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.

A conversation with Spencer

Spencer was looking at an orthopaedics book of Kyle's. Kyle asked him what he was doing.

Spencer: I'm reading this book so that I can learn to go to work when I'm older, like you.

Kyle: Do you want to be a Physician Assistant or a "real" doctor when you're older?

Spencer: I'm going to be a big stud like you when I grow up.

The latest happenings...

We finally decided to paint Spencer's room. This is a before picture, just getting ready.

During...
And the finished product. We are actually very happy with how it turned out. The blue is actually a little darker than it appears in these pictures. It took us 5 1/2 hours on Saturday and when we were done, Kyle and I just sat in the room for awhile looking at what we did, plus we were exhausted and couldn't move.

And Spencer loves his new blue room! It's going to be an ocean room and so now we just need some ocean stuff. :) Our next purchase will be a bunkbed though, it's going to be Spencer AND Carly's room.

Don't worry, she doesn't have some horrible skin disease. Just caramel pudding face.

We went to Explora (childrens museum) last week. The kids love it and thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Daniels, we can go anytime now because they gave us a pass for Christmas! Thanks!

I don't know where it went.....

Our kids have developed a sweet tooth just like their parents have. Unfortunately, this attribute has gotten them into trouble one too many times. The following is the most recent court report. The accused are considered innocent until proven guilty.

CASE: Spencer/Carly vs. Parents

The accused (Spencer) was sharing his candy cane with the victim (Carly) one minute and the next she couldn't find where the piece had gone. Luckily the investigation came to a close as Carly turned around to reveal the missing luscious morsel plastered to a tuft of her beautiful hair. After intensive questioning the boy, he denied any fault in the case. Apparently the conclusive evidence showed that the victim carelessly was handling a slippery, wet, hazardous piece of processed glucose mixture. The absent-minded victim lackadaisically misplaced the delectable goody and had no recollection of the whereabouts.

EVIDENCE:

This picture captures both the perpetrator and the victim in one frame.

SENTENCE:

After reviewing the evidence, the jury of 2, convicted both and sentenced them to the rest of the night void of candy.

After dunking her head under the bath water a few times, the sticky nibble released its tenacious grasp and was freed. What a happy day for both child and parent.

Christmas... a little late

We're just running a little behind on the blog, but wanted to share our Christmas. It was a lot of fun. My parents and Jodie came down to spend it with us. I was sick most of the time, so I wasn't able to be as good of a hostess as I had planned, but they carried on without me, and hopefully had fun.


Our fun Christmas Eve wasn't as fun for the kids as we had planned... they didn't even want to act out the nativity, so us adults did it by ourselves. We laughed almost the whole time so it probably wasn't as reverent as it should have been, but it was fun.

Carly did more crying on Christmas Eve than she should have.

Christmas Day was fun and the kids were happy. Yay! Spencer got this cool shark tent.

They got a new kitchen set too. They make us dinner everyday.

Carly just chilling on Christmas morning.

A few days before Christmas we went to the "River of Lights". It's fun and the kids loved it.

Again, the "River of Lights"
Us hanging out on Christmas Eve. (She was happy at this time)
We made Tamales on Christmas Eve. They didn't turn out as good as our other batches have... sorry Mom, Dad, and Jodie. Atleast we had lots of other good food to tide us over. :)
All of us dorks on Christmas Eve. We had a group of carolers come to our door and we answered it not remembering what we all looked like.... I'm sure they thought we were the coolest family around!

Number 3 is on the way, arriving near 8/2/08

It's the most wonderful time of the year

This is from our Ward Christmas Party. These are the Primary kids doing the Nativity. They did a good job. (I'm just glad it's over) Spencer is in front- being a cow.
Another picture of the kids.
Spencer sitting on Santa's lap at the party. This is the first ward party that I've been to since I was a kid where Santa came.
Carly thoroughly enjoyed the sitting-on-Santas-lap experience.
Can't you tell? :)

Christmas bells are ringing...

We went to the "Twinkle Lights Parade" in downtown Albuquerque. It was kind of cold, but fun. We did leave a little early because when you've seen one pimped out ghetto car with hydraulics decorated in lights, you've seen them all. Yeah, not like the Richfield Light parade, but it will do.
Us waiting for the parade to start.

A picture of me helping the kids decorate a gingerbread house for FHE.
Carly the rednosed toddler Typical Spencer posing in front of our Christmas tree.

Are you ready for Christmas?

It has become evident that Christmas is on its way. You know Christmas is nearing, when getting dressed, you put your leg out the hole in the knee rather than down the pant-leg.

Can you guess what Spencer is getting for Christmas?

No shirt, no shoes, no service. I guess Spencer doesn't take that advice to heart. We really aren't rednecks.

Reception and Turkey day

This is at Lara and Jareks reception here in Albuquerque last weekend. It was fun and there was good food.
And these two couldn't get enough of the dancing. It was so fun to watch them!
Cutting the cake

This is today... yes we are all ready for Christmas. We went Christmas tree hunting... to Lowes, then we came home and decorated the whole house. Now we just have to hang lights out front, but we're waiting until it gets warmer. (It's been COLD today, for Albuquerque :) )
Us at the reception

Our wonderful Thanksgiving Dinner with just us. The food turned out really good and it was only five minutes later than I planned. Not too bad huh!

Spencer the Pilgrim with his apple/marshamellow turkey that he made.

Spencer, doing what he does best... sitting in the naughty corner.
Carly saying "cheese" for the picture
Spencer and Carly either love taking a bath together, or else absolutely loathe it. This time they were having fun.