Creating with Daddy

For Kyle's calling as the Cub Scouts Den Leader in our ward, he had to create a rocket launcher for the Blue and Gold Banquet.  We stopped at Home Depot on a Friday night after our dinner date and got all the supplies so he and the kids could play. 

Noah took a nap while Gabbie got to stay up and help Daddy build it.

 Then of course we had to do a few trial runs to make sure it would work the way it needed to.  Gabbie ended up with her entire pants legs soaking wet.

 Noah doesn't like to do anything right after he has woken up.  And if you wake him up instead of letting him get up on his own, oh boy is he in a fowl mood.  So he didn't really care what Daddy was doing when he first came outside. 

 Woah this is actually pretty cool.

 They got a little over-exuberant about it and shot the rocket over the brick wall in the back so Kyle had to climb over it and retrieve the rocket a few times.

We were lucky enough to have one of Kyle's Fridays off where he didn't have a ton of homework to do or a lot of other things to take care of.  We decided to make 'buitars' with the kids because Noah is in love with them.  Kyle eyeballed the guitar base and then we kind of just created the rest of it as we went.

My husband is so creative and talented.  The kids and I treasure these kind of days because with his 10 hour work days and one hour commute both ways he doesn't have a lot of energy when he gets home.  Then on top of that he has to fit in homework somewhere.  It's a trial for our family but I'm hoping that I can take these next few years of his schooling and learn from it what I am supposed to and become a better mom and wife.

We finally got to paint something!

Ever since we got married, we lived in someone else's house.  This meant no painting.  I have always wanted the option of painting my walls whatever color I wanted, whenever I wanted without getting permission from the owner of the house we were renting.  So back in March, we were at Ace Hardware and got this free quart of Clark and Kensington paint.  We chose this color below for the little alcove in the kitchen and set to work on making our kitchen more us.

  

 

 We promised Gabs that she could help paint so after we put Bubs down for a nap we painted a square on the wall for her and told her she could paint anywhere she wanted to, inside the square.

 We had to banish her from the kitchen shortly after we got the bottom half of the wall painted because she kept adding more and more paint to the same spot and dripping it all over the floor and her body.  She had it all over her hands and feet but had so much fun it was totally worth it.

February

Little Bit at 2 months old.

 I saw this floating around Facebook in February and decided it would be fun to do with  the kids.  Especially since the two of them could down a whole package of hot dogs all by themselves if we let them. 

 

It was fun but the kids weren't too interested in eating it once we cooked them up.

 Kyle's cousin Craig, who is one of the drivers for Maximum Destruction, came to Houston in February for a Monster Jam show.  We weren't able to make it to the show so we went down the night before to talk with him and take him out to dinner.

The kids were in love with the 'monster' as Noah calls them now. 

 Gabbie asked Craig how he drove the monster truck and he let the kids get up on the inside to see for themselves. 

 Gabbie fell in love with Cousin Craig!  She had to sit by him at dinner and held onto that picture he signed for all she was worth (at least for as long as a four year old can stay focused on one thing).

 We love our Sunday afternoons.  We come home from church, eat lunch and take a nap.  Then we'll have dinner and watch a family movie together.  It's our favorite day of the week.

I had to...

 Gabbie gave us this awesome picture on her blessing day four and a half years ago.  When I got a picture of Little Bit with her eyes crossed as well, I knew the instant I took it that I would be posting this blog.  I love it!

Grandma's Visit and Lizzie's Blessing

It has been quite awhile since I have posted on here.  Forgive me while I try to figure out how to work the new blogger.  These are pictures of our cute Little Bit and the other munchkins with Grandma when she came to visit in January.  Little Bit was probably about a month old.

 Here's her beautiful blessing dress that both Grandma's contributed to. 

This is what it is like trying to take a family picture.  I was going to post them with the bottom ones first so you could see the progression of awesomeness that is Christensen family picture taking.  (Good luck to our friend Beth on Saturday when she tries to take our pictures).

 

 Thanks for coming to visit us Grandma.  We loved it!