Farewell Sam!

This past month we got together with the Johnson because the youngest is going on his mission! Sam leaves June 12 for Fortworth, Texas and we are so excited for him!

 We camped at East Zion for a night, had a party with some family and the following weekend we met up in Mesa for Sam to go through the temple.

We got to ride horses, go four wheeling, swim in a pool, and eat dutch oven cooking!

I had to document the last days of the bottle, sadly when we returned home it got "lost"

Conner loves camping! He even did a dirt angle (I was taking a nap but I heard he had to be hosed off! Silly boys)

Quad riding with Grandpa!

 Cousins! Ryan, Carley, Logan, Conner and Jeter

 Driving the Boat!

 On our last night Grandpa Russ chased these boys for probably 30 minutes, they were in Heaven!

Don't forget the spoon fighting

Jeter rolled a truck across his face...       Family Time!                                  Blue tongue!

After we got all cleaned up from camping Kameron took us into St. George for an ice cream date, he sure knows the way to my heart!

Playing with cousins!

Sam gave an amazing talk on eternal families, so awesome in fact his dog decided to give birth to Nine Puppies!

But he really did an awesome job, next weekend came the temple trip!

We played at the pool at Natalie's place then said our last in person good byes!

Jeter will be Four when he gets home! Crazy!!!!!

So then back to normal life...Jeter trying on 18 month onseies..?

Playing with Sophie

I went through baby clothes (because I only have three months left and I went into panic mode) and Jeter just HAD to wear his old D-Backs onsie.

I think I took this at 24 weeks? Time is seriously Flying by!!!

We got a new camera so Jeter was trying it out!

We also decided to cool down and headed to the Gila Box-the river that runs through Safford, so much fun! We could have stayed all day but the boys were too tired (a.k.a. cranky)

Love the little guys looking at Kam flexing his arm, and Jeter helped me cook the hot dogs

swimming with papa Kevin

27 weeks! A week shy from the third trimester!!

Jeter is fascinated with the camera so we had some fun taking pictures of each other!

One More Event!! Sophie's Blessing! I love this baby girl!

Family Time is the Best Time, I have decided!!!

Market, Camping and a Squirrel

What a bitter sweet! Our market went so well! But I am sad it is over and we have some serious re-stocking of inventory to do!

 After: !

 The following weekend Kameron had the itch to go camping so we headed to Big 5 for some camping stuff and ran into this giant camping chair. Besides looking awkward getting in and out of I am not sure what purpose it would serve?

 Up on Mt. Graham, Riggs Lake

 Jeter is really getting his casting down!

 Even got to help reel in a fish or two!

 It was fun to get outside and into some cool weather, but having that extra baby weight seems to make the ground a lot harder. One night was good for me! I just went for the smores!
Here is our baby growing all the way to 22 weeks! Everything looks awesome and we feel so blessed, babies are miracles! Everyone keeps saying his profile looks a lot like Jeter's did, I sure wouldn't mind another Jeter face, adorable!!!

 So we were cleaning up some wood and an unfortunate squirrel got his tail stuck...he survived but not until we all got a few and pictures and a good laugh!

 We went to an "adult prom" put on by the youth in our ward and Jeter seeing us all ready for "church" insisted he get ready as well. Got the shoes and tie right! Love this kiddo!

Baby Bump

 Jeter helps me take these pictures to track the growth of our next little guy!!

8 weeks

                                                                       14 weeks

20 weeks

 And he wanted his picture taken too :)

This Video is of Jeter singing "I yi yi yi, Jeter's a Frito Bandito"

Sophie Rae Christensen 4/18/13

Emily and Trent welcomed in their little girl this past week. Sophie. She is the sweetest little thing and such a doll! Jeter loves holding her and is always asking for her. Everyone is doing awesome and we just love this precious little girl!!

Metting Baby Sophie (Tophie--as Jeter calls her)

 Flash Back!! Jeter up top and Sophie on the bottom...those sweet little baby smiles and I think they look somewhat alike!

 Jeter practicing to be a Big Brother!!

The Beginning of April

We started off with a 24 hour stomach bug...I thought pregnant ladies didn't have to get the stomach flu? 

 We have our trailer all packed (all 20ft of it!) Big trailer, lots of stuff and lots of boxes getting packed up for this weekend! We are getting very anxious and excited!! This even has over 100 vendors and we only do so many markets a year so it's kind of like the finale for the semester and a lot of your self esteem goes into it. And back work...so we are ready to see how we do!!

 Jeter wanted to take a picture with his "dinosaur" which was really a plastic lizard but he is saying "cheese!" silly guy :)  Jeter is just about potty trained!! yay! And is growing up so fast! I love him to pieces!!!!

Sping Time!

This month we are getting ready for our market at the end of April! AND Emily is due to have her baby in a week! We have a very busy month ahead of us!

We had an addition to our family...2003 Chevy Silverado. A furniture/hunting truck. I'm glad Kameron is so persistent when he wants something because we got a pretty good deal and it will help us out a lot when it comes to furniture and other adventures!

 One of my projects recently...taking my hand at sewing, I really need to take a class but have no time, maybe next spring semester??

You have to keep yourself occupied on a trip to mesa right? Kids are funny!!!

 And riding on a four wheeler, well kind of.

 I asked Jeter to smile for me while eating his favorite, cottage cheese!...

 My mom plants a flower garden every year and it gives such a springy feel! (As long as the two boys don't pick all the flowers!)

Speaking of the boys, they have been getting along pretty good and are so funny to watch as they get older, helping each other, fighting with each other and playing together. Love them both!!

I don't know if this video will work but it's so cute! Jeter is copying Kameron on an old cell phone

Lots of different things going on and I go to bed exhausted every night. I am 18 weeks now and have felt some squirming around from our little guy. I feel like not having lots of down time is making this pregnancy go by really fast, I have mixed feelings. We also got to watch Sam open  his mission call to Dallas Fortworth, Texas! He leaves the beginning of June and we are so excited for him! It's going to be a busy, fun filled Summer for sure!