A day at the zoo

                    We took the kids and Cole to the zoo on a warm Sunday

 Cole eating lunch. he was so hungry he ate all his sandwhich and half of mine

                                          My beautiful baby girl

                                               My little ham

 Greg with his mouth full of juice, can i time a picture or what :)

After lunch we headed to look at all the kids fav animals

                          Mommy's fav animal. The baby was so cute

 Morgan wanted to see the hipos and we lucked out because they were outside

               Ty wanted to see the Lions, as usual they were just laying there

Greg loves the monkeys. The baby was so active that day and put on a great show for us
Poor cole wanted to see the tigers but by the time we finished playing at the park they were to tired to walk over to where they were. We promised next time we would go to the tigers first

One last shot of the very tired children. Cole was a sleep before we got out of the parking lot. The kids had such a great time

color me green

St. Patties day use to mean green beer and time with friends. After you have children it is all about green food and fun times with the kids.

I wanted to make shamrock cookies for the kids so I went on the hunt for a cookie cutter.... guess what no one has any st. patty day stuff :( So even after she passed away Aunty Jean came to the rescue when Deb found a shamrock cookie cutter in her collection :) So Last night I made the cookie dough and then first thing in the morning I rolled them out and made them for the kids. After a lunch of green pancakes and green milk we decorated our cookies. After that the kids went outside in the +6 weather.
It was a great way to spend st. pattys day

He is such a cutie

Mama we love green pancakes and green milk

and decorating cookies

Happy St. Patricks Day everyone from the Christensens

I found my new love

On Tys birthday we went to our very first auction ( well I have been to auctions before but cows are not something I am interested in). We were going to go with some friends of ours but a mix up happened and we ended up on our own. It took us half and hour to get there and it was cold, but we got our number and headed into the auction barn. Little did we know that there would be three auctioners going at once and for newbies it was very confusing. But we found an older man to help us and we sat down to just watch. I was very scared to bid on anything b/c I did not want to do it wrong...... but then they had an outdoor hockey rink that started at 100.00 and kept going down down down then when it was at 5.00 I though ok here is my chance to get my feet wet and put in a bid, so I held me card high in the air and made my bid. Well guess what i won!!!!!! It was a 250.00 skating rink that I got for $5. Well then I was bit by the bug and wanted to bid on more things. I did not win anything elce but Greg did bid on what he thought was a humidafier and got it for 25.00, well it turned out to be an air purifier and we were thinking we over paid for this thing that we did not even want :( So after that I bid and won some cookies and we went and paid and headed home with our new skating rink and air purifier. As soon as I got home I went on line to see how much we could get for this air purifier and low and behold it was a 199.99 so score :) we tried it out and thought ya we really like this we will keep it.
So now that I have found my new love of auctions I want to go all the time, I told Greg I need a second job to pay for all the wonderful things that I want to buy.

Its all about the family

So it was family day here in Alberta so we decided to go bowling with the kids and some very close, almost family, friends. After bowling we went back to Jamie and Nickys for a bbq and some play time for the children. I wish every monday was family day :)

                 Morgan kicking some butt... she did better than mommy

Ty's best friend Cole taking his turn

                            
                Ty did very very well he also bowled better than his mommy

                   Watching all the pins fall down (don't you love Gregs shoes?)

                            Morgans best friend Ashley rocked it out

I am thinking we will have to do this more often as it was so much fun. Maybe adult 10 will be next on the agenda

Gregs most amazing day

Greg was lucky enough to go to the heritage classic with his friend Jamie

Greg got all bundled up to head off as it was a little cold that day. It was -11 and the sun was out but as the day went on it cold colder when the sun went down. He had on two pairs of long underwear two underarmer shirts and a sweater and his Heritage classic jursy, but the best was his matching hat that I made him to match the jursey ;)

ok I can not figure out how to rotate this darn picture oh well

So they headed to the bar for a few pregame drinks and then hoped into a cab down to the game. The boys hung outside for a bit before the game and 5 min after they went in they ran into no other than... wait for it...

                                          DON CHERRY

Then it was off to find there seats and watch the game

                                   Here come the snow birds

The flames played hard and kicked some Montreal butts, the final score was 4-0, Kipper is the only goaly to get a shut out in outdoor hockey history

Greg said beside the day he married me and the days his kids were born this was the best day of his life

Our baby turns 5!!!

I can not believe it our baby boy has turned 5. I do not know where the last 5 years have gone..... here is a look back at our little man

                           He has grown up so much in the last year
This year we had a birthday party at the house for Ty with 10 of his little friends from school. They played with all the toys and ate cake and watched Ty open all his gifts. It was a great time.

                    Ty got a transformer cupcake cake. It was very good

More wrestlers from mommy and daddy. He now has 10 and 3 wrestling rings, I think he is set for a while :)

On Tys birthday we went to an auction and had a blast, more on that in another blog, them we took Ty to his favorite place.... MCDONALDS for his birthday dinner. Then after that it was off to meet baby Cruz Janelle and Illich's baby, he was so darn cute and Ty was so excited to see his friend Illich. After we were done loving up the new baby we came home and watched Marley and Me and headed to bed. All in all I think Ty had a wonderful family filled birthday.
Happy 5th birthday to the most wonderful little man in my life. Mommy loves you more everyday

Ty and Morgan had a sleepover

Both the kids had a sleepover on Friday night. Morgan had her best friend Ashley over and Ty had his best buddy Cole. It was an early night for all of them as they were all very tired, they were all asleep by 8:30. They made up for it in the morning as they hit the floor running at 7:00. They we getting hungery so we made bacon and star wars pancakes, both went over very well. Ty and Cole both ate two pancakes each and the girls were very excited to pick which star wars charater they wanted. All in all it was a wonderful sleepover and the children were amazing. Morgan and Ty were invited to go for a play date and sleepover at Nana Debs house and had a wonderful time watching movies and playing their new board game that they got for Christmas. Morgan also got busy in the kitchen making brownies, she loves to bake :)
Greg and I had to take our yellow lab to the vet as he has an open sore behind his one ear, he had to have it cleaned out get a shot and is now on meds to help with the infection. He was a good boy when she was cleaning it out and is will to take the meds as long as it is in a peice of cheese.

We spent Sunday just hanging out at the house, cleaning and getting ready for the week a head.