So Stupid and So Cool

So the weather has turned a lot colder. It's below freezing in the mornings and usually in the 40's during the day. Anyway, the stupid thing is that our complex is still watering the grass in the mornings! HELLO! It's freezing outside! So that means we get big sheets of ice all over our sidewalks and this happens to our grass and trees...

15 Months Old

Yesterday, my baby turned 15 months old! I have loved being her Mommy. It is so much fun watching her grow up. She is always amazing me. She is becoming such a fun little girl. She loves to read books, cuddling her stuffed animals, play with her baby doll, take long bathes and play and explore outside. She also likes to pull everything out of all the drawers, haha. She is so sweet and cuddly when she wants to be and sassy sometimes. She is full of personality and keeps me on my toes.

Here are some pictures of Lexi this week...

Cuddling with Daddy. Don't you love the South American clothes?!

She always has her lion with her. I don't know what we'll do if anything happens to him.

Wearing more South American clothes.

Carrying her baby in a sling. Awe, a little mother!

And her stats from her check up yesterday: 20 lbs 6 oz (15%) and 30 1/2 inches (53%). Her growth has slowed down a little as all toddler do when they actually start burning calories unlike little babies that just sit and sleep. But she is still consistent in her growth, so she's doing great!

Conference Weekend

We had a good relaxing weekend. It started Friday afternoon. We took Lexi on a walk.

Don't you just love the hat?!

Here she is playing in the drainage ditch by our apartment.

Reading to herself her new Halloween book. Did ya notice the ponytail?

Friday's highlight was when Sean found our long lost remote inside our ancient couch.


We've created a tradition of getting donuts before the Saturday morning session. Lexi enjoyed participating in the eating of the donuts.

In between the Saturday session I took Lexi on a walk.

Studying Saturday afternoon.

My righteous husband going to the Priesthood session.

During the Priesthood session, I got together with some friends. Here is Lexi and her friend Rachael playing together in a book shelf. (Rachael is just a few weeks younger than Lexi)


Here is a video of the girls dancing together.


Lexi watching the Sunday morning session in her PJs.

And because she has a short attention span, here is Lexi coloring during the Sunday morning session. I really just wanted to take a picture of her pigtails.

Lexi was giving her baby kisses but wouldn't for a picture.


Our great weekend ended this morning with the first snow of the season.

Little Woman

Lexi has grown up a lot this past month. In fact everyday she is learning new things and is surprising me with what she can do. It's so exciting to watch her grow and learn.

She hasn't learn to say a lot of new words yet but she understands a lot. She'll point to her toes, nose, hair or belly button if you ask her too. She knows the names of some animals now too, her favorite is dog. She can even say "dah" for dog. If we are reading a book I can ask her to point to the baby, ball, apple and sometimes banana and she gets it right. She also know who Elmo is.

She just picks up on stuff we do. For example, she takes her toy phone and pushes the ring button and puts it up to her ear and starts talking. She gets a hold of the remote and points it to the TV and pushes the buttons. If she gets a hold of my keys she will take them to the door and pretend she's unlocking it. If she wants me to go somewhere she'll push on my legs to try to get me to go there. If I ask her to go get a book she will and then she'll come sit on my lap so I can read it to her. And if she wants to go outside she'll bring me her shoes so I can put them on her or she'll go to the door and start waving "bye bye." She will now come up to us and give us a kiss on the lips and say "muah" when we ask her to. She also kisses her stuffed animals.

One of my favorite things she does is pretend to take care of her doll. She is a natural little mother. She'll try to put her dolls bottle in it's mouth and she'll bring me a blanket to wrap her in. Here are some pictures...

Here is Lexi the little mother.

And Lexi the little woman wearing a purse.

And Lexi trying to grow up and wear Mommy's shoes.

Dancing With Our Star

Last week, Dancing with the Stars started up again. Well, it's Lexi's favorite show. She loves music. She watches and dances to the music. Plus she loves clapping along with the crowd. Here is a video of her watching it last night. Isn't she hilarious?!

Vacations and Our Lives

It's time that I finally update our blog. Just for the record I have tried several times but the memory on my Picasa account was almost full so I couldn't upload pictures. So I'd thinned out some of my old photo albums and now I can finally upload pictures. This is going to be a Reader's Digest version of what's been going on...

Last month we flew to Vegas to see Sean's oldest brother Jared and his family. We had a blast. Jared had just finished taking the bar, so he was actually able to spend time with us. We ate lots of great food, went swimming, and of course, took dozens of pictures of our kids. Here are a few pictures...

Here we are somewhere on the strip (I know it's been so long since you've seen our faces)

Adalynn, Devin and Lexi playing dress up

We dressed them up so they matched. Some people really thought they were twins.

I don't know what we were thinking. Vegas in August. But we went swimming everyday to cool off.

Playing dress up in FAO Schwartz.

The end of last month we drove to western Idaho and stayed in McCall for a week with my family. McCall is a cute little town. The lake is gorgeous. It was nice to get away before Sean started school again...

Our family.

My family.

Lexi and I watching on the boat we rented.

Sean isn't as young as he used to be, he was sore after a day on the lake. My family rented a boat and a jet ski.

Lexi loved the beach and playing in the sand.

Since McCall we've been keeping busy in Rexburg...

Since I last posted, Lexi turning 14 months old. In fact, she'll be 15 months old next week. She has grown and change a bunch. She is such a little person now and not so much a baby. I'll have to devote an entire post to her.

This month Sean started his senior year. He has one semester left now (and an internship).

On September 12th we participated in a march across Rexburg. There was a protest in Washingon DC that day. One report estimated 2 million in DC.

We marched from Porter Park to the Rex. Here is Lexi at the theater.

The weather has been amazing this month. Lexi got to experience the Spray Park a few more times.

This past weekend we went down to Utah. We got to spend time with Sean's family. He and some of his brother's went to the BYU vs. Colorado State game on Saturday. We were also able to see our best friend's Buck and Aubrey. Here are some pictures from our crazy weekend...

Lexi and Mikayla

I got to watch Lexi, Adalynn and Devin during the game.

Of course the weekend invloved taking pictures of these girls.

The grandkids (minus Halle) all playing together.

Five of the six Christensen kids were together this weekend (minus Andrea who we missed). It was so much fun to be with family.

THERE! I DID IT! I updated my blog.

FYI, 5 years ago today Sean entered the MTC.

I'm Still Alive

I know it's been a while since I've posted on our blog. We've been out of town A LOT. But now we're back and I have the mother of all updates to do.

The Farmer's Market

Yesterday, Sean was able to get off work early at 6 pm (He normally works 2-10pm). So we headed to the Rexburg Farmer's Market. It was fun. Lexi got a new bracelet and hair bow. Sean got corn on the cob with lots of butter, Mexican parmesan cheese and some Mexican seasonings. He really liked it. We also got some amazing Italian bread. It was a lot of fun.

For those of you in Rexburg, I would say go. It's every Friday night from 4- 8 pm in front of the Tabernacle. It ends sometime in September.

And the pictures...

FRUSTRATING!!!

Last Saturday, we loaded up in the car and were all ready to go swimming and then our car wouldn't start. We tried several times and were so frustrated. Sean and I know NOTHING about cars so we knew we'd have to take it in to get looked at but since our car wasn't working that meant getting it towed. But no where was open so we waited until Monday morning. We tried to turn it on again, just in case and then got it towed to Tri State. It costed $55 but our insurance sayed they'd cover. And I'm really hoping they will. Tri State told Sean they'd look at it and call him soon. They never called Monday. So Sean called Tuesday morning. They said they'd call him back soon but never did. So Sean called back an hour later and they said they'd call him back in 2 hours. They called him back four hours later and told him that our car had no problems and they drove it around town. So I went and picked it up. I was really frustrated because they said there was nothing they could do. All week, our car has hesitated when starting it. Finally today we took our car in to Les Schwab and they instantly knew that we needed a new battery. Why couldn't Tri State figure that out. Does the battery really need to be completely dead for them to know it has a problem!!??? Tri State was clue less, rude and has forever lost our business. I'm just glad that our car is fixed before our upcoming road trips.

Okay, it fills really great to get that off my chest. Maybe now I'll post about some more exciting things.

13 Months Old

Today our little Alexia is 13 months old. Just when I'm almost used to saying that she's 12 months old she gets older! But Sean and I love her more than ever!!! She is so much fun. Here are some Lexi facts:

-She can sign more, milk and please.
-Lexi is trying to make the switch from two daily naps to one and I hate it!
-Lexi is the fastest crawler! She can move.
-She took her first step while we were in Island Park two weeks ago but isn't able to walk because she takes too big of steps and has such tiny feet.
-Alexia loves to play "dress up," she's obsessed with putting towels, clothes and blankets on her head, shoulders and back. It's so funny.
-We're finished finally with bottles and formula. And Lexi is doing great with whole milk.
-Lexi loves to "read." She'll sit on my lap and listen while I read several books.

And of course the pictures. Here are I few I snapped of Lexi playing in our living room today...