"The case of the missing child"

Like most mommies I have a "must do" list I do every night before I go to bed. The night time routine ends right after I go in, and check on my boys to kiss them goodnight over and over and over and over again. I love when they are asleep. They are soo peaceful. I love to just hug and kiss them. Whatever crazies happened earlier in day and no matter how times they were put into time out..when i walk into their room to snuggle and kiss them goodnight..everything is ALWAYS BETTER! I know that all of you parents can relate to that feeling.

Well, the other night, i was soo excited to walk into the kids room and give my boys a final goodnight kiss before i went to bed..thats when I notice the light is on in their room. It wasn't too shocking actually, because little gavinator will tend to turn it on, then fall asleep and it ends up being left on until j or i go up to bed. I just don't understand how poor conner can sleep on the top bunk with the light shining smack dad in his face..hahaha!

Well,I open the door to the bedroom and i immediately start to panic...because little gavin in not in his bed. He sleeps on the bottom bunk and he is not there....I quickly start looking in the room and move all the covers to make sure he didn't turn around or go underneath all of his covers.
No Gavin in bed...(this is where he should be!!)


I scan the top bunk and it is just conner sleeping soundly...(where he should be)


I start getting really panicky! Then, out of the corner of my eye, I notice something..I look over...little gavinator....sound asleep on the DOG bed...What???...why would be you go to sleep on joeys bed.???..He had curled right up and apparently he loved it cause he was OUT COLD!!! And he got upset when I moved him because joey at that point wanted to get get into his bed himself....




The next picture was from this morning...gavin wanted to hold and snuggle his doggie! (note:ignore the food all over his face hahaha) Both of my kids absoutly love joe..and they cant get enough of him!

Nine Years!!

Nine years..Yes!.. It has been 9 years! Crazy! Jesse and I are celebrating our 9 year anniversary!

Happy anniversary Babe! I cant believe how fast this time has gone. It is soo crazy to me to think that we are almost to 10! Man..alot has changed since that day 9 years ago. I wouldnt change it for anything..I am still as excited as i was 9 years ago to be married to you!

I love you
Happy Anniversary!

My poor boy!

So this week has been such a fun eventful week! NOT!!It has been filled with fevers..vomit...snot..coughing and sheesh lots and lots and lots of crying and whining!

Poor Mr.C has been fighting some vicious little illness. It all started Tuesday while i was at work. He came up to me and looked at me with such sad little eyes and said,"mommy..i need to go home." "mommy my eyes and head hurt sooo sooo bad."

I feel his little head and sure enough he is hot. Great...poor kids have been at work with me, and he is sick as a dog. I tell my supervisor..and i pack up the kiddos. And poor me..there was only parking forever away..so i hiked out to the car with the gavinator, and left poor Mr.C to hang out with my manager in her office.. When i got the car i drove it back to to pick up my pooor little guy...
He was going downhill fast. He couldn't even walk to the car. I had to carry the poor little guy out. And we went home to Tylenol and Motrin and resting. This poor little boy has been running a fever everyday since...and there have been ups and downs...

this is what the poor little guy looks like most of the time...i feel soo bad..his poor fever was anywhere between 102-104 with meds.



He has stayed down most of the time but as the days pass you can defiantly tell he is getting cabin fever, but too tired and weak. You can just tell he is sooo sick of being sick..

So on the occasions where the fever has been only around 100-101 this is usually what i find him and gavinator doing.. it is soo sad because you see in is eyes how is it not doing well..poor kid





And to top it all off the gavinator too has something... thank goodness no fever..well no fever yet.. shesh... i am sure one will be coming soon. He has climbed the cupboard to stick the thermator that Mr.C has used in his mouth multiple time,..he has stolen conners sippy cups of juice,..and freak, i cant get him to leave conners side..he just wants to be right next to him.
This picture shows conner crying out cause his head hurts..and it also shows how gavin wants to be RIGHT next to him!




In fact that reminds me of when i was little. I distinctly remember my older brother matt having the chicken pox. Well i idolized my brothers and i hated to see them sick. I think i was only like 4 or so but i remember thinking i really thought my brother was going to die. I remember watching star wars with him and i remember how sick he was. I wouldn't leave his side. I just didn't want him to go through it alone..so it is funny when i see gavin doing the same thing with his older brother.
I am pretty sure i too came down with the chicken pox..but too me it was alright..because i knew my brother was brave so i would be too!

so i am spending yet another day in my house..dealing with my poor sick little guys.We are at day 5..so when things start to look better..then BOOM..the fever creeps back to haunt us again..

The good news...at least both of my children can officially puke in the toilet! yeah! that is great news for me!

so here is to another exciting week in the Christensen household!

These Men!

While the girls are off watching the Bachelor...this is what i come home to the boys doing....

(Jesse, Ben and Greg)

NO... greg and ben are not a couple..they are both happily married to the cutest wife's ever..hehehe though, in this picture it appears they are one happy couple!


It was 3D night with the TV!


And when the girls are off shopping...this is what we come home to see the boys doing....






Hours upon hours of rockband!! YEAH!! Go God's little punch lines!! Rock IT!!Thanks goodness that rockband was created! now we get to shop until we drop then come back and rock out with our hubbies to rockband until all hours of the night!

The "Broken" Fork!

So last weekend i got a babysitter. We were going to go out with seth and tara, dayna(they were visiting). We were meeting up with our family doctor, who is a good family friend. Seth used to shadow him when he lived with us, so when Dr.Andy found out about him coming to visit, we planned to get together. Not to mention he also wanted to meet seth's awesome wife Tara. It was such a fun night being able to sit and visit with Dr. Andy and his wife.

When we got home katie(the one in charge of the kids for night)had a cute little story about gavin. She was feeding him dinner. He was using his fork but he should have been using his spoon. His fork was not working well. She said he looked at her, and said,"My fork not working...it is broken...it needs some batteries.!" hahaha..he thought that if his fork had batteries, then it would miraculously start to work the way he wanted it! gotta love this kid!

MY BABY IS GROWING UP!!

So i have deep down known that my little baby is getting older..but if your a mom then you all know how it is.... I dont want to REALLY admit it yet! I am not ready for him to be such a big boy!.....he is still my little baby! Where does the time GO?

Today when MR.C was at school, I was busy trying to get the dishes done. I heard under my feet little steps..but i was soo busy trying to get the long overdue stack of dishes loaded up, that i didnt really pay much attention. My little "baby" walks up pats on my leg and says,"moomy...need you."

When i look down he is getting crocodile tears in his eys and he is looking at me with this sad little face. He is holding his arms up for me to pick him up. They way he said it, and the way he was looking at me, it just melted my heart! My little gavinator! My BABY!! (ugghhh ya..this little boy knows how to pull at the heart strings. hahah dont all little kids though!!)

So, i gather him up and hold him like he was a little baby! We walk over to the couch and have a moment. We are snuggling! This doesnt happen very often since he always has to remind me that he is not a baby. So i take a moment and sit. I am enjoying putting my busy life on hold just to sit and hold my little gavinator. All of a sudden my little guy starts up this conversation with me!

Remember this little man is just 2! well.. ok he is almost 2 1/2:)

Gavin- mommy, am i your little man?(but he says his L's and T's soo very cute)
Me- yes..you are my little man! I love my little Man! I love him very much!
Gavin- "NOOOO... mommy...I am NOT you LITTLE man..I AM YOUR HUGE MAN. HUGE HUGE HUGE MAN!!

Next part to the conversation:
Gavin-Mommy am I your little boy?
Me-Yes gav..you are my little boy.!I love that you are my little boy!
Gavin-NOOOO, MOMMY...I AM NOT YOUR LITTLE BOY... I your HUGE BOY. Huge, Huge Huge Boy. I no little boy. I no little man!!"

Oh.....i just sighed!....another reminder that my little guy is growing up right before my eyes!

My little man no longer wants to be called "little" anymore..instead of "big" the word he came up with was "huge"...so i guess I now get to snuggle my "huge man" and my "huge boy" hahaha...oh they just grow up way way way too fast...don't they??

Gasp...tears...sob sob!

Christmas Day: Dec 25, 2008

The morning of Dec 25th, 2008 was an early one for me. Ever since i was a little girl.. i have never been able to sleep on christmas morning. I remember waking up my little brother, and we would both be watching the clock slowly tick by! We could not hold our excitment in! My dad was always soo excited too, so by 4:00 we wound up in my parents room snuggling my dad with excitment. Meanwhile my poor mom was snoring away! We had a rule that as soon as 6:00 hit we could run through and wake up all of my brothers and sisters to start our chritmas morning! I am just like my dad! I get just as excited to see the excitment on my kids faces that i literally cant sleep!

On this particular morning,i was up at 5:30 laying in bed with anticipation! I didnt get to bed until like 1:00 too! I really thought that my boys would be up at the crack of dawn,so i had mentally prepared my brain for an early sunrise. I layed there and watched the clock tick away...600am...700am...800am.."Seriously, where is the world were my little boys." They are usually always up on any given "normal" day between 7:30-8:00...This morning it was starting to approach 8:30 and they still werent up! I literally was going CRAZY!! J was laughing at me!

It reminded me of my past, when my poor mom just wanted to get a little shut eye, but my brother, dad and i were too busy whispering to each other pass the time away!My mom would just laugh then as nicely as she could at 400am say to us, "please just try to sleep!"

I was just about to wake the boy's up when all of the sudden... I hear a door open. Then I hear lots of whispering.."did santa come?" "yes..yeah!!!..." santa came..yeah!" "lets get mommy and daddy"..."hurry...hurry..run!"

They both came running into our room squealing with delight!..hahaha..They thought they were ready to get downstairs..sheesh....I was SOOO READY to get downstairs!..Out of all the days to sleep in... why couldnt i have take advantage of that on this particular one!! What is wrong with me that i REALLY CANT SLEEP IN on christmas morning!

Our christmas mornings usually have a little tradition where we have everyone help make a fun christmas breakfeast. We do get to go and see what is in our stockings first..,but as far as the rest of what santa brought...well... we all get to wait until after we eat..,then do dishes...,then clean up breakfeast..,then finially we get to go in to start the festivities of the morning. Because the kids got up sooo late, we didnt even start the present opeaning until at least 9:30 going on 1000.

When i was growing up we would have been already done with a nap by this time! It was nuts. I do love this though because I feel like the fun and excitment lasts all morning long. Here are some pics of the boys and their stocking..their faces priceless! They were soo excited!!



We also have a tradition that after everything is cleaned up from breakfeast, the kids get to bust through the "wrapping paper wall". They get to run through a wall of wrapping paper to see what Santa left them. This year Mr.C was really worried there might have been coal left for him..since in his own words,he had made a "few poor choices". He hoped santa would forgive him. And he said he was trying really hard to be a better big brother! hahahaha! I love kids!

The boy's busted through the paper wall, and they were both soo full of JOY and EXCITEMENT! Santa did come!...and he didnt leave coal after all! They were sooo excited about the fun things he left for each boy. They were both sooo SHOCKED that Santa really does KNOW EXACTLY what each of them wanted! Mr.C noticed right away that santa had eaten all of the cookies we left him and he even left behind crumbs. Santa even wrote the boys a little note and left it on the cookie tray! It was on a red sheet of paper with a gold bow and they were soo thrilled by that!
Here are a few pics of the kids getting ready to run through the paper..and a few from right after!


Both kids getting ready to Run!! Echo too..she was excited too!




Look at lille Gavinator running towards his "choo chooo"..funny how Mr.C already beat him to where his stuff was!!




The morning was sooo sooo fun! We decided to make it last as long as we could, so we each did one present at a time. The kids liked doing this until, I realized sometime during present opeaning, little Gavinator went missing. J and I discovered that he would go under the tree to get a present and just tear it open without us looking! hahaha! He was the little present HOG! It was adorable! I wished my camera would have captured him in the act of doing this! I am pretty sure he opeaned most of mine ,and i am pretty sure he opeaned up all but one of J's. He had even managed to open a few that were under the tree that were left for jesse's mom and dad and his little brother and sister. Pretty sneaky little fellow! He loved,loved,loved opeaning presents this year! The two boys had a very fun morning busily playing with their new "loot"! And i had a fun morning of playing with my "loot" Thank you J for waiting at Game Stop for 4 hours just to get me WII Fit! I love it!

We had a fun filled afternoon. Then that night we went to our awesome friends/old neighbors house for a super YUMMY christmas dinner. After pigging out on the most delicious ham and potatoes. And stuffing myself full of dessert, all of us adults sat around the little fire that my friend had made, and it was just magical! The kids were having a blast playing with their friends that they hadnt seen in awhile,and i was able to just sit and enjoy the company of our friends. It was alot of fun!
We are soo blessed that we have made such wonderful friends here! I am soo blessed that i can call these friends my "family"! I am very grateful to them! I am soo grateful how all of you, came to my rescue to make sure i would be ok, and you all made sure that I could have a wonderful christmas break afterall. You all knew how bummed i was because of how the weather I felt, had "ruined" all i had planned!..but you all stepped in, and helped make us feel not soo lonely this christmas season! YOu guys really are the bestest friends in the world! thank you friends... you all know who you are! You are the bestest in the world! I love you guys!

The night sadly had to come to an end..for it was time to get the little ones ready for bed! Not only were the kids exhauseted from our fun filled day..but their poor mommy was sooo ready for bed! It had turned out to be a great christmas!

Here are a few more pics from our fun morning:







The boys loved checking out what the other boy would get..and they loved helping each other open their present!Amazing..and no fighting!!


Joey looks sad cuddling his present..but he was sooo excited! His face is soo cute cause he looks soo sad but you should've seen his little butt wagging with excitment! This dog loves to be right by the boys! They are all best friends! Wherever they are.. you can always find joey right there with them!

Mr.C giving little G a little christmas hug!


So J and Mr.C both have batman shirts..little gavinator has been wanting one soo soooo bad..I havnt been able to find him one. The only store that had them was baby gap. I refused to pay the $28.50 that the store was asking. Well, me being the bargain shopper i have become, kept checking in with the store to see when it would go on sale. On christmas Eve..i happened to be at the mall with my best friends. I checked in to baby gap and guess what!!!.... the shirt he has been wanting soo bad was on sale!! And for SUPER CHEAP!! yeah! I couldnt believe it! I ended up being able to get him 2 superhero shirts for not even close to the price they were orginially asking! I love getting awesome deals! He loves this shirt..that is all he ever wants to wear! He loves superhero's! Batman and Superman are his favorites! So now the only fight i have to deal with is trying to get him to take that shirt off!


In closing...I also wanted to tell my family that i love them all very much! I miss you all a ton and i think about you all time time! I hope that all of you had a great christmas too! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!