Babies at the Zoo!

Before the kids and Hyrum started school we decided it was time to renew our zoo membership. I was super excited when I heard there were a few new babies that we just had to go see them. It was also Chloee's first time as a toddler going to the zoo, and she just loved it! and we all thought it was so funny how she pointed at every animal and made little noises, it was super cute!

My little gorillas

Of course one of them had to ride the giraffe, mommy's favorite.

Ah, this is all I came here for. isn't she a beauty?

I just had to get a picture with them! (I meant the giraffe. well, the kids too)

4th little Christensen

This may not be fresh news to a lot of people, but Hyrum and I are expecting our 4th child this winter. I am (as of this week) 22 wks along and due January 17. What makes this even more exciting is my little sister Leech is also prego and is only 5 days behind me on her due date, we are so HAPPY!! and guess what people? yes, we are having another GIRL!! here we go with the name searching, again... I have a few in mind but we'll see, we still have a while. I'll be sure to keep everyone posted.

I'm still in my fat-prego stage. I feel bloated all the time..

Camping trips 2009

This summer was all new for me as a stay at home mom of 3 kids, now that Chloee is a toddler and walking, she's all over the place and just wont stay still for too long. Hyrum started his new job as a Finance Manager at Ken Garff. He's been so busy with trainings and such, that our family time turned out to be very short. We did manage to squeeze in a few weekend camping trips,and it was our first experience camping together as a family that the kids really enjoyed it and it was a great time for all of us to bond. Our first trip was to Diamond Fork in Spanish Fork Canyon (recommended by the Teeples) there is some beautiful scenery there, full of red rocks ( reminded me a lot of Moab) and we found the best spot to set up camp in front of the river, and there was an abundance of shade.

Katie showing off her new pink fishing pole

Our beautiful kids (including Buddy)

Josh and Katie exploring the red rocks

Awesome red rocks!

Our second Camping trip was up American Fork Canyon. Even though it was pioneer day and we got there a little late, we luckily found this awesome place up past Tibble Fork Res. it was also very shaded with lots of trees. The night there was great since this time we were more prepared and this time I was in charge of bringing blankets and our inflatable mattress :D I really can't do the real sleep on rocks camping, and if they exist, why not use them right? Well we enjoyed smores and roasted starbursts which the kids loved! and everything was so relaxing and we had an awesome time!

Josh practicing with Dad's BB gun. Someday we'll let him try the real ones..

My girls playing with my make-up. Chloee's face is so funny in this picture, she was about to put that lip gloss in her mouth.

This is my favorite picture. This is Josh's first fish! both Father and son are very proud!

Baseball season!

We start out with baseball season! This was Josh's 2 nd. season playing with the Devil Rays in Orem. We had a lot of fun going to his games and cheering for the team. It was a lot of fun!!

My little pitcher!

So much to blog about...

I have been a huge slacker these last few months. I am hoping this post will get me started again wanting to blog.. I've been trying to track down all of our pictures since I last blogged in April. Also you should be receiving an invite from me because I'm wanting to make our blog private so be patient please. I am getting so excited about this thing again there is so much that's happened that I can't wait to do this again, so I will stop now go check out my pics and I will be back ;)

Happy Birthday Nidia!!

Nidia our good friend/sister turned 25 last friday and to celebrate we went to our favorite restaurant for lunch. It was a lot of fun hanging out with the girls (my mom included) I really missed it. Chloee is almost a year old (gosh, time flew!) and we hadn't really hung out much and even though it wasn't as long as I had expected because we brought the kids and I had to go pick up Josh from school, it was very nice to get out and enjoy of their company.

ha ha! Ryder cracks me up!!

Easter Sunday

I really wanted to take pictures of the kids in Sunday clothes but it didn't happen... After church that afternoon we went over to my parents, The Ostlers were there too. I took some pictures of the kids (baby Sebas included) but Oh man, I had forgotten how hard it is to get them to smile, look at the camera all at once! and of course, pictures didn't turn out as expected...

Katie's hair is acting up!

and it takes Ryder .2 seconds to look away from the camera!

Like I said, and Katie's eyes of course are closed...

you can also see the frustration in Josh's face with Logan crying..

FAKE SMILES!!

Spring in Utah

The last 2 weeks have been kinda crazy weather wise, all week has been cold and raining/snowing, but we've had just ONE warm/sunny day in each week so we have to take advantage and go out. it's been so much fun. We've been going to this new park in Orem called Nielsen's grove, its so nice and clean we love it! last week we were there and the kids went looking for duck eggs, and played soccer. it was so great! Yesterday we had another sunny day and off to the park we went again. Josh brought a pail and his net this time because we saw a bunch of little fish last week we were there and yes he caught one, they had a blast!

Last week at Nielsen's Grove Park

Fish in Nasty water

I made Josh agree to release the fish back in the pond, we don't need any more pets for now..

Pretty bird

We are moving!

Yes people its official, we will be moving to Boston for the Summer. Hyrum will be working for Pinnacle securities. We are very excited and I am at the same time very nervous because I've never lived anywhere outside of Utah since I moved here 15 yrs ago so yes I guess I am a "Utah girl" We've told the kids and their first reaction (especially Josh) was "What, I am going to change schools? No!) but we explained to them that we would be back before school started but he would miss the last 3 or 4 games of his baseball season :( he was sad but didn't seem to mind very much. Hyrum will leave the end of April and I will follow with the kids beginning of June. (I'm not looking forward to flying with 3 kids though) but I keep telling my self it will be okay and I seem to calm down and then I panic again a few hrs later. I think it will be a great experience for all of us. I'm looking forward to taking the kids to a lot of places and see new things and different people.

Most recent projects.

I have been Spring cleaning for about a month now and I am still not done yet.. how frustrating. but in my search for things to sell, donate and such, I found a small box and opened it up to find my wedding cake topper, I was very excited to have found it so I wanted to display it somewhere in the house, so out I went to the craft store and found a shadow box, I didn't even know those existed (yeah, that's how crafty I am...) but I thougt the cake topper would look good, so this is what the finished product looked like:

I'd been promising the kids we would do some crafts and just didn't get around to it, so a few days back we were bored and I told them we would do something with those plastic easter eggs to decorate the house. Josh did great, so I ended up asking him to finish up the rest of the eggs.. :D this is what we came up with :

Oh yeah, and the price for this project was $0!! I love those projects the best!