Girls Wakeboarding

I've taken my camera boating everytime this summer except for this day. These pics were taken on a phone. It's hard t tell but the first one is of Sadie wakeboarding with Shane. She got in the water with Shane and stood between his feet and held onto his waist. She deepwater started and had a blast. Olivia thought it looked like fun so she wanted to try it. The second picture is her holding onto Shane's legs. I tried changing the picture so you could see her better but you can't. She loved it too. What brave little girls we have.

Olivia's 4th B-day

Last month Olivia turned 4. She's one sweet, lovingly, and determined little girl. I'm not all that talented with cake decorating. But I made her cake into 2 butterflies and then carelessly placed the pan with my art work in the car. The first corner the pan fell over. The cake didn't come uncovered nor did it fall off the pan but it squished itself. All Olivia cared about was that no one blew out her candles. Of course half way through the song the kids helped by blowing out her candles. She was about the cry but we re-lite them, and I'm pretty sure she set a record. I've never seen anyone blow candles out so fast.

Island Park

Back row: LuAnn, Larry, Shane, Kimberly

Front Row: Alyssa, Sadie, Olivia, Tyler, Tara

Our first weekend back from Hawaii we decided it was time to embrace Idaho. So we rented a cabin in Island Park with some family and went snowmobiling. It was the first time Shane and I have been to Island Park to play in the snow since we've been married. I think we might be the only 2 people that don't ski or snowboard. It's probably time we changed that. The kids had fallen asleep on our way to the cabin, but they woke up with confused looks on their faces when we carried them inside. When Tyler's uncle Larry walked in Tyler yelled, "Larry, I'm freeking out." It was pretty hillarious. While there we road to Warm Springs and feed the ducks. We also saw a mama moose and her baby. The snow maybe cold but it sure is beautiful.

On Presidents Day the kids didn't have school so my parents and 2 of my sisters and both grandparents got together at my sisters for lunch. The kids had a great time playing together. Elisha's backyard has a hill so the kids played on the hill and in the snow for awhile. It was a great day. This picture above is a 4 generation photo. My grandma, mom, me and my 2 girls.

Grandma & Grandpa Christensen, aren't they cute. The picture of my dad's parents didn't turn out, I had too much light behind them.

Cousins having fun in the snow.

Thanks to many right now!!

Tyler fell asleep right before the Alladin show started at Disneyland.

2 very tired girls after the fireworks.

Some of the cousins and minnie mouse. The older cousins are my girls idols. We are so thankful for their goodness and kindness. They couldn't have better role models.

Mickey's house.

I think blogs should just be for happy stuff. But life happens and that's a fact. We just went to legoland and disneyland. Yeah! Of course our camera broke and it was the same one that had the rest of our Hawaii pictures on it. I can't get the pictures off. Gonna have to get a professional to help I guess. The camera worked for part of legoland. The morning we got to Disneyland it wasn't working. Lucky for us Brad and Danielle had an extra one and we did get some photos. A huge THANKS to them for letting us use their camera!!
The week before our amazing vacation my mom had a lung biopsy. Lots of people have been asking how she is. She's recovering great! My mother and father-in-law came and watched my kids while I went to Rupert to help my mom for a few days. I had so much fun with her. It wasn't easy leaving her because she still needed help. I owe another big THANKS to my in-laws for spending the night and taking care of my little ones while Shane was at work. We truly have the greatest family. My mom does have cancer. They ruled out breast cancer so they are saying it's spindal cell. She has more doctors appointments next week. I owe another huge THANKS to everyone that has kept her in their prayers and fasted for her. They have helped her and us so much.
Back to the fun vacation. My kids were amazing. Olivia got home and wouldn't come into the house. She stayed in the garage and said she wasn't coming in because she didn't want to be home. I don't blame her. During our trip she also decided she wanted to hug minnie mouse. So luckily one day right after we got there we saw minnie, mickey, pluto, goofy, alice, cruella, mary poppins, & chip and dale all walk out of a door. We ran over to minnie and got a picture. Then later when we were leaving we saw her again. We also were waiting for family to get done with a ride and tiger, pooh, rabbit and eyeore walked right by us. I love being a parent and taking my kids to stuff like this. I loved Christmas growing-up but I love it even more as a parent. That's how I felt about disneyland. Tyler never even complained when he wasn't tall enough for a ride but his sisters were. He'd stand at the side and wave. He was the only one that cried on the car ride home though. Sadie was super brave and rode lots of big kid rides. Space mountain was her favorite. I think it was one of my favorites too. A couple of Shan'e brothers and one of his sisters were there too. It was fun to find each other throughout the day and ride a few rides together. Jeff and Katie Peterson also came to Disneyland one day. It was fun to watch Grady and Tyler dance during It's a small world. We stayed at their families house. So we owe another huge THANKS to the Lord's for their generosity.

Funny Things

Olivia has naturaly curly hair. It curls in perfect ringlets underneath and at the sides.
The crown of her head is only sorta wavy and I don't really know how to help it. I put mousse in her hair for the first time the other day. Halfway through the day she came up to me and said, "mom do you think you could put some more cow in my hair?"

Hawaii - Part 2

When we arrived at the resort they gave us leis. These pictures are just some I took while walking around the resort.

This is the backside of the resort.

These condos were next door to our resort.