Sleepy Baby

Christensen Family-Roxey, Mindy, Baby Carmen, Don, Mia

We went up to Tempe and stayed with a friends at her parents house so we could bless their baby in their parents ward at 9 am. So between staying up late, sleeping not in his own bed, getting up early, big luncheon after sacrament meeting, and not willing to take a nap Alexander was tired...check it out...are we mean parents or what?
Be sure to turn up the volume and listen to the background comments...some felt this would come in handy when he was a bishop.

Here is proof however that we did finally let him sleep.

Easter

We had a good Easter this year. The Town of Marana sponsored a"Hip Hop Event" (or egg hunt) on Saturday morning. Its really nice because they break it down into age groups...they have free access to inflatables...they have crafts...vender's all sorts of things to do. Terrilyn loved picking up the eggs. Cameron cracked me up this year running wild to get the "golden egg". Alexander just hung out the whole time in the stroller watching intently. Next year should be good for him. Then Sunday after we got home from church(we go at 9am) we did Easter Dinner with my sister and oddly enough the Easter Bunny visited us during dinner.

Alexander's 1st Birthday

So he got to have have 2 different birthday's, one 10 days before his birthday (my mom was going back to England) and then one the day after his actual b-day. Alexander doesn't look to happy in some of the pictures because Cameron freaked out at us lighting a candle. It was really cute actually because he didn't want Alexander touching the flame and burning himself, and right as I am lighting the candle and we are getting ready to sing Happy Birthday Alexander reaches for the candle(I might have had the candle a little close) Cameron screams at him and grabs his hand and starts crying thinking that Alex burned himself. Needless to say Alexander wanted nothing to do with his cupcakes. He was a little bit better the second time around but still didn't want the cupcake even after I colored the frosting a different color and gave him a different shape to eat. Oh well maybe next year.

Zoo Trip March 7, 2008

While mom was in town we went and spent the afternoon at the Zoo. Conner had the day off and we all had fun. The weather was great not too hot yet and not too windy.

Baptism/Family fun

My cousin Katie lives in Corona California with her family and on the weekend of Feb the 16 she housed about 30 family members. We were all there to support the baptism of her husband and 2 of their 4 children.




Katie with her youngest Elizabeth, nephew Oakland,and oldest boy Cade.


















Cade and Jaylyn before the Baptism.





The weather was great and we were able to play outside a bit on the golf cart and the bikes and scooters. Uncle Michael was very brave and let Cameron take him for a spin in the golf cart.
Very entertaining watching a 4 year old try to steer and push the gas pedal...but he was very proud of himself.

One night we adults put the kids to bed and stayed up to play on the Wii. What a blast!! Needless to say that Jeremy's wish list now includes one...but this might be one game console that I wouldn't mind having. :) As you will notice Jeremy seems to have figured out how to play tennis sitting down. LAZY or what?



Here are some other random pictures that were taken while there.

Mom came over the Pond for a Visit

Well many of you know that my parents are currently living the next 3 years (well now 2 years and 3 months but who's counting) in England. This has been a big deal since we moved down here to Tucson when Cameron was 2 weeks old my parents have always been around my kids...so for mom not to see them for a couple of weeks let alone the 6 months has been rough. But she was here and for 5 great and helpful weeks and now that she is gone they miss her. Mom arrived at a good time my cousin's husband and two oldest kids were baptized the first weekend she was back in the states. Fun times had by all 30 family members that were able to be there. My nephew Conner was celebrating his 8th birthday on Feb 24. We celebrated Alexander's 1rst birthday 10 days early before mom left just to name a few of the highlights.

OK, so I have been living here for the last 4 years and I have never seen these mysterious creatures because they are usual out at the butt crack of dawn (at which time is when Jeremy and Dad have seen them on their way into work) or late evening and after a major rain shower. But low and behold this last Saturday at around noon as I am cleaning up my bush trimming mess Terriyln spots 2 of them calling them puppies. They walked right in front of the house and almost into the open garage and then continued walking on down the road. They are ugly and bigger than I expected they would eat poor Chewy dog alive. The kids however enjoyed watching them walk on down to the park where they napped in the shade.

Quartzite

We went over to Quartzite AZ, near the CA border where Jeremy's grandparents have been going to for the last 17 years. This town disappears in the summer but during the winter months it is a sea of motor homes and campers. His grandparents come down in a their 5th wheel for about 6 weeks. They live in Utah but come down here to get away from the snow and for the last two years we have driven over to see them. There is a great and huge swap meet that they hold there. I love going shopping especially when it is cheap!!!


Terrilyn will only use her potty she refuses to use any other toilet so of course we have to lug it around but this was too funny not to take a picture of.

She informed us that she needed to go potty so we got off on the next available exit Jack Rabbit Road (I have since purchased a small pink one to keep in the car)

There are pictures taken at a park that we took the kids to because there really isn't much to do in the land of campers and motor homes for little kids. We had a great time and Jeremy enjoyed getting away from the pizza business even if it was for a few days and they could still call and text him with every little problem it just meant he couldn't go in and help with those problems.

Alexander's 9 month Check-up

On January 4 Alexander had his 9 check-up, which I was most curious about I love to hear how much they have grown.

Alexander was
28 1/4 inches tall putting him in the 50% for height
weighed exactly 17 lbs putting him in the 5% for his weight (last visit we were in the 10% but he started crawling between now and then)
his head was 46 cm in the 60%.

It's so cool to watch how different kids can be in the same stages.

Cameron
weighed 17lbs 12oz
was 29 1/2 in long
his head was 46cm also.

Terrilyn
weighed in at 16lbs 13oz
was 28 in long
her head was 47 1/2 cm round.

They all were crawling by then but he must feel a need to keep up with the older kids because he seems way more active and into way more trouble. But here are some pictures of him pulling himself up onto things. The box pictures were the funniest because the kids came running into the other room all excited saying "Alex climbed on top of the box" in my head I'm thinking what box and how high is he? But he was so funny just laying on it singing away.

Here are some pictures of him stuck under Cameron's Spider Man table..very funny because he wasn't upset just frustrated he couldn't get out.

Christmas

We celebrated Christmas with my sister and Conner a little early because he was going to his dads. When we were trying to decide what to get Alonna's boyfriend John for Christmas Jeremy came across this "John Deere" t-shirt and thought it was a great joke, then a bit later we found an actual John Deere tractor to go along with it.
Ever since the Transformer movie came out and all the toys with it Jeremy has been after the concept Camaro version of BumbleBee and to no avail. But mom, Alonna and I were on the lookout for it and in the process bought every other type of BumbleBee toy we came across some were quite juvenile. I finally found one and bought it hoping he wouldn't find one before Christmas and buy it, because there would have been no talking him out of it. Alonna wrapped them for him to open progressively, so that the first one he opened was a stuffed reversible one. Then one that only transforms by popping up its head and zooming across the floor, my mom found a miniature one and then finally the long sought after concept Camaro BumbleBee(sorry no picture of that I don't know why). Cameron much too his dismay is not allowed to touch it with out Jeremy's presence. The pictures of Terrilyn having a break down is due to no more presents left to open and this is after she opened all of mine one of Conner's and one of Alexander's. Funny stuff.
Christmas morning found the kids really excited to open up more gifts...and thanks to a couple of very generous secret Santa's that filled in where we couldn't. We found ourselves very blessed and couldn't have asked for a better Christmas.

Cameron's Pancake Breakfast Christmas Party at Preschool

OK, so you heard about Terrilyn's little accident at preschool the morning of this party but here are some pictures that I took while we were there. It was a lot of fun they made pancakes and potatoes, sausage, and fruit was brought in. They played a couple of games one of which i wish I would have taken pictures of but I helped get ready for it so my fingers were goopy...but we put Vaseline on their faces and then they raced to the pile of cotton balls and smashed them on their faces to create Santa beards. The last thing they did was open their gifts if you were going to participate you had to bring in a gift for whatever sex you were under $5. Cameron picked out some cool cars that he was all excited about...well he unwrapped a Go Diego Go Puzzle and was most put out. I felt bad but how do you teach them to accept things gratefully even when its not wanted?

Cameron's teachers adore Alexander and always fight over who can hold him and he fell asleep while Mrs Elana was holding him.

Christmas Letter Pictures