12 Months of Avery

Today my sweet, little Avery turned one.

An emotional milestone.

It's been a fantastic year.

She has changed all of our lives for the better.

I can't imagine life with our our precious little bundle of joy.

Birthday's are a time of reflection, so let's take a walk down memory lane..

And here's Avery today on her first birthday enjoy a cupcake and frosting for the first time.

It was a great day, filled with family and friends.

Definitely an unforgettable day.

I will have to do another post about today later...

We've Been Busy!

We were planning on moving at the end of next month but we have decided

to stay in our complex until the end of summer.

My plan was to make the girls roommates when we moved but I don't want to wait now so

I just decided to go for it and make the transition last week.

Before Avery was in the bigger bedroom with us.

Now Sean and I are in the smaller bedroom.

(make sense to us since we spend no time in there and have no bedroom furniture)

And the girls are in the bigger room, which is great because

all of their toys are in there with them!

I'm so excited to decorate their room!

Right now it's pretty boring...

The girls have done AMAZING as roommates.
It makes me wonder why I wanted so long.
Avery still usually wakes up once to nurse but Lexi has never been woken up by Avery's cries.

And they LOVE being in there together.

It was meant to be!

We bought this shelving system at Lowe's and now their toys are in their closet.

Which makes me VERY happy!

Here's our new room from the hall.

It's small but we LOVE it!

After nearly a year of having Avery in our room we were SOOO ready for our own space.

Now we can lay in bed and read and talk at night.

To celebrate we bought new matching lamps.

(Someday we'll get some nightstands to put them on)

And because my girls are so cute, here are some recent pictures of them...

This first one is of Lexi wearing some of Avery's clothes.

Lexi is one petite little girl.

The girls shopping at Lowe's.

(Yes, I pretty much always have my camera with me)

Avery playing in our "Ball Bin."

I can't believe this little girl is going to be 1 in less than a week!

We are going to be real busy this next week. My parents fly in today from Seattle.

Lexi and I are SOOOO excited!

Mr. and Mrs. Christensen (The Anniversary Post)

Last Thursday, Sean and I celebrated our 4 year wedding anniversary.

To be honest it feels like it's been longer than 4 years.

(In a good way)

If you look at the previous post, you'll know why it's felt like so long.

(Because we were together for 5 years before we got married)

Anyway, it's been a really exciting 4 years...

April 14, 2007

I married my best friend in the Seattle Washington Temple

of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

We were so young and crazy in love,

(I'm not saying that we aren't anymore)

but that was the happiest day of our lives and has led to many more...

Here we are on our Honeymoon in Mexico.

And 4th of July 2007

(Don't we look young?)

More pictures of us from the first summer we were married and lived in Washington.
Isn't it green?!!!
(That's the New Mexican in me talking)



September 2007
Our first time going in the Salt Lake temple.



And us back in Rexburg.

This was our 6 month anniversary.

We were still crazy in love!

In fact soon after that I found out I was pregnant.




Here we are on our 1 year wedding anniversary.

(I'm 6 months pregnant with Lexi)

We got some pictures taken for our 1 year anniversary/my maternity pictures/ my graduation...

July 6th 2008 - The day we became officially a family of 3!

Us with 1 week old Lexi.

I graduated with my bachelor's degree 2 weeks after Lexi was born and officially became a stay-at-home mom and house wife.

Thanksgiving 2008

At the St. George, Utah Temple

April 2009

Our 2 year anniversary

July 2009

Family vacation in Island Park, Idaho.

December 2009 - Family photo shoot in Washington.

(I'm 6 months pregnant with Avery)

April 2010 - Our 3 year anniversary

(I'm 39 1/2 weeks pregnant with Avery)

Two weeks later - April 28, 2010

The day we became a family of 4.

August 2010

Outside the Seattle Washington temple.

And here we are October 2010 at a pumpkin patch.

December 2010

Our family nativity picture.

Valentine's Day 2011

March 2011 - Our adorable family!

And us on our 4 year anniversary.

We celebrated by going to Texas Roadhouse for dinner WITHOUT the kiddos!

It so nice to just be "us" for just a few hours.

It's been amazing 4 years!

During our marriage we have...

had 4 different cars,

lived in 3 states,

owned 3 old, ugly couches,

earned 2 bachelor's degrees,

had 2 beautiful baby girls,

and had 1 "real" job.

April = Anniversary Month (Pre-Marriage Pictures)

April not only marks our anniversary as husband and wife but also as a couple.

I've been reflecting on our history together.

As of this month, Sean and I have been together for 9 years!

(4 of those are as Mr. & Mrs.)

I scanned some old pictures of us.

(Yes we became a couple back when I used to use a film camera. Gasp!)

So let's take a trip down memory lane...

October 2002

(We'd been together for 6 months)

My junior homecoming, our first dance together.

May 2003 - Sean's senior prom

And here we are the day after my senior homecoming at church. October 2003 December 2003 - Sitting on Santa's lap

February 2004 - My senior year Tolo

(Informal, girl's choice dance)

It was "Awesome 80's" themed.Valentine's date 2004.

In April 2004, Sean came on my family's vacation to Utah/Arizona.

Here were are in front of the Salt Lake temple.

On Temple Square with a statue of Joseph and Emma Smith.

And in front of the Mesa Arizona temple.

At the Grand Canyon.

On a date at the Old Spaghetti Factory my senior year of high school.

I took Sean to a Mariner's baseball game for his 19th birthday.

May 2004

May 2004

My senior prom

We were driven in a Roles Royce to the Space Needle for dinner before the dance.

At the top of the Needle at sunset, Sean asked me to wait for him while he was on his mission and gave me a promise ring with 5 diamonds in it.

June 2004

My high school graduation

Sometime in the summer of 2004.

At the elementary school by my house.

August 2004

Sean's first time through the temple.

August 2004

At Sean's dad's and Kristi's wedding reception.

September 2004

This was two weeks before Sean left on his mission. We went to Selah, WA to visit some of my extended family.

...

Insert Sean's 2 year mission in Peru

while I took 3 quarters of classes in WA,

2 semesters at BYU-I

and 1 semester aboard in Chile

...

And here you have us. Together again at last.

December 2006

December 30, 2006

The night we got engaged.

And here our some of our engagement pictures.

Weren't we adorable?!

And us winter semester 2007 at BYU-I .

We were young, in love and excited to get married.

Tomorrow is our 4 year wedding anniversary.

I will be posting pictures of us through out our marriage then.