It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year...............

I love Christmas!!! I love the Carols, the feeling of joy, the dread of the cost....I try really hard not to think to much about that one, how happy the kids are, late nights watching Christmas movies and watching the tree twinkle with lights. I love the smell of Christmas Cookies, and laughing with Jeff while wrapping Christmas Presents on Dec 23:) Thinking of how special the holidays were to my mom. We always had a Danish Christmas.....so many fun traditions. We always open presents on Christmas Eve, play a rice game to win a prize, and sing a funny Danish song. Love Love Love Christmas....

I wanted to write alittle about each member of our family, they are so amazing and so fun.

Lucy: Lucy is almost ten months old. She is the HAPPIEST baby I have ever met. She smiles and giggles all the time. She loves to watch her sisters play and laughs at how silly they are. She loves it when Kaylee comes in the morning to get her out of her crib. Lis loves to feed her anything but mostly ice-cream. She smiles so big when she sees Lis coming with a spoon in hand. Kate loves to tickle her and make funny faces to make her laugh. Her biggest smiles she saves for Daddy, she crawls just as fast as she can to see him. I love to snuggle her, she will just let you hold her for a few minutes then she is off to find her sisters. She is so cute and fun, love love that this special girl was sent to our family. Our Pediatrician said when she was born that she was so lucky to come to our family, we are the lucky ones she is so amazing.

Kate....Our silly, crazy, fun Kate. She is our spice in life. She loves to change her clothes about ten times a day. She is a master negotiator.....she will negotiate for anything later bed time, oreos, getting whatever she wants. She says the funniest things, she comes in our room every morning and says, " Get out of bed you lazy bones." another favorite is when she says, "Whats with all the racket." She is so funny. She loves movies her favorite is Toystory 3. She had her tonsils out right before Halloween, she did so well. She was so lovey for a week, loved to be held, it was really sweet. She did great, she didn't seem to have too many rough moments. We love that Kate keeps us on our toes, she is a fun girl and I know she will grow up to be a sweet fun person.

Lis...... is our little Mommy. She wants to take care of Lucy and everyone all the time. She loves to help set the table, put clothes away. She is very observant if I am having a bad day she is the first to try and make it better. She loves all things Girly. She loves hair bows, dresses, make-up, jewelry, she just loves feeling pretty. She loves to dance and is our ballerina. She loves school and is such a good friend to everyone. She loves playing with Kaylee, Lis, Kate and Lucy. She even asked for another baby sister for Christmas. She is so fun!!!

Kaylee....is so fun! She is growing up way to fast. I cant believe my little baby will be 9 in February. She is so smart, and so quick at understanding everything. She is a perfectionist and expects the very best of herself at all times. She works so hard, and loves school. She is a cute little girl and loves to play soccer and softball. She is so fast, she runs the track at school and loves it. She is my sweetheart, she will do anything I ask, so helpful and so good with all her sisters. I am so blessed to have these special, amazing little girls as mine! and alittle Jeff's haha. We love them so much!

Life at the Christensen's is busy busy..........

It's been a year since I've posted and so much has happened. We had a busy, amazing holiday season, with crazy things happening right and left. School for Jeff took an unexpected turn that has truly been a blessing. Jeff is no longer attending the UofU which has been so great! When we found out that we would be forced to take a semester off (last Spring 2010) we were devestated. Funny how Heavenly Father is working in ways we had yet to understand. For the first time in over 5 years Jeff had a semester off, we were expecting, Kaylee was getting baptised and life was just pressing forward.
Kaylee had a fun 8th birthday party at our house with games, food, and cute toe nails done by an amazing sister Alicia. The next weekend Kaylee was baptised, what a special day. Jeff was so happy to be able to take his little girl into the baptismal font and baptize her. She looked so grown up. The spirit was so strong, and being 9 months pregnant the tears just kept coming.
The next week or two we just spent preparing for our baby girl to come. The doctor set Friday Feb 26th as the day to induce. I have never been able to go into labor on my own so inducing seems to work great for me. The wee hours of the morning Monday of that same week, we got a call at 1:40 AM from Jeff's brother saying his mother had passed away. Jeff immediatly headed to his parents and I called my dad and Allison. A few minutes later I headed over. What a sad week it was, Jeff's mom was so great. She loved her grandchildren so much and had just watched them a few days earlier while we had our last dr. apt. She was so excited to find out what we were having. The week was so full of emotion and the question now was to postpone the baby or keep it Friday. The viewing was Friday and the Funeral on Saturday. We talked and talked and decided Lucy was supposed to be here that day so we went ahead with our plans.
Friday Feb26th.....We headed to the hospital bright and early the kids went to Papa and Allisons. The Dr.'s and Nurses were aware of our situation and so kind. I progressed really well, and had our beautiful Lucy Grace at 2pm. Small babies seem to be our nature, but healthy thank goodness. She had cute dark hair and dimples:) Finally someone got my dimples. Jeff left the hospital as soon as I was settled in my room. It was so hard to watch him leave and know I despartaly wanted to by his side. I had amazing visitors who kept me company and took great care of me. I even got to see my girls.
Our Father in Heaven works in amazing ways......had Jeff been in school that semseter would not have turned out well. He needed the time to adjust to losing his mom and our growing family. Sometimes at the time we just dont understand why things happen looking back its amazing how things happen.
Jeff is now attending UVU and working on the degree he really wants in Biotechnology. This is what Jeff orginally wanted by UofU did not offer it. He was just going to get his Biology instead but was not really happy about it. UVU has been such a blessing, Jeff loves the program, starting a ineternship and doors look like they are finally opening for us. School has been one of our greatest challenges, everytime we took one step forward we had ten steps back. We have grown so much as a family because of this challenge. I know we will look back and know it led us to where we need to be.
I will post more later about our trip and update on all our girls, crying baby upstairs:)