The Christensen Family

Thursday, February 16, 2012

We took the kids ice skating a couple weeks ago and they loved it! As you can see from the pictures taking an almost 3 and 5 year old ice skating for the first time is not easy. Luke and I skated them around most of the time but they did get it, a little bit. The ice skating area was pretty busy but I was just glad that there was no one there we knew. The kids, Luke, and I were having a ball but I know we looked completely ridiculous! Ice skating has always been such a dream of Emma's. For a long time she said she wanted to be an ice skater when she grew up. In her prayers that night she prayed that we could go ice skating again really soon.

This is when we first stepped on the ice. The kids could not stay up!

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Merry Christmas, a month ago!

Here is our December in review. With having a baby and the Holidays I had to let somethings go and unfortunately the blog was one of them. I needed to play catch up for my documentation purposes but hope to post more often now that life is back to a bit of normalcy around here.

Sweet Liam in front of the Christmas tree. 3 months old.

Here are my sisters kids with Emma and Eli on Christmas Eve. I think the kids were singing Jingle Bells at the top of their lungs here. This was the second year in a row my sister came from Wyoming to Dallas for Christmas. We had so much fun!

Doing Christmas crafts with Daddy.

Here are the kids on Christmas Eve watching a special video about Christ's birth.

Here is Eli and his cousin frosting cookies for Santa. Will was giving Eli a lick of his frosting. So sweet.

Here is our gingerbread house form this year. We have an annual get together and invite a couple friends to make gingerbread houses. It is so much fun!

We had a beautiful Costco pre-lite Christmas tree. However, at the beginning of December two of the sections of lights went out. We took the tree back and after returning it learned that Costco was all out of the pre-lite Christmas trees! Who runs out of Christmas trees at the beginning of December?! Crazy. Anyway, we decided to go with a real Christmas tree this year. It was huge, beautiful, and smelt just like Christmas. Amist the millions and millions of pine needles that were vacuumed up it was pretty great.

Liam!

Here is Emma in her Christmas program. She had been practicing the songs for months and was very secretive and sly about not letting me hear them! This was Emma, and our, first real Christmas program. Kids are so cute!

Visiting the Zoo in December is definitely on our list of why we love the Texas Winters!

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Happy 30th Birthday Luke, Thanksgiving, and Family Pictures!

Happy 30th Birthday Luke!

We went to Houston to visit Luke's brother and family for Thanksgiving.

Here are the cousins enjoying the crazy warm Texas weather.

While we were there we had Luke's brother take our Family Pictures. He is a great photographer! Thanks Mark!

October in Review

For my own documentation purposes here is a review of last October in pictures!

Eli's orange cast! He broke both bones in his arm and had to wear a cast for 8 weeks.

Liam's Blessing Day

This is the only family picture we got from Liam's blessing day. Eli had broken his arm the day before and was so not in the mood for anything! I would be sad not to have this picture because it is so typical of our day and our weekend. Although it is not a great family picture it is a memory of how it was and I love it.