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!