Masen Funny

Mom: Amber, Masen stop fighting!

Amber: He is being mean and hitting me first!

Mom: Both of you be nice or your both going to time out

Masen: I am MAD SEE!!! ( as he points to his eye brows he has scruntched)

Preschool Graduation!

Amber and Mrs. Roper

Amber graduated from Preschool! I can not even believe she is going to be going to kindergarten next year! I swear I am not old enough to have a 5 year old :) I always said I wouldn't be one of those Moms that cries when they go to kindergarten, it was funny to go to he kindergarten orientation and get teary eyed just thinking about it! I guess I will be one of those Moms. LOL They had just a cute little program at her teachers church. They all got up and said what their favorite thing they did in preschool that year in preschool. My Mom and Dad and Jessica came and had made her some candy leis', she thought that was so cool! Thanks Mom and Dad and Grandma Christensen came and took lots of pictures :) ( she loves taking pictures )

Amber Posing for the camera

Amber Loved having Toby to go to preschool with

Amber and her little friend Kemarie

Mother's Day Brunch

I know I am sooooo behind! (Sorry) Amber had a cute little preschool Mother's Day brunch, it was so fun to go and just spend a little while with just her. First they went around the room and introduced their moms to everyone, it was so sweet they all would say who their mom was and what her name was and then what they loved about their moms. They would all say "this is my mom ______, and I love it when she plays games with me, or reads to me." Then we get to Amber's turn and she says " This is my Mommy Nichole and I Love my Mom cause she is BEAUTIFUL" I couldn't look at anyone I was on the verge of tears, I Love my little Amber she is always telling me I am so beautiful if that dosen't make you feel good about yourself I don't know what would. It is so nice to know I am the bestest person to my kids and it dosen't matter what anyone else says they love me no matter what! I Love all my kids and are so Grateful to be able to be a Mom! oh then they sang some songs and we ate some yummy treats together. and just spent some time one on one together.

Jaxen Turned 1!!!

On April 23rd my baby turned 1! It is crazy to think he went from THIS to.......

To This!!

He is the best baby! He is always happy and smiling! He is such a boy, give him a Basketball, Baseball,Football,Soccor ball or any kind of ball and he will think you are the best person in teh world! He will play all day with it or a car. He is really good at making the car noise too. He says Mom,Dad,Please,More, and his latest is aaaaammmmBer. It is so cute he crawls around the room yelling it. He is not walking quite yet but he stands up all the time and will take a couple steps but then gets scared and sits down. We always are saying how he is our middle child in the sense that he isn't as little as Amber was but not as big as Masen, He has Green eyes instead of the blue or brown teh others have and he looks alot like both of the other kids. It is crazy how it all worked out :) We Love our Jaxen and are so glad he is part of our family!!! It was funny on his birthday he was so tired and ended up falling asleep right before we were getting ready to do cake so we ended up giving all of his guests their cake and let him sleep then we woke him up so he could Digg into his cake! Well he hated it on his hands and was so mad when I put his had in it. Nic ended up giving him a fork and he ate quite a bit of it with a fork. The was a first for us all of our other kids dug right in. Hahahaha

Easter

We Had a Great Easter this year! We were all sick and had Strep Throat a couple days before but luckily we felt well enough to enjoy the weekend. I Love when Easter and Conference are in the same weekend! What a great way to remember our savior by listening to our Prophet and all of the other wonderful speakers talk to us about him!!! We have the Easter Bunny come to our house on Sat. instead of Sunday so that Sunday can be all about the real meaning of Easter. It is something my Mom has always done and has now become one of our traditions too! I think it is a wonderful idea and we love it! The Easter Bunny spoiled the kids against his year. The 2 oldest got those ball things that have a handle on them and you bounce on them and lots of other little things and of course Candy! Jaxen got some cute little animal cars. And of course Amber got a cute Easter Dress and a shirt, Masen and Jaxen got matching outfits and matching polo shirts for church. We had a fabulous Easter morning and it is so much fun now that we have older kids that understand that the Easter bunny was coming and going to leave them stuff. Amber was up at 7 and couldn't wait any longer for us all to get up so we let her wake the boys up so she could see what she had gotten :) After the first session of conference we went to my Moms and had some yummy food and a Easter egg hunt for all the kids then the Boys all went to the Priesthood session. It was fun to have a Family get together will all of us there. Even Jenni came and cheated a little on her bed rest ssshhhhh Don't Tell ;) I am so grateful for the savior and all the sacrifices he made for me! I Love this time of the year when we can remember it all and teach our children about the Resurrection and the savior!

Zoo

My sister in-law Connie invited us to go to the Zoo with them a couple weeks ago , her kids didn't have school so we decided to tag along. I decided to pick up my nephew Dakota since Jenni is on bed rest and he has been begging her to take him to see the baby Elephant but she couldn't do anything about it. At first I was thinking what am I getting myself into!!!???? 4 kids 4 and under am I crazy!! But it turned out really good and Connie was there to save me when it wasn't going good :) The kids loved it and got to see the Baby Elephant and the Baby Giraffe which died a week after we saw it :( Amber was sad the Zebras were not there since they died not to long ago too. We went on the train and had lots of fun running around seeing and acting like Monkeys!

Amber and the Baby Giraffe!

Dakota and Masen on the Train

Brotherly Love


Cute Dakota

Best Friends (watching the Apes)

Monkeys!

Dakota watching the Lepard

Jaxen wanting to go in with the Penguins


Penguin

Cheeeeessseee!!!


OOOOOO!! Wood chips and Peguins

Mommy and Baby Elephant!

Goofy Boys

Mommy Daughter Date!

Amber and I went on a mommy daughter date and got our Nails done! It was lots of fun and she thought she was a Princess being all pampered and the ladie doing her nils just loved her and was so nice to her! Amber got Silver with Sparkles and a flower and then told them I needed a flower to :)