Happy Birthday Warren!

Well i know its a day late but Happy Birthday to a wonderful husband and even better Daddy!! We love you and hope that your day was every bit as special as you are!
p.s. Do you feel old yet?
xoxox,
Me, Landen & Kaylee

....WhY.....

We knew that July would be a tough month for us. We knew that with Warren's new job we would have to penny pinch every hidden penny under the couch to get us through this month. But why is that when we need to save and watch our budget EXTREMELY close that 10x more unexpeded expenses pop up??????

Why is that in this month where we have NOOOO extra money for ANYTHING....
Warren's 25th birthday rolls around.... i get a$75 speeding ticket.... every 3 months we have to buy cat food and dog food, guess which month July is?.... My only good credit card with NOTHING on it closes for NOOOOO reason.... Why is it that the guy making payments on our car who was supposed to pay a $1200 payment this month now needs an extension..... Why is it the month we are supposed to buy plane tickets to California for my cousin's wedding in August..... Why is it the month that Warren's license expires AND my registration needs renewed????? WHY wHy WhY?? I know that we are supposed to have trials and tribulations but WHY do they all have to be in the same month??!! and THIS month of all timing?!! WHY?

4th of JuLy PiCs

cUtEnEsS!!









Landen's Choo-Choo Train Jell-o jigglers
we made! We was pretty proud as you can tell!

Landen actually took this picture,

not too bad! Actually pretty cool!

Landen lighting some fireworks with Dad,

don't worry they were just Snakes

Signs of a boy who had a GREAT

4TH of July!

Cute pics and Settler's Park

Oh, Sundays are meant for moms like me who need an excuse to dress up their kids! :-)

This was just a fun picture of Landen jumping on his bed with my cool hat. Its really fun mid air! I originally bought it several years ago to take on the Tower of Terror ride in Disney California Adventure, for THIS very same shot! :-)

Here are a couple pictures from settler's park, have you gone yet?! :-)

Another Crazy day at the Christensen's!!

Our day started off pretty early. We had to take Landen to the Dr this morning to get a check up before his surgery on MONDAY!! We went to Treasurey Valley Pediatrics on Overland (right by Majestic (which, they were great and i totally recommend them!) He did awesome getting his physical. After that i took the kids to Chuck E Cheese, little did we know, we would spend the REST of the DAY there!!! 4.5 hours later we came home, cleaned up a little and then i worked on the Garage while my over exhausted hubby took a nap. Next thing i know, it was 9pm. And now its 10:42 and here i sit, on my computer, uploading pics and blogging! :-)



Crazy picture, huh? Well, only my son would look at this "wonderful" wasp's nest and say, "Hmmm... i think i'm going to stick my finger right in there and touch one."
Well, he did. So... here's to you and your big fat swollen middle finger bud!
While i was working the garage Landen started crying and i asked him what's wrong, he said, "the bee bite me" and he just kept saying it. So i went and looked at the fence and sure even, a bi ole' wasps nest. We've have a lot of bees around our house because of all the flowers and have been trying to tell Landen to not touch them because the bees will bite him. At least, we won't be having that problem any more!

Funnies... from a NOT so funny situation

Okay, so the other day i took Landen to see Space Chimps at the FREE family film festival at Edwards (gotta love it), went to run some errands afterwards, went out to lunch and then went home. On the way home a lovely pair of motorcycle cops decided it was my turn to be pulled over. Extremely fustrating going home with a $75 ticket!! He said he clocked me at 68mph on Meridian Rd.... yeah, not likely! What made it more fustrating is that i had my cruise control set at 56-57 the ENTIRE way until i caught up to someone going 40, so i sped to to pass him before getting stuck behind another line of cars also trying to do the same; and that's when mr. cop clocked me.... still no way it was 68!!! While the cop pretended to care (not to mention pretend to listen) about my side of the story Landen was in the back seat trying to talk to the cop. As the cop took my license back to his bike Landen asked me, "Mommy what is he doing" i told him, "looking at my car and hopefully not going to give me a ticket". Landen got really excited about me saying a ticket and said, "A ticket?! For Chuck-E-Cheese?!" (oh the innocense of children) After a quick chuckle i told him, no unfortunately not that kind of a ticket, however, i would've taken that ticket any day over the one i received. After a few choice words with the cop for not listening to me, i quickly sped off (no, not out of anger, just to get back on the road before the long line of cars caught up to us) Landen yelled, "No mommy, this is not a race car, only race cars go fast, slow down!" He was pretty mad at me. So after a few tears on our short 5 minute drive to get back to the house, Landen quickly ran inside and told Warren about the Chuck-E-Cheese ticket i had received on the way home. I don't know what i would have done without my little guy making humor out of a rather fustrating situation! He's such a sweetheart!

Needless to say, I took my ticket to the courthouse today to schedule a court date to fight my not so fair speeding ticket. So wish me luck! :-0

A little of our day

Wow, yesterday was a really busy day for us but we had a lot of fun! We woke up early because Aunt Kiki wanted to take Landen swimming and we had to meet her in boise. Met up with kiki, switched car seats and off they went. While Landen was gone we went to run a few errands, went to the bank, i forgot something at home for the bank so we drove ALL the way back to Kuna, back to the bank, only to find out that they couldn't do what we needed them to (so the drive to kuna was a waste!) Went to pick up Landen, ran a couple more errands, went out to lunch, went to see Ice Age, (great movie) went home, relaxed for about an hour then went back into Boise to go to Madison's birthday part in settlers park.

For those of you who haven't been to Settler's Park, it is AMAZING!! The park is huge!! Baseball fields, tennis courts, basketball courts, HUUUUUGE play area with cushioned ground, rock climbing walls, sunken pirate ship splash pad, picnic areas and every friday night they bring out this inflatable movie screen and you can go and watch a FREE movie outside!! It was an absolute blast and the kids loved it!! We spent 4.5 hours at the park yesterday!! yeah, CRAZY!! but it was way fun! we will definately be going out there again! I'm definately looking forward to a date night at the park to see the Princess Bride!! :-)
I'll post some pics from the park up later!!

We hope you all have a wonderful 4th of July! Landen and I made some BLUE jell-o jigglers and are excited for them to be cut up!