ColBy is 28!

Holy Cow I can not believe how old we are! Colby just turned 28 on May 7th. I am so so so so glad that this guy was born! I love him more than words can express:) I hope that he had a good birthday. We just gave him some much needed clothes and had cake and ice cream at our house for anyone that wanted to come and see him. I wanted to invite all his friends over and have a poker night or something fun but he told me if I sent out invitations to his friends he might have to kill me! LOL!! Colby doesn't really get into birthdays but I think they are special so even though he doesn't want to be the center of attention he can pull through it once a year! I say use it to your advantage if you're smart!

Kaders and I love you to infinity and beyond! Thanks for being a great dad and husband for us!
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Tubes

Kade had to get tubes put in his ears on the 26Th of April, It had been a long time coming, we were excited to not get ear infections anymore but were a little nervous about our little buddy going under the anaesthesia. He was so excited to be at the hospital and they even had a little TV for him to watch while he waited... he had no idea what we were there for and no idea what he was in for. I being the crazy over protected mom that I am asked the guy if I could go in with him until he went under... he said OK and I had to get in a gown and all that jazz. I knew Kade was gonna freak when he realized what was going on. The anaesthesiologist's was so sweet and fought for me to be able to go back. The other Dr's were kind of brats and thought I was crazy... o well mother knows best... and don't fight with me on that one cause I will win:)
Kade was a trooper and I was glad that I was able to go back cause he was really scared. we had to hold him down and give him the gas which was not fun to do to your child but I was glad that I was able to comfort him a little:( It didn't take very long to do the procedure but it was still torture.... and yes..... I cried:(
After the surgery Kade was really sad a groggy but all in all it was great to have done and no more ear infections or askin me for drops for his ears! YEAH!

Daddy helpin Kaders get all ready to go:)

easter

Kade had the best time hunting for eggs all over the house he says EGG so stinkin cute and was even more excited cause they were dora and diego eggs... oh and square pants:) thats what kade calls spongebob now:) after he found em all... he started to hide them himself s that he could find em again. He would walk around with his little basket and say EEGGG... like he was calling them to come out of hiding. It was so funny! After our little hunt we got ready colored eggs and went the rounds to the gradparents. Kade had another little egg hunt at my moms and then we had some great food at Evelyns! Easter was a success!

MOTHERHOOD

So I have be such a huge slacker on blogging lately and I need to stop because the whole point of this thing is to document our life not just all the fun things that we do. So I am gonna start writing more with that in mind... So this might turn into a venting blog or something:) lol! So Kade has been sick with ear infections for the past two months literally!! No JOKE! He got his first one and we ended up in the emergency room because we had no idea what his problem was:( It was so stinkin SAD! They ended up having to give him lortab for the pain so he could even sleep, which was pretty scary for us. I had no idea they could or even would do that for a kid that's not even two but it helped and at the time we were willing to try just about anything to make him feel better. Now since then we have returned to the Dr about 7 times... I went 3 times in one week which is super fun!! ha ha they prob think that I am crazy at the Dr's office but seriously I just wanted someone to help the poor kid! They have told us now that he should prob get tubes so we are scheduled for the 26th for that:( I am not looking forward to it but I know he will feel better after. For now they have given us 3 different antibiotics to help in the mean time all have given him horrible hershey squirts..(not to be gross) but now he has the worst case of diaper rash that I have ever seen! Oh my gosh really we can't catch a break. I tried to let it air out today and Kade has pooped on my floor at least 4 times I have been cleaning up Sh*& all day!! ha ha a mothers job is a dirty one that's for sure! not to mention the sad little voice when I have to give him medicine or change his diaper he cries and through his tears he tells me "betterrr betteerr" He just wants me to make is better, talk about break your heart! Poor Kade anyone know any good diaper rash medicine we seriously need help at the Christensen's :)

Love DaY

SO I know it is long past Valentines Day and I was thinking about not even writing about it since it has been so long but then I thought... "You know what, Colby deserves a post about him everyday!" REAlly, I could not love this man more! He puts up with me and all my faults and loves me in spite of them! He works so hard for our family and never ever complains! He is the best dad EVER! Kade thinks he walks on water:) And wants to be just like him already... I am so grateful that he has such a good dad to set such a good example! And I am so glad that he is mine!! I am one lucky girl to have this hottie as a hubby!!
This year for V-day we went out to dinner to Joes Crab Shack (without Kade!), we had a great date with great food and actual conversation:) That is hard to come by when we have our little booger with us so we do cherish it these days!
Colby got me some flowers and perfume... I didn't take pictures of our goodies because I did kill my flowers in about 2 days! I couldn't figure out why they died and then Colby lovingly told me it was probably because I cooked right next to them about three times practically burning them with steam! ha ha:) Trust me they were gorgeous before that!
Colby I am so grateful that you are my Valentine 365 days a year! xoxoxox

Better late than never

So for new Years we put Kade to bed and had Mike and Julie over to our house for some good snacks and much needed grown up time:) It was pretty low key but that's what we wanted! We are just glad that we have such great friends that don't mind how boring we are now!! ha ha..

This year I vow to be a better wife and mom! Go to church more often:) ha ha and make sure that I make the most of my time! hope I reach em!! along with all the others

losing 20lbs

making more meals:)

taking more pictures etc...etc..etc..

On to FEB the LOVE month since it is already here!

X-Mas 2010

So here is our second attempt at getting Kade to like Santa this year... I can't tell who is more scared; Santa or Kade:) This is gonna be a great picture to look back on in years to come!
Of course the night before Christmas we made Santa some cookies to eat. We made an attempt to make sugar cookies but pretty sure all Kade wanted to do was play in the dough:) O well he was cute doing it and what did I really expect from a 1 yr old.

Christmas morning we had to wake Kade up to see what Santa brought him. He knew alot more this year then last but still had no clue why he was getting presents. He sure loved unwrapping them though, He would get mad when me and Colby took a turn so I am pretty sure he opened all the presents... ha ha of course we didn't care though. Watching him get so excited was by far the best part of Christmas!

After we opened up our presents we ate breakfast... We made scones and they were very good:) Then we headed off to all the grandparents house.

Kade got a cute little chair of his own to sit in and watch movies from Grandma, and he loved it! He thinks he is so big... it's so stinkin cute.

Of course we all got spoiled rotten from our family, I was pretty bad at taking pictures of everything cause we video taped so I don't have all the pics of our loot!

Grandma Evelyn made all the grandkids these cute little beenies:) I just love them. Kade does too. Whenever we go outside he pats his head and says "Hat" so I can put in on him! I just want to squeeze him all day!

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!

Scary Santa

My dad had a work Christmas party and wanted to take all the grand kids to see Santa and watch a little Christmas movie at the Gateway. I knew that Kade was gonna be soooo scared of Santa but we kept our fingers crossed and hoped for the best. As you can see it did not turn out so well. Luckily the picture was captured just before he started clawing at me and crying hysterically:) ha ha.. Oh the memories!

Pugs Anyone?!

SO our little Meatball had puppies again this year and they are so cute! We got 4 black ones this time and I have to say that they are our favorite! I am thinking about selling meatball and keeping a puppy!! ha ha:) But seriously they would make great Christmas presents... hint, hint!

Kade loves them and is gonna be so sad when they are all gone.

Family Vacation

Such cute BOYS!!

We headed out for a trip to Cali with our friends Jonny and Lindsay. We drove all the way to Primm to stay the night and let the boys have some gambling time of course:) Then early in the morning we were off to Disneyland! It was a lot hotter than we were expecting it to be wich made it very interesting for the clothes that we packed. In my defense who would have really thought that it would have been almost 100 degrees in November?! NOT ME! But it was so dang fun to get out of the cold and spend time together. I love Disneyland I wish that I could go back again already:)

The second part of our trip we went and bummed around LA. We went and saw the Kodak theature and walked around the walk of Fame. Colby had never seen it so it was pretty fun to see. Then we went and saw the Hollywood sign (of course). Then we ended the day by going to the Pier. It was pretty cool there and I wish we would have started the day out there at the beach cause it was so dang hot and Kade loved chasing and feeding all the seagulls. He would have been entertained all day long. I swear he liked the birds more that Disneyland!

It was a short trip but a good one non the less! But we had to come back to reality. When I got home I realized that we didn't get really and pics with jonny and lindsay and of course Madden together. I swear that I am the worst picture taker on vacations. (hard to believe but true).

And just a thought but does anyone else fight with there spouse ten times more on vacations or is it just me? ha ha!! Colby you know I love you:)

Halloween...

I got soooo sick the day before Halloween and so when it got here I was not quite ready:( We usually make treats, watch a scary movie and have our traditional soup and pumpkin bread bowls but the thought of soup after being sick made me want to get sick all over again. So we were kind of bumms!

Luckily before I got sick I was able to have my mom take some cute pics of Kade in his costume (since I didn't take a single pic on the actaul day). He was so stinkin cute in it and loved his costume, he thought that he was kitty (not a tiger) so he would meaow! But we taught him that a tiger grawls so he started to grawl and swipe his hand like he was gonna claw you:) He is gettin so BIG and so SMART! We just love him more than words:)

Update

So.. It's been a while since I last posted anything about our life but we have done a few fun things as a family so I thought that I should stop being lazy and document them:) We recently went to the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving point, Kade was kind of scared of the skeletons but by the end he was having fun... he had fun getting down and dirty in the sand pit at the end, it is set up so that the kids can discover fossils in the sand pit which is pretty fun. They had paint brushes in there so that you could dust the sand off the fossils:) We had fun!

We had a chance to go to the Zoo earlier, We had wanted to take Kade and were so excited to show him all the cool animals, Colby hadn't been to the Zoo since he was little and I hadn't been since Braxton my little nephew was little so we were due to go... The Zoo is definitely not as cool as you remember it being were you were little:( They don't have polar bears anymore. lions rhinos etc. But we did get to see the baby elephant which was super cute! But other than that the Zoo is a place I will not be returning to for a few years!

Kade has had a lot of fun helping dad in the garage building Meatball a dog house and carrying around tools to help his dad! Its so stinking cute, he is definitely all boy! Colby helped him catch a praying mantis and Kade carried it all over with him, It was so cute. This boy sure loves his daddy and I am sure Colby can't wait to take him fishing and hunting when he is older:) But for now catching bugs will work.

The FAIR

We made our annual trip to the Fair this year as well, I love going and doing fun relaxing things like this with my cute family:) We got to see the seals, ate some good food; went down the big yellow slide (which Kade actually loved). Kade got a batman tattoo while we were there and he thought that he was pretty cool:) It was supposed to last 4 or 5 days but didn't last that long cause he kept licking it!! ha ha, he is always making us laugh! We also saw a lot of stinky farm animals and had a blast watching our little stinker freak out about them! Plus I was able to snap this cute pic of my two cute boys! I love them:)

We picked pumpkins are getting ready for Halloween here at the Christensen's!! Kade loves his pumpkin and wants to carry it around everywhere!

Kade just cracks me up!! He is so stinkin funny and is coming up with the weirdest things like putting two binkies in his mouth and showing me! He knows that he is funny and he knows how to use it to his advantage. Every time that he is in trouble he will try to make me laugh or give me a kiss!! Talk about manipulative... he can barely talk but that doesn't stop him from pointing his finger back at me and talking back in whatever language he thinks he is speaking:) ha ha! Although he is cute and funny, I am finding it hard to know what to do to make him take me serious.... What the crap can I do?

Anyways-- we still love him to pieces and here are some pics of his cute butt that I have to chase all over the house to get a diaper on him these days! What can we say he is a FREE spirit!

Living Planet aquarium

We took our cute little munchkin to the aquarium in Sandy a couple of weeks ago and boy O boy did he love it:) I am not gonna lie.... Colby and I thought that it was pretty fun too! It made us want to buy a big salt water fish tank for our house. They had these really cool mini sea horses that were transparent... no kidding they were pretty sweet! But the penguins were by far the coolest thing EVER! I totally wanted to take one home with me:)

Having Kade makes everything so much fun again! I love watching him to discover new things and see things for the first time!! He is our world and I can't get enough:) I am loving staying home with him and getting to watch him to this all day! He makes me laugh so hard! WE love you buddy!

Staying Home

So my DREAM has finally come true... I am now a stay at home mom!!! I still cant believe it. I had my last day at work on June 30th. I still think that I am just on a long break and I am having a hard time finding a new schedule for me and Kadester. But I am loving every second of it! Kade is down for a nap and I finally feel like blogging again. I feel so blessed to be able to be home with my baby now and I am so lucky to have the husband that I do! He works so hard and has definitely kicked it into high gear the past few weeks to make sure that we are takin care of! working 12 hr days and still coming home Happy! just love him so much! Thought I should share:)

Cabin

We took a little trip to a cabin for the weekend, with Colby's Fam. It was fun to get away and spend time together and relax somewhat (as much as you can with a 1 yr old). The kids had a blast shooting guns and playing games outside. As well as the adults, we had some serious competitive games of horse shoes and such:) But the best part of all was that the cabin had an entertainment system that was to die for... we had our own personal movie theatre in the cabin with a huge screen that came down from the ceiling to watch movies on, we didn't waste it either watching about 3 or 4 movies a day!! ha ha!

All in all it was a great trip, thanks Grandpa Gary for plannin it for us:)