eating some of the decorations for the cookies.

Spencer is going through a phase where he likes to take his shirt off for everything. He says it helps him exercise, don't ask me where he gets that. Here he is decorating.

The crew getting ready for dinner. Grandma and Grandpa Daniels sent us a party in a box, so we made good use of the tablecloth, plates, napkins and cups. It was just nice for me not to worry about dishes. (Okay, so Kyle actually probably does the dishes more than me, so I'm sure it was nice for him too.) Thanks guys!

Kyle gave me a computer program so that I can start doing digital scrapbooking and a coupon book for foot massages and stuff like that. I gave him a gift card to Home Depot and a coupon book for foot massages and stuff like that... I guess we've been married a long time and are more a like than we thought. After we put the kids down, we watched Survivor and Lost... what else could be better? :) Good V-day for everyone in the Christensen family. Hope yours were all as good or better!

Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull!!!! We can't wait to see it.

We are excited to see this movie. Here is the trailer. Enjoy.

Here's the official webstite to watch other clips.

Mark your calendars: May 22 2008

http://www.indianajones.com/site/index.html

New bunk beds

Well, we finally got bunkbeds. Kyle put them together and it took about 4 hours... but they're done and Spencer loves them. Now, we will just try to get Carly moved into the room in the next few weeks... wish us luck.

Snow, Fun, Hockey

Our first "real" snow storm... all 2 inches of it. The kids were so excited to see snow actually sticking to the ground, that they immediately wanted their snow clothes on and wanted to go play in it. We've had a couple of snow storms, if you can call them that, but they only have left a dusting of snow that melted within a few minutes. This one, we actually still have a little snow in our back yard still.

Spencer taught Carly the art of eating the snow.
We have also went to Explora again. The cold weather is a nice reason to go somewhere indoors. The kids love it.
We went with some friends and they all had fun.

This is what Carly does when I tell her that Daddy is on his way home from work. She sits here and waits to see his car pull up. Then she screams and runs around. She sure loves her daddy.

We went to a hockey game last Friday. (Our first one here in Albuquerque). Kyle's group are the docs for the team, so they get free tickets. We finally took advantage of it and Spencer LOVED it!
Carly even had fun, her face doesn't do her emotions justice.
We were sitting right by where the team comes in and out of the arena; plus the mascot, a scorpion, hangs out there. Spencer got a puck signed by some of the players and a hockey card signed by Stanley the Scorpion. His favorite part was giving the Scorpion a high five. He got all excited and jumped up and down. He loved yelling ,"Go Scorps!" When we got home, he started crying and said he was crying because he wanted to go back to the hockey game... yes, it was late and he was a little delusional, but at least we know he had fun!
Carly loves her kitchen. It's the first thing she goes to after church. We eat plastic food all day long that is served to us by the lovely chef Carly.