Breaking News

This just in... The Christensen Family can now consider themselves homeowners....

Isn't that nuts? We're still soaking it all in. Our realtor called last night at like 9 PM to tell us the good news.
We weren't suppose to find out until Friday, but thank goodness they made a decision and let us know early, I don't
know if my body could have handled another sleepless night. So... we are EXCITED! We will be going through the
whole closing process this month and will close on September 27- moving in that weekend. The pictures of the house are
now off of the internet, so we'll get over there sometime and take some pictures of it to blog. YAY!

Hoping for a change...

So, things in the Christensen household are trying to get exciting...

We put an offer in on a home last night, so we will see what happens.
We are not expecting anything, but are hoping that things will work

out. If we don't get this house, then something better will work out later. It

would just be nice not to have to house hunt anymore. Anyway, we love this house. It

is small, but a newer home and is well taken care of. So we'll see...

Other than that, we are still just hanging out down here in the "Land of enchantment"

(better known to us as the Land of Entrapment...)

And while I am thinking about it, I am going to take a moment to tell our fellow bloggers who have not updated their blog lately, to do so.

We are getting sick of looking at the same old thing, day after day. :) No names mentioned, but

you know who you are!

Trying to get a smile out of Carly to record for posterity, she is a smiley girl,

believe it or not, but just stubborn about smiling for the camera.

I just think this is such a funny picture of Carly, it's half smile-half weird food tasting face...

Spencer has the same goal as his parents... to go to Hawaii again. He makes

a pretty cute hula girl huh!

Spencer loves to finger paint, actually he just loves to

make a mess, but finger painting is legal.

Spencer got a new haircut...I know, not much difference, just shorter... but I

had to bribe him (he could watch a movie on the portable DVD) to do it.

What would parents do without the blessed world of the Bribe?

It's Our Life

We have a household of sickies. It started with Kyle, then moved on to our two kids. As I am typing, Spencer is laying on the floor closing his eyes because his eyes hurt, and he keeps getting up and coming over to remind me every few minutes that "Mom, I am SO sick!" His poor eyes are all red and teary, and if he doesn't cough up a lung, I'll be surprised... and I am holding Carly going on about 8 hours straight because as soon as I put her down, she starts crying, and I just can't stand that sound for very long, it's just so sad. And last night, we all went to bed at a record time - about 8:30, we were all in bed. I am just waiting for me to start feeling that sore throat coming on... well, if there is one good thing about being sick, it's that it reminds us of how good it feels to be healthy!

Spencer and Carly posing for yet another picture

It's amazing that Spencer doesn't hurt himself more often doing stuff like this.

Instead he gets his bruises, and goose eggs from just running into walls when he's not looking.

Carly had her first bite of solid food today, I was trying to distract her from being so needy.

She just looked at me like I was crazy and spit it out.

This is Spencer at the aquarium a few days ago.

Carly after a few tries of eating a spoonful. I don't think she ate any, I think

she just spit it all out.

The latest...

Well, we haven't been doing a ton this last week, just enjoying the time that we have together. We have gone to the zoo a lot, played around at home, etc. Kyle has been busy working and is finally credentialled at the surgery center and can finally scrub in and assist. He loves that part of it! Now, if the credentialling at the hospital would go through... once it does, then all of the paperwork, processing, licensing and stuff will be done. It will be so nice not to have those things to worry about. Spencer is constantly amazing me by the things he says... where did he get this stuff? Kyle and I just laugh at him all of the time. Carly is growing, growing! At her 4 month appointment last Friday, she weighed 14 lbs 14 oz and was 25 1/4 inches long. 85 percentile in both. She's a great baby and every once in awhile we get a laugh out of her. She is smiling all of the time now, which is so much fun! Anyway, that's our life in a nutshell.

Carly is growing up so fast! She is holding her head up so

good already.

Spencer and Dad looking pretty handsome for church

We keep thinking that this hat will fit her, but obviously

it doesn't yet. I just love this picture though.

Spencer loves to dress up in the costumes from our

costume box. Carly just likes watching him.

One of our many trips to the zoo, we've gone twice this week already.

Spencer just loves it and it gives us a chance to get out of the house.

Jodie and Lara do the 'dance evolution'

dance evolution

We are the Champions

Albuquerque East Stake 3-on-3 basketball champions Team name: Triple Threat

Albuquerque F-U-N

The Daniels family came all the way to Albuquerque

to visit their favorite grandkids, nephew, & niece.

It was a great time had by all... zoo, aquarium, botanical

gardens, swimming lessons, sleeping on the floor, listening to someone (who will remain anonymous) snore like a lawn mower... Fun times, fun times...

Spencer looking fairly concerned about feeding the pretty birds.

Spencer riding a giant ant... the ant resembles many that have invaded our

kitchen lately.... Darn you Ants!

This stupid bird stole the cup, shortly after this picture was taken, thus

making the bird feeding end abruptly.

Spencer at swimming lessons. He goes under the water like a pro.
He's not afraid of anything, even falling bridges.

Look at the animals at the zoo!

A few more pics

Just a few more pictures of the family...

Carly at 3 months old

Spencer was sick and kept saying he wasn't tired, and

that he just wanted popcorn. As soon as I popped it, he fell asleep.

Kyle has his own business card

I left the room for a minute, and Spencer decided to

"share" his toys with Carly. What a

good big brother.

Pioneer Day

We celebrated the 24th of July today with our stake. We went to a local park and played, ate free lunch, Spencer got cotton candy and a snow cone, etc. It was fun, there was probably around 200 people there. Kyle was in a 3 0n 3 basketball tournament with 2 of his friends, Seth and Tom. They did really good, in fact, they won the championship, out of about 12 teams. It was fun to go and watch them play. We all got a little sunburned, but it was a fun day. Here are a few pictures of it.

Kyle in their first game, he made this shot.

Spencer pulled this branch around for quite a while, then he told everyone how strong he was because he was pulling a "tree".

Spencer and his cotton candy

The champions: Kyle, Seth, and Tom

Kyle and another good shot he made

Surviving...

We're just hanging out here in Albuquerque, nothing too exciting, but wanted to update this thing and leave some pictures of our latest doings. Kyle survived his first week of work. So far, so good. And I survived my first week being home alone with the two maniac kids we have.

Carly has a spit/drool problem. We're trying to get her help,

but we hear it's incurable.

This is a picture of our lovely leak in our room. If you look closely, you

can see the water dripping from the ceiling...

This is the snail that Spencer brought into the house after a big rain

storm and put it on the desk while I was on the computer, I was a little surprised, and

screamed. Now he's afraid of them.... oops.

Spencer playing in the rain (the storm that caused the leak). See how much rain is in our pot?

And in our flower bed... it was crazy!

Minnie, Carly, and Spencer hanging out

(Minnie and the ball are from Disneyland)

Life at it's best.....

The past week has been relaxing and enjoyable. We had a fun 4th of July and we've tried to enjoy our last few days before I have to start the new job. We are excited to be starting a new chapter in our lives. Hopefully this chapter will go as well as the other chapters have been. I do start work on monday July 10th, and we get our first paycheck on July 21st. We now can pick up the tab for lunch and golf, just come down to Albuquerque to redeem the offer.

Carly sleeping in her swing. (notice her toes are poking through the blanket. thanks Mom for the blanket.)
Spencer and I getting ready for our Christensen fireworks extravanganza.....
Us, enjoying the extravanganza.
Big brother and little sister. They are such good friends already.
Carly enjoying the extravanganza... I'm sure she enjoyed it, well maybe she had no idea what we were doing.
Thunderbird air show. It was awesome. "someday I'm going to fly one of those jets."
I wish I could claim this picture. Maybe someday.

Bandelier National Monument

We decided to explore New Mexico a little bit more since we'll be sticking around, so we went to Bandelier National Monument. Bandelier is a place where there are many indian ruins similar to Mesa Verde. It's about 2 hours away from Albuquerque. Anyway, we hiked around and chased lizards. We hiked about 2.5 miles and Spencer did so good hiking almost the whole way. Kyle carried Carly in a little baby carrier and she slept for the last half of the hike. They both did really good. It was fun to go see.

Kyle carrying Spencer AND Carly for part of the hike.

What a good Dad!

Kyle and Carly and Carly's hat that's a little too big for her.

Kyle and Spencer at one of the Ruins

Spencer in front of one of the kiva things.

Kyle and Spencer climbing up a ladder to see the ruin

Cute kids and Albuquerque sunsets

Here are just a few quick pictures that we like. Hope you enjoy!!

This picture was taken on Sunday June 25th. Sunsets are what Albuquerque is known for.
say cheese.
Spencer is investigating the contents of the fridge, anticipating his next meal.
Sunday afternoon, eating rolls and spreading out on the floor.
She must be the cutest girl we have ever seen.