Stolen Moments...

These are literally stolen, right off my sisters blog... Hey, they are MY children, right? She took these on Thanksgiving day and I LOVE them so I was forced by my overwhelming love to "steal" them... Thanks Lara:0)

This is the whole fam!

November updates

I have been going crazy with the holidays and finals so I've been out of cyber space for quite some time... We had an amazing Thanksgiving as always. My dad spent way too much on prizes and we had a fun bowling tournament on the wii. The kids had a play off and Jordan won the ultimate prize with a bowling score of 230 he won a new DSi. He was so thrilled as were mom and dad because that saved us a lot of money for Christmas... Ben and Leslie won both ipods and all the kids got a consolation prize. Mom made wonderful dinner and we had so much fun being with and being thankful for family!!!! Happy Birthday to my amazing Dad! His birthday fell on Thanksgiving this year. He has been such an incredible support to me and my family and has loved me unconditionally. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful father!

Happy Birthday DAD!

We had a great party for Jordan on his 10th birthday weekend and then took him to see Shorts and out to dinner on his big day! After our last big snowfall Mikayla and Jordan built this snowman all by themselves and were very proud!

Last Sunday we headed over to Jason's sister Nicole's house for a thanksgiving dinner. Nicole made everything from scratch and it was Amazing!!! The kids got to meet Great Grandma Christensen, "Mopsie" and we had a wonderful time!!! Thanks Nicole and Matt!
That's the sum up of our November... I am so grateful for my family and for our health!

The Fort

For one week Jordan's room looked like this! He and Mikayla worked all day to build a fort. Inside they each had their own quarters equipped with pillows, speakers, ipods, and movie screens.
Jordan slept in Mikayla's room every night and NO one was allowed in his room while they were at school. At the end of the week I finally put my foot down and ordered it to be cleaned up! Well, it was fun while it lasted...

The PARTY!!

Jordan's 10th birthday party started out with all eight boys playing football out in front of the yard until it finally got dark enough and cold enough to come in for some pizza.

He had two cousins, Alex and Campbell,one friend from our old house Jaden, and 4 friends from our neighborhood here, Geovani, Brennan, Brady, and Stephen. They all came for games movies and a sleep over...(Ya, I don't know what I was thinkin')

They LOVED the whoopi cushions and flarp and the rest of night was filled with obscene noises and laughing! (Some of the noises unfortunately were real).


I planned for a few games but Jordan kept telling me he just wanted me to let them do what they want... I did get them to play blindfold pictionary...

And they had a bowling tournament on the Wii...

And they had cake and ice cream and opened presents...
I was very careful to add the right amount of candles to Jordan's homemade (very plain) birthday cake and after he blew them out one of his friends said, "Hey Jordan, I didn't know you were only 8!" I can't believe I thought he was only 8! Ooops!
Well the over load of sugar lead to massive wrestling matches...

Which lead to sock wars, which the boys absolutely LOVED!!!



Alex was the ultimate sock champion!!

The 'THREE AMIGOS' I couldn't get them to behave...


The wrestling lead to other macho boy things...

They ended up going to bed around 11 and put on a movie. I has just starting falling asleep at about 12:30 when Jordan came running in my room and yelling, "Mom Brady has a bead stuck up his nose!" Now Brady has NEVER had a sleep over before and his mom entrusted him to us so I was very nervous! I ran downstairs and after a lot of pushing and blowing, he got the bead out... Oh man! I just envisioned calling his mom in the middle of the night and a visit to the emergency room! Whew! We were lucky! So after scolding the boys and making sure all beads were out of reach... I made them go to bed. Needless to say at 2:30am it was finally quite. In the morning we had a delicious breakfast and they boys played. They all had a blast!!