Recipes.

All I can say about this post is that I HATE cooking with passion! of course I do it because well, I have to and because we just can't eat chilli and pizza everyday. I also have to say that I have an extremely PICKY family, especially the hubby. So here I am trying to be a good wifey and I have been making dinner almost everyday, so I thought I should keep track of the recipes that have been succesful with the fam. I have been craving a lot of soups lately and it is nice and cool outside that it's just perfect for a warm bowl of soup so yesterday was sausage and vegetables soup that I got from foodnetwork.com in my desperate search for something not just good to make, but it had to be delicious so the moment I saw the word "sausage" I thought "this is a winner"! my family loves sausage or bacon so it worked out great! so here is the link for the recipe. If you make it please let me know if you liked it or not :). Recipe for today was from the website "This week for Dinner" I happened to have bought white cheddar cheese yesterday at Sunflower market and was looking for something with cheese so I came across this recipe, I made it and everybody loved it! of course its not very good for the hip/thigh area but it was good. so here is the recipe and enjoy!

Basic Homemade Bread

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Soccer season and more..

School has started again. I am now alone with just Chloee since my Katie has started full day kindergarten. I miss her, but I can't complain since they go to school in Orem is easier to make just two trips for both of them. And she loves school, so it works out great! Josh's soccer season has started. This will be his first season and we are all very excited for him!

Josh, sweaty and tired from his first game

Going for a bike ride

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!!